Smyrna times., 1877-08-08

week, in Appoquinimin1 Hundred, the
farm of James V. Moore, consisting of $50
acres, to Columbus Watkins, of Odessa, for
$l,700; also, the mill property of Jonathan
Hand, to Edward Silcox, for 81 ,O0O
MIsFoRTUNEs Nor SINGLE-HANDED.-
dam at c. l.. Sharp's mill, near Milford,
broke on Wednesday night last, and about
sixty feet OF it was swept away. His wife
lay corpse in his house at the time. hav.
ing died the day before. Mr.. S. is a promi.
nent local preacher.
A farmer living near FELTON, last FRIDAY
morning picked all his Hales from five
hundred peach trees, and on Saturday at
noon completed the demolition of the
entire orchard. He has made up his mind
to raise grain hereafter Many of the far.
mers promise to follow his example
1t is stated that Rev. Mr.. Caldwell, the
Methodist minister of Dover, preached in a
reformed Episcopal Church (the Bishop
Cummins Church) in New York city on
Sunday week, 29th ult., and wore the black
gown during his sermon, which delighted
the congregation-the sermon we mean.
SEAFoRD AND THE WET WEATHER.-The
two weeks of wet weather has disgusted
the growers of Hale's Early, about Seaford,
and this fall thousands of trees of this
variety will be cut down, it is said Corn.
on the lowland, has also suffered considera.
bly,, and what promised to be a most
valuable yield, will fall far short of the
average crop.
Mlddletown, this season, must give place
to Wyoming and Bridgeville as the banner
peach districts. In 1875 the shipments
from MlddletOwn exceeded at times fifty
cars per day. This year, while but COM
paratively few peaches will go from Middle
town, it is estimated that at least twenty or
twenty-five cars per day will be sent from
each OF the other mentioned points.
RISKY.-Last week, at Rehoboth, the
winds made the breakers very boisterous,
and only expert bathers were safe in the
surf But lady concluded to try it, on
Thursday, and was thrown down by huge
breaker, and tumbled over and over by
succeeding waves, until, when her friends
succeeded in rescuing her, she was more
dead than alive, and has been quite ill
since.
A STUNNER.-What sets the peach grow
ers back is this: A car load of peaches from
Middletown to Boston costs S235 freight.
while to Chicago it is only $2lO, yet Chicago
is nearly 500 miles further than Boston.
The growers ask how it is that the Western
roads can afford to ship so much cheaper
than the Eastern roads. And the New
York commission men ask the same uues-
ton, because the cheap Western rate dis.
eliminates against New York
CAUGHT AGAIN.-Last Friday night, in
New York city, Oscar D. Peterson was
arrested for high larceny. He was identi-
he'd as Brady, the associate of Big Frank,
Lawler and Hurlburt, the bank burglars
VINO tired to rob the Bank Of Delaware, in
Wilmington, in 1873. He owes five wears
prison service to New York State and ten
years to Delaware, having ESCAPED from
Auburn and Sing Sing, New York, and
New Castle Delaware. He did not escape
the Delaware whipping post, however.
ANOTHER BARN BURNT.-The barn on the
farm belonging to the estate of the late
John West, mile or SO this side of Fred
erica, was burnt on Monday morning, 9th
ult. 1t contained nothing but few hun.
dred bundles of fodder. The loss was
about $4O0. The farm is in the tenure of
L. Robbins. 1t is supposed to have been
accidentally fired by tramps who are be.
heved to have slept in it on Sunday night.
THIS is the second barn belonging to the
estate that has been burned since the death
of Mr.. West.
LET THE DELAWARE PENINSULA Show HER
CAPABILITIEs.-The American Pomoloeical
Society's annual meeting and exhibition
this year will be held in Baltimore, Sep
tember 18th, 18th and l4th Four years
ago the Central Delaware Fruit Growers
Society sent specimens to the meeting of
the Society in Boston, and with very lit.
Tie effort came away with three premiums.
We can do very much better if we try, and
can attract such attention to this locality as
never was before given to it, if we will
Milford Ne,os.
FRUIT PREsERvING.-From two to three
hundred fruit dryers or evaporators have
been put up in this county Kent and part
OF Maryland during the presnt season one
concern alone has erected over a hundred,
1t is noticeable that all the appliances for
fruit preserving is in this direction this
year; not single new cannery has started
so far as we can learn, and some of those
already in the field will not be run. The
splendid demand for the evaporated article
last year has set the current in its favor
and the farmers and others seem to be
rushing into the trade as if they wanted &c
fInd out how long it will take to break
down the market.
SUSPENSION OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
On Saturday last the shops of the locomo
tive department of the Philadelphia, Viii
mington & Baltimore Railroad at Whining
ton were closed, and all the hands, the
boiler makers, seventy-three in number
were temporarily discharged. The master
OF machinery issued notice stating that
the shops would be closed for eight or ter
days for the purpose of repairing the
stationary boiler, and added: 'If any O
the hands can find employment at othel
shops they will do well to accept, as the
outlook for the present is that we will have
to make further reduction in the numbeI
OF men or in the hours of labor.
The New RAILROAD PRoJEcT.-With refer
ence to the scheme for the construction o
railroad from Dover to Rehoboth, by th,
Z. W. b. Co., an EVery EUeninq CORES
pondent says Manlove Hayes, of Dover
made the following assertion: awe ar,
making our estimates, and if the people
along the route feel sufficient interest il
the scheme to make reasonable concession
In the way of assessment of damages fol
right Of way, the road will be built, as fa
as Milford certainly and af opoa ond :,