Smyrna times., 1872-12-18

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Cochran House. MIddetown with his family aud
assistants for the surveying of the proposed ship
canal across the Peninsula. He will make survey
of the route from the Sassafras river to the Della
ware bay, passing Blackbird, This is said to
be the shortest and least expensive of all the routes
! yet suggested"
Dover ladies' are tired of running the gauntlet OF
the gaping youths who stand at the church doors
aud the following "sarkasm" appears in the last
| DelalgGredn "HGnted.-From two to three dozen
mice young men," to stand before the door Of the
respective churches, at the close of each service on
the Sabbath, to pass remarks the ladies costumes
All applicants will please take their stand before
the church doors ON next Sabbath, where their
names will be Carefully registered on a slip of paper
and published by MANY LADIES'
AT meeting Of the Delaware Historical Society
IN wilmington, w last week it was proposed 10 take
active measures during the coming year for the col
lection and publication Of the records and documents
for gathering material for the biography of our
distinguished statesmen, jursts, divines physicians
and mechanics and for the cole elton and preserva.
ton of historical records. Several members of the
society propose TO investigate particular subjects Of
Stale interest, and present their results To the public
IN the form OF lectures and published papers.
One night last week the store Of S. Il. Stephens
IN MIddctown was robbed Of quantity of ready
made clothing and other goods, also IS in money
The thieves ghtcd lamp and proceeded deliberately
TO dress themselves IN lew coats pants, boots aud
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away in the yard and the recognition Of these artl.
| cIcs led To his arrest, when he acknowledged the
part he had taken IN the affair, and told where the
stolen OdA concealed, but refused to disclose
the name of his assocAte. There being no gold
place To c0nfne the boy he allowed 10 escape.
! RAILROAD PROM LEwEs 70 RrHoB1TII-A large
gathering oi Influential citizens was held ON the Ilih
INST, at the Rchnhnth CITY Hotel, to promote the
interests OF the propo-cd Railroad from Lewes To
Rehnboth. Mr.. Hughes OF Pottsvllle Pa, was
elected chairman. A question arose from the
Chairman IN regard To the estimated cost of the
road from l,ewes To Rchoboth, the distance being
SIX miles which was stated To be $4,000 including
building The drpotS, the pier at Rthnboth bay and
othe: necessary expenses. On motion of Nh Geo
Il. Reed, President Of the Junction & Brcakwater
KailrOad, II committee 10 procure the Right OF Way
| from Lcwcs To RclIobOth was appointed. The
Secretary read letteIs from prominent men in
Pennsylvania, MarylInd and Delaware, favorng
The movement. The Chllr appointed the following
gentlemen To solicit Subscriptions To the stock VIZ
Rev. w. VI. Warner, : p. Houston Geo. r. Joseph
Peter H. Burton, K. Burton, f.. w Houston, Mr.
Curtis. Mr. Quigicy, Mr.. Hughes Ebe Walter, j.
! r. Hall and Manean Gum. 1t was stated that the
Junction e. Breakwater road has authority to build
the road under their Charer-hut that il was neces
sary to secure such additional legislation as would
| exempt new stnck, issued for thus portion of the
road from liability from any existing indebtedness
! "l the road II was suggested that subscriptions
such were expected would be satisfactory to the
Junction Il Bfcakwatcr Company, and that SAID
company would certainly build the road II was
also mdIntlIned and expected that the Methodist
Association and the Rchubolh Cty proprietors
would also aid considerably y BreakDater Light.
The rubbng Of Mr.. Beckett's pigeon roost. las,
week, has resulted IN the "impcachment" of Sol
smith, our policeman, and the appointment Of ufiicer
Stayton policeman Gd interim. Three parties were
ordered under arrest tor this affalr-SOl, VIM. r.
