Smyrna times., 1873-12-31
SEATE AND LOCALS.

Sussex CO., on the 2Sd.
Watch night meeting will be held at the
NJ. L. Church, this town, tomorrow evening,
commencing at 81 clock.
Last week, Mr.. j. B. Steele, of Millsbo
rough. Sussex county, killed twenty-five wild
geese in one days cunning.
A prominent lawyer in Dover stands feet
Al inches in his stockings, and he has student
who beats him quarter of an inch.
1t is stated that j. S. Collins & Co., of the
Lebanon cannery, intend manufacur ,000,- |
900 fruit cans during the winter and spring.
A pigeon-shooting match is to take place at
the Waksman House, Bombay Hook, on
Friday next, TO end with hop in the evening
The repairs made to the causeways over St.
| Anne and Lambs runs, near Mlddletown cost
the county S., 200. These repairs were made
necessary by the flood in that part of the cOun-
| ty last August.
| Mr.. VIM. A. Hukill. Deputy Collector of
Customs of Wilmington, under Collector Pret
lyman, has resigned his position, and returned
| to Odessa, where he will resume the auction.
eering business.
| The town hall committee of our Town Com
missioners are making arrangements to pro-
vide the the hall with suitable stage curtains,
to meet the demands of all entertainments that
come among us.
The NJ. E. Sunday School of Townsend had
a Christmas Tree entertainment on Christmas
night Among the presents from the tree was
handsome bed spread for the pastors wife,
Mrs Prettyman.
| Some scoundrels stole from the premises OF
Miss Hannah Moore, of New Castle hundred,
few nights before Christmas, nineteen
turkeys, and a lot of ducks and chickens,
making loss Of $40 or $50.
The Smyrna Library will be supplied with
new books shortly Mr.. j. G. Stockly,
| President of the Association, has ordered over
$500 worth, which will be placed upon the
| shelves as soon as practicable.
On Christmas day Dr. Chas H. Richards,
of Georgetown, went to the Sussex county aims
house and treated the inmates to confections,
nuts, cakes, fruit, etc. For many years DIR.
Richards has observed this rule.
Edward NJ. Hastings, proprietor of the
Hare's Corner hotel, decamped on Sunday
night last, bag and baggage, to the infinite
disgust of certain creditors. This hotel belongs
to the New Castle Commons Lands.
The Centrevile (Md.) Observer says the
\ whipping-post and pillory stand as effectual
, barriers between the honest and dishonest "
. How can it say the barrier is effectual, when
it takes its text from the attempted bank
robbery?
I Two of our substantial farmers, Messrs. w.
] W. Nelson and Edward Streets, will move to
j town in the Spring. 1t is noteworthy that Mr..
y n. has held what is known as the Gait,
Farm" in tenure for nearly forty years, con
secutivey.
The sporting fraternity Of Delaware City use
y crows in their pigeon shooting" matches
n They catch the crows at night, on Reedy Island
e with gill nets, the same they use for fishing
- They stink them out" of their roOsts will
: limberger cheese.
: On Saturday last the congregations of tn,
y Union and Townsend NJ f. Churches, Appo
W quinimink Circuit, made q donation visit Il
d their Faster, Rev. q. w. Prettyman, a
es Townsend, and gave him an ample supply o
most substantial articles.
Although considerable dissent was urged t
C. the leasing of our town hall to the colure,
band Of Wilmington, last week, no one wa
e, hurt by it, while $40 were put into the tow
treasury. Nothing was hurt but prejudice
and that ought to be killed.
Tbs Denton Union thus gratuitously advise
81 the Milford Nelcs: "The only drawback t
III that paper 1.-THE Ne,0s) is the length of its ed
e, torials. The articles of a country newspaper
II original and selected, should be short, pitb
u and stripped OF all verbage."
a' The schooner Alice w. Le,cis, of Gloucester
"a Mass, from the bay of Funday, with a carg
H. H. of frozen herring, got on the beach near Lewe
- on Saturday night week, and her cargo had
:, be thrown overheard Fish have been sellin
= =. in Lewes at 30 cts. per hundred.
ed A cotempOrary mentions the names of thos
in Democrats who are rather hoping to be nom
he mated tor Governor next fall, viz Victor ID
x. Pont, Wm. Bright, Charles B. Lore, and T.,
in. Sheriff Lyman, of New Castle county, an
as John w. Hall of this county. New Cast
Tor county claims the nomination this time.
lte+ 1t is rather coincidence that birth dt
ro- should fall on Christmas. In Wilmington,
Die Christmas day, the congregation of DIV
art Presbyterian Church, in view of this coinc
he dence, gave a well filled purse to the minist
wo and his wife, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs Snyder, Il
ice birthdays OF both occurring on that day
iy' A tumor, weighing over pounds, was su
RS cessfullJ removed from the abdomen of Cha
Otte Russell, in Philadelphia. on the 9th
this month. She has returned home to w
ost mington, where. she resides. Charlotte was
slave to the late Squire James Wilds, of Ke
a ton. DIR. Charles ID. Green, Of Philadelph
his performed the operation.
ere The intimation by the Wilmington Rep,
S ,aS licdn that large portion of the Democra
.su party desires the nomination of John o. Byr
on' for Congress, has startled the readers of [
70 Gazette, and some of them have rushed to
rg 1w ink bottle to deny the soft i'm mpeachment |
=. equality ideas are more than they can stand
- after standing Horace Greeley.
ten On Thursday night week. the dwelling hou
on the farm of j. A. Bogart, near Milo
was entirely destroyed by fire. The house '
unoccupied at the time, the owner having
,nr eur lew weeks ago. removed to another farm, Q
thy there is a strong suspicion that the work '
'Wn lncendiary. Loss, $1,000; insurance, sS
mer Mr. B. is an Industrious farmer who ca
Q IN from Wisconsin about two years ago.
ren n A correspondent of the Commercial, writ
no 10" from Sussex, last week, says: We noti
nea' ,o while Oh drive below Lewes, four harrowl
~ field of some fifty acres preparing corn ct
pu5 ble for grass, the seed of which was being SC
neu alter the harrsws In another large field,
',,y noticed four plows preparing sward land
A'e spring crops. This we thought remarkable
the niDoteenth OF December, even in the n
climate of Delaware.
eth- A bearded woman is on exhibition in '
ork mingtou. Her name is Mrs Saure.,
ra!e q comes from New Hampshire. She has
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