Smyrna times., 1877-11-28

III saturday ECefp ECenlh9 states tnaI
project is under discussion there to get the
State to release its mortgage of 100000 on
the junction q Breakwater and the Break
water & Frankford roads. This effort on
the part of Sussex to shirk the payment
of its debts is especially distasteful to New
Castle. New Castle has built three or four
roads and did it without State aid. The
citizens of that county say they cannot
afford to build roads for themselves and
pay their share of 100000 for roads in
Sussex besides.
Nor MANY CHANGEs.-A correspondent
of the Republican says there will not be
many changes among the M. f. ministers
| next Spring. He says: As but ten ministers
Will have to change on account OF the three
year rule, and siXty-fOur Of the one hun
dred and twelve are now serving their first
year, and quite Il number of the second
year men are expected to be returned for
the third time, it Is thought that compare
lively few changes will be made at the
| approaching conference. This is all the
more likely as it is known that the presid-
ing Bishop has mind of his own-Bishop
| Foster.
ANOTHER PENINSULA RAILRoAD.-A cor
respndtnt of the Ecery ECeainq and C0mmcr.
cal says that another railroad is to be built
lmmediattly-theco contract for the grading
and bridges having already been giving out
from NewtOwn Junction, on the Eastern
Shore r ilroad to Cnncoteague Sound.
One of the most important results of this
new branch will be to divert trade in the
direction of the Delaware and p. w. & b.
Railroads, making direct, short and quick
route to Philadelphia and New York
The large oyster and potato trade of Chin
coteague Island and the adjacent country
Is now controlled by the Old Dominion
Steamship Company.
The storm of Saturday flooded all the
"SOuth side " of Wilmington. The cxtan.
slve ship yards of the IIarland Il IIollings-
worth Co., and Pu>ey, Jones q Co. were
Hooded, together with some of their build
nGS. Great damage was oCcaSOned to pig
pens and other unprrtcntiOus structures
which, together with their unfortunate Oc-
cupants, were washed away and Hoated
around in the most bpwildprug confusion
The pigs and the pens got badly mixed.
and several disputes among the owners
followed. Muskrats were among the un.
fortunate, and numbers were driven ashore
and killed with guns or sticks. The snakes
also suffered, and great many sought
, refuge in the low trees far out on the marsh.
THAT Sussex FoRTUNE.-La>t week we
spoke Of an old Sussex county bachelor
who recently died in New Jersey worth a
million and II half of dollars. The Break
'rotfr Light says of him: Mr.. Lewis resided
: in his younger days in Indian River
; hundred, and was Il "bouud bov F" TO Levi
; Hill. He failed to serve his apprentice.
= ship but ran away a few years after he was
indrntured and took up his home in the
t Jaroies." BY good luck and economy he
amassed quite Il fortune. He was singu
= lar man in his habits, and very eccentric in
his ways. He never married and left nc
?, heirs except those who reside in this county
, His brother Jessee lived and died in this
!, town. Among the heirs are Thomas P
Truxton, Isaiah Howard and a Mr.. Snyder
;, of this town, Motion Pepper of George
town, Thomas T. Joseph of Milford, Nehe
miah Walls Of Laurel and others.
a Sussex WOMAN IN TRANCE.--Th,
. Brrakroter Light is responsible for the fol
lowing yarn On Tuesday afternoon Of las
;. week, Mrs. Messick, wife of Jas. Messck
:, of Laurel, went into a trance, and remain
: ed in that condition twenty-four hours
. Mrs. Messick had been in bad health fo
several months; she was an enthusiast in re
is llglOuS doctrines, was a member of the NJ
e L. Church, of that town, and had 20 all an
=, pearances, been an ardent believer. Sh,
q awoke from her trance the next day, mad
II some warm revelations about certain per
c sons in the town and then died. Says th
I. Light: Her deepest grief and sorest trouble
a seemed to be, that, she had long asso
ciated with persons in whom she had tn
greatest confidence but that in her vision
) she had learned that they were black a
heart. One gentleman in particular sh
i' talked of, whom she said was an open prC
: lessor and made great pretcnsions, but il
u hIS heart he was a deplorahle hvpocrite
After begging her friends to warn him an,
VI few others to do better, and lead a nev
u life she turned over, with her face towar
the wall and gently passed away. Tn
n whole matter, in every particular is
4 mystery, and has produced a great senst
=. ton in the town.
le SUICIDES IN THE ALMHOUSE.-Two inmate
ii OF the New Castle Almshouse, at Wilmn.
le ton, committed suicide, one last SATURDAY.
pr and the other on Monday, one a ma
rs named ThoS. Gentry, and the other
ry woman, named Daniels. Both were insan,
Gentry was afflicted with monomani
p relative to his domestic affairs. lie live
~ near Glasgow and had been in the insan
~ department of the almshouse three or fou
~ years. One of the keepers found hir
~. laying upon his stomach, his head on tn
A HV"'Vi' h"NIHS StIduEleu nlnSeH With u
~ blanket, which was about his neck II
- was aged about 33 years. The woma
-, Daniels committed suicide 10y hanging. Sh
~ had been confined in the almshouse thre
different times, but, upon improvement
was each time released. She was agai
k taken back on Thursday last, having ha
d, another attack of her dstemper Aftt
oi the death of Gentry she was placed in th
e. cell which he had occupied, and WI
K thoroughly searched at the time. On Mo-
n, day morning a keeper, passing the Gel
ne found her hanging, with half dozen ne
as shoe strings, twisted together and tie
la around her neck, and to bar in IL
ly window of her cell, dead. This is II
second suicide which has taken place
al the same cell almost within a day.
TO BE HUNG.-The two negroes who cor
'h mltted an outrage on woman name
re Smith, tramp, near Middletown, la
er August, were tried and convicted befol
oI the court at New Castle last week The
'u names are William Chambers and Geort
o., Collins. Chambers is the more culpable
Ia the two. The woman Smith was with h,