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Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

COMING EVENTS. Next Wednesday promises
to be rather gay day in Smyrna. As heretofore
announced, the semi-annual session of the
Grand Lodge, knights of PythiaS, of Della
ware, will be held here on that y-l6th-on
which occasion the grand officers are to be
escorted by Company Of knights from Will
mingtOu, in gay uniforms headed by Richie S
Band, we are informed. This company, the
first secret society ever uniformed, will number
between fifty and seventy-fve men, and will
be joined at Middetown by u small company
from the lodge of that town. 1t will be the
first appearance Of the company in public.
The grand lodge, composed of Representatives
from all the lodges in the State, will number
upwards Of hundred members.
We have also heretofore spoken of TEN.
perance Harvest Home to be held at Kenton.
The 23d inst has been fixed as the time tol
| holding this celebration, which promises TO be
an interesting affair. Rev. PenneIl COmbe
! (well known to our cltizenS) now one OF the
foremost temperance lecturers in the country, /:
to be the principal orator. Others are also tC
speak or read-perhaps young lady Of
Greensborough, Md. who is attracting some
attention in this line. A band of music is tC
enlven the exercises and grand dinner is t
be served. These are the leading features
we may refer to others hereafter.
The proposed excursion to Bombay Hook oil
the Bombay Hook railroad is still in livel!
contemplation, but we cannot name the day
The work is progressing very favorably on tn
road.
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

WHEN WILL IT'S DAYS BE NUMBEREDI-
In looking over our exchanges after The
Fourth" one thing was particularly noticeable,
and that was a universal denunciatiOn Of
pistols, fire crackers and other powder explo-
sives that seem so necessary to 4th of July
patriotism among the Juveniles. The denun
citation could hardly have been more general if
there had been a preconcerted arrangement
10 that effect among the journalists Of the ma
ton. And all the papers of the larger towns
and cities had their accidents and fire alarms
to point to in justification of the denunciation.
Some of our large city dailies take up whole
columns in narrating these casualties.
1t is time this abominable custom was
stopped. 1t were far better to let the celebra-
tion Of the day go by default than to celebrate
it longer after this heather Chinee" custom
Everyone can call to mind fearful conhagra
tions that have resulted from the abominablt
habit, and we all read the list of casualties
witha shudder, yet the practice is allowed t
20 on from year to year, in despite of law anC
sad experience, as if the celebration of "th,
glorious Fourth" gave license that cannot b,
contravened. In this town the explosions wcr
indulged in in the face Of explicit ordinance
10. the contrary, and nothing more seriou
happened, so far as we know, than the burnin
of few holes In awnings, but this we mus
attribute to good fortune and not to taithfr
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

THE CRoPs. The wheat crop, here as else
where throughout the Peninsula, is good
good in yield and good in quantity.
Never, for the season, was garden sass so
scarce in Smyrna market. Nothing in the
way of vegetables comes to market, unless we
name string beans and a few new potatoes of
very moderate size. The drought is the expla.
nation.
Peaches are almost failure. Not onethird
of even the small estimate of three weeks ago
are now on the trees. and what few are on are
still decreasing, by falling off and rot. 1t is
unusual for the fruit to fall SO late in the sea-
son. Several farmers with whom we have
conversed tell US that they will not have any
to ship at all out of orchards of 40 and 50
acres and upwards. A gentleman of Dover,
who ordered 10000 baskets from this town
some time ago, has countermanded the order
and says he will not need any of them. 1t is
said that this is about the state of the crop
| throughout the State. The prices will most
probably rule high. Mr. Edw Blais has sold
his crop ton the Jacob Williams iarm) tc
| Hoffecker 4 Brother for Is cents per basket
| RasDberries are paying well, but there are
very few of them. Black berries, if they have
rain any time soon, will be the profitable crol
of the season, it is said.
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

