Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-11-16

TIE STATE.
Seaford wants night school.
The Eplzootic is In Sussex county.
The oyster trade is gradually increasing.
Foreign sportsmen trouble the farmers.
They had a quiet election In George
own.
smyrna's FIRST winter soclable was a
success.
improvements arc being made in
Odessa.
Epizooty has made Its appearance down
the State.
Heavy rains are reported Of late In Kent
and Sussex.
The official price of pork in Kent county
Is $3.50 per cwt.
The Bank NJ Smyrna has declared an
per cent. dividend.
A Bartist chapel Is about being erected
at Magnolia.
The VI. f congregation at Smyrna have
purchased pipe organ.
Three Coatesvillans recently killed 10s
partrldges In two days, is Kent county.
Two Sunday School entertainments are
announced for Christmas night at Smyrna.
The horse dstemper has reached Salem,
n. j.. and Delaware City, Delaware.
All Join in saving the late election was
the most peaceab'e held for many years.
The new grain warehouse of Irving &
Clark, Of Delaware City, L. nearly
completed. IA
The big pump, for draining the s.
Georges marshes does all that was
promised for IL.
Ell T. LAYTON, Of X sntou Hundred, has
been appointed Superintendent OF the
Kent County Almshouse.
A proposed oyster roast at Dover failed
to come OF last week, on account Of the
result Of the election.
Thomas Carrow Is nominated BY Smyrna
as the messenger to Washington with the
electoral vote Of this State.
A meeting Of the Southern Convocatlon
Of the Diocese Of d llware will he held at
Lewes, OF the 18Th and goth insts.
A party Of Philadelphlans are to build a
large lce-house on the Delaware and Ches-
peake Canal, above Pivot Bridge.
DR.. E. Beale, of Philadelphia. has pur-
chlsed the farm of John N. Townsend,
situated In Appoqulnimink hundred.
The ladies of Wyoming have formed q
Ladies' Sociable. Object: The adornmenl
Of the grounds Of the Wyoming Institute
The Recorders office at Dover was bur
glariously entered on Monday night last,
hut nothing seems to have been taken.
A Sunday School Convention will be
held at Georgetown on Wednesday aud
Thursday, the Goth and 2lst of November
n I .1tf1~ % che
Middeiown Transcript, is connected with
the Democratic Advocdte, of Westminster
Maryland.
For the first time during m ordinary
life time, the East division Of Rod Lior
Hundred has gone Republican. Majority
80.
Hunter, the new engineer on the Della
ware City and Pennsylvania Railroad, has
entered on his duties on the construction
train.
John Patterson, long known as thu
Wheelwrlght Of Delaware City, had {
sale at his house on Saturday the 9th inst.
preparatory to going to Illinois.
An oil lamp in he store of r. W Cannon
Mt Bridgeyille explode on Monday night
and the fire destroyed the stor and con
tents before it could be managed.
The iabeaux gotten up by the ladies o
the PRESBYTERIAN Church at Delaware CITY
: for the benefit of the chu oh recent ,
enlarged and repaired, Melted 1850.
During the year ending October 9TH
two hundred and seventy-srven marriage
were celebrated In Sussex county. TIL
tax on tho licenses amounted to 81, 1OS.
A correspondent sass Wilmington
need not be ie ,lous Of the growing honor
r Of Delaware City 80 long as she can goh
: BILE up two or three dozen of her wlthou
= risibly charging her borders"
Delaware bids fair to be as noted 70
pear culture as for the growing ofpeaches
8 Arl ur Coburn, Of Delaware City, nette
$4,000 from one acre of ground variety
Duchess D'Angouleme.
A little package of peanuts, left In th
, Wilmington and New Castle dummy ca
was safely forwarded by the honorabl
, conductor to It's owner In Delaware Cit,
: the next day. Such a conductor deserve
4 a favorable notice.