Smyrna times., 1873-06-04
STATE AND LOCALS.

last week.
1t is said that the Cape May steamers will
touch at Lewes, this season, which, if true, will
be great accommodation.
The Methodists of Delaware City contem-
plate building new church, and are gathering
funds with that view.
Jos. B. Deakyne, of Middletown, recently of
Ihoroughfare Neck, has bought the "Brick
Mills near that town, for $3.50
Jas. Hazard, prominent citizen of Seaford
has lost his reason. A similar mental derange- |
ment befe his father about two years ago.
Rev. j. F. Clymer, of Ptts6eld, Mass, is |
expected here tomorrow or next day on a
visit to his former parishioners and old friends.
Mr.. F. B. Stevens, of Odessa, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Coroner, and will act in that
capacity at Odessa, Middletown and vicinity.
The Breakaoater Light says there is rumor
that the Junction 4 Breakwater Railroad has
been sold. While we give it for what it is
worth.
A camp meeting for Georgetown charge, N.
r.. Church, will be held on the old ground,
| peppers woods) to commence Friday, August
Sth.
The ship canal. it is said by gentlemen who
profess to know, is surely to be constructed, and
the Sussex route is to be surveyed this coming
month.
The journeymen coachmakers of Whining.
ton have held meeting to consider the pro-
! prlety OF starting cooperative carriage
factory.
1t is stated that weekly paper is soon
to be started in Delaware City, by gentleman
formerly connected with the Philadelphia
EUening Telegraph.
Mr.. G.. W. Taylor, of this town, has COM
menced work on his new building for the manu-
facture of railroad findings Mr. Charles H.
Henderson is the builder.
Skiff & Gaylord's Minstral Troupe, one of
the best travelling shows of the kind in the
county, will give an entertainment in this town
next Tuesday evening.
A floral and strawberry festival. will be held
tomorrow {Thursday) evening 5th inst, at
Culbreths Hall Dover. Admission free. The
Cornet Band will be present.
i Cuba Hill, romantic station on the vii
mingtoD & Western Railroad, is being fitted
up by. the K. X. Co., as a fashionable picnic
ground.
The Jefferson property, in New Castle, nearly
0pposit the Court House, has been purchased
by Philadelphia parties, who will convert it
into hotel.
Joe Burton, who is to be executed in George
town, on the Goth of June, spends most of his
time in prayer, and appears horri6ed at the
thought of being hanged.
President Grant has appointed DR.. Henry
+. Askew, of Wilmington, as the Commissioner
from Delaware to the Philadelphia Centennial
celebration, vice William L. Read, Esq,
deceased.
A valuable horse and mule belonging to
Mr.. Slaughter, on DR.. Gootees farm, at
Clayton, were run into and killed last Thurs
day night by the Md. & Del train.
The members of the NJ. Z. Church at Pear
sons Corner (Rash's meeting house), west Of
: Dover, held a meeting on Wednesday last anC
decided to hold a camp meeting at that place
commencing the lst of August.
1t is stated that the Brandywine Springs
; near Wilmington, SO celebrated in former years
e are again about to be opened for Summer
r boarders. Twenty Wilmingtonians have prom
/ ised to take board.
4 One day last week the lock-tenders at Della
ware City took 5000 herring out of the lock
+ OF the canal. The water in the locks wa
literally alive with the fish, and crowds of peo
n pie gathered around to see them.
g The steamer LdntoLi.n, on and after to day
!. June 4th) will leave Lepsic for Philadelphi,
at IL o'clock, noon, instead of Q A. NJ, q
heretofore. The change is intended TO accom-
Il modste the berry and fruit trade. See adyer
" tisement.
e The trial OF Prof Isaac C. West commenced
Is at Dover yesterday. Eighty four witnesse
;. are subp9naed-the State has twenty -seve
and the defense ffty-seven. This trial excite
i more interest than any that has been presente
L for many years in this State.
/. The schooner Emma Collins picked up, i
IS the Delaware Bay, on the 9th inst, the bod
of drowned man, and brought it into por
Mahon, where Deputy Coroner Cats held a
;. inquest on il on the 10Th; 90 bis left arr
were tattooed the letters IN. NJ. T."
The members Of the last Legislature, wit
e their families, will visit Lewes and Rehobot
r. on the e5th of June. At least they resolve
g to do so just before they adjourned. We thin
p their passes on the Railroad expire on the got
of the month.
e 1t is said that the short line of railroad fror
&c Lewes to Rehoboth, six miles, which was I
. have been in running order by July oh
y y when the camp commences) has bee
j abandoned, from some cause. This will b
- bad for Rehoboth.
nj The Hyer Sisters, (colored) and full colore
70 Opera Troupe were to perform in Wilmin,
r ton at the Grand Opera House, on Monda
! evening, but no audience attended. WallaC
= King, the celebrated negro tenor, was With th
10 company.
lg The Delaware Republican thinks that Ii
ID construction Of a railroad to Bombay Hoo
lg will most probably lead to the building of
Of town at that place, and suggests that the pro
pective city shall be christened "Wickersham,
re in compliment to H. N. Wickersham, ESQ
I'd who owns large portion of the island.
in DIR. VIM. Fields, the inveutist. of Wilmin
ton, who has invented flying machine,
n telegraph without poles, and anumber Of 9th
"A chimerical monstrosities, has now invented Q
~ ~ apparatus for cooking without wood or coal,
o n cost Of about three -fourths of n cent for III
nu r FIRE Of each meal. .rsa-,s
m The p, w. & B. II. II. Co. has just be,
ee mulcted in $500 tor the election Of color,
lie man, named Adams, by conductor, in APP
ss. of last year. He was pushed off the trai
Il and stepped on the other track when
ror express train struck him and killed him. i
;tv was put off because he had no ticket.
os- The Legislative Committee to attend to h
res repairs Of the State House, at Dover, m
es, there yesterday aud decided to meet again
he the 18th, with an architect, Mr.. Windrem,