Smyrna times., 1873-11-19
STATE AND LOCALS.

IledQ WuhL W Audmdk6T & OIOWn hoNO "
ay iu their immense advertisement in another
column.
Thomas NJ. Ogle, Esq has been appointed
Governor Ponder.
Mrs. Downward, Of New Castle, fell Dead
on Monday night week from the effects OF
heart disease. Death was instantaneous.
Last Sunday another Methodist Chapel was
dedicated in the outskirts of Wilmington. 1t
is under the patronage of ST. Paul's church.
When Senator Bayard was told of the ru-
mored appointment Of Willard to the Chan
cellorship he merely replied, II hope not.
An "Old Folks Concert and Tableaux are
to be gotten up in Milford by the young folks
for the Chapel Anniversary, in few weeks.
The U. S. Court in Wilmington has ordered
bankruptcy proceedings to be commenced
against John McLear & Son, the unfortunate
bankers.
An Italian Barque in ballast, for Philadel
phia, sprung leak and went ashore at RehO-
both, on Wednesday night. The crew were
all saved.
Thomas s. Harper, teller in the National
Bank at Dover has resigned, and Philip Bur
nett, agent at the depot, has been appointed
to the vacancy.
Two of the most prominent persons in Will
mington who signed one mans application for
liquor license in that city have also signed
remOnstrance against it.
Mr.. Frank Raymond will open in his new
store (late the Rasin stand on Saturday, 22d
inst. Col. G. Ii. Raymond has had it hand
somely painted and papered.
Mr.. James c. Lassell, of this town, last
week disposed of young bird dog to Phia-
delphian for eighty-fve dollars. He sold one
last year to the same gentleman for SIS.
A steam barge got up to Milford last week
and loaded with IS cords of wood. 1t was an
experiment, and will probably not prove sufi-
cently successful to warrant second trial.
The woods of Mr.. Zach Roberts in Apo
quinimink Hd., were fred on Monday week
| by some gunners, and some twenty acres Of
imber badly damaged, aud nearly los pannel'
of fence consumed.
Z. w. Lockwood, of Middetown, ran against
his horse in the darkness, the other night
when it kicked him violently in the stomach
and hurt him badly. but he is srecovering. Th'
horse was in the yard.
Mr.. Winchester, merchant at Perryvilie
Cecil CO., visited New Castle on Wednesday
and recognized two of the bank robbers, Biz
Frank" and James Thomas, alias Hope, as th'
robbers of his store on election night.
The Annual Meeting of Local Preachers ant
Exhorters, for Wilmington Conference, will b.
: held in Salisbury, Md, on Friday next
, Preachers of all denominations are invited t
attend aud participate in the discussions.
Messrs. r. M. & w. T. johnson, the enter
prising young men from Milford who are t
take Mr.. Frank Raymond's stand, in this town
expect to open out fine stock of boots, shoes
hats, and caps on Thursday of next week.
S The young gentlemen of Laurel, Sussex co
/ will give an entertainment on Thursday an
, Friday evenings, Nov. 9th and 28th, consis
ing of dramas, farces, comic and sentiment
IS songs, &C., including Ten Nights in B'
n Room"
!. 1t is stated on good authority that Detectiv
Wood, of Philadelphia, has expressed the b
:. liet that should the four suspected bank 70
y bers be convicted and publicly whipped, the
friends from Philadelphia will make an a
'. tempt at a rescue.
ic By the winding up of the Delaware Loan Ass
N ciatiOn of Wilmington, last week, bonds TO Il
i. amount Of $3.50 were Cancelled, and a lar
- number Of persons were thus relieved of pa
Is ing dues to the Association and mortga
Ii upon their houses.
al A revival netting of considerable interst
Mt now Going on at Serverson Church, Rev. \
:, b. Gregg, pastor. Twenty-Five converts ha
been announced. Extra meetings have a
10 commenced at Bethel; also at Raymond
Ie- Rev. j. A. b. Wilson, of Leipsic, pastor.
at The New Castle Jail is crowded to burstir
ed There are now l04 inmates, while there
but &C cells available. Into one of these
crowded eighteen vagrants. in another there
"u nine cOlored women, and in several there are
ire many as five men, packed in room 8 feet by
lst When the news Of Wizards appointm
aal = &c
Dg papers, IL was with incredulity at first
IN. afterwards with Indignation and disgust
deep for utterance. Nowhere is this feel
90 more evident than amongst the members
sp- the bar.
ect A two year old child of Elijah Freeny d
he suddenly at Delmar, Sussex Co., day or
tbe ago. 1t has been suffering with the chills,
-c beyond this was iE its usual health. The fat
" had just ceased playing with the child, W
rs. it was seized with spasms, and died within
ty, minutes
ars 1t is stated that Joseph T. Brown, 7
m. farms one of William Cooper's fine farms n
II. New Castle, raised the past season l543 bu
'o' els Of wheat, weighing 63 pounds per bus
My on fifty acres of land Mr.. Cooper has
i'm other farms about equal to the one occupied
os. Mr.. Brown.
md 1t has been suggested that series of cha
=, n concerts be gotten up 10 Ialse money 10 ala
'AN poor of Wilmington. The leaders of sew
ng choi.s and those connected with them in
my various churches are ready to give their
;ee vices. This might be adopted in all the to
. in the State.
- A Wilmington correspondent of Ches
iis town, Md, paper writes: " Rev. Enoch Stu
'pe and the Rev j. b. Merritt, formerly pas
ted of your town, stand at the head of the mi
, in tera corps of our city in point of eloque
!. : and untirihg zeal in the cause which I
30 have espoused."
Ise' A gentleman Of Georgetown who telegrap
vas to the Gazette that Ex-senator Salisbury
lect been appointed Chancellor, added this ''
I OF appointment meets with great objection am
Democrats as well as Republicans. 1t ma,
hoped that better things will come of it
- is 80 generally perdicted."
the Instructions have been received from w
lIed ington by the Harlan & Hollingsworth G,
pats Wilmington, at whose yards the iron clad [
por5 Onicus has been lying for more than
'red past, to put all the available force pos
10 un0n her m vork dau nd nioht and ha