Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-29
DELAwAHn AsD pssIssuLA.
Bowera, Bench Win be improved.


Next Monday will be- appeal uaJ at
Smyrna.
:, shirt factory will be operated at
Snow Hill.
Easton Methodist Episcopal Church
will be enlarged.
Two million young perch have been
put in the Corsica river.
branch of tho Home Forum has
been organized at Denton.
Joseph Kendall of Chestertown was
recently stricken with paralysis.
s. M. II. Dryden has sold his farm.
near SNOW Hill, to G. 9. 5piegel for
81, 600.
The salaries Of the school teachers OF
Somerset county have been reduced 10
per cent.
Twenty five carloads OF oyster shells
are being used 10 improving George.
towns streets.
j. W. Brown Of Leipsic was drowned
in the Delaware bay last week while
fishing for sturgeon.
The jury for the May term OF the
circuit court OF Worcester county in.
cludes colorea man.
Newsboya on the Delaware railroad
trains are not permitted to cell cigars.
chewing gum or candy.
The Smyrna Town Council has
elected j. II. Garner constable, vice
John s. Griffin, resigned.
GeorRetown's new -four mill will be
put ip operation next Monday, and will
be operated by W, j. Layton.
Gov, Tunnel has received from
Nam Xastr HrF,, ho. Il -
the Grant monument dsdiURtion.
The Rev. Edwin V. Iinchliffu.
formerly OF Elkton, has hesn appointed
pastor of a church at Bradford. Mass.
The dwelling on the Mount Mills
property, near Church Hill. was
burned last week, causing luss of
| 81, 600
While painting tho Hotel Heplopen,
| at Rehobotn. few days agD, Walter
James fell from veranda and sprained
an ankle.
John 4. Jones, colored, of Crisfield,
has been sentenced to three years. i'm
prisonment for having stolen goods on
his premises.
Gov. Tunnel and staff have accepted
an invitation to attend the Washington
monument unwilling in Philadelphta,
on May 18TH. -
William L. Bunting of Pocomoke
City died Unexpectedly last week. He
had just returned from a walk, and
expired in chair.
Mrs. Esther Cummius has presented
TO st. PETERS Church, Smyrna, a
window in memory of her husband,
the late William Polk Cummins.
| H. d., I
OF the Wilmington Methodist Episcopal
Conference, has been appointed pastor
of Trinity Church, Kingston, N. Y.
The Rev. B. c. Warren. formerly Of
the Wilmington Methodist Episcopal
Conference, has been appointed pastor
of st. James, Church, Kingston, N. Y.
Three damage suits against the
Pennsylvania Railroad Go. which had
BEEN removed from Cecil to Kent
county, have been transferred to Har-
ford county.
Miss Lea, aged 40 years, who resided
near Watts Corner. Cecil county, was
burned to death last week. Her cloth.
ing became ignited in some iuexpIi-
cable manner.
John S. Writ of Elkton has accented
an invitation to deliver the annual ad /.
dress before the Philokalian Society at
st. Johns College, Annapolis, during
commencement week.
The Drexel estate, consisting of ). 600
acres, at Kloi Grange, has been sold to
German capitalists, who will erect a
beet sugar factory there. The price
paid was about so. 900.
Tho Rev. Il. S. Cain has been an.
pointed pastor of Deaver Dam, Rey-
nolds and Gave Neck Methodist
Protestant Churches, which were re
Gently taken from the Milton circuit,
G. W. Crockett of Pocomoke CITY
has contracted to build for Peter
Pepler steam launch SO feet long and
10 feet wide, which will be used in
carrying mail between Crisiisld and
Tangier Island.
Tho Isle of Wight Hotel, at Ocoap
City, has been sold to John Il. Ensor
OF baltimore for 50, 900, and the Hears
man cottage and three building lots
have been sold to John +. Moore OF
Snow Hill for $3.50.
The committee appointed by the cir
QUIT court OF Somerset county to
examins Ephraim Nutter, a colored
school teacher who applied for ad.
| "'ssioh w bio bni, uub reported uO-
favorably, be having failed TO pass tbs
examination. -
HE Elkton capnevy was sold last
weak, and was purchased as follows
Tbs main building, by W. II. II. Ed.
wards, for sl6l; the Bohemian build
Ing, by George X. Howard. for $40;
the office building, by A. N. strick.
!, land, for Sl5.
ID. G. Montgomery, Jr., James II.
Hughes. j. Frank Wilds. George nj.
Jones, G. II. Lewis and John g.
Thompson Will represent Delaware al
} the biennial session OF the Supreme
Oonclave, Improved Order Of Iierta-
soophs, which will be held in Louis
vile, n.y., next week.
Tbs Sussex county court has granted
Licenses to sell liquor as follows: vii.
liam M, Jefferson, Douglass House.
Rehohoth; Peter j. Hart, Brick Hotel
Georgetown; james ii. Palmer. Slauqn.
ter Beach Hotel; Harry G. Pennington,
sussex House., Seaiord; John III,
Truitt, Eagle Hotel, Georgetown.
j Register Causey OF Sussex county
! has granted letters of administration n
follows: On the estate OF Martin f..
iearn, to John III. Elliott: on fms
estate of Levin j.. Hill, to Sallie III,
, aiil and John II. Elliott; on the estate
OF Charles league, to Peter w, Coma,
way; on the estate Of Elizabeth Ellie.
gooG, to Robert g. Elegoou on the