Smyrna times., 1893-09-13

Burglars blew open the safe of the
Red Mill, near Newark, and secured
$50.
The Rising Sun canning factory Is
pntting up 10000 cans of tomatoes a
day. =
The Kent county Sunday School con-
vention will be held in Dover on Sep
amber Is. =
The Rev E. L. Hubbard of Union NJ.
E. Church of Wilmington, lectured at
clayton Monday evening.
The Rev. Maurice Penfeld Fixes of
he Dover Baptist church preached his
arewell sermon Sunday.
With the sale of the Dover Gaslight
Company, the prOpects of an electric
hght plant in Dover have vanished.
Another case of anthrax has occurred
among the COWS near Delaware City.
The spread of the disease is feared.
The new addition to the academy
building at Odessa is nearly completed.
Two rooms have been added one for
school purposes and one for the COrbit
library.
Silverbrook NJ. E. Church in Will
mington, will be dedicated on Sep
tember "a. Among the speakers will
be DR.. George E. Reed of Dickinson
College. =
Miss Mary Burton, daughter of Mr..
Benz. Burton, of Frederick, died of
typhOidfever Thursday, at the residence
of her father She was an accomplished
young lady.
Dennis BOyies. farmer, was ar
raigned before Justice of the Piece
Deakyne, Saturday, for attempting to
strike his stepson with an dx. He
was fined $40 and costs.
A telegram from California on Thurs
day announced the death of Arthur B.
Elliman OF consumption. Eight years
ago he married Miss May B. Gilman of
Milford who with four children sur
wives him.
There are sixteen boats engaged in
taking oysters Cd che Mispillion river.
The oysters brought to Milford sell for
fifty cents bushel and are very fine.
They sell at the oyster grounds for 25c.
Or. Henry Ridgely, William Denney
and t. x. Jones, of Dover, were in
Wilmington urging the formation of a
new parish in Dover. The Bishop and
the standing committee of the diocese
denied the request
c. w. Kenney retires as editor of the
SIssez COuntiGn, published at Laurel.
1t is now owned by the Sussex Count
ian Publishing Company, and an
nOuncement is made that it will be run
as an independent paper.
Ex-Consel to Bordeaux Horace
Greedy knowles, is expected home this
week. The rumOr is that he will give
up the profession of the law and will
follow some commercial pursuit, taking
the agency for French business houses.
The directors Of the State Fair. for
self preservation decided not to receive
any entries to either department after
Saturday afternoon. Most of the
departments are full. The stock de-
partment has many fine herds of cattle
in it,
CAPTAIN Frank Barr, of the United
States Revenue Service, native of
MiddletOwn, died suddenly in the
Worlds Fair grounds at Chicago on
Thursday last. Captain Barr was the
son of the late DR.. Martin Barr, and
was 6S years of age.
tNJames Anderson a charcoal burner of
Chestnut Hill, was driving across the
railroad tracks at Newark, Del, when
. locomotive cut the wagon in two.
The hind part of the wagon was re-
duced to splinters, and Anderson was
LETT sitting on the front wheels un-
scathed.
A new order has gone into effect in
relation to the quarantining of vessels.
II tprOVides that all vessels having sick
ness on board must stop at the ouaran.
tine station at Lewes If they do not
have sickness on board, but come from
ieVer-stricken port, they may proceed
to the Reedy Island quarantine.
An effort is being made by a number
OF gentlemen of Georgetown to get
up u cheap excursion to the Worlds
Fair, by charteriDg box cars and sup
plying their own cook. If this ar
rangemeRt is made, it is probable that
quite number from this place will
take advantage of it.-Susser Journal.
Says the SiIsser COuntian: "We some.
times feel that nature deals harsh.y
with Us. Peaches sold low, our corn
was shortened by the drought and our
fodder damaged by the gales. It looks
oig and bad to US, but compare your
lot with that of others and see if Della.
ware isn't after all about the best place
to live in."
The editor of the Morning News
knows the difference between a mush.
room aud tOadstOOl. He is like the
fellow who could tell a male from
female bird by holding up a worm.
Ihe male eats it while the female flies
away with it. The tOadstOOl, if you
eat It you are a gOner, but if you eat
mushroom, you will live to eat more.
-RepuJlican.
woman named Steel and her
daughter were drowned in Jakes' mill
pOnd Friday morning. II is sup
posed the daughter intended to commit
suicide, and the mother was drowned
IN Trying to save her. The girl. who
Is rs years old, had ATTEMPTED suicide
before. The parties came from Galena,
NO. and were employed in the factory
u. V. McCOmmOns.
RoBBER WOULD COMMIT MURDER.
-AIter having committed two rObberies
a. the houses Of David Lemon and J.H.
1i1son Robert Cooper, (colored) made
desperate effort to kill Henrietta
oeweli, who gave the alarm, which re.
suited IN CoOper's arrest and imprison-
1as eIt. George Windish was also
Isntl1lly Isssn cut by Cooper, with the
Keen edge of a razor.
taan aas taking of the schedule of ff-
and pS;1 ISSal trans between Wilmington
dsSId,s dI,aslnlnsdelphia has caused a great
Tsi1road TsI'O, talking inrailroad circles. Among
tLa Tau i%u.n men generally it seems to be
beswsan 'Ssslon Mon that the "trolly'' line
se Oe.~een n'.e Marcus Hook and Darbv had
coGusl 30 cut into the business of Of the railroad
Uompany that the accommodated trains
Here run at such loss thst Il was