Smyrna times., 1872-08-28
STATE AND LOCALS.

All the schools of this town open on Monday
next
DIR. James B. Mitchell is about to locate perma.
nenly In Dover for the purpose of practicing medi
cine.
Mr.. Henry Gerker, near Moorton, six miles from
THIS town. is said to have the largest fruit dstiery
in the State.
Hon. J. w. Houston has gone to Missouri on
visit to some relations at Hannibal He will return
in about a month.
kirkwood is to have a handsome new station
house. 90 by so feet one story high, with bracket
prefecture Of 8 feet all around it,
Thirty carloads of peaches we're shipped from
MIddietown on Thursday last-nearly as many as
were shipped any one day last year.
Rev. c. P. Mallory, of Chesa peake City, fills the
Presbyterian pulpit Of this top n next Sunday. and
Rev. Dr. Thompson the NJ. E. pulpit.
The wheat crop about Delaware City is said
never to have heen much better than the present
season. the general average being from 20 TO 90
bushels per acre.
john Morgan, young mulatto man living near
this town, was committed 10 Jail by Esquire Mari.
ner. last week. for threatening violence TO the
family Of Mr.. John Truax.
Emory Wright, respectable old colored man Of
warwick. Md, was thrown from his dearborn at
Middletown last week BY a runaway horse, and il
Is feared his wounds may result fatally.
John T.. Belvile. formerly one Of the leading
merchants Of st. Georges. is now largely engaged
In manufacturing tobacco, and EMPLOYS several
hands. Tobacco grows well in that vicinity.
Some unknown disease is causing fatal result,
among the horses around Odessa. VIM. Chance
Charies Beaston, X. G. Hayes and DR.. Ashcraft n
have each lost valuable animals recently by the
disease. = Wv
Pennel Emerson. Esq, an exSherif of tb,s
county, died very suddenly at kits Hammock. ON
wednesday evening last. He was about SIS wears
of age. and was resident Of Wilmington at the
time Of his death.
Mr. Geo. Biddle, Of Sassafras Neck, who ba.
been hauling his peaches to Middetown, a distsnce
OF ten miles, has had FIVE horses overcome by the
heat within week or None OF them have died.
however. we believe.
The Richard Thomas lands, near Odessa, were
sold last week. Some 80 acres adjoining that.town
brought over 5000 per acre. III. Gibson. Wm'
Folk, John c. Corbt and Columbus Watkins were
among the principal purchasers.
A fire in Georgetown on Thursday afternoon Last
destroyed two dwelling houses, one beIonginp 10
Mrs spaulding, and one belonging t. the county
and occupied by Mr.. Adams. The former was
insured. The loss is not stated.
All the salt marshes slong the Delaware Bay. in
lower Kent and Sussex have so dried IN that ba y
WI be exceedingly scarce and high this winter
anticipation of the coming winter.
Jones Guthrie. Esq. prominent carriage builder
OF wilmington, w was shot at by apprentice boy
,n ms factory Monday, and the ball just missed
his head. He attempted TO correct the boy, who
drew the pistol and fired and then run.
| The Breakpater Light is sorry TO inform The
citizens OF Lewes, aud vicinity, that the steamer
Eastern Queen, makes her last trip TO New YorI
from Lewes, on Saturday next The line did no
receive sufficient patronage TO sustain it.
The new Government battery at Delaware Ci,v
OH the shore. opposite Fort Delaware s rapidly an
preaching completion. IL will be stronger tha,
the Fort, IL is said. The road 10 tho battery from
the town. will be a magnificent drive, II is said.
Owing to the high freight rates on the railroad
mnny Of the farmers at Laurel SUSSEX county. hay
been hauling their iruit 10 Georgetown, distance
from sixteen to twenty miles. aud shipping TO Ncv
York via Lewes About thirty cents a basket i
, saved by this route.
Clayton Hill was arraigHed before Esquire Ralph
r at Laurel, on Wednesday, charged with attemptin
TO outrage the person Of Mafgar,t Bailey, a ynun
girl about fourteen years Of age, on Sunday wee
at Delmar Camp. lie was committed TO George
town jail TO await trial.
r Near the little village Of Hockessn, few mile
& above Wilmington, on the Wilmington g. Wester
Railroad, has been discovered rich deposit Of viii,
y marble An effGt ~ being made 10 develop th
: depssi. and a company with a capital Of $4,000
"a is about being organized.
The Asa Poinsett lands. on the road from smyrn
' TO Millington, about miles from this towa, wei
o sold at Foxwelfs hotel on Thursday last. No.
/; 25Is acres, was sold TO John Pratt, for sls5O ps
q acre. and No. lS6 acres, TO Cyrus Stern, Of Wi
mington, for % per acre.
" Wm. Sowdcr, salesman for a shoe house ,
u Philadelpha, wssI brought before Esquire Budd
o this town on Friday and held TO bail In $500 r.
Il selling goods by sample without license. Mr..
plead ignorance Of the law and the Squire referre
y him 70 the @Pswsrs that be" to plead bis cause.