Smyrna times., 1873-08-13
STATE AND LOCALS.

A Milford girl carries two fans, Irritation
tan and perspiration cooler, IT We may believe
the NelUs, of that town.
The Milford Fruit Drying Factory (Alden)
has recently dried about 400 bushels per week,
of small fruits, and is now commencing on
peaches
. A newspaper to be called the Weekly Netos
is to be started in New Castle by Mr.. B. e.
Burrows az soon as subscribers enough are
obtained.
MIR. James Fl. Clark, living near Delaware
City, has raised, on thirty acres, / $3.50 bushels
of oats, which weighed IS pounds to the
bushel Seed of the common variety.
DR.. John Wood, near Nassau, in Sussex,
has recently sold horse for 81 200, to Phila-
delphia gentleman, and with the proceeds
bought farm. adjoining his home place.
1t ia understood that Mr.. VIM. P. Corsa,
publisher of the Milford NelOs aud Adrertiser,
will shortly commence the publication OF
paper at McComb City, Miss.
John O'Byrne gave the Catholic orphan
children of Wilmington picnic IN the lawn
of his magnificent country seat last Thursday.
Mrs. OBJ. and daughter gave the little folks
rich feast.
The steamboat Ravqsset, burned on the
Potomac river, above Washington, last Friday,
when sixty five persons were burned to death or
drowned, formerly run between Smyrna Greek
and Philadelphia.
The SUSSEX Journal says that women and
non-residents, can sign applications for license,
the sale of liquors. This offers q new field to
venders
A few nights since, Mr.. J. r. Reybold,
| living near Delaware City, had eighteen sheep
killed and wounded by dogs. A few months
ago he also had twelve more killed and wounded
in the same way.
The firm of Johnston Il Bogia, Book
| Binders, of Wilmington has been dissolved.
Mr.. Johnston continues the business at the
old stand Mr. BOgia will. we learn, open q
new bindery elsewhere.
On Monday evening of last week yatch
club from Philadelphia was anchored off Fort
| Delaware, when one OF the gentlemen com
posing the pleasure party, while asleep. walked
overheard and sank in a watery grave.
The Academy project for Milford is not 8
failure, but on the contrary is likely to be
success The lot has been secured q acres
and Messrs. j. B. Fiddeman. Nehemiah Davi
and others of means are heading the enter
prise.
The estimated amount Of peaches to b,
shipped from Milford is now about 40, ,0O(
crates, and as many more from other station
on the j. 4 B. Road The freight by tn,
Lewes steamboat route is only one half wha
it is by the Del R. r. route.
VIM. c. Eliason, of Middletewn, was throw
from his carriage, last week, while his horse
we're running away. He fell between tn
until the team was stopped. de vas bruise
badly.
Last Sunday, at the Wakeman Hous,
Bombay Hook, some men from the Philade
] phia excursion party interferred With som
! parties from this town and Dover, and hst
cuff ensued, in which the Philadelphians cam
E off second best, ii is said.
Mr.. s. Alexander, carriage builder at DelI
ware City, has retired, and one OF his last ac
}, was to present his daughter, Mrs w. H. Il
: Clark, with a poney phDton. The ever
. created little episode in the local history
the town.
Two young men who commenced getting o,
y iron ore at Chestnut Hill, near Newark, tx
e years ago, in very limited way, are now d
/ livering 80 tons per day at the depot, at 4
:, per ton. They run 80 hands and y team
, Their name is McConaughey.
II We give in another column what the Ne
y York IFibuns thinks of camp meetings
% tone is not so pungent as the New Yol
!. Herald whose criticism We gave last yea
= and rather disturbed tke equanimity Of sou
= camp meeting advocates thereby.
~ Ofthe eorn prospect in Sussex 10 is said th
Is in the interior Of the county, on the ven wo
30 white clay lands, there is little or no cora ;
ID the sandy soil the early crop is Injured seriou.
!, BY the drought, but on the swamp lands the
never was better prospect
&c - 4 An
s. 10 the effect that the City Treasurer Of w
c. mington, Killgore, is defaulter 10 the eli
of to amounts variously estimated at from $40, 0
10 to $4,000, SO the Gdzette says, but il {
nounces the rumor as foul SANDER.
Two weeks ago q correspondent publish
" some pious Indignation against certain part
in country church near town who did not 1
&C. to suit his ideas of church etiquette. A c.
!" respondent last week took exception 10
a ruling, and this week another rakes him.
30 Rev. J. NJ. Williams will assume the Pri
81 cipalship of the Wilmington Conferer
ny Academy, to be opened at Dover Sept.
sic lie is graduate OF Dickinson College a
spent year in the University OF Bonn,
- Germany. lie has since been engaged in
~ Methodist itinerancy.
"a A gentleman in Wilmington, one even
ID last week, threw a segar stump in the sire
We and it was Immediately swallowed By to
ire Are and all The gentleman expected to
"A the frog kick up 'high Jack" but instead
=" that il hoped around asquietly as if it had
sic the red-hot mess in its belly. ....
Ia A New Yorker named Ellis has bought
he farms along Rehoboth Beach, paying 97,'
he for one and $4,000 for the other, and
said he will erect summer boarding houses
i' both of them. He is described as rems
Ion able swimmer, and an ardent admirer
er- Rehoboth.
lgs Mr.. I. F. Dilworth, OF Port Penn, in Il
nn sowed half acre in wheat he got from
W Department. of Agriculture, at Washing
va, 1t reaped l4} bushels, which he sowed
ng, Fall. He has again reaped, the yield b,
low about 20 bushels per acre, or nearly twic
,od much as his Mediterranean, seeded at
'eu same time.
At the SchuetEen Park, Wilmington,
- Thursday, man and his wife, named Moul
En-. ran foot raOe-lOO yds. in l33 seconds.
1ter is described as "a fine looking, finely -forr
ing, lady-like woman" A man from Pittsb
ntly named Wells, ran q half mile in 2.25, bcs
,on- Wilmington man named Clark.