Smyrna times., 1877-02-21
COUNTY ARID STATE TTEErs.


the State.
COUNTY ARID STATE TTEMs.
The basement of the NJ. +. Church, Of
Frederick, has been newly papcrcd and
painted.
The pari5hionors Of Rev. J. /. McKim,
the Episcopal minister OF Milford gave him
a donation party last week.
Dover wants to extend its corporate
limits, So as to include the depot, &c. \
bill is now before the Legislature to that
effect.
Last Saturday ni@at w,.1, t,l, stole Of
John Sharp, in Milford, Was robbed OF a
considerable quaatil! oi -o3,.. and :! in
money.
A man near Frc,;cica recently ate five
| large sugar cakes. such as are sold in
country stores at a penny piece, in twenty
| seconds.
DR.. Thomas CahaiI ST., Of Frctclica, who
has been confined t" ;, room smre August
last, un account vi severe illness, is con
! valcsccnt.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE james B.
Naudain was appointed, last week, by
to reside in Middlctown, in place Of Walker,
time expired.
Rev. p. Coombe will address themembers
of both Houses Of the Legislature, and the
public at large, in the VI. f. Church, Dover,
tomorrow (Thursday) evening. Subject
Local Option"
Draper Voshell, jr., lost his pocket book
containing SlS4 i'll money, on Saturday
afternoon the 10th, between Dover and
Camden. lie had Just drawn the money
out of the Farmers Bank.
In riding in fox chase in Brandywine
Hundred, near Wilmington, one day last
week man named Wilson had horse
valued at S22j to drop out and die by the
road side. He had not ridden very fast.
a fire broke out in the hay barracks at
Fort Delaware last Wednesday afternoon,
burning the barracks to the ground and
consuming about 40 tons of hay. The fire
is supposed to have been caused by boys
smoking around the hay.
strange man, who took lodgings at the
City Hotel, i'll Wilmington, on Saturday
night, was found dead in bed on Sunday
morning. A coroncr's jury decided that
he died Of brain fever. lie seemed we'll
enough when he went to bed
During a fox chase near Wilmington
last week the fox was pressed so hard that
it ran right in front of a moving train,
which struck it and crippled it so badly
, that it was picked up by the engineer and
: brought to the city. 1t had to be killed.
Local OPTION PETITIoNs.-Al persons
F having local option petitions will please fill
up the blanks with the place they come
from, and the county, and send them al
once to Dover, directed to the undersigned
2. COOMBE.
Forty car loads Of grain, oysters, and
+ other Peninsula produce is now an every
trip cargo of the Old Dominion Steam
Ships from Lcwes to New York Thu
= Sussex has drawn 100000 from New Yorl
! for corn and other produce in the last four
weeks.
/ An attorney of this town was requested
G to draw a dog law to suit the wishes Of "al
s the people" He replied, 81 would as SooI
: turn myself loose in a hornets nest, as g
t before the Legislature with any bill havin;
!. dog in it," The bill will not be presented
|. -DoUcr Sentinel.
r The Middletown Traascr;pt saws that SOM
of the citizens of that town talk of emi
" grating to Texas. They will 90 out on
If prospecting tour next month and if the
n find things satisfactory they will close u
,s their business and 20 out during til
Il summer or fall-so they say.
A young girl named McGonigal fell in til
l. street in Wilmington on Sunday afternoon
n whilst on her way to pay friendly cal
;, and died early Monday morning, at tn
a house of lady on Shipley ST., into whic
" she had been carried. The physicians pro
Is nounced her disease brain fever.
Edward Lord, prominent citizen
Camden, was badly hurt at Lebanon las
le week. He was throwing some fence post
I'd out of granary window there, and i
ne tossing one out nail in it caught in h
at coat sleeve and pulled him out with it. /
le tho fall he broke several ribs, but it
e, thought he will recover.
70 WILMINGTON METHODIST PREACHERS
~ Gossip says that Rev. 4. f. Martindale, {
o. the Union, will 60 to Middletown, an
e. Rev. J. b. Mann, of New Castle, will com
'o to the Union Rev. Mr.. Sypherd, of Scot
ct and Rev. Mr.. Smith, of Grace, close the
m labors at the above named churches but
II is not yet known where their field Of labc
he will be.
THE DOVER LAWYERS think they pay tc
. much tax, ana one uay laSJ Week JaiheS
y, Wolcott. appeared before the Levy Cou
ne and made an appeal in behalf of the mer
on on bers of the legal profession in regard to Il
ew present rate of taxation. lie argued th
m It was unjust to rate the income of la,
10 yers and other professional men at SO
no while Others only pay on $500. The Cou
or agreed to give the matter proper consider
az ~ ton.
a New STEAMSHIP FOR THE QLp DOMINIC
at LINE.-The Old Dominion Steamship CC
I'M of New York, is having fine iron steam
on built in New York, to ply between Fran
nd lin and Chncoteague Island, She is to |
mt 1875 #. in length, and only IT, draft
ed water, and is to be very handsomely fnishe
fr. Franklin is the terminus Of the railro'
ew which runs to Lewes and connects with ii
ust Lewes steamers (old Dominion line]
New York.