Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

ouj 4tn ana 0th.
1t is said that it takes 500 bushels O
oysters per week to supply Wilmington.
The steamship ABemarlc now makes but
two trips week from Lewes to New York
A Gospel Temperance reading room was
opened in Middletown last Tuesday even.
/ ing.
, The storm of Friday week. 7tb. badly
damaged the railroad pier at Lewes. and
wrecked one or two vessels.
The Court of Chancery and Orphans
Court OF Kent county, will commence their
iall session at Dover on Monday the 24th
inst.
I. F. Hammersley, of Milford, is going
to erect handsome new drug store. on
the site of the old Moore confectionery
store.
Considerable excitement was created at
Lebanon, Forest Landing) one day re.
Gently; steam tug-boat made its wav up
Jones Creek to the town.
The Methodists of Milford are going to
get something loud and heavy in the organ
line, and the Hayes Quartette gave a con.
cert for their bcnfit last night.
Rev. Mr.. Graham of Christiana is a busy
man. BESIDES teaching the public school
OF the village he fills two PRESBYTERIAN
pulplts-Christiana and Stanton.
Two new papers were started in New
Castle county last week, one at New Castle.
called the New Castle Times, and one at
Newark called the Newark Lc@ger
CLERK OF THE PEACE AT DovER.-Gov.
Cochran has appointed Robert Raughlev.
OF Harrington, Clerk of the Peace for this
county, rtce VIM. A. Moore, term expired.
RAIL BIRDs.-It is said that on one dav
last week as many as one thousand five
hundred Of these birds were killed and
sent to Philadelphia from the upper part
of this Peninsula
Two OF j. w. Wright's children, near
Magnolia, were severely scaldcd one dav
last week while playing near the stove, the
stove turning over with a kettle of water
which fell on them.
Bradley James, young musician of vii.
mlngton, and regarded as the finest per
former on the pipe organ in the State, died
quite unexpectedly Of typhoid fever last
week in his 32d year.
MILITIA COMPANY AND Brass BAyp.-
Efforts are being made in Laurel. Sussex
CO., to form a Militia Company an organize
brass band. Town meetings have been
called Tor that purpose.
SENTENCED.-DavidP P. Stevens of Murder.
XIII Hundred, was sentencedon Wednesday
by Judge Bradford to six months imprison
ment and 81 900 fine for selling Iouor
without paying the U. S. tax.
Moses Van Rurl- lo,r r NJ :,
lost his dwelling and store house by fire n
week or two ago, will shortly commence
the erection of a neat and commodious
store-house, where the old store stood.
William D. Fowler, cx-Prothonotarv of
Dover, has purchased of the Farmers Bank.
the 5. q. Laws farm, east of Dover. Next
week he will commence the erection of \
handsome residence on the farm, and will
occupy the place after the first of next
year.
ARM BRoKEN.-W. X. Rogers, of Wash
lngton, Private Secretary of President Haves.
fell from the porch of the Surf House ot
Rehoboth on Thursday night and broke
his arm. Mr. Rogers has with his family
been spending good part of the season at
Rehoboth.-Lcues Light.
James Brown, the negro that was shot
by Henry Seymour on the 4th of July. is
aole to be up and around his room. The
place where the ball went into his skull is
entirely healed up, but the ball is still in
ms head. His chances for life arc much
improved within the past few weeks.
An old farmer living near Delmar in
sussex, picked and hauled load of peaches
10 the cars on Sunday, the 9th inst, think
ing II was Saturday. lie did not know he
was wa, wrong until he got to town and saw
Ine inc congregation coming out of church.
When he got home he found his wife in
the wash tub; she thought it was Monday
a fact, several of our exchanges say.
Whether or not hotel can be maintain.
ed at Millsborough, in Sussex, without
whisky, seems to be lively question lust
now 1T has been trying to do so, but It is
GAINED that travellers very often refuse to
stop there 1t they can make it convenient
10 10, so by; Others deny this statement. |
hogar l. hastings, recently of Smyrna, is
applying Tor license, to open a hotel there. |
Quite number of families and others
from the neighborhood of Frederick and |
Magnolla went on an excursion across tho |
Bay to the Sea Breeze Hotel on Friday tho |
ath, and had a terrible time coming homo |
ihey got caught in the severe storm of |
that afternoon and night, and the tug was
AFRAID to enter the creek, so thew beat |
around out in the Bay all night. Nearly |
the whole party were seasick.
The Tax Collectors of New Castle countv |
are said to be badly behind with their col. |
Iectlons, and the county has to borrow
money to meet current expenses. Saws n |
correspondent of Eoery Eceninq: It is a |
iamentable truth that some of the |
hundreds are fearfully behind, the taxes of
1916 even not having been paid up. There
VIII be storm in that respect before long. |
and when it comes somebody will have to |
stand from under, or 60 down.
The editor of the american Grocer, New
ork, recently visited the canning estab- |
llsoment of Richardson e. Robbins. at
Dover, and he furnishes quit long article
TO his paper on the progrcS, nf firm that
commenced business by putting up 600 cans
OF fruit and this year expect to put up a
million cans of fruits, &c. He also pays a
deserved tribute to Mr.. Richardson, who
came to this State from Massachusetts a
poor tinsmith and built up the most
wldely-known canning house in America.