Smyrna times., 1871-07-05
STATE AND LOCALS.
Kits Hammock is open for guests.

'""N Pi"O0 'O-mOIIoW NluuTSuayJ anu FIludy'
Again the Rehoboth hotel projectors are
working up their enterprise.
Ezekiel b Clements, Of Camden, died sud
denly on Monday, of congestive chis.
The Academy building in Middletown is be-
ing remodled and greatly improved.
Work has commenced again on the new Jail
at Dover.
Raymond's Neck NJ. E. Church talks of get
ting an organ. A choir has been organized.
Bad boys in Georgetown cut down the sha le
trees at night, and then, unlike George Wash
ingtOn, lie out OF it.
A colOred man of Wilmington named VIM.
Hector, has obtained patent for u burglar,
proof key.
Milford shipped 60, 600 quarts of strnwber-
ries this season. against l39, 900 from Smyrna
and 10000 from Dover
The Harrington Camp Meeting will COM
mence Saturday July 22d, and close July 3lst,
embracing two Sabbaths.
The Hygenia House, Collins Beach, is now
open for visitors, with new music and new at
fractions
The peach basket case, or the suit of Rich
ard Mitchell Us. Worden & Evans, has been
abandoned.
~ Key Check for 25 cents or stencil plate
u.
Address J. E. WORDEN Smyrna, Del.
| One, of the proposed excursions now is one
to Easton, from Clayton, to see the negro Ned
Lawrence hung, on the 18th inst. This is
running things into the ground.
St. Pauls NJ. Z. Sunday School, of Will
mingtOn, numbering about $50 persons, made
an excursion to Collins Beach last Wednesday,
and had happy time.
| Round trip tickets for Round Lake Camp
can be purchased in Wilmington for SO. So
This is a splendid opportunity to make cheap
trip to Saratoga.
Chas. {. Stockley and Benz. Burton, Esqrs.
have been appointed by the Board of Direc-
tors Of the }. & B. Il. r., to run the road-in
connection with j. S. Gibbons, the President
| Now that the farmers are threshing their
wheat they find the grain excellent and the
yield good, but not over large, as some expect
ed. They are well pleased with the crop
! The peach growers along the Appoquini
mink are making extensive preparations for
shipping their fruit. There will be employed
some three or four steamers.
Mr.. Adams Mahood, unable to supply the
demands for peach baskets by his Williams
burg mill, has commenced operations at Clay
ton again, and advertses for eighty workmen
! Two Baptist Sunday Schools of Wilmington
made an excursion to Bombay Hook (J. w.
/ Spruance' beach, last Monday. There were
about 500 persons
| Mr.. John II. Bewly, of this town, purchased
at sheriff sale, at Dover, last week, the farm
/ OF John w. Downes, in the western part of
this hundred, for 81, ,255-a moderate price.
VIM. Polk Cummins, son of D. j. Cummins,
Esq, of this town, has passed successful ex-
animation aud been admitted to Princeton Col
lege.
/ The Storehouse Of John NJ Houston, below
MllIsboro Sussex county, was destroyed by
IRE on Sunday night Insurance $1,000, which
will not cover the loss.
Rev. ThOs Swain, d. D., District Secretary
of the Baptist Home Mission Society, of New
ork. expects to preach sermon in the Sem
mary OF this town next Monday evening, com
menclng at Q clock.
Louisa Bliss, the female tight-rope walker
with the circus which exhibited iD Smvrna last
May, recently fell to the ground during an ex.
hibition in Salem, n j., from the effects Of
which she died.
The schooner H. WarfeH. of Milford wa,
run into by propeller, in Christiana river
last Sunday night, and badly injured Capt
SippIe, her commander, had several ribs broken
by falling by the conclusion.
/ The Cape May steamer Sue has commenc.
ed trl-weekly trips from Philadelphia, leaving
The latter city on Tuesday Thursday and Satur
dry mornings, stopping at New Castle. re-
turning on Mondays, Wednesdays and FRIDAYS
On Saturday week Sheriff Armstrong sold al
public sale the Gallagher property, situated ir
. AppOqunmink Hundred, near Townsend. con.
tanning l414 acres for So, ,5O0-E. r. Coch
ran Esq, purchaser.
The Middctown TranscriDt savs tbst Jos
W. Vandegrift, Esq, of Odessa, and anotbe,
gentleman, have sold the peaches on theil
farms. near Smyrna, at 40 cents per basket, To
be delivered on Duck Creek, without culling.
A meeting was held in Middletown on Sat.
urday to take into consideration the shipment
: otpcaches by the way of Reading and Penn.
syIVania K Il. to the interior towns of Penn
syvania.
The closing exercises of Delaware College
are transplrinR this week In addition to the
names we announced last week, Geo. Alfred
Townsend is to read poem. This prominent
hterdtHer, 1t will be remembered, is a native o.
f Georgetown, IN this State
The drawing for tents at Camden Camr
J Ground took place last Thursday when onl,
!, about slxty-five tickets were drawn. agains
about one hundred and fifty last year. Blu
Tour tents we're drawn for Smyrna last yea
{ there were tw elve.
: The Sunday School Excursion from Dove
to lIewes last Wednesday filled fourteen cars
and the party enjoyed the boating, bathing
&c, hugely. Coming home severe thunde
storm came upon the train at Georgetown an,
Mr. j. Is. Shockley was stunned by the light
ming. e ~
: Yesterday evening, the Fourth) whilst Mr.
Alfred Todd, clerk and bar-keeper of Foxwell'
, hotel was returning from Fraland, his hors
, became mred, and in trying to extricate him
self hit Mr.. i. on the leg with one of his for
feet fractureng it just below the knee. Tn,
injury is serious.
There have been two elopement cases i
Wilmington recently, and the Gazette is pre-
: d'cting third with lively anticipation. Th
: last one was Mr.. Fritz and Miss Scott VIII
e were married in Phila on the 26th ult. IN
{ lady was expected to marry another gentle
: nan shOrtlY. at lea her arnnts =..s..s.I = :.