Smyrna times., 1871-10-18
STATE AND LOCALS.


days.
Wilmington has contributed over S., 900 for
the relief Of Chicago.
The Methodists of Middletown are to put an
organ in their church shortly.
1t is now suggested that the big new hotel
now building in Wilmington be called the
Du Pont House.
The ladies of the Mite Society of the NJ. f.
Church of this town have resolved to hold u
festival shortly after Christmas.
The town of Concord in Sussex county, has
been terribly scurged this season by bilious and
typhoid tevers, but is now recovering
The new Opera House Masonic HALL in
Wilmington is expected to be finished by
Christmas. 1t will seat 200 persons
Strawberry Plants will be set out in large
numbers this year in the neighborhood of
Laurel, one grower, Mr.. Fosks, intending to set
out 5000
Letters patent have been issued to j. H.
Marvel Laurel, Del. for fruit box, and to
Joseph B. Tracey, OF Lincoln, Del, for railway
car coupling.
The European circus that exhibited here
last week gave general satisfaction, and the
troupe was as we'll behaved as any that ever
visited our town.
Mr. MariS, President of the Wilmington
City Council, belongs to all the secret societies,
and he is by turn elected their chicI priest aud
grand representative.
A MiddletOwn jobist says that that town was
so excited over the tournament, the ball and
the circus last week, that the citizens postponed
funerals to attend them.
The MesSrs. Du Pont have erected six neat
stone houses for their wo.kmen, on the site Of
what used to te known as the "Beggcr
Row, near their powder ,rks.
The English Reform Church in Baltimore,
to which Rev. 7. l.. pOulson has been called.
adopt the Heidelberg Catechism and pay Mr.
z. $1,000. 1t is small congregation.
The Philadelphia Academy Of Music was
packed with over 1000 peonie, to hear Olive
Logan's lecture on Nice Young Men, the
same that she is to deliver at Dover next Tues
day evening.
& Nice Young Men" the new lecture to be
delivered by Olive Logan, at Dover, next Tues
day, strs up the young snobs OF the period with
unSparng criticism. 1t the best lecture she
has ever written.
Tickets for Olive Logan's lecture in Dover,
next Monday evening, can be purchased at
j. Z. HOffeckers drug store. in this town.
She reviews the Nice Young Men" OF the
period in a most animated style.
The schooner EstelIa Day, owned by parties
in Milton, Sussex county, and which went
ashore on Newport beach several weeks ago,
had to pay $4,000 to be gotten off, and was
damaged to the amount Of $500.
The mansion farm of the late VIM Windae,
situated in the neck, about two miles from
Smyrna, was sold at public sale in this town on
Thursday last to |. h. Pearson one Of the
heirs, for SCI per acre-l5O acres, 1913
The Sussex Journal says the whisky used
III Georgetown aud vicinity is so good that it
wont make people fight. We should think
that that was rather an evidence of its poor
quality.
The last Legislature made several changes
in the game law of this State Partridges can
not be killed now until the lst day of Novem-
ber, Any one convicted of shooting them on
anothers land for profit will be fined so.
A petition, signed by Mayor Valentine,
Judge Hall, Postmaster Lewis, Marshall Dunn,
U: ;. Collector Prettyman Gen. Wond,ll aud
others, asking for the pardon of William G..
| NIgglnS, Is about to be forwarded to President
Grant.
The latest Oh the sweet potato question is
from the Sussex J0urnaL 1t says it has one
grown bv Ebe Walter, Esq, OF Baltimore hun
dred, which weighs 10 pounds. 1t is of the
variety called the California. Can any one
beat this?
The z. NJ General has established a mail
route from Townsend to Centreville, to be
carried daily by the Queen Anne's & Kent
Railroad Company. Sudlersville, Mhngton,
Masseys and Vandyke's, will be supplied by
this route
On Saturday the tax payers Of Wilmington
voted upon the question whether the city
should he vested with authority TO issue bond,
to pay for the widening of Water street.-the
railroad Street-and the question Was decided
III the affirmative by vote OF 2Oj9 to SOP
Several gentlemen of this town pretended
they would like to have an opportunity to con-
! tribute to the relief Of Chicago, and the Town
! commissioners, taking them at their word, is
! sued call Tor meeting, but no one attended
1t who had so expressed their benevoIenc,.
! j. q. Morgan, well known citizen of
Slaughter Neck, Sussex county, stepped upon
a board containing old nails, few days ago,
one OF which penetrated his foot. The wound
was considered trlflng at the time and soon
healed up. Subsequently however, symptom,
Of lockjaw were dcvelo ped, which rcsu!ted in
his death on Sunday week
A large barn on the farm of Wm. D. Corno1
near Newark, Was destroyed y fire last Thurs
day morning 1t contained from 2jO to 3Ol
bushels OF wheat; 300 to 400 bushels of oats
all unthreshed % tons OF hay; farming i'm
plements, &c., all Of which were DESTROYED
Loss, 7,OOO-insurance $4,000. Supposed tc
have caught from pipe used by tramp -
who slept in the carriage house all night.
The Grand Encampment Of Odd Fellow.
held their annual meeting in Wilmington las
week. The following grand officers we're in
stall led for the ensuing term: NJ. w. &. p.
Andrew Muir; NJ. Il. G.. II. p, Wm. Allison
X. W; q. Sr. W., l.. +. Wallace; X. w. &
Jr; w.. Benton V. Weldon; r. W. G. S.
Edwin Hirst; II. w. G.. T., Asher A. Logan