Smyrna times., 1876-03-01
STATE AND LOCALS

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The NJ. E. Church of this town will hole
Its Missionary Anniversary next Sunday.
During the late scarlet fever epidemic al
Lewes single physician had one hundred
patients.
1t is stated that telegraph line will be
constructed between Townsend and Cen
treville, Nd, shortly.
Mr.. B. F. Lippincott has erected in Mid.
dletown, an extensive greenhouse, So feet
in length and IA feet wide.
Rev. George A. Phebus is said to be the
coming Presiding Elder for one of the dis
tricts of the Wilmington Conference.
Henry c. Collision, of Dover, wants to be
nominated for sheriff of this county by the
Democrats. So do a good many others.
Work has been suspended on the new
Episcopal Church at Laurel, Sussex county.
The spire is finished and is SIS feet high.
If any youth here wishes to 20 to a Com.
mereial College in Philadelphia, we can
furnish him with a scholarship at reduced
rates.
Prot. Carnahan, of our Seminary, pro-
poses to open a night school for instruction
in penmanship, bookkeeping. and arith.
metic.
Its stated that the Young Mems Christian
Association of Dover has a membership OF
seventy-five and nicely furnished room to
meet in.
Says the Susser Journal: In Baltimore
Hundred at Buzzard Glory, they call corn
bread John Constant and wheat bread Tom
Seldom.
A little boy near Pennington in the lower
part OF our county has two pets-a cat and
tame rat. The two animals eat and sleen
together.
While digging a well near Seaford a few
days since, a colored man found several
gold and silver coins. Itamounted to some
Sl5 in all.
The public schools of this town are pre.
parlng for public entertainments, to be
held before the school election, the first
Saturday in April.
Farmers in this vicinity speak very
encOuragingly Of the appearance of their
strawberry beds They have particularly
thrifty look.
Mr.. James t. Carpenter, of Port Penn.
sold last week a calf, ten months old.
which weighed three hundred and sixty
pounds for $50.
Among the graduates of the Washinpton
Medical College, of Baltimore, for 1876. is
the name of Sudler P. Roberts, son of Z.
McD. Roberts, of Appoquinimink Hd.
A lively time is expected at the town
election in Milford next Monday, we learn.
The contest will hinge on the question
whether or not the town shall use gas or
oil in the street lamps.
Two well-to-do bachelors of Milford have
made solemn compact, that the one who
lrst dies shall leave his entire estate to tho
urvlvor; provided neither marries mean.
lme. So says the Ne,cs of that town.
Jonathan Carey, a farmer near Frank. {
ora, Baltimore HID, in Sussex, has five
lundred acres of swamp land which pro.
uces from 80 to 60 bushels of yellow corn =
er acre. t
Last week, in Milford, confused chicken f
awk dashed through the transom window g
Ito the house of Mr.. William G. Herring 8,
lrs. ID. made for his hawkship with a 9,
and finished him. but ba II
lowed fight to the last. r
The stores in this town have been clos. g
lg at 7 in the evening for the past seven c'
eeks, during the protracted meeting n
ne plan seems to have grown into favor al
nd there is talk of keeping it up-Satur. m
ays excepted, of course. nj
Inc commissioners appointed to divide
le lands OF James Anderson, decd. late to
resident OF the Bank at Georgetown. have N
ade their report. Mr.. Anderson owned ol
'out 1000 acres of land, in Sussex county re
hlch was divided between five heirs.
AGAIN 1t is stated that enough subscrip. =
ons have been secured,to insure the bpild. !,
g OF the railroad from Lewes to Rebobotb !,
mp Ground and that the road will be in >,
inning order by the 10th of June next IT IT
ne camp commences on the 2lst of Julv. A.
>. Prescott Eldridge, the elocutionist in
we one of his tragic and mesmeric enter. in
lnments in this town last night and he la
Ill repeat tonight. His illustrations in
hgedy and rescitation last night were
ghly artistic; and his mesmeric feats wero N
ally wonderful. tn
Samuel HofE of Lincoln, Sussex county Ii
IS produced crate for fruit which holds II
malt bushel, peck in each apartment ~ ~
ID which is furnished with white oak 70
indle so arranged that it constitutes a to