Smyrna times., 1875-03-31
STATE AND LOCALS.


Last Thursday seven divorce bills were
turned down in the State Senate.
There were twenty-one minister's wives
i'll attendance at the late Conference.
Baked herring and sassafras tea are said
to be spring luxuries on the Eastern
shore"
Mr.. Chas. E. Hazel, one of our young
merchants, is going out of business, and il
selling his goods at cost.
Rev. E. Davis, the newly appointed min
lister to Smyrna Circuit, filled Bethel anC
Seversons pulpits last Sunday
"Liston's High Tree an old Landmark
on the Bay shore, near Collins Beach, wa
blown down .on ST. Patrick's Day.
1t is stated that frost was in the grounC
the past season from the 9th of Januar
until the 18th of March, continuously.
} By law of the last Legislature, the Lev,
t Court of each county is required to pa
fifty cents for every hawk or owl killed.
: Messrs. Robt. Scout and William Philip.
/ have formed a cO-partnership in the black
Smithing buSinc-- =, ~ : -, &C. I"iio~
ndny InVIte sbAress"In TINS town. See adv
The Messrs. Cannon Bros of Concord
Sussex county, have received a contract for
$4,000 flour barrels from parties in Alexan-
dria, Va.
VIM. F. Hillyard, telegraph operator and
station agent at Middletown, died last Fri
day morning. He was an army telegrapher
during the war.
Geo. DerricksOn, Esq, prominent citi-
sen of MiddletOwn, and until recently Pre-
sident of the Bank there, died on Friday
last, in his 10Th year.
Now that New Castle has obtained the
object of her hopes-the title of corporate
city-she can find no one willing to accept
the position of mayor.
No one is applying for license to sell H.
quor from Millsboro, Sussex county, there
not being enough freehOlders in the district
to sign the application.
John Lee, of Kenton hundred, has been
| appointed Justice of the Peace and Notary
Public, in place of John Jones, of Kenton,
whose term has expired
Senator Bayard is going to stump the
State OF Connecticut for the Democracy du
ring the present canvass. The election
takes place next Monday.
BY a law passed by the Legislature, tax
collectors are required in the future to
write in full the day, date and year of
every receipt given by them.
By law of the recent Legislature. dogs
are liable to tax for school purposes in Sus-
sex county, at the rate of one dollar per
head for males, and two for females.
Rev. f. Stubbs, the newly-appointed
minister to the NJ. f. Church of this town,
is expected, with his family, tomorrow at
noon. He will fill his pulpit on Sunday.
J. Brown & Son Geo. F. Brown have
formed a cO-partnership in the commission
business at Clayton, in connection with
Kirk d Thayer of New York. See adv.
Bishop Lee has been elected President Of
the Delaware Association for the Motal I'm.
prOvement and Education of the colored
people in the State, vice Thomas Kimber,
Jr., resigned.
The ladies of the NJ. F. Church of this
town have presented Mrs Rev. DR.. Phobus
with handsome dress, as a mark of their
esteem and appreciation of her talents and
social qualities.
Mr.. John Woodall, of Camden, sold last
week, at public sale, young heifer of the
Ayrshire and Durham stock, not yet three
years DID, for the sum of $lO5. This is very
good for Kent county.
We find this little joke in Rowell's Re
porter: "The little State of Delaware has
adopted a new flag, 81 feet, of blue silk
with n yellow fringe. 1t will be used tc
-Iread over the State to keep the frost off.
Hereafter, by law of the Legislature
o.. avy Court of this county has the au
G., -traighten public roads. Here
tofore the Legislature only had this author
ity. The law is operative only in thi
county.
Sheriff Lambson sold, few days ago, tn
/ real estate of the late Elihu Jefferson, a
} follows: Farm of 257 acres in Appoquini
$ mink hundred to Jacob Cazier for S4,9l5.25
farm of 305 acres in same hundred to Pete
/, B. Vandever, for S5,SO2.5O.
r Trucking will be largely engaged in alon
= the line of the Georgetown and Frankfor
e Railroad, in Sussex, the present season.
I, At the little village of FFankford alone Is
$ barrels of Early Rose seed potatoes wer
$ sold for this springs planting.
Captains Thomas and Fowler have starte
. the Potosi, a fast sailing vessel, as a regula
packet between Smyrna Landing and PHI
ladelphia, and will carry freights at ver
e reduced figures. These gentlemen al
known to be reliable, competent parties.
e The Peninsula Necs says: There is n,
c ticeable most praisewOrthy dispositio
e on the part of the ladies of Milford towar