Smyrna times., 1893-05-24

A new NJ. E. Church, at Delmar
was dedicated Sunday.
No more quail can be shot in thi
state until the fall of 1894.
Georgetown and Milton are each t
nave large new creamery.
Six hundred bushels of trout wer,
caught at Bowers Beach in one day
last week.
Founders or fat fish have beer
caught in large numbers along the
shore last week.
Mrs. Daniel Cowgirl, of Dover was
stricken with paralysis Wednesday
afternoon.
Harrison Rogers, of Georgetown
has raised an onion 81 inches in cir.
cumference.
John Fullmer, retired shoe merch.
ant OF Wilmington, nel., died Satur.
day aged 80 years.
w. w. Knowles, of Seaford, wants
to be Superintendent of the Sussex
County Public Schools.
The blackberry is said to be the onl v
fruit that will not produce large, crop
this year in Sussex.
Peter Smith the Wilmington bank
em0ezzler, was sent to the penitenLiary
in New York yesterday.
The Harlem & Hollingsworth Com
Pany of Delaware have sent a large
exhibit to the Chicago Fair.
There was an extraordinary bloom
of the apple trees this season, and it is
hoped heavy crop of this fruit will
follow.
Abram Vandegrift, former editor of
the MiddLetO'OR Transcript, left last
for Minnesota, where he will engage in
business.
The debt of Kent county is said TO be
more than 50,000-that much is
known. Sussex county has a debt of
over $4,000. -
Cole & company of Dover, are run
ming full set Of hands making straw
berry crates. They will soon begin
manufacturing peach baskets.
The canning establishment of Messrs
Richardson in Dover, will shut down
for the season this week. The firm
will not can any peaches this year.
M. l.. Nudge, of Clayton, was gran
ted a diverse from his wife who has
been in New York State for several
years, at the last term of Kent County
Court.
Those who own peach eVaporating
factories are puzzled whether or not to
operate them. Delaware evaporators
fear they cannot compete with Califor-
MIA.
Ira &. Mclaughlin of Oxford, has
purchased the hotel property of James
A. Wilson, in Newark Del, for 80
600. Mr.. Mclaughlin " i'll take poses
sion about June 1st.
DIR. J.C. Wiederhall, Milford's vete
rinary surgeon, has discovered four
cOses of tuberculosis in herds of cattle
near Frederick and to the north of
Milford. They have been killed.
Jonathan Slaughter died sudden ly
At his residence near Slaughters station
on the 18th inst. aged 78 years. He
was g native of Delaware, and at one
time member of the Legislature.
The wheat crop throughout Sussex
county is said to be looking unusually
well. Everywhere beautiful fields of
green wheat are to be seen and the
country now looks cheerful and pros
porous.
The DeLGlOGreGn says persons who
are finding fault with the new school
law, ought to remember that the bill
was passed in order TO stop certain peo-
pie from iraudulently using the school
funds.
The LASH LAID ON'-Eight culprits
were whipped at New Castle last Sat
urday by Sheriff Gould, in the presence
of about 200 persons, mostly curionsity
Seekers from New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore.
The Democratic nominations for
Wilmington are composed as follows
Mayor, William B. Norton President
of City Council, Daniel w. Lynch
City Treasurer, Fred Mammele City
Solicitor, Robert G. Harman.
At seven o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing s. S. Sapp was married to Miss
ROselle Ward, the belle of Harrinnton.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. P. H. Rawlins in the presence of
a few friends at the brides home in
Harrington. --
-. Mispillion River is to have a new
/and deeper channel at the mouth.
The dredge Bishop" owned by J. T.
Caller, of Norfolk, Va, is doing the
work. The specifications call for
channel 1000 feet long, 80 feet wide
and feet deep.
Rev. William P. Taylor, son of Sew
srn Taylor of Dover, graduated with
honors from Drew's Theological Sem
mary, Madison, n. j., on Thursday
last. He is a member of the Whining
ton Conference, and at present is sta
toned at PerryVille, Md.
John Richardson, who has been con
fined in Dover Jail for long time for
burglary at Milford and for attempted
murder of the State officers, who under
took to arrest him, was released from
Jail on Wednesday evening, and left
town on the Norfolk express.
Joshua Marvel, proprietor of the
large crate and basket factory at Lau-
rel, shipped 1900 crates by boat, 1,400
by teams, and seven carloads in one
day last week. Mr.. Marvel has been
In the business over 20 years and he
says that this surpa5ses all previous
records. -
A dredging machine is off the Mis-
pilliOn river preparatory to digging a
new outlet for vessels. Twelve thous-
ane dollars is to be expended, and with
this money a channel is to be cut 1000
feet long, so feet wide and 2 feet deep
At low water. The channel will be run
northwest and southwest.
Hazel Brothers who have conducted
butcher business in DoAer for several
wears. have quit the business and will
engage In the creamery business eTclu-
sively. They have purchased the
creamery of w. II. Marvel, at Leipsic
and will run that one In connection
with the one they owg in Dover.
Bishopstead, ia Wilmington, the re-
sidsnce of Bishop Coleman has been
presented to the Trustees of the Dio-