Smyrna times., 1876-09-27
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

THE "little" election takes place next
Tuesday.
THE Benevolent Society will meet at Mrs.
W. w. Tschudy's tomorrow Thursday
evening at o'clock.
HOLMES, the clothing man of Whining
| ton, is to open branch store in this town,
in the Farrell building
THE locomotive that ran away and cut
such capers at Clayton is again on duty on
the Smyrna Branch road.
J. E. TYGERr & Co. propose to put their
| steamer, the PicrrepOnt, on the route between
Smyrna and Philadelphia next week, to
make two or three trips per week.
AMONG the new residents among us arc
j. Emory Pitts and family, from the West,
and Alex. Harper and family, of Leipsic.
Mr.. Pitts was formerly resident of the
town.
EVER since the storm of Sunday week
Bombay Hook has been isolated from the
main land by tho overflow of the tide
Physicians, butchers, &c, have been unable
to cross any of the roadways in their teams
| Boats have to be used.
ONE of our young townsmen, John II.
huntington, now living in Western Pennsyl
vania, has succeeded to a partnership in a
large mercantile firm in Philipsburg, Centre
CO., Pa. 1t does us good to record the sue
cess of Smyrna "boys."
THE Elkton Democrat says beef steak is
selling in that town at l24 cts. the Will
mington papers of Saturday quote it at
120l5. In Smyrna it sells for Is. Elkton
and Wilmington butchers have certainly
lost their wits to sell at such low figures.
JOHN NJ. VosHELL, as President of the
Diamond State Loan Association of this
town sold the brick house at the NJ. f.
cemetery on Saturday to j. w. Flick for
1905, and the Toy & O'Niel building in
Two Smyrna ladies from abroad have
been home for a week or two to visit their
native heath, viz: Mrs. Hughes, (ncc Kate
Taylor Of New Albany, Indiana, to visit
her father, JAS Taylor, and Mrs. McLelland
f (aee Sallie Faries,) to visit her mother, Mrs
Clarissa FAIRIES.
EZEKIEL DAWSON, of this town, who has
been shipping hay to Philadelphia from
the marshes near Little Creek Landing
: lost rs tons of his crop by the big storm
S together with a shanty and two horses
| the men saved themselves by taking to the
h. largest ricks of hay.
a THE following are the delegates from
/. Duck Creek to the Republican COUNTY
= Convention to be held at Dover Oct. 5th
J. r. Alice, Edw. Disch, David Stevenson
Thos jefferson, John II. Cathcart. Pete
= 5. Collins was nominated for Assessor ant
i John E. Phillips for Inspector.
q The delegates from Kenton are Johi
Moore, y. 7. Underwood, and John Wright
i For Assessor, John n. Clark; Inspector,
g G. Dawson.
SMYRNA was an isolated town on Monda
n morning. There was no continuous si
n miles of public road that gave to us unir
d terrupted travel save that to Kenton. An
= still large amount of trade is denied to L
by the broken dams south of the towr
"a Again the question comes up, Should tn
al county do any share of the repairs to
10 public road that constitutes the breast of
- mill dam? The road is as much for til
public good as for the mill owners goot
y yet the mill owner has to bear all the c.
m pense of damage and repairs.
ed IN BAD FIx.-The VanAmburg circl
Is train had hard road to travel last Sunda
Il. They showed in Milford on Saturday,
ot tried to, and left there on Saturday mig
dJ liz III All buO 10 TedCIl I1lhlO
On Md, distance of 60 miles. Three of Il
m wagons got over the Hoffecker dam ear
ne Sunday morning, and reached here, b
ID. the balance Of the train had to 90 round
Kenton, to get to this town to strike t
VIC State road again. They came throuI
he about noon, after sleeplessness, drenchi
ng and travelling for thirteen consecuti
ito hours, only to find every roadway betwe
~ Kent and New Castle disputing their p
"e sage with torrent. Their condition ex
he ted sympathy. Every man and horse v
lay jaded almost to exhaustion, but th
he had to move on, and they did it brave
"a through food and rain. The elephant v
:, nv the only thing in the train that seem
the equal to the emergency. Some of I
+, it wagons went over Duck Creek and so
uld by Blackstone Cross Roads and the he
nor Of the Murphey pond. number tr
Casperson's, but failed. Fortunately,
eht Duck Creek bridge had not succuml
then, and the most of them got over
that route, but they ran a fearful risk, a
attic was found out afterwards that the unC
,t;s pinning had been washed out. The VIII
49,: train got scattered and separated.
not KENT COUNTY BIBLE SoCIETY.-The
my annual meeting of the Kent County b
lere Society was held in the NJ. Z. Church