Smyrna times., 1876-08-09
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

Clarence Anderson, druggist Of Middle
town, has sold out to Dr. Adlisson
| 1t is stated that Tho. Grccnly OF Middle
town has a hen said to be % ycars old and
has laid at least 5000 eggs.
William Gray, living near the Kent
County AlmshOusc, has three our four per
icct apples growing on 4 very fine grape
! vine
II. y. Wickcrsham Will not rebuild his
mill at Salem, n. j., which was recently
burned. He sustains an actual loss above
his insurance Of about 5000.
From l30 to l70 persons register their
names daily at the Delaware building at
the Centennial. About onc-third Of the
visitors, however, do not register
The corner stone OF the new NJ. Z.
! Church at summit Bridge, above Middle
town, will be laid on Friday afternoon next
with services appropriate to the occasion.
\ man named Shaw hung himself in the
| New Castle almshousc, at Wilmington, one
day last week. lie was crazy. He be-
longcd to well.to-do family at Newark
\ real estate agent at lIillington, Md,
| has sold for Hamilton Morton, Esq, Of
Mlddletown, a farm in Queen Anncs county,
containing l75 acres, to VIM. j. Bamberger,
of Pennsylvania, for $1,000
a gentleman of Milford who has been
! spending some days at the Rehoboth camp
says that, with the exception Of the preach
ers IN attendance, there was not a solitary
mourner recorded at the camp.
Wilmington won't allow lramps TO hang
around. One day last week the police
arrested IS of them and locked them up
all night. In the morning they wcro re
leased and hurried off at q rapid pace.
Tho bark 4. s. Pope, Of Bordeaux, France,
went ashore five miles below Rehoboth
City, on Tuesday night OF last week and
went to pieces. Capt. Gordon with the
crew and one passenger, thirteen in all.
were all saved
| \ Mr.. Satterthwaite of Stanton. New
Castle county, has grown this season %
bushels OF Fultz wheat on | ! acres of land
-j4 bushels to the acre. The grain, land,
and all were carefully measured by com
| petent parties.
! Miss 5. A. EastOn, who has been precep.
tress i'll Wesleyan Female College, vii.
mington, for a number of years. retires,
and is succeeded by Mrs Mary +. Emery,
who has been preceRkEess at Pennington
| Seminary, n. j.
! c. a. Harrington, living nearMilford re-
Gently harvested $40 bushels of Fultz wheat
| from a sowing of forty bushels-being
yield of 2l bushels for each one sown.
| VIM. +. Davis, on the farm of James
Sharp, near the same town, raised 600
| bushels OF wheat this year on twenty-five
acres. This is twenty-four bushels to the
| acre.
| Ice Cream Island, little tract of land in
one Of the mill ponds at Milford, about
! twenty years ago was fitted up for an ice
cream garden, under the management of a
blind man named Buchanan, and was quite
q fashionable resort. 1t went down, how
ever, and now couple Of negro men are
fitting it up again and are going to try the
| experiment over.
The Spring Branch Camp, near FELTON,,
is now in progress, under the charge Of
Rev. ii. Colclazer. There are 81 tents
not quite so large as last year. Tho Sun.
day crowd was very large. Rev. George Il.
Bristor preached the morning sermon, Rev.
j. i. Houston the afternoon sermon, and
Rev. j. f. Bryan the evening sermon.
The spiritual aspect of the camp is not re.
ported.
There is "muss" among the lighthouse
keepers down the Bay. The Government
has made several charges against Mr..
Jenkins, keeper of the Breakwater Light
house, and David Warrington, of the Fen
wick's Island Light has been removed.
Mr.. Pepper, tho assistant keeper, has been
appointed in his place. Jas Bell, of the
MispilliOn Light was offered tho situation
but he declined it.
There are so many men named John
Burton in Sussex county that they have to
be designated by the initials Of their trades
after their names. Thus, an old man OF
so years died in Indian River Hundred last
Saturday week, and the death was an.
nounced as that of John Burton, G. NJ, the
G. NJ. standing for carriage maker. II is
said that over 80 persons in the county
have had or now have this name, in addi
tion to all the other Burtons.
proposition is on foot in Wilmington
to erect big church, to hold 1900 people
for the Rev. ]. II. Haldeman, the we'll
known Baptist revvalist there. 1t is pro
posed also to call it Gospel Church, not O
Baptist Church. The present edifcc he
breaches in will not hold his congregations
, II seats about 1000. The new move is said
to be engineered by faction in the Della.
ware Avenue Baptist Church, who are dis.
satisfied because they can't rule things in
that church.
The excursion to Ocean City, given by
the Delaware Railroad, last Thursday, was
big thing notwithstanding tho miserable
weather. The train OF ten cars left Viii.
mington with only 40 passengers, but be.
fore it reached the beach at Ocean CITY
there were 400 people in the excursion
, party. Laurel, Sussex county, sent 100
passengers. Smyrna sent one-the pro.
prietor OF Foxwelps hotel. Nearly all the
party were from the lower part Of the
State.