Smyrna times., 1876-10-18
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
THIN ice formed in this vicinity on We'd
nesday night.
JAS. MCCARTER administers on the estate
of the late John Lurty.
Miss FANNIE KNIGHT, of the Seminary,
advertises to give instructions in German
and French.
REV. Mr. SrUBBs lectures at Royal Oak,
Talbot CO., Md, tomorrow evening on
"What's the Use?"
ToLsoN is accredited with having the
most handsomely dressed windows Of any
merchant ir this town.
NATHANIEL, son of Hon. Jas. Williams,
of Kenton, has gone to the University of
Virginia, at Charlottesville.
c. E. FoxwELL, of Foxwell's hotel, who
has been seriously i'll of heart disease and
asthma, is rapidly improving.
THE Steamer ArieI has stopped running
between Collins Beach and Philadelphia
The City Of Bridgeton makes two trips per
week.
MARY DENNY, a colored woman of this
town, has commenced the construction of
a two-story frame residence on the Duck
Creek road.
H. GETz and family, who have been
residents of this town since last Spring,
returned on Monday to Mobile, Alabama,
their former home.
DIR. GEO. S. CULBRErH, U. S. NAVY, is
homo here on a short furlough. lie is sur
geon on the Huron, of the North Atlantic
fleet, now at Norfolk for repairs.
RIM. & W. T. JOHNSON, our shoe dealers,
took the first premium at the Middletown
fair for shoes, and j. E. Tygert & Co took
the first premiums for phosphates.
THE snow of Sunday morning was a great
surprise and came three or four weeks in
advance of its usual advent. The ice on
Monday morning was about quarter of an
inch thick.
ADAMS MAHooD has been appointed
Justice Of the Peace at Clayton in place of
j. Douglas Coverdale, now in MISSOURI, and
A. S. Clifton has been appointed Constable
in place of R. B. Garman resigned.
Jos. L. LAVENDER, dealer in confectionery,
&c, IN this town, closed out his stock to a
creditor and left very unexpectedly on
Thursday morning last. A number OF bills
are held against him. His family remains
in town.
DRESSED poultry (ducks) sold in this
market for the first, last week, at I2 cts
per pound. Chickens are selling at 10 cts;
beef, l6 cts. In Wilmington, chickens are
higher than beef; here beef is cts. higher
than chickens.
Our ship carpenters at the Landing,
Jacobs & Scott, are building a novel little
boat. 1t is what is known as Chinco-
league dead-rise bateau." 1t is a popular
craft among oysterman, because it is so
smart. Its shape is peculiar.
THE railroad arrangements for Delaware
Day are as follows: Tickets will be sold to-
morrow from Smyrna to Centennial and re-
turn, including admission to the grounds
for the low price of $2.45. Tickets good to
return on any Centennial train until Satur
day week, Oct 28th.
ALL our farmers say that the crop oi
white or Irish potatoes is a failure. The
: vines, in some instances, failed to come up
| and in other cases, where they have come
up, there are no potatoes on them. The
drought of the early summer is thought t.
be the cause of the failure.
On Saturday week Sheriff Cooper solo
the following real estate, at Kenton:
one-and-ahalf story dwelling house, will
= grounds attached, situate in Kenton hun
dred, property of Jenifer S. Taylor, to viii
liam A. Atkinson, for $3l /; also farm of
= l54 acres, situate in same hundred, proper
9 ty of David d. Barber, to Mr.. Schrack, 10
o $1,000.
n The Railroad Company commenced worl
If on the new depot, in this town, last Thurs
!. day. 1t is to be frame, with stone founda
ton. 1t is on the Commerce st. side of til
= " Flatiron lot" nearly opposite Col. Ray
monds. A good many object to its bein
}. SO far out tive minutes walk farther) jus
d as good many have objected to the oil
. one being SO far in.
n SMYRNA's Centennial travel is very heav,
= On Monday 81 tickets were sold here
yesterday 25, and this morning AZ. Sine
'r the "ten-day" excursion tickets wei
t. issued, on the 10th of May, 49l of thei
Of have been sold, besides 207 of the tw
a. day" tickets. Nearly 1000 tickets, incl
ding all kinds, have been sold here f
"a Philadelphia since the Centennial con
I; menced. Monday and yesterday mornir
OF eleven passenger cars were run on Il
no morning train from Clayton, and tn
- morning it was divided into two sections
~ cars in each section.
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