Smyrna times., 1894-03-07


THE SMYRNA TIMES.
,SmT2'VU, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, March Z, 1894
smyrna Branch Trains.
oo,ue North, 7.19, s42, s57, A. NJ, s.4s, 615 Pm
,oing South, s.25 11.56 A. NJ, S.4S. 52S, 1853 P NJ
Closing of Mails.
Going North, $50. 9.25 a: m, $50, 4.55 pm
Going South 100 a. m. and 4.55 Pm.
Mail for Delaware & Chesapeake road and
baltimore & Delaware Bay will close at $40 a, m
Opening of Mails.
From North, 7.4O. 1000 a. m, $50 and s25 p m
wilmington only.
From South, 7.4O. 1890 A. NJ. 4sO Pm
County and State Items.
The Sussex county courts will meet
on April at Georgetown.
Townsend has ordered all dogs to be
muzzled if they are allowed to run at
large.
Austin Harrington has been ap-
hn
Fibre Company, of Newark.
Rev. DIR. Stone, of Philadelphia, con-
ducted "quiet day" for women Fri
day at st. Andrews Church, Whining
ton.
Arrangements are being made to get
Rev. w. II. Gill, D. D., of Philadelphia,
TO give, in Wilmington, drills on "The
Pentateuch."
In looking backward twenty years it
carries US to the year A. d. 1873
Pilot.
The dickens it does! Laurel Gazette
The marriage of Miss Ray ShOokley
to w. w. Daugherty, at the home of
the brides parents on South Front
street, Milford, came off yesterday.
A lamp exploded on Monday even
ing in the office of DR.. Carrow, at
Odessa. Many valuable surgical instru.
ments were destr Dyed by the flames.
Sylvester Roe, of Bohemia Manor,
OF on hNy m
infuriated bull and gored and trampled
so seriously that his life is despaired of.
Citizens of Bridgeville are petition
ing Governor Reynolds to pardon
Charles K. Lodge, who is serving aterm
of 80 years in Sussex County Jail for
malpractice.
The Licensed Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation, of Wilmington, has resolved to
request the brewers of that city to put
the price of beer at $6 per barrel, re-
duction of 81.
The Georgetown Hosiery Company,
of Wilmington, having been closed
since October on account of the in
ability to place their goods, have re-
sumed operation.
Collector George i. Townsend has
purchased of Elliott, Johnson & Com
pany, so acres of land in AppOquini-
mink. The property is known as the
Lee farm and is near Odessa.
1t is rumOred that Mr.. E. R. Sipple,
train master for the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company at Georgetown, will
about the first of April, be removed to
Clayton, Delaware.-S SUSSEX Journal.
The Harlan & HOilingswOrth Com
pany, of Wilmington, Del, Friday
made a contract for the construction
OF machinery which will keep their
machinery shop running four months.
Mrs. George Seminar, the wife of
Charles II. Sentman of the County
Herald, of New Castle died on Satur-
day morning of pneumonia. She was
Al years old and two children survive
her.
A lot of men in Kenton Hundred
who seemed to have some difficulty in
getting to pay their taxes. finally
caught the collector home. There
were ten of them who thus got in out of
the cold.
Mrs. Charles L. Story, of Whining
ton, who is at Warrington, W. Va,
where she recently went to visit her
father, Mayor James B. Marr, had a
leg broken Tuesday week by falling
from a sleigh.
A little while ago it took sixty cents
to pay the county tax in Sussex County
now it takes seVenty-fVe cent, an in.
crease Of twenty-five per cent, and it
takes one dollar and thirty five cents
in Kent-nearly double.
BINDING WHEAT.--R. r.. ROthwell,
= former citizen of Middletown, has
perfected device whereby the expense
to the farmer of buying binder twine
will be Obviated, as Mr. ROthweJPs in.
Vention binds the wheat with straw.
ne mas alfeaOy paJenteu IEe dTllclt
aud has had several hatteTing offers
made him.
The store house belonging to William
s. Phillips and occupied by Charles H
West. at Phillips Hill, about 5 miles
from MillsborO, was destroyed by fire
with all its contents, on Tuesday might
The origin OF the fire is unknown
The goods were insured for $500; The
store house was not insured.
There are eight applicants for the
eOnstable's Office 10 East Dover Hun
dFed. The allOwances of this Office by
the Levy Court have been over $780,
per year for some years, besides hi:
other business. TIE Office is worth al
least $1,000 per year, the way the
county is Inilked for fees.-SentineL
A. ANINE-YEAR-OLD MURDERER. -
Edward Bostic, son Of Robert Bostic
residing near Lebanon, was shot ant