Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-11-09
THE STATE.

Protracled meetings are In order.
Milford had slight fire on Thursday
night.
The Georgetown brass band blow for
One potato uoar Delaware City yielded
a bnshcl.
One hundred pound pumpkins arc com
mon about Milford.
A Methodist Episcopal mission chapel is
being erected in smyrna.
The SMYRNA ME. Church will DO dcdi-
Gated ON Sunday, the 24th instant
Smyma's popular dancing sociablcs for
the winter season have commenced.
A lady from Newark, n. j.. has pur-
chased $4,000 farm near Milford.
The new NJ. T.. church Of smyrna, will
he dedicated on sunday, 4th inst.
Mount Zion NJ. y. Church, situated be-
tween Laurel and Seaford, was dedicated
on Sunday.
A Sunday school Institute will be held
in the Georgetown Nj. Z Church on the
10th inst.
The colorcd people of Smyrna have
completed their ME. Church, aud Will
dedicate it soon.
The new wrooking company at Lewes
will he known as the New England Wreck
ing Company.
The Superior Court for Kent county was
in session at Dover last week and adj
iourn,d ON Friday.
A gentleman in Lcipsic has tame
muskfat, which Is very gentle and as
playful as kitten.
G. II. sullivan, assistant keeper of the
Brcakwatcr Lights 10 take n position on
the Cross Ledge Light, ship.
Joseph Morgan, Of Clayton, was serious
! y injured by Jumping from tram OF cars
| while in motion, on Tuesday last.
The Local Preachers Association of
Dover District meets In Smyrna on the 10
! inst, and continue in session three days
The steamer Artisan has resumed her
trips between Maurice Cove and New
| York, touching at Lewts both ways.
The article in the last number of the
/ Delaware hdclligeHeer headed " senator
Wilson at Milford" is very untrulhlul and
unfair.
The sloop Georgidna, Of Lewes, was
driven ashore at Big stone, on the della
ware Bay, last week, and was beaten TO
pieces. She was laden with wood.
Passengers are required to wait two
hours and half at Clayton for the north
bound tain when they arrive there over
the Maryland " Delaware Railroad,
Duriug the year ending the 7Ih of last
month two hundred and seventy-seven
marriages were celebrated In Sussex. The
tax ON the licenses amounted to 81 Jos.
At its last meeting the Central Fruit
Growers Association discussed wind
mills, and their adaptation to irrlgaling
purposes" bat arrived at no conclusion.
Mr.. Cubbnce, the Kent county O'Con OF
and Adams elector, of whom nobo dy
seemed TO know anything, is post master,
Justice of the peace and merchant at Mt.
Moriah.
Frederick has produced a youth six FEEL
four inches in his stockings. He attended
church recently, and was sharply ordered
by the minister to get of the benches. Dc
you zee in
The tablCau and supper given by thu
, Presbyterian ladies Of Delaware City, 70
the benefit Of their church, last week, wa
very successful.
= But three out OF twenty wrecked salon
I could nrd temporary home IN Chris
e tianQO Lcwcs recently, and the rcmalnde
were compelled to walk the streets Of tina
! town hungry, barefoot and almost naked
p The Georgetown PresbyteriaRs have re
ceived rs a git from congregation o
the same denomination In New York,
p GOO pound bell for the new church. This
Q we believe, is the largest church bell il
= Sussex county.
I We are sorry to hear that many of tn
!. people of Lewes still act more like pirate
+ than citizens of peaccahle communit
1 when a vessel is so unfortunate as to b
4 wrecked on the beach. As soon as YES
:. sci is wrecked they go for the cargo, an
/ the greater part Of 1t is generally SNUG
\ glcd away. Shame
Il A call signed by John H. Bewley, Georg
If ". Cummins and eighteen others, ha
II been issued for meeting to be held i
L. smyrna on Saturday afternoon, 10 inst
n to endeavor TO decide upon some plan b
III which the demand for farm and hOusehol
rs labor in that vicinity can be supplied.
ci Wilbur F. Tunnel, son of Charles Tu
"a nell. of Georgetown, was one of the pa
sengers on the i'll fated steamer Missouri
!. which was destroyed by fire at sea On Il
~ 22d inst, but, we are happy to say,
ar counted among the saved. He was on h
he way to Nassau, where he has for numb
q. of years been engaged In the meTcanti
Y business.