Smyrna times., 1883-02-14
on+v and State Items.

ing cm ,Sill please have them IN the once
tI Tuesday afternoon, at c'ocN'
Conntv and State Items.
,os has sensation. A man land
Lew foreion vessel is said to be
Affected with leprosy'
Mrs. Leayitt delivered an excellent
Hi9' "rartive lecture in the NJ. +.
~hnrcb. @%" at FELTON, on Sunday.
rhora have been twelve marriages
g rpturn dav" within a radius of
s,n11 snoo miles of loves Cross Roads,
Sussex county
1rdoe George P. Fisher, Of Dover,
1uuo 1",ooved ON his farm near Wyoming,
and n will in the future turn his atten-
tion to farming
nn Geo G.. Harmon, of Camden,
who last Spring went to Colorado Tor
his health. was brought home last FIJI
day in dying condition.
Twelve ear loads of oysters are
sbipped daily from Franklin Cl'y 10
philadelphia. On boat days ABOUT
twenty-five car loads are sent to New
York.
There are now 275 connections with
tbe Wilmington Telegraph Exchange,
;,cIuding Philadelphia, Darby, Chester,
Media IinwOod, Centreville, Henry
Clav and Newark.
At the last quarterly Conference
hold at Brandywine NJ. f. Church,
Presiding Elder Matlack was requested
to use his influence to have the Rev.
Jobn Shilling returned to the church.
A large tree fell upon a rapidly NOV
mo train on the Wilmington 4 North
ern railroad. Monday and crushed a
norton of the rear car. No one was
hnrt but the whole train made mar
row escape.
at is queer that people who never
think of saving detcctative, aetative
abusative, or cleatative will say pre-
yentative instead of preventive" This
is the way the Erery Erening puts it
and the L. E. is right.
The holding of the next annual fail
of the Dover State Fair Association
at or near Wilmington, is seriously
talked Of This is said 20 be on accOun
of the refusal Of Dover business men
to contribute towards the expenses o
the last meeting.
The young cOlJred girl who was ar
rested in Wilmington last Sunday 70
causing the death of a little child sh
was nursing by holding its bare fee
against hot stove, is a fit subject 70
the House of Correction. She is Onl
ten years fage.
The demand for labor is not yer
pressing in the cities at present, an
the number of laborers who are col
strained to be idle seems to be daily il
creasing, but labor is very scare
throughout the rural districts an
small towns of the Peninsula.
Those who live in this quiet bI
highly-favored Peninsula will feel al
dltional security and contentmel
when they read how their fellow-cit
zens Of other sections are periodical
endangered in life and property by Il
overflow of rivers in their vicinity.
The hous of J mes II. Evans,
Wyoming was forced open and robbie
Monday night, of clothing. silVerwa
and provisions. Loss, $3.50 to $2(
There is no clue as yet to the burgla
Evans Is member of the protect
association, and the case will be work
up.
Brig OrtOldn, from Philadelphia Fl
rnary 10th for Havana, and
Il Charlotte I. .Sbiey, from Philadelpl
II lor Boston, were in collision in the u
n aware bay near Bombay Hook, ca
4 Monday morning, during heavy bic
u Inc brig stove a h Ile in her fOrwi
n 0nlwarks and is leaking consideraL
II Inc schooner had her quarter rail {
ried away, with spanker and boom {
al attached, and lost her boat {
n davits.
III WEDDING.-On Thursday, 9Th in
al the residence Of the brides fail
JACOB Williams, in Wilmington, \
E Z. Florence Williams and Frank
S,nltn ~ were united in uatrimony, /
IA Is. Williams officiating. Miss AC
III .. HOtfecker and Aubrey Yandi
SGIed % as bridesmaid and grOOmsn
MI me pride and bridesmaid were dRe'
M III Wnlte water eoIorcd silk en- tF
H. ana the gentlemen in The usual bl
Aoout one hundred guests were 7
cut, Directly after tn, serving OF
osnhents from rich spread fro
esuiar caterer, the h~i Ie and gr
4OOA the train for New l'0rk.
SHCRCH RUMPUs5 over A CT
as bALL.-The Dover correspond
" Inc Wilmington pap RS are no
H. Perhaps exageTated;y. al unusual
Genleht IN the Circles of the N
Inufch, at Dover Over some of its
ng members engaging in a CHI
Sail. Learning tba- tn.v were Q
~. ~ a1tend 1t, the ente. .,;nment to
.. iS. Si the usual promenade and d
me Richardson II ,.use on Mo
n., the officials of lin church h
g and prepare "a paper
sshg the mannlF Il Getting
1 auu and deception aud warnin
ve members of the church ainst, it '
soa "a gwen to DIR. Caldwell to rea
81 O,e IN" aus congregation on Sunday i
mg aa which he supplemented wit
Sguress s,;. in which j. was stated
rsmglng sung bees in D.vcr, viz: tn
Nun, Nun, billiard room and bar.room,
~u1en sn1 1t stated were under one
~ aa @ Ihe ladies who's: names app
ON ono. sae printed bills of the evs
eTTstlon Th; were severely rrprimans
tar nus ms saetioa'on the part Of the
motin NJ ana church has caused quite I
lsos"n l.,on among the fairer sex, an6
nun,S rIeo upon good authority I
the t6Jer cSat q designations viii be ;
nureh, and, as the Trustees