Smyrna times., 1877-10-17
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

1HE COAL Olll Ol Iue MelnOUlSJ Cnurcn OF
this town amounts to 800. The collection
was lifted last Sunday.
Miss LoTTIE r. JERMAN, former resident,
| gives her first weeks experience in school
teaching in China. See first page.
THE new NJ E. Church at Kenton is ap.
preaching completion, and it is hoped to
have it ready for dedication in q few weeks.
A LIST of the names of those who have
| been granted Teachers certificates by Prof.
Groves is published on the fourth page of
this issue.
The colored people at Blanco, Kenton
ud., have commenced the erection of a
new church. The Worden Manirg Co.
has the contract.
REV. Mr.. KAY, of Baltimore, an assistant
OF Rev. DR.. j. L. Grammer, is to occupy st.
Peters pulpit next Sunday. Rev. Mr..
Fugett, of Philadelphia, who oficiated last
Sunday, greatly pleased the congregation.
The painters are busy now. The follow
ing parties in this town have Just finished
or are freshening their houses: ex-Sheritf
Wilds, Reese Taylor, DR.. Gootee, Oscar
Fisher, and f. V. Cooper-his houses near
"the pond"
JAS. BoYLEs, adm, will sell the personal
property of the late VIM. Boyles in the
Alley, on DR.. Gootee's farm, next Friday,
10th. Miss Martha A. Stayton will make
a sale of her household goods on Saturday
at the Wallace building, in this town
postponed from Saturday, the 9th.
DRowxED.-Coroner Eubanks of this town
went to Mahons Lighthouse, east of Dover,
last week, and held an inquest on the body
of Frederick Fraux, an oysterman, who
was washed out of boat and drowned on
the night of the terrible storm, Oct. 4th
lie was Russian, aged about 40.
SEVERAL ladies of this town took pre-
miums at the Middletown fair. Mrs Cos.
gritf took six for various specimens of cake
pastry, &C.; Miss Mary f. Hudson two,
one Cor best painting and one for soft
soap; Mrs P. Spruance one for infants
rug and Mrs. DR.. Borst one for zephyr stool
cover.
THos. n. WILLIAMS, editor of the Sussex
Lader, Grand Master of the Masonic
Fraternity and recently prominent edu.
Gator at Seaford, visited our schools last
week in company with Prof Breerwood,
Principal of Laurel Academy. They also
called at the TINES Office. An account Of
Mr.. Williams's trip is published in another
column.
QUITE large congregation attended the
temperance meeting at the town hall here
last Sunday afternoon. In addition TO the
| address Of Rev. +. Stubbs, Tommy the
| Scissors Grinder made a good talk.
Tommy" is one of the Wilmington con-
| verts, and has maintained his badge honora-
| bly, for over year. He had lead wreck.
less life for fifteen years, he said, trudging
from town to town with his grindstone.
He told quite pathetic story in a very
simple, artless manner.
A TRIP TO Fort DELAwARE.-Next Friday
| the steamer Pierrepont proposes to make a
short excursion to Fort Delaware, to afford
our citizens few hours recreation if the
weather is pleasant. The boat will leave
| Rothwells at in the morning Ito suit the
tide) and return about the middle of the
| afternoon. The Fort is only Is or 90 miles
| up the Bay and would be a curiosity to
most of our people. Only 100 tickets will
be sold, at 70 cts. round trip Messrs.
! Iygert Co. do not desire to profit by the
excursion, but a number of persons having
! expressed desire to see the Fort, the boat
will run up there and back before starting
on her regular trip that afternoon.
TBIs week we record the death in the
proper place of Mrs. Elizabeth Davis. She
was great sufferer. For eight years she
was almost entirely helpless, from paralvses.
and for the last four years of her life she
was without control of nerve or muscle-a
| bearly animate specimen of humanity, with
| only enough life to eat, talk and suffer ::
fed at the hands of the charitable and ad,
! mlnistered to by good samaritans. Her
mind seemed to live, through all these
years, only to convey to her the sense of
pain. Her hands and feet had drawn into
miserable contortions, and from long pros
tration, on bed or lounge, or some other
cause, her head had fallen to her left
shoulder, never to straighten.
A BAD Go.-On Monday morning last .
man came to this town with n coIInle of
beef cattle which he sold to w. Frank lief.
ferson, one of our butchers for $50 He
claimed to be from the neiehborhood Of
Massey's, Nd, and said he came here with
the cattle to ship them or sell them for
cash, which he could not get at Massevs,
tie had been here several davs before TO
see about selling or shipping them, and
said then he would return on Monday.
| lie Kept his promise and Mr.. Jefferson
paid nm his price. He departed-his
name never being given or asked for. That
afternoon telegram from Jos. L. Wells,
hirkwood, Del, was received here order.
ing the retention Of the cattle and stating
that they were stolen property. Mr..
Wells, who is from Elkton, formerly owner
Of the stage line between Smyrna and
Chestertown) came here yesterday and re.
cognized the cattle as his They were
driven from his premises after 9 o'clock
Sunday night, and were in this town by s
or Q the next morEing-26 miles. Mr..
Jefferson at once surrendered them and
loses the money he paid the rogue--sSO.
Our citizens greatly sympathize with Mr..
j., the youngest and one Of the most
cnterprising of our butchers. Any one.
doubtless, would have been victirnized
under the circumstances. Mr.. j. will pay
s25 reward for the apprehension of the thief.