Smyrna times., 1871-08-09
STATE AND LOCALS.

rOad-53l 900 baskets.
Messrs. Hoffecker 4 Brother, of this town,
: commenced peach canning this week, with a
large force of employees.
1t is supposed that the big Masonic temple
now being erected in Wilmington will cost
$3.50, 900 when completed.
1t costs the 2. W. & b. r. r. Company
$40, 900 per month to pay off its employees in
the city OF Wilmington alone the Gazette says
Messrs Stidham & Son, Aucti3neers, of
Wilmington, are now selling large amount of
bankrupt goods in this town. Read the adv
Rev. A. ID. Davis baptised nearly one hun
dred persons during the recent Harrington
camp-the most of them on Sunday, 3Oth
ult.
1t is stated that the young men of Middle
town have tournament on the tapis, and
expect Smyrna to take a share in the enter
prise.
The firm of Murphy & Parry having been
dissolved by the death of the latter, ID. j.
Murphy 4 Son will now carry on the Alley
mills
The Delaware Colored Conference recently
in session at Salem, N. j., Bishops James and
Scott presiding, resolved to meet at Dover,
next year.
Mr.. VIM. Green, of fMiddletown, gave social
party in his lawn one evening last week light
ing 1t up with Chinese lanterns suspended
from the trees.
Mrs. Newkirk, the lady so brutally assaulted
by negro last week is rapidly recovering and
we are requested to state that she successfully
resisted his attack.
Asa S. Clifton has taken out letters of ad-
mlniStratiOn on the estate of the late John p
Reese, and Mrs. Parry administers on the es
tate Of her late husband, JOS Parry.
Ihn e Al
Church, about to be erected in Middetown.
was laid Saturday afternoon, with appropriate
religious ceremonies by the rector, DIR. McCabe.
While there has been so much complaint
against l1aes Ear!ies, we see it stated that
two gentlemen near Middletown, Ii. q. LLOYD
and l. Gould, have netted IS cts. per basket
for their crops.
The fruit preserving establishment at Mil
ford, 1.-THE Alden process) employs from so to
80 hands, working day and night consuming
300 bushels or 500 baskets of peaches every
twenty-f0ur hours.
Jas. Cunningham, of Wilmington, proprietor
and owner Of the Black Horse Hotel made
mlStep in the dark and fell down stairs, one !
night last week, from the effects Of which he |
died on Wednesday.
A number of gentlemen from Phila., organ, |
lzed as an amateur band, have taken board at
Collins Beach. The same party visited the
Hygenla last year, and greatly added to the
gayety of the season.
The barn of Joshua Mccullough, of Christi
ana lid was struck by lightning and destroy
ed by fire last week, including 100 bus. of
wheat, GO tons of hay, &c. Loss, about
$4,000; insurance, $2l60.
Five camp meetings commenced on this
Peninsula last Friday-Zion, near Laurel and
Mlllsboro, Del, and Chesterville Wye and
Wise's Point, Md Two commence next
Ihursday--Red Lion and Talbot.
:, The lounging peach pickers' about Mid
dletoWn got into general melee at the depot
there one night last week and some bloody
noses and black eyes were the result. Women
and men were mixed up in it indiscriminately.
The new colored band of Dover serenaded
their former colored fellow-ctizen Joshua
Parker, (nOw bailiff in Washington one night
last week lie responded in true Washington
style, giving some excellent advice and S25 TO
the band.
There are forty one leading industrial estab
lIShments in Wilmington, employing 1858
wOrkmen. This does not include the railroad
shops. The Harlan e. IIoIIincswortb Comm
ny employ 500 hands the jackson & Sharp
Company $50, &c.
Mrs. Rev. s. i. Baldwin, wife Of the mis-.
sonary delivered an interesting lecture in the
NJ. +. Church of this town on Monday evening
IN an OF the wOnIens society for ADVANCING
the condition Of females in foreign lands She
dWelt upon the atject condition of women in
China.
| A fine young horse belonging to Allen & Bell
OF this town, was killed by lightning Monday
afternoon. The team was hitched to a wire
fence on Mr. n. +. Wids' farm, in the Neck,
when both horses were knocked down. one DON
rising however. Mr.. Allen and the driver We're
also shocked
u. Med. Roberts, of Appoquinimink, last
week sent hve baskets of peaches to the New
Castle co. Aims house for distribution amonost
the inmates. He is Trustee of the Poor
Tie also made similar donations to the Home
Tor Aged w omen and the Chlldrens Home. in
! Wilmington.
The Phila. Ledger in referring to the ex
traordlnary growth of grain on Bombay Hook.
locates that bOggy island in New York
There may have been a time when it would
have made but little difference if they had
claimed 1t but now that its making such fine
progress Delaware is getting proud of it.
r, a meeting will be held this evening, in the
Episcopal Church of this town, in behalf of
missions IN the Diocese, on which occasion
addresses will be delivered by Messrs Walter
Cummins, Il. ii. Pennington, DR.. WIN. Cum.
minis, and others. To commence at quarter
before y clock. The object of the meeting
is to form Young Mems Church Missionary
Association. The public are invited-Seats
free. "0'''
-. CHAPTER or ACCIDENTS. Last Friday a
little boy named VIM. Creuson. son of VIM
Creuson, was drowned at Brick Store Land
ing on Smyrna Greek, three miles from town
II lie was in swimming, in company with Mr.. G.
=. RothwelIs son, and got beyond his deptb
lie was carried down by the tide, and at last
accounts the body had not been recovered
: He was about twelve years old.
} On Satui day, at Brentord Station, little
, twelve-y year-Old son of Mr. Jas. Bower was
playing in an empty car standing on the track
and fell out, striking his head upon the iron
rail; infiictng serious injury. 1t is feared his
skull is somewhat fractured