Smyrna times., 1879-05-14
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

Methodist Protestant church is soon to be erected
at Greenwood
Strawberries are plentiful in Wilmington, and
festivals are being inaugurated.
The Seaford fire company is trying to raise money
enought to purchasd an engine.
200 hundred acres of land around Bridgeville have
been set i'll strawberry plants this season.
Edward Wiley one of the escaped prisoners from
Georgetown Jail, was captured last week Frede
RIGA.
Among the graduates at the Princeton Theological
Seminary, Tuesday week, VIM. V. Loudcrbough,
of Dover
Mr.. Belts, on Gen. Torberts farm near Milford
furnishes the butter for the Continental Hotel in
Philadelphia
Israel Pusey aged sixty-eight member of the
morocco firm of Pusey, Scott L. Co., Of Wilmington
died last Wednesday morning.
NEW PAPER IN sUssEx.-Messrs. VIM. Pride and
Thomas Hart Of Georgetown. contemplate starting a
new paper in that place in few weeks.
Rev. W. G. B. Lewis, son of Rev. W. G. W. Lewis.
rector of st. Anne's Church. MddetOwn, starts for
his missionary field in New Mexico this week.
There 1877 inmates in the Kent County Aims
house. They cost the county last year S0202l3 The
farm contains 322 acres $50 of which in cultivation
IL TRouBLE-W W Carter Of Middletown was held
in 5000 by Philadelphia Magistrate to answer the
charge Of stealing three law books from the Phadel
phia Law Library.
A fire caught in the woods of Levin Lank, near
SeatOrd, thursday ana burned over % acres OF
standing timber. Forty cords of wood, cut for
market. were consumed.
The Old Dominion Line running from Lewes to
New York. intends putting faster steamer on their
line, that fruit loaded in the evening be landed
| in New York by sunrise.
Court commenced in New Castle on Monday. There
are two or three cases of capital nature. There are
quite large number of prisoners i'll the Jail. The
| session will evidently be lengthy.
The Delaware Baptist Union, gathering of mem.
i bnrg nf tbn (,hurph and
Delaware county, Pa met in Milford yesterday, and
will continue in session two days
All the basket factories in the State are making ex-
tensve preparations for a large trade this Summer
| The berry basket machinery is in motion and the
| large orders for the same are being filled.
! CAMDEN SUPPMED-Presiding Elder Todd has made
| the following appointments Rev. Joseph Robinson
| from FELTON, station to Camden circuit. Rev. j. S
| Willis succeeds Rev. NJ. Robinson at FELTON,.
| The managers of the Camden Camp Meeting me
| last Thursday. and decided to hold camp on thC
grounds this year commencing on Friday, July 25tf
| and continue till the Tuesday week following
| A little son of Reuben Donovan. a farmer living
railroad fatally burned by his clothes catching
fire from burning brush heap few days ago.
Down THE BAY.-A man named Lewis, a day o
two ago caught lib drum fish at one haul. in net
They were good size. He fishing for trout ant
caught drums. They were hauled into Milford.
The Methodists of Milford are making arrange
menta to have grand Festival and jug Breaking
funds to pay off the floating debt Of the Church.
obediah Webb. one of Delawares soldiers of tn
war of 1872 died last Thursday morning at the resi-
dence of his son-n-aw. Jordan Argoe. in Little Cree
hundred. Mr. Webb was i'll the S9th year of his age
Architect e L. Rice, Jr, has prepared plans for tn
new Court House in Wilmington. His idea is that tn
building shall be 100 feet long by sixty feet broad an
sixty feet high, tower TO come to point 12O feet NJ
WALKING woMAN-The Morning Herald says tina
Mrs. Matte Potts, formerly of New York and the In
ternationa Theatre walking match walked into ths
Office al $50 Monday night and announced that sh
! was on her way from Philadelphia TO New Orleans
She left Philadelphia at IL o'clock Monday mOrnin
and intends TO walk the whole distance to Ne,
! Orleans and back in eight months