Mr.. VIM. A. Simpson, of Wilmington, has
composed an inauguratory hymn for Kehoboth,
and has had it set to music.
The ID Baptist Church Sabbath School, of
Wilmington have decided to make an excur-
sion to Fraland, ON the steamer Ariet, We'd
nesday, July 10Th. The Dover NJ. f. School
is there to-day and the Calvary Episcopal
School, of Wilmington, visit there tomorrow.
Fraland is in good favor with excursion parties,
since it has put its pier i'll order.
About six years ago man in Wilmington
furiously kicked little boy named Hugh
Doughrrty He was taken to a Philadelphia
hospital, but through all these years he has
been langushing, and now, having been pro-
nOunced incurable, has been sent home to die.
1t is said that nothing can be done with the
cruel man on account OF the long time that
has elapsed since the assault was committed.
On Thursday night, in Wilmington thief
entered the house of James Silcox, distracted
his keys from beneath his pillow. with which
his chest was opened and his bank box stolen,
containing bonds amounting to from 50, 800 to
s., 600, and about 5000 in 20 Government
bonds. The loss was made known at Police
head quarters and the next day the thief and
his booty were captured. He made conteS-
sion and was sent to New Castle.
| NlT. DaHlCl 1uOmpSOH, Vi OldylOu, Hdu y
horse to die suddenly of bolts one day last
week, whilst at his son-in-laws, Mr. George
COlyer's. Mr.. G. also had horse killed few
days ago by falling on drag harrow. The
horse and pair of mules were to the harrow
and got frightened by the breaking of the
coupling and started to run. The harrow wa!
upset, and the horse, falling on the teeth, wa.
pierced to death.
A terrific hail and wind storm occurred OF
Thursday afternoon, along the bay shore, a
Sand Ditch, extending as far inland as Charles
NJ. WhartOn's. The hail was very large ant
pelted the Dover Baptist Sunday School, pic
nicing on the beach, severely, rendering the
horses frantic aud unmanagcabe. Trees were
broken off, outbulldlngS upset, and standing
crops badly riddled and beaten in the path o
the storm.
On the evening of the Fourth, in Whining
ton, colored man and woman engaged to b.
married, were walking down Jefferson stree
when he told her he was afraid he did not low
her we'll enough to marry her. The wOma
suddenly turned upon him and drawing knit
made a lunge at his throat, making u frightful
but fortunately not fatal cash. The victim q
the assault does not intend to prosecute tn
desperated girl, it is said, so their names ar
withheld.
a man named Miller was fatally iniure
at the Du Pont powder works last week
He was repairing a glazing-barrel and Will
striking it with steel hammer, the powde
ignited, the flames envelopiug Mr.. Miller
Daniel Doughcrty was at the other end of tn
barrel and pulled him out of the shop just a
four more barrels exploded. But for this bot
would have been blown to pieces. Mr. Mile
was about 20 years old, and about year ag
was seriously burned by the explosion {
: powder.
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

ToRNADOES AND TORRENTS. we are
suffering from a protracted drought in this
section of the country, the great Northwest"
is suffering from flood From the fearful
summary we give below our readers will
doubtless conclude that it is no worse to be
dried up than to be drowned out. The
accounts which reach US through our daily ex-
changes of the heavy rains and wind storms
that swept over portions of Ohio, Indiana,
Wisconsin, Missouri, Kentucky, &C., last
week, are far more distressing than ouI
drought. We make up the following sum-
mary
In Ohio, the storm was felt in its greatest
severity north Of the City Of Cincinnati, which
fortunately escaped its fury. At Springfield
Cedarville, Columbus, Port Washington, and
the intervening country, it was very severe anC
destructive, railroad bridges being WASHED
away, telegraph poles leveled, and crop!
inundated. Six miles of canal were destroyed
between Athens and Saline. Telegraph com
munication was so seriously interrupted tha
out of 80 wires centreing in Cincinnati all bu
two were down. In Indiana, trees being
leveled all the way from Richmond to Logans
port, there is reason to fear that heavy loss il
the aggregate has heen suffered. The mos
serious loss of life has been in Wisconsin, boat
having been capsized on Green Lake and II
persons drowned. The course of the storm il
that State was five miles wide; hundreds o
acres of grain were prostrated, and railroad
travel interrupted by fallen trees. Minnesot
has escaped without serious damage, an
although there was an immense rainfall i
Illinois, no serious losses are reported there
from. In Missouri the storm has been fel
with greatest severity between Hannibal an
St. Joseph, a steamer at the latter city havin
been dragged from her moorings. In Mays
vile, Kentucky, many houses have bee
unroo.ed, and gen raj damage suffered. Th
losses in New England are comparatively ligh
and limited to Massachusetts, and Ne
lia,,
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

