Smyrna times., 1875-08-04

j. Cbier has been retired, a deficiency or
other irregularity being discovered in his
accounts, and the Office is in charge of a
temporary appointee. OF those who desire
the place, Lewis C. Wallace and Mr..
Brown are most prominently named.
A sad accident occurred at Clayton yester-
day. Mr.. Newell Boggs, an old man of
about GO, got his hand caught i'm plain
ing machine at the Evans basket factory.
and had it cut off 1t was taken off in n
twinkle, at the wrist joint, and almost as
smoothly as if removed by the surgeons
knife. DIR. Swinney has tho case in charge.
Last week 20 or 25 "peach plucks," most
of them from lG to 20 years of age, were
around the Dover depot for several davs.
and one night lot of negro men made a
raid upon them, injuring one or two of
them badly. The Sentinel says one of the
town officers was at his window all the time
of the unprovoked assault, and never
intcrfered
Extensive arrangements have been made
for shipping peaches out of Murderkill and
Jones creeks, by schoOnsrs drawn bv tugs,
and up the bay to Bay Side on the Jersey
shore. From there they go by the New
Jersey Southern r. r. to New York. The
freight will be 20 cents per crate, and it is
probable that large quantities will be
shipped by this route
Seven cars of mean peaches were shipped
from Clayton yesterday. Our shippers here
were notified by the New York commission
men on Monday that the health officers in
that city were seizing much of the fruit
that comes, yet a number of our growers
would soonerpay freight on their IIales and
have them dumped in the New York dock,
than see them rot on the trees.
New Castle county was made richer by
$500 last week by the singular will of a
man named Harris who died in New Castle
four years ago. This amount was wlled to
a Captain Robinson, or his heirs, if said
Captain or heirs should turn up inside of
three years. No tidings of any of them
have ever been heard, and the money has
accordingly been paid over to the county
treasurer.
Chas. Adams, of Odessa, has invented an
attachment for plows which promises to be
a very valuable thing. 1t consists of an
adjustable iron clamp or collar which can
be readily attachad to the beam of any
plow, and two wheels, one running in the
furrOw and one on the land, so as to rcgu-
late the depth and width of the furrow and
materially lessen the labor of the plough
man and the draft upon the team.
Commodore White, of the L. S. Light
House Board, has been to Lewcs to investi,
gate charges preferred against l.. A. Jenkins.
keeper of the Breakwater Light House, by
George DeOrton, Jacob Marshall, Richard
Paynter, assistant keeper, and others. The
newspaper there, the Break,oatcr Light, says
there has been Il continual squabblc ever
since Mr.. is appointment. 1t further says
that the conduct of other officials there
needs investigations
Let the Hales ripen or rot, say tho peach
shippers. The following item, from the
DeiarWcan, is proof of the wisdom of this
policy. Says that paper of Saturday: "a
gentleman of this town last year, finding, at
the usual time for shipping the Ilalcs, that
it would not pay to ship that variety, let the
balance of his crop hang on the trees until
the Troths began to ripcn, when he
shipped car load, which brought him 5000
buyers believing them to be fine lot of
Troths Early. Other growers NAV gain
something by forwarding only well-ripcned
and sound fruit
This weeks Brcdk,catcr L;gkt tells of an
old farmer living near Rehoboth who
started with his wife to drive to the camp
last week. His wife happened to notice,
as they were about to leave home, that the
horses tail had been gaulded 10y the crup-
per and seemed to be fretting from the
smart. She thought turpentine would be
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the husband to apply some. She hallooed
"whOa!' as she was .jerl<cd over the tail of
the dearborn, and the horse, at last ac-
counts, was going down the county with
part of pair of shalves hanging to him.
SeafOrd had sensation last week. Mr..
Collins, a merchant, horsewhipped Mr..
Knowles, musical stimulator. Knowles
insisted on sitting on Collins porch while
full of whisky and melody and singing a
song, and Collins, after trying unsuccess-
fully to make him stop, lashed him with n
carriage whip. Knowles entered suit be-
fore Esquire Robinson, who fined Collins
$3.50. Collins has taken an appeal to the
Sussex county court. He thinks that if
he don't want to hear a drunken man sit
on his porch and sing "Silver Threads
among the Gold" there is no law compell-
ing him to do so.
F. S. Devon, Secretary of the Wilmington
Il Western r. r. Co., and Joseph lIammet,