Smyrna times., 1874-08-19

accepted the position of Assistant Principal in {
the Seminary. She is said to be fine scholar t
and an experienced teacher. Miss Fcrd, the ]
Music Teacher Is of Springfield, Mass. anG i
not OF Smlthheld, as announced in our last
week $ issue. '
Last week, in Philadelphia, William H.
SandersOn, young man about Is years ct age,
and son Of Rev. H. II. Sander,on, of Viii
mington, formerly of Smyrna) was seriously
but not dangerously injured by falling from a
scsffod around the third story Of house. He
is learning brick laying and was at work on the
house, in Chestnut street.
! The G. ". & s. Taylor Co.. of this town,
are manufacturing pitmans for the saw mills of
/ Aessrs. Worden 4 Evans of this place. and
! for Mr.. Wm. Evans of the Blackbird mills.
! All the brass castings, planning, polishing, &c,
/ is done by them. All such work as this had
formerly to be done in Wilmington, or else
where away from home.
An excursion of p W. & B. officials was
made to Middletown, last week, and after
visit to several peach orchards and look at
the fair grounds, President Hinckley and s. /
VI. FELTON, each subscribed for so shares Of
stock, and rhe former promised extra trains
aud reduced fares dnring the continuance Of
the fair. So the Sussex journal says.
An old c)lorel woman, named Durham,
living near Moores Corner, west of Moorton
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peach orchard, on Monday afternoon of las.
week. She had left home on Saturday after
noon to go stay with neighOOr while her
grandson went 70 the colOred camp. She was
some IS or 80 years of age aud very feeble.
4 St. Georges man named Robinson went to
Wilmington last week and whilst in Buckng-
ham grocery store slipped ham under his
+ coat and walked Of. A clerk saw him and
told the proprietor, who followed him to a
hotel and got the ham back The theft was
something new for Robinson, it is said, and is
explained on the theory that he was drunk.
An old Quaker refused to take off his hat
while be affirmed in a case before Esquire
5 Frazer, of Wilmington, last Monday. The
u Squire, after trying TO commit him to jail and
e impose fine OF FIVE dollars for contempt Of
his authority, finally had to let him go because
!, he had no authority to punish him. From the
. report it seems that the Justice cut rather a
: ridiculous figure.
Hezekiah Scott, man who gained some
d nntoriety in the lower part of this county as a
al thief and who was sent to the Maryland
A. penitentiary for term Of years for robbing the
preacher tent at Concord camp, in Maryland,
10 near the line between Kent and Caroline, has
* been pardoned By reason of good conduct, and
IN is now preaching himself. He protessed reli.
is gion whilst in the penitentiary.
Rev Pennel Combe filled the VI. F. pulpit
#. of this town last Sunday, aud Sunday, Monday
- and Tuesday evenings ectured on temperance
of and in the interests of local option, his tavort,
Iv theme His blunt, clear logic is strong anC
. forcible, and he handles his theme with al
=, ability that but few can muster. He comes
- uuder the auspices OF the Maryland Temper
- Alliance, of which he is agent.
,r. On the Seventh of June last a man named
Dolson stole from William Reynolds. at hi
of farm near Newark, a fine horse, valued a
~ 81 about $500 The thief sold the animal few
20, days afterwards, getting in payment therefor
90 90 certain sum in cash and note for so. Thi
w note lead to the detection of the thief, in Pha
j., delphia, last week, by the man who negotiate
cck it, and Dolson is now in New C,stle Jail
u, Speaking of base ball the Dover correspod
~ ent Of the Milford Ne,cs says: Several cha
''e lenges have been accepted By the Dover nine
the New Castle Club, Central Club, Of George
OF town, Actives. Of Philadelphia. and other,
me have made arrangements 10 play series
al; games with our boys but we would ratht
-nd witness contest between the Milford an
ex- Smyrna clubs than any others in the STATE
We think the fight would be sharp.
lew Mr.. j. G.. Hickey, OF lancaster, Pa, who's
lan information led to the recapture Of Eben Fr;
hat ger, came to New Castle Saturday afternOt
'm, for the $500 reward which he thought he WI
the to receive. Finding he was fooled about tn
$500 he got drunk and was put into Jail, in
dEs cell occupied by two Wilmington vagrant
tel, who combined their efforts and gave him
rds hard beating. And still lr. Hickey thin
IN he has not been sufficiently rewarded.
ion Three or four farms around Milford ha'
been sold recently-twO near Houston static
lth. between Milford and Harrington, and one
day Cedar Neck, of 200 acres, for $4,000. IT
nee property Of the late Gen Harris has also be-
ven sold-the Union hotel to j. w. Jump
}, at 81 100; the l00,acrc farm to New York
for s.. 200 and the 6j acre lot to DIR. Dsvids
!. of for $730. All these farms were sold to mort
,een erners at very lOw rates-1xcept the lot name
by A Republican, reporter tried to intervit
de. Eben Frazer, in New Castle jail yesterd'
med about the escape of the bank burglars, but
wouldn't interview. The honor amo
Mid thieves kept him from telling anything abe
ann them. He said, however. that the warden b
Q il no hand in the escape, and that he himself b
hos heard nothing from any Of them since
ath. morning Of the outbreak. He says also Il
'G9 another year confinement in Jail would h;
II killed him.
ancL On the 9th inst, all the real estate and ?
~ 70 sonal property at the Adams Mahood Mil
6eH III Dorchester county, few miles below +
owI eralsburg, was sold. The steam mill was bou
MED by D. j. Murphy, Of Newark, and H.
F Douglas and Samuel Cats, of this town,
1850; go acres of land was also bought
I TOSS, the same for 81 AIS. W. Harper purcha
= o l30 acres for S405, and j. vi. Smith los &C
II At for $3.50. From the personal property 5
neaI was realized The total amount of sale,
'anal 500 The original cost of the property is
was to have been $4,000
# ex SMYRNA's PEACH CROP is nearly at an {
large Moaday being the heaviest day, when
arvia cars were shipped By way of comparison
ed by will state that eighteen cars have been ship
nush in one day by our growers. The yield is al
y the one-sixth of crop-surely not more t
one -6fth-and yet, Notwithstanding the {
ED" cheney, the price is so good to go far tow
,rng, satisfying the growers. For about ten
rrest the prices have ruled well on to s.. so per
just ket, on the average, while 50 and even 81
line basket has been realized. Some shippet
which Mr.. A. L. Hudson brought 81 last week,
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