Smyrna times., 1878-01-09

Pusey, Jones & Co. of Wilmington, are
constructing a model of a lighthouse for
use in the lighthouse department, at Wash
ington The model will be seven feet in
height, and will be built of brass.
UNFORTUNATE.-JohnW w. Hall, of Freder-
lea, has suffered considerable loss by the
gale of Sunday week. One of his vessels,
the WdpOnSa, says the Milford Ne3cS, is
ashore near Bennett's old Pier in Milford
Neck, another the Samuel Warren, has gone
to pieces near Egg IIarbor Beach and still
another has had all her head gear carried
| away.
Mr.. d. S. Gibson, passenger agent of the
baltimore Ohio railroad, will take out to
Texas, this week, quite little colony of
emlgrants, from Milford. The party, which
is composed Of farmers, will settle in Pales.
tine, Texas, where they have purchased
lands. They are the gentlemen and their
families who sold out their farms to a party
OF Canadians, who are now domesticated
near Milford.
Uncle Toms Cabin" the dramatic
representation of southern life by Mr..
Stowe, so popular twenty years ago, is
again so popular that the Academy of
Music, Philadelphia, will not hold the an.
pllcants for admission. The cOmpany ex.
hlblted in the Opera House in Wilmington
on Monday night to a packed audience.
the tickets for which were purchased two
| days in advance.
The Sussex Teachers Institute. to be
neid at Seatord on Wednesday, Thursday,
friday and Saturday, January Both, and
olst' ana February lst, and Cd, promises to
10 be the most interesting of the three. and
the programme has already been partially ar.
ranged. President Purnell, OF Delaware
College, will occupy one evening with a
lecture upon some current topic, and Rev.
Mr. Brlstor, of New Castle, will also lecture
For some months there has been an an.
tagonlsm between several of the temDer.
ance society in Wilmington as to principles
on which they should be conducted. On
Saturday the different leaders met together.
reconciled differences, and they will here.
alter move along in harmony for one com
mon purpose. Geo. w. Wells and Geo. NJ.
Butcher are spending two or three weeks
IN Washington, to aid in the great temper
ance revival now going on there.
THE LEwEs (DEL) SAFE BrRGLARs who
10y some technically failed to be convicted
at the last term of court at GEORGETOWN.
have met their deserts in New Jersey,
They seem to have gone directly from this
State across to Mt. Holly, where they at
tempted to break into the house Of a rich
Old farmer, but the old gentleman fired
a load OF shot into them as they were
forcing the door. They were shortly after
arrested and this week the court pronoun,
ced verdict of guilty" on all three.
BUSINESS CnANGEs.-Messrs. Hargadine &
Wallace, says the .S9nttaci have sold out
Their stock of goods and retired from the
mercantile business, Mr.. IIargadine going
on his farm near Leirsic. The store house
has been taken by Mr.. Wm. A. Moore. late
| Clerk of the Peace. The store.house next
to Alderman Dickson has been rented by a
gentleman from Allentown. Pa, who will
open boot and shoe store soon. Mr..
Hiram Reedy is having his store-house on
hoockcrman street painted and fixed up.
lie will take possession in two weeks
The TEMPERANCE Work N MILFORD
Messrs. Lee, Morton and Fox, have kent up
their temperance work all the week, and
their efforts have been heartily seconded
by Revs. Messrs Boynton and Kavnes
The result is manifest in over 600 sinners
TO the Gospel Temperance Pledge and the
commencement of IL reformation among
the drinking people that is already re.
markable. Scores of drinking men have
abandoned their cups, among whom are
several OF the worst drunkards in the COM
munity. Besides this, many of the young
men who were rapidly forming the habit of
drinking, have been induced to halt and
change their course. Meetings have been
held every night this week in one of the
churches, in Reedy's Hall. or on the street,
and the cause has been greatly promoted
NecS.
EMIGRATION TO THE PENINsULA-A party
OF Canadians, numbering some twelve or
fourteen, men, women and children, went.
last week, to Magnolia, where they intend
settling and engaging mainly in the raising
and cultivation Of fruit The party hailed
from Brooklyn, a post village of Canada
west about thirty-four miles northwest of
Toronto, and were attracted hither through
the efforts of the Mancha Real Estate
Agency. They appear to be very good
class OF emigrants, robust, intelligent ard
industrious. The leader of the party states
that the emigration fever is actively spread.
ing in that section, and numbers are selling
out their farms and stock and making
preparations to remove southwark, this
Peninsula being their main objective point.
During the past two weeks" said he,
there have been about thirty who have
located themselves in the neighborhood of
Magnolia, and some fifteen or twenty more
may be expected within another week"