Smyrna times., 1875-01-20
STATE AND LOCALS.

The Presbyterian ladies of Milford are hold
Ing festival this week.
Rich'd I. Hastings, of this town, has bul
dwelling house in Mllsboro, SUSSEX county
Mr.. j.: FL. Peterson. at Belmont" tbi,
town. will sell of his farm stock on Tuesday
Feb. 9th.
r, A calf three years old butchered at the
Sussex Aims House last week, weighed eipbl
hundred pounds dressed.
DR.. Pratt, cf Milford, James II. Rovce. Of
Laurel, and DIR. Hopkins, of Milton, are can.
dldates for State Auditor
Last week the young men connected with
the VI. f. Church in Mddlstown organized a
young men Christian Association.
Mr. WIN. 4. Hall is an applicant for the
county treasurershiD OF this county. Tho
appointment is made by the Levy Court
A shooting match for the local championship
between Smyrna and Middletown is going on
In this town this afternoon. Purse $500.
1t is rumored that Rev. Geo. y. Watson
vi. Il. minister Of Dover, will be transferred to
prominent city ''Out West" in the Spring.
>, The clock in the tower of the new Court
House at Dover is failure. 1t cannot be
heard more than half over the town. So saws
the SeatincI
The official board of the NJ. +. Church of
FrederIca are unite in the desire ts have
their pastor Rev. w. Z. Davis, return to them
the third year.
The ladies of the Presbyterian Church,
MIddlstown, are preparing for grand concert
OF which VI. l.. Iichtenstein, of Wilmington,
Is to take charge.
a Sussex farmer who was unwilling to take
81 Tor calf which he had offered in the
Milford market, sent it to New York and
obtained Sl2.7j net. So much for the Lewes
steamers
Rev. Mr. Butler, the Episcopal minister of
MlddletOwn, delivers his two lectures, THE
Pspacy and The Presbyterian System "
to-morro" aud Friday evenings in his church
IN that town.
The old Latin Bible upon which every Della.
ware Governor has taken the oath of office was
again used yesterday to swear in Governor
Cochran. IL was printed in 1882 and is now
343 years old.
Last Friday morning week, David Melvin.
an escaped pauper from the Kent county aims
house. was found frozen TO death and living
among the straw in the barn yard of Gen. Van
Worst, near Milford
A successful protracted meeting in the M. T..
Church at st. Georges has resulted in the
addition OF twenty prObatiOners Extra SER
vices are also being held in the Presbyterian
Church, same place.
The loan associations of Wilmington find it
necessary to distrain upon the real estate of
members. No less than five houses were
sold there last Saturday by Sheriff upon claims
from this quarter.
Candidates for State Treasurer seem to
multiply rather than diminish. Thos Giles,
and Ebe Walters. of Sussex, and John V.
Burton and John Van Gasken, Of this county,
ara prominent candidates.
James Morrow of Wilmington has purchased
the farm containing about I50 acres formerly
belonging 10 Alexander Laws, deceased, and /
situated near Newark, for $4,000. Mr.. q.
paid $4,000 for il few years ago 4
The old picture in the Capitol, at Dover,
representing General Washington resigning
his Commission, at Annapolis, Md, has been |
reteuched By German artist OF Philadelphia,
Antonio Gerlac, aud has been placed in gilt |
frame, in the rotunda to the right of the
entrance to the Hall Of the House Of Repre-. {
Hize.