Smyrna times., 1877-11-07
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.


COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
The court house at Georgetown is under
going some repairs.
Henry W. Cannon, editor of the Dover
Sentinel, is an applicant for the U. 5. Mar
shalship.
A Baltimore lady, Miss Cole, is to enter
tain Middletown on the 22d with music
and literature.
An old lady named Hannah Scotten,
aged "a years. died at the Almshouse, near
Camden last Friday.
Senator Bayard, Congressman Williams
and ex-Gov. salisbury each have son at
the University of Virginia.
There is a general complaint about
Georgetown that both sweet and Irish pota
toes are keeping very poorly this season.
Rev. j. II. Caldwell, of Dover, lectures
to morrow night to the Masonic fraternity
in his own Church, NJ. +. in that town
The Deiamarean learns that hogs are sick
and dying out in West Dover Hundred.
One man lost fine hog weighing about
300 pounds.
Rev. John A. Roach, of New York, a
native and former pastor of Smyrna, preach
ed at Asbury NJ. L. Church, Wilmington,
last evening.
The government is preparing to remove
the wrecks of the sunken vessels at LeweS,
as they obstruot the harbor and endanser
other shipping
The new Methodist Church at Delaware
City Is approaching completion. 1t is to
/ q. Ii, y,l,, - Il. 4
Rev. B. F. Price is the pastor
Miss Lorng, returned missionary from
Syria, is to visit the churches of the New
Castle Presbytery, and will visit most of
the Presbyterian Churches in this State.
The P. w. &. L. r. r. Co. gave dinner
to the section bosses of the road, at the
Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, ON Mon
day week. About twenty were present
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATGox.-Gover
Cochran has issued his official proclamation
for the observance of THANKSGIVING day
which occurs Thursday the 29th instant.
Sam'l Russell, an old man of 7S years, in
Mill Creek Hd., New Castle county, hauled
and cribbed five loads of corn one day last
week-rnore than an average days work
Samuel NJ. Harrington, of Wilmington.
Is engaged as counsel in a railroad case in a
Court OF Chicago, ILL.,. in which the opposi.
ton have thirteen attorneys employed
against him.
New Castle is to have course of lectures
under the auspices of the Baptist Church.
This Church seems determined to get IA
ioothold in that town, under the pastorate
of Rev. Mr.. McMaIin.
The cruel habit of robbing wrecked sea.
men and vessels which is practiced at
Lewes by the citizens is arousing public
indignation, and demands prompt and
complete suppression.
SALE OF FARM.--James P. Rothwell has
sold his farm on the Levels, five miles from
Middletown, to Col. Joshua Clayton, for
Sr9OO. The farm contains $50 acres and
Is right nice property.
Edw. Reynolds, editor Of the Middletown
Transcript, has sold his paper to w. Scott
Way, gentleman from Cecil county, Nd
Mr. Reynolds goes back to his " first love :"
the mercantile business.
Ex-Gov. Ross is selling off bis personal
property with the view of relinouishinp
J farming. 1t is rumored that he will re.
move to Florida. His farm, at Seaford, is
one of the finest in Delaware.
The GRANGER CoMBINArIoN.-D Delaware
Changers, says the Milford Nesos, claim to
have saved $4,000 in the purchase oil
phosphates for the wheat crop through the
combination effected by the managers with
the dealers.
t PARsONAGE.-The members of the NJ. F.
: Church in Georgetown (Rev. J. B. Walton,
pastor,) are soliciting subscriptions for the
4 purpose OF erecting a parsonage. DIR. c. II
D Richards has given them the lot immed
D ately opposite the church.
BURNED TO DEATH.-A little child between
? two and three years Of age, daughter oi
. Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Bowdle, in West
Dover Hd., about two miles from Marydel
was burned on the 23d ult., by its clothes
Z taking fire at the stove hearth, and died
= on the 25th ult.
!. LAND SALEs.-Wm. Becker has sold hi,
e farm on kits Hammock road near Dover
y containing so acres, to j. F. Mancha. 70,
:. $4,000. Messrs. Wallace & Burton of thai
o town have also sold a farm of 100 acres
e two miles east of Marydel, to the same pur
s chaser, for 81 800
= 1t is said the negro man Scott, who com
!, mitted an outrage on a young girl named
!. Foracre, near Wilmington, few week,
/, ago, also made criminal assault on an old
q colored woman of 60 years, the very same
! day The Governor has offered u reward d
: : $500 for his arrest
o WORMS IN WHARF.-The Dover Sentiae
d says that farmers are complaining of {
e worm that has attacked the young wheat
II plant and are causing it to die. The worn
e bores into the root of the plant causing tb,
d plant to first turn yellow and finally die
= : This IS something right new in this locality