Smyrna times., 1892-08-17
Closing of Mails.

Closing of Mails.
Going North $50. 9.l5 a. m, S.25, sos p. m.
Going South, 9Oj a. m, and 5lo p. m
Mail for Delaware & Chesapeake road ID and 1o
Baltimore & Delaware Bay will close at S'UO d. III
OpenIng of Mails.
Eror, Nortb sO 1000 a. m, APO and 6lO p. m
SIS p. m Wilmington only
County and State Items.
Houston's Hosiery mill is being re-
moved to Wilmington.
New Castle County ProhibitiOnists
have declined to put ticket in the
field.
Lovey Spicer, a Lewes s year-old, put
coal oil in the kitchen stove and was
severely, but not fatally burned.
George Pratt, who stole 500 from
Smith HOrsey, of Laurel and abscOn-
ded, has been captured near Havre de
Grace Md.
Frank Denney, aged 80 years. died
at the home of his sister, Mrs. j. T.
Lowe, Little Creek, Wednesday, Of
typhoid fever.
J. Alexander Fulton, Esq, by card
in the Inder offers himself as a candi-
date for the General Assembly on the
Democratic ticket.
A bonfire of unused tax receipts for
1891, ordered burnt by the Levy Court,
famed up for an hour and half in a
Wilmington open lot Monday.
Thursday was "big day" at Bowers
Beach. Thousands of people from Kent,
Sussex and adjoining counties in Mary
land were present to enjoy good salt
water bath.
The sheriffs of the different counties
met in Dover on Wednesday last, to
consult as to the ballot boxes which
they are to furnish for election day
under the provisions of the new bal
lot law.
The Peninsula Editorial Association
will start from the Reading Depot, 9th
and Green, Phila, at 10 A. NJ. on Fri
day, Aug. 26. They will go to Boston,
the White mountains and other Eastern
points of interest.
The Republican nomination in New
Castle County Saturday, resulted in
the nomination of Henry c. Conrad of
Wilmington for County Comptroller,
and Joseph +. Martin for Receiver of
Taxes and County Treasurer.
The outfit of the Odessa Herald,
which edition G. H. Sentman sought
TO remove to New Castle, has been
seized at MiddletOwn on an attach
meut sworn out by the Odessa Loan
Association.
While out boating Mrs. d. p. Bar
nard, of Wilmington who is summer
ing at Bowers Beach, was seriously in
jured Wednesday last. The boat gave
sudden lurch when Mrs. Barnard
was thrown against the gunwale break
ing rib.
Manager Jesse K. Baylis, of the
Wilmington Fair, has been a busy
man for the past fortnight, sending out
catalogues and other advertising mat
ter about the big exhibition which will
take place at Hazel Dell Park on Sep
tember 6, 7, 8, and 9.
The school books for Delaware cost
the State during the last year about
$23, 900. This is a little above the esti-
mate for the first year. The books are
now on hand and it is not thought that
the school books for succeeding years
will cost over $4,000.
George Jacobs, of Milford, cOlOred,
aged about Is years, was accidently
shot through the calf and thigh of the
right leg, Thursday morning, by the
discharge of loaded fashioned
horse pistol. which he accidently
knocked off a step as he was coming
down stairs.
Wednesday evening Watson Moore,
a progressive young farmer near Lau-
rel was married to Miss Matte, eldest
daughter of Robert II. BOyce, in the
NJ. +. Church by the Rev. s. NJ. Pilch-
ard, in the presence of large crowd OF
friends and relatives.
The corn of Sussex county is repOr-
ted to be the best grown in five years,
and farmers are generally pleased over
the fact The yield in lower Kent
also promises to be heavy; but above
Frederick and FELTON, it was cOnsidera.
bly, injured by recent drought
Milford NelCs.
Mrs. Jane Messick, widow of the
Gath
mistress at RehobOth Beach, died very
suddenly Friday aged A years. She
was a daughter Of the late Lorenzo d.
Martin, the original owner of the RehO-
both Beach property, and has been
pOstmist:ess for some years.
A COSTLY AMUSEMENT. - Twelve
young men of Wilmington who scaled
the fence to see the BrOwnson-Wynne
wood game instead of paying the ad-
mission fee of % cents Saturday after
noon, were arrested and taken before
Justice Of the Peace James Monaghan.
Each man was fned $5 and costs, the
total in each case being $1,000.
The Dover Hosiery COmpany's plant
is still idle, with no prospects Ofresum-
f0Q Work SOOus CcNtIdi meetings OI
the board Of directors have been held,
but no definite action has been taken.
At the meeting Of the board on We'd
nesday night. Manager Schlossman
resigned and President Hiram Reedy
now fills that position.
There was a serious shooting affair
at Kits Hammock Saturday, from
which a young woman may lose her
lite. In company with a male friend
she was shooting at a target. In re-
ceiving the pistol the barrel was pOin
ted toward her, aud was discharged,
the ball striking the woman just below
the left lung. She was visiting the
Iathrops, Of WoOdside; her home is IL
BinghamtOD, N. Y.
With peaches selling at from sl.5(
TO $3.50 per basket right at the rail
road stations down the State, thu
grower who managed to raise a por
tion Of the precious crop is in a fail
way to speedily become a capitalist
But it's awful hard lines on the un
fortunate mOrtals who dearly low,