Smyrna times., 1871-12-06

the School were inexprcssably surprised by
the change.
Two colored men, giving their names as
Charles Williams and Geo. Davis, were arrested
near Harrington, last Friday, and sent to Dover
Jail, charged with robbing man at Crisfeld
Md, OF $4O0. Over $340 were found on their
persons.
1t is stated that a young negro man named
Joe Rider, of Christiana, who was employed
by man in Elk Neck, Md. was left to die
from sheer neglect by his employer last week,
whilst suffering from sickness produced from
OvPrwOrk.
The NJ. f. Church at Bridgevlle which has
recently been remOdeled and become " one Of
the pretticst church edifces ont the Peninsula, :"
will be re-dedicated on Sunday next, the 10th
inst The Rev. f. Stubs, of Milford, will
officiate upon the occasion.
The Building Committee of the Nj. f.
Church of this town expect to have the
Lecture Room Of the Church ready for SER
vices by Christmas. Plans are being made
for a grand reopening and a Christmas
celebration by the Sunday School
The meeting which was called to convene in
Middletown last week, for the purpose Of dis
cuSSing the propricty Of organizing an As>oca-
ton to import foreigners as dOmeStcS and farm
laborers proved a failure. Another call is
Issued for meeting next Saturday.
4 statement is going the rounds to the effect
that on Thursday morning last while the Pilot
Boat 1hOS HOWdnt was at anchor under the
five mile beach north of Cape May, She was
run into by the Sloop i5t0Sj, of Smyrna, Del,
and broke the main boom of the H0WdJd
At meeting of the Trustees of the Poor of
New Castle county, held last Wednesday, the
f,r,, H. l,,lnp
Clark and Morrison. was bought for a new
alm~houSe establishment for S2O,O0O 1t
previously bcaugcl to Gcorge McCrone
Hon William NIIward, formerly member
of Congress from Philadelphia, and United
States Marshal for the District Of Pennsyl-
vania, died at his residence near KirkwoOd,
st. George Station) on Tuesday last. lie
had been in feeble health Tor some months.
A number of nicely furnished residences ''On
the Avenue, and other fashionable streets of
Wilmington are proving shining marks for
burglars. Recently Chancellor Bates resi-
dence was entered aud last week job II.
Jackson : and Rev Mr.. Moore were entered.
Great quantities of timber for piing are
shipped from New Castle to New York and
Philadelphia. That shipped to Philadelphia
is for the Navy Yard, and is generally pine !;
that sent to New York is for the Department
OK uhlc DOCKS O1 that city OF Whlch Ucneral
Mcclellan is chief
The Methodist and Presbyterian cOngrega-
ti0n> OF Dover met together Thanksgiving Day
in the Methodist Church and listened to an
able sermon from Rev. Cyrus Huntingdon the
Presbyterian pastor, after which handsome
collection was taken up in behalf Of the Ladies'
Benevolent Society.
The Wilmington C0mnlerciaL Of Monday
says: At a meeting OF some of our citizen,
last Saturday evening, committee was ap
pointed to prepare call for a public meeting
of the friends of temperance, to cOu>iie Ter the
prOnicty Of nominating temperance ctndida es
to he voted for at the next city election.
Thanksgiving Day passed in this town with
out any special feature Of interest, beyond the
the Odd Fellows festival, which nctted about
SO for Stella Lodge. At this entertainment
a handsome play house, the mechanism of Mr..
j. G.. Las>ell, was voted to Morie, htle son
OF DR.. w. I. Collins, and a novel meat and
vegetable copper was won by Mr. Il. +. knigh-
ton, by chance.
Wednesday morning John Peters, farmer
for Geo. &. lnbdcll, Esq, in Chrstana Hun
drcd, was leading a bull from stable to the
water trough, when the beast became un-
manageable, and made rush for him, catch
ing him on his horns and tossing him in the
air The bulls horns pierced the man 5 body
ripping the skin OPEN causing his entrais tC
be exposed. He is in critical condition.
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