Smyrna times., 1895-09-04

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The annual harvest of corn fodder,
known in Delaware as saving fodder"
is now under way.
Dr. Barber, of Harrington, was fined
$50 by Justice of the Peace for kill
ing rabbits out of season.
Tomatoes are now being hauled to
the canuerieS in Delaware. Dry |
weather has caused a short crop.
United States Senator George Gray
reached Wilmington Saturday night |
on his return from brief trip to |
Europe.
Anthrax is spreading among the cat
tie around Middletown, and number |
have been inOculated in the hope of
averting the plague.
Ray, the - year -year-old sou of
Rev. W. il. McFarlane, OF Georgetown,
fell while playing with a companion
ami fractured "a ley.
Il. w. w. Naudain has been elected
pres.d,ut OF the Peoples National
Bank, of Mlddletown, to succeed the
late DR.. J. V. Crawford
The directors of the Turngemeinde
Hail, Wilmington, have settled with
the creditors of the company on basis
of 50 cents on the dollar.
Col. J. J. Ross and son had peaches
to sell ~ the city last week for 1925 to
$500 per basket. They have shipped
over $4,000 baskets this season.
Georgetown Council, 0. U. A. NJ,
Il. H. at
the order on sunday next by attend
Jag services al the NJ. +. Church in
body.
Ex-senator John Pllling and son
have Withdrawn from the Kiamensi
WoOlcn Mill Company, leaving its
management entirely to Thomas Pill
ing & son.
Clerk Of the House of Representa-
tives Edgar I. Hastings recently found
on the sands of Indian River a Spanish
silver coin Of the value of % cents,
bearing date of 1899
Bill Brewington, desperate negro
of Laurel, has been committed to
Georgetown jail III default of $500
bail TO answer charge of brutally
assaulting d colOred girl.
Alexander Moody of Woodland
Beach is harvesting $500 acres of marsh
hay He receives So a ton for It right
at the place and Is shipping 100 tons a
week 10 Philadelphia.
The watch offered by a Wilmington
paper in voting contest for the most
popular base ball player was awarded
10 Ferguson, short stop OF the Columbia
Athletic Clubs team, of New Castle.
George N. Jones. Esq, assignee of
George L. CUuuselman, the Milton
Gamer 30 failed about a year ago,
was in Milton on Wednesday last and
paid the creditors 20 per cent. of their
claims.
Secretary of State Whiteman is now
engaged IN compiling the laws passed
b, he last session Of the Legislature,
and expects to have them issued in
priuted furin about the middle of Sep
tember.
Wier W. Seth, OF Maryland, was ar
rested in Wilmington on foreign at
tachment issued at the instance Of w
l.. Martin & Company, who claim thai
he owes them $l29 for groceries fur
nished.
MiIlard l.. HydOrn, young teacher
aud farmer who lives near Frederlca
has been chosen principal of the public
schools of that town. 1t is reported
that he will move from his farm Il
Frederica.
The cornerstone of the new Method
ist Protestant Church at HOrsey'
Grove. three miles from Laurel, will b.
laid on Sunday, September 10, with
sermon by Rev. J. l.. Straughn, o
Harrington.
The addition to the state library a
Dover Is nearing completion. larg
force Of wOTkInen are engaged an
they are opidly pushing the work t
the third story, and in another wee
the raflers of the roof will be read
and in place.
The members of the Levy Court {
New Castle county and the Trustees
the Poor lett on trip to Chincoteagu
Island, off the coast of Virginia, wher
they will witness the annual pom
penning. The ponies run wild Ov'
the island, and every September thel
is a roundup" when the ponies al
Dicked out aud sent to the horse baZai
to sell.
George FenimOre, son Of Lewis Fen
more a farmer living near MiGdletOwl
died Thursday morning of cOnsum
ton, aged IS years Interment Wi
made at Forest Cemetery Saturda
+ This is toe third death that b,
occurred in Mr.. FenimOre's fami
within the past Is months, his wi
and another son, a young man, havil
been victims to the same dread diseas
The distillers Of apple jack whisk
in Kent and Sussex counties are man
featuring the liquor Oh new ba
this year. Several Of the distillers a
making it on shares with the grower
and if arrangements are not made q
way they pay y cents per bushel
the fruit. The apple crop is We
large aud the dstillers are running
full time.
Hog cholera is playing havoc amO
the swine around Georgetown.
number of farmers have lost hogs
the disease. aud there seems to be
way of stamping out the malady.
Petiyj0hn and William Sharp hs
LOST hogs by cholera and have a nu
still i'll. If the disease continues mt
longer there will be a scarcity of hor
cured pork around Georgetown dur
the winter.
Hannah w. Richardson, one of
hest known Delaware members of
Society Of Friends, died Monday me
ing at her residence at Elsemere, I
Wilmington. Miss Richardson wa
wears Of age, and was a relative of
TatnalIs and Tatums. She was '
known for her exemplary and cha
able life. Miss Richardson was
elder 10 the Friends meeting.
Laura Jackson and Alfred p
cOlored, were instantly killed on
Delaware railroad between MID
town and Armstrong early sun
morning. The man and woman
reside at Armstrong;. and had bee
MiddletOwn spending the evening
y thought they heard the train
we're so badly bewildered that
stood still and let the train rush 7
them. The bodies we're picked
and taken to Middletown and De
Coroner Chandler notified. The
quest was held in Middletown,