HELP TO HORSES. The following comes
well recommended as a preventive of horses
being teased by flies: Take two or three small
handfulls of walnut leaves, upon which pour
three quarts of cold water; let it infuse one
night and pour the whole next morning into a
kettle, and let it boil for a quarter of an hour.
When cold it will be fit for use. The way to
use it is to moisten sponge, and before a
horse goes out of the stable let those parts
which are most irritable be smeared over with
the liquor, viz: between and upon the ears and
neck Aanks, etc. Not only the gentleman OF
lady who rides out for pleasure will derive
pleasure from the walnut leaves thus prepared
but the coachman, the wagnor, and all Others
who use horses during the hot weather.
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

A SHOOTING CAsE.-Charles Bastian, a
son of G. NJ. Bastian, near FELTON,, was shot
by boy named Charles Ravel, on Sunday,
22d ult. Young Bastian was returning from
Sunday School with younger brother, when
RaveI, boy about ~ years old, living at job
Sipple's, invited them to stop and look at his
pistol, which he proceeded to exhibit by
a bali and few shot, in his face, the bali
entering just below the right eye. The
wounded boy is under the care of Dr. Melvin,
and is recovering, but with prospect of loos-
ing the use of an eye. Pistols are dangerous
playthings. .-DeldiCdredR
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

A CATHOLIC VIEW Bishop Becker, Catho-
lie Bishop of this State, in a sermon at a
corner stone laying of an orphan asylum in
Wilmington, last Sunday, said that every sue.
cation was not attended with that moral and
religious training which prevails in Catholic
schools. He contended for religious as well
as a secular education by our schools, and
thought that our Congressmea, though wei
educated, for the most part, were generally
irreligious, and consequently only tho more
dangerous and dishonest by reason Of theil
educational requirements The drift of the
discourse was doubtless towards serperate de
nominational public schools, which is lead
ing theme among the Catholic clergy, bu
which finds little or no favor outside of tina
denomination.
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

THE CENSUS RETURNS VS.. CRIME IN della
WHARF.-THE correctness of the census returns,
with reference to crime in Delaware, is being
discussed in the Wilmington papers. Accord
ing to the census statistics there were one hun
dred and fOrty.ive convictions for crime in
Delaware in 1870, or about one in every $50
of her population. The Adrertiser, (John
O'Bynes paper thinking the figure too large,
wrote to the prothonotary of each county, ask
ing for and official return of the convictions for
1870 In Saturdays issue it publishes the re-
suit, as follows; Sussex, Q = Kent, %; New
Castle, 65-total, 81. OF this number, GO
were for felony and 81 for misdemeanors. The
Advertiser therefore "goes for" the marshal
and the census returns, characterizing the
latter as huge lie, fixed up to suit a party
and serve purpose.
The Commercial comes to the defense of the
Marshal, and lets in light upon the subject
The Marshal and the AdrertiSer, it seems, did
not derive their information from the same
source, nor are their figures computed for the
same period of time. The Marshals figures
ware furnished him by Sheriff Richardson, o
New Castle Co., Wilds, of Kent, and Layton
of Sussex. and the Commercial says that al
examination Of their letters, among the records
of the Marshals Office shows that the genera
return was made up from their several statistics
With reference to the time there was also con
siderable differences. The Marshaps time wa
for ''the year ending June l, l870,' or from
June go to June 10, while the AdvertiSer'
figures are "fsr lS70'-from January t
January Therefore, as the Commercial says
the last seven months of that year are no
what it wants, at all. From this it woul
seem that the AdrertiSer, and not the Marshal
has done the laundering.
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

