Smyrna times., 1892-06-08

NIB SMYRNA TIMES.
.SmY2'mG, DeI.,
o.dussday Afternoon, June 8, 1892
,,,vrna Branch Trains.
NORTH. 715. s2s. 9.5I. A. NJ. S56, 5ssP.M
GOiins sonth 9.27 1908 A. NJ, $50, 5.S3, $40 P. NJ
Closing of Mails.
,.,., North, $50. 915 a. m, s.25, sos pm.
OO oVsnS South, 9O5 a. m, and SIS p. m.
=, for Delaware & Chesapeake road and
hanore ham & Delaware Bay will close at 500 a, In
Opening of Mails.
g.om North, 7.SO. 1000 a. m, 4.2O and 6lO p. m
.diO m Wilmington only.
county and State Items.
The Odessa creamery is making 1000
.onnds of butter a week.
For the first time in several years the
.h;nvards at Milford are idle.
1obu OFT broke Jail at Georgetown
al Thursday and is still at large.
Citizens at Laurel are arranging
the details for big Fourth of July
CELEBRATION
GeorgetOwn enthusiasts have organ
;,sd A bicycle club, with Rev. c. A.
Griss IS captain.
The Government has issued an order
that all letter boxes throughout the |
country shall be painted red.
Right Rev. a. A. Curtis, Catholic |
BishOp of the Diocese of Wilmington,
has purchased site in CentreVille, |
Ma and will build church.
Professor A. T. Neale, of Delaware |
College, at Newark, has established an !
eyperimental station on the farm of |
George Z. Calhoun, Sussex county.
Emory Marvel and w. P. Conaway,
of Delaware College, have accepted |
pOsitions in Atlantic City for the sum-
ner and will soon leave for their posts. |
H.C. Conrad, Esq, of Wilmington,
will deliver the address of the evening |
AZ the commencement exercises of the |
Middletown Academy, in the Opera |
House, June Oath.
The next monthly meeting of Kent |
county Farmers Institute, will be held |
in Grange Hall, Milford, on the 18th |
lust. The question of taxation will |
then be discussed.
Charged with policy writing in Will
mingtOn, Isaac Carty, cOlOred, Sewell |
WhiIlOck and ThOmas Foy are under |
$1,000 bail for higher Court. All the |
accused are old offenders.
Democrats of Milford hundred have |
organized a campaign club, with DR.. |
Nathan Pratt as chairman. The club |
will be supplied with campaign ltera- |
ture by the State Central committee.
State Treasurer BuInite has paid to |
the Columbia Institute for the Deaf |
and Dumb, at Washington, d. g., the |
sum of 81 200, the amount due from the
state for IL benehciaries from Della
ware in that institute.
BICYCLE RECORD BROKEN.-J. E.
Booth, of New Castle, Wednesday,
broke the l00-mile bicycle record
between Wilmington and Dover, by
making the distance including the |
stops, i'll s hours and four minutes.
The best previous time was s hours |
and Al minutes.
SUDDEN DEATH OF BAYARD WAR |
REN.-Bayard Warren, son of Robert |
NJ. and Wilhelmina Warren, died at
his home in ApOquinimink hundred, |
Sunday, aged 10 years, after short
illness. Deceased was a nephew of
Jacob Deakyne. The remains were
inferred at Friendship Church, yester-
day.
Chancellor WOlcOtt and wife return
ed from their trip to San Francisco.
Monday afternoon. H. c. Carpenter
and wife, and J. B. Clark and wife, !
were also on the way back. A tele- |
gram was received from Mr.. Carpen- |
ter Sunday, saying their train was
wrecked at Hastings, Neb., but no one
was killed.
To-day, the 9th of June, is the day
observed throughout this land as
Prison and AlmshOuse Day. 1t is on
that day the temperance women visit
these institutions and carry flowers,
fruits, cakes, &c, to the poor and the
prisoners. The ladies of Dover, Cam
den and Wyoming will make their
annual visit to the Jail of this county
on this day.
The South Milford public school
closed Friday for the summer vacation.
ln the afternoon literary programme
was rendered by the scholars of the
primary rooms. The greater part of
the afternoon, however, was occupied
10 the collection of the text books which
are now given the scholars in cOmpli-
anee with the free text book law.
FIRED BY FUMIGATION.-The British
bark, WillOwbank, lying at the Break
water under quarantine, took fire Sun
day night while undergoing the pro-
cess Of fumigatiOn. In answer to a
signal Of distress the tug Juno came to
her assistance, and after six hours
work the FIRE was extinguished. Tie /
vessel and cargo are badly damaged by
lire and water.
Says MiddletOwn correspondent: |
Monday was known among the col |
Ored fraternity as "Whistling Monday |
and by daylight they were on their
way to town to spend their holiday.
So universal is the celebration of this
day among them that it is impossible
to get one of them to remain at work,
consequently by 9 o'clock tie town
Was alive with the ebony product of
Delaware and Maryland soil.
COUNTY TAX RATE.-Mr. J. w.
JOlls, chairman of the Levy Court f.
nance committee. hopes to be able to
report a county tax levy of As cents,
the 81, Let xaar Tho total law