Smyrna times., 1859-11-17
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ne cltizeDs or 81. GEORGES Hundred
I'll Will hold meeting at Middletown, on Monda,
evening next. for the purpose of forming Rife
er company. The military spirit, at present, il
l. rife throughout the country, particularly along
le the borders of Mason and Dxon's line. The
II young men of Dover, we learn, are also taking
e about organizing company.
: -Our Milford friends, it seems, are " hard
g up" for each. The Ne,Os says, that money. in
J. that town, will command "three per cent a
Il month";" Where's the Railroad!
> The deg question is the greatest of all
topics just now, in this part of the sporting
" vineyard. The stocks in demand. A good
!, dog would fetch kingdom-to hear the talk.
The Smyrna Debating Society will meet
this (Thursday) evening, at o'clock, at the
, Reading Room Of the Library. The meetings
will be held regularly, every week, hereafter.
Sarah ]. Cazer, J. B. Cazier and Rev.
Samuel Dickey, have taken out letters tesla
mentary on the estate of Henry Cazier, late of
Pencader Hundred, deceased. The property
left by deceased is worth from $4,000 to
100000.
The Courts for New Castle county will
commence their fall sessions at New Castle. on
Hionday next, the 2lst inst.
-Amos Stayton, of Sussex county, has
raised beet which the Peninsular News styles
the King of Beets," its weight being fourteen
pounds.
At the office of the Inquirer in Will |
mlngton, may be found pike " of the " ire.
presslble conflict" notoriety. 1t is six feet and
five inches long-the blade ten inches long bv
two wide, running to point, with both ends
sharp. The weapon is made of iron, and looks
very unlike plow. share or any other imple
ment Of peace.
The Sons of Malta, numbering forty.six,
walked forth, in ghostly garb, on Thursday
night last, in Wilmington-marching through
several of the principal streets. The process.
sion was headed with three bugles and three
drums With the exception of the music, not
a sound was heard along the procession.
Gen. Riley lectured in the Court House
at Dover, on Tuesday last, aud seems to have
made an impression, resulting in the formation
OF a society, in that place, numbering fifty I
member. The DeIaWarean calls this ga move
in the right direction" Well, neighbor, if you
think SO, why not put your shoulder to the
wheel aud push it along. By this means you
may be doing some good in your day and gene l
ration. s
Dover is still looking up, in the way of
improvements. We learn from the Dela,oarean ;
that A. B. Richardson is erecting fine dwell
ing there; also, that DR.. BOnwel's office and
Henry Tood's fine block of buildings will soon $
be finished The Episcopal church repairs, it $
is said, will be completed in time for service on
Thanksgiving day. t
Capt. James Primrose, a native of Mil
ford, died recently, of yellow fever in Calves. :
ton, Texas. Capt p. left Wilmington only a c
few weeks ago, for the above port c
The editor Of the Peninsular Neus it q
seems, has time occasionally to take a hand at +
blowing, and, being of an investigating turn of /
mind, has found out way to make eleven more Il
bushels of corn grow Oh an acre of land than g
other people have been doing. Here's the way :
he done 1t: "Last January, he plowcd co- II
yer sod about three inches deep, preparatory to Il
planting it in corn the coming spring. The L
land was loan with clay subsoil. The ground v
was pIowed again in the spring, to the depth of i
eight inches, and planted in corn by the side of
another lot the same size and quality without
the January blowing. The former produced =,
3j bushels to the acre and the latter 25 !"- $
ha adt 10 II, i 4
grass land in December or January. II
MIR. Charles NJ. Almond, of the Indian f.
Queen Hotel, in Wilmington, received his b
commission on Saturday, as Recorder of Deeds h
for New Castle county, vice Sam'l E. Thomp d
son. whose term had expired. Mr.. Almond :,
may be very affable and agreeable gentleman, Il
as the Wilmington papers say, but we submit \
the question whether such appointments are n
not an encouragement to violence. II is we'll y
known that MIR. Almond, few years since. n
was not a law-abiding ctizen-he openly viola-
ted one of the statutes, and thus ENCOURAGED
crime. If there were no other "affable and u
agreeable men for the desirable post then the II
Governor was justifable in the appointment, +
but if there Oere, then, for the good of the lt
public veal, virtue should be rewarded. not !,
vice. -
PETERsoN's MAGAzINE.-We are in receipt y
of this popular Lady's Magazine for December. d
1t is a splendid number. "Peterson" " has a h
circulation already, it is said of nearly 100000
but will be greatly improved in 1860. 1t will u
contain about 1000 pages of double column
reading matter; IA steel plates; IL coored Q
steel fashion plates; IL colored patterns in Il i
Berlin work, embroidery or crochet; and 800 II
wood engravings. Its price issbut Two Dollars A
a wear or n dOllar less than Ma1o1inos of ;,s n