Smyrna times., 1877-05-09
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
The Methodist festival in Dover, last
week, netted 800.
Court is now in session at New Castle,
and will continue two or three weeks.
Ex-Judge George p. Fisher has finally
decided to remove to Dover and practice
his profession.
John w. Cullen, of Dover, had his pocket
picked while in Philadelphia, Saturday
week, of $75 in cash.
The NJ. E. Sunday-School of Odessa con.
template holding strawberry festival
during the berry season.
The Odessa Dramatic Association con-
template giving q new and interesting
drama in about three weeks.
A trick horse, belonging to O'Briens
circus died in the stable at Middletown,
shortly after the performance at that place.
Ephraim Wilson had hearing in Dover
last week, charged with beating his wife;
he was held i'll $500 bail for his appearance
at Court
A sister Of the famous trotting mare
" Sadie Bell" has been purchased by Dover
gentlemen, it is said, and will be at once
put In training.
1t is understood that Miss Chamberlain,
Principal of Newark Academy, is going to
start a kindergarten in that town, and give
up the Academy.
INsTALLATIoN.-Rev Z. H. Dieffenbacher
will be installed as pastor of st. Johns
Reformed Church, at Wyoming, on Sun
day next, May 18th.
The annual meeting of the Sussex County
Bible Society will be held in the NJ. f.
Church in Bridgeville, on Thursday, the
18th inst, at 10! A. NJ.
A small barn on the farm of B. Wales
near Milford, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday night, with Il lot of fodder,
and few bushels of grain.
On Thursday tomorrow Bishop Lee will
visit Dover and hold services morning and
evening. In the morning he will admins
ter the rite of confirmation.
A splendid new steamboat, to run on the
route from Chester river to Baltimore, was
launched in Wilmington yesterday. She
was christened the B. $. Ford.
John Carpenter, the negro who escaped
from New Castle Jail a short time ago, was
recaptured on Saturday. lie was convicted
on seven indictments for theft.
The residence of the late DIR. A. Brown,
in Wilmington, was totally destroyed by
fire last Friday morning at three o'clock
Loss, $4,000; insurance $1,000.
CoNvENTIoN.--TheG Good Templars of
Kent Comfy will hold their second
quarterly Convention for the current year,
in Dover, on Wednesday May 10th.
A number of young people of Middletown
are going up to st. Georges tomorrow
(Thursday) evening to give concert for
the benefit Of the NJ. f. Church there.
The mare of Nathan Cook of Camden
sold short time ago to some parties in
in Philadelphia for 81 200, was sold few
days since for $1,000 TO 90 to California.
, A new kind of festival or church enter
: tainment is now popular in Wilmington
5 and the upper parts of the State, among
! the ladies' 1t is called the Dairmaid's
Reception.
= a surprise party visited j. w. Stevens, o.
a Camden, one night last week. to give hin
a hearty house-warming in his new home
He and Frisby b. Clark have exchanged
Y residences.
JOHN ii. Paynter, the well-known lawyer
of Georgetown, has had a wen removed
f from the side of his neck. lie is under
! physicians care in Philadelphia and il
, doing well.
. The Local Preachers and Exhcrters
G Association Of Wilmington Conference will
g hold their next semi-annual meeting a
t Middletown, commencing on Friday even
e ing, May 1lth.
: HAIL SroRM.-On Tuesday of last weeI
there was a severe hail storm extendin!
from a short distance west of Hazletville t
s. EastOn, Maryland. We have not Learned
, the extent of the damage.
The Dover correspondent of the EUer
! ECening denies the statement published las
o week about young man at Magnoli
? trying to hang his mother because sh
!, would not give him money.
G One day last week a terrapin was caugh
!, near Middletown with his head fastened il
r a mussel shell, where it is supposed it hat
e thrust it to make q meal Off the mussel
,, 1t was dead when caught in net.
= George A. Millington, proprietor of tn
Jefferson House at New Castle, on Sunda
week turned out fine bay mare on pas
f ture lot, and she has either strayed ava
e or been stolen, as she has not been seei
), since.
!. One day last week. in Wilmington,
4 married lady walked into drinking salool
= kept by a notorious woman named Klingle
o and lead her husband out into the stree
IN by the nose and at the same time CAV
him sound talking to.
"a Mancha, the indefatigable real estat
II agent, has disposed of the farm of w. +
d Sexton, deceased, 2l54 acres, on the LeI
2: T. sic road, q miles north Of Dover, to L. Ne
N son, Of Madison county, New York. Tn
= price received was 1900.
ut The Milford Ne,os is responsible for this
At marriage down the Peninsula lately
1t is said the choir sung just previous to tn
" ceremony "This is the way | long hav
70 sought" and Immediately after the cermOn
Iy "What shall tho harvest 6e."
u HOUSE ROBBED.-A few nights ago tn
= house of Mrs. John Gould, between Wi
- mington and New Castle, was entered
- robbers and robbed Of silverware, napkins
=, etc., to tho value Of about 1926. Ladie
Il were the only occupants Of the house.
" The fat tried out ut the SOAP and tallo,