Smyrna times., 1877-01-31
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

Rev. j. B. Mann, of the NJ. +. Church,
New Castle, received a donation last week.
The Drlmprvia Fruit Drying establish
ment, in Middetown, is to be sold 10y
the Sheriff, next week.
Rev. T. E. Martindale, of Union NJ. +.
Church, Wilmington, has been obliged to
seek recreation to recruit his health.
The Legislature has reelected Thos. B.
Giles, OF Laurel, State Treasurer, and Dr.
Pratt of Milford, State Auditor.
One day last week a whole car load Of
live geese went up the Del. Railroad, and
on another occasion y carload of hogs was
shipped.
MARRIAGE LIcENsEs.-The Clerk Of the
Peace Of Kent county disposed of, during
the year 1876, two hundred and five
marriage licenses.
Mr.. Charles B. Ridgway, a recent grad
uate OF Dickinson C0llegs, has been engaged
to take charge of classes in Elocution, at
the Wyoming Institute.
Quite number Of the citizens of Milford
and vicinity are preparing to move to
Texas. }. w. Stutzrr made vendue on
Saturday with that view.
Twenty-six pieces Of real estate are under
the sh-riti's hummer in Sussex county, in
Guiding seventeen farms and lots belonging
to BENZ. StOckley of Seaiord.
A new kind of amusement, called a
valentine drawing, will he held in the hall
at Lebanon, near Dover, on Valentine 5
Day. the l4th of next month.
The prOtracted meetings, now in progress
in the NJ. f. church. in Dover, are growlng .
in interest. The meetings. noon and even.
ing, are attended 10y large concourse OF
serious people.
SAD ADcIDENT.-Wm. West, Jr., on
Thursday night at Lpwrs, was pulling his
gun from y boat when it exploded blowing
his left arm Off He is poor man and
has large family.
SWEET PorAToEs.-Amos Turner, living
near Milford, has shipped this winter, 40(
barrels Of sweet POTATOES to New York fOI
which he received over twelve hundred
dollars net returns.
For FLORIDA.--Wm. Cleaver Of st. Georges
Hundred. is making arrangements to re-
move to Florida where he will engage il
the culture Of oranges, vegetables, &C., fol
r the northern market.
Rev. Mr. Gibson, of the Episcopa
Church, Dover, was too i'll on Sunday t.
fill his pulpit. Rev. Mr.. Huntington, @
the Presbyterian Church, is out again afte
; being confined to the house two or thre,
months with the rheumatism.
man named Webb in Milford Neck
came near drowning himself one day las
. week whilst trying to keep a dog from
drowning that had broken through the ic
I | aI A g.. ~.
= along in time TO rescue them both
y One day last week twenty -four carloads q
Is grain, oysters. &c, were shipped at on
:. time on the AibemarIe, the Lewes steame
n to New York. Oysters have been leadn
n article of transport. Two thousand barrel
,s have been sent north from Frankford alon,
y in two weeks.
y Il has been discovered from an nvestigi
" ton Of the character of the Farmers Ban
=, af Delaware, that ex Gov. Ponder is inelig
u lie as Director and President Of the Gporg
" town branch in consequence ofhis removin
out Of the county. He now lives in Wi
mingtOn.
- - William Fisk Townsend, lately from I'll
ol State OF Maryland, now E'litor Of the Sass'
~ ~ journal. has heen appointed Clerk of Il
~ Peace for Sussex county by the Governo
q The appointment is extremely offensive
- some of the Democratic natives Of tn
40 county.
ed RELIGIOUS INsANITY.-Says the Eve
ty Evrning OF Monlayi Lust night an insaI
IN man was brought through Wilmington {
'Es one of the trains north on the p. w. IL
Iis Il. r. lie il New Englnn'ler, and wee
Tor or two ago went South, under medical a
RS. vice, for the sake Of bis health. Reachil
ire Chestertown, Md, he found great relieio
we revival in progress there, in which he too
n, part and became 40 deeply affected as
le- lose his reason. He was taken home
his brother