Smyrna times., 1873-08-20


route and it is thought that the Company may
take the contract for building the road. They
are also understood to have engaged to build
the road as chartered through the two counties
of Virginia to Cherrystone, and thus extend
the seaboard line to Norfolk.
On Tuesday of last week an excursion from
Philadelphia, Chester and Wilmington went
to Fraland. On the return home that night
maiden lady of Philadelphia, Miss Fegan-
bush, went ashore at Wilmington, and while
standing on the wharf slipped into the river.
falling between the wharf and the boat. The
Captain jumped in after her. but could not
find her, and the body was not recovered until
Saturday.
| A brother of Miss Feginbush, 1--WE record
her drowning elsewhere) q young man OF
most gentee appearance, went TO Wilmington
to recover her body, and whilst on his sad
errand got so drunk that he had to be put in
the city prison. The strange feature of his
conduct was that it was the first time for
several years that he had yielded to an old
tempter, according to our Wilmington ex-
changes.
Last Friday, while thirteen iron arches,
weighing five tons each, were being placed in
position for the roof of one of the Tasker
buildings, at New Castle, shower of rain
caused the derrick ropes to contract which
| pulled the arches from their position, and all
Of them came laundering to the ground, and
all were, of course, crushed and broken.
Fortunately the shower had driven the work
men to shelter, and no lives were lost.
Two lads of Wilmington. Dexter Forbes and
Joseph Marshall, left on Friday morning in a
small boat to make an excursion down the
Bay. On Saturday afternoon when off Port
Penn they were upset by sudden squall.
| They were a mile from shore, but diveStng
themselves of all but their shirts, they started
to swim ashore, saluting each other with Can
you stand it2" until they were safe on land
Their boat was toed in by schooner and
they were cared for by the crew of a sand
boat along shore.
The farmers around Milford, the NecS says,
are gradually coming to understand the econo-
my of doing without fences, and stock laws are
therefore becoming more and more popular
year after year. 1t is quite common now to
see crops growing by the roadside unmolested
without any fence whatever. But will stock
law keep mans cattle in his field or keep
his neighbors out, whether there be a fence
or not 3? 1t seems to US that the more stock
laws we have the more fences it will require to
enforce them. What kind of pasture field
would a tract by the waysids make "unmo-
Tested without any fence whatever?'
The other day in Wilmington, boy in a
little skiff was looking at boat launch and
very carelessy drifted right behind the big
ship that was just in the act of going off. He
was apprised of his danger and tried TO row
away, but couldn't stem the tide. He finally
became so frightened by the hallooing of the
crowd that he took of his clothing and swan
ashore. He presented rather an odd spectacle
however, standing amid the great crowd ol
spectators, with nothing on but his hat, whin-
ing for his clothes, which were on the other
side Of the river, slowly drifting in the boat
towards the Delaware. He had his scare al
| for nothing, however, as the ship stuck on the
ways and was not launched for several days
t THE BOMBAY Hook RoAD.-Matters are
progressing energetically, as usual, on the
Smyrna 4 Delaware Bay r. r. Peremptory
f orders came last week from headquarters
Long Branch, to make connection at ClaytoI
with the Maryland & Delaware Railroad b.
| Monday of this week, and work continued
1 right on, through rain, Sunday and all, unit
Yesterday, when the connection was effected
Thus the first continuous line of railroad i
made between the two Bays, commencing a
. Oxford, on the Chesapeake and terminating
at Bombay Hook, on the Delaware. Thi
may be worthy Of note in historical way
What significance there may be in tn
peremptory order, (if any we do not know
: A great quantity of ties and other lumber fO
the road are along the line of the Maryland
Delaware road, and the connection is mos
probably made to secure this material
Work on the pier or slip at Bombay Hool
is being hurried forward with as much spect
!, as possible. About fifty workmen are engage,
' upon tall that can be furnished with accom-
e modations. 1t will be five or six weeks befor
it is finished.
, The grading is all finished between Clayton
f and Massey's, and for some distance beyon,
Massey's. Tracklaying, from Clayton, on thi
= graded portion will commence in q very shor
time.
An erroneous statement has crept into tn
State papers about purchase of land by ia
Gould in Sussex county. The land purchased
is not in Sussex, but at the Chesapeake termi
nus of the new railroad, at 'Herring Ponds,
Kent county, Md. The tract comprises abou
IS acres, which has been purchased by Col
! Bingham, as attorney for Jay Gould, fO
! $4,000. The party owning the land is a Mr.
Gale, and the portion included in the purchas
is high bluff, elevated from forty to fifty fee
above tide water, and giving delightful viev
= over the broad expanse Of the Chesapeake. W.
have heretofore mentioned that the COmpan,
u were pleased with this site and would doubt
less get possession of it with view to develop
ing it, Col. Bingham thinks it the mos
e beautiful location on the shores of either Bay
. and is astOnished that it has never beel
e developed heretofore.
0 Last week change was made in the Boarc
OF Directors, at a meeting of the Company
r held 'in this town. Messrs. Bentley ant
, Sneden, Vice President and Chief Engineer O
n the South jersey r. R., having rendered thei
l. designations as Directors in the Smyrna & Del
g Bay Co., the vacancies were filled by th
/ election OF Dr. b. s. Gootee and n F. Wilds
I. The following gentlemen now compose tn
IS Board. j. r. Bingham, President, John II
Hotfecker, II. G: Douglass, Ii. N. Wicker
e sham, }. G. Stockly, and the two gentleme
= above Damed.
s There are reports frequently put in circula
!. ton that Jay Gould is coming to visit us, t
4 locate the depot site, etc., but we are assure
!. that ne will not take trip over the road unit
4 It Is completed to the Chesapeake terminus; s
r the q@id nuncs may as well stop circulatin
their under ground kilograms.
PEACHEs.-T The hopes of our peach grower
y sink within them. just now, in the fullnes
! of the season. when IL was eY nected that til