Smyrna times., 1879-05-21
Negroes own sl4s5oo worth of property in Dover.

Capt. w. +. Reybold, of the steamer Thomas Oylc
succeeds Capt. Taggart of Philadelphia i'll the man
agement of the Salem & Philadelphia Steamboat
Company.
V. IT, of the Good Templars of this State for the re-
mainder of Rev. A. ID. DAVIS term, the latter having
removed from the State.
An entertainment consisting OF Select readings and
recatOns will be given by Geo. X. PhOcbus, son Of
Rev. Mr.. PhOebus of LAUREL at Morrow's Hall, Sea-
ford on Thursday evening.
Middetown is going to remodel its NJ. Z. Church,
AT cost OF SlOUg ManlOVe - wilson; A. -. CON u.
E IIukill. r. f. Hurn. w. H. Moore and L. L. Martini
dale compose the committee.
The three mastcd schooner Jonathan May was sue
cessflly launched at Milford on Wednesday evening
last in the presence of about five hundred people who
had assembled to see her go OF
According to several communications from Wash,
ingon Senator Bayard is reported as being disposed
pass the appropriation bills, without the riders
which are intended to curb the President.
The owners of the immense excursion steamer
ROckG'cdg which was wrecked on the Jersey coast
during March 1878, have sued the Old Dominion
Steamship Company for $4,000 OH account OF their
loss.
Rev. Wm. " Louderbough, of Dover, formerly Of
Smyrna who graduated from Princeton Theological
Seminary, has accepted call to the Presbyterian
church at ODESSA and will enter upon his work there
| next week.
| over Wilmington. Several houses were struck by
lightning, which stunned at least dozen persons in
| did not recover for some hours,
The Salem IN j. Standard says that fifty thousand
| shad were sent to Philadelphia market last week by
the "gillcTs" fishing between Hope creek and Pcnns-
| grove They only netted the fishermen i'll Phl!GdGl-
| pha on an average OF I'll per hundred
Notice is given by the Lighthouse Board that on
and after July l. 1879, light will again lie exhibited
from the lighthouse at Re2dy Island, Delaware river
twill be of the fifth order lighting the entire horizon
and so arranged as to show white flash every thirty
! seconds.
| ASSESSMENTS OF Notwithstanding to the assess
mput for This year made bv William Fisher Tow,
| Assessor, the aSseSsabe value of the property and
persons amounts to S1.iS3,SS2; the amount of the
white inhabitants amounting to S&6 293 and Of Tho
negroes, SlS5 $50 The amount of tax To be levied i,
S2OjO, and the rate after making due allowance fol
collectors commissions and dClinqucnts will bcabuu
II cents on the SlOO.
MILTON CmcuT.--The Methodist embroglio occa
stoned by the appointment of Rev. Mr.. Todd to tn,
Presiding Eldership has at last been settled by
Meeting Ellendalc with Milton. calling it Milton cir
cult and sending the Ellondalc preacher Rev. G. :
Gassner to Milton. to take charge of the circuit int
calling young man from Dover Academy Mr. A. L
Prettyman. as Junior preacher. Mr.. GGsnrr is ncv
man i'll this Conference having been transferred from
the west since the last session Of C:.t,rcuccHjor,
Nccs.
Some time ago G. W Hastings. u conductor on tn
| Delaware Railroad tried to pull gun out from tn
debris of train wreck when the gun wa, discharged
WOunding linn in the hand. The hand was ampl
tatcd and buried at Dover where the accident haT
pened. One day recently Hastings who lives in VII
be had it not been cut Of. He clearly felt that tn
hand Cramped and became possessed of an inOl
dinate desire that it should be Straigltcned. ii
accordingly sent to Dover aud had the band taken III
= Sure enough the buried hand was Craiuped IL wa
raightc!C and TcuIc,.. and now Mr. iIasting
feels relieved lhis IS related 10 Dover lawyer oy(
S Hastings signature.
VICTIMS OF THE "CAT"-The usual Court attraction
r were somewhat varied, Saturday morning at Ne
Castle by the first batch Of the regular spring whiI
! pings the victims being persons who had been coi
+ Vctcd Of larceny during the week, and sentenced
:; | the post. They were as follows:
: Sullivan Scholteld, col, for anccnY, ten layhcS
i Francisco I. Marion, the welknOwn Spunish ba
:. | Der. of Wilmington for larceny ~ ashcs
/ Peter Smith, for the larceny of towel ten lashcS
George Waters col, for larceny, % lashes.
d George S. Fisher larceny ten lashCS
= Peter Cooper, larceny 20 lashcs
|. | None of these men sentenced to the pill0r
and therefore the exhibition lasted only short tim
IS ELECTION OF OFFICERS BY THE DELAWARE STA
g AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.-A meeting of the StOc
p holders Of the Delaware State Agricultural Society
r, held i'll Dover last week Much interest was MAJ
$, tested and determination evinccd by those presc
G. to make the association real practical benefit To
e people of the state. The following officers we
unanimously elected; President, Thomas II. Denne
1t Secretary. Il. Harrington Directors George c. obdu
n II. 5. McComb, Thomas ]. Craven. John Iiggil
i Samuel Lindsey, iienry l.. ChurchmGn, RiCha
H. Smith. John Moore J. +. Denney ". =. Seward j.
re Wharton Joseph Mcdaniel, d. p Barnard, Jr.
Bailey. }. d. Burton A. T. \. TOrbert. Robert DcnnC
n Alex. johnson, James Ponder. HarbeSOn Hickml
Or | Albert Currcy, Henry !. Cannon, Samuel Keun(
CT Jacob Moore, James j. Ross Ebe Tunnel An exec
IN | te0s formed for the purpose of accomplishing
"a | aims of the society. BY Il law passed at the Ii
1n session of the Legislature the above board compo.
I'd the State Board of Agriculture.