Smyrna times., 1873-09-10
STATE AND LOCALS.

STATE AND LOCALS.
Fifteen young lady students have entered
Delaware College.
A Lodge of the knights of Pytbias is about
being fomed in Milford.
WI Wilson, colored, will open a barber
shop in this town this week.
Since the break in the Delaware railroad the
freight tariff has been advanced nearly 25 per
cent.
Mr. Samuel Gamlin has commenced fine
shoe making in the Glstts gun shop on
Commerce st.
Since the Liquor Law went in effect not one
drunken man has been seen on the streets OF
New Castle.
Foard & Comegys, both formerly of Smyrna,
are new grain merchants in Middletown-Jeff |
Foard and Alic COmegys.
John s. Collins & Co., at Lebanon, on We'd |
nesday, packed 1900 cans of fruit, and used
a ton and half of sugar.
Edith johnson, an old colored woman
living near Kenton, died recently, at the
advanced age of l03 years, it is said.
The express freight now leaves this town for
Philadelphia at o'clock in the evening
about half hour later. See time tables.
John f. Burton and Edwin NJ. Stevenson,
have been appointed administrators on the
estate of the late Trusten l.. Davis, decd.
1t is now said that the damage to the canal
will not exceed $50, 900, and that the work will
be done and the canal opened by the 20 inst.
The Sxty-frst Anniversary Meeting of the
! Delaware State Bible Society is to be held, on
Thursday, Ito morrow llth inst, at Delaware
City.
Messrs. Hoffecker & Bro, of Milford, are
running their Woolen Mills day and night,
filling an order for seventy thousand yards Of
kerseys.
1t is understood that our county is negotiat-
ing for the purchase of the whole Of the burnt
hotel property in Dover, for Court House
purposes.
All applications for hotel license under the
new law must be made and filed with the
Clerk of the Peace Of this county, on or before
the 18th inst.
Work has been once more resumed on the
Episcopal church at Milford. BY donation
from the late Charles Draper they are now
able to finish it.
/ A camp meeting under the auspices of the
Whatcoat Nj. Z. Church, of Dover, will be
held, commencing September goth, ending
September Goth.
{ Thomas Draper and Edmond Bailey have
commenced the manufacture OF Star Bone
Phosphate at Draper's Landing, on ST. Jones
Greek, east of Dover.
Mr.. John p. Collins, administrator of the
late George Collins, decd, will sell all the
\ household goods of said deceased next Tues
day, near Collins Beach.
Mr. II. G. Murphey, of the Galley Mills, y
near this town, went to Middetown Just after
the big rain, and break and In a few hour;
I sold Sirty barrels of flour.
A, A lady of this town, who lost gold ear
f drop, with jet settings, last week, on the Duel
Greek road will pay the finder liberal rewaIC
if he will leave it at the ZINES Office.
Jas. Jones, Esq, one of the oldest and bes
known farmers in this section, died at his resi-
$ dence, near Kenton, on Saturday, and wa
!. inferred in the Baptist burial ground, near by
s The third annual gathering of the Sunda
= Schools connected with all the EpiScOpa
; Churches OF Wilmington will take place o.
Thursday October ID at st. Johns Church
;, Brandywine.
II 1t is said that John Cow, who has so lon
1t managed the celebrated Won Worst farm, i
D the neighborhood OF Milford, is about
= renquish bis present charge TO engage in tn
!. canning of fruit.
Middetown is sorry to learn that Nj
= Morton, proprietor of the National Hotel cor
Ol templates retaining to the Arch Street HOus
!, of Philadelphia, he having been offered ha
\ interest in that house.
g Mr.. Darlington, editor of the Bucks Count
~ Intelliqencer, Doylestown, Pa, has been trave
Il ing through this State and has written out b
i views in his paper. Upon the whole he like
Of our little State right well.
r. The Alden fruit drying establishment
We Middetown, having been purchased in tt
DIS Spring from the original owners by compaI
i'd of citizens there to run on peaches, is runnlI
ut exclusively on green corn.
er DR.. ]. S. Prettyman and Stephen Wood, Jl
ge we're appointed committee by the MifO
ge Fruit Growers Association to represent the
he at the meeting of the American POmOlOglC
of Society at Boston this week.
he A number of the Milford horticulturists a
H. now shipping very fne grapes to the Nc
st York and Philadelphia markets. One par
NJ has sold his crop at 3 cts per b. and even
lal that low price he will realize about $500 p
!. acre.
!I ~ Henry Vanderford, Esq, former editor, Al
III III founder, of the Middetown Transcript, "
Ie ne nominated last Monday by the Democrats
ne ne Carol county, Md, for the House
aat Delegates, from the Westminster district.
~. 81 is pretty sure of an election.
nit The Steamship Ohio of the Liverpool lii
DU arrived at her wharf in Philadelphia on No
lu- day afternoon. Her passage was quick OIL
by the time from Queenstown to the Breakwa
90 being counted by the Philadelphia papers
the 10 days three hours and a half.
lies The other day, in Wilmington, when
no bloated old beggar asked man for someth
to eat, the man told him to go to the po
ma house. mo" said the pauper. ''the all
ute house is not to provide living for me, it
it, for the trustees. They get the only things
lth- to eat there.
the Frederick Klair. of Christiana Hundr
tied owns the best COW in this State, according
rom the Republican. In the second week of
unt present month she made 20i pounds of bu
lear of the finest and best quality. In addition
be the pasture she was fed two quarts OF b
the twice a day.
liies DIR. r. S. Burdick, of Vernon in this coul
tlng who has opened a commission house for
rom sale of peaches in Montreal, writes that
lies s1.no5 go and rocLod tLev come to han,