Smyrna times., 1872-06-05
STATE AND LOCALS.

The "Wakeman House," Bombay Hook, L. P. |
Campbell. proprietor, will open next Wednesday, |
18th
Thos. B. Spicer picked 900 quarts of straw berries
in patch near Concord, Sussex CO., one day last
week
G. S. Grier, of Milford, has number of McCor-
mick reapers which he will sell on time at reduced
prices.
The copious rains of yesterday have given the
strawberries new lease of life They were wilt
ing up.
There are several woman in Lincoln Sussex CO.,
who can make $50 berry boxes in a day-ten
hours
Middletown proposes 10 send for more Swedish
laborers, and Wilmington also contemplales a
similar move.
The regular June meeting of the "Peninsular
Fruit Growers Association" will be held at Dover
on the 18th inst.
Professor L. B. Jones, late Principal of the
Wyoming Seminary, has opened Classical school
for boys IN Dover.
The Loan Association funds Of this town sold as
follows for the current month: Smyrna, Is;
Diamond State, 131
Mr.. John C. Bailey. Of this town has taken ont
letters of administration the estate of his father,
the late Mason Bailey.
Platter, the man in Esston jail for murder
(see Nd ltemsl formerly lived in Wilmington, and
married his first wife there.
DR.. Edward Lewes, of Dover, has invented and
made application for patent for a new self-cuupng
attachment for freight cars.
company of fruit growers are putting up fruit
drying establishment, (by the Alden process about
mile and a-half from Camden.
The managers of the Camden Camp Ground have
ordered five hundred bushels of lime to be spread
upon the grounds, a disinf, Giant
Read the adver. of the Wilmington Sunday
School Jubilee II will be the biggest affair in the
way OF music ever given in this State.
Rev. Mr.. Mallory, Of the Milford PRESBYTERIAN
church, Is rapidly declining from consumption
Ihe congregation is in deep lam entaton.
Rev. A. ID. Davis of Georgetown is RAPIDLY
organizing Good Templars' Lodges in Sussex Co
"A Lodge was constituted at Demar last week.
The children who have picked strawberries are
all right on circus money to-day, but those who
have strawberries are all wrong on getting them
picked
The project Of buildingsa narrow gauge railroad
between Wilmington and New Castle is again on
the taPls. Subscri ptions 10 the stock are being
solicited.
Messrs. w. A. FAIRIES g. Brother, Of this town.
have one Ofthe celebrated Grovensen corpse preser-
vers, said to be the best in USE The corpse can be
frozen il necessary.
The publicschoos of Dover had to close last week
because all the children became strawberry pckers
They are now having two weeks vacation, known
as strawberry holiday"
The firm of G. w. & s. TAYLOR. machinists and
iron founders Of this town. has been dissolved the
senior member retiring. The business will be Gun.
Quoted by Mr. Sam'l Taylor.
The Asbury NJ. E. Congregation, of Wilmington.
with whom the Milford VI. f. Church proposed to
united IN encamPment at Camden, have determined
to camp at Brandywine Summit.
A lady in New Castle received by express the
other day, all the way from KanSes, ous.look
ing frog, with horns nearly an inch long. She
thinks 1t VIII do better for museum than a pet
The corner stone of the Dutch Reformed Church
at Wyoming will be laid, with Appropriate cere.
monies, on Sunday, June 9Th. Rev. DIR. Gearhcart,
Professor of Theology, of Lancaster, Pa, will
Ufficate.
Rev. DR.. McCabe, Rector Of st. AIMS Church
OF MIddIetown, returned on Thursday evening from
visit to Virginia his native State, with his health
sufficiently improved TO enter upon his pastoral
duties, it is hoped.
The Protestant Episcopal Convention of this
Stale convenes at Newark today. The Law dele.
gates from this town DIR. VIM Cummins and II.
Robert Pennington; aIterna,es, Col Geo. II. Ray
mond and Jos. Kennedy.
couple OF colored women of Wilmington. in a
little quarrel on Saturday an affair of jealousy
got into an alteration and one shot the other in the
side, but the wound is not thought TO be serious
Another case Of this kind occurred the next day
with two white women, which we record elsewhere.
On Tuesday, the Sheriff sold. at an advance OF
$4,000 over the amount bid at a former unconirmed
sale. the lands Of William Kerscy, near Marydel
Dr. George A. Hall purchased tract No |, ,95 acres
for $4,000, and No 3, 60 acres, for S775. J. N
Clark bought No. 2, 80 acres, for SI,9OO.-Dsla
lodredn.
Some excitement was created in Market ST., viii.
mington, Sunday afternoon. Mrs Green wife OF
the proprietor of the Delaware House. fred six shots
from seven shooter at her husbands sister, in the
hotel kitchen, but the balls were prevented from
taking effect by Miss Green holding frying pan
before her. They were settling a family quarrel
The latest railroad talk in Elkion, says the Demo
cr0t, of that town, is this "There has been some
change in the management of the Kent County
Railroad. and the project now is TO the nfu
ence OF this cOrporatiOn well its active aid in
dvertiRg the northern terminus OF that road from
Townsend to Elkton." To which we say bosh
Caleb ]. Hickman, whom we recently noticed a,
having been sent 10 the Sussex Jail by Squire Whit,
of Milford, on Il charge of bgamy, was brought be
fore Judge Wooen under a writ of habeas cOrpus O,
FridaV and released while Squire White is held il
S2OOO bail, to appear at Court to answer to tn,
charge OF false imprisonment. Yet it is not deniet
that Hickman has two wives.
! An item in our Wilmington exchanges of Satur
day says: "This morning a small crate of straw
berries were shipped from Clayton and consigned l.
a party in this city They were by fac the larpes
berries we ever saw. The largest of them mea sure
ST inches in circumference while the ayerag
measured 41 inches" We will merely state thu
they were shipped by Mr. l. G.. LapAam.
Fifteen or twenty of the basket makers a
Worden & Evans's factory, in this town, slruc
for higher wages last Friday but all returned TO wor
again next day-all that could regain their situation
Most ofthem were boys. who were threatened with
"strke" from home if they had persisted in the
strike. They wanted cts. per bosket. They no.
get cts.
DEMOCRATIC DELEGATE ELECTIONS, 10 chose del
gates TO the State Convention which meets At Dow,