Start and John Blackburn. No arrests were made
II seems, but rather than the trsl" fall through
Sol and start went before Squire Mariner volunta-
rily and turned States cvidrnce" But the more
they confessed the harder II was TO find su, who
stole the pigeons. Snl's Confession was made when
the other PartI's could not be found by officer Stay
ton II was to the effect that, whilst returning from
a party, after md night, hc fell in with Start and
bit Nbnfn who were prot cling lot Of pigeons that
/ h'd got:n out their box, and out Of sympathy
tor thc birds he ate u pf thrn. S;:rts cOnfcss,on
was made when Bllc burn c ,nld not t,. rund and
was to The ii'ct Il a. whilst !o"king around for
Otli1 OF "Uine' he had piled up d, a door. .strr
ne came across Blackburn, lowering a brood Of or.
Phan pigeons and had merely stopped to admire his
seli.sacrIfcc Black burns version cannot b, learn
ed as he has not been seen since the officers Lnve
cesirrd to see hun. lie is made the stool pigeon of
The altar for this rc,s,n. The Squire would have
made Iurthcr investigation, pc:haps but Mr. RANCH
ley, coinscl for Mr.. Start showed cancusiyely that
(is) his client dId not steal Mr.. = property and
'2d) pigeons arc not property ii he did. This qua.h
ed the Indictment. Sol. took the train ON Nondav
10 look Tor Blackburn to "turn States evidence"
fREsBYTERIAN SUNDAY SCnoOI. AssoCIArr-N-The
sunday School AsSocmtion uI New C.StI, pr, sbv
terry held ITS second Quarterly Meeting at the Pres
hE'ernn Church. IN Milford. on Monday and Tues.
day at last week. Tins ussocIa,ion rer,rsen,s
! H5tbS 4 - Il. II
MT .iour Presbyterian Churches OF the Peninsula
IL was dccidcd to organize three Divisional Instl.
t"'es on tins IcnIn"nlh the Central DIVISION to EN-.
orice heht aud Sussex counties IN Delaware aud
'Soeen Anne, Talbot aud Caroline counties in Mary
'"nd' All South OF this 10 be in the Sou hcrn Dvl
sion, and all North in the Northern Division each
OF these Divisions 10 be subordinate to- and to re.
port 10 the New Castle Prrsbytcrian Association
}. l. fnnIk, j. Alexander Fulton WIN. r. Lord und
James Russell, were appolntcda committee 90 effect
the organization Of the Central Division. Interest
ing addresses were made by Revs e. Z. Mll!erv, Of
DheSape"kc CITY; &. }, Porter, of Newark: j. G..
Hammer, of Salisbury ID. {. Ridgway (Merhod,,N
OF Milford; u {. McCnok, Mr.. Peek Of Rhlnhcck,
NJ T.; and Mr. Wolf; also by John p McLcar
ana W. d. Dove, EsqI. of Wilmington, and Prof
"m. t. Lord and J. Y. FouIk, of Milford.
10s--
McCONB CITY.-COl. ii. :. McComb of WIlminr
ION, now hgnrIng so extensively in the Credit
M"biIIcr case, Is building an extensive town ahont
ioo miles north of New Orleans, on the New
Orleans. Jackson 4 Great Northern Railroad of
which he is President and virtual owner. This
town, called MCCpmb CITY, was commenced about
wear ago. correspondent writing from there
TO The COmmercrqL says: at is astonishing TO see
how much has bcc done here IN the twelve months
since work was fairly commenced. The site was
then dense pine forest. Now, there are a full set
OF machine shops and car-shops; a round house to
accommodate 81 engines; freight depot fine
brick building containing offices Tor the officials Of
the railroad residing here; large hotel nearly
completed thirty Dwellings finished aud occupied
(mostly by Northern familIcs,) and dozen more in
process of erection. There are already about five
hundred w"rkmcn employed here. and this number
will increase 10 thousand when the shops com
nencc work" We may add that Mr.. Robert II.
Baynard, Of this town. is of the master mechanics
employed there by Mr.. McComb.
"MAY AND DECEMBER."-Ezra Comfort, aged 73
and MISS Sarah f. Carr aged 10, residents of VII.
mingtnn were on FRIDAY last married IN Chester by
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