Smyrna times., 1901-08-28
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
AND MARYLAND PENINSULA
INTERESTING ITEMS CLEANED FROM STATE
AND EASTERN SHORE PAPERS.
Local Happenings of the Different Towns Of
the Peninsula and the Rural Districts,
Personal, Social aud Otherwise.

damaged the roads in Kent county to
the extent of $4,000.
The damage done by the late storms
is going to cost New Castle county a
round sum of money.
Secretary of State G. r. Layton has
sold his 1856 acre farm, near George
town, to Mahlon G. Belts.
Mr.. Marcus Stengle, father of Rev.
Adam Stengle, of Georgetown, died in
Baltimore, Friday morning, at the age
of SS years.
1t is estimated, from the figures for
July, that our farmers will export
wheat to the value of $175, 100000 dur
ing the present fiscal year.
The season known as "dog days"
being over, there is comfort in the
hope that its most dissagreeable feat
ure. hot and intensely sultry weather,
may disappear and vex us no more til
next summer.
A party of about twenty Off
cials of Wilmington left Monday in a
special Pullman car for jamestown, N.
Y, where they will attend the Con
vention of American municipalities.
After the Convention they will go to
Buffalo.
Harry Tunnel, of Philadelphia, the
little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Tun-
nell. was painfully injured by dog in
Frankford, Thursday, when the ami
NAL suddenly sprang upon him and
tore his flesh. The child was only five
years old.
The Sussex Jail now contains, it is
believed, three of the most desperate
men anywhere to be found in Della
ware-J ohm James, formerly of Lewes,
John Hopkins, of Georgetown, both
colored, and John Stevens, white, of
Georgetown. The men have openly
vowed to get out of the old prison if it
means general blowing up.
In New Castle the mad dog scare is
not abating and all dogs are watched
with suspicion. Sunday colored boy
named Collins was bitten by an un-
known dog. The lad had been at Va.
lette's bakery and was crossing the
green when the dog snapped him on
the left leg. The wound was slight
Six persons have been slightly bitten
by dogs in the past week. 1t is known
that a number of dogs bitten are YET
roaming the streets.
A Rehoboth correspondent of the
EUery Evening says: '"The month o.
August has been the most successful
I Rehoboth has ever known. Every
hotel and boarding cottage has beer
crowded to its capacity, and the ac-
commodations have increased three
| fold in the last few years. The popu
larity of this city was in evidence a
: the sale of town lots offered by tn
f town. They brought fair prices an,
! the sale of about sixteen lots nettet
s nearly 50, $50, which will be spent o.
!, public improvement. Each lot wa
v sold on the ground, and a crowd Q
= bidders followed the procession fror
r place to place. Several Baltimorean
8 were among the successful bidders.
The New Castle NeaOs says of til
tax law of that town: "Mayor Boy
has been paid money for Jail commit
ments, like former good mayors {
New Castle over period of years
! based on the Interpretation of the sta
utes by counsel of the Levy Cour
According to the law quoted by EUer
Evening, neither he nor his predece
sors in office would be legally entitle
y to the fees. We admit this, but
3 seems there are conflicting laws regart
u ing commitments and on this disagree,
y able point hinges all the difficulty.
year ago we looked up several statut,
,e bearing on the question and are qui
= sure even EUery Evening will adm
y that it would take more than a Phil
delphla lawyer to make it plain th
there is no legal authority vested
:" the magistrate in relation to Jail cor
mitments."
le The Morning Neaos says: GAS Z,
ward Kinder, a prominent farmer
is near Horsey's Cross Roads, was +
s. turning from Moore's camp meetin
i'd near Seaford, Sunday night with b
IS family in a surrey, and Cornelius
re Swayne, a well-known politician
s. Sussex county, and his family, wi
lg were also In surrey, they met with
IS. serious mishap. They decided to ra
" short distance. Mr.. Swayne, ho
re ever, had the better of the argume1
10. Some teams were also racing in the G
l. II