Smyrna times., 1873-05-14
STATE AND LOCALS.

r nv i"Sc lIoStS are Sald TO have damaged 2
lew peach orchards about Milford.
:. DrS. ump and Shakespeare, of Dover have
dissolved partnership. See notice.
. A stylish matrimonial engagement. to come
OH soon, Is the sensation of Odessa,
Cahoon Il Son have recently erected in
Dover carriage factory 36 by SO feet.
WIN. ii. Carr will open his ice cream saloon
70 morrow evening-on Market ST., remember.
1t is reported that an effort will be made 10
nave the trial of West removed to Sussex
county.
A barber in Cambridge preixes Professor
70 70 MS name This title is just as cheap as
Captain, Colonel, &c.
;. Ii Is SAID that Lewes is to have three steam
IlheS OF communication this summer, as fol-
lows fhlladelphla, Cape May and New York.
=, 9ohn on OByrne, ESQ.,, will lecture for the
MdddIetown All, Library Association, Tomorrow
htnlrsday) evening, on 1.-The Worlds About
The Annual Meeting of the Delaware State
nledlca! Society will be held, on the second
tuesday In June, 1.-THE l3th,) 1873, at Middle
town.
On Wednesday night last, sixty Germans
passed through Camden going to work on the
IA. Iarms and III the canneries at Lebanon and
Five Forks ""0
Pete Gray, an elderly man of Milford, of very
incorporate habits, fell overheard from fish
was drowned ' anu
We find this lie going the rounds of the
papers "A Delaware Judge fined a LAWYER
only one dollar for calling him "a boated old
rhlnoceroS -
.: Fennimore Cooper's ancestors are said to
De from Kent county, Delaware. Parties ara
searching the records to prove the nativity of
the eminent novelist.
A match game of base ball will be plaved
10 Newark on Saturday next, between the
Active club, from Wilmington, and picked
nine of Delaware College
John Carpenter, the negro man who is 70 be
hanged IN Dover, in June next, seems now 10
realize his position. He lays covered up in bed
nearly all the time, praying.
Some OF the railroad shovelers on the
bombay Hook line, get drunk ON rainy days,
and generally have to sober down in the iocknp'
by request OF Alderman Budd.
Keys DIR. kenney and George A. Phohus.
OF TINS town, two OF the visiting committee To
Drew Theological Seminary, left for that insti.
tuition Madison, N. j. on Monday.
Rey. /. &. Stewart, a colored minister of
considerable prominence in Wilmington. is
going to San Domingo to live. His name was
prominent during the last campaign.
Rev George A. Phebus, of this town. has
been invited, by the Faculty of Delaware Col.
Iege' to deliver the commencement ora:ioD of
accepted. nae
A new VI. f. Church, costing about 80 oOO
known as Wesleys Chapel, in the lower mart
Of tins county, near the Mary land line, was
dedicated Sunday week by BiShop Scott
assisted by RevS. Messrs. Uric and Manship'
A St. Georges farmer near Midddletowp
planted thirty acres Of corn with two teams
on the 18th of last month and twenty. five
acres on the Goth, making in all Gfty-five acres
in two days.
Ben. A. Hazell, one of our well.known
townSmen, has taken the position of general
business agent for Stewart, Marks. Ralph <
Co.i tire extensive tObaccOnists and snuff manu-.
iactures OF llj Arch ST., Phila.
=, The lightning struck house in New Castle
Saturday night, and shivered the end wall,
VI two boys IN bed, right against the wall.
neither were injured and one was not even
aw akencd from his slumbers.
The firm of Richardson 4 Robbins, fruit
Gamers at Dover, are manufacturing tin cans
81 ne rate OF Jour thousand per day and expect
70 mus continue until August LIST. They have
nearly doubled their capacity since last year.
, Merris Taylor, E>q, City Editor of the
Da%y 0dzette, OF Wilmington, and formerly
publisher OF the Herald, of this town. has
entered into a matrimonial prrtnersh;n will |
Miss Nellie A. Norman, a Philadelphia ladv
Sam Townsend has threatened to plough up
ma seed with Oats our neighbOring town of
Odes'a, because some of the citizens are
,Indeavorlng TO have the New JERSEY < Del |
Central Railroad line located at or near said |
own. '"''
We have received a copy of Tie OLD Lon,-
published at Harrisonburg. Va
y Edw. Reynolds and Chas. n. Vanderfnrd |
'lr. Y. conducts the Commonwealth, while
Mr. Ii. still conducts the Iramscript, our Mid |
iletOwn neighbor.
Bill Collins, or ''Whistlng Bill" Milford
iarEey who spends most of his time in Dover
al'' was hardly released from that institution. |
lIter court, before he was put back 10 his cell |
l9a.ln, lt,.,, ald Tor the usual offence-trying to
lick somebody.
The Milford Ne,ossays "The SMYRNA TINES
8 edited by piOus young man." Wish va
'ould return the compliment, but it is said |
nat the great revival did not do much for
'ltner 1u the plety or popularity of our neighbor
vi all the lectures given in Wilmington the
past winter, all but two proved financial
and Mcdonald. Such lee.
urcrs as Phillips, Tamage. Nasby, Olive
Logan and Anna Dickinson could not draw
'ven paying audiences.
A match game OF base ball was played At
oeatord last Thursday between the club of that
own and one from Salisbury, Md. The Mary.
anderS were "skunked" at every inning, the
'coTe standing l8 to o. The Seaiordites
challenge the Peninsula.
The commi ittee appointed by Preshyterv 10
nvestigaie the case of Rev. Mr.. Stureis, who
sued u 4, the Trustees Of the Presbyterian T!.ureh
oi TINS town Tar his salary, after 3 iiorough
Mr. Sturgis has been fully paid
Col. w. Fisk Townsend, as .,s !Su..e,
journal, and clerk Of the late houge of Renre. |
sentatives, was married in Pelersburgb, Va,
70 70 en- nae accomplished lady Of that city, yesterday
at least ne went there for that purpose. and
such things are not often postponed.
Forty eight crcusss and menageries started
out this season from the large cities for exh;bi.