Smyrna times., 1857-08-12
Delaware Items.

Delaware Items.
Means ~ MILFoRD.-Since the repeal OF
ihe prvhiLiiory Lew there may be found 10 our
tawa, stores that ellhrdent spirits. 3taVerns.
l ale. house. and in the course OF three weeks
there will, be 5 ten pin alleys, and Punch
Board, all of which we think ureprOlIhc sources
of much mischief. Query.--ls morality on the /
advance or retrograde Milford Beacon.
We clip the following items from the
Delaware Reporter last Saturday week was |
the great day at M'illyaiue's Beach tor the ne |
groes. About one thousand were there, and
there was any quantity of bad whiskey drank
and bad blood split on the occasion.
BY the freight train last Thursday evening,
Messrs. Dickson g. Culbrerh, sent up fifteen
j., carloads Of new wheat from the Dover Sta
sion. The cars contained five thousand two
hundred aud fifty bushels, on which the freight
chaiges were more than two hundred doliars.
Mr.. james NJ. Rose died at his residences in
DIVER Hundred, OF cholera. on Thursday For
So 10 time passed he was affected with dlarrhea,
aud it is, said, that at the camp meeting last
euaday he. induiged too freely in melons and
other producers efcholera. --~.'s'----''.'
= RusAwAY.--As DIR. Huey of Smyrna, was
returning home FROM a viait 10 his farm on
Thursday evening accompanied by an elderly
gentleman named Dingy, the BIT IN the horses
lllouth gave way, when he ran down Commerce
street, at full speed, and the front wheel coming
In contact with tha curb stone, MIR. Dlngy was
,throwa out on the pavement, cutting his face,
and Inhlcting other injuries ~ t'
o.r The friends Of temperance will hold a
harvest home in Brandywine Hundred, on
Thursday, the 9th inst Full particulars will
be q ven in a few days, Are-action has taken
place in this undred, aud the Buena Vista
Division of Sons of Temperance, is rapidly IN
creasing. 3 y.
or Within the pa 4 few weeks, five splen-
diu new passenger cars have been placed on
the Philadelphia. Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad. Two OF them we're made by Harlan
g. HoIlipgsworth, Wilmington, two by the
Company.
aMrscHrRvoUs BoYs.-Some three or fouI
mischievous boys took the horse and dearborn
OF j. III. Hoffecker, Esq, from Shiploy street
on Wednesday last, and made trip into the
country. After Mr.. III had transacted his bust
ness, he was surprised to find that his horse ant
dearborn had been removed, and proceeded Il
search for them throughout the city, going Il
the different tull-gates, and making inquiries
without success. On Thursday morning he hat
bills struck of. offering reward of $40 for tbs
return OF his property, and 800 for the arrest
and conviction OF the thief At noon, in com
pany With John Il. Brown, he took the cars tor
Philsdelphia, where his search proved futile
We learn that the boys proceeded to the Red
Lion Camp ground, where they remained all
night, and on the way back on Thursday, one
of the cleats came off the end ofihe single tree
AMI being unable to fasteH it on :hey left ths
dearborn thIs eide the toll-gate and took the
mare up one of ehe back streets 10 the stable O.
X. X. Jones, where they left it stating that il
belonged to their father.-RepublicGa.
A LARGE YIELD-James Denney of Mil
Creek Hundred, cut four acres of Timothy from
which he threshed % bushels OF seed, being 81
bushels to the acre.
STRAwRERRIEs.-Therea are many, probably
vino have seen Strandburg's" Strawberry ad
vertisement, hardly gave it attention enough
TO see the particulars Of it-at the same time
were they to see the fruit they would not be
satisfied until they gave the plants trial.
CHARGES AGAINST MINIsrER.-Charges
have been brought against Rev. John ID. Long
che author of work of an anti-slavery charac
ter, which will come for adjustment before the
next Philadelphia Annual Conference OF the
Methodist Episcppal Church. The charges
have been adduced by Rev. MIR. Quigley. OF the
came denominations the accused. They are
as follows:-lst. disappearing the Phila
delphia Conference, and the Border Difficult
ties. I'd. Msrepresentin the people of Mary
land and Delaware. 80. Misrepresenling the
ministers who have labored in Maryland and
Delaware. 4.h, disappearing the members
of the nj. H. Church. 5gh. disappearing
che colored people. The accusation desgnates
the pages OF the book in which the alleged
transgressinns OCCUR. and the definite settle
ment OF the matter will be anxously looked for
by many members of the Christian denoiniDa-
uOn. Mr.. Quigley, it may be stated, is allied
by close ties with Maryland.