Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-11-25
psgrysUDa PARAGRAPHS.

iIN-u udEb NuINpi tohoNct $500 |
Dover TO Milford.
The Delaware State Grange will meet
at Dover on December l4th.
Levin j. Bell Of Cambridge has been
granted an original pension.
A rabbit which had two horns, was
killed near Sesrord recently.
Andrew F. Mearns, aged 70 years,
died near Zion on Thursday.
Wilmer Emory is trying to establish
an agricultural fair at Queenstown.
The Shipley homestead, at Salisbury,
was destroyed by fire Monday week.
The Hessi6u fly 10 ravaging wheat
fields in the lower part Of tho State
William I, Reed Of Chesapeake City !
has been granted an original pension.
The White farm, near Dovor. has
heeu sold to Samuel W. Hall for Sl0.-
500. HT
bias beer granted supplemental PEN
sion,
Mrs. Maggie Flack has bought the
Cooper farm, near Willow Grove, for
81, 100
A pension has been reissued to Charles
A. Wilson of Centreville, Queen Anne's
county.
The Walter Norris farm. near Dover,
has been sold to George ". Flack for
Sl5, 900.
A. E. Jardine has sold the Mason
farm, in Blackbird hundred, to John
Deakyne.
Charles Grant has withdrawn from
the faculty OF the Maryland Nautical
Academy.
Thomas Il. Bakers residence, at st.
Michaefs, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday.
The erection of shoe factory at
Rising Sun, Cecil county, has beon
| commenced
b. G. Redman has been appointed
westminster at A merican Corners, Caro-
line county.
James +. Evans of Cecil county will
remove to Columbus, Tex, where he
will practice law.
Hugh Caldwell of Port Depusit had
his collar bone broken recently while
playing football.
j. f. Deakyne has resigned the presi
dency OF the Middletown Young Men 8
Christian Association.
Edgar g. Armstrong of Philadelphia
has bought tho Samuel Moore farm,
near Leipsc, for 81, 600.
While chopping wood recently, Mrs.
John Hartman of Centreville. Queen
knne'a county, severed thumb.
The Kent County Mutual Insurance
Co. has cold the Grow farm, in Black
bird hundred, to Willard f. Reed.
Harry Duffy ami Miss Stella NJ.
Pussy were married at Snow Hill Mon
| Tha 10 IL x.a nln
William Innes, Dr.. and Miss Mary E.
Campbell were married at Eddystone on
Thursday. They will reside at Newark.
Harry Drake. horse trainer at Iron
Hill, had his head severely injured on
Thursday by being kicked by horHe
Polydore S. Crockett of Oxford. an
oysterman, was fonnd dead in his canoe,
on the Tired Avon River, on Thursday.
, While repairing house at Pocomoke
, City, on Thursday. Grant Paradeo fell a
J distance of 20 feet and was eeriously
injured.
Miss Sarah Speakman Of Sylmar had
> a hand severely injured recently by the
} expulsion Of cartridge, which she was
t examining.
William +. Pattison, who was post.
master at Cambridge during President
. Lincoln's administration, died in Wash.
ington last Tuesday week.
Letters Of administration on the estate
! of r, O, Porter OF Cherry Hill have
I been granted to Mrs. Martha E. Porter.
: The estate Is valued at S25 600.
The Rev. W. W. W. Wilson, D. D..
!, formerly of the Wilmington Methodist
Episcopal Conference, has been invited
. to return to Freeport, N. y, as pastor
3 for the fourth year.
Q Cards have beon issued for the we'd
q ding of W. Finley Collins and Mis-
O Elizabeth Osborne Cacy, which will
a take place in Holy Cross Church, Mill
t ingtou, on December lHt.
Q j, M, Sterrett. Dr. g. S. Dare, II. H
g Haines, NJ. E. Kirk, Alfred Kirk ant
A i. H, Worthington have been electet
a directors of the Rising Sun Sho
X Manufacturing Co. OF Cecil county.
" Allen S. Grace, who was convicted j
d Dorchester county OF numbering hi
X wife and sentenced to Is years, wa
o taken to the Maryland penitentiary o
@ Friday and assigned TO work in the sho
department.
D. The Maryland Clay Co. OF Northeas
- has given TO the Enterprise machin
q works OF Elkton an order for GO. horse
y power tubular boiler, TWO high spec
y engines, IL dump cars, two clay pump
~ and other machinery.
~ John Davenport, hotel proprietor {
10 Easton, has been sentenced to al
20 mon tbs in the House Of Correction Il
a selling liquor illegally. Roxana HickI
IN charged with similar offence, hi
mr. been given four months.
ne DR.. Poole of Middetown is maxim
arrangements to quarry flint on tt
Murphy estate, Port Deposit. At fret Ii
flint will be shipped to Trenton, but
al the supply proves to be abundant pc
IN teries will he established near th
Ir- quarry.
H. George Abrams and Joel Dean. viii
by cunning along Northeast Creek MOI
to day week, were shot by companion
m whuse gun was accidentally discharges
,r- Several shot entered Abrams back ar
ite Deans ankles, and produced paint
,r. but not serious wounds.
'rt The contested will case Of the la
10. John W. Tyson. which was on trial
m the Circuit Court for Cecil county
irs March last, but which was not col
% cluded owing to the illness of iuro
tn has been settled amicably. The co
or test grew out of u caveat filed to Il
W. will OF Mr.. Tyson, which alleged LAT
IN OF testamsntary capacity and undue i
or. fluenGe. The estate was valued at abo
oL- So, 600,