Smyrna times., 1875-11-10
STATE AND LOCALS

David Hyde, near Dover, has grown a
l6-pound cabbage head.
Many farmers in this county are pulling
up their old peach orchards
Milford hasa musical association of which
key. ). l.. McKim, the Episcopal minister,
is director. ,
A man i'll Christiana village, New Castle
county, has made $4,000 gallons of cider
this season.
Lewes has been made port Of entry
and Deputy Collector Of u. S. customs
has been appointed.
The Good Templars of Kent county will
meet IN quarterly association in Dover on
wednesday, November 18th.
The old lighthouse dwelling at Mahon's
river east OF Dover, is to be sold at auction
oy the Government on the Both.
Frank Gray has bought out A. s. Clifton
IN the green grocery business in this town.
store opposite the Delaware House.
Governor Cochran has appointed Thurs.
day, November 25th, as Thanksgiving dav
the same day recommended by President
Grant.
The Local Preachers of the Wilmington
Conference will hold their 18th annual
meeting at Chestertowl, Nd. commencing
Nov. 10Th.
MI Graham, the delinquent merchant of
camden, has not absconded He is back
home and it is said his affairs have a more
hopeful aspect.
Rev. G. w. Kennedy, recently removed
from this town, has purchased a house in
MltluIAtOYVn of Rntr INu ID, II II
terian minister.
A number of parties in this town are
having beautiful and fancy signs painted
by John b. Stradley, of Wilmington, an ex-
pert in this art
Menhaden IA species Of fish are coming
ashore in carloads around Lewes. The
farmers are busy drawing them into the
country for compost.
Herman Rau, publisher of the German
paper in Wilmington, has started p weekly |
English paper, called Saturday. Jls;tor. it |
Is an attractive sheet
A District Conference of Methodist min.
iSters IS to be held in Elkton on the I4th Of /
next month. The ministers of Wilmington
District will constitute the body.
A Peerless potato weighing two pounds
ana two-and-a-half ounces was shown ms
the other day. 1t was grown by Jas. Powell,
IN Appoquinimink, near this town.
VIM. R. Cahoon, 81, of Dover. has grown
about | 70 bushels of Peerless potatoes nrr
acre this season. Fifteen of a baskefful
presented to the Sentinel weighed l49 lbs.
Mr.. Jacob Levy has purchased the well.
known watering place, Kits Hammock.
near Dover, OF j. X. Norris. Mr.. Lew
proposes to run the house himself here
after.
Rey. R. G. Steamer, the pastor of the
Camden African NJ. f. Circuit. and = man
OF considerable ability, died at his residence
IN IN Camden, ON Saturday week, with the
Jas. '. Roberts, one Of our yonng mu-
slcians, has been elected oreanist 0f The
Episcopal Church of this town. A chill.
dren's chorus has again been introduced
into the choir.
John r. Fisher. executor Of Sto,bon
Gibbs, deceased has sold at Dover. = fam nf
10 acres, situated near Slaughter's Station
IN West Dover Hundred, to Chas. Barber
At Sl4 per acre.
G: z; Treidlcr, the popular German tenor
d Milford, sang Guide me, O, Thou Great ,
Jehovah, as voluntary at the NJ. f. Church
d TINS town, last Sunday evening. A
crowded congregation listened to him with
pleasure. ''''
The Middletown stores will hereafter he
closed i'll the evenings at 8 O'Clock. Sotur. I
lays excepted 1t is to be presumed that ;
the Smyrna merchants find it profitable TO
keep open until and after: if not why do
they do it? w {
One Of Wilmington's old citizens. Peter !
Springer, died Sunday in his sod vcar :
/ hough man Of considerable prominence :
Tor many years. he never would accent n ,
nomination for office, it is said. and he was =
4 Democrat, too.
=, The pulpit has been taken out of the
church Of this town. lccturn. a
rulplts are now being discarded in nanv C
churches, particularly in those of the de. J
domination named.
The revival in the Delaware Avenuc f
BAPTIST Church in Wilmington still con. b
inues, the audiences being as large a ever. A
he doors having to be closed at an carly "
lour on account Of the throng. 1t is now 81
n its ninth week. i
Iygert d Co.'S Star Bone Phosphate took Il
he first premium for phosphates at tho il
llddletown Agricultural Fair, also at the tl
'rid5geville Fair. This phosphate seems Il
be prime favorite. 1t is everywhere "a
poken OF as a superior article. ii
Rogers, one Of the Wilmington base :,
allers of the Quickstep club was badly h
urned ON Monday night by an oil lam1 :,
eing upset in a restaurant. The burning .,
Il ran out on his clothing, and all the skin e
II his face and hands was burned.
The Masons and Knights of Pythias are
Tecting fine three-story hall in FELTON,. al
! Is 36x4O feet, and will be completed N
bout the middle of December. There are "
'VeraI other houses in course of erection. 81
school house will shortly be built. r
The Wyoming drying factory is now .!
lnnlng on pumpkins of which they are -
rying a large quantity. They pay $40 a. a.
IN for them and the farmers are hauling ~
lem all they want. After they are dried ~ ~
ley are taken to mill and ground. po .,
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