Smyrna times., 1878-02-27


rently reported that Rev. VIM. P. Davis.
mas declined to go to st. Paul's the third
year, Tor the reason that he has a better
oher. 1t is understood that he will 20 to
Dover, and that Rev. j. H. Caldwell will
Jake his place at ST. Paurs. There is still
doubt as to the next pastor of Asburv ::
some are contending earnestly for Rev. j.
Roach, while other favor the appoint
ment of Rev. j. A. B. Wilson.
GRANGERs.-The Patrons of Husbandrv
are making new efforts to strengthen their
order In Kent county, and acting under
advice from the State Grange. The State
Capital Grange is holding a series of meet
lngs all over the county, in the school
houses. These meetings, being of a public
nature, are for the purpose of more clearly
demonstrating the purposes of the Order.
The meeting are very interesting, and
Messrs. Cahoon and Young, of Dover, are
| the leading speakers.
WILMINGrON's HOLLY TREE Iyy.-The de-
voted band of men and women who have
laborsd so persistently and successfully to
establish "The Holly Tree Inn" have a
right to rejoice heartily over the compile
ton and opening of the fine structure
which was dedicated last Wednesday night.
In general way the object is the promo.
ton OF morality and temperance, not by
any crusade against liquor, which is left to
others, but by providing respectable inn
and restaurant where good meals can be
obtained and where men and bows NAV
comfortably live or congregate without
being subjected to the temptations en-.
countered in public houses where LIQUOR
is sold
Recently the society has determined to
attempt to offer the advantages derivable
from this feature to special class, that is
to apprentices and other young men who
have no homes of their own in the CITY
They have accordingly fitted up their lodg-
ing rooms plainly but comfortably, and set
aside a separate dining room for permanent
boarders, and they offer plain, wholesome
board, comfortable lodging and all the the
comforts of respectable inn to boarders at
the extraordinarily low price of 50 per
week.-Every Ecening.
COLLINS AND CHAMBERs.--THeir Case In. |
der Consideraton-An Effort to S1ye their
efforts have been made !
to secure pardon for the two negroes.
George Collins and SamI Chambers. who
were sentenced to be hung, at the last
term OF Court, for committing an outrage
upon woman named Kate Smith. These |
efforts have been mainly conducted by J.
l.. Fallandigham, Esq, counsel for the ac.
cused' and Henry w. Morrow of Whining.
ton. The basis Of their operations was a
well-settled conviction that the woman was
OF bad character, and that the alleged ont.
rage was performed with her free will and
Acting upon this conviction thew viz.
orously prosecuted their inquiries, and re.
Gently discovered that James Smith. whom,
Mrs. Kate Smith swore was her husband
and who at the trial testified that tho
negroes first knocked him senseIess and
then made the assault, was corresponding
with one of the prisoners confined for n
minor offense at New Castle. Smith had
made the acquaintance Of his correspondent
while attending the trial.
10 him the unwary Pluck " wrote from
Philadelphia that he had quarreled with
= Mrs. smith," that she was not :" Mrs
smith" and never had been that before
her sojourn on the Peninsula she was an
inmate Of house of ill.fame, and that
because she had returned to her wild life he
would live with hernomore. Asfor his own
testimony against Chambers and Collins. If
was false. This clue was handed over to
detectives, who went to PHILADELPHIA. to
ook for the Smiths. They found Smith in
, little house on Swanson street above
seventh, and, arresting him, brought their
prisoner to Wilmington. He says his real
name is James Clegg and that he is a
native Of Bolton in Lancashire, England.
butcher by trade, and that he has been ,
m this country about 16 years. According
10 his story he first met the woman known
~~NS CiAi1h1 Oub WHOSE real name
he says is O'Toole, in Washington Square.
on the Fourth of july last 6
md that she was a woman of the street Of .
he very lowest class. From Philadelpbia ,
hey went on tramp together, first to
Salem, New Jersey, and then cross.
ng the river to Delaware City, where.
hearing that work could be procured at
Round Top on the Eastern Shore of Mary.
and, they tramped thither, and, being un. {
uccessful in obtaining job, were on their !
way back when the outrage was alleged to
nave been committed. While in waiting
1t the Mayors Office, the woman herself
vas brought in, having been found living
With another man in a small house located a
It No. 7l8 Swanson street. She was very y
lefiant at first, but when confronted with I
rer quondam husband, she broke down i'm. r
/;
On arriving in Wilmington Smith was
aiken to the Office of j. L. Vallandigham.
ESQ.,, and after being examined was sent to b
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