Smyrna times., 1877-01-24

and best managed in the State, never hay.
ing lost one dollar, or been compelled, ex.
cePt in one instance, to ioreclose a mort
gage.
! BY the report Of the Delaware Railroad
Company for 1876 it appears that the re-
| celpts from passengers Were Sll,16l.97
more than in 1875. but the freight receipts
were $l29,7777.22 less than in 1875, which
Is partially due to the Centennial ON the.
one hand and the reduced peach crop on
the other.
IL LUCK.-Thc Clerk of the Market, in
Wilmington, Jos. Barr, is in luck. HIS
sister died in Philadelphia recently and
left him $4,000. also $1,000 apiece to each
o! his three sons, Edward, Joseph and Adam.
and $1,000 to his daughter, Mrs. Meredith.
! The deceased is said to have been worth
over 100000.
The new bank in Milford makes a good
showing. Its capital stock paid in amounts
to S57,225; its loans and discounts for the
post quarter to SSl .406; its Individual de.
posts to Sj4,6l2. Smyrna's new bank
made the following showing: Capital paid,
! SOIL loanSand discounts Tor last quarter
S96,OSI; individual deposits, $46, $50.
The financial condition of the Preshy.
healthy. The annual report for 1873 showed
its contributions for all purposes, to be
s., 1883; the contributions for 1876 were
only Sl.3Sl. In 1878 the minister's salary
/ DIR. Pdtt0n) was 81 $50; for 1876 he oniy
| Received $50. Yet the membership is l65
at the close Of this year to l46 for last year
A SINGULAR EscApE.-One evening last
week Il farmer naned Talley. near VII
min2ton, whilst taking his little grandson
up to bed, with the child in his arms and
Il lamp IN his hand. trrped and fell. His
wife was back of linn on the stairway,
and all went pellme.l to the foot ol
the stairs tOGHthrr, hut strange t, eav, no
serious injury was done. The lamp WI,
not even blOken.
Destructive FIRE NEAR WLMINGToN.-
Inc large barn ON the farm OF the latr
james X. Lyman. situated on the road
leading from the Newport pike to Brandy.
VINE Springs, wa, destroyed 10y fire between
three and four o'clock last "Wednesday
morning, with all its contents, consisting oi
SIX horses, twenty COWS, two pigs. fifty ton>
of hay, 800 LIlShel> OF wheat, 800 bushels of
corn, and a large lot of farming imple.
mentS. Loss, about $4,000.
WILMINGTOX MECHANICS GO TO SorTH
AMERICA.--SiX young mechanics left VII.
mlngton, on Wednesday for New York
whence they are to set sail Tor C,l4lcas, the
capital of Venezuela. They are to he EN-
ployed 10y company which has under
taken the Improvement and reconStru. .tion
oi the city under the patronage of the
government. The city was DESTROYED hv
AN earthquake in 1872, but has been grow.
ing rapidly within the past thirty years.
William Day, son of Mr.. Joseph D,y.
late of Smyrna, while driving one Of his
fathers wagons, helping to move from Mid.
dlet"wn into Kent county. Md, in descend
ing the hill at S,SSafras. the bits in his
horses' mouths parted and they thus being
unmanageahle ran violently down the steep
place pel-mell into Geo. Krnnpdv's saw
logs and lumber. Things were pretty
generally mashed up, hut il it had not been
for the logs the team would have plunged
| square into the race.
An election of Trustees of the Middle
town Presbyterian Church took place last
week. The board is as follows Andrew
Eliason, Joseph West. Robert A. Cochran,
Samuel Pennington, II. D. Howell, d. L..
Dunnlng, Charles Tatman, Jr., j. NJ Roth
well, Thomas c. Murphy, Edward Reynolds.
u. w. w. Naudain and Alfred =. Crot kett
| 'S''',''S 'OI''""'' -. l..
Dunning; Assistant, Edward R.vnolds :
Secretary and Treasurer, r. II. GIlpin /:
Librarian. Chas Gilpin Assistant Librarian,
Frank West.
DELAwARE's FRUIT. CRoPs.--The berry
trade of Delaware increased from 20 car
loads in 1868 to 49, car loads in 1876. The
largest yield was in 1873, when 905 car
loads Were shipped. The fluctuations in
the peach trade have been very great. In
1868 but % car loads were shirpptl, and i'm
1873 there was marketed S0I2 ear loads.
The crop last year fell off to 81 II car loads.
From 1867 to 1876, inclusive. the p. w. q
b. r. Il and its branches Transported
332OS Car loads of peaches and 455l car
loads of berries-3l9,474 tons in all-and
collected as treights from these two items
$l,IS3,92l.S3.
The PRESENT LICENSE LAVA gentle.
m IN who Is in position to know, recently
nade the following computation of the.
amount of revenue lost to the State, hy the
working Of the liquor license law, in New
Castle county.
In 1873, when the law went into opera.
ton. l07 persons. after making application