Smyrna times., 1892-04-13
Highest of all in Leavening Power-Latest u S Govt Report
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

Cards announcing the marriage of
Miss Annie SalmOns, of Lewes, Del, |
and Wingate Morris, of Milford, Del.
on April 2Oth, at the brides home in |
Lewes, have been sent out. Mr.. Nor !
rls is the local agent of the Singer Sew |
ing Machine Company in Milford.
COLORED COLLEGE FINANCEs.-Tbel |
financial statement of the State Col !
lege for COlOred Students shows that
81 900 of the $4,000 appropriated by
the state and 81 200 of the 9.4OO an
propriated by the United States gov
ernment remain unexpended. ONLY
seven students are enrolled.
The sum of $128, ,498. SO was raised in
this State last year tor school purposes.
The county appOrtiOnments were as
follows New Castle county, $5O,35l.- !
90; Kent county, $33, 1856; Sussex
county, $f4, ,35l so, pretty good sum
when it is considered that we have
population of only about 175 900 souls.
Samuel Jones, colored, caught an
otter in Still Pond Neck few days
ago, which measured six feet and
weighed % pounds. He received
seven dollars for his hide, a good
nights work. Otters are very scarce,
but Sam catches one every year.
The SUSSEX PEACH CROP.-Colonel
r. l.. Martin, the pioneer peach grower
OF Sussex county, who is credited with
knowing more about tie fruit than any
other person in the county, stated that
there would be at least half crop in
his locality. This is encouraging as
previous reports stated the crop would
be failure.
The golden plovers of Accomac
county, Va, had an unexpected honor
thrust upon them last week. They
were offered the opportunity of being
shot by the President of the United
States. This is a chance that does not
come to every bird. The golden plov-
ers should feel fiattered at the prospect
Of dying in order to make a holiday
for president
The FLOUR WAR.-Centreville -four
war, an account of which was given in
our last issue, is still at fever heat
Last Saturday a representative of the
VIM. Lea & Sons Co., of Wilmington,
arrived in Centreville, and has since
that time been baking bread and cakes
in different stores in the town and Civ
ing it away. Both parties to the war
are running it for all there is in it, and
the public is being amused as well as
supplied with cheap flour.
DEMOCRATS GAIN A CoURT.-By
the death of Hamilton B. Owens, at
Laurel, on Sunday week, the Demo-
Gratis will regain control CT the Sussex
County Levy Court. Mr.. Owen was
sent to the Levy Court as Republican
from Little Greek Hundred in 1888.
His party having majority of .One in
that body. Governor Reynolds will
appoint a Democrat to the vacancy.
Mr.. Owens was sixty years old and his
death was caused by rheumatism of
the heart.
DEATH OF HENRY J. DAsHIELL.-|
Henry J. Dashiell, for many years
prominent citizen of WicOmco county.
died Sunday of heart failure, ia his
eighlieth year. He was before the
war large slave owner, and at vari
GUS times in his life had been a large
real estate owner. He owned and re-
sided on the old homestead in the sew
enth district once owned by Samuel
Chase, one of the signers of the Dec
laratiOn of Independence. He had
lived a retired life for the past ten
years. He leaves three children.
Isn't it strange that the State of
Maryland doesn't kick on the manner
in which the law of that state is vio-
lated annually by the oystermen
Maryland has statute which saws
that no oysters less than two and one
half inches in length shall be taken
from the waters of that state into any
other state for planting or any other
purpose. Yet trip down the Della
ware bay now will show plenty of
Chesapeake boats unloading seed oys-
ters by the thousands, all under the
legal size and all brought FROM the
Chesapeake bay,
DIR. WILSON GOES TO NEW York
The annual session of New York NJ.
E. Conference closed last week. Just
before adjournment the transfer of the
Rev. J. A. B. Wilson, d. D., from Will
AuluBOOu OOulCEOACo WAS dunOuuC6u,
and he was appointed pastor of the
Eighteenth Street Church, New York
city. Former members of Whining
ton Conference received the following
appointments Rev. E. L. Hoffecker,
Church of the Savior, New York city;
Rev. G. W. Miller, fremont Church,
that city, and Rev. B. G. Warren, Shef.
field, Mass.
New York East Conference also
adjourned on Tuesday. Former men,
bers of Wilmington Conference receiv-
ed the following appointments Rev.
c. NJ. Pegg, East Norwalk; Rev. T. L.
Price, POundridge Rev. ]. H. Light
bourne, Fourth Avenue Church, Brook
lyn; Rev. T. L. POulson, Jamaica.
Rev J.. A. Roche, who went out from
Smyrna, was appointed pastor of
Washington street Church, Brooklyn,
N. Y. Who will succeed DIR. Wilson
at EastOn has not yet been decided.
The Eighteenth stree churce is one of
the finest in New York, having cost
about 100000; the parsonage is valued
at $4,000 and the pastors salary is
about $1,000.