Smyrna times., 1871-10-11
STATE AND LOCALS.

-S"J ~ "SIOhO 1hO OliOuos
a Railroad from Berlin, Md, to Georgetown
is now the talk in lower Sussex.
The Delawarean is discouraged because Do
yer can't produce a big sweet potato
According to the Sussex Journal "there is
but one licensed lawer in Georgetown
1.-The Peninsuar Fruit Growers ASsocia-
ton " meets in Dover on Tuesday next, 18th |
inst.
A man in Baltimore Hundred, Sussex CO.,
struck for higher wages some time ago. and
knocked his 3" boss down.
Geo. W. Lindsay, has been elected Cashier
of the National Bank of Newark, Del, in place |
Of G. W. Blandy. resigned. Il
AT last advices ten tickets had been sold in
Dover for Alf. Burnett'S entertainment, in this
town, next Monday evening
Mr.. j. B. NAPLES, druggist, of Georgetown,
and DR.. Sam'l Marshall, of Dover, are going
into the drug business in Pha.
The Mayor of Wilmington called town
meeting last evening to take measures for the
relief of the destitute OhicagOians.
Frost has played the mischief with all kinds
of garden Sass" especially tomatoes, lima
beans, sweet potatoes, egg plants, &c.
A Conference of the Unitarian Churches OF
the Middle States will be held i'll Wilmington
on Thursday and Friday Of this week.
One hundred cases are entered on the trial
list for the October term of the Court, for this
county, which commences on the 23d.
A gentleman of Lewes, by proper medical
treatment in Philadel phia last week, was le
lieved Of tape worm twenty four feet long.
The Wilmington Commercial says a chap
came up from Harrington last Thursday en-
route for the Aneghanies to escape the tidal
wave.
DR.. Green, the surgeon, welknown in this
community, and supposed to be a confirmed
Old bachelor, has succumbed at last to Cupids
dart.
! Mr.. Sharpley, who plays so marvelously on
the concertina at Alf Burnett's entertainments,
is said to be withou: a rival i'll this country or
Europe.
1t is understood that bell, capable of being
heard five miles, will be put in the steeple of
the new Episcopal Church in Middletown when
completed.
Howard NJ. jenkins Esq, of the Conamer-
eidl, represented the Wilmington Board of
Trade at the Great Industrial Exposition at
Cincinnati.
Gov Ponder shot rifle whilst at the Ger
man Scheutzcntest in Wilmington, last week,
Tor the first time i'll his lite and hit the centre
of the target.
AL. DuIueLI VIII give HIS eUIcIldluulcul
next Monday evening, 10th, in this town. He
will have a crowded house, from present ap
pearsnces
VIM A. Hukill of Odessa, has consented to
have his name put forward by his friends as
candidate for the sberffalty Of New Castle co. ),
next Fall.
The contract for building the Presbyterian
church at atGeOrgetOwn has been given to MesSrs
! Hiram T. Downing and Peter Pepper OF that
place at $4,000.
Z. NJ. Curtis, of Chicago, formerly of New
ark, in this State, and referred to last week as
having suddenly disappeared, has turned up
in California, all right.
Rev. Mr. Tenant, Episcopal minister at Sea-
ford, is attending medical lectures and proposes
to doctor as we'll as preach. Cant or won t
his congre CATION support him?
The old NJ f. Church building in Milford
will probably be sold soon and it has been sug-
gested that the town should buy it and convert
it into Town Hall, lookup, &c.
: The receipts of the Horticultural Fair in
: Wilmington were about 81, 500, which were
. donated to the Home for Friendless Children
a charitable institution OF the city
Through the kindness of friends Wyoming
Institute has been supplied with Chemical ap
parstus, and an elegant and costly Stereopti
con, with the improved Oxyo calcium light.
1t takes eight cars and thirty,fve horses t.
t equip the Wilmington passenger railway. |
y costs upwards of $4,000 to run it aud bare
pays expenses. 1t kills up horse in abou
three years.
# THE Sons and Daughters of the Tru
= Light, colored organization, very popula
in this part of the State, paraded in Middle
. town Oh Saturday. The band from this tow
l. was in attendance.
- The latest on the sweet potato question
d that DR.. Gibson, of St. Michaela, Talbot co
in ha grown one weighing eight pounds and te
. ounces. DcntOn's big one weighed lbs. ] OF
= and Smyrna lbs. 10 OF.
The twenty-fOur ounce pear grown by NJ
- Butler, OF harrington, in this State, suppose
nt to be the largest grown in the United STATE
il this year, has been beaten over in Salem co
of n. j., by one one-half ounce heavier
It. We are requested to state that Geo. v
rv Simpler has been appointed Postmaster
. Tay lOr's Bridge, in Appoqunimink, and Maj
- IL. Pierce, assistant From the business
ne the office we should think the latter sinecur
n' A remarkable revival of religion has bee
IL going on Tor a number Of weeks in the Bapti
IT Church at Chadds Ford, near the Deawa
of line, in Pennsylvania. The Quakers and Il
of Presbyterans are lending helping hand
the work.
~ Rev. Mr.. Flippo has not retired from Il
ne ministry as the Gazette and Delawarean ha
ro- it, but is more active than ever, preachi
,ti- twice or three times each Lords day and raj
70. ing the balance due Wyoming College. The
~ papers will please correct.
The axle of one of the cars on the event
are train on the Maryland and Delaware Raro
es- broke between Greensborough and Ridgely,
in the train was going down on Friday night,
ke consequence OF which the passengers had
~ remain on the road all night
of The Chapel of the Zion Baptist Churc
" " near Vernon, in this county, will be ready
IL dedication in few weeks. 1t is a neat u
are handsome structure and will be dedicated fl
YES of debt. 1t will be remembered that this