Smyrna times., 1874-09-09
SrAEE AND LOCALS

Inc Court OF Chancery for Kent county will
commence on the 2Sth inst.
The Horticultural Fair of Wilminpton will
be held about the 10th inst.
The "old academy" in Dover, is beiuO
nxed up 1t is now public school.
A circus is now travelling down the western
side OF the Peninsula and will probably come
! up this way. O'"'0
.Ihe steamer Ariel will discontinue her da;lv
trips between Bombay Hook and Philadelnhia
after o-morrOw-Thursday.
quite number of farmers around Milf,rd
have succeeded this season in growing remark.
ably line onions from the seed.
The Fall term of Delaware College onenad
on Wednesday last. Nearly all the old and
several new students came back.
1t is stated that Fountain, of the Canital
liotei' Dover, will take charge of the new hotel
about to be erected at Rehoboth.
Rev. Cyrus Huntington, of Dover, nreacbed
lor the coored people at their camp in vii.
son woods on Sunday afternoon week.
Last Friday, at Delaware City, the Sheriff
sod the farm of George Clark, in Red Lion
hundred, for Sl3,475, Mrs. Clark purchaser.
James i. Earle, Esq, of Queen Anne's On
Nd, has been invited and will deliver an adj
dresS at the opening Of the Middletown fair.
frof. Jones, recently canvasser for the Della.
'0dFedh, formerly of Wyoming Institute 10
to take charge of the Middletown Academy.
James Brown, prominent citizen Of ST
GTeorges Hundred, died at his residence at Mr.
tleaSant' last week, at the ripe old age of 81.
Inc closing party at the Wakeman House,
p3mnoay Hook, Is to night. Mr. w. J. Camp.
uer. Ue,c naS nad most successful season at this
"A lion belonging to circus which showed
Id wilmington on Monday died during the
$4,000. '""0u a'
The new NJ. E. Church at Serverson's
smyrna Circuit is to be dedicated ON Sunday
9th inst. Rev. I. A. Fernley, of PhiIadeInb;S'
is expected to offciate. p'''"'
The Laurel Agricultural Society of Sussex
county VIII hold its first annual Fair on the
lar grounds, onehalf mile from Laurel. on the
18th and 29th of October.
Mr. Randolph Peters, the nurseryman near
Wilmington, has bought out the nursery Of
hemp u bowling, at Denton, Nd, Including
real estate and all, for $ll, 900.
Father Daley. a Catholic Priest of New
castle, who formerly oficiated in SMYRNA.
dled on Saturday. He was popular citizen
ana an ardent temperance man.
:, The steamer Abenlarle will run betwcep
new new York and Lewes during the fall season,
0eginnlng Sept. l4th, leaving New York on
Mondays, and Lewes on Wednesdays
George W. Ingram, of Middetown, sold
last week, the farm of f. Jones to Geo Wig
GIN, OF Brooklyn also the farm of William
Deshanc to Joseph Peacock. Terms private.
A dead baby was found in box near Geope.
town. sussex county, last week, and it is sus-
pected that a murder has been committed. bnt
the facts are not sufficient to tasten the guilty
parties. sunny
The Worton Agricultural Fair, Kent county.
Ma, Is to commence Sept. 29th and continue
three days. These Worton fairs are famous
institutions and always draw immense crowds. |
See adv O'0"U''
The U. S. Court convened in Whining ton
Yesterday. The following are the jurymen
ITcm IT hent: Grand, John w. Carter, John
W o0dhaii and Stephen POstleS. Petit, Isaac
u. Hamilton, Joseph Reynolds and Samuel
Reynolds.
The chestnut crop, this fall, from present
appearances will be unusually large, the burs
being large and in healthy condition, and
hanging thicker upon the trees than for sew
eral years past.
The schooner Cedar GrOue went ashore
near Mlsplllion Light House on Friday and
sunk She was loaded with pine wood. The
vessel is total loss. She was old and of no
great value; owned in Milford.
A gentleman living at Hockessin. a village
west OF Wilmington, last spring poured soan
suds around an old, neglected peach tree and
SO reluVlnated it that it has yielded bushel
and half of peaches this season.
General A. L. A. Torbert, U. s. Consul
General at Paris, has purchased full-booded
Normandy stallion, four years old, which he
has shipped to his farm near Milford. His
OBJECT Is to improve his stock of draft horses.
Next Sunday the fifty first Annual reunion
OF the Presbyterlans of New Castle county
will be held in old Drawers Church, one-haIf
mile above Odessa, when the one hundred and
1rst anniversary of that old cdifce will be ccle
brated. WV
During the season which has just closed. the
Surf House, at Rehoboth, has accommodated
5OO persons, and, probably, refused that many.
The new hotel to be built there by Balti.
moreans will cost $4,000, and accommodate
400 people.
Sussex has poor prospect ahead. With
poor corn crop, the almost entire failure in the
peach crop, the destruction of so many potato
lelds by the Colorado pest, and the exceeding
low price OF timber, the outlook is not very
encouraging.
a very large congregation assembled in the
VI. Il. Church of this town on Monday evening
to greet and listen to Rev. j. +. Clymer, for.
ner pastor, now of PittsfeId, Mass He
preached sermon, after which the congrega.
-iol gave him hearty hand shake.
Last week we were presented with cluster
1f fine tomatoes from Mr. +. II. Weller. of {
FedsbOrough, near Odessa. On five inch
stock there were sixteen fine tomatoes, weigh
ng, in the aggregate, Al tbs. They were as
.hickly clustered as bunch of grapes.
Edward Dolby of Camden, IN Ill driver be.
.ween Denton and fredericksburg, in attempting )
% cross the railroad at Harrington, on Tuesday
1f last week, was run over by the I.30 p. NJ. q
rain going north, and was so badly injured
hat one of his legs had to be amputatcd
The little town of Cannon's Ferry, about
i've miles below Seaford on the Nanticoke,