Smyrna times., 1874-02-04
STATE AND LOCALS.

The Ocean House at Lswes is to be sold.
A new aImshouse is to be erected for Sussex
county.
Samuel Mann has leased the Delaware House
at Dover and moved in.
Deakyne 4 Powell have opened a dancing
school at Delaware City.
A man in Wilmington has kitten without
tail" hatched" that way.
A town hall is being erected in Seaford. A
lookup is to be constructed under it,
Bishop Lee confirmed twcnty-six persons at
SeafOrd last week, and three at Laurel.
! An iron foundery has been started at FELTON,,
and the big steam saw mill there runs night
and day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Harrington, Of Far.
mingtOn, celebrated their wooden wedding ON
Thursday evening last.
Several gentlemen from New Jersey and
Western New York have been prospecting for
land, down the county.
Mrs. Anthony Reybold, of Delaware City,
tell down stairs, last week. and broke her arm
and dislocated her wrist.
The PeninSular Fruit Growers Association
holds its next meeting at Dover, on Tuesday,
February l7th, 1874 at two o clock p. NJ.
The Milford Fruit Growers Association
ClalUDS 10 nave naue one QeIauILlDQ commission
merchant disgorge by threats Of exposure
The fire near Centreville Nd, Sunday week
was serious loss to Mr. Elijah Green, for.
mer resident Of this town. See Maryland
items.
A lad Of IL years, living with Mr.. Johr
FARRELL, in TbOroughfars Neck, fell on Sunday
and fractured his arm and dislocated hi.
S elbow.
0 The Peninsulsr Agricultural and Pomologica
{ Association at Middletown has been full,
organized and $1,000 worth of stock sub
scribed.
A donation was given to Rev. DR.. CrowelI
J. of the Odessa Presbyterian Church, on Thurs
t day evening week, which filed the Doctor
h lardeT.
e Zachariah Jones, one of the most respecte,
}, and oldest citizens Of Middietcwn, died at hi
residence on Monday afternoon week in hi
I'D year.
n 4 hen belonging to Mr.. 8. @. Letherbury
'e of Dover, laid twin egg, soft-sheed, las
in week, which were coupled together like th
n, Siamese twins.
~ Two prisoners, both colorsd, John Dixey an
Thomas Johns, made their escape from Ne
t. Castle Jail grounds one night last week b
ID sealing the wall
I'd A Bible meeting, under the auspices of Il
INoub w. LiolO OOCiObyt VIII Oc nclu dJ Oau
IN den next Sunday evening. Rev. Mr.. Greg
and others, are to speak.
The communication cOmplimentiDg u
CO organ music Of the NJ. E. Church of this tow
he does not appear in our eOlums because q
II author withholds his name.
nd Letters have been received from ex- -Chanee
or lor Daniel NJ. Bates, now in France, which sta
that his health is much improved and tha
et will be home in April or May
u Rev. VIM. j. Stevenson will not be CALI
ne to the vacant Tor soon to become SOY pastora
Irs of Grace Church, Wilmington He
ds ''bOoked" for Willamsport, Pa.
m. For the forty-one years the late Alex. Faric
& undertaken OF this town, was in business
''s furnished over six thousand cofhns TO Il
Jet gTaveyaTds of the town and vicinity.
lip About $50 men were discharged from Fc
of Delaware recently. The aggregate wages
- these men was over seven thousand dollars .
of month. Quite a loss to Delaware City.
The Children's Jubilee of Middletown
''' f. Church takes place to- o-morrow-Thursday
lor eyenig, in the town hall. Prof. Clemmer,
lin Wilmington, leads 500 children in chorus.
rn FELTON, Seminary experienced an alarm
re-. fire last Wednesday morning, about 10 o 'cloC
ed Occasloned, it is supposed, by mice and mate
es. The floor of one OF the rooms was burns
., A gentleman named Town has made a d
}, position TO certain landowners to visit Engla
md il they will pay his expenses ($l50j and indu
se English farm laborers 20 settle in this coun
er Quite o rumbus was created in the Conf
,,,. ence Academy, Dover, last week, over the
rs we're hJgging of student, son of j. w. Guile
ms Esq, by teacher named Conner. Five sch
lily ars have left the institution.