Smyrna times., 1870-09-21
STATE AND LOCALS.


:, SHORT lrEMs.-The corner stone Of new
VI: II. Church has been laid in Lewes. The
edlhce Is to be 40 by 60 it,, with steeple 90 #.
from the base. Rev. q. W. Burke is pastor
1t is stated that forty cottages are to be erect
ed at Rehoboth Beach, near Lewes, in time for
the opening of the next summer season.
Our Town Commissioners have purchased
$1,000 worth OF town bonds for $905.
The consumption Of gas in this town has in
creased about % per cent since it has been
properly managed.
Mr.. Sharp has put in his new bridge and
gates at the pond" in this town, but the
travelling public are still endangered by the
dam.
Tie peach season closed last week, as did
also the canning factory in this town.
Reed birds and rail, are plenty along the
Delaware marshes, also along the Chesapeake
The fellow who wanted to erect steam grist
n Ill at AllddletOwn, only pretended so that he
might be Eonlzed' whilst stopping in the
town.
The corn worm is said to be very destructive
in the vicinity Of Mddletown
An excursion train on the j. & B. Railroad
colllded with hand car near Georgetown last
Wednesday aud the locomotive was somewhat
damaged. The men on the hand car narrowly
escaped instant death by jumping off. They
We're going round Il curve.
The bark Addte NcAduna, arrived at LeweS
on w WedneSday last with two shipwreckud crews
on board, one being the crew of the British
bark DetdWdre hom Ba tmorc for Demerara.
and the other that OF a French brig, the Mich
aet ct Ahnd.
The Seatord & Georgetown Railroad enter
prise Is awakening considerable interest.
a fishing excursion went from Milford to
Lewes on the railroad last week.
a horse belonging to B. B. Allen. of this
town, valued at about 500, got one of his
tore feet fastened i'll tency aud killed himself
In trying to get it out. Monday night. lie
pulled the foot nearly off.
=, The fourteenth annual exhibition of the
Delaware Horticultural Society will be held in
the Hall OF the Wilmington Institute, com
menclng on W ednesday evening, and continue
until Friday evening, the 23d inst.
A three masted French barque, picked up
abandoned at sea, Was brought into New Cas-
tie Oh Monday.
Charles W. Poulson, formerly of tLis town
mas Oeen appointed General Passenger Agent
OF the California Steam Navigation Company.
We hear no more of the immense fortune he
made III selling silver mine
The Dover Cornet Band thinks of getting
uniform.
j. Dean Burton, of Wilmington. exnla;ned
the mode OF operating the mitraillenr. the
French cannon about which there has been so
much talk, to Louis Napoleon, at the Pari,
Exposition, 1t is said. The cannon is an Aneri-
can invention.
There will be an excursion of colored people
TO clayton on next Sunday, on the MARYLAND
and Delaware Railroad
MesSrs. Estes Brothers, formerly of New
YORK, have commenced the manufacture OF tin
anu sheet IRON ware at Harrington
The Citizens National Bank, at Mid Iletown.
intend erecting new bulliin, adjoining the
National Hotel
About 10000 gallons of whiskey year is
made III the southwestern part OF this State.
The brig Ro'erson, Capt. Mays, from Boston
Tor PhIladeiphla, got on the Breukwater, at
Lewes Monday night, and will be total loss.
Some OF our farmers tell us that nothing like
the usual amount Ut wheat will be sown this
fall. 1t don't pay.
he steamer Granite State has been super
cedcd by the ". W. Cot, ON the Lewes and
New York route
Fifteen thousand crOcus fish were caught at
Lewes on the night OF Friday, the 9th inst.
Mr.. Charles Treidler, merchant tailor of|
Milford, has accepted an invitation from one of
the herman singing sOcetle, Of Philadelnhi,
10 slug at the Academy OF Music shortly.
Passengers on the junction e. Breakwater
IaHr9ad complain because trains have to be de-.
Iayed so frequently IN killing cattle, which the
farmers Insist III pa>turing upon the track.
Inc nre insurance business has become brisk
since the recent hre IN this town it i, said
About 500 persons from Wilmington went on
railroad excursion to New YOlk TUESDAY
week. N''u'9
Two little sons Of Isaac Pyle of Wilmington
got on the train and went to Puia.. one d,V I,.1
week, and their parents had twenly-tour
hours search lor them.
W have been requested TO ask why it vas
that 80 many property holders stood aronud /
DOING nothing during our recent fire vbiia
men VINO would not have last fartling If thc
whole town had burned, risked life and l,mt ~
extlngulsh the flames. Let the guilty answer
by the accidental upseting OF a coal oil }amn
III the parlor Of Mrs. Robertson boarding
mouse, Dover, on Saturday evening week 3
very narrow escape Was made from disastrous
configration. '''''''''0""
In the greater part of Sussex county there
mad been no rain since June, till SATURDAY.
night The crops have tailed-the fourth wear
IN succession.
A co!Ored woman named Mason was struck
6y locomotive at the Dover depot last Tn~S-
day and Knocked distance of 20 feet She
died from her injuries in few hours.
Worden 4 Evans, of this town. have inst
put IN some new machinery of an imnroyrd
pattern, used i'll the Manufacture of venetian
blinds, DC. They are going largely into the
OF sash, doors, &c.
Rev. Messrs Rirtenhouse, of this town and
CiiEEmer, OF st. faurs Church, Wilmington,
Will exchange pupits next Sunday.
The heavy rain Of Saturday night. the first
Tor nearly six weeks, has enabled many farmers
to plow fallOw '1' ''''i"
by advertisement in another column it will
De seen that the steamer .Lerseu RLle Iii ~.