Smyrna times., 1875-07-28
STATE AND LOCALS.

Fraland to-day.
School duties at the Seminary will be
resumed in September. Circulars will b,
issued in q short time.
Mr. John Truax is making arrangement.
to run daily line of barges from Rothwelrs
to ship peaches at moderate rates.
A little girl of two years, daughter Of
Chas. Fisher, near. New Castle, fell into
a cesspOol and was drowned, last week.
Mr.. Henry w. Cannon has assumed
editorial control of the Dover Sentinel. Mr.
VIM. Sharp having retired by reason of i'll
health.
The Dover NJ. E. Sunday School is talk
ing of a picnic from which to raise funds
with which to make and excursion to the
| Centennial.
One dealer in Milford has bought
l2,OOO dozen eggs in a little over two
months, at an average price of about
twenty cents per dozen.
A party OF 10 young gentlemen of Dover
chartered small sloop and left there on
Monday morning for fishing and pleasure
trip down the Bay for several days.
Mr.. Jonas Bowman of Phila. has sold his
"Shaw Farm" situated at White Hall.
Murderkill Hundred, containing 446 acres.
to Mr.. Geo. B. Money, of Delaware Citv.
for $4,000.
Down at the Rehoboth camp, this season.
instead OF Saying grace" in the usual way
at the boarding tents, they sang the doxol-
ogy, before commencing the skirmish with
the victuals.
DIR. Hirons arrived home yesterday from
his first trip to Europe as surgeon of the
steamer Pennsylvania. OF course his friends
greeted him warmly. He is we'll pleased
with his office.
The large and elegant steamer, Ctty Point,
has commenced making regular trips to
cape May from New Castle. Excursion
tickets from various points on the Delaware
Railroad can be procured.
A colored child died on the down train
from Harrington to Georgetown one dav
last week. The father had started by his
physicians advice to remove the child to
the country and it did not live TO reach its
destination.
A man named Wier, in Wilmington.
tried to stop runaway horse last week.
and he fell, when the animal stepped on
one of his fingers and mashed it. The
injury brought on lockiaw, from which he
died on Monday.
Rev. Cyrus Huntington, of the Presbyte.
rian church, and Rev. Lewis w. Gibson Of
the Episcopal church, Dover, having been
granted vacations, are endeavoring to enjoy
the same, the former at Cape Nav. the
latter at Sunbury, Pa.
The military organization of Dover was
partly otficered last week with the follow.
ing gentlemen Captain, James NJ. Letbcr.
bury; lst Lieutenant, T. d. G. Smith: 2nd
lieutenant, A. B. McCurdy; lst Sergeant.
1. ). Collins. Sixty names are enrolled.
A vessel loaded with railroad iron wos
upset " near the Pier at Lewes one dav
last week. 1t appears that the boat was
only deck loaded and that in unloading
the iron had been taken off only on one
side, which caused the boat to topnIe ovor
and the iron tumbled off into the water.
Since our last weeks list of peach cars
Tor Clayton there have been several addi.
tlons to the number. The Nd. & Del road
have ordered about 100 and the Kent
County lOS, which, with the number for
Clayton shippers, will make total of 900
nearly hundred more than we reported
ast week.
says the Wilmington Gazette of Monday:
ABOUT three years ago a young man named
samuel Hance, then working at Campbelrs
hops, Christiana Hundred, was bitten by q
mad dog. He felt no i'll effects from the
'lte until last week, when symptoms Of
lydrophobia began to appear, and Saturday
lie died in horrible agony, though sensible
o his condition to the last.
Mr. Seymour, of New York, is buildinc q
louse at the depot at Dover for the purpose
4 drying fruit by the Williams process
IS capacity will be 500 baskets per dov ,
he Register dryer, invented by DIR. j. +.
'egister, dentist, of that town. is now
eady for operation, thus making two drv.
lg establishments to be added to the two :
aiming establishments there. ,
Rev VIM. Prettyman, generally known q
Father Prettyman) late of the Balti.
lore Annual Conference of the NJ. f.
'hurch, died in Milford on "Wednesday ,
1orning last, in the eighty.third year of his
ge. He had been faithful and efficient .
raveling preacher for sixty years, and h. +,
caves behind him a character for pietv
nd integrity that has rarely been excelled.
Speaking Of the vacant Presiding Elder, ]
hip the Eoery Eoeni,g says Rev. James NJ.
Williams, Principal Of the Conference s
LcademY. hag ho0n fauTono,l Al. n,