Smyrna times., 1873-10-01
STATE AND LOCALS.

Work on the government pier at Lewes will
soon be suspended for the season.
Two men will be tried for their lives at the
next term of the Sussex County Court.
Mr. VIM. S. Jones, near this town, admin
listers on the estate of his father, the late
James Jones'
The Dover Cornet Band has again reorgan-
ized, with Mr. Phil. Burnite as leader and a
new set of instruments costing $500.
1t is expected Rev. d. G. Ridgeway, of Mil
ford will lecture this winter on TIE sights he
saw in the old world the past season.
Blind Tom, Wilkie Collins, Lolita and Mrs.
John Drew are all to show" in Wilmington
Mrs. ID. on Saturday next and Tom on Monday.
| A party of four gentlemen. says EUery EUen
ing, belonging to Chester, visited Augustine,
Del, last week, and in four days killed 2O9l
rail birds.
The Georgetown Lodge of Good Templars
gives public notice that it will, individually and
as body, work for the strict enforcement of
the new liquor law.
The meeting for moral reform will be held
in the town hall, this town, to-mOrrow-Thurs-
day-evening. The new license law will be the
subject under discussion.
A New York firm which had ordered sew
eral thousand dollars worth of carriages from
| w lIInlIlgI0D, cOuu(eTDanueu Tue OTueF OH tue
advent of the panic.
According to Erery Evening there is a man
| in Delaware City who is now living in house
with his fifth wife, seventeen children and three
mothersin law, and still he is no: happy.
The Northern Convocation of Delaware,
composed of all the Episcopal Clergymen of
New Castle county, will hold its session, this
week, in Wilmington, commencing to-day.
| A Captain OF schooner at the Breakwater
went entirely crazy few days ago, and had to
| be confined to be kept from damage. lie was
sent to New York in the City Point for safe
keeping
Caleb Miburn, an old colored man of Will
mingtOn, is quite an antiquarian. He has quite
a collection of old coins, snakes of all kinds
preserved in alcohol, ancient fire arms, DC,
which he has carefully labiled.
A large number of farmers living in West
Chester and other counties adjacent to New
York city, propose to emigrate to Delaware
next year-that is ii we can rely upon the pre-
dctons of some Of our State papers.
During the past convention year, the Epis-
copal Church in Delaware gave towards
diocesan, domestic and foreign missions, the
sum of SIS, 533. 67 which is little more than
1927 for each communcant member.
The pamphlets containing the public acts
sembly are now in the hands of the PrOthOno
tares of the several counties for distribution
gratuitOusy, to all who may call for them.
A gentleman states to the Commercial tha
to his personal knowledge forty-tive heads o.
] families have left Wilmington for other locali
e ties in quest of work. They are laboring mer
and mechanics who have lost their situations
The financial trouble is seriously effectin,
h Wilmington. Eligible building lots sold thert
" the first OF last week at from $lS to $22 pc
foot, but at a sale on Saturday last quit
+ as eligible lots only brought from 81 to $8 pc
:. foot.
There are 80 Odl Fellows Lodges in thi
State, with membership of 2676, an increas
of 10 since the last annual report. Since th
y last annual report the order has paid ou
Al Sl0,477 in benefits to needy members, thei
il widows, &c
d W; y. W. Dorsey, of Milford, has no
{, which he expects to weigh 800 lbs by KILN
= time. Mr.. Whitock, of Clayton, will bea
Il him. He expects his famous pig to weigh a
u least 900 lbs. 1t weighed 825 lbs. last spring
Ie when he bought it.
in John A. Morton, Esq, has disposed of h
II interest in the National Hotel in Middletowr
to Mr.. jackson Bryant, formerly of Woodbury.
y. j. possession to be given on the 7th
OF October next. Mr. Morton will return to th
De Arch St House, Philadelphia.
Ge Rev. R. W. Todd will soon leave Rehobot
A. Beach for Felton,, Del, to take charge of Ii
:, NJ. +. Church vacated by the appointment
Rev. Mr.. Williams to the charge of the Wi
a' mingtOn Conference academy, at Dover, De
DE- Mr.. Todd will still continue Supt. OF Rehobot
t, Beach till spring.
OF Mr. A. H. Lord, on farm of Attorney Ge
:, eral Lore, Ill Somerset county, Md, has grow
LAT of yuhio ba III
ID Late Somerset. 1t is u large iree-ston
H. color white, with delicate blush, when ful
to lp ned aud natures about one week lat
~ than the . 'Smock."
- Among the list Of Southern ministers to a
> tend the great Evangelical Alliance, in Nc
u York, { see fuller notice in first column '
at notice the names Of Bishop Cummins, of Ke
,r tucky, and DR.. j. +. Grammar, OF Baltimor
both well known to our citizens and both proI
!, nent Low Churchmen.
- |: is reported that Edward Downey, of Ne
ah Castle Hundred visited New Castle on Frd
b" last, and received 5000 for his crop of whea
by Alter paying a note of $500, he started aw
cp with the balance 10 his pocket, but on reac
!, lng home he discovered that said balance
IL 500 had entire disappeared.
'ai VIM. Meredith, ESQ.,, near Marydel, We
o. Dover Hid, has on his place late peach
IT. fine quality, which the peach builders ha
he named " Meredlth Late" 1t nearly resel
bles the Late Heath. The variety originat
in Seeding on Mr.. NJ. s place. Fruit iit
ne shipping about 25th of September.
III The Trustees and officers of the Kent Coun
OF AlmshOuse visited the New Castle Conn
ity Almshouse last Wednesday, that being the d
,he appointed by the Grand Jury for inspect
~ the institution. The following gentlemen col
We posed the Committee: Messrs. Pratt, SIa
he Dill, Wilds, Savin, Learned, Layton, and /
er. Cooper.
no Cape Henlopen light house, at Lewes. W
nd built by the British Government about i7f
1t is in the form of an octaqon. Its base
"a" supposed to be 10 or 80 feet in the sand. #
light is l6O feet above the level of the &c
is The lens is about 10 feet high, and 6 feet
ust diameter. 1t is required to give good light
- nautical miles distant
oh On Friday last, Owen Crow, ESQ. of Il
", vicinity, received a telegram from TopeI
nu Kansas, announcing the death Of his son,
md Owen e. If0W af that tIaoa M ~