Smyrna times., 1893-07-12
Opening of Mails.
County and State Items.

County and State Items.
Sugar corn was seen in Georgetown
last week. -
D. B. Jones has been elected prin-
cipal of Georgetown's public schools.
A pickpocket stole $12 from Mrs.
Kate SOmmers in a Wilmington market
An examination of applicants for the
Civil Service will be held in Whining
ton on August 9th.
Farmers about Milford are very busy
threshing wheat. Few are getting less
than 20 bushels per acre, and some as
much as 30. -
There are but two iron vessels in
y-se of construction in the shipyards
Wilmington. A month ago there
ere five vessels building there.
State Treasurer Burnite has adjusted
the salaries of all the State officials, so
that the quarter shall begin the 1st of
July, October, january and April.
Joseph B. Handy, who has been at
the head Cf the Delaware City Schools
the past year, has been elected to the
Principalship of Newark Public School.
Clerk Layton or the House of Repre-
sentatives of the late General Assem-
bly, has awarded the contract for print
ing the House journal to the DeIa-
ICGreGn.
John II. Cahall, prominent man of
Hartley, died of drOpsy Wednesday
night. Mr.. Cahall was about Sc years
old, and had been in failing health for
a long time.
Ex-Sheriff William Gray died Fri
day from the effect of paralytic stroke,
caused by fright. Deceased was about
40 years of age, and was elected Sheriff
of Sussex county in 1874.
The bearing in the Charles Harris
will case came up before Chancellor
WOlcott on Thursday, but by consent
of counsel was postponed until Sept |
2lst. The restraining order still stands. !
f. G. Packard of near Dover has
been selling large quantities of scarlet |
clover seed throughout the United |
States this year. He received two or
ders recently amounting to $1,000 each. |
Delaware College will receive this
year from the general government Sl9- |
900, the appropriation being an in- |
crease of $1,000 each year until the |
amount reaches $4,000. The first
payment was $4,000 in 1889
Jersey tomatoes, have been in the
Wilmington market Il week. They
started at 81 so basket last Saturday
but yesterday morning they had fallen
to $l.25 basket. The cause of the !
drop is the increasing supply.
About 100 packages of Alexander |
peaches were shipped from Milford |
Depot last week. Most of these were |
consigned to New York, and sold there
at 1.5O to 81 per crate. This variety is
OF unus ually large size this year
John Scuce was arranged before
Squire Jester, in Dover Thursday |
charged with burglarizing the store of |
w. 5. Hardcastle at CheswOld on two |
occasions. Scuce was remanded to iail |
in default of 500 bail in each case.
The farmers about Camden have |
been and are still very busy threshing |
clover seed aud wheat. Mr.. C. w. |
Lord has tbs largest yield yet known
OF scarlet clover seed, getting over 80 |
bushels from an eight acre peach or
chard. not succeeding in getting near |
all the crop and selling the same read |
lily at S6 per bushel.
The affairs of the defunct hosiery !
company at Dover, says the Della. |
lCGredn are about settled up. The |
books show that the company lost over
$4,000 in about one year. Some of
the original stockholders are growing
impatient at the delay in distributing
the remaining assets.
The Peninsula Press Association is
arranging for the annual meeting at
Delaware Water Gap, on Friday, Dist
INST. Free passes could not be secured |
this year, and tie fare will be So for
the round trip from Wilmington.
Those who desire to go are requested !
to notify H. c. Carpenter, Dover, at |
once
Within the past week all the scarlet |
clover seed for sale in this community |
has been bought up by dealers for ship |
ment South it is said. Four dollars |
and half a bushel was paid for the |
bulk of it, some selling for even less. |
Five dollars is the price now and it |
will probably go beyond that before |
seeding time is Over.-MiLtOrd News.
Mrs. Emma ROat, who two years |
ago taught in the North Milford Pub. |
lie Schools, died of typhoid fever in
Philadelphia on July Fourth. Mrs. |
ROat was young widow who went to |
Philadelphia two Yeatg agQ to study |
IOF professional nurse. She died in |
the hospital in which she was studying |
and nursing. Her remains were inter- !
red at Barratt's Chapel
NOMINATED TO WEST POINT.--C Clarke |
phurchman Of Wilmington has receiy. |
ed nomination through Congressman |
Causey to West Point Military Aca- |
deny. Mr.. Churohman is a Rugby |
graduate and has since attended Trim. |
ity College, Hartford, Conn. He will |
attend the Military Academy entrance
examinations in the autumn. II. Mar
shall of Lewes has been appointed al.
ternate.
W oibOi OhuuAuAuof q 10y OdI-Olu SUI
Of John Cnmmins' is suffering with a
peculiar malady. Sores are breaking
OutaIl over his body and, although he
Is not confined to his bed, he is submit
ted to great inconvenience on account
Sf The a1anY testers, which make him
look and feel like a second Job. 1t is
thought that the sores were caused by
his swimming to much.
IT,
George Anderson, Rebecca segars,
Curtis Buck and Lewis Hinson, the ne
groes charged with assaulting Detec.
tive McVey and William Benson at
KiFkwoOd on the Fourth, were given a
hearing Wednesday morning before
Squire Monaghan, in Wilmington, and
held without bail to await the result of
McVey and Bensop's injuries. The
foFmer was mueh impF0yad Wednes.
hay evening, and BENSON, whose in.
lurles pre- very serious, is doing as well
es could be expected,