Smyrna times., 1873-02-05

! W lHe DSIuNaG6 duu D''P O"''"'
project. Col. Jas. 4. Earle and other prominent
gentlemen of Maryland present.
Rev. A. D. Davis, of Georgetown, has started
new monthly paper in that place, called the Rescue.
| 1t is devoted to Temperance and Moral Reform. 1t
is small but presents neat appearance.
Philip Gossler, Esq. prominent citizen of Column
bIa, Penn, who went To st. Georges last week 10
attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Sutton, was
taken sick whilst there and died on Sunday.
An entire set Of police put on in Will
mington, this week. The old force were discharged
! for political grounds. Mayor Simms is u Demo
crat and demaHded Democratic police force.
On Monday evening, the 18th inst. Wendell
Phillips will deliver, in Wilmington, his great
lecture, recently prepared, reviewing the Irish Ques
ton, which he calls "Lnierences from Froude."
Mr. J. c. LipPincott. proprietor Of the National
Hotel, MiddletOwn, died yesterday morning. He
had been i'll for weeks and for two or three
years had been a great sufferer from dyspepsia
The Denton Union was IN error last week. in
announcing the death Of Mrs. Andrew B. Roe al
GreensborOugh, Md, formerly MISS Kate Skirvin
OF this town. She Is entirely well of the small
pox.
| A meeting will be held in Middetown, O. morrow,
CThursday) for the purpose of devising means of
working up the surplus fruit, and in connection
herewith the establishing Of manufacturing bns-
ness.
| r. L. CariISle OF rrederlca mas SOLD the mOllston
Townsend SIpple.and lover 600 acres) south oil aud
adjoining Murderk Creek, Milford Hundred, To
Charles Griffith of Little Creek, tenant Of Mr.. Hayes
of Dover for $1,000.
Mrs. Francis r. S. Harper, the colored lecturer.
will lecture at Bethel A. ". f. Church. in this town,
on Friday evening February 7th, 1873 Subject
Life Among the Lowry; also at Friendship, a. NJ.
+. Church, on Saturday night.
The M. E. Sunday School cf MiddIetown last
SUNDAY nresenten Miss Mamie Hurn OrUanist nf
the School and Church, with very elegant volume
Of William Cullen BFyant's Library Ut Poetry and
Song" She is a fine vocalist and performer.
A workman at the Harlan & Hollingsworth
works, in Wilmington, last week, was frozen stiff
whilst engaged at his work holding the rives the
inside of a steam boiler. He was discovered aud
pulled from the boiler in time TO save his life.
; The revival which has been in progress in the NJ.
f. Church. at Newark, for several weeks, is still
going on with unabatrd interest. About sixty per.
have been converted, forty of whom have Joined
the church there, while several have gone TO other
churches.
The Commercial saws that couple of gentlemen
were ut New Castle. Monday, prospecting for sites
:, ONE for a shipyard the other for a cotton mill.
e If that town keeps spreading itself it will be
# asking fnr the removal OF the custom house from
l. Wilmington.
|, The United States Circuit Court met in Whining.
ton yesterday, Judge Bradiord presiding. lengthy
h decision rendered in the Delaware Railroad tax
l. case, dssolvng the Injunction heretofore granted
by the State Court retaining the collection Of
e Oh dividends and interests
l. A frame dwelling house in Milford, belonging to
it the widow Wilson, was burned down last Wednes
l. day night. The house occupied by two fam
,e lies, portion of whose gnnds saved The fire
N is supposed TO have caught from defective hue
30 Loss between $500 and S70O.
a, Tomorrow Thursday will he a great day il
~. Al.
gnished persOnagrs to be there To see the ole
c Delaware battle flags "f the rebellion presented Il
the Delaware Historical Society. The Preslden
al will arrive at noon and return at midnight.
of One Of our Wilmington exchanges says that il
IT. the Legislature. Monday, Mr. Van Gasken intro
OF duced an act TO incorporate the ''Worden Il Evan
he Cemetery Company OF smyrna" This Is a mistake
rh Such live these have but little use for
Nh graveyard Leave out the word cemetery and th
hv reading will be correct.
"a Last week we referred IN a noted chicken lhiC
,,t named Jake Babes who had stolen a Int of pour
no aud made his way into this State from Mary lant
~, Last week he arrested by school teacht
'"' named Barwick, in the lower part Of this county
and is in Denton la again, place where he spend
most Of his time, when not looking after the POultr
VI interests.
- - Mrs Victoria c. Woodruff, the notorious fre'
10 love woman Of New York, who recently Pu
ou under for circulating obscene literature,
i for accusing prominent ministers OF lIcentious COT
ne duct, lectured in Wilmington on Saturday night
a small audience, mostly men. She advocated h
doctrines boldly She also preached" on Sunday
. the old Union Church.
w. T. Read, ESQ.,, of the late George Rea
. and grandson of George Read, signer Of the Deci
-, ration of Independence, died in New Castle la
p" week of paralysis, age1 about eighty years. /
was a lawyer by profession, but is better known
md the author Of the Life OF George Read" his graz
father, which contains the best account Of the pa
taken by the Deawareans during the RevoutiOnaI
struggle.
tied SIt. Caldwell, Of the Md. & Del. Railroa
having been presented with gold watch, by I
ord employees, was last week presented with a go
chain to match it, by the citizens Of Easto
-, Attached to the pendent Of the chain was
% %'o% mariners compass. As the when I
'eA' watch was presented, the Eastonians had
ofii supper and jolly time at the hotel, with power
ees. sight Of toasts. and all that. We believe Mr..
,ver deserves all the presents he gets.