Smyrna times., 1893-08-09

of land in Appouuinimink hundred,
containing rs acres, belonging to Duval
Gibbs to Y. O. Hill, of Blackbird, for
S06O Geo. w. Ingram, real estate
sgent has sold to John w. Denny the
@Holten Farm " II miles from Middle
town. belonging to ThOs. Riley. Price,
c. W. Kenney, of Laurel, editor of
the Sussex COuntdin is candidate for
appointment to the position of manager
Of the government telegraph at the
United States Senate. He is said to be
backed by Senator Gray, Represent
ative Causey, Governor Reynolds and
the entire State Legislature, and his
friends say of him that he has been
eight years "at the key" and that he
is known as one of the fastest as we'll
as one of the most intelligent operators
in the United States.
Two hotel cars, to be run from the
East to Chicago, have just been finished
at Wilmington, at cost of $4,000
each. They are new in design and un-
usually large. Each car has sixteen
passenger compartments, fitted up after
the fashion of the most luxurious hotel
rooms. A space twenty five feet long
in the centre of each car is occupied by
a complete kitchen, aud beneath each
kitchen is a large space for storage.
Gas tanks supply both fuel and light.
A LIGHT BEATS A POLICEMAN.-It
would be decidedly improbable that
any evilly disposed person who was
benton mischief would visit the vicinity
of the Dupont Powder Works at night,
now. The company has put in a big
electric light plant, and the whole of |
the village owned by them and the |
country roads for more than a mile |
around are now lighted with 1000 can
dle-pOwer electric lights. To see
country roads lighted by electricity is |
strange, but thieves will now give the |
place a wide BERTH
Port Penn, the little village at the |
head of Delaware Bay, now cOngratu-
lates itself that the quarantine station
recently established hard by on Reedy !
Island will help to make market for |
butter, eggs, and other country pro-
duce and for shad. As farming and |
fishing comprise the entire business in
terests of the place, the prospect of a |
lclHdnu lOl JllC DlOuuCNo VA bOlAA ltAilO
and sea reconciles most of the people |
to what at first seemed an unmitigateN |
evil.--NelO York Sun.
A NEGRO AssAILANT ARRESTED |
Constable Duhadaway, of Townsend
conveyed Charles KinslOw, young
colored man, to New Castle Jail, charg-
ed with assaulting Mrs. Rachel War
rem, wife of Ruben Warren, we'll known
citizen CT Townsend Monday night of
last week. The negro approached the
woman on the street. threw his arms
around her neck, and attempted to
throw her down on the sidewalk, when
her screams attracted the attention of
the woman's friend, and the brutal as
sailant fed. Mrs. Warren recognized
him, however, aud he was subsequently
arrested He wss committed to Jail by
| Squire Deakyne.
| Postal Clerk H. G. Long has received
orders from the Postmaster-G General to
make two trips daily between Lewes
and Harrington. This will give two
mails daily along the whole route,
which heretofore was served by locked
pouches to and from Milford, Lincoln,
Georgetown and Lewes, the inter-
mediate and smaller offices receiving
aud sending only one pouch daily.
Clerk Long has been promoted from
second to third class. The postal clerk
on the Georgetown and Franklin City
route has been ordered to work all
local mails between Georgetown and
| Harrington. The new arrangement
will be a great convenience all along
the route from Lewes to Harrington.
HAD HIS SHOULDER BROKEN
While Frank Lynch was picking
peaches near Dover, few days since,
he fell from ladder and broke Lis
shoulder blade, fracturing the bones so
badly that they were almost forced
through the skin. He went to the of.
flee of DIR. T. o. Clement, in Dover, but
he declined to have anything to do
with it, and advised him to come to
this city and 90 to the hospital. The
poor fellow reached Wilmington suffer-
ing a great deal of pain, and was at
once taken to the police station, where
he was made as comfortable as pOssi-
BILE by Porce Surgeon Hughes, and
afterwards sent to the Delaware Hos
| plldl.- -DutCy AcpWOttCW"t
SCARCITY OF CURRENCY.-The scar
city of small currency is felt amongst
the banks in New York and Philadel-
. Dhia, and one day last week one
thousand was sent by express from
. Wilmington to New York to help the
bankers out of their dilemma. The
rates ruled as high as a two per cent
premium, and the bankers are still cry.
ing for more. The banks in New York
f are paying their customers in checks
a when they deposit checks, and gold
\ when they deposit in gold and silver
f when it has been passed over the
J. counter to their credit. If the strin
{ gency keeps on in currency it will com
. mand quite a premium. In Delaware
}. it is not any too plentiful but our bank
o have enough for all present needs.
NATHANIEL WILLIAMS ESTATE
II The property of the late Na.hanie
n Williams, of MiddletOwn, was offered
q at public sale by his attorneys, Nath
D. aniel and Thomas Davis, on Saturda,
D afternoon at the Middletown Hotel
= There was large attendance, but onl,
D portion of the property was dispo Sc,
of. Fifty acres and farm buildings a
Cold Well, on the Delaware and Mary
IN land boundary were disposed of Il
). Nathaniel J. Williams a nephew of tn
n deceased, for $500. A small tract {
it woodland comprising 30 acres was sol
1t to George V. Peverly for $3.50.
le A small farm of 10 acres, in AppC
At quinimink hundred was sold to Harr
10 Wiley for s3l5.50. Several place
were disposed of at private sale.
The Crockett farm Of 125 acres, O
m the road from Middletown to WarwicI
sn adjoining the property of ex-GoVernt
=. Cochran, was Withdrawn at $50 pc
90 acre.
,st The large Fandyke farm of $50 acre
40 one mile south of Odessa, was offere
va for sale but withdrawn, without havin
~ received bid. This property is OIL
of the finest in that part of the count
and has several hundred peach trees
full bearing, from which it is expect'
- 10 600 baskets Of peaches will be so
ge this year. The property will be d
'y posed of at private sale.
" NJ Iulia lord wife of Chief il