LAND DAMAGEs.-A number of the farmers
through which the Massey's section OF the
Bombay Hook Railroad is to run, west of
Clayton, have appealed from the awards of the
Commission appointed to assess the land
damages, and on Monday last the cases Of three
appellants were given final hearing in this
town, at the office of Esquire Budd. The ap-
pellants were Tilghman FoxwelI, Charles
Numbers and NJ. II. Bryne. The cases were
argued before a jury summoned by Sheriff
Williamson, Nj. Comegys appearing for the
appellants and Messrs Massey and John b.
Pennington for the Railroad Company. The
following gentlemen constituted the jury
ThOs Slaughter, Sam'l Hargadine. John w.
Cullen, Thomas Ii. Denney and William A.
Atkinson, of Dover; David Reese, Peter
Wilson and John Green. of Kenton Id., and
Thomas X. Taylor, A. j. Wilson and John
Moore, of Little Greek lid. The amount oI
damages awarded by the Sheriff. jury was as
follows: Foxwel $3,30O-awarded by the
Commission, 81 ,949; Numbers, 81, ,4OO-Com
mission award, 1851; Bryne, $500-COm
missions award $3.50 1t will be seen that the
Sherif's jury largely increased the amount
There is no appeal, we understand, from this
last award. The case of other appellants will
be heard to morrow-Thursday.
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

THE WEST VERDICT-It is perfectly salts
factory to Republicans, from partisan stand
point, that the Delacarean should champion
the West verdict as Democratic measure,
but it does not seem to be so satisfactory to
the Democrats The Sussex Journal says
"We are as devoted to the Democratic party
and its future as any one but we trust that
democracy is not to be measured by such a
standard as defanse of the verdict of the jury
in the West case. if so Sussex is not Demo.
cratic by several thousand"
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

AN EXPLANATION Lank, the father
Of the young girl who was so cruelty outraged
by Joe Burton thung at Georgetown recently
has written letter explaining why he pcti-
toned the Governor to respite Joe. 1t
seems that the people around Georgetown
are indignant, and Mr.. l.. has been forced
to explain to shield himself from reproach.
He writes as follows to the Sussex .JournaL.
Explanation to Petition, far tie Press, al
the Request Of Numerous Friends. My motives
for signing said petition were Of the pureSt
kind, as well as, believe, those who drew the
petition and asked me for my signature, did SO
from motives equally pure. After mature re-
tectlon, and fearing misunderstanding and
thereby wrong to the public, as well as myself
and child | waited on his Excellency, james
Ponder, and explained all to HIM, the proper
one, on the 18th inst. As for the petition,
was waited upon by Judge Layton and Rev
a. ID. Davis, and presented with a skeleton
petition for the repreve of the convict, Joe
Burton. declined signing on the grounds
that had no doubt" Of Joe's guilt, nor did
| think il "meritorious' case. But was will
ing, if Joe was not ready and wanted time tC
prepare to meet his God, or if he, Joe, was no
guilty and proposed in any reasonable time tt
show who was guilty, then | was willing for
respite. These are all the grounds that | re
collect OF given to the Judge to found the e
spite or pGttiOn on. These are the same il
substance as | gave in to Governor Pondc
with instructions that if he should find Othe
just grounds, to allow the convict, Joe, all tn,
benefit of the same. | trust that the pubi
will accept these explanations. Thanking al
officers and others that have stood by me in m
late troubles and have dealtout Justice so faith
! fully to all parties. J0nN Z. LANK
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09
How THE FOURTH WAS CELEBRATED

