Smyrna times., 1877-03-21

FARMING AROUND MIDDLErowN.-ThereI |
have been more vendues around Middle
town than usual this season owing to the
fact that SO many landowners. who have
been renting their farms, have determined
to go on them themselves. For this reason
many of tho, sales that have been made
have been by persons who would gladly
have continued farming but were unable to
obtain farms and were therefore obliged to
sell off their stock. So the Transcript
thinks.
ENTERING JUDGMENT BoNDs-The bill
relative to the entering Of judgment bonds
has become law. This bill provides that
no bond shall be entered in the Prothono
tary's Offices in either of the counties,
without an affidavit certifying that the
bond was made to secure the payment Of q
| bona fde debt and not with intent to
defraud any creditor of any money due
him. Official bonds and DEGREES entered
by order of the courts Of this State are cx-
empted from the provisions of the bill
SHERIrF's SALEs-Ex-Sheriff Cooper yes
terday sold at Dover the following the
property of VIM. NJ. Shakespeare: a farm
of PSI acres, on the State road between
Smyrna and Dover, two miles from the
latter, which was sold to DR.. II. Ridgley
for 81 ,S00 a farm of $50 acres to James
l.. Ileverin for $4,000 the Mansion House
in the town Of Dover to Geo. w. Whitaker
for soaps and farm of PA acres, miles
from Dover, on the Dover and Hazlettville
road, to Geo. w. Whitaker for 81 900
Nor A GooD METHoDIsT.-A man with
wooden leg, named George a. Davis, who
said he was "a Methodist Of 20 years stand
ing came into the Sunday school Of the
Union NJ +. church in Wilmington last
Sunday morning. lie stated that he had
come three days before from New Jersey,
and had obtained a position at Duponts, as
an assistant book-keepcr, and that he had
borrowed some clothes in which to come to
church. His breath not having a very
Methodistic odor, he was informed of the
deception he was practicing. After that
the police had to pick him up from the
street and wheel him to the station house
PET MICE-A correspondent Of tue C1al-
nlcrc,G/ says there is now in On> Of the cells
in New Castle Jail two young men who are
serving out thrPc-year sentence. They
utilize their time in making picture frames
of very pretty designs. Some time ago
they captured mouse and began trying to
tame it. Their success was such that they
concluded to increase the number, and set
about making 4 cage. 1t is 2l by s inches,
with glass front. and contains a revolving
reel and swing. y cord passing around the
reel and connecting with a pully on the
top, causes fantastic figure to '..jump Jim
Crow" Their family of mice now numbers
seven, and all are perfectly docile and seem
to know their names when spoken to.
As a result of the revival in Stanton,
a village near Wilmington, where the re-
markahle success followed prayer meeting
started in a schoolhouse by Rev. II. s.
Thompson, i'll February, a movement has
: been put OH foot for the erection of a
Union church, free to all denominations
A lot has been purchased from Benjamin
Dickey, near the centre of the village, and
the lumber materials have been contributed
5 to build frame church 30 by 40 feet, and
- feet high to the square. The mason
work, briclllaying, carpentering and labor
is all gratuitously given, and it is expected
. that the new building will be under roof in
side Of three weeks. The Methodsts alsC
, talk Of building a church, in addition t
: this. The Prcsbytcrans united with Mr.
Thompson in the Schoolhouse revival.
= TIE DELAWARE AND JERSEY FISHERMEN
. Washington Nurch l6.-EX-Senator Frcling
I huyscn and Attorney General Vanatta, o
q
Il made motion on the part Of that Stat
;. for preliminary injunction restrainin!
I the State of Delaware from interfering
with the fisheries, by way of imposing
license fees or otherwise, along the Jerse,
: shore, opposite the city of New Castle. II
Z other words, the much-veXed question o
u the title to the waters of the Delawar
e within a radius Of twelve miles around Ney
q Castle, familiarly known as the oyster wal
u or the Pcapatch case, was the gist Of til
Il application to restrain Little Delaware il
her bellgcrent attitude toward her siste
It across the river. Mr.. Frelinghuysen said
;. and his colleague after him reiterated
d more strongly, that the necessity for a
II Injunction arose from the probability c
d war between citizens of sovereign States.
t. Senator Bayard pooh-hoohed the idea {
d any breach of the peace, because, he saio
the officers of Delaware were understood t
be suspending their collection Of tn
d license fees during the litigation Tn
l. question of the title of Delaware to tn
+ river clear up to the eastern shore of Ne
II jersey was the subject of much nterestin
10 historical discussion, both titles restn
y upon grants from Charles H. to his brothc
70 the Duke Of York. Senator Bayard argue
ie with his usual force and clearncss tn
rather extreme claims of Delaware to til
II. whole of the river and its fisheries aroun
Mt New Castle for twelve miles, while Vanatt
r. denied in toto the existence of the alegc
ce grant by Charles H.. inasmuch as it nev,
d. received the royal seal, for on its passae
re from the scrivener to the seal the Kir
d. died.