Smyrna times., 1895-08-14
County and State Items.


Bishop Coleman will preach al
Reboboth Sunday morningan evening
J. n. Wright, of near Laurel thresbef
75O bushels of wheat from 80 acres and
sold the crop for 5000
J. Thomas Budd died at his home in
M'ddIetown Wednesday morning, in
the 63rd year of his age.
Father Connolly has arrived from
Rome and taken charge of the HOLY
Cross Catholic Church at Dover.
On Saturday week Henry n. Clark
aJusIice of the peace at Harrington
died at the age of 76 years
Daring las; week the residences of
}. d. BogSs and William 7. Smithers
IN Dover were visited by burglars.
Wm A. KINNEY of Wilmington. \
native OF Dover. is engaged in prepar-
ing plans for Il $500 water tank and
$4,000 pumping-hOuse for New York
City.
A wax figure of Il woman, valued at
about 500, on exhibition in the store
window of Mitchell & Bash. in Will
mIngtOn. Was melted into a shapeless
mass by the the extreme heat of Sun
day.
The oA,e ball fever has spread all
over Delaware th:s - t5Ja. Severa
towns have exae,len5 teams, and the
contests are taa most interesting and
exciting known for years.
Some people when going to church
often have three hand; right hand
left hand and little behind hand
That tllrd Eaud frequently interrupts
the audience a httle.-Er
BURNED TO THE GROUND. - The
summer residence Of Howard Garrett |
OF Wilmington about three miles south |
OF New Castle, was burned to the |
ground saturday afternoon. The loss |
will, II Is thought approximate $4,000.
At Camden Camp over 60 persons
have prOiessed conversion, and MANY
believers have been strengthened and
encouraged. DR.. Murray is being con-
graduated on all sides for his success
fu' management of the Camp.
Chancellor Walcott, at the instance
OF the Mutual Loan Association. of
MiddletoWn, has Issued an order re.
stFaInng The Sneriff's sale of the proD-
erty OF ). +. Shallcrose. Jr.. near Mid
dleto"n, ON his fathers judgment of
F6OO, The lOau association claiming
prior judgment for 1892
Anton Koch, one OF the children bit.
ten oy supposed mad dog in Viii
mlngtOn aud sent 10 the Pasteur In.
sutute for treatment, mas returned
home, pronounced beyond danger of
hydrophubia. The seven other Will
mington patients will return the latter
part of this week.
LIQUOR MEN ORGANIZING. - The
liquor dealers of Kent county were
orgaIiZ-d at Dover Monday. Yester- ,
day the Sussex county dealers organ.
lzed. The speakers were P. J. Nolan of
Ne" York aud the Hon. Richard
Patterson of Philadelphia. A meeting
O. the Wilmington society was held in !
German Hall Sunday afternoon, but
the business done was rot of public
interest.
Georgetown can just now lay claim
to being the largest peach shipping
point on the Peninsula Most Of the
peach buyers have now recognized
this and have gone to that place l
They say that there are more peaches !
about Georgetown than anywhere else.
and that they are cheaper there than
at any other point on the Peninsula.
A few years ago Wyoming was the
great shipping point. Z
There was a slump in the prices of =
peaches in the lower part of the state |
on Saturday. In Harrington good
peaches could be bought on Saturday
morning for II cents a basket, and in !
Milford at the same time peaches good
enough for Immediate use could be
bought for ten cents a basket; The d
Shippers were expecting better prices
Tor the early par of this week, but it :
looks "a If there would be little money
in peaches for the man who raises a
them.
STILL TALKING OF BURGLARs.-The P
people Of Dover are still in state Of il
agitation over the burglariss which
are occurring there aud some Of the q
local authorities there are suggesting :
that the town be divided into districts e
and patrolled by citizens of the town. o
The burglars could thus be pre- vented T
from operating and some f them I
possibly be captured. There has been Il
no organized effort made to capture a
the burglars and they seem to be going 2
on to suit themselves. !,
Says the Wilmington Republican Z
Nobody is so blud as the man that q
can and won't see. Where have the Il
good times with one or two exceptions d
struck Wilmington. What are the 81
Harlans the Puseys, or the Jackson & D
sharp Companies doing? What kind
Ot an increase in wages have the n
Edgemoor workmen received? If CT
workman has fifty per cent off, and N
then in one years time receives an in II
crease Of ten per cent. of his original fiji
wages, where is the Improvement? Il
SPURIOUS SILVER DoLLARs.-WiI- n
mingtOn is flooded with counterfeit ~
silver dollars to an extent that war : ~
rants belief that gang of profes- -
slOnals recently unload a quantity of -
the stun here. Numbers Of the SPUR e
lous coins have been taken by trades p
people, and the fraud was discovered -
only when they came to deposit there =,
money IN bank. The cOunterfeits are a.
dated 1873 and 1892. They are thicker al
than the genuine silver dollar bnt re
much lighter in weight. "
The Dover Sentinel has this to saw. nc
Our town authorities are setting an W
example 10 the matter of fnanciering pc
which might well be initiated by the
Levy Court of the county Afsw days
ago they redeemed and paid of a ",
pond OF one thousand dollars, which ne
was incurred when the water works n
was put in. The original bonded debt be
was twenty thousand and the payment m
OF this last bond reduced it 10 IN
70 htteen thousand dollars. What a bo
ulherent ~ state of affairs is exhibited in an
Tue matter of our county 6nancesl dc
, ATLANTA EXPOSITION. The coming ne
~ a1lanta Exposition is being talked w
oyer Os an over the state and it is prob 10
1ole Ia that a number Of persons from the Sc
iFSTer part of the state will attend. OF
81 otu1rts 10y were made at the last session sa
=, me. me General Assembly to secure an de
S6aslo't SoSl there for the state, but that 81
couia cOu adjourned before any action h'
SJIld Sa,1I De taken. Regardless of this
"nau ~.aure 70 make an exhibit the man.
asers nave fixed November O as DeIa. N