Smyrna times., 1873-06-11

lic.. q. Ii. Crooks, ID. D., Of New York,
editor of the Methodist will preach the annual
sermon before the Wesleyan Female College,
Wilmington, in Grace Church. OH Sunday next,
June 18th.
| A project is under way for railroad to con-
meet Baltimore with Lewes by an air line route
from Love Point, Kent Island, and by steamer
from Lewes with New York. So the SltSSec
Journal says
A married mau of Wilmington, who has
been absent for twenty years, and whose wife
was divorced from him last winter by the |
Legislature, returned to his family again last
week, and it is said reconciliation was
| effected.
The publishers of Scribner's Monthly are to
commence the publication of a magazine for
children early in the Fall. Mrs. Dodge is to
be the editor and she has written to Mrs. Rev.
q. A. Phoebus, of this town, for contribution
for the first number.
On Thursday the directors of the j. & B.
Il. r., met at LeweS and determined to put on
a steamer to New York at or before the rpen
ing of peaches. They will also run fast train
during portion OF the summer for the accom-
modation of visitors to Rehoboth.
Mrs. Keene, of Wilmington, has consented
to take charge of the Surf House." the
boarding house erected on the grounds Of the
RehOboth Beach Camp Meeting Association.
Some twenty or thirty persons have already
engaged board
Wilmington people were terribly worried
last week at learning that the fish in the
Brandywine were dying. What worried them
was the fact that they have to drink this same
water, and they very naturally concluded that
if the water killed the fish it would kill them.
Providence permitting, there will be a camp
meeting held for AppOquinimink Circuit, in
| Hills woods near Backbird, commencing
: August lst, and continuing over two Sabbaths.
Adjoining circuits and stations are cordially
invited to tent with us. e. w. PRETTYMAN.
The extension of the Kent County Railroad
from Worton Station to Chesapeake Bay is
being pushed forward with all possible dispatch,
and it is proposed to complete it by the first of
), August. This is the part that is to complete
S the line in connection with the Bombay Hook
road.
Wilmington City Council voted, last week,
4 IA to 6, to purchase Is acres of land along the
! Brandwine for public park at a cost of $751;
700. 1t is stated that ten years ago this same
b land could have been purchased for $l4,500
/. Some OF the tax payers vince terribly at the
r pile.
: The Peninsular Fruit Growers Association
|, meets in the State House on Tuesday the 18th
/ inst, at two o'clock p. IN. At this meeting
lie reports on crops, new markets, new routes sc.
80 will be received, and, as it will be the las
meeting before gathering it will lie a YER
interesting and important one.
y Rev: o. H. Tiffany, D. D., pastor of tn
" Metropolitan Church, Washington, d. e.
n will deliver the address before the Associatio
er of the Alumne, Of Wesleyan Female College
ur Wilmington, on Wednesday evening, Jun
18th. Commencement will take place Thur!
u day evening, 10th inst
The State Medical Society met at Middle
= town yesterday. The attendance was quit
large. The session was unusually interesting
= DIR. Swithen Chandler, of Brandywine Spring
wn was elected President; DIR. Burton, of Levi
Vice President, and DR.. Hall, Secretar
III. The next annual meeting will be held in Dove
A correspondent of the Baltimore iSu
ks speaking of the Harrington and QueenstOw
Railroad, says:-A new road chartered, to
Ter known as the Baltimore, Chesapeake and De
aware, is to be promptly pushed forward. al
A. will give direct communication between Bal
III more and the Atlantic at Lewes, in DelawaI
ot Mr.. Gilber. S. Wilds, our Depot Agent
Is this town, has been rendered, and has accepte
the position of Agent and telegraphist
L., Ridley Park, the magnificent depot and pa
60 owned by the Railroad Company three mi
"ui above Chester Mr.. George L. Baynard Fl
his vacancy here. Smyrna regrets Gilbert
nth parture. He takes his position tomorrow
the
Last evening Tuesday a fashionable w
.dor ding party from Talbot county, Md, arrived
Go ,;o' Clayton in chartered train, where>the br
ii"" and groom, Miss Buchanan, daughter
Admiral Buchanan, Of rebel MerriBldc fan
-an, and Mr.. Tilghman Owen, took the expr
ned freight north. The balance of the party
lively one) returned to Easton.
the The exercises in connection with the Sc
'och nary next week, are expected to be of an
usually interesting character. DIR. Haven
ased to deliver the annual address at the NJ.
view Church. on Tuesday evening, at o'clc
The examination takes place during the We
ling and the closing exercises on Friday event
Iung at the LOWE haI'
Last Sunday, Trinity Sunday being
,s in l75th anniversary of the completion Of
iect Old Swedes' Church, in Wilmington, serv
appropriate to the occasion were held.
po1 anniversary sermon was preached by
neu Charles Breck, ID. d., former pastor.
'nu reverend gentleman selected for his text
of the 23d verse of the 29th chapter of lisa
and "And Kings shall be thy nursing fathers
meet. their OuaanS tho nursinO rnofhara ~