Smyrna times., 1875-03-17
STATE AND LOCALS.

ne HISJ I)aptSJ CnufcR III w llmllSUOn has III
organized a Sunday School for colored people. W
Rev. S. s. Sturgis, formerly of this town, is IN
at Harrington Presbyterian Church. r
The U. S. Senate appropriated $4,000 for d, a.
the continued construction of an iron pier at !"
Lewes.
\ bill increasing the fees of Justices of the 9
Peace has been indefinitely postponed by our y
Legislature.
Mrs. Rev. DIR. Thompson, and family of the !
late Rev. DR.. Thompson, of Wilmington have :.
removed to this town. +
Prof F. D. Tarr school teacher near this 1
town. is preparing a book entitled THE i
Philosophy of Arithmetic
Among the graduates of the Homeopathic I
Medical College, of Phila., last week, was I
Robt. d. Dashiell, recently of this town. {
Capt. James Grier an aged and prominent
citizen of Murdcrkill Neck died at his resi-
dence near Frederica on Wednesday last.
Among the arrivals yesterday were j. NJ.
Emerson, of the Co0cmcrcial, and ii. Coclazer,
of Ecery Eccning, to report Conference pro
ceedings.
Rev. j. Hough preached the annual mis-
sionary sermon in the NJ. f. Church of this
town on Sunday and it was a decidedly able
discourse.
Araminta Ward, colored woman said to
| be los years of age was buried last Thursday |
| in Wilmington. She was Il native of Cecil
county, Md.
\ revival meeting has been going on in
quiet way for over two months at Grace NJ. f.
Church, Wilmington, and so far $50 CONVEX
siOns are reported.
1t is reported that the Rev. II. S Thomp-
son, now of the New England Conference,
will be transferred back to the Wilmington
Conference at the present session.
Richard Harrington, Esq, ex-Assistant Dis
trict Attorney, of the District of Columbia,
has decided to leave Washington and settle in
Dover as practitioner at the bar.
: On Sunday week missionary collections were
lifted in Grace Church, Wilmington, when the
afternoon school alone raised $765.45. Du-
ring the year $20l540 have been collected.
George W. Ingram of Mddletown, sold last
week, the farm of Sewell Green to William
= Flintham. 22j acres, for $1,000; also farm of
; William Clcaver to Z. A. Pool, 2jj acres, for
:, $4,000.
p Mr. Riddle introduced bill in the Senate
last week giving Justices of the Peace the
right to fine to the extent of $50 in cases of
5 assault and battery. They cannot now cX-
Y ceed $40.
o Rev Mr. Brown, Presbyterian pastor of this
n town. has extended an invitation to two
Methodist "Stars" to fill his pulpit next
: Sunday. The names will be announced i'll
o the daily.
Last Thursday Jefferson Medical College
Il graduated 10 young men with the title of NJ
e d. Among the list were three from Della
d ware, viz samuel l.. Barr, Taylor l.. Mitch
i; ell, j. 7. Eskridge.
- \ bill has been introduced in the Lcgisla
- ture amending the act for the protection o
le women, with several amendments one o
ir which gives the wife power to make a vii
n. without the consent of her husband.
H. Next Sunday is Palm Sunday, the com
! mencement of Holy Week. Services ever
"' evening, and on Wednesday, Thursday an'
ne Friday mornings, at the Episcopal Church @
ld this town. Rev. j. T. Wright, rector.
u Bishop Lee, who went to Mexico i'll Janu
a arv in the interest Of the Mission cause of tn
p. f. Church is expected to return this wee
having accomplished the object of his visi
~ He is returning by rail through the South.
ny The Middletown Transcript wants to kno'
ce where we got the news that the street light
of that town cost $3.50 per year. We gave
lust as we clipped it from an eXchange-W
lst think Wilmington daily. 1t says the cost
Ter only $l27
by On Wednesday night last horse and ca
,L rage were stolen from the sheds OF the Natlo
= al Hotel in Middlctown. The horse brlongC
i' to Mr. Clothier, of Bohemia Mills, Md, al
tue carriage NdS ON NIltNl ny Nj ~ ~ ''NlA''
)w the same place.
full The forty-seventh annual session Of the b;
red timore Conference OF tn" Methodist frot'
- tant Church began Wednesday at BaltlmOl
Rev. David Wilson presided. The Conferen
yer comprises Maryland, Delaware, and the d
ldi- trict Of Columbia.
Lee The State aid bill in its present shape, pl
mo- vides $SS,OOO for the Georgetown Il Delm
,t;c Railroad $4,000 for the Georgetown Il S'
-. ford road; Sl32,0O0 for the Milford and i
ttlc Shore road, and 100000 for the Harringt
! he & Queenstown road, making in all, with t
'ere years interest added, $335,0O0
nx- Daniel Brown, formerly Of Smyrna, ~
IN proprietor of the Delaware House, Chest
:, has entered suit against all of the persons W
NcS signed reInonstrance against his obtaining
to liduor license, in which it was alleged that
'ess- kept a disorderly house. There are ab'
# thirtyfye defendants to the suit.
f,I A congregation of 1000 people went to .
bury Church, Wilmington, Sunday, to h
~ the closing sermon of the pastor, Rev.
lbll Stubbs, and very many had to go away
It is want Of room. In the three years he was |
,o. tor there he made 1000 pastoral calls, tC
80 into membership, baptized 300, and \
absent from his pulpit but one Sunday.
g al The success which Prof J. y. Clcmmer
'sha' met with in his children's jubilees in
COPY State has induced him to seek wider fi'
hire and he is now negotiating for similar en-
tainments in Trenton and New Brunsw
y. j., after the completion of which he
pla, poses to start westward for the same purp
Ined giving jubilees in the principal cities
heh towns.
ance. Mr.. Ray, one Of the New Castle Senat
4 the has introduced bill designed to neutra
cc- the effects Of the Civil Rights Bill. 1t
rying WOES that II Shail DC I"Wl"l % i?r %ly ne
STATE fuse accommodation to any person whose Gus
mar would njure his business. The same
70 oc apply to theatrical and managers of other
pub tertainments, &C.
)owcr The commencement exercises of the II
tie to cal department of the University of Penn
, De vania were held in the Academy of NJ
cy in Philadelphia, on Friday. Among those
Even had passed the necessary examination am
on its ceiyed diplomas as NJ d. were Edward
public 20 IoI,, NJ SapnV Of