Smyrna times., 1871-09-13
STATE AND LOCALS.

The State Temperance Convention is in Ses-
sion at Dover to-day.
A farm near Georgetown was recently sold
for five dollars per acre by the sheriff.
Mr. Beck has his fall stock Of goods but he
is too late with his advertisement this week.
Ex-Governor Ross recently shipped from
Seaford, at one time, 1900 pounds of grapes.
f. p. Silcox, has been appointed constable
and deputy sheriff for AppOQuinimink Hun
dred
A lot of ground in Dover, held at $1,000, re.
ceived a bid of only SOLO last week, and was
| bid in.
No disturbance took place in Dover last Sat
urday night, between the whites and blacks as
was feared.
The new Presbyterian chapel at Armstrong;
corner, near MlddIdtown, will be dedicated
next Sunday.
Two spOrtsmen of Delaware City bagged one
hundred and titty-tive dozen reed birds in two
days last week.
| An explosion took place at DuPont's pow
der mills last Friday, but no damage was done
at least no one was killed.
The Republicans of Wilmington iollifed over
the election last week by eating a mess of
watermelon at their headquarters.
The celebrated Handel and Haydn Society,
| vi lllId's gave d COlCGII Ill lIG IGSSUSlcIlan
Church, Odessa, last Thursday evening
An Odd Fellows hall, with a store under
meath it, and an oyster house, are among the
improvements now progressing at SeafOrd.
The Kent County Bible Society held It's an
nnal meeting in this town Lass week and we
will publish the proceedings in our next issue
An excursion for the coored people, gotten
up by cOlored man named Bayne, is to be
made from Oxford to Wilmington on Friday,
22d.
One hundred and two cars 81 900 basketsl
of peaches have been shipped into Interior
Pennsylvania, this season, mostly from Mid
dletown.
William S. Fleming, of Christiana Hundred,
planted one acre and half of ground ast
spring with the . Peerless potato, which Weld
cd 7S6 bushels
The Letherbury lands, sold here last week
were bought by Mr.. Draper for Mrs Amelia
CCverdale, not for himself, as we were inform
ed by the Sheriff.
The October number of Halper's Magazine
contains paper from Bayard Taylor descrip-
tive OF his trip down this Peninsula We will
make some extracts.
The sum of four hundred dollars has been
appropriated to the Wilmington Conference as
its share of the 100000 which is due by the
Foreign Missionary Society.
Two men named Conner, in fishing skif.
were capsized in the Bay off Bombay Hook
Yesterday, and the Pilot Boy rescued them
from their perilous situation.
A Lodge of Good Templars was organized
in FeltOnANlonday week by Rev. A. d. Davis
Deputy Chief Tcmplar of Kent County, with
Rev. DIR. Thomas as W. G. L.
James Riddle, Esq, of Wilmington, has
erected neat frame building at Riddles
Banks, and presented it to the NJ. f. church
at that place, to be used as a chapel.
The excursion from Wilmington to I4ewes
last Thursday, gotten mp for the coored peo-
pie, was a losing speculation. The coored
band and a few others went from this town.
On Wednesday evening last two lads Of Mil
ford, Walter Collins (whitel and George
Brinkley (colOred) had an alteration, about
some trlfing affair, when the latter stabbed
the former in the arm.
Forty-four car loads of peaches were shipped
from GoldsborOugh, Md & Del II. r., to New
! ork, this season, each car averaging 533
baskets. Thirty three car loaCs were shipped
from Marydel to the same city.
The bridge over st. Joness Creek, Dover,
is In such a wretched condition that horse
put his foot in it. and broke his leg last
week. 1t would be cheaper to the county to
repair 1t than pay for dead horses.
We were presented, this morning. by Thos.
j. Lamdin, Esq, of Thorough .aIe Neck, with
the largest pear we have ever seen. 1t is
Dutchess, weighing ISL ounces. Who can
beat It, either in goodness or bigness?
Alfred Boyce, the negro man sent to New
Castle ialI for killing John Mawheny, near
AlddletOwn, recently, has made statement to
the effect that Charley White is the man who
killed Mawheny, but admits that he assisted in
robbing him.
Israel Riding, of Appoquinmink Id has
been appointed night watchman for the iai at
New Castle, for the balance of the term made
vacant by the removal of Israel Folls who was
discharged for taking Frazer on a pleasure trip
down the Bay.
The annual reunion at old Drawers Church,
near Odessa, took place last Sunday This is
one OF the revcrcd land marks Of Presbyterian
ism in Delaware-a quaint cid edifce built in
l113. No service is held there except on this
annual occasion.
A vllanous practice among the roughs of
Wilmington is to throw vitriOl over persons
passing along the street. which destroys their
clothing. Capt Gallagher and wife and two
gentlemen named Martin have thus been serv~
ed within few days past.
Six or seven convicts are often employed
cleansing the streets of New Caste-they liking
that way of getting to see something outside
OF the Jail walls. Why wasn't Frazer, the MUIR
derer, put to this work instead Of allowing him
to 60 on an excursion down the Bay2
The Mite Society of the Presbyterian
Church, Milford is jolly society. 1t meets
around among the members of the congrega-
tion, and, after throwing in the mites, good
social time is had, with singing, eating, &c.
Why shouldn't this be done elsewhere.
Mr. Henry Bearnc, now of Phia., has sold
his real estate in this tOwn-in the occupancy
OF W. W. Hall & Co., bakers and confection-
Mr.. f. expects to fit it up for q jewelry store
as soon as he shall have obtained possession.
Eben Frazer the murderer Of John A. Ella
son, now serving out ife-tern in New Castle
| Jail, is having a nice time Of L. Recnntlv he