Smyrna times., 1874-05-06

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we're thirty boat loads in all.
At public temperance meeting in Milford
the other night, Rev. Mr.. Riigway, pastor OF
the Methodist Church there, said he was OPP
posed to prOhibitory statutes.
Since the death of his estimable wife, VIM.
A. Cochran, Esq, of Mdd!etown, has been
confined to his bed with severe illness. tie Is
now much better but still very sick.
Judge George =. Fisher, now of Washing
ton, ID. c., is about to bring his family to re |
side on the property lately belonging to his
father-iu-law, Rev. T. p. McColley, in South |
Milford.
George B. Dickson, Esq Clerk Of the Leg
islative Committee, will please accept our
thanks for a copy of the journal OF the Leg
islative Committee and Report Of the Auditor
of Accounts.
Fisher & Bockman, of Dover, have been
awarded the contract for building the new
Court House there at cost OF $3l 500: The
new building will, probably, be ready for oc
cupancy by October.
The farm (236 acrss) and mills of David
Scott, Cecil county, have been sold at trustees
sale to Z. NJ. Laughin and James Ii: Ray, OF
Newark Delaware, for $3.50, said to be
about half their value.
The stealing of horses and carriages is now
turn their attention to. They have stolen tive
within less than week, which have been re-
covered, for the most part.
! Rev. j. f. Severance, few years ago pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church OF Milford, has
been suspended from the ministry for gross
breach OF trust, and other offences, by the
Presbytery of Cleveland, Ohio.
The students in Delaware College will soou
present Sheridan's comedy Of The RiUdLS at
dramatic entertainment Some OF the best
talent in the college, both male aud female, Is
rehearsing in preparation for It,
What it costs to carry family to Kansas or
Nebraska will pay for small farm on the
Delaware and Maryland peninsula, ready to
be worked, and with good and constant market
always within convenient access.
A drunken man in Wilmington swallowed a
lighted cigar last week-a stumphe was trying
to smoke-but after comforting for while
was soon all right His stomach was too USED
to strychnine to be much disturbed by the
heat.
The members of Vest Presbyterian Church
Wilmington, gave Centennial tea party las
t week. The attendants dressed 10 antique cos
. TUNES, sang "Od Folks" songs, and one o
the principal decacies on the table was mus
!, and milk.
4 The excursion which was to have been mad
u FROM Wilmington to the grounds of the RshC
: beth Beach Camp Meeting Association on tn
v 7th inst. has been postponed until Tuesday
: the 18th for the accommodation Of the Bait
more people.
- John W. F. Cooper, Esq, formerly edtC
10 of the deiunct Lnteldgencer, of this town, an
it until recently connected with Salisbury pape
Ie has gone to Onancock, Accomac county, vi
ginia, to assist in the publication Of the EdS
eT7s EtFgintdn.
- There are Sl9 pensioners on the pension rol
le Of this State. Of these POI are invalds cause
in by the late war; 264 are children of deceast
r. soldiers and 266 are soldier widows, mOthe
II or guardians. There are also I6 soldiers
:" the war of II and widows
81 Chief Justic Gilpin, during the investig
tion Of the liquor license applicants, last WEI
er at Dover, objected to the present law becau
r. it imposed too have a responsibility on hi
&c Or the court and expressed himself heart
. in favor of local option law.
E.rly Monday morning, David Boulden a
Se John White, of New Castle, saw flock
ne wild geese down by the river shore, mile
re- two below town. They fired into them a
IA brought down ten. 1t is something unusl
,.s to kill wild geese in this neighborhoOd.
- The schooner Rodney Captain Reeves,
'eu forging to DR.. WIN. Marshall and others
ley Milford, and laden with grain from Ode
uc for New Bedford, encountered a heavy z
ow last week, and was only saved from total wrt
NM by throwing part OF her cargo overheard.
on The Centennial Tea Party, given in Do
-, last week, for the benefit OF the VI. f.. >
VIII day School, was very successful affair
ert. realizing about s. 50 for the school, The
- time costumes brought out on the occas
were peculiar feature Of the entertainment
NJ IL: l.:
information concerning her son Samuel,
l2 years, who left home on the 7th of A
ou and has not been heard from since. Ht
dark complexioned, with black hair and g!
new aud had on his shabbiest clothing when he
Joshua Strauss, OF Milford, travelling 81
the man for house in Philadelphia, commit
suicide on a steamboat on the Ohio river
arm week. He was on a collecting tour, and
supposed be was behindhand in his accou
ost He leaves q wife and several children in
ford.
nod Last Friday afternoon the barn on the
.avv Of Mr. y. L. Wilds, of this town, on Smy
Greek (once the Shortess farm) was tot
90, consumed by fire. together with about
th;s tons of salt hay, &c The loss is about 8
'"'' insured for 500 in the Kent Mutual.
origin of the FIRE is unknown.
aP The Delauaredn says that the conditio
.,., di>credit to the State and county. They
'lId- piled up in a confused mass in the little
on under the State House, and covered with
dust and rubbish. There is not single gu
they the whole concern in a scrviceable coDdi
'ker- 1t is stated that neither the Kent count
R., (from Chestertown to Townsend) no
Nag Dorchester & Delaware II. II. from Cambr
thin to Seaford) can pay their tolls to the Della
r. R., aud hence the latter road has resC
have to cut loose from them. Both the Sheriff
! on New Castle and ChestertOwn are after
Kent road.
D. of Mr.. James H. Hubbard, of FELTON,, ha
last in a stave cutter for manufacturing straw
baskets. He says it will cut l44,0O0 per
IL. This gives employment to a great many
ddltry dIy women and boys. He has done large
uie'' ness heretofore, manufacturing peach Ct
but the crop is so nearly ruined that hs
are gone into the berry basket business.
'A'"H The brig Ocean Belle, fiom Philadel
was driven on the Brandywine Shoals 4
over, o. Milford) by the storm OF Saturday week
Haly will probably be a total loss The creV
safe. The schooner W. B. Morgan,
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