Smyrna times., 1874-08-26
STATE AND LOCALS.


The Wilmington city election takes place
next Tuesday.
The Camden camp closed yesterday
day-mOrning, at s clock.
The steamer Ariel now leaves Bombay Hook |
for Philadelphia half hour earlier-at P. NJ.
than formerly.
The State House at Dover is finished, so far
as present use is concerned. The heaters are
to be put in yet.
The public schools of this town will reopen
next Monday, 3lst, ard the Seminary on the
9th of September.
The Wilmington Board of Education pro-
pose to introduce telegraphy into the public
schools of that city.
Chancellor Salisbury, according to the Mil
ford Ne,Cs, has gone back to his cups and is
disgracing his Office, if not himself.
1t is reported that kits Hammock,
Dover's summer resort, has been sold to a Viii.
mingtOnian, who proposes to fit it up in first
class style.
The report that Sam Townsend had invented
a machine for asserting peaches is incorrect.
| He only used one invented by another man
j. j. Jones.
1t is rumored glass company, from New
Jersey, has purchased q lot Of ground at New
Castle or which to erect buildings for the
manufacture of glass.
Capt. Samuel Pennington's hay barrack,
near the railroad, Middletown, was burned at
noon on Friday. Twenty five tons of hay were
consumed in the conhagration.
Last night was little short of frost. The
rain of Sunday put the fsllOw plows to work
again and will bring the corn crop on to nearly
its average yield it is thought.
Two lads of Leipsic, Masters James l.. FL
derdce and John NJ. w. FOrkum, are issuing a
monthly manuscript paper called the Regutd-
tor. 1t is said to be quite spicy.
Closing night at Collins Beach, will be
, Thursday night of next week, Sd prox. The
Little German Band " will be in attendance,
, and large party is expected to attend.
Prof H. A. Wood, recently Principal Of
Middletown Academy, has been elected Pro
fessOr of Higher Mathematics in the Key
stone Normal Institute of KutztOwn, Pa.
A little episode of considerable interest trans
pired at the Camden Camp last week. Mr.
William johnson and Miss MOllie Hayes OF
2 MiddletOwn, were united in the holy bonds o
t matrimony.
D In tearing down an old house near Warwick
e recently, the carpenters disturbed humble
+, bees nest and one or two of the wOrkmen had
their eyes shut up before they could get off tn,
: scaffOlding.
e A party of ladies and gentlemen, collected
1t from Middletown, Odessa and McDonOuQh
d made an excursion in a peach wagon to tn
r Pier House, on the Delaware, near Port Penn
;, : last Saturday.
The Louisville Courier Journal gets off thi
e joke The people Of Delaware want to hav
y big race for Governor, but we can't see nov
b they possibly can, unless they get permissiO
to run in some other State.
d A Miss Myers, of New York, whilst with
4. boating party on the Brandywine, at Wilming
A. ton last Friday, was sun struck and throw
10 into commissions She was sent on the trai
DR. to Philadelphia, with relatives.
le The Patrons of Husbandry of Delaware hav
rs been connected with the State Grange of Mar!
Ii land until sufficient number of oranges ha1
a been formed in Delaware to enable them
n obtain charter for State Grange.
lr The frequent burning of stables in Wilmin
ne ton, by incendiaries, has greatly exercised Il
re citizens and put the police on the lookout r
d, Gently. At last man has been arrested
IN suspicion His name is Wm. Sewell, your
u man living in that city.
90 The Frankford & Break water r. r. is near
- - completed. The last mile of track will be la
ii this week. There is still some work to do
t'u tt'u the crossings and elsewhere. This is the ra
ne road in Sussex for which the last lIegislatd
or appropriated $2O0,OOO.
,th The report about Rev. Thos Guard, viii
m. VIC copied from one of our exchanges last wee
aes about his being stricken with blindness aft
preaching big sermon at Hurlock's s cam
turns out false alarm. A cold settled in
ern eyes but he is all right now.
IL" Work is soon to commence on the immeu
new basin for the city water works of WilmiT
wo ton. Over one thousand men have applied
zee, work on this job including some Of the fin
GRO mechanics of the city, who are anxious
=. tIo spade dirt for living and employment.
'no The horse stolen from a Mr.. Racine Of Gl
sse cow, Pencader Hundred, q week OF two a
ded was found near Vineland, N. j., on Wedn
,lay day last, and returned to its owner. The thi
..or Henry Thompson, was also arrested and is n
''o' 10 the jail at New Castle awaiting trial for
oc offence.
''' The Milford Base Ball Club have foru
gro themselves into a Joint Stock Associate
hey rented for term Of years q beautiful lot
en- ground Of FIVE acres, enclosed the same q
,ho board fence six feet high, and propose to h
',N ' the finest ground and completest accessories
e'e- any in the State.
rom A correspondent of EUery Evenia0 wr
ans that the poUtmaster of Seaford, j. +. Ob
any was assaulted and knocked down on Satur
ocss night last by man named Horsey. Hol
~ was afterwards severely punished by j.
Inc Williams, one Of 0bier's friends. Obier
im- helpless cripple, has but one leg and goe!
. ex- crutches.