Smyrna times., 1883-02-21
County and State Items.

MiddletOWH' IL
Milford. is asking Congress to ap-
0ronriate $4,000 for the Improvement
IF the MispilliOn river.
Tho Dover streets are about a foot |
doan in mud. and it is almost impossi-
HE to cross at some points.
III Marvel of Laurel employs 125
men in his basket factory, and 70 more
in a keg factory at the same place.
Owing to the inclement weather, the
NOW ChErch at Willow Grove will not
he dedicated until after Conference.
BnrClars entered the house of Mrs.
Elizabeth Allen, at Camden, Sunday
NIGHT week, and stole silverware and
wearing apparel valued at $75.
New Castle is going to ask the Gen
eral Assembly for authority to raise six
thousand dollars instead of four thous-
and dollars a year for public school
purposes.
The revival meetings at the NJ. +.
Church, at Middletown, were closed on
Thursday evening. About thirty per-
sons have professed conversion since
the meetings began.
Owing to the damage done the rail-
roads in Ohio and adjoining States, the
officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad
have not been selling tickets to points
beyond the Ohio river.
Corn is but little dryer now than it
was when placed in the cribs. Farm
ers say that it never will dry right.
Much of the cob is nearly rotten and it
is impossible for it to dry.
There is a farmer in Sussex who
counts his acres by the hundreds-his
dollars by the thousands-and yet his
only daughter lives out at service, at
81 per week. She prefers it.
1t is expected that the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company will commence
work on their new line between Balti
more and Philadelphia, at Kiamensi, il
New Castle county, next week.
The celebrated pianist, DIR. Louis
Mas, late professor of the Leipsig
Conservatory, will give an entertain
ment at Academy Hall, Dover, OF
Tuesday evening, February 9th.
The public schools of Georgetown
were closed on Friday of last week fo
want of funds. There is hardly anoth
ertOwn in the State, the size of George
town that does or would permit such
state Of affairs.
Mrs. (. A. Smithers, president, an
Mrs. M. A. COmegys, secretary of til
Benevolent Society of Dover, acknOw
edge the receipt of $75 from the con
mittee of ladies who gave charity ba
In that town on Monday week.
Abram Vandegrift, a son of Georg
'andegrift, Esq, of New Castle cOuI
Iy,WhO was at one time a student (
delaware College, was married o
wednesday last to Miss Emma, daugl
Ier OF Isaac Cieaver, Esq, near Pc
Penn.
:. George Hammill, a farmer wi
ives near the Head of Christian
Church, recently lost all of his horse
!Our IN number, from the effect of &
INFECTIOUS disease. This stroke of M
toII! fortune has been met by generous co
ILlOatlons Li toward helping him out
MS trouble.
James Kirk & Sons, job printers
DoVer, are putting in two hoI
PoWer Gas Engine, Universal Print
.lesS' large paper cutter and other il
pGeEements, making it one of the b.
Inces IN the State. The Messrs. XII
nav nave tne larger part of the State pril
Inc Almshouse of New Castle COT
Is 70 cost 100000, while all the pl
nv se9ool property Of the State is e!
mated at only $4,000. New Cas-
county is about to devote almost
nnr mucn real estate to the support of
i ip@OPers as the entire State has devO
" zo'VOO school children.
IAe rupture between the dane
nnenoers of the N. E. Church,
sn, DOser, and the official Board, as '
tSspeeted, was greatly magnified
me- e writers for the Wilmington dai
W N Dover. Only three individI
na'e handed in their designations
eepted. ~ "o'0 P'oP''
n DELAWARE BAY MIRAGE.-SI
II 1ers 1@I"ers report seeing on the uI
DeiaWare a"I'e Bay last Thursday a dist
ReaoS beautiful mirage, showing Coll
II ahos hOu ana the shore for some dista
II VIZ wiz mat place. Several of the CO
N ed :. ':eamers and sailing vessels Il
w;tL Il tney were sailing in the
otba. Oh1 r. image frequently above
borrn' b1r' The mirage lasted for sey
vpnsalNGTON vpns CONFERENCE A.
& TeoAKlEs, lSS3.-March 9Th, 7 p.
7tb tbP'rance sermOn-T. f. Terry.
r;a0 , I P: NJ, Educational anniv,
Q,L W. Townsend. C. A. Hill.
s;o' ;o'n' P. NJ, Woman;s Foreign
vens -nrs. Ii. Wheeler and Mrs.
viSds,Ia, iSsa, I Pm, !, s: S. Union, Tract.
III ON Snt, f. J. Cochran.
]. IS~i Dnbs5R. : ?. N, Missionary sermon
SMITH, in P. NJ, Church Extension
smith, 1n, c. c. McCabe
FnS1an,,o 2 P. NJ, Temperament
ie,Ihd i6,L I. A. II. O'Brien.
Oh, p. NJ Eraad,~,o..f. fA.a
lo,h 3, hhartzelle and Frysinger.
Hodson r. Z. NJ, Missionary-Hon.
On and the Bishop.
+. L. HoFFEcK