Smyrna times., 1871-03-29
STATE AND LOCALS.

SHORT ITEMS. The society of Methodists
referred TO last week as having Joined the
Raptlst Church are Methodist Protestant con
gregatlon at Vernon, in this county. They
have raised $500 to build Baptist Church.
1t ic stated that hands will soon be employed
IN constructing the Delaware and PennSylva-
MIA Railroad which is to connect Delaware
City with the coal mines
The wheat prospect throughout the PENN.
sula Is said to have never been better at this
season.
Among the names of the pew-holders of the
Metropolitan VI. f. Church, Washington. we
notice the names of Judge u. p. Fisher and
Richard Harrington, formerly of this State,
who pay 500 per annum for pews. The Presi-
dent, Vice President, Chief Justice, and others
are pew holders, also
William \. Rhodes an1 John A. Jones have
been appointed conStabes for st. George :
Hundred.
Joseph G.. o. Harrington of Dover has been
appolntod State Librarian by the Legislature.
The Dciolcarean speaks very favorAbly of
hey Mr.. Merritt; the new Methodist minister
Of Dover.
The evening train, on Thursday evening last.
ran into a freight car at Willow Grove station
and nearly demolished it. The locomotive
was also badly Injured, and the trlin delayed
until . clock in the morning. The wind
blew the freight car on the main track.
Sam Townsend gave a champagne and ice
cream entertainment to the members Of tn.
Legislature, on Wednesday evening, in honor
. OF the passage OF the bill dividing Appoqulni-
mink Hundred into two election districts.
Bishop Lee will make his annual visit to St.
Peters Church, in this town, on Sunday,
April 10th, to administer the rite of contirma.
ton.
The NJ. P. Conference. recently held at
Che'tertown, Md, reappOinted Rev. A. d.
Dick to Leipsic Circuit.
Mrs. Meeker, the lady who recently lectu. ed
10 Dover to a small audience, advertised to
! lecture Ill Wilmington Eid " night. but only
had eight hearers-mostly dead heads. She
IS resident OF Georgia and is engaged as a
Congressional reporter for some of the South
ern papers.
Two horses belonging to Mr. B. B. Allen.
OF this town, died at his sales stables on Mon
day last. They were valued at from 5000 to
$400
Miss May Chapman, the head-feeler, is lee.
turing OF Pnreuolo.y in Milford.
The citizens Of Milford are Justly indignant
at the Legislature for refusing to pass the
bill consolidating the School Districts of that
town-petltloued for by nins-tenths of the
voters.
MI. Robin'on, a member of the House oI
Representatives, from Sussex county, was very
much elated on Thursday, by the news that h,
had been presented with young daughter fol
the first time. He received the ccngratula
tiOns of the members.
Frederick j. Klair of Christiana Hundred
, has eleven cows that are now making from %
to 100 pounds Of butter per week, which sell.
readily at 90 cents per pound. His receipt.
irom the butter in the past eleven weeks were
3 $5O6.
! The sheriff sales advertised to take place il
this town on Saturday last were postponed.
: The Republican says COW, purchased a
= the sale OF William Hayett, by William ant
t Henry Pierce Of Mill Creek Hundred, mad,
F., IN fourteen milkings fourteen pounds aud thre,
quarters Of butter.
MIR. Isaac Shorts, a respected old farmer, liv
r ing west Of Kenton, died last week, aged abou
Il seventy years. He was one of the most exten
n sive land owners in tie county his possession
: amounting to about one thousand acres it i
n said Had it been improved aud cultivated
/ IN modern style he would have possessed grea