Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
STATE AND LOCALS.


said to be backing boots in Seaford.
Wheat harvest will commence here in day
or two. The crop promises to be good.
A meeting to organize Baptist conerega-
ton is to be held in Milford to day.
The 4th" has not been celebrated in Dover
since 1860.
Concert at Bethel church this evening and
lecture by Rev. Mr.. Gregg.
Milton, Sussex CO., has the bilious dysentery
and the spirit of improvement, according to a
correspondents report.
A runaway horse, ran through the hotel at
Harrington, last week-in the front door and
out the back.
The strawberry crop in Sussex fell short
more than half what was expected, owing to
the drought.
A man believed to be an impostor has been
in Lewes endeavoring to raise money for some
church.
d. H. Atkins, of Milton, few days since is
said to have launched the finest wooden vessel
ever built in the State.
VIM. Collins, Esq, advertises his large
landed estate at peremptory public sale, in
another column.
1t is understood that Sewell Green, Esq, of
Middletown, has assumed the proprietorship of
the Transcript newspaper, of that town.
| A Professor" with great long Russian
name proposes to start dancing school in
| Middletown.
Gumboro Circuit Sussex CO., Rev. r. G.
Jones, pastor, will hold camp meeting at
Jones NJ. f. Church, commencing Aug 9th.
Right Rev. Bishop Lee made his annual
visitation and preached to the Episcopal con-
gregation Of this town Sunday evening.
John Sink, for the past thirty-fve years
crier of the New Castle county Court, died on
Thursday morning at the advanced age of
seventy-siX.
Lewis ii. Z. Henry, young colored man of
Wilmington, graduated at Lincoln University,
Oxford, Pa, last week. This is noted colored
institution.
A DIR. Phillips has invented patent window
fastener 1t can be worked without raising
the window sash, and the shutter may be kept
open, firmly, any distance
Rev. L. Miller, of Elkton, recently of this
town, is about publishing a work on Christian
Assurance. Criticisms pronounce it treatise
of great practical value.
A marine soldier jumped from a train in
Wilmington one day last week and made his
escape from the service. He swan the
ChristiaHa.
A submarine diver will artonish the people
of Lewes on the glorious Fourth" by diving
into the bryny deep from the government pier
there.
Prof Kennedy, of New Jersey, and Miss
Sturges, the Organist, favored the NJ L. con
gregation of this town with fine duet last
Sunday evening.
All persons desiring tent at the Blackbird
Camp Meeting, are requested to meet on the
ground, on Monday, June 30th, at 9 o'clock,
p NJ, to draw for their tents.
G. w. PRETTYMAN.
The Union Bank, of Wilmington, having
surplus earnings of about $l2, 900, made during
the past twelve months, is going to cxpend the
whole IN putting brown-stone front to its
banking house.
The canvass for the new city directory of
Wilmington, (soon to be issued from the Com
DlerciGt press) shows there are $500 more names
than last year among the adult and business
community.
Among the Delawareans at the West
Chester (Pa.) Normal School we notice the
names Of the following Odessaites Harry NJ.
Appleton, George W. Polk, Charles T. Polk,
and Cyrus Polk.
Mr.. John f. Goldsborough and others have
chartered the LamOlin to make an excursion
from Leipsic and Spruance's on the Fourth,
to Fort Delaware and Salem. The boat will
iCafC A4clpslC al U III the morning.
Rehearsals are in active preparation for the
chlldren's Fourth of July Jubileeto be held in
this town. All the children of the town are
requested to meet at the town hall next Friday
evening.
The New Castle county Coroner. Mr.
Winslow, of Wilmington, was so helplesslv
drunk, one day last week, that he could not
hold an inquesa He has been so several times
before.
A young lady from Ohio, whilst recently on
visit to a school mate in Odessa, became very
Ill. She was sent home (her father came for |
her) and died in less that "a hours after reach.
ing there.
The progeny of pair of California quail,
set at liberty by Andrew Hushabcck, of Mid. |
dletOwn, ia the spring of 1871, have been
noticed for the first time, this year, at dis. |
tance of three or four miles from the place
where they originally started.
A turtle measuring three feet six inches in
length and two feet in width was caught BY Jas.
Story, on Monday, in gut of Leipsic Greek,
on the II. i. Hoffecker farm in Whitehall |
Neck Nothing to equal it in size has ever
been seen in this section before.
The funeral of the late Abraham Stats
took p lace at Union Church, Blackbird, last
Thursday. The procession drove from Wi. |
from heat and fatigue at st. Georges. on the
return home.
There has been a lively, If not little angry
discussion as to whether the German immi. |
grants at Lebanon have had the small pox- II |
seems they really had it, but the citizens there
didn't want it known; that was all the trouble |
They are all getting WELL
At meeting Of the New Castle Presbyterv.
at Lower Brandywine Church, last week
call from the Smyrna church was put into
tne hands OF Rev. John Squire, which he
asked leave to retain short time before for.
msily accepting it.
Mr. Francis Vincent has received n letter
from the Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
informing him that the department has decided |
to establish life saving stations on the Della. |
ware Atlantic Coast, and that due acceptance |
would be had to the place recommended by |
him.
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