Smyrna times., 1892-05-25

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Going South, 9O5 a. m, and SIS p. m.
Mail for Delaware & Chesapeake road and |
baltimore & Delaware Bay will close at 500 a, m
Opening of Mails.
From, North, 7SO 1000 a. m, APO and 6.TO p. m
s25 D. N. Wilmington only.
County and State Items.
The blackberry crop of Sussex
county will be small.
A 26 pound carp has been caught in
St. Jones River, near Dover.
New York green goods" men are
eudeavoring to establish an agency at
New Castle.
A Laurel fruit grower says that this
wears crop of strawberries will be the
largest ever raised on the Peninsula.
An enraged COW attacked Nathan
Oa0gett, a Christiana hundred farmer,
Iast Monday, and badly lacerated his
eye.
Miss Annie Alice, of Middletown,
suffered the loss of a middle finger on
Tuesday, while cleaning the knives of
lawn mower.
Sheep hunting dogs, few days ago,
killed 25 SouthdOwn and graded sheep
belonging to farmer John J. Williams,
OF st, Augustine.
Professor F. d. Chester of the Della.
ware Experiment Station is making
experiments to find remedy for peach
rot in early varieties.
The State line stones that will be set
at every half mile between Pennsylva-
MIA and Delaware, have all been cut
and dressed at Darby.
The trial of Eugene DUPONT Burns,
on the charge of arson in the New
Castle county court, has been post
pohed until September next.
Fourteen-year old Winfield Ruth,
of Christiana, was sent to bed with
compound fracture of the arm, caused
~ being thrown from a horse.
A small boy from Delaware burst
into tears in the Independence Hall
Museum, when told that George Wash
ingtOn's little hatchet was not on exhi-
bltiOn.
The annual meeting of the Funeral
Directors Association of the Peninsula
will be held at Dover, June I'd. A
banquet will be given at the Hotel
Richardson.
The EUening Journal, of Wilmington,
came out on Saturday in IA new dress
of type, and printed on new duplex
Perlecting Press.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Miss Mary McIntire Brady and Fran
els BlackistOn Watkins, in St. Anne's
Church, Middletown, Wednesday
June l, at o'clock in the afternoon.
Convicted Thursday of harboring for
immoral purposes, 13-year-Old Clara
Barber, Mrs Martha E. Davis, of Will
mington, was yesterday sentenced 10
pay fine of $500 and be imprisoned
two months.
Joseph Bulish, a Pole, assaulted and
attempted to murder a Hungarian
named John 10th in DObbinsville, OF
Monday morning. Toth's injuries are
probably fatal, and his assailant il
under arrest.
Governor Reynolds and Adjutant
General Hart have decided that tn
staff shall not go to the Sons of Della
ware hOusewarming in Philadelphia
May 81, in full uniform. They will g
as private citizens.
Thomas Kenney, a Wilmington fire
man, has invented a device that IN
locks engine house doors and turns ul
the lights when an alarm of fire i;
sounded 1t is in operation at th'
WececacOe engine house.
Because J. Z. Sloan playfully Aippe,
nail at him in the car department o
the Harlan & HolliDgsworth COmpan
Works, Mayer Tittelman, Russian
plunged chisel into his back and sen
him to a hospital. Tittelman wa
then arrested.
The Rev. Lyman Sperry, father {
Watson R. Sperry, editor of the Morn
inq NeUs, died at his residence i
Unadilla, N. Y, May H. His funers
occurred yesterday. The decease
was minister of the Methodist EpiscC
pal Church and was "a years of age.
Thomas Evans, of New Jersey, wh
was born and raised in the vicinity
Glendale seventy years ago, hi
returned to pass away the remaind'
Of his days. He leaves a family
grown children in New Jersey, but b
love for his childhood's home hl
brought him back.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G. Collision haV
Issued invitations for the marriage
their daughter, Annie Roderfeld Col
son aud Clarence w. Hazel. The &C
emony will be performed at the re
dence of the brides parents on Bra
ford street, Dover Thursday afternOC
June I'd.
The annual meeting of the LO
Preachers Association of the WilmiI
ton Conference was held at DO'
Sunday. J. r. Wright. D. D.. pre-
dent Of the National Preachers AS
citation, preached in the morning, a
the President at night. The Offic
were reelected to serve the ensui
year.
The baseball teams of Delaware {
lege and st. Johns College, of Ann
oils. Nd, played an interesting ga
Friday, at Newark, the latter te
winning by a score Of9 to 7. In
ninth inning the Delaware. Coll
team refused to play as they thou
the umpire's decision unjust.
The State Convention of RepublI
Clubs will be held in Dover some Z
about the middle Of June. Each .
organized club in the State is enti
to delegates, and a big convention
expected. Colonel G. w. Marshal
Milford, is president, and Hugh
Brown, Of Wilmington, secretary
the State organization.
The new M. E. Church at Lei
Ia