Smyrna times., 1872-05-22
STATE AND LOCALS.

Aooui one.half the sum necessary 10 build
Baptist church at Magnolia has been subscribed.
Mr.. BENZ. Money, in Appoquinimink, is said TO
nave The hnest field Of wheat in this neighboIhood
The soldiers graves in Wilmington are TO be
Stre"n with flowers on Decoration Day, May Both.
Rev. Moses Heath, of Laller's Collegiate Ins,i.
tute Pa, will take charge of Wyoming College
next FALL
The tax rate for this town has been fixed by the
Town Commissioners at 25 cts. On the SlOO and ono
dollar capitatiun.
Bishop Lee will preach and administer con6rma
tlOn IN The Episcopal Church of this town next
Sunday morning.
The Nees says the strawberry crop is injured
fully onethrd. about Milford, by the drought. even
It rain comes now.
Another negro was arrested for Dennis at Ches
tertown, Md, last Frdly, but he was the wrong
man. This makes the eleventh.
Among the items of the River and H,rbor hill
now before Congress- is one for an appropriation of
S+''OOO tor an Ice harbor at New Castle
AT concert and exhibition of chorades in Million
Iast week. Miss Ida Ponder, daughter of the
Governor, took prominent and highly successful
part.
| Dolly Warden parties were inaugurated in Will
mingo last week. They differ from other parties
dresses.
NO"o ""Ile oOyS IN georgetown alGcd by q negro
t1oK Judge Layton's horse from his stable on
wednesday night and drove him out on a courtiug
expedition.
Inc ny Is in the wheat terribly in this section.
some OF the farmers near town think their crops
will be destroyed if the drought is much longer
continued.
Robert Cook, Esq, of Philadelphia, tformerIv or
onyrha) mas purchased the mansion house md farm
o, o. The lo'e David w. GemmilI, near New Castle.
Price S6,U00.
II is stated, and to-day formally annou,cod
that Mr.. Eckel has sold his per. the WiIminG,on'
Da'Iy Journal, to Messrs. Croasdale g. Cameron nIl
Erery Ereaing. O"' o'
hcV' Mr. Fres o. LAUREL will occupy the Pros.
yte''ah ~ PulPit OF this town next Sunday. Rtv Mt
rorter' OF Newark, who was expected 10 occnnv il
that day is too unwe -
;, A man named Albert A. Beardsley, a STRANGER
u;tu ;" the iimngton city prison last "Wednesday |
night, from the effects of drunkenness and ,..s
buried IN "Pouer's Field"
market gardener, shipping from abon, M,,c,,d
says II costs him, this season, 81 crate. to send
nus asparagus by rail to New York. Last vo,r
oy steamer, 1t cost 25 cents crate
mere IS slight change in our Del R. r time
taoe' on fourth page. The change is in the "N,red,
Ha'n, only, winch now leaves Smyrna fifteen
hinutes earIIer-6 40 IN the evening.
u, HeV' W. H. Thorne, the Unitarian minister of
S'''7 "'o resigned his pulpit and tri ed 10
eS'aonsh ratonastlc system Of religion there I'm.
aOa"uoneu the JOB and gone to Europe.
Rev L. Gardiner Lrttell, r, ctor Of $, Iohn,a ID
e. onnrch' OF wilmington (formerly Of Dnverl con.
templates starting Tor Europe about the nidd,o &c
June and will be absent several months.
Andrew 5. Clark (cOl) who was found guilty =,
Tue view Castle court on Thursday of last week
ol committing raPe on Martha Rakes (col. y was
sentenced TO De hung on the 18th of July
One Of he (t,I
hought1n' has rented house at New Cns,Ie ond
,'ends residing there during his term of office. His
'a'h"y Consists OF wife, and seven children
Inc Milford Methodsts arc talking camn roee,
i"8 dHeauy ana proposition is under considerat,on
among aI them To consult with the Asburv Chnrch
" ",l'l'ngt'h' as to union at the Camden camp.
NeV' Mr' CIymer, NJ. f. pastor of this town Ien
H. H. Wv 0eneIdi Conference Brooklyn, on Monday
II ii's pulpit VIII be filled next Sunday morn,n,, ~,
heV' Dr. Mahon and in the evening bv Rnv ~
Smith. W heV D H.
Anere Is IN operation in Chrstiana hundred Nev
Gds'Ie county, snuff mill that Is now mak,ng
aoout one hundred barrels OF snuff per week ,Le
government o % tax on which amounts 10 unw.rds nF
$4,000. ~ upwards of
Inc Fruit Canning establishment Of RicbardsoD
Noo"ins' III Dover, has been considerably en-
lATged and Improved this spring. so that II noy ha
fruit per da u'0"u cans o'
= On tuesday of last week the smoke bopse nm ,Lo
larm OF Mrs Susan b. Foard, on Bohemia Man.
r '"iuu'eto"H' was consumed by iire tope,ber ,
"'n all It's contents, Including cons,deIrabIe
quantity of meat. IaO'e
MIS- Richard Hayes, elderly widow lodv a
49, ~ '',hl"glon, died III about five minutes {
ai'cl 'etlrlhg, last Wednesday evening of ha,
disease; She was III apparent good health an ,o ,h
time of her retiring up u the
Ne" NastIe court adjourned last Saturdav 7,
I"e shortest session Of the last twenty vears
osualy between seven and eight hundred wilncsseo
-lo ou''''oheu' This term the number onIv q
reached about three hundred ' I
mere Is something Of mad dog exeitemen, in
" L'is town. Last week dog, either mad n, en- - 2
lu OF strychIne, was shot IN the s,raa, 10y VI
ndu oil'eh or sEelt at several other dogs .nd ~ ~ y
~'e se'''"g r'd or NUN berCf worthless ours.
The concert gotten up by the vouno man oc N,;, Z
u'eIo"h Game of last week, but was ino Lirh c. | n
" "oe' WIN universal endorsement exceuI ih | [
Pdi'' ana now they Propose a concert with n
OnIr Patt out the comic. They think that w,II
hev' Dr' Reynolds, formerly resident of Salem
county, New Jersey, but now Of Harlem. IlIino,s
II,'1. P'eSi"g ms Translation Of "Acteius's
s'"'y o' I'VE" Sweden" which is a most con,nIeta ,
the Delaware N'io"y upon :
ny direction OF the Board Of Trustees of the vii
imngton Conference Academy notice is given ,Lat
o,n. 'He e intention of said Board open the Acad
oy ior tne reception of students on Monday tne q
"a day Of September, next, at Dover Rooms have
Oeeh secured Tor the purpose. I
Jas L. Wild, Cashier of the Farmers Bank '
~ DoVer' Is having the "Manlove house." on the 4
Green, torn down, to make room for o commodious +
;r smc handsome frame house with French roof q
ms VIII make four handsome dwellings under q
course of erection in that town. n
The Wilmington Republicans are talking nm Tow;
" Bird for their Congressional candidate. In addi.
lion to those heretofore named in Kent Mr. Mosso q
Dr. Jump, and others, DR.. PretIyman of MIIord ~
also suggested. Col Moore. Of Georgetown, is :
understood to positively decline. % p
The officers of the law in Dover must be n or;o, :
set brutal prize fight, of several hours dnratoo :