Smyrna times., 1857-12-24
DetGWGre A0atrs.

New CASTLE COUNTY TEAcHER's AssoCIA.
TION.-The First Quarterly Meeting of the
New Castle County Teachers Association, will
be held in the Forest Church, Mlddletown, on
Tuesday, the 29th of December.
The exercises for the morning, will be as
follows, viz:-Salutatory Address, by Rev.
Mr.. Rankin; reply by the President of the AS
sociatlon. Singing, conducted by Mr. Trggs
Suggestions to Teachers on teaching. Mathe.
matics, by DIR. Loomis of Washington, Discus.
tion, opened by t. c. Taylor
Acknowledgment on teaching Gram.
mar. by Theodore Hyatt. Discussion opened
by Rev. A. S. Cotton. Singing Suggestions
OIL teaching Geography, by ]. L. KIllgore.-
Discussion opened by the Secretary OF the As
sociation. Address on the Threeford Relations
of Parent, Pupil and Teacher by President
Newin, Of Delaware College.
A Lecture may be expected in the evening
by Bishop Potter.
Free return tickets will be furnished to all
persons attending the Convention, who pass
over any part of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore, or Delaware Rail Roads.
ADMITTED TO PRAcTIcE'-On the 9th inst,
during a session of the superior court of Massa.
chuselts held at Boston, Mr.. Elias s. Reed. of
this state, was admitted TO practice as an attor-
ney in all the courts of that Commonwealth
For several years Mr.. Reed studied law, under
the immediate surveillance Of Judge John w
Houston, of Milford, and for the last six months
has pursued his professional course in one of
the law schools of Massachusetts,
THE DELAWARE HARBoR AND BAy.-We ner.
ceiVe with pleasure that the Hon. E. J. Morris !
has given notice 6f his " intention 10 introduce
bills for the improvement and completion ofthe
ice-piers at Chester, Marcus Hook and New
Castle, and for the extension OF. the Harbor of
Refuge at Reedy Island on the Delaware river"
OF The Delaware Gazette, saws the ReDor-
ter, in its unmitigated abuse of that sterling
and unfinching democrat, Judge Douglas, has
received the condemnation of many democrats
in this section Of the State.
OF The annual meeting of the Fire Insur-
ance Co. of Appoquinimink and st. Georges
Hundred, will be held at Odessa, on the first
Monday of January.
OF The next session of the Newark Female
Seminary, conducted by Miss H. Chamberlain,
will commence on Wednesday, the 9th of Janu.
ary.
" An annual meeting Of the stockholders
OF the Delaware Railroad Company is TO be
held at Dover on Thursday, the Ia of January.
GA daughter of II. c. Carter, of Willow
Grove, Del, was dangerously burned on Satur-
day week.
MILFORD AFFAIRs.-We compile the follow {
ing items from the Milford Netos "A hitherto
married woma n, with several legi- I
innate children, who lives in the vicinity of
Marsh Hope Bridge, recently gave birth 10 an |
itieg itinate muLatto child! the reputed father d
Of which is said TO be the dirtiest ugIiest ne O
gro in the whole neighborhood! The woman r
says that the negro came TO bed to her in the O
night, when her husband was absent, and she
being asleep did not even know it until he
was in the act of leaving the bed, when she c
swoke He was arrested on peace warrant v
or ihreatning the husband, and Is now confined .
"a iaiI at Dover If these facts are all true, u
'ome law should be found. or enacted, by which =
he may be hung, drawn and quartered. '
e or Lsmuel d. Shockley, Esq, one of the b
most prominent aud best ciizens of Cedar y
Creek Hundred, suffered stroke of paralysis =
while seated in the Slaughter Neck M. e.
,hurch, on Monday night. lie had Just lead
be congregation ia prayer and taken his seat, Y
vhen some of his friends discovering something 10
he matter, approached him and found him en- le
rely helpless, and SO much paralysed that c,
aere 10 40 prospect, although alive TO day, that r.
e can live but few days at most. A.
Or Mr.. David Dodd contemplates, il is said, 80; 1r
asascitating the old SusseG NeUs, a weekly In,
aPer formerly published at Georgetown. i%na %