Smyrna times., 1874-12-02
STATE AND LOCALS.

"a N''S 4 lSen3teCldn CuuTcH III DrluBeVlRe.
Mr.. VIM. W. Whitlock, Of Clayton, is a
candidate for Sergeant-at-Arms of the House.
lie mas strong recommendations.
The Presbyterian congregation of this town
are arranging to gire grand suppers in the |
town hall on the evenings Of the 10Th aRd l7th. |
An extensive revival is going on in the
MlddletOwn NJ. K. Church, DR.. Matlack, pas
tor. Over twenty have professed conversion.
Rev. j. l.. McKim, Episcopal minister OF
Milford is going to Georgetown to live.
He will still officiate in the church, however.
Only seven permits for new buildings were
given out in Wilmington last month This is
a fearfully slim number, even for the time Of
year.
The parlor theatricals at Odessa last week
we're exceedingly popular The performers
showed remarkable tact in their respective
roles.
Mr.: Jonathan Woodley, of Little Creek
Landing, who met with the serious accident
mentioned IN last weeks TINES, died last
week.
The NJ. K. Sunday School of this town, as
usual, will hold Christmas entertainment for
the children. Exactly what it is to be has not
yet been determined.
a number of Wilmington ladies teach little
girls how to sew every Saturday afternoon, at
a regularly organized sewing school kept up by
the ladies themselves.
The price of pork starts off at SO. 500$IO
per hundred weight in this town. Last year
the opening price was about $3.50. There is
said to be a slim market.
| The DetalOarean is responsible for this item
Camden claims the championship for old
maids and widows. 1t is said that it has no
less than forty OF EACH
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THANKSGIVING afternoon was spent in Dover
10 listening to the band and watching number
Of young men and boys wheel wheelbarrow at
a stake, with their eyes blindfolded.
There is gentleman living near Milford who
has an umbrella which he has owned since the
year 1916. The NeI0S forbears to give his
name lest some one may be induced to steal it
yet.
The citizens of Laurel and vicinity propose to
form an agricultural society. and books have
Leen opened to procure subscriptions to pur.
chase the necessary grounds and fit up the
same.
Dover wants market house Maybe the
citizens could prevail upon the Goverdment TO
hx them one up in the new post pfhce, when
it's built Their town hall will not cost them
much.
The Sussex farmers can ship their grain to
New York one day and receive their returns
the next, via the Lewes steamers, and at
nearly one half less freight than by any other
route.
Thanksgiving Day in this town was the same
quiet, poultry-eating day we usually find it.
) The entertainments in the evening absorbed
nearly all the interest We note them else
whore.
Citizens Of Milford are circulating petition
through the town to present to the Delaware
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! to come to some agreement, and let them have
two trains day.
The Rev. Mr. Porter, of Newark, will proaci
in the Presbyterian Church, in this town. mex
Sabbath (mOrning and evening" in exchange
with Rev. Mr. Brown, who will preach in hi
! church, in Newark.
The extensive carriage factory of Jones
Guthrie 4 Co., in Wilmington, was destroyed
by an incendilry fire last Sunday night abou
III o'clock. The loss is estimated at $40, 900
insured for $4,000.
The friends of the VI. E Church at Towns
4 end held fair and festival recently which
uetted them about $3.50. They invested thei
money in an Estey org4 for the Sunday School
which was opened last Sunday.
The anniversary of Rescue Lodge, No. y
{ |. .. 6. T., will be held in st. Jones Nec
d VI. +. Church, on Monday evening, Dec. 7th
0 at u o clock. Rev Geo. A. Phebus and othe
n eminent speakers will address the meeting.
). In the village of FrankfOrd, Sussex county
!, there are eight new houses under course o
= construction. Trains commenced runnin
J. regularly from that town to Georgetown O
# Monday, on the Breakwater & Frankiord r. X
# Rev. Henry Young. a negro preacher G
/. New York, and a man OF fine talents, die
:, there last week. He was a native of SUISSE
y county, in this State. He was considered on
, OF the ablest Methodist preachers in New Yor
h city.
n A very instructive sermon on Sunday amusC
u ments was preached last Sunday evening by tn
n Rector of St Peters Episcopal Church. Nel
Sunday evening he proposes to preach to tl
young men of our town aud vicinity. All al
II invited.
u The report that the P W. & B. r.
,y Company has bought the Eastern Shore Il.
al is positively denied. This railroad runs fro
~ Delnar to Crs6eld, aud is really part of Il
: Delaware road, though owned by diffsrO
ID company
n The Kent County Association of Goo
le Templars, in Quarterly Convention at Wy
a. ming, Wednesday week, 18th ult., unanimous
20 endorsed the resolution adopted by the SUISSE
County Association recently, ia favor of a lOc
y option law.
Inc entertainment DY the LeaVitt Dell hln
pit ers in this town, last Friday evening, was Il
a most chaste in character ever given here of Il
70 kind, and was appreciated by good audienc
The troupe is fine one and deserves its en-
VI nent success.
al G. w. Wright, Of Georgetown, Democrat
i candidate for Congress two years ago, di,
on Mon1ay after a protracted illness. Nj
. Wright was a successful member of the Suss
county bar aud during Governor Salisbury
!" term of Office was Secretary Of State.
re- At the request of members of the congreR
,aJl lion We publish this week the leading points
ar Rev. DR.. Phpbus' able Thanksgiving sermo
=, To avoid length and save space we were col
-, PEELED to cut off the ehaste classic illusions. &
al The arguments, however, are nearly in full tel
an The Primrose stOrsr0oms, in this tow
te opposite the Delaware House, are to be
OF opened soon. Mr. Asa Clifton is to occu
q me in the sale Of green groceries, &C., a
Ia Misses Mary and Annie Hough. daughters
err. Rev. j. HOugh, are to open a millinery a
for trimming store in the other.
On Barber's mills. at Milford. have been leas