Smyrna times., 1874-06-10

non, in the lower part of this Kent county,
near the Md. line, are finishing new church
at Prospect, which will be dedicated about the
9Th OF July by Bishop Scott, assisted by other
ministers. The church is neat frame edifce,
30 by 40 feet, with ceiling IS feet high.
There has been good deal said about the
Indian heap in Sussex. Last week the |
Sussex journal published a sensational joke |
about the finding, of the skull of horned ln-
dian in the heap, and two papers, the Lewes
Light and Erery Erening, swallowed the
Journals lie and published the article as their
own. The Journals tickled and says journals
deserve to be fooled that don't give credit for
borrowed articles.
The annual meeting Of the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal Company was held in Phila-
delphia on Monday week. The annual re-
port showed the corporation to be in a
healthy condition, as follows Receipts, SAL
905 "a expenditures, $363,875 81 cash on
hand, S7S,Ol3 lG; less five months accrued
interest, $49,S42 38; balance, S2S, 1888 %.
Andrew G. Gray was re elected President
Most of the Directors are Philadelphians
The Middetown transcript thus talks of the
peach crop: 1t appears that the peach crop is
confined to narrow strip of country probably
not more than eight or ten miles wide, running
from about two or three miles north Of Middle
town to a short distance below Backbird, and
extending East and West to the two Bays
and even in this little space the peaches are
exceedingly few, SO that instead of 2,5O0,0O0
baskets, there will probably scarcely be lOO,-
600.
The Denton Union says: Two ministers Of
the denomination of Friends on Saturday week
! preached at the Friends meeting house, near
town. They were listened to by very atten-
tive congregation who were delighted and edi
! fed with the services. Patience jenkins, of
Camden, Del, who is well known all over the
upper part of this peninsula for her deep
piety and consistent christian life, was one of
the ministers. The other was stranger,
named Perry John.
Last week Democratic letter writer pitched
into the Billy Dean Democracy of Newark
for speaking out in advance of the State Con
vention, and ridiculed the idea of little knot
of self.suficient Democrats trying to speak for
the whole party. Billy replies to him thus
"Our Democracy are capable of doing their
own thinking and acting, and are satisfied that
it will be much better done than when done
by State convention that gives only Repub-
licans of lifelong test as our standard bearers.
On Wednesday last a special meeting of the
Directors Of the Delaware Railroad Company
was held at Philadelphia, when the opinion oil
eminent legal gentlemen was given to the
effect that the Delaware Railroad Company
cannot purchase the Junction 4 Breakwatel
Railroad on account of various legal restric
tiOns. One of these is that the purchase under
the terms of the charter would require thu
consent Of every tockholder, which it is i'm
possible to obtain. The contemplated pur
chase was, therefore, finally abandoned, anC
the road is again in the maj ket.
The Seaford Citizen tells a wonderful snak
story this week, about reptile p feet long
killed there last week. 1t had Is horns on it
tail, each one eighth of an inch long, whicl
were hollow and could be filled with poison
There never was but one seen like it before, il
I. the neighborhood, and that was several year
ago 1t chased a man, who ran behind tree
when the snake struck the tree and killed 1T
: The leaves commenced to droop in 80 minute
after the snake buried his horns in the bark o
the tree, and the lifeless trunk is still standing
D All this is told as literal truth by the Citizen
STRAWBERRIES. We are now in the heigl
OF the strawberry harvest and in the depth o
1 dspair it has brought upon US We are cor
templating the results of full crop upon
. gutted market, and it maketh the hear
II sick" The shipments on Monday were tn
e largest ever made in the history of strawberr
Is culture-94 car loads, 64 Of which went
e New York, and 80 to Philadelphia. Yestel
= day, Cruesday) the shipments were about s
cars. As result of this food upon the maj
e ket the fruit fell below remunerative return,
| A telegram from a New York cOmmissio
e dealer, to Mr.. Van Gasken, at Clayton, at
l. yesterday afternoon quoted the prices at 4(l
,r cts. per box. When we reflect that it require
le 2 cents per box for picking that the freigl
from Clayton to Jersey City is IA cts. that IL
- carriage to New York and the commissions Al
or over one cent more, or say Al cents to be d
or Quoted from the price oil every box we ca
=. readily comprehend the dispOndency Of ii
A. growers. These figures foot up only the il
of mediate cash outlay per box, which has to
"A met each day, whether the berries find
market or not-except the commission. The
to be added to all this, is the price of box
al and crates; the cost of tilIage; the expense
{, carting from the patchs to the railroad station
10 and other items of an incidental character.
at course every one sees what the matter. IL
Ut berry business is overdOne. When it comes
70 supplying every soul in New York and Phil
40 dclphia with nearly box full of strawberri
- per day, no one needs to be told why they a
so cheap, and why the growers are SO blue.
at
J., AN IMPOsITIoN.-It has, /" from time il
40 memorial, been the custom for the Super
OF tendent of the Kent County Almshouse
In prepair dinner for the Trustees of the Poor
se the monthly meetings, and to invite citize
es who may be at the AlmshOuse on business wi
- tic CdSudl NlSItOTSf W pdTtd
thereof We learn that this hospitsble CT
ng tom has lately been taken advantage of Ia
six large extent so much SO as to become gr,
cts inconvenience to the family of the super
Ip- tendent, and no inconsiderable expense
,m to the county, and it is time that it should
Dst abated, or at least restricted to within pre-
on er bounds. On the last Trustee day we le,
ire that no less than 81 persons, seventy, at le
sx- besides those entitled to their dinners, avail
themselves of the opportunity of partakng
M dinffer at the public expense. Seven tin
IRE had the table to be set before all were gratif
me This company included large number
TiI. ladies, whose presence no doubt gave zest
,ht the occasion if it did not diminish the work
'ts the cooks, walters and dish washers. We he
.he we may not have occasion to notice anotl
he event of this kind.-DeldUareon
not WYOMING. Last Friday morning the teaC
md ers and students of Wyoming Institute
I'M nicked in grove at the head of Lake w