Smyrna times., 1871-09-20
STATE AND LOCALS.

bage which weighs III pounds.
The steamer Pilot Boy discontinued hel
trips to Bombay Hook last week
The last Milford loan association money
sold for 433 per cent Rather heavy.
The Sussex Journal says the corn crop in
that county is far better than for years past.
On Monday, the 4th, 73 boats passed through
to Chesapeake City through the Ches. & Del
Canal.
The closing party at Fraland, f. Spruance'
| Beach, takes place tomorrow afternoon and
evening.
1t is reported that the Diptheria is raging tC
an alarming degree in Baltimore Hundred
Sussex county.
The proposed new Methodist Church at Mil
ford is about to be put under contract to a Mr..
Binder, of Phila.
| Mr.. Jos. Bruton, has raised on his Spruance
city lot, in this town, a cabbage weighing Gig ht
cen and half pounds.
Rev Lafayette Marks, of Hanover Church,
Wilmington. has declined call from Presby-
terian Church in Allegheny city, Pa.
Mr. A. j. Nowland, has sold his farm in
Kent County, Md, containing 276 acres, to
Mr. Edward G. Fenimor5 of Middletown, for
$4,000.
A feet Of two hundred vessels were in the
Breakwater one day last week. The masters
and crews now visit the town, since the pier
was built
A party of young men of Wilmington went
on a cunning expedition down the Bay last
week and on Friday killed ninety-one dozen
rail birds
The work on the new Episcopal Church in
Middletown is being rapidly pushed forward
According to contract the church is to be fin
ishcd by Christmas.
An agent of the celebrated Lobdell car
wheels, of Wilmington, has gone to Europe to
introduce them there. They are already being
used there to some extent.
Several camp meetings are to commence in
the lower part OF this State and in Maryland
the last Of this month There is nothing like
giving the bilious fair show.
Mr.. Charles T. Vanhekle and wife, of Della
ware City, celebrated their golden wedding
fifty years. on Friday week. She is his sec
Ond wife, which makes it more remarkable.
A course of semi monthly lectures has bee IN
organized by the citizens of Raymond Neck,
and the first Of the series is to be delivered by
Rev. Mr.. Clymer of this town on the 2Sth inst
4. G. Cummins, of this town, sent some
peaches to the Fhila. Horticultural fair, last
week. The season was too late, however, Tor
this section to make much of competition in
such fruit.
The Wilmington Commercial has been
presented With a Dutchess pear weighing
twenty four ounces III lbs grown by VIM.
Butler, Esq, on bis fruit farm, two miles north
of Harrington.
Killing cattle on the Junction & Breakwater
railroad is still in vogue in Sussex. The far
mers will pasture them on the track and the
engine will knock EN-, and sometimes they
knock the engine.
Messrs. Alex. FAIRIES &; Sons, of this town.
have melancholy splendor in the way of
magnificent new hearse and turnout, which
cost, 1t IS said, over $1,000. Its sad services
have not brought It to view yet and no one has
desire to take the first ride.
A meeting will be held in the Library Room.
at the Town Hall, this evening at u o clock,
tor the purpose Of organizing night school in
TINS town. This IS a most worthy undertaking,
and we, hope the meeting will be largely
attended
On Monday last some gentlemen from the
coast OF Brazil having arrived at the Break
water in the Sch'r Frank Howard, landed,
having with them quite collection of mon
keys, anteaters, etc, which created Guite a
sensation in Lewes.
maid of the steamer Vim. WhiWIen. was or
dered ashore for conduct unbccoming a lady.
1t made her so mad she fell overheard and had
the temper and the starch pretty we'll washed
out before she was rescued
SeafOrd has had another sensation. a short
notice of which we give in the next column
1t seems that young girl wrote a note to a
doctor oil the tow1, a married mani telling him
that she d go to Phila. with him, and her pa
got the mlssvc Just before the train arrived.
Maria Davis, generally known as Big
Maria, colOred woman of this town, fell and
died almost instantly one day last week. She
had been In bad health for some time but was
tending to her duties at the time she fell, and
had just gone in off the street.
On Saturday last, on the down train Of tbe
j. Is. X. *. near Houston station n fine
carriage belonging to Mr. Wood. of the Brick
Hotel Georgetown, formerly of Appoquinimnk
ia, was blown off the fiat car and completely
demolished. Cause carelcssncss.
a Young Mems Christian Association Of
the NJ. +. Church of this town was organ
lzed on Monday evening, with the following
3ihcers' DR.. w. T. Collins, President: A.
Prlce Griffith, Vice President Jno. Phillips,
oecy' Meeting every Friday evening.
One of the events of last week was an ex.
curslon to New York given the peach growers
ana A. shippers by the j.. Il b. r. r. and the
Hel' ana n. I. steamship company from IIar-
riIngton to Lewes by rail and thence by steamer
ccnn marnnn. There were about one hundred and
fifty persons on the trip.
A half witted young German, who had been
lounging about the Wilmington denot for sonn
time was killed by the cars last week, about a
mile above the city. lie was sitting ON the
track as two trains were meeting, and jumped
out OF the way Of one into that of the other
and was almost instantly killed.
During the loading of wood this season the
pier at iIewes has received such severe blows
from schooners lying alongside that some Of
the strlngers have given way, and expensive