Smyrna times., 1876-11-08
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

DIR. LEWIS, recently of this town, has
opened drug store in Harrington.
THE Republicans had no judge of elec-
ton in this town yesterday-no one would
volunteer to serve.
THE first turkeys of the season sold here
yesterday at Is. cts per pound-a cent
cheaper than beef.
EDWARD BECK, of this town, has received
discharge from bankruptcy by the U. S.
Court at Wilmington.
Mrs. c. NJ. COLLINS, one of our lady mer-
chants Mrs. Carr's old stand) expects to
sell out and go back to Ireland.
THE operata Of "Laila," fine compost
ton of the musical drama, is to be rendered
here by the students of the Seminary in a
few weeks.
"swans sing before they die-twere no bad thing
Should Certain persons die before they sing"
Let the serenaders of Thursday night
apply. 0. W. II.
THE Benevolent Society of this town
have decided to give a Thanksgiving
Supper as part of the entertainment for
Thanksgiving night.
CHAs. V. PATTERSON, telegrapher, of this
has been assigned to duty at New Castle
by the R. R. Company.
LAST Friday the New Castle Sheriff sold
at Townsend the farm of Eli Hollet, in
Appoquinimink Hundred containing 55
acres to Sam'l R. Warren, for $470.
FRANK RAYMOND has again opened in the
dry goods business here, in the "Primrose
store," opposite the Delaware House. He
received his new stock last week and
opened out on Saturday.
The old depot in this town has been torn
down and removed, all except the founda-
ton walls. The train still runs in on the
curve however, and ]. A. Cavsnder's lum-
Der Office is used for ticket office. The
new depot isslowly approaching completion.
Rev. JOS T. WRIGHT has resigned the
rectorship of the Episcopal Church here,
and Rev. VIM. Jarrett, recently from Aus
tralia, occupied the pulpit last Sunday.
Mr.. Wright will continue to reside here for
the present.
On Monday about dozen disfranchised
colored men started from this town to
visit the Centennial and this badly fright
ened the Democrats here, who got the
impression that they were going to Phila
delphia to vote Hayes.
HAMILTON & CUMMINs inform us thai
they are going out of the dry goods trade
entirely and are going to try something
else, but what that something else is we dc
: not know. They have marked their goods
= right down to sell out.
On the 4th of Oct we published the
, marriage of Jos. N. Messick and Emma
Morris. Young Messick, who lives in thi
8 town, brought the notice to us in person
We are now authoritively informed tina
I the wedding never occurred, and it's fortu
e nate for the young lady that it didn't. Sh
( lives near Harrington.
Y THE Centennial seems fruitful in matri
i monial surprises for Smyrna. Anothe
young lady and gentleman of our tow
: who visited the "big show" in compan
week before last came home "man an,
is wife"-Miss Mollie FAIRIES and S. J. Tolsor
e the new merchant "on Clements corner.
Il To add to the surprise the parties wer
;. home here over a week before "our folks
~ knew or even suspected they were married
q The news was not let out until last Sunday
10 A SMYRNA SCHOOL Boys COMPOSITION.
IS Here is part of the composition of one {
t, the boys of Public School No. 3. TIL
p paper is headed Composition on Dell
ware" and the concluding portion is &
. follows:
ot Dover is the capital little town about
Or miles below Smyrna Dover has many fin
20 buildings it has a splendid Court Hou'
and State House and a strong Jail whei
" no body can get out when they get in or
,; Of the cells They have splendid Acadan
IS wich is called Conference Acadamy. b
re- che young men around Dover care mo
\ for fun then they do for work such as Ba
=, Ball shows d Co they think more of Ba
q Ball than any thing else l expect Wou
It. play all the year around if they could b
is they always get beat. But Smyrna is
~ right nice town the men think more
= work than they do for fun but the Smyrl
~ Base Ball club can wax the Dover eli
at anytime Smyrna is the largest town in D.
lal aware it is surrounded by small tow
namely Whapon Irishtown Duckcre,
Smyrna-Landing Spruancecity Clayton Ji
town Petersvills. And now / think l "
nd wind up with our nice town of SMYRN
es.
-, MORE ABOUT THE KENT RAILRoAD.-Wi
= reference to the unpaid land damages
nu the Whortenby estate at Clayton from
,h Bombay Hook railroad there is some o
e5t complications. At the time the road Y
10 built it was not fully established in I
-; public mind here that Whortenby VOL
-. get possession Of the property, althou
IN the q. S. Supreme Court, we believe,
rendered its decision in his favor. A nu
Der Of the property holders there "
though they were the lawful owners Of
disputed lands held out long after this,
rds willing to believe their fee simple de
aw, were mere waste paper. OF course
the railroad company, or Col. Bingham, '
- was acting for Gould and the New Jez
Southern, was disposed to take the ben
oP- Of the doubt, like the rest. Besides, th
ight was no one to pay the damages to, at
s of time, and no one was demanding tn
will The road was built across the lands with
protest from any quarter and the Comp
ring has held undisputed control until recer
fair, In the mean time Gould decided to
lam. from under and let the road ego to p
NJ. SO far as he was concerned, and Mr.. Gel
'''' got permission to run il. This he has
rsey successfully since he has been runnin
cted Clayton and has made it pay expense
.lem no more. The question is, Who is 10
| these land damages? They will have /