Smyrna times., 1894-03-14

THE SMYRNA TIMES.
.SmYa'W0, DeI.,
u.dresday Afternoon, March IA, 1894
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.,,,vrna Branch Trains.
ling North, 7.19, s.42 957. A. NJ, s.4s, els Pm
soiug South. 925 1l.5e A. M. s4S, 5.2s. 7.5s Pm
Closing of Mails.
Going North, $50. 9.25 a. m, $40. ASS pm
Co;nS South 800 a. m, and Ass p. nj.
S,.il for Delaware & Chesapeake road and
fillmore & Delaware Bay will close at $40 a. m
Opening of Mails.
rrom North, 7.4O, 1000 a. m, $50 and s25 p. m
wilmington OHiS'
From SOuEn, f.4ui iUoO A. M 4.oO Z. N.
County and State Items.
farmers meeting was held Friday
svening in Denney's Corner school
house.
lanes D. Redden, an alderman of
nf HaprinnffnF1 to6
suicide by hanging Saturday.
Howell 5. England has been ap-
nointed notary public in Wilmington,
vice Alan Cunningham, resigned.
Abbott's shipyard. in Milford, has
started work on so. foot river schooner
,forJ. S. Short and G. F. Pierce.
Walter McGinnis, of Dover, has been
arrested on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the death of Lulu Read.
Mrs. Kate Hartup, wife of John ].
Hartup, died at her home in St.
Georges on Monday week after an
illness of one week.
The remains of Sylvester Roe, a
Young farmer of the Bohemia, who
was gOred to death by vicious bull,
was buried at Warwick, Md, Thurs
day.
The hosiery factory of Dover, which
has been shut down for several months
stared up again on Wednesday. The
number of hands will be increased to
thirty.
Fire broke out in the Wilmington
Cold Storage COmpany's abattoir Sun
day morning, and destroyed over 100
of dressed cattle, causing a loss cf
$4,000.
Miss Mary Aldrich Gonce and John
II. Frazer, both of Glasgow, will be
married tomorrow afternoon at half
past one O'Clock, in the Pencader Pres
byterian Church.
The British bark Robert Besnard
loaded at Wilmington with five locomo-
tives, % passenger cars, 5000 cans of
oil and 1000 feet of lumber for Rio
JaneirO, Brazil.
Sales of stock and farming imple-
meDts by the farmers of New Castle
County have been marked by better at
tendance and higher prices this season
than for several years.
Secretary John B. Wharton of the
Delaware State Fair, has issued nomi-
nation blanks for entries to the races
at the next State Fair, to be held Sep
tember 11th, 18th 18th and 18th.
The Wilmington Clerk of the Mar
ket will hereafter compel those selling
grain in the street market at retail to
measure it in half-bushel measures, in
stead of in alleged two -bushel bags.
Application was made in Whining
ton Monday for a charter for the Sarah |
White Home for Aged COlOred Persons
the object of which is to provide for
the relief of old and INDECENT colored |
men and women.
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and Joe Fitch, of BridgetOn, n. J., are
to fight ten rounds for 800 side and
$500 purse in the Young Mems Sport
ing Club, of Dover, on March II.
Both are light weight pugilists.
W. G. Postles, E. l.. Clarke and
Stephen Slaughter of the Dover Town
Council were appointed a committee
on Fourth of July celebration. The |
town finances were reported in good |
condition, with $500 in treasury.
Democratic papers complain, at least |
IN New Castle and Sussex Counties, |
that the Levy Courts are bothered by |
republicans going before them and |
vOuehing for negroes that are already |
assessed in some other hundred or
ward.
The will of George G. Lobdell, of
Wilmington, provides an annuity of
$3.50 for the New Jerusalem Church of
that city. and an annuity of $50 each
for six public institutions during the
life Of his widow. At her death each
institution will receive $4,000.
The dwelling of r. ]. Meredith, in
Milford Neck, WAS destroyed by fire
Thursday. A spark from a traction
engine which was being used in saw
ing wood, caused the loss of the home
and much of the household furniture.
There was not any insurance and the
loss will reach fully 81 600.
ZadOc Postles died suddenly at his
home in Milford, Friday. He ate his
dinner and seemed in good spirits, but
fell suddenly forward from his chair
and expired almost instantly. Death
was due to heart failure. He was the
second son of Shadrach POstles and
was born in Milford hundred Feb. 8,
1929
AFTER DR.. BLACK WITH A GUM
James Booth, demented man, who
has heretofore been harmless, was
taken to the insane asylum for threaten
ing the life Of DIR. James Black, New