Smyrna times., 1892-01-27

James MilbOurne, cOlOred, was killed
IN mill near Newark.
Levi Vanhorn of Odessa trapped fifty.
two muskrats one day last season.
J. Edward Addicks is negotiating for
the purchase of Brandywine Springs.
The Delaware railroad is be double
tracked, 50 its directors voted last
week.
William NJ. Rosin, an aged citizen
of MiddletOwn, is dead. He was SO
years of age.
Troop B. First Cavalry, Delaware
National Guard, has offered its services
to go to Chile.
Delaware Justices of the Peace only
received $3,O4O.54 from the state last
year 10 tue way OF fees.
Henry G. Conrad is spoken of as a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tIOU TOR cOunty comptroller.
= The increase in receipts of the Della
ware railroad in 1891 over 1890, was
nearly quarter OF a million dollars.
Arguments before the Chancellor in
the Odessa & MiddletOwn Railroad
case has been postponed until Jan
uary 2Sth.
The Milford Law and Order Society
will make an attempt TO have the Dor
sey House license revoked for sew
eIal reasons.
The secretary Of the lodge of A. U.
u. w, in Dover, paid tO Mrs. Green
last week $1,000, the insurance On her
husbands hie.
Chief Justice Comegys is much i'm
proved lu health at present Dciug able
10 walk around The yard and IN the
Street near his home.
The Dell-on-ihe-garter fad has
Struck Dover and hit 1t hard, and the
tIHkle-tinkle can bs heard wherever
Ohe OF Dover's bellies ptrambulates.
James Carr was convicted of man
Slaughter for killing Antonio Basso in
jVilmlngJOn. He was sentenced to
$1,000 fine and years Imprisonment
T. Bayard Heisel of ST. Georges, on
Saturday left for hicago, ILL.,, with
Fred S. DOnnell, where they will engage
in business representing Florida
real estate.
The Rev. Charles 5. Robertson, who
Is supplying the pulpit OF Georgetown
M. h. Church, will return to Troy
Conference at the and of this confer
ence year.
Miss SAllie NJ. B1yce, daughter of
James IL. Boyce, will be married to
Dir. Geo. H. Huston, at the home of
her parents near SeafOrd, on Tuesday,
February I'd, at 2 o'clock, p. m.
The NJ. f. Parsonage at Townsend
IS nearly completed. 1t is now being
very nicely stained and painted inside.
Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Fletcher viii! oc-
cupy their new house about February
lat.
A young man named Melvin, from
Laurel, student at the Conference
Academy, Dover, has developed a case
Of scarlet fever, and the school has been
clOsed. The students left for home
yesterday.
For 337 hours work 10 examining
the financial accounts of New Castle
county, Expert Accountant, Lawrence
p Brown, of Philadelphia, has been
awarded 1924 05 by Delaware's legisla-
tive committee.
Revival meetings have been in prog
ress in The NJ. +. Church at Odessa for
the past three weeks. Nearly half a
hundred souls have prOfessed cOnver-
sion. The pastor, H. 5: Thompson.
has been ably assisted by Evangelist
w. K. Galloway.
Walter Ware and Miss Ida B. Ma
berry were married Wednesday even
ing at the residence of the brides
father, John B. Msberry, by the Rev.
AlOysius Green, of Wyoming. The bri-
dial couple will reside near GarrisOn's
mill on the State road.
1t is rumOred that superintendent
y. b. Hutchison, Of the Maryland
Division of the Pennsylvania railroad,
will be shortly transferred to the New
York Division, aud superintendent K.
l.. Holiday of the De aware Division.
10 the place vacated by Mr.. Hutchison.
Cards have been issued for the mar
riage of Miss Mary +. Milbourne,
daughter of DIR. Z. II. MilbOurne, of
Hartley, and Mr.. A. b. Smith, brother
of presiding elder Alfred Smith. The
ceremony will be performed in the NJ.
K. Church, at TempleVille, Md, Wed
nesday, February 81.
The young ladies of MiddletOwn
gave a leap year party at New Whorter's
Hall Friday night, under the manage
mcnt of Misses Ada Cochran, Ada
NJ film and Ada FOard. There were
twenty couples present and the young
ladies requested the gentlemen to
dance with them and at the finale es.
cOrted them to their homes under the
protection of chaperOne.
POURED Hot Goals ON HER HEAD
"A little cOlOred girl living with VIII
liam ROselle, cOlOred, of Dover, was
terribly burned about the head on
Friday night last. The child is under
ROsele's care and he is now under in
dictment for cruelty TO her. On Fri
day night he became angry with her,
and selzng a shovel be filled it with
live Goals taken from a fire, and poured
them on her head.
A FRAUD IN COFFEE.-An oily
lOugued swindler is operating among
farmers down the Peninsula. His
nethOd is to offer twenty FIVE pounds
of coffee at the low price of II cents q
Bound. In nine cases out of ten the
Earmer planks down So, and in few
days receives a can of brown navy
beans with a sprinkiing of coffee
essence ON top. When last heard o
the sWindler was IN lower Sussex.
Since the last annual session Of con
ference three members have died. th,
Revs. T. o. Ayres, T. r. Creamer ant
S. J. Baker. The Rev. J. ID. Rigg ha
taken a superannuated relation, and
is thought that at the next session tn
Rev. J. II. Caldwell will be given
auperannuated relation. Mr.. Hill
owing to illness, has been obliged Il
stop preaching for the ensuing tw'
months. Il is unlikely that the Rev
4. G. Jones will be able to RESUME
pastoral duty the next conference year
The Kent county Game PROTECTIVE
Association met in Dover on Wednes