Smyrna times., 1874-07-22


The Dover baseballers played game yester
day-the "Dovers" and the CONTRARY Nine."
They tied, 26 to &c, on the 9th inning, and on
the 10th the Contrarys made to the Dovers 2.
The Contrarys, or nine from Dover are ex-
pected to play the Smyrnas, here, next Satur-
day.
A youth formerly of Wyoming, lido Rams
dell, son of c. ?. Ramsdell, now of Surry CO.,
Va, is attracting considerable attention as a
landscape painter. He has executed two works,
merely as pastime-one scene on the Della
ware-which the Petersburg Messenger charac-
terizes as decidedly creditable
An eight-day meeting" that is camp
meeting without tents, (if such meeting can
be called camp) is to be held in the park at
Delmar, commencing August 23d. Delmar is
the terminus of the Delaware r. r. in Sussex.
Its park is new feature, and the meeting is
given by the Park Association. -
Smyrna has been largely represented at Re-
were Rev. DR.. Phebus MIR. and Mrs. w. w.
Nelson, Mrs. Frances Wilds, Miss Maggie A.
Wilds, Mr. and Mrs. JOS Smithers, Mrs.
Thomas 5. Buckmaster and daughter, Messrs.
+. 5. Collins, George A. MillingtOn, and
others.
On the night of the llth, says the Sails.
bury Bachelor, Mr.. NJ. &. Hearn, who was
staying with j. Long, Esq. of Laurel, Sussex
county, his brOtherin-law got up in his sleep,
and getting out of window on an adjacent
shed roof, walked off, fracturing his jawbOne,
cutting his throat very severely, and otherwise
injuring himself by falling.
The large hay barracks of W. II. H. Clark,
at Delaware City, were destroyed by fire last
Saturday morning, about 10 O'Clock. The
| place contained about thirty tons OF hay, be-
longing to Theodore F. Clark. 1t is supposed
the fire originated by one of the many tramps
with which the country is filled at this
son OF the year-thrOwing a lighted match
after having lit his pipe or segar.
A fashionable dancing picnic was held at
Petersburg, few miles below Willow Grove,
on the Sth inst, which was largely attended.
A correspondent of the Gazette says: miss
SangstOn and Miss Zero, of Greensboro, the
Misses Carter, of Henderson, the Misses Riggs,
of Smyrna, Miss Green, of Camden aod Miss
Jones, OF Baltimore, were the finest dancers on
the floor.
1t is reported that a lady physician of Will
mingtOn, Mrs. DR.. Foster, has determined tC
sue DR.. G. Harlan for statements which he is
represented to have made touching the illness
and death of Mrs Bellew, and by which she
claims to have sustained some losses in bust
ness. Hon. Thos. f. Bayard and Levi G.
3 Bird, ESQ, will prosecute the case for Mrs
, Foster, we understand.
1t is reported that descendant of thu
: Springer family now residing in the West, ha
/ been prospecting among the farms in Chris
tiana Hundred, and has set up a claim to th0s
F. owned by j. PoulsOn Armstrong, Abner Wood
ward, VIM. A. Lyman, Lewis G.. Springer ant
others, on the ground that they were leased b,
/ Charles christopher Springer, sometime du
q ring the 18th century, and that lease having
expired they revert to his heirs.
. Dr. John A. Brown, of Wilmington, die
r suddenly in Boston on Saturday. He was i
our Legislature in 1870. He was native O
Rhode Island, and a strong Democrat. II
4 = was leading straightOuter at the last cleo
! ton, and yet the founder of village of cOlOre
l. people near his home in West Wilmington
J. He was also the founder OF that part OF Wi
IS mington known as Browntown. He was
d man OF great benevolence and marked pecu
liarties.
rs Wilmington is at last to have, it seems, a ne
Y. reservoir or basin" to supply the city wit
Dr. water. 1t will cost $500 900 and will tax
three years to constructit 1t will cover tiftee
ye acres of ground and its greatest depth viii
IN 40 feet-showlest % feet. 1t will be lined wit
to brick and clay and is to hold l0S 000, 900 ga
Ions of water. The city now uses 100000
j, gallons per day in summer and 100000
ar winter. The new reservoir is to contain
le days supply.
Since the negotiations for the sale of tt
"a Junction & Breakwater Railroad, first to tt
he Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore al
later to the Delaware road, fell through, NJ
Baumgardiner who owns a controlling intere
in the j. Il b., has been quietly looking o.
.n tor customer and the EUery Erening learn
" on trustworthy authority, that he has dispose
n' of his interest in the road to the Old Domi
ion Steamship Company, whose boats run
ot tween New York and Richmond.
e- Sheriff Armstrong sold in Middetown la
lie week the real estate Of Thomas Fl. Rothwe
in ST. Georges Hundred, as fellows Farm
IN Joseph NJ Barr, for $6,075, and two lots
ma Middletown to Thomas Massey, for 5 ,4l5 al
1t 1926 respectively, making a total sale
ct $7,Sl5-just 1925 less than the same proper
realized at the sale which was set aside at Ia
of term of court Mr.. Rothwell was at one tin
ID, about two years ago, offered by Samuel Tow
in send $4,000 cash for this farm and won
of have taken it but was prevented by the int
ference and persuasons of his friends.
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INV REAL ESTATE SALEs-Only two parcels
an the JAS Jones lands (near Kenton) we're 81
Ihe by the administrator on Thursday last, in Il
town, viz: No. |, the woodland near DinaI
:. Corner, 233 acres, to VIM. McCauley, of W