Smyrna times., 1894-02-07

qHE SMYRNA TIMES: j
.Smyama, De/.,
Wednesday Afternoon. Feb. 9TH, 1884 il Il
---1rua Branch Trains. b
v,,b. 71s, s.4l, 9.57, A. N, S4s, 6.15 P N II
GOlDs south. s25 1l.56 a. NJ, s.4s, 5.2S. 75SP Pm
Closing of Mails. tC
-xortb. go. 925 a. m, $40, 455 pm. tt
SOns us south. 900 a. m, and ass p. m. u
6ons Delaware Il Chesapeake road and | \
Nall III loi 4 Delaware Bay will close at $40 a. m
opening of Nails. ii
r.,u, North. 7.so. loo) a m. $50 and s25 p. m tt
wilmington oiS'
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county and state Items. fl
twenty-five pound otter was e,
.alsd bv Leipsic trappers. 81
net income from the best 1000
Of land in Kent County is not as
.st ,s.s as are the fees of the Registers tC
Offices. \
D p Ferguson has been appointed p
D.,assler D. at Black bird, New Castle Sc
0snrv Del, vice L. b. Simpler, re- b.
signed. "
The new schooner, Emma Refs, for !,
10 Delaware River and Philadelphia 7,
,-'5e has been completed at the yards -
I'SWrliam q. Abbott, in Milford. D
sbarpers are travelling through the IL
s,ste pretending to sell groceries and p
:. bnt are swiudling stOrekeepers
~i,b bogus checks at every oppOrt-
unity. -
R,lliueton Both, c0mmander-in.c chief h.
oftbe salvation Army OF the United d
s,sles. addressed large audience of 5.
Es followers in the Second Baptist il
Mission. Wilmington Friday. 8,
The Newark National Bank has just Il
,sid TO its stock its regular b
.sml-4nnual dividend of per centum. b
Tbe stock OF this bank recently sold a
6r over 500 "A share, par being $50. L
At meeting of the New Castle ~
County Levy Court yesterday, a re- :
.olulion was passed making payments
n the Delaware Construction Com
papy for Taylor's bridge $4,000: for o
Fennimore's bridge $3.50. a
The successful revival which has n
teen in progress in the Presbyterian q
Church at Newark tOr the last month r,
cane TO an end Thursday evening. the ii
result being quite an addition to the Ii
membership Of the church. ii
An ordinance has been introduced t
in Wilmington City Conncil providing
for an extraordinary appropriation u
ofSlj.OOO TO be expended in the prose. q
cullon OF needed public improvements e
during the present winter. I
The papers of the State are publish !
my as a fraud a man by the name of f. ,
T. Petts, who claims 10 he an agent of !
the keystone Portrait Co of Philadel-
phia He collects 50 cents, giving ;
rebate ticket TO apply on frame. =
The entire Indebtedness on the f
Wyoming NJ Z. parsonage was paid
Of last week. The debt was S1,U75, e
aud had been standing for eight years. q
sueeial services were held in the church v
Tuesday evening when the bond and II
mortgage were burned. I
Deputy Sheriff Money, Saturday, :,
sold the Polk farm, belonging TO w. X. =
Cochran, on the road from MIddletown "
70 WarWick, Md, consisting of 419 :,
acres, for $4,000. The Equitable y
Trust Company of Wilmington was :
TIE purchaser.
DAMAGE JURY DISAGREED. After q
being out 30 hours the jury in the case .
Of Maxwell vs.. the Wilmington City =
Railway Company was unable to agree y
upon q verdict, and was discharged. u
Tue action was for $4,000 damages, :
ind the trial occupied nine days. y
William Lewis, of Wyoming departed fl
this life on Wednesday morning. Mr.. | c
Lewis has been a sufferer from can a
esr for three years past, and had sew q
srsl operations performed by skilled
SPECIALISTS in Philadelphia. He was "
oved by a large circle Of friends and e
lsaves several sons. O
Sheriff Dunn has finished selling the 81
gsaeTal stock OF merchandise of Hayes h
Helte, in Dover which amounted to 0
N,5N. ID. {. Montgomery, Jr., pur- G
Chased the lease of the store and will u
oPeu Oraucn store there, March 1st. c
Saturday, lie sold the real estate of +
Samuel Roe, at FELTON,, for $4,000. Il
The colored girl Topsy Hamilton,
employed by Mrs. Jesse Hyatt, who [
sent TO sleep last Wednesday evening =
shile waiting for the kitchen fire to G.
aart up, and falling on the stove was
sadly burned. was conveyed to the ?
hospital. Her burns, while painful g
ae not dangerous. !
Everything was in readiness for the c
naf Hge Of Miss Aunie Johnson, of t
talaoudgeviiie. and the guests had
is'embled, but the bridegroom failed '
% appear Later a messenger an I
louac~4 that ne had been suddenly 1
stricken with the grip, and the we'd t
aiag had to be postponed. c
Howell Mifiin. one Of Camden's old :
- aud most respected citizens, died |
Monday week, aged 7G years. Mr.. I
MflNfu mo- rnarohar nf tho Eoafaftr of