Smyrna times., 1880-07-07
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

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L. r. Wilson, of New Castle county, re-
Gently planted 500 tobacco plants.
During the warm weather the churches
in Milford will hold no Sunday evening
services.
The Newark P +. church last week re-
ceived its new $3.50 organ. 1t has l2 stops
end 63l pipes.
The Brandywine Summit Camp Meeting
will be open from August l6 to Monday,
September 9th.
Both of Middletown's fruit evaporating
establishments will be run to their full
capacity, this season.
The tents on the ground at Rehoboth
are all taken, and the camp promises to be
very successful one.
Register Frazer, reported AZ deaths in
Wilmington, last week. Fourteen were |
from cholera infantum.
Rev. w. L. S. Murray, pastor of the NJ.
+. Church, Middletown, has been granted a |
months leave Of absence.
The growing corn around Middletown
looks exceedingly well. The acreage in
St. Georges hundred is large.
Richardson and Robbins the Gamers,
packed car load of pincapples week
before last and three loads last week
Rev. William IIutchin, pastor Of Odessa
NJ. f. Church, has been granted a leave of
absence for q month during the summer.
St. Georges is a region of fast horses, f.
W. Jester having four that can trot in less
tb0r thraa ,YoiDutnS n TOAonJ f,DO and
Cush one.
On Friday night of last week thieves en-
tered the store of Jacob A. Wilgus q Sun,
Of Roxana, and stole money and checks to
the amount Of $500.
The will of Ex-senator James A. Bayard
has been admitted to probate in the Regis
| ter's office at New Castle. Senator Bayard
is named as the executor.
The Rehoboth camp began yesterday.
Over thirty tents are already occupied, and
the prospect is that several more will be
erected by the last of this week.
At the Quarterly Conference of Seaford
NJ. +. Church held last Monday night, it
was decided to discontinue tho Sunday
evening services during the extreme warm
weather.
The freighthouse Of G. w. Bush e. Son,
OF Wilmington, was destroyed by fire Sun
day night, with its contents. Loss about
$4,000: partially insured. The origin Of
the fire is unknown.
The Presbyterans Of Dover have recently
dedicated their new and beautiful chapel
for the use of the Sunday School The
odilice with all its appointments, is the gift
; of Geo. V. Massey, Esq
f SERIOUSLY INJURED.-A young son of Mr.
) Clark, living near Downs Chapel, Kenton
HID, was seriously injured few days since
while raking wheat by tho horse running
. away and throwing him off.
Messrs Abbott & Co., of Milford, are
about contracting with parties in the city
= to build two new vessels about the size o
) the G00crnor HAIL. which was launched
from their yard a short time ago.
e Last Thursday an extra train was put OF
tho junction Il Brealwater road to ruI
from Harrington to Rehoboth 1t will
o meet the train from the p, w. e b. roat
5 which is due at Harrington at 9:l0 2. NJ.
u until further notice; due at Rehoboth a
, i ll:2O =. NJ.
v STEAM MILL BURxED.-The steam mil
Y about two miles above Delmar, togethe
y with about ten thousand feet of lumbe
d was totally destroyed by fire on Wednesda
n afternoon last. The loss is estimated a
Y. about $1,000.
10 Last Thursday John Levy, of Dover, wa
arrested by U. S. Marshal McMulen an
ID taken to Wilmington and arranged befor
n U. S. Commissioner Smith for selling liquo
&C without having paid special license. Fiv
c. witnesses were heard, and he was held t
y bail for q further hearing.
=. AN EXTRAORDINARY SHIPMENT OF BERRIE
ve Last Monday week was a lively day
IN the farm of Col. J. j. Ross near this tow
q. Four hundred pickers were employed
10 gathering berries and 354 crates of choiC
X. blackberries were shipped to various mari
at cts on that day.-Sc9tord Lnolcr.
id Bishop Scott, of the NJ. f. Church, hi
1t, accepted, in his seventy-eighth year, IL
ne much needed rest from official labor, an
al retires to his home near Odessa. Fifty-fol
so years ago he entered the itinerant ministr,
NJ thirty-two years ago he became boo
H. agent at New York; and twenty-eigl
lis years ago Bishop.
"a. One of Sussex countys bellies, from ne
oh |
in sudden was her departure from home tn
,es she left barefooted, taking one of her ON
nL and one of her sisters shoes in her han
liz That girl meant business. She did not i
on tend to let him change his mind after 81
itv had wasted SO much time in getting him
oc the point.
nd EHumerator Hanson has completed t
sal census of Appoquinimink hundred al
os puts the population at 2400 This is
as very good showing for old Appoquinimin
me Townsend has population of Sl5, an
cal crease of more than hundred per Gel
tic since 1870. More than twenty new bui
rid ings have been erected during the p,
or year. From present indications, it looks
the though Townsend intends to march on.
~ ~ There will be no excursion run over t
~ Delaware railroad this season to Ocean Ci
~, The reason assigned for this uneXpcct
Iii order of things by the Del. r. Il. oflicia
w. w. is that the Wicomico e. Pecomoke road
IN ~ in such bad repair that it would not be 81
hnn 10 to run their trains over it. This will bC
'1o great disappointment to persons livi
y; along the line of the road, but will bC
No great relief 10 regular boarders at Occ
,;ns City who have heretofore been greatly
'rr;' noyed by the noisy and unruly crowds
Use, Oi''0Ai''''
ing. NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUs.-A number
and ladies and gentlemen were gathered at
the residence of ii. A. Murray, florist,
In Dover, on Thursday evening last, to with
our the unfolding Of three blossoms on one
ions these plants. 1t commenced to sxps
its about nine o'clock, and by twelve Wa
4 of mass Of beauty, throwing out a power
pro- fragrance which filled the house. :
hest flower itself is beautifully and symme