Smyrna times., 1874-02-11
STATE AND LOCALS.

STATE AND LOCALS.
An organ, worth $500, has been purchased
by the Sunday School of st. Luke's Episcopal
Church at Seatord.
The Episcopal Sunday School of Delaware
City realized $75 by an entertainment of char
AIDES, &c, last week.
Seventeen persons were admitted to mem
bership in Olivet Presbyterian Church, Will
mington, last week.
The steamer City of Bridgeton now touches
at Collins's Beach once wesk-Tuesdays-
her trip to Philadelphia.
The Kent County Association of Good Tenn
plsrs will hold Quarterly Convention Dover
ON Wednesday the 18th day of February.
A wonderful yarn about girl in Queen
Annes county, Md, being possessed with SUI
pernatural powers is published on the next
page.
On Tuesday of last week, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hamilton, widow lady residing in Whining
ton, dropped dead whilst seated at the dinner
table.
| The Georgetown Journal says that work has
been commenced on the Frankford and Break
water Railroad, and it is proposed to finish il
in three months.
! On Thursday afternoon, a small colored chile
of Charlotte Brown, near Seaford, was burned
to death by the explosion OF coal oil can, useC
in lighting fire in the stove.
On Wednesday evening, the 29th ult., tn,
members of the NJ. L. Church, in Deawar
City, held donation party at tho house O
their pastor, Rev. Dr. Thomas.
The NJ. e. protracted meeting in this town
now in its sixth week, is continued withou
abatement In interest or results. The con
versions now number over l25.
i The ladies of the NJ. Z. Church at Middle
town will hold fair and festival in the tow
hall on the 25th aLd Goth of the present month
twill be conducted on large scale.
We have received the first copy Of the Set
ford Citizen, Just started in that town by j.
Pennington, Esq 1t is good paper-dec
dedy so. 1t is foOtlooss in politics.
Scarlet fever of most fatal type prevails
, Dover. On Sunday two children were burie(
and on Monday child of Mr.. Geo. w. Ben
died after only forty eight hours illness.
f A boy named Key, while playing with SON
r matches in Seaford on Thursday accidental
. set fire to his mothers house. The fam
were extinguished before doing much damag
Mr. Wesley Hirons, we'll known down Il
> State, especially about Dover, where he was
It large owner of real estate, died at his residenC
d in Wilmington on Sunday night, in his 65
It year.
~ 1t is stated that the Methodists of Midd
:. town are electioneering" for Rev. L. +. Ma
7s tindale, of Port Deposit. Their present p;
tors time expires at COnference-Rev.
Smith.
st A protracted meeting has been in progr
tn in the Dover VI. E. Church for the past thl
to weeks, and continues with unabated intere
A b0rt hava YrOfagSaA oh r
OF heart.
&c H. F. Pickles, Esq, Chairman of the
d. publican State Central Committee, has deciC
tie to hold the State Convention in Georgsto'
to if the COMMITTEES approve, and run spec
he train down.
H. James H. Bell, of Milford, at present ke
~ er of Mispillion Light House, has been ira
re ferred and promoted to principal keeper
'bt Fenwlck Island Light, in lieu Of d. VI. "
Ids ringtOn, who retires
Ike Mr.. Campbell, a student at Delaware
!, , lege, Newark, died Wednesday evening.
~ young gentleman is native of Nova SEQ
-no ~ and with the exception of his brother, hal
IN relatives in this country.
aid Mr.. H. Horner, of Delaware City Hotel,
da Gently butchered four hogs, eight months
of which weighed 1853 lbs. Mr.. George e.
49, also had two, six months old, which weig
'aaS 234 and 2l6 pounds each.
'|' Agents have been prospecting at Sea
the with view to selecting an eligible site for
1ey erection Of cotton mill. The Citizen, of
ing town, learns that a captal OF $SO, 900 IL t
,;J invested in the enterprise.
,bo w. II. Baggs & &C., merchant tailor
this town, will make an auction sale of rel
rer' made clothing next Saturday, and cont
TOR every Saturday until their stock is closed
at They will quit this class of goods.
The girls of the West Presbyterian SUI
abt. School, Wilmington, have formed thsms'
49,, into a Missionary Band. The Object of
S'' Band is to support either female teach,
ela- scholars in the Foreign Missionary work.
With A number of ladies' from Camden, N.
arc visited New Castle on Monday foI the pur
+ is of organizing and initiating the members
-. society called the Daughters Of the FC
lent A lodge of thirty-four members was OF
OF ized
udi- Henry Van Gasken, Esq, of Shemokiu,
ford formerly we'll known aud respected citiz,
,+ou our town, died at his home on Monday la
''0'' his 63d year. He was Superintendent
urer extensive coal mines at Shemokin and ci
S he OF prominence.
we? At the meeting Of the Teachers, St. I
does NJ. Il. Church, Wilmington, last wee
nso- committee was appointed to consider the
~ prie;y Of dispensing altogether with the
20 libraries in the Sabbath School, and subs
ing papers in their stead.
ago, The Wilmington Commercial says tha
y of John i. Jackson recently brought /
a # Office limb taken from peach tree, in
s.. mia Manor, Cecil county, Md, which i.
0's.s cred with buds and blossoms, which can
G dld during the late warm spell.
drift The Seaford Citizen says: While our
J. If have been successful in their crusade a
az on the sale Of spirituous liquors in the hote
sao, stores, it is obvious TO US that its sale
''''" diminished much in the dark a@rners ar
IS we derground spots about SeaFord.
these Mr.. ii. Stuart sends the Viii. EUery T.
have a butterfly which has been raised by his
daughter from a cocoon picked off an
-~ bush last fall The insect is about thre
- :. old aud is already over five inches aero
tle ~ wings, and thriving finely.
w;,b 1t having been announced that Ro,
- "is Matlack, Of Grace Church, would be
rt;no ru presiding elder Of Wilmington Distrit
,bs statement 10 denied by the Commercial
=. Dr. Thompson now holds that positio