Smyrna times., 1893-01-25
ronnty and State Items.

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Miss Florence Gildersleve Of Camden,
ia going to Washington in a few days
10 study music.
Captain Robert w. Dasey, of Frank
ford. is in the field for the Democratic
nomination for Governor in 1894.
Mr.. d. w. Corbit and family of
Odessa, have gone to Wilmington, to
spend the remainder of the winter.
Peter Lowber, had his ears badly
frozen last week while driving from
Dover to his home near Cowgill,s Cor
ner.
Iohn Hayes, blind negro, froze to
death at Bridgeville, Wednesday night.
He fell asleep in his cabin and the
asighbors found him next morning |
dead.
The chorus at the Moody and San
Lev meetings, which began in Wilm- |
inSton on Sunday evening, will consist |
Of 500 voices under the direction of
1T Clymer.
lanes c. McComb, the Claymont
milionaire, has given notice that he
Srill apply at this session of the Legis-
Isture for divorce from his wife, Mrs.
Mary L. McComb.
Mrs. Henry Virden, widow of the
late Captain Henry Virden, we'll known
,brougnout Delaware aud Pennsyl-
yania, died suddenly Thursday after
noon at her home in Lewis.
Albert Constable, the noted lawyer
of Elkton has rented an office in the
Rates building Eighth and King
streets and will remove his family to
wilmington in a short time.
Large quantities OF oysters are being
shipped from Dover by rail to Phila-
6elpbia. They are brought there by
teams from Mahon's river, where all
the oyster boats are fast in the ice.
The Delaware river which is about
two miles wide at New Castle, was
frozen over from shore to shore
last Thursday morning, the first time
far nearly twenty years. Several per-
sons walked to Reedy Island.
DIED IN THE SOUP. Sunday after
moon the little son of Charles Arnold,
living in Little Creek, overturned a
cook stove while playing, and was so
badly scalded by a kettle of boiling
so1D that he died 10 few hours.
Cards have been issned for the mar
rage of Charles r. Maxwell of Elkton
snd Miss Annie E Btyau of Newark,
Del. The wedding will take place at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Campbell at Newark, on Wednesday
evening February LIST.
Revival services are still in progress
att.e eM. f Church at MiddletOwn.
The large crowds that attend nightly
Indicate large revival. Rev. Mr..
Galloway who is assisting Mr.. Brown,
isa good earnest worker, and his ef-
forts nave resulted in the conversion
Of about 20 souls.
SUNDAYS south westerly winC
oueued a channel in the ice locked Del
aware. aud many imprisoned vessel
made haste to escape by the meau
4 thus afforded. 1t has been years sine
4 navigation on the Delaware was 5,
completely stopped as during the pas
two weeks.
The Kent County Teachers Inst
tute commenced its session yesterda
at Dover. Prof. A. ID. YOcuu
SMYRNA. will talk this year on "A Ret
Course in Real History" The subjeC
will be treated in a manner in keepln
with the Importance of this branch
learning. -
Among the vessels bound up II
nver Monday was the steamship YO.
fore. with over 1000 tons of Orang
and lemons from Italian Ports. Tn
cargo has been gathered at a numb'
Of snail ports, and is one OF the largs
in the Mediterranean fruit line eV
landed there.
George Burton, colored, was four
frozen to death few days ago on Il
dian river in Sussex county. be hvt
On small island in the river. he lie
the island about week before III
boat To get fuel, and II is supposed
became too numb TO row through I
ice. When found he was sitting ere
10 bis boat.
The Young Mems Christian Assoc
ton Inter State Convention, wnl
closed its sessions in Wilmington ~
day has proved a notable and lntere
ing religious gathering. The delega
representing three states and the c
trct Of Columbia, were a fine, inte
gent set of men. full of interest In
gOOd work in which they are engag
AtthsI I.st Quarterly Confernce
,oouinimink Circuit, sixteen me
nrssent, when the question
-. nv the parsonage from Bla
Smyrna was put, only
q" rs voted against the chan
M are some twenty five or thi
IS in Blackbi and vicinity v
.ot habitual church goers,
e seem To be the ones who n
u lect 10 the change.
The bend in the Delaware ri'
syen or eight miles above Ches
asually termed the horseshoe, q
nOre trouble in winter to riverI
1han anywhere else between Phlla
Phla and Cape May. The ice loo
4ad packs there in severe weat
aB1 often the whole feet OF ice
s4anOt dislOdge the mass. Inc VI
agitation about the Strengthening
'ais part Of the Delaware, inciden
-
" this time.
The next meeting Of the Farmer
v5l5ase Of Kent County will be he'll
Teton on Wednesday, Februar,
sAat2P. DIR. T. Il. Wolf OF
ware College will lecture on II
sssIs" A paper on spraying"
~soy William Stahl, of Quincy,
sll be read. The subjects for gel
ssaensslOn will be 1st, what leg
va ls needed"Y 2nd, How can
aeoarda be renovated'i? A full a
Ssaee is requested. T. B. Cou
''ssldent; W. Webb Sec'y.
NENDs OF DUMB ANIMALS
Sanual meeting Of the Society
~ feventiOn Of Cruelty to Ami
~ At VII mington last week tbs
sag vice presidents for Kent CO
'1p,e chosen:
BAeat. .--Manlove HAYES, GeorG
Cef, George v. Massey, jaime
'ppenll, John B. Pennington, r
6oAoiord aGd John Il. Nichols
W. A. Cummins, Smyrn
As9a, /. b. Coursey, j. r. Lo
EeSas John t. Jakes, Wyor