Smyrna times., 1874-03-18
STATE AND LOCALS.

Wilmington il shortly to have another daily, |
it is reported.
Seaford is disappointed that Conference will
not meet there next year.
Capt. Joseph M. Barr lectures in Leipsic
this evening on the Grange movement.
There have been q entries of colts for trials
of speed at the fall fair in fredericksburg.
A tomahawk and lots of Indian darts were
dug up last week in Seaford by some workmen.
Mr.. George Moore has sold farm of forty
acres near FELTON, to Northern man for $2500
John B. Price, Of this State, was graduated
by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy last
week
Mr.. James Mcdowell, on the Douohe farm,
near Duck Greek, will make public sale en-
the Oath.
Rev. J. H. Lightbourne has been appointed
by the Baltimore Conference, to Cumberland,
Maryland.
About one-fourth of the men in Lswes wear
white potatoes in their pockets to prevent
rheumatism.
One of the Middletown fast horses at re-
cent public sale was bid in at $1,000. His
owner wants $4,000.
St. Miehaels wants a first class hotel, bank
and graveyard. 1t has 1900 inhabitants and
none of these things.
1t is said that the heirs of Isaiah Lawrence,
of Cecil county, have fallen heir to 81, 900, 900
by the death of an English uncle.
Mr. Herman p HAZEL, one of our energetic
young men, has bought out Mr. John &. Fex-
WE'LL at Clayton, In the mercantile business.
| A grocery bill eighty-seVen feet long was
audited in Wilmington last week. The whole
amount, however, didn't quite reach 81 900.
The Republican says that the Collectors of
| Wilmington have returned to the Levy Court
the names of some 5000 persons as deliDqusnts.
| Mr.. G. B. RhoaGs, tenor of marked ability,
! of Wilmington, has been appointed musical
director Of Grace NJ. Z. Church Sunday
| Schools
The ST. Patrick's parade took place in Viii
mington yesterday afternoon, Notwithstanding
the rain, and was one of the finest ever
witnessed in that city.
The late Rev. T. P. McColley, of Milford
during his ministry as s. local preacher" mar.
ried sirteen hundred couple, and preached
over thousand funerals
The Lewes Light says that the revival il
the Presbyterian church at Rehohoth was very
successful and over 80 we're either reclaimed
or taken into the church.
The Milford Netcs states that, in the recsn
town elections in this State, the Democrat
manifested deep anxiety, in many cases, to &c
the help of the cOlored voters.
Mr.. J. F. Carrow, of Wilmington, on the All
of March last, graduated at the Natona
Medical College, Washington, and had the de
gree of NJ. ID. conferred on him,
A supposed tooth of a mastodon was founc
J at Murphey's Mills, near Middletown, recent
' which weighed two pounds. MIR. Wm. Green
OF that town, bought it for dollar.
| Tba lo+o Ganatar mos Ona Of fhM 6ra
to extend the hand of greeting to Senator I
f. Bayard when Mr.. B. first entered Congress
in 1869, and they we're quite intimate.
< Laurel, Sussex county, narrowly escaped
serious confagratiOn during the windy weathe
: of last week. A Mr.. Taylor hsuse got prett
well ablazs before the flames were extinguisheC
A little eighteen moAths old child Of NJ
Wingste Cannon, of Seaford, while crawlin
across the floor, was stepped upon by its itt
d sister and its arm broken In TWO places la
y week.
y A little daughter of Rev. Mr.. MartindAl
r now of Union NJ. +. Church, Wilmington, WI
severely scalded on Monday last at the res
deDce of her grandmother, Mrs. Hazard,
Ssaford.
At the annual commencement Of JeffersC
sr Medical College, of Philadelphia, last wee
J. Thomas V. CAhall and John w. Fooks, of th
!. State, had the degree of Doctor Of Msdicir
conferred on them.
A firm in ST. Michaels have started he
81 merry. They are having built = two story dive
a ing house, and poultry house ll2 feet lon
" and will enclose fifteen acre lot with psllr
" fence six feet high.
- The following Constables have been rea
- pointed for the Hundreds named: s.; Gee
IL ges' Hundred-Wm. A. Rhodes, Thsodo
Hayes. Appoquinimink Hundred-ThOm
IN Bratton, d. Z. Rose.
ID Since Friday night last no less than 70
n. places Of business in different parts of w
ningten have been entered by robbers. III
- distractions, however, were unimportant, b
ne the people are nervous.
re A young man named Smith residing
IT Church street Wilmington, attempted to ia
J., his lille, Iast Monday night, with penkni
because of some sort of love affair. lie "
'e prevented by his brother.
~ Besides number Of adults, there are
10 boys and girls employed in the berry basl
and crate manufactOry at Laurel. They ma
tn about $4,000 baskets per diem and earn fro
, , Is cents to $l.25 each day.
We Capt. Fowler, one Of the town commissiC
q, ers of Lewes arrested about twenty young m
IN one day last week, for playing ball in I
st streets, but frsm some flaw in the proceeding
ssi was uOaOIe W puulsn any Va thom'
a Another gang of dirty Gypsiss have
ad campsd at Sesford. They almost forced
he man to trade horses with them last wee
iat even stopped him on the road and took
ne horse from the carriage. He had some trou
lst to get it from them.
m Un Skiff & Gaylord's Minstrels, the larg
~ troupe that has ever visited this State. v
VI VI give an entertainment in this town next Tu
Gu day evening. They have been here twice
,y fore, and those who have seen the entsrta
,on ment may know what to expect.
on An effort is being make to run the stear
.be City Of Bridgeton on the route between Sp
re- ancs's 8 and Collins Beach and Phila. p
of tions are in circulation among the farmers
is secure their patronage. IL is said to be
nee movement in opposition 10 the LGmOkin.
is Hall & Co., Gamers at Frederica have q
as tracted for $50 acres of tomatoes, at twer
lie. two cents per basket. The Milford NeUs s
uld this establishment claims TO have netted s
! to 600 upon thsir operations for last year, o
the capital Of $2O, 2O,0O0-equal to fifty per cent.