Smyrna times., 1881-07-20
The camp meeting near Milton will conf
mencG on Friday the Goth.

thirteen Thousand anu InlfJy vessels
found shelter at the Breakwater during
the last six months.
The dead body of man supposed to
have been victim of the Beatrice disas- |
ter, was found on the beach at Port Penn |
on Sunday. Monday the body was buried |
in the "Waterman's graveyard
Magistrate Vandegrift, of Wilmington,
Monday held John Hardy to answer for
entering the house of his sweetheart's
fatherand threatening promiscuOus slaugh-
ter because his love affairs had gone awry.
A New Castle man while unloading coal
from Il car found i'll the coal IL roll of notes
amounting to 500. He thought at first
that the notes were counterfeit and began
giving them away, but discovering that
they were genuine he secured the return
of all except two so bills.
The Casho Machine Company, of New
ark, intend going extensively into the
manufacture of iron axles, and give up the
manufacture of threshing machines. Six
hundred shares of new stock have been
issued, and are all taken, the principal
buyer being Mr.. Bellah of Wilmington.
Thomas Mason, the negro who shot the
cOlOred child, Mary Draper, i'll Blackbrd
hundred, is still at large. Attorney-Gen-
eral Gray says the deputy coroner's jury
having acquitted Mason, he does not pro-
pose to take any present action in the
matter, but will await the finding of the
grand jury.
The Levy Court was i'll session last week
and passed Il resolution authorizing the
| County Treasurer to borrow sufficient
| of I,, lal,f
OF interest not exceeding 49 per cent.
! per annum. tits stated that the indebted
ness of the county at present is about
J $4,000.
An old gentleman named Simmons,
! near FELTON,, was called upon to repair an
engine one day last week. After working
Il short time on it, and getting il all right .
he sat down under tree, AMI ii Il fcw
minutes rolled over and died. As the dag
was very warm, it is thought he was over
come with heat.
Miss Maggie Chamberlain. living about
one mile from Newark, committed suicide
ON Thursday night by drowning herself in
/ William McConaughcy's mill race in IS
inches of water. Upon her disappearance
the country was searched. The body was
found on Friday afternoon only half
mile from the house.
Several persons from Milford and vicin-
ity. says the NeUS, are now prospecting in
the Southern States for places where they
can advantage0usly operate fruit evapora-
tors. The fruit sought is the peach, and
some have found districts where several
thousand baskets can be procured at a
price at which it will pay to eyarOratc.
SAD SUICIDE.-3Iiss Adelaide Boyd,
daughter of DR.. John Boyd, of Wilmington,
died between II and / o'clock Tuesday
from the effects of strychnine, administer
ed by her own hand. She had been labor
ing under the impression that the family
was suffering from poverty, and that it
was her duty to save them from want.
James Jacobs and Edward Martin, both
cOlOred, got to shooting at each other on
f Saturday night last, in Georgetown. Six
or seven shots were fired with gun and
pistol, but neither was hit by ball or shot
, except that Jacobs received the mark of a
bullet on the toe of his shoe. Jacobs has
5 been secured but Martin has thus far es-
} capped.
: On Thursday night about II o'clock, a
I, thrcshing machine was burned on the
, Naudain farm, near Leipsic. 1t is thought
E to be the work of a colOred boy who had
; been chastised during the day, by the
> owner Mr.. j .B. .Shahan, who had threatened
= vengeance. The thresher being on wheels
was drawn away SO that no other damage
was done.
FRUIT SHIPMENTS following were
Mondays berry shipments: Philadelphia
e cars; Chester, /: Wilmington, l. The
,b
; and dhuckleberries. Applesare now moving
: north freely. They come from all point!
Il along the road from Crisfeld all the way
y up to Wilmington. \ few tomatoes arr
. being shipped
; For the past few days cholera morbu
g has prevailed to great extent, particular
e ly among old people The attacks ar
=. serious and in several instances hav
- proven almost fatal. The cause has beel
J. in the indiscretion exercised in indulgence
/. of food. The doctors attribute the trouble
- directly to cucumbcrs and ice water, ant
warn people against them. Morning Ne,Us
EsTABLIsHING 4 CREAMERY. A cream
> cry is to be started near Dover. A mum
Der of Kent county gentlemen are inter
p ested in the enterprise, which is somethin,
altogether new in this section of county
The gentleman who is inaugurating thi
g step is an eastern man. He will com
direct from Chatham, where he has startet
i creamery which consumes four tons c
~ milk a day.-MOrning News.
The statement made in the Morning Neu
- i, that there is great dissatisfaction in tn
70 congregation of Rev. G. r. BristOr, a
New Castle, and that portion of tn
in congregation intended the erection {
err another church, is officially denied by til
o. board of stewards who say that DIR. Bristo
has the full confidence of the community
There were only ten or twelve disaffecte
a, ones and they upon purely persons
rt grounds.
THE SMALL PoX SCARE.-The Repubt
can says: 1.-THE recent smallpox scare
IN the city has almost died out, and if tn
ld people are careful no more danger nee
in eapprehended. The attack which cause
so much alarm last week was only q mil
49, form of Varioloid. only five cases out
= some sixty reported proving fatal. III
M n. most of these dreaded yellow flags hav
" been taken in and no new ones are bein
hung out. 1t is to be regretted that I'll
ia furry which was considerably colored hs
a- injured the business of the city, some
fe the manufactures feeling it very sensibl
The Jackson & Sharp Company lost
- $4,000 job, by the reports"
ST, DELAWARE CENSUS CROP REPoBTs,-
I'D The Census Bureau gives the fulloWin
: figures in relation to the acreage devote
TO the growth of cereals in Delaware
IT. 1880 and the product of the same; I'll
w. acreage of Indian corn was 202, 100, ii
I'm numhpp Of huShals I 176 1870, tho ocr,Ao,