Smyrna times., 1872-04-10
STATE AND LOCALS.

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was ever known before.
lhe Milford Loan Association money sold as
hlgh as "a per cent last week.
The old negro fire eater of Denton, has come
10 gllet. See article elsewhere.
Hon. VIM. G. Whiteey is proposed for
Mayor OF Wilmington by the 1AdcerttScr.
/ The New York commission men are down
the Peninsula looking after the fruit prospect.
! Last week 5000 herrings were taken from
the canal locks at Delaware City at one haul
John . Bryne lectures for the benefit of the
St Georges Presbyterian Church on the 9th
inst.
A 60acre farm near Milford, owned by a
Mr.. Roe, was sold last week to Il New Yorker
Tor $4,000.
-Four Sabbath School Institutes will be held
within the bounds Of the Wilmington Confer
ence this year.
1t is said that Junus Brutus Boothe' $
theatrical engagement in Wilmington was
financial failure.
The baby that was found on the door step of
citizen Of Milford some time ago, proves to
have come from Milton.
A man named Walker, agent for the Weed
Sewing Machine, at Georgetown, has been
missed for several weeks
Capt. p. Reybold, of Delaware Citv. has
been appointed Captain of the Major ReuboH
In place OF Capt. Prior, removed.
Bishop Lee administered the rite of confirma-
ton to seventeen candidates at Trinity EpiSco-
pal Church, Wilmington, last Sunday.
The Carey Brothers are again making music
At an entertainment at Wyoming College re-
Gently they surpassed their former efforts.
1t Is now proposed to put on a line of
steamers to both Philadelphia and New York
from LeweS, during the spring and summer
months.
1t is rumored around Milford that the half
brothers of the late Charles Draper are going
to try to upset his will, on the ground Of
insanity.
Funds sold at Odessa Building and Loan
Association on Wednesday night, at 20 ; and
at the AllddletOwn Association on Thursday
night, at 224.
aluable chemical apparatus and chemicals
nave lately been purchased for the Seminary
Tor the purpose of Illustration in that important
branch of study.
~, There Is quite feeling in favor of Baptist
ChapeI IN Magnolia and lot has been donated.
with an encouraging subscription, in addition,
by one gentleman.
1t Is asserted that Mr.. Vernon. of the ReDuJ.
ucdn, really contemplates starting ,iIv in
Wilmington, which will make the fifth j.iIv
ior our busy metropolis.
The Sussex Jomual in defending the Sus-
sex almshouse from the charges of the Tojo.
SuN Ac'cS, admits that the old men and women
occupy the same sleeping apartment.
The reward Of 5000 offered by Governor
Ponder for the arrest of William Dennis has
put the detectives on the alert, and arrests are
being made in various places on suspicion.
"A Milford correspondent of the Lewes paper
says that chap in that town (Miford) paws
twenty cents day TO have his hair crilDped
and then tells his friends it curs naturally
The loan associations of Wilmington are
altering their plans by making the institutions
perpetual instead of allowing them to run
out when the stock reaches the value of 5000
The 4th quarter of the Seminary will begin
next week. Parents locking out for a rooi
school should make note of this. We are clad
10 report the Seminary in prosperous copdi
Kev. A. A. Willis, of PHILADELPHIA. one Of
the hneSt lecturers in the country. lectures
IN Mlddletown next Tuesday evening. 10Th. nm
= u hoonShIne, for benefit of the Episcopal
Ezekiel Evans, who recently tried to start a
society. of Campbleite Presbyterians in XIII
more liu1drei, Sussex CO., il cen ed the reonIe
50 much by his ultra views that he had to leave
Tor part unknown.
"A little son Of Mr.. William Jones. at Arm.
Strong,s Corner near Middetown. was severely
burned by the explosion of a coal oil can n1
Sunday evening week. lie held the can FOO
near the lighted lamp. ''' ''0
The Town Commissioners Of this town will
SIT as a court Of appeals to rectiiy the assess.
Im5ents OF property on Monday, both inst At
roxWelI hotel. The assessors duplicate i
now hung up at the hotel
The Excursion House, at Lewes, will bo rr,,
fhe coming season by Mr.. Jas. Fl. Wood Of
the BRICK Hotel, Georgetown, formerly of An.
PEI2qulmmInk, and wellknown in SMYRNA, Nr
W. Is the man for the place.
The Dorchester 4 Delaware Railroad arc
moving In telegraph enterprise. connect;nC
5eaford and Cambridge. 1t is estimated that
me me telegraph will cost $4,000. OF this snm
1Il has been secured but -, 800
John . Byrne, the Irish LAWYER. and his
lwo children. John and Kate. attended, ono nf
me puOllc schools in Wilmington last week and
gave reaIIngS from Shakespeare in excellent
style Mr. y B. also made an address.
Only about 5000 more is wanted to mako tbe
from Clayton to Easton certainty.
In IN the meantime Mr.. Caldwell is going ahead
"nIL ene WORK and confidently expects that the
pubic Will oack him up to the last dime.
:, Dr. Sharp, of Camden, Grand Master Of Ola
Fellows of this State, has issued procamat;ou Gu
setting apart the 10Th of April, the 53d ami.
."ersary " I2 o. the introduction of Odd Fellowship
day. s'a"u celeoratlon
Inc MARYLAND Legislature passed an act of
Ship Canal and the COMMISSIONS nananI nuaaMafe
SAID act give notice that they will open ] subscr;m
non books to the capital stock on the lax
The Levy Court of New Castle countv On
FRIDAY, fixed the county tax at 81 cents on t% W,
one hund red dollars, to which the State tav 'J ~
~ ~ cents IS added, making the tax Al cents on
the one hundred dollars. The rate is less rbam a