How THE FOURTH WAS CELEBRATED
The glorious Fourth was more generally
celebrated in this State last week than any
time since the war. How it was celebrated in
Smyrna may be seen by reference to another
column.
In Wilmington everybody got out of town
who could. Those who couldn't had to endure
fire crackers, fire alarms, fire bells and whisky
fumes Many went to Cuba Hill, on the W.
4 w. Il. r., where there was Il temperance
meeting. good deal on the religious cast, of
course, but which, oddly enough, ended in a
dance and thereby ruff1ed the feathers Of some
very plOus and conscientious people. In the
city, from Thursday night to Friday night,
| there were alarms Of fire sounded, but fOrtun.
ately no great damage was done. The horses
were harnessed to the engines all day and the
firemen stood faithfully at their post. Three
accidents were caused by fire works. One
little boy had his skull fractured by the explo
sion Of toy cannon and it is thought he vii
die.
In Dover, some recreated themselves by
picnics, excursions, &c, while base ball wa
quite freely INDUCED in by large portion o
those who remained in town. But the mos
amusing feature of the days proceedings wa
a bag race which was set apart for the after
noon, and was participated in by the peasur,
seeking class generally.
At Harrington there was a pig chase and
trial at climbing greasy pole. There was alsC
an excursion from Harrington to LewGs.
At Lewes there was the biggest crowd eve
seen in the town. The sensation there was
submarine diver, at the new government pier
At sunrise, the crowd commenced to gather
and long before the time for the excursion
train the streets were alive with foot passen
gers, who came i'll vehicles Of every description
and size and drawn by almost every cOnccivabl
species of beasts. The diving took place a
= in the afternoon. The diver was Mr. Pete
}. Crowley, of New Bedford Mass, who wa
clad in diving armor He was ''lct go" fror
: a vessel, in very deep water, and traversed tn
; bottom Of the " briny deep with at least 20
. pounds weight around him, to keep him dowr
lie successfully walked from the boat inca
Breakwater) to the beach; thence to Rairoa
wharf, returning to beach where he disencuu
, bered himself of his heavy rigging, jumpin
t ashore midst the plaudits of the vast aSSeu
, blage
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

YOUNG HORSE THIEvEs.-J McMenamn,
William AlcCarron, Bill Graham and Bill
HynsOn, none of them over II years of age,
stole horse from the pasture of John Kirk
man, near Wilmington on the lst inst, which
they intended to drive down the State and sell
to obtain 4th of July money. They we're
detected, tho two first arrested, who confessed
the theft, and are now in the cells awaiting a
further hearing. They badly mutilated the
name and tail of the horse and daubcd white
star in its forehead with tar-to cure it of the
headache, they told quostioner. CONNER
cinL
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

John Elliot, aged 20, Margaret Robinson,
aged Is, and a boy, went sailing on the Niagara
river, at Chippewa. Ont, on the Fourth, when
they got into the rapids and were carried over
Niagara Falls. Portions of the boat bere picked
up on Saturday, below the Falls. but no trace
Of the bodies has been discovered. The young
man and woman were from Cincinnati, and
were to have been married on Saturday.
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09
Tge Smyrna Times,
SN1Y2'U0, Del.,

THE TIMES" is published every Wednesday by
JOSEPH H. HoFFEUKER Editor and Proprietor at Smyrns
Delaware.
year $500 IN advance or S25C
not paid till the end of the year No paper until
all arrears paidonly at the option Ct the Publisher
ADVERTISEMENTS will inserted rate of Seven Gents
ane for the first insertion; insertions Threeand
half cents liberal made TO quarterly ssmar
nualand yearly advertisers.
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

w. +. A. Woodcock, Chronometer and fine
Matchmaker, directly opposite NJ. 4. Church,
Dover, Del, late of Chestnut street, Phil, is
giving universal satisfaction to his patrons. If
you wsh your fine watches repaired properly,
take them to him. lie defes competition.
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

WANTED a Farmer in every town as agent for
the Collins Steel Po,cS For terms, &c, ad-
dress, COLLINS h Co., 2l2 Water ST., New
York. p3O-3m
Smyrna times., 1873-07-09

Sixteen tons of weighing machines per day
were the product of the Fairbanks Scale
Works, of worldwide fame, in 1872.
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