Smyrna times., 1873-10-29
STATE AND LOCALS.

dollars to their suffering brethren in Memphis |
The schooners VIM b. Morgan and L. A, |
ROmnlel were blown ON Lewss beach last |
week.
| There has been but one drunken man seen
in Lewes since the new liquor law went into |
effect
| The Lewes Light says there is now pros |
pect of O government hospital being located at |
Lewes.
| The hotel bars and saloons are all closed at
Seaford as they could not get license at the |
last court.
The members of the bar in each county in
the State have held meetings to express regret
at the retirement OF Chancellor Bates.
Mr.. w. L. Hubbard has been manufactur-
ing large quantity of commercial fertilizer at
Pennington, and has sold over 100 tons this
j season.
1t is now positively denied that the peach
shippers of Harrington lost $4,000 by de
faulting commission men. Nothing was lost in
this way.
The cemetery grounds at Barrett's Chapel
have recently been enlarged and very much
improved in appearance by grading, laying off
walks, &c
An animated temperance meeting was held
in Leipsic last Sunday evening Revs j. V.
Smith and j. A. b. Wilson addressed crowd
|
ed audience.
Remember the Bible meeting in the M. f.
Church of this town tomorrow evening. Revs.
Messrs. Huntington and Watson, of Dover, are
to deliver addresses.
Hazettville and vicinity of two miles round,
J within the last fifteen years, has produced six
doctors, three lawyers, and one preacher, all
natives to the manner born.
Mr.. Z. F. Bogia, formerly Of the firm of
johnson & Bogia, bookbinders of Wilmington
has obtained situation in the Government
Printing Office, at Washington.
The Methodist of Milford have sold their
old church to the Baptists for $4,000. This,
: with the subscriptions due, will more than pay
, the Indebtedness on the new church.
Mr.. Fountain, of the Dover Hotel, paid
$l25 for his 800 pound hog. 1t is three years
old and it is said that MIR. F's boarders are
/, shuddering for fear they will have to tackle it.
y The colored men of Wilmington held meet
' ing last Friday night, and resolved to send a
full quota from Delaware to the National Equal
Rights Convention soon to be held in Wash
r ington.
Rev. Lewis W. Gibson, late assistant min
lister of st. James Episcopal Church, Phia-
Q Idelphia has accepted call to Christ Church
e Dover, and will at once enter upon the duties
n of Rector.
!, The Government engineers ask for an ap
Q preparation Of $4,000, to continue work OF
:, the Notifications at Delaware City, opposite
, Fort Delaware. $4,000 is asked for For
e Delaware.
D A concert, by the Episcopal Sunday Schoo
y of this town, will be held in the new Chape
= next Friday evening, to commence at clock
Admission, Is cts. A good entertainment il
expected.
Mr.. Robert Denney, of Duck Creek Mills
. this town, hasgrown a second crop of potatoes
10 His late potatoes are grown from his irst-crol
b. planting They are the Early Rose variety
IN and very fine.
at 1t is estimated that fully 30 per cent. of tn
:. usual number of workmen in the morocco fac
y, tories of Wilmington have been discharged
10 and there are indications that total suspension
ell will take place.
st r. T. Cochran, Esq, of MiddIetown, ha
IL purchased the Biddle FARMS within q miles @
a Chestertown, Md, one containing 466 and tn
~ ~ other 27S acres at $5l per acre-making "A
TX acres for $37, ,944.
ne There is a man named Hayes in WHINING
ey ton, who is a member of every secret societ
~ in that city but two, it is said, and he w0ul
- join them if he were twins and could atten
'0 two lodges the same evening
ne A farmer near Wilmington has pumpki
Isl vine of mammoth proportions. 1t extend
ey over 800 square feet of earth and is producin
of sixteen pumpkins, the smallest of which is Ii
= size of the head OF an average Congressman.
!: Henry Pratt, Esq, of West Dover HID, HI
!" been testing the productive energies of bucI
lr- wheat. From single seed, planted in seaso
1t Was grown a stalk that yielded 1000 grain
a which filed halfpint tumbler three quartz
- full.
- Rev. Mr.. Butler of Louisville, Ky, wi
- two year ago was Rector of ST. Clemen
Church, Kent county, Md. has received ca
in to St AIMS Episcopal Church, Middleton
re 1t is not yet known whether Mr.. B. will acce
70 the CALL
;. At meeting Of the Horticultural Socic
- of fPennsylvanis, held on Tuesday evening wee
"S the committee on fruits reported that Il
'ty pears grown by Mr.. Robert II. Cummins,
cs Smyrna, Del, were the largest ever put up,
nm exhibition before that Society.
Rev. Burton Kollock, formerly of SUISSE
- but for many years an undertaken in Phiad,
'io phla, was out cunning near West Chester o.
no day last week and accidentally shot himself
ais the arm. 1t was found necessary to amputa
his limb, which caused his death on Sunda
.ro Now that Mr. John w. Hall is talked
il for the Gubernatorial chair on the Democrat
nd ticket, his personal matters are already bel
on aired in the papers. His fortune is estimat
ore at $ZOO,OOO largely invested IN vessel proper
ont which brings him an annual income of So
La 600.
of 1t is stated that Mr. Jos. Boggs, Of Mo-
tial ton Station, has netted this season. $1,000 frc
no. six acres in peach trees aud that Mr.. j. \
In Emerson, the extensive fruit grower near 3
md same place, estimates his net earnings for l
,m. season, on his entire farm at sis hundred d
rty lars per acre
of According 10 the Commercial tbsre ia
for Middletown a merchant SIS years of age W
liar has not absented himself from his business
ion, a single day since the war; He is in poss
the sion Of most excellent health He has not /
any meal from sickness since he had the me
heir es-when he was six years old
'sed Dir. Jos. Wyatt, OF Milford Neck, had
.he ! dog to go mad about four weeks ago. Ii
the forwards bit him in the hand and OF course
the is suffering the most terrible mental agony
70 IL apprehension Of the worst results. He is
der medical treatment and it is to be hor