Smyrna times., 1875-10-06

| - AoiASet"UOr are really fOttlng, reports
70 70 the contrary Notwithstanding. Says the
Transcript: About 700 to 500 baskets of
peaches have been taken from Riker & Co.'s
refrigerator rotten and thrown away. Thev
were OF the early varieties and of good size.
The Northern Convocation of the Epis.
ccopal Church of this State is now in session
IN wilmington. Last evening all the
Episcopal Sunday Schools in that citv held
Their annual reunion, in Trinity Church.
Inc l. ne bishop OF New Jersey made an address.
Bishop Lay, of Easton, preached this morn.
ing.
Tho Milford Ne,os thinks that driving
sweet potatoes and powdering them would
be good job for some of the fruit evaDora-
tors; This potato powder would be nice to
tmcken soup, put i'll flour for cakes. &C.
Ii Is common to dry the potatoes, but
reducing them to powder has never been
tried.
Mancha sold four farms in Talbot county
last Week-One of 225 acres for S12.OO0.
one OF 62 acres, near Easton depot. for
So,gOO and another 225 acres for $1,000. all
to Pcnnsylvanians. Also 2OO-acre farm to
a resident for 81, 100 He will be in this
town as soon as he gets through his present
rush i'll TalbOt-in a few DAYS.
lady in this town has wrapped q num.
Der OF rose buds in tissue paper. each one
separately, after dipping the stems in bees.
wax, and put them away in paper boxes to
| ENJOY their fragrance this winter. 1t is
sald that 10y removing the wax and putting
the stems IN water the bloom will come as
nicely as II they were on the bush.
man named Brown went to the police
station in Wilmington last Saturday nioht
and asked to lodge there. He said he had
neen picking peaches at Middletown and
mad saved about $l4, of which he had been
robbed on the Delaware mixed train on his
way up that evening. He said a party of
New York roughs on the train did it.
The editor of Ec9y Ecc,i,lg denies that
an agent of the Z. S. Treasury Department
called on him to substantiate CHARGES
against the Custom House officials of this
State and that he (the editor) was unable
10 do 1t. lie says the agent did find
rre@ularitics existing down the State,
which will most likely be investigated.
Last week the store house of Mr.. VIM.
hutchinson, i'll st. Jones Neck, about six
miles from Dover, was burned, together
WIN all It's contents, consisting of a general
assortment OF groceries and domestic goods |
TO the amount of 500. The total loss will |
amount to about $500, fully covered bv |
insurance in the Kent County Mutual !
Insurance Co.
During the Grace Church revival, last
winter and spring, l49 persons were admit
tea to probationary membership. The six
months probation having expired. 125 of
them were taken into full membership last
Friday evening. - had moved away from
the city, taking their certificates, and one
had died, leaving only II who were not
recommended.
one OF the prisoners in Dover Jail was
last week handed over to the sheriff of
! carolInc co., Md. lie was put in Dover
lalI lor receiving stolen goods. lie was
handed over to the Caroline sheriff for
stealing the goods. lie stole a lot of thinrs
NJ camp meeting near Greensborouoh. tho
past summer Clendaniel was his Dover
name; Smith was his Maryland name
Henry.
a boy drove through this town about two .
weeks ago on his way to Princess Anne.
somerset county, Nd. He had driven
rom I'anbury, Connecticut. He went TO !
cc MS grandmother there and she rave =
nm horse, buggy and harness. He rode I
vi the way home in it, nearly $50 miles I
accomplishing the Journey lcisurly IN II /
tays lie is the son of DR.. Chairman, {
II Princess Anne /
sheriff Lambson last Thursday sold Il !,
arm IN Appoquinimink Hundred. contain.
hg Zo' acres, property of the late Elihu d
ciiorson, OF Now Castle, to VIM. j. Ca1np.
Gll, OF the Wakcman House, Bombay
look, for $1,000 The other farm odvcr. {
Ised to be sold at the samc time was with. t
rawl, the price OF the first being sufficient V
satisfy the claim. The farm is on Black. V
lFd Greek about six miles from Smyrna. t
1t seems that Tygert's phosphate has a
lken the field here at home. Ofsix Other c
rms VINO used to advertise their ferti ~ ~
zers mere regularly, not one now has v
ara IN the paper. 1t seems to be taking y
le neld away from home, also They are y
oW running day and night and have been =
'r SIX weeks, manufacturing about three Il
'r loads per days to 40 tons-and still ',
rdcrs. ~ "'''' ''''ii le
a Middletown real estate agent reports 81
ne following sales: farm of 1856 acres. ol
ear hennedyvlllc. Kent county, Md. to B
w. Nandcgrltt, of New Castle county, for al
.,OOO; the farm known as Bombay in
o1ok, 1000 acres, to Richard G. Fogg, of
dem, n. j., for $4,000; a farm on Turkey
ONT, Cecil county, Nd, to VIM. Fowler, al
Wilmington, for $4,000. Bombay in
ook" is a part of II. N. Wickersham's p
rm. recently exchanged for a mill prop ie
ty in Salem. of
West Presbyterian Church, in WHINING. co 60,
N, new and elegant building. hardly o'
cond to Grace, is hard pressed by the fl
erlff. The unfortunate bankers, the Nc. IN
ears, had claims against it of $50 600 81
he bankers estate is now being closed up. N
bankruptcy, and at least $4,000 of this r,
aim must be met, it being judgement. W.
ne balance is a mortgage. The sheriff has w.
lzed upon the personal property of the H.
iurch. Arrangements are being made to fa "a
eet the obligation. Ia "a
IHE FRUIT PACKERS OF KENT County, re
ne Dover Sentinel has been looking up IS
&c fruit canning and drying interests of this
unty. 1t seems there are about dozen
tabishments of this kind. A
The Oldest and best known establishment be
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