Smyrna times., 1890-05-21


few years hence Delaware salmon
,r;iI he almost as plentiful as Delaware |
shad.
Tmnroper drainage is the cause of |
numerous cases of dysentary in |
Georgetown.
The railroad employees on passenger |
trains have donned the white cap for
summer wear.
Country stOrekeepers now refuse to
take butter from the farmers. Their
excuse is the scarcity of ice.
Rev. R. A. Sawyer was duly installed
Dastor of Drawyer's' Presbyterian
Church of Odessa, last week.
The Republican nomination election
Cor sheriff and Coroner of New Castle
Countv will be held next Saturday.
Easton District NJ. E. Preachers
Association will convene at Green's
borough on May Goth and 22d inclusive.
JB. Counselman & Co, at Houston.
are running force of 20 can-makers.
Their contracts for peas and tomatoes
are full.
teacher iu Philadelphia received a
note like this last week please ex-
cuse Harry for being late. He had
sbad for dinner"
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee which met in Dover yesterday,
fixed the day of the State Convention
for August 18th.
Several Neutrality-suspicious. went to Phil
adelphla on Sunday to hear Bishop
Tayior. who preached in Spring Gar
den NJ. f. Church.
Benjamin J. Green, a well-known
and hlghly-respectei farmer of near
Warwick died Sunday week, in the
list year of his age.
THE MILFORD CANNERIEs.-D Reis
i running force of ten men steadily
making cans He has contracted for
all The peas and tomatoes he can use.
Governor BigIs has named Willard
Hall Porter, Esq, of Wilmington, and
George V. Massey, Esq OF Dover,
commissioners from Delaware for the
Worlds Fair.
The store of. w. Fox was badly
damaged by an explosion of gunpOw-
der day or so ago. 1t is supposed that
mice ignited matches and thus caused
the explosion.
Glendale is minus two citizens, and
two homes have been broken up by an
elopement. The man leaves a wife
behind, while the woman leaves a hus
band and four children.
Sturgeon fishing is lively at POr
Penn. On Monday as many rs /
were caught to net. The meat is no
bringing as much as last year, bu
better prices are being paid for the roe
Hearn & Short, of Gumboro, hav
moved their saw mill to large trac
of timber in Virginia. Smith anC
Wooten Of the same place are about 1
move their mill to Dorchester county
Nd
Strawberries are ripening very ia-
and the shipments are increasing
almost daily. The crop now promise
to be larger than could possibly hay
been expected a,few weeks agO.-Ldur'
Gazette
John T. Franklin, of Wilmington,
Conference Academy graduate, class {
'S7, was graduated into the Methodi'
ministry from Drew Seminary o
Thursday. Howard D. Smith of Ten
pleyilie, and A. c. Wiley of st. Micl
ael's were also among the graduate
FIR. Grant, one of the most popula
citizens of Hartly, was waylaid by a
unknown person, Friday night, about
o'clock, while on his way home fro
one of the village stores, and struC
with an iron bar on the jaw. NJ
Grant at last accounts, was in critic
condition, his jaw having beeh fra
tured.
JIG. Parker Of Middletown, ha
sold out his retail harness business
William r. Reynolds who took chari
Of the same Thursday. Mr.. Parker W
open up a business in Wilmington {
Shipley street, above Fourth, aud a
Engagements have already been mat
to that effect He will still reside
MiddletOwn.
At the District Lodge of the l. o.
I. held in Smyrna May IA, the folio
Ing was reported as the condition
membership; Smyrna So; State ca
ital, 81 Olive. 40 Clayton. II Co
gu , OOIutIt o. lt ESSAY Ou bIAA Y
rance and religion by Miss Emma j
tice, and address by JOS. H. Nell
were very creditable.
The Association Of Old School b
fists will meet at Petersburg. Il
county, on Thursday and Frid
This association includes within its
risdictOn, the church st Landenbe
one at Newark, one at Wilmingt
one at KentOn and that of Petersbu
They are Of the regular Old-time "ha
shell" variety, and are pretty strO
around Petersburg or Cow Marsh.
1t seems to us that half past f
o'clock is very early hour for
last train in the afternoon going no
70 leave Dover Dover is the cap
Of the state, and many persons v
would not be taken there by priv
business have to 20 there on this
count. The railroad day for DO
ought to be as long as possible, ,instea
which it has been shortened. Morn
NeaUs
In one Of his late sermons in Sus
county, Bishop Coleman was expl
ing the meaning of the rogatiOn d
monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
wat Weekdays upon Wnlcn eSpc
prayers are offered for Gods bles
upon the labOrs of the husbandn
ne claimed Oh account of this pro
ION by the Episcopal Church-a !
VISION not made by any other Pro
ant body that it deserved espe
consideration on the part of the
mers, and might we'll be called .
Farmers Church." He also suppo
.als claim by referring TO similar
u'lon in the Litany which is so
quently used.
The Rev. DIR. Samuel l.. Ora
u Massachusetts, who was nomini
lor United States consul Of Ca
was pastor of the NJ. E. Churc
smyrna from 1866 to 1858 and
aaaslerFed to Providence Confer
ioil. He was born 10 Philadel
io85 and became member of I
ueiphia Conference in 1857. The
orary degree Of doctor of divinity
SSnierred on him in 1885 by the III
eseyan University. At the bT
r Jug out of the war in 1861 be
sS1lve IN ehiisting troops and pre-
psg patriotic sermons in and ar
snlladelphia, and later enlisted
.Eate. After serving a few M
3. was commissioned chaplain o
: SAta Pennsylvania Cavalry, a
ment known "a tsRuehes Ian,