Smyrna times., 1859-12-08
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md Mr. John B. Cooper, preceptor iR Scho
her District No. 3, in this town, gave a public e
ern animation on Friday last. The children a
re- said to have acquitted themselves very credits
ab- bly,. This school, as we'll as the one taught b
In MIR. |. Pennewell, District No. 3, as evinced b
en- their examinations, show that they are undc
I'D good management and progressing very sati
Ito factorily to the parents.
ey The State is blessed with another bate
en- of " limbs of the law" On the 21st ult, O
C. New Castle, VIM. d. Dorr, Sam'l G.. Logan an
e. Samuel G. Smms were admitted to practice a
gs the bar of the Courts of TINS State.
" The people of the Eastern Shore o
a Maryland became greatly excited last week BY
g an anonymous letter picked up by some one
st. Michael, which stated that the negro slaves
," had formed plot to appeal to arms for the pur
U" pose of achieving their freedom When the
news reached Easton it created the greatest
CONSERVATION among the people, and the court
" Immediately adjourned, and judges and jury,
lawyers and clients, began to prepare for battle.
AT Denton, when the news arrived there, men
and women hurried to and fro in the widest ex.
cltement, without apparently once stopping to
think whether the thing was probable or possi-
Bile. 1t is now supposed by cooler men that the
letter was manufactured for the occasion, and
intended by some rough joker to try the cour
age of the people.
Milford has recently been much infested
with thieves, and on Saturday night last Mr.
Roland DoniVan, says the Ne,oS, having missed
some corn from his field several times, conclu
ded to watch for them. About midnight he
heard the rattle of the hrskers and cautiously
approached them. The first thing the thieves
knew Mr.. d. was befure them when he ad. |
dressed one of them, whom he recognized,
thus
"Now, Henry, are you not ashamed of your
self!"
"Y Yes LOr. massa, aur 'shamed oh my
self; feels meant"
Both then dashed off at full speed and Henry
being swift of foot escaped for the time, but the
other was an old negro and he Mr.. ID. overlook,
captured and tied. On Monday morning Henry
was found hid away under his house, and beth
were cribbed and sent to Dover for safe keep
ing until court.
Rabbits have been abundant this FALL
Up till Thanksgiving Day one boy, on large
farm in Cecil CO., had trapped over a hundred
one man, few miles above Elkton, says the
Wing, had shot ninety up TO last week, and he
only gunned occasionally. One gunner brought :
81 rabbits in single day to provision store,
the proprietor of which, on Saturday last, re.
ceived and sold over 20. We have not known I
game SO abundant for many years. :
The accounts from different parts of the ! !
county, says the Wing, confirms the opinion :
that the corn crop in Cecil CO. is considerably h
below an average crop; not more probably than {,
two-thirds of a crop, although the quantity u
planted was larger than usual. Many are of
opinion that the heavy storm which occurred U
just before the cutting up of corn, and which =
injured the fodder SO much, also did much in f
jury to the corn.
The $l700 stolen from the safe of Col. :
George Green, of Concord, Sussex, CO., few .
days ago, have been returned by the rogue in :
order to avoid exposure, the theft having been r
traced to him through the auger he used to bore
a hole through the counting room door, II
Peter Martin, of Sussex CO., killed y
goose, few days ago, which weighed 81 lbs e
after it was dressed.
"A few nights since Mrs. Barny, living v
below one of the pot houses in Wilmington, 0
was awakened by the piercing scream of her . .
child, which she had left asleep in its cradle in
one of the lower rooms. fastening down !
stairs she found that her infant had been at te
lacked by rats, and that they had inflicted sew
eral ghastly wounds in its face. physician a,
was called in, who pronounced the child in al
danger from the bites of the fero. II
;ious reptiles. d'
We learn that the cars on the Delaware
'oad went as far as the Line" on Thursday ~
asst; and that this week they will commence q
running regularly to that point. c
The notorious Mag Ward, of Whining "
eR, while attending court at New Castle as a
witness in a case of illegally selling liquor, Vi
said to the court SOtto UOce, " You needn't say a.
anything, you like rum as well as anybody "
The court did not understand the nature of g
Mag's remarks, as she was so far of.
The town of Dover was lighted by gas 70
ast Wednesday night. 70
"A meeting for the purpose of organizing m
l Temperance Society in Dover, was held in
The basement of the M. L. church on Thursday
evening, the 24th ut. The next meeting will -
'e held on Thursday next. The Porcupine, y
"A speaking of temperance in Dover, says:
"No place in christendom stands more in =
leed of temperance society than Dover. If &C
"hiskey drinking was made capital offence, tn
here would scarcely be sufficient number of