Smyrna times., 1873-09-17
STATE AND LOCALS.


time near Milford.
Skiff 4 Gaylord's Minstrels will exhibit in
this town next Tuesday evening. This is one
of the oldest trOupeS III the country.
Six out Of twelve signers of Frederick hotel
keepers application for new license to sell
liquor, are unable to write their own names.
Rev. G. W. Kennedy, Presbyterian, filed
the Nj. h. pulpit of this town last Sunday, Mr.,
Ph@bus, being sick The latter is conyalescent.
Mr. JOS f. Williams, of this town, had
horse valued at $3.50 TO die last week. He
purchased him about three weeks ago in Phia.
MeSsrs. j. P. Gorday and McKendre Down
ham have been appointed assistant teachers in
the Wilmington Conference Academy, at
Dover.
COL Raymond has been granted letters of
administration on the estate OF the late X. +.
Rasn The stock of goods is to be closed out
at reduced figures.
At last our town authorities have decided
TO extend Delaware and Frazer streets until
they intersect each other, aud thus give the
latter street an outlet.
On Sunday night week, John Caldwell,
sentenced to three years Imprisonment for
horse stealing last spring, made his escape
from the New Castle jail,
A young man named Thomas Rogers, en-
,ployed in barber shop in Wilmington, has
fallen heir to some $4,000, through the death !
of an uncle in NoYristowD, Pa.
The buildings of the steam Brick Manf Co., |
in Wilmington, were destroyed by fire on
Monday, together with q large quantity of
brick. Loss, $4,000; fully insured.
| Wilkie Collins has been engaged to give
reading in Wilmington In November or
December and Thomas Mast will lecture there
sometime during the First named month.
1t is stated that from 1000 to 1900 workmen
are now out of employment in Wilmington
mainly from the car shops. This makes bust
ness feariully poor among the merchants.
For selling liquor to an habitual drunkard
and keeping diSorderly house in Odessa,
man in that town known as Cool Spring
Charlie" was held to bail in $500 last week.
An S5 pound sea turtle, sent to Mr.. Milling
ton, of the Delaware House, was the curiosity
in this town on Saturday and the feast to Mr..
Ms guests ON Monday. 1t was caught at
Lewes.
A meeting of those interested in the enforce
ment Of the new License Law is to be held to-
morrow (Thursday) evening, in the town hail.
this town. An invitation to the public is ex-
tended.
John Corbit, Esq, of Odessa has rebuilt
} and remOdeed his residence, putting in pipes,
for gas, hot and cold water, bath room, &c. 1t
will be model of elegance and convenience
when finished.
The large steamship Richmond has been
withdrawn from the Lewes and New Y ork
route, and the City Point will make tri weekly
trips leaving Lewes on Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, and New York on the alternate
days.
\ The establishment of newspaper enterprise
: by the students in Delaware College is talked
4 Of Canvasscrs are at work for advertise
ments, and if they succeed in obtaining them
1 the paper will be printed each two weeks for s
a months
/ Mr.. John Horsey, of Sussex county, has lOC
peach trees, (set out in the fall Of 1869 frou
tt which he has picked aud delivered this season
400 crates of excellent peaches at lao PEI
, crate, purchasers finding the crates, or $59$
! from an acre.
f Mrs. Elizabeth Fox, wife of VIM Fox ESQ.
% an aged and much esteemed lady of Leipsic
= fell dead from the breakfast table on Monda,
! morning. She died of heart disease, from
n which she had suffered for number of years
e She was in her 9th year.
" The Canal Company will not be able t
y finish repairs on the canal by the 20th-no
d before the lst prox 1t is said that 600 mel
to are employed and three mud machines Day
lie and night work is kept up, and by bright fire
valleys.
70 1t is said rail and reed birds were neve
IN known so numerous in the New Castle marshe
IN as this season. Over two thousand of tn
j. former birds were carried to Philadelphia, on
ID day last week, by the Major Reyb0ld, aud W
In are told that still larger number has bee
n sent several days since.
tn The charges against Mr.. John Fl. Va
H. Gesel, ex-pOstmaster at Harrington wa
re brought before the U. s. District Court i
D Wilmington, last week, but the case was posi-
I'd poned until the November term. He
n charged with retaining postal money orde
IT, funds that came into his hands.
a. Mrs. Phebes is engaged half an hour ever
ne morning giving object lessons to the pupils j
ne the Primary Department in the Seminary
ne greatly to the delight and instruction of tb
Ut little folks. Parents and friends are invited
IN visit the room and witness this new exercise
popularity known as object teaching"
lat Mr.. Wesley Stevens, living near Black,
10 tons Cross Roads, brought chicken in tow
er the other day with a curious malformatior
Instead OF tail feathers an oddly shaped foe
and leg has grown from the tip of its RUM
: and swings loosely by slender ligament. 1t
he about two months old and thrives apsce.
le On Saturday week, 81! baskets of peacht
~ were picked from single tree in the orchar
III III OF DIR. Henry Ridgely on his Dover farm
nu Another tree in the same orchard yielded
m ITS two pickings,. % baskets The fruit was
u, the Late Old Nixon variety, and was sold
10 Dover depot for 81 per basket, or $43. so, ces
ly for the produce of the two trees.
mn 1t is reported that the parties who contractt
,ar to repair the State House at Dover have wit
ra drawn from the job. The new County Cou
on House will not be commenced before ne
oru D spring. When the national government
:" tends to commence on the new post off
>. building has not been ascertained. The wa
a Of the Academy building are up to the secor
a floor.
are Odessa is having fun. It was incorporat
ye by the last Legislature, and now has Comm
81 sioners, Alderman, &c. The Commissione
40. like all new brooms, sweep clean, and tn
~ ioS have gobbled up a number of citizens
W " infractions of the new ordinances. But Il
~ ,o week some of the citizens turned the tables
- had the Commissioners arrested for deIelicti
a. Of duty. And thus it goes; the citizens wat
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