Smyrna times., 1873-10-22
STATE AND LOCALS.

The money paid the Clerk of the Peace of a.
Sussex co. by liquor license applicants is be-
ing refunded. +
All the Catholic churches in this State and p
on the Eastern Shore are to be consecrated to n
the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
1t is said that Judge Bates gave up prac. y
tce that was paying him twice as much as his
salary as Chancellor amounts to.
Mr.. j. w. Denney succeeds Mr.. ]. L. Wor- :
den as proprietor of the Diamond State Stem :
Gil Depot, of this tOwn-at his drug store.
The trustees of the NJ. Z. Church at New 7
Castle have purchased lot nearly opposite the ,
church, on which they intend to erect par
Sonage. i
The Conference Academy at Dover is hav-
ing its fourth story put on, and will be under
roof in the course OF three weeks, weather per-
mitting.
! a protracted meeting has just closed at
| Kenton, (Rev. Mr.. Gregg, paStOr) with live
conversions, and meetings are now being held
at Central
A lot of household goods, &C., will be sold
next Saturday afternoon in front Of the
American Sewing Machine Office, opposite the
Delaware House.
All the industrial establishments of Whining
ton are reducing the wages of their workmen
at least ten per cent-those that have not sus-
pended work altogether.
A important change in the running time Of |
the afternoon train north has been made. The
train now leaves this town an hour later-half |
past two instead of half.past one.
Col. G. w. Cummins, of this town, has just |
dug two hundred and fifty (250) bushels OF
Peachblow potatoes from fifteen sixteenths of
an acre, at his residence, 'Woodlawn."
Sheriff Armstrong sold on Tuesday last, the
farm of B. +. Pennington, situated in New
Castle Hundred, and containing I42 acres to
: VIM. Bright, of Wilmington, for So, 100
; The cotton mills of James Riddle, Son &
! Co., and the mills of Walker & Co., on the
! Brandywine, have partially suspended opera
= tions on account of the dullness of the season.
The farmers hereabouts bad become appre.
t hensive that the warm, dry weather would
e breed the fly in the wheat hence the rain OF
q Sunday night was gladly received-by the
. wheat growers at least.
We have some nicely favored raspberries
i from second crop grown upon the bushes of
II Mr. RObt. Smith, of this town. He has just
picked about six pints from his few bushes of
Antwerps in his garden.
n 1t is not known that anything like the crop
g. of late potatoes was ever grown in this section
~ or State that will be raised this year. The
" yield per acre is immense, and the farmers say
y they will be no price at all. 1"
le An effort will be made to establish marine
1t hospital at Lewes this winter. 1t is estimated
ID that Delaware has five hundred mariners, who
a. pay the government, as hospital tax $500 pei
= annum. And still there is not marine hos
&c pital in the State.
&c Mr.. Chas Stayton, on Mr. D. J. Cummins
he " Cedar Lane" farm, near this town, last week
Id took up some of his peerless" potatoes
he round and three of them, from one hill
a weighed 1t pounds, the largest weighing 81
'u pounds. Who can beat it?
y Last Sunday Mr.. Joseph NJ Carrow, O.
lis Phila., fell dead in Green st, NJ K. Church, o
-e that city. We have not learned furthe
to particulars. Mr. C. formerly resided il
90 Thoroughfare Neck, near here, and was
u brother of Rev. DR.. q. d. CarrOw, prominen
nc Phila. minister.
The liquor men employed Messrs. Moor
be and Cullen to act as counsel for them in Sussex
Tor and the temperance men employed Judge Lay
his ton and A. K. Robinson. Attorney Genera
=. Lore argued the cause of the temperance peo
~ pie with much earnestness and fervor am
mt made out an excellent case.
mt, Mr.. WestcOtt, proprietor of the Eagle HoteI
tor at Georgetown, whose application for 1uo
vs. license was refused by the Court last week
h., and who Immediately closed his house to tn
public, has reOpened it again and will cOntinu
business in hopes OF better luck in the cens
|
ny, The Sussex Journal understands that tb
lin liquor dealers OF that county, since the dec
: sion Of the court on Tuesday week, have Ell
80 plOyed Mr.. Moore to contest the constitution
lite ality of the present liquor law and also tn;
'ut Dir. Bayard and Mr.. COmegys have been en-
gal plOyed by parties in New Castle and Ker
bv counties.
bnr Newark has a sensation. 1t is in shape of
- bride of eightyfou years and groom of on
:" twenty-five. Money, we are told, is the key
this odd alliance-the bride holding the ke
ong Or she owns it, but the groom may carry
rtv They are sojOurners at the hotel fare sum
o.,' tuously every day, and ride out in style eve
Gay evening.
arv' The NJ E. Church at Frankford, Suss
larry county, Rev. I. o. Ayres pastor, has been r
way built aud was rededicated on the 18th, Re
lpht j. Is. Mann officiating. 1t is of new style
t;os architecture, remarkable for its beauty. So
= over the debt against the church was subscri
ior ed, with which an organ and coal have be
ID to purchased.
lors A disgusting scene transpired before t
lor's Mayor of Wilmington last Thursday. A m
v on and wife sued each other for assault aud b.
the terry Each had thrown hot potatoes in t
'ne others face, at the dinner table, and then We
before the Mayor to end the quarrel. T
- woman's display Of temper was disgusting
the extreme
1871. The Office of Recorder of Deeds for N
a full Castle county becomes vacant about the m
'ident die of November. The following gentlem,
Mr. it is said, would like very much to have
,Top, 'rD, Office Dr. Edward Worrell, Joseph Rober
them. Thomas NJ Ogle Isaac Grubb, w. N. Wills
ion in James vi. Johns, .. y. Blggs, Benz. n. Og
$, and and S. G. Sharpley
Mrs. Sarah c. Pusey, of Cecil county,
aches lady nearly ninety years of age, while on
would visit to a relative in Wilmington, last we
lower fell out of bed and broke her thigh. 1t
plant thought she is fatally injured. She is sis
break of Hopper, the aDtslavery agitator of forl
from from years. She and two sisters (now iving) IN
!. usr ried gentlemen named Clements-two broth
and cousin.
Mrs. s. T. Heighe, of Galena, Md, wri
iou'e' to Dover stating that her little grand dau
oeen ter, while visiting GYPSY camp near I
Jer.e, village recently, saw and conversed with q
could about 8 or 9 years OF age, who told her