Smyrna times., 1873-07-09
STATE AND LOCALS.

| The Rehoboth Camp commences to-day. 1t
will be an immense gathering
Gen. Torbert, u. S. Consul General, of
Havana, is expected home, i'll Milford, shortly |
The fare to Rehoboth from I4ewes is so cts
6 miles by hack.
The sensation in one of the congregations of
this town last Sunday was the first appearance
of elereH new silk dresses.
John Appleton, Esq, of Odessa, had a
horse killed by lightning last Thursday. 1t
was under an apple tree.
A fast horse, Delaware" recently owned
by Mr.. Townsend, of Wilmington, has just
been sold to Philadelphian for $4,000.
Mr.. j. A. Armour, of the Wilmington
Commercial, has been interviewing Fraland,
and he likes it and brags on it.
The Philopatrian Literary Institution,
(Catholicl of Wilmington, make an excursion
to Coins's Thursday, l7th
Mr.. r. II. Eliason, of Middletown, will
have boarding tent at the Blackbird Camp.
See advertisement.
Lee, son of Mr.. Andrew Sisco, of this town,
got his feet badly burned yesterday ly jumping
into pile of hot ashes at the lanyard.
Noah Lednum living near Brdgevie was
thrown from a mule a few days ago. His in
jurles were of such nature that he died
Saturday week.
The canning factories at Lebanon, near
Camden, have canned immense quantities of
green peas this seasOn-the products of several
hundred acres, it is said.
On the 4th large Temperance meeting was
held in Carters woods, West Dover HID, near
Marydel, at which Revs. w. B. Gregg and A.
ID. Davis made addresses.
The peach men held an adjourned meeting
at Dover yesterday. Our report failed to
reach US. Nothing of importance was done,
, however, we learn.
An itinerant medicine or soap vender who
I opened business on the street corner in New
, Castle on the 4th was SO bombarded by the
boys with FIRE crackers that he had to shut up
: shop and mouth.
At a meeting of the Trustees of the Sussex
County Almshouse, held last week, it was
: decided to erect a large two-story building on
the site of the old buildings and to move the
) old ones back.
] The corner stone of new Catholic Orphan
Asylum was laid in Wilmington last Sunday
in the presence of about 1900 persons About
POO orphans Of this denomination are cared for
in that city.
: 1t is announced in the Wilmington papers
s that the death of a sick child was caused on
!, the Fourth, in that city, by the continued
! explosion of fire crackers. The noise threw it
: into spasms.
: There will be trotting race on the private
course of r. 4. Cochran, Esq. ] miles north
of Middletown, on Saturday, July 18th. All
It persons who have trotters are invited to join
h in the sport, as it will be free to all.
|. Mrs General Torbert, formerly Miss Curry,
! of l1ilfOrd) has been presented with heavy
u solid silver pitcher and goblet, by a Mr..
q IIaight, of New York for her attention to his
Il ,oo -, Havana bO died of vnllovv f..vnr
IS The Sunday School from Wilmington that
4 is to make an excursion to FraIand tomorrow
Calvary Episcopal has employed SignoI
Blitz, the well known magician, to amuse the
1t children on the trip. Also Richie Band.
1t Il. w. Jester, of st. Georges, lost fine
& mare, on Wednesday last, from the result O
g an accident by which the shafts of the Wagon
- we're broken and one of the broken ends driver
," into her stomach. The animal was grea
u fovOrite.
Is The Phoenix base ball club, of Laurel, wen
70 down to Salisbury on the 4th and played {
n match game with the White Cloud, OF tina
~ place They went in with music, and came
:, away with feathers trailing, being beaten by
- score of SO to IL.
ia A Middletown colored man last week wen
ID into the yard of a neigtbor and deliberately
in took the clothes from washtub, piece b!
= niece, until he came to some shirts that suitet
{ his fancy those he confscated and walkeC
AZ off.
I'd Tho steamer Pilot Boy now makes two trip
lg per week to Colins's and Spruance s--Wed
s. nesdays and Saturdays. Last Saturday sh
on had to leave over hundred persons on tn
wharf in Philadelphia, to prevent being over
~ ~ crowded.
It, Tn Brandywine Hundred, Wednesday, bo
;" went up cherry tree belonging to Mr.. Handy
L. IN nnl
scufle ensued, when Mr.. II. had two of hi
= ribs broken. The boy escaped the officer VIII
he made an effort to arrest him.
le. Tie people in Wilmington get so annoye
r. the night before the Fourth by the intolerabl
VI noise of fire bells, fire crackers, "fre water,
10 and all that sort of thing, that they are amo
lly ready to say Of the nation what David said {
IN. Absalom-"would you had never been born.
if On Thursday last, a painful accident o.
,n, CURED to Mrs. Richard Warren, at TOWNSEND
'"' She was in her carriage when her horse b,
ma came frightened and ran away. The carrial
yns was upset and Mrs. Warren was thrown Ou
ms the wheels of the carriage being drawn ov,
80 her. She was badly injured in the side.
~. I Rev. s. II. McKown, pastor of the First Pre-
oie byterian Church, Wilmington, recently r
ceived call from a church at Stewartvill
was n j., and asked to be dismissed by his co
IRA gregation there. This they hesitate to
"a. and offer to him three months leave
"V0 absence as an inducement to him to remain
ON.
-. A correspondent Of the Gazette speaking
>, the prisoners escaping from Dover jail, say
ibie "Noses we're heard on the outside by d
ties other prisoners during the night, and W.
to the negro skinner, placed his bed against
and door to keep out intruders, thinking the
M '.u object was to lynch him, supposing them to
'ne party of negroes"
be The Sussex Journal says The Junction
we're Breakwater Railroad Company, are now &C
noes tracing for three large steamers to run q
ious summer ana laiI oe1neIn Ii ne"es a'd i, !;
ming th;a month and two nexi month. Twel
must thousand dollars each, per month, is the pr
hful paid for the steamers