Smyrna times., 1873-10-01


| George WigeleS, of Wilmington, is the
champion reed bird shooter of Delaware
From the 5th to the 29th of September he
killed 2,47l birds, as the result OF 2l days
cunning The highest number Of birds brought
down at one fire was Is. So the Gazette says.
Will it work? The other day gentleman
named Thompson was married III this town
under the name of Collins The minister mnr-
ried HIM under the latter name in conformity
with the license issued to him by Esquire
Mariner. We publish the marriage, however,
as it should have been. Now, how about it :?
Will the parties have to be named Collins, or
will they have to be married over again, or
can the Squire fix it by simply correcting his
blunder, after the marriage is consummeted? ?
Owing to the present stringency in monetary
affairs, the cotton factory of Mr.. j. q. Shaw
at New Castle has been closed, and all the
hands discharged, with the exception of very
limited number and it is rumored that the
failure Of Bullock's Sons, of Philadelphia,
wool dealers, will effect the new mills of Mr..
Knowles, lately established in that town.
This, however, is not believed, nor the rumOrs
that the Taskers will have to suspend for a
j time.
They are mad about 1.-THE Germans OF
Wilmington, because more Americans did not
attend their fine concert in that city, recently.
Their newspaper there, the Pioneer, says :
But the Germans of this city must not be as
tonisbed at this, as it is partly their Know.
nothingism, but particularly their ignorance,
that kept them away. But if We had produced
for them some Negro minstrel music and songs,
or Ofenbachs obscenties, then they would
have been present.
A lively time is looked for at the session oi
the Sussex County Court, on the 18th, Ovel
the liquor license question. AS but few of the
applicants have complied with the require
ments of the law, it is thought that but few
will obtain license. Mr.. Westcoatt, one of the
hotel keepers in Georgetown, was only able t.
obtain five actual or resident freehOders to hi
recommendation, and as the Good Templar
and others will demonstrate and oppose, 1t Il
doubtful as to his obtaining license.
Stephen Postes, the senior member of tn,
firm Of Stephen Postles & Sons, morocco man
, ufacturers, of Wilmington, will, in few days
with his family, remove to Camden, wher
they intend to reside in the future. He ha
purchased the handsome residence fOrmerl
belonging to Hum jenkins, and more latterl
occupied by Hon. j. Clancy Jones. He wi
be greatly missed in the business and MethO
dist circles of Wilmington. He seeks retire
ment and the improvement of his wife S health
On Wednesday last, a young man nes
: Delmar. went to the house of George Parker
an excellent cOlOred citizen OF the nelghbOl
{ hood, to borrow gun. He was given pei
IL mission to use it, aud while Parker's son wa
in the act Cf taking it from the rack on whic
IS it was suspended, the hammer of the GU
s. struck against something and the load W;
J. discharged. Parker's little girl was in tn
/, room at the time, and the whole load too
effect in her head, causing her death in abol
It two hours.
1t Last June a man named Hanmore, claimir
/ to be correspondent of the New York HeraL
n who was in this State to write up the We
5. trial, managed to victmize Mr. Fountain,
g the Dover Hotel, and Mr.. Millington, of Il
re Delaware House, in this town, out Of $50 esC
er by inducing them to endorse his drafts on Il
tie Herald, which came back to them proteste
er 1t is believed he is the c. A. Stanton, clair
ing to be a correspondent of the Herald, wi
ia has swindled bankers of Lynchburg out
Sc 81, ,220 by means of forged draft.