Smyrna times., 1896-08-12
County and State Items.

y ldiSC Ncd odutloAl, weighing ABOUT
200 pounds, was washed ashore at Re-
hoboth and died soon afterwards.
Miss Mary A. Boone and Victor F.
Danner. of Dover. were married
Thursday evening, by Rev. w. E.
Avery, ID.
The PrOhibitiOnists of Sussex coun-
ty have nominated a full local ticket.
but decline to make the names of the
candidates known at present.
The Levy Court of New Castle
county has made the appropriations
for the coming fiscal year, amounting
to S2Ss, 1G6.23.
I. Bayard Heisel, of Wilmington.
has been assigned to act as Deputy At
torney General, in the absence of Dep
uty Attorney General Cooper, now in
Europe.
Phyllis Mahurd, colored, died at New
Castle on Thursday at the remarkable
old age of los years. She was un-
doubtedly the Oldest resident in Della
ware.
John I. Jakes, of Wyoming has a
very profitable half-acre patch of lima
beans. He picks and markets from it
every day, Sunday excepted, 40 quarts
of beans.
Thomas Meredith has been appointed
TOW aplIaaA1r. g., l.. .
dred by the Levy Court to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Eek
iel Frazier
The peach crop will be much smaller
than was expected. The decrease is
caused by the fruit rotting. 1t is esti-
mated that the crop will be one-half of
what it was expected to be.
Isaac L. Adkins, OF Milford, has
taken position with Blackwell's Dur
ham Tobacco Co. He will sell to the
jOdding trade in the West, with his
Office in Cleveland Ohio
L. Is. Downs. Overseer at the Aims |
House of this county has a yield of !
Russian red wheat seldom equalled on |
light soil. From 81 acres he threshed |
92j bushels, or "a 1-27 bushels per
acre.
The term of George L. Townsend as
Collector of the Port of Wilmington
expired Saturday, and DR. William Fl.
Cooper, of kenton, who has been Sc
lected as his successor, will take charge
soon after
The barn on the farm Of James
Gordy,n near Milton, was set on fire by
lightning, Saturday, and destroyed,
causing the loss of two horses and
some farm implements. Loss, So, 600;
partially insured.
The death is announced at Reading, |
Pa, of George W. S. Nicholson, G5 |
years old. He was formerly clerk of
the Delaware State Senate, and pub
hshed a Democratic campaign paper in
Dover before the war, the Dciaware
STATE Rep0rter.
A negro followed Miss Daisy Pieand !
her sister, of Newark, along the road |
to their home, making insulting re-
marks, and ended by slapping Miss
Daisy's face. The screams of the
young women attracted help and the
negro fed.
Sussex county Democrats are ma
king a decided boom for the nomina-
tiOn of ex-Speaker of the House Viii
liam Louder Sirman, of Delmar, for
Governor. He was a candidate for the
nomination two years ago, but was de-
feated by Ebe ". Tunnel.
a Frederica writer says: "The free
silver craze has taken a pretty firm
hold on South Murderkill Democracy,
who seem to think that the free and
unlimited coinage of silver means that
the government will spread it broad
cast throughout this land, and that we
will not have to work for it, because it
is free you know"
There is not less than a dozen hab-
itual drunkards confined now in New
Castle Jail doing time on the stone
pile, who are victims of the rum drink
ing practice The Ball tramp law has
never yet reclaimed one of these men
from,It lie tllff tllffai aii53;5l.. of drink and it has
cost the tax payers Of New Castle
county thousands of dollars
STATE HOSPITALITY trustees of
the State Hospital at Farnhurst met
on Thursday DIR. Hanker reported
the population as follows: Population
on July /, 26O: ADMITTEDLY males and
females; dismissed, 1 male and fe-
males; population on August 1, white
malesl17; cOlored males, 30; white fe-
males, 80; colored females, II; total,
pa.
The peach markets from Pittsburg to
the Mississippi are this year supplied
by Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nOis. The first named State has n tre-
mendous peach crop this year, and as
1t has ripened full three weeks earlier
than usual, 1t has shut out the demands
for Delaware peaches in the Central
States named. Western New York is
also supplied, to some extent, by Mich
igan fruit As a result of this condi-
tion, the peach crop of Delaware and
Maryland is being marketed entirely
in New England, New York, Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey.
The death of Thomas Cavender, of
Middletown last week was sudden.
When he rose from the breakfast table
he apparently was as well as he ever
was. Subsequently ne attended to his
home duties and took walk. Upon
his return he took a seat on the porch
and when he arose to enter the house
he fell upon the threshold, expiring be-
fore anybody reached him. He was 81
years Of age and had resided on the
farm of ex-Gov. John P. Cochran, near
Bohemia Manor, for 80 years. He
came to 1Iiddletown in 1884.