Smyrna times., 1877-09-05

truch oI Tue engine. The wheels consist of
steel tire and the intervening space being
filled with paper tightly bolted together
with non bolts running through it. They
nave so far given entire satisfaction and
are much less expensive than the regular
iron wheels.-Ga=ette.
STRANGE ACCIDENT.-Last Monday even
ing little schoolgirl in Wilmington,
Emma Downing, aged IL, was going home,
past blacksmith shop, where some work.
men were putting tire on a Wheel As
she passed a spark fell on her dress body,
and in very little while her whole cloth,
ing was aiiame, right in the street. Pas
sers-by soon eXtinguished the fire, but for
all that she was pretty badly burned about
the shoulders and back. The accident oc.
CURED on Walnut st.
CUTTING THEN DoWN.-Some of the peach
growers about Middletown are slaying their
peach trees. correspondent to Eccrl
Eoen'ng says: Peach growing has been
the main dependence of farmers, but with
many 1t is considered Legitimate compared
with grain growing, and the consequence is
that farmers are cutting down all the trees
that produce inferior fruit, IIale's BEING
selected as the worst f. r. Cochran IS
going to cut down his seventeen year old
orchard which produced a handsome crop
this year. Charles DerricksOn is cuttinr
down one of his orchards, and others are
doing the same.
WHAT SAM THINKs.-Saml Townsend. in
letter to the Middletown transcript, thus
expresses himself on the peach question
think every intelligent peach growing
farmer Will agree and admit that had ali
the land that is now planted in peach trees
| IOnu tho limo Of pai1rOoI. a
and half or two millions of baskets of
peaches will be shipped from, been in wheat
this present year, a surplus of at least three
millions OF bushels of wheat could have
been sold, averaging $l.50 per bushcl.
making four and half millions Of dollars
IN place of five or six hundred thousand
dollars from peaches.
SUPPOSED lNcENDIAEY FIRE.-On Monday
the 2Oth ut, Chas. Barker, Il farmer near
Milford, had his barn to catch fire inside
and on the upper floor The fire was dis
covered in time so that it was easily ex.
tinguished; but on the following Friday II
caught again in the same second.storv
This time it had made such hcadway that
the barn and all its contents, as we'll as a
large Oarrack of hay adjoining, was wholly
consumed. The stable, carriage-house, and
another large barrack of hay was saved:
but on Monday, the 9th, these also were
found to be on fire, and were wholly con
sumed in spite of all efforts to save them.
HARD on MIDDLETowx SoclEry.-A cor
respondent writing to the Eccry Eccning
from Middletown says: Among the wealtby
men are Col. j. Clayton. Edward Bower
r. A. Cochran, James Culbertson, and
Samuel Pennington. There is scarcely any
society, as the word is fashionably applied.
yet everybody is pleased with themselves;
that Is, nearly every family is a society Of
Its own. There is more criticism on the
unsociabllity Of the residents Of NIiddletown
and their inclination to gossip than Of any
town on the Peninsula. For this reason,
young men generally seek wives from other
localities, or escape association with more
than one lady.
HARD on NSEAFoRD.-.A correspondent to the
Eccry Ecening is hard on Seaford He saws:
find the prospect for large oyster busi.
ness this winter is not at all encouraging
The scarcity of money and the cheap com.
petition OF other places have conspired to
seriously interfere with the oyster trade in
Seatord. AS an evidence of hard times I
will state that four families left in one Cav
this week-a baker, blacksmith, school
teacher and music teacher Seaford is
comparatively dead The effects of the
panic are sensibly felt, and if the present
state of affairs continues there is no telling.
If the exodus of families increases, what
Will become of the town.
The canning and drying factories of
Dover are now in full operation. Richard.
son & Robbins are employing about 200
hands, using about 1000 baskets of peaches
and 1000 baskets of tomatoes per day;
they are also putting up large quantity
OF green gage plums, which they procure
from the North. J. NJ Chambers is running
with about $50 hands, putting up about 700
baskets of peaches and 500 baskets of toma
toes per day, and large quantity of Bart
lett pears. The Dover Fruit and Vegetable
Preserving Company have been running
with a small force. William Walker is
evaporating about $50 baskets per day, in
three large evapoTators, employing IS hands.
Sentinel.
Our CoLORED SCHOoLs.-The Eocry EUening
and Commercial talks to the point when it
says: Colored schools should be maintained
just as white schools are, and it should
make no difference whether the taxes paid
by colored people are sufficient to meet the
expenses of the colored schools or not.
The root idea of a public school system is
that it is the States duty, as it is its interest,
to prevent its citizens from growing up in
ignorance. We have entirely too
many colored people in Delaware to permit
them to remain ignorant if it can be helped,
andwe hope that wisely directed mortality
may soon give the younger element in the
ruling party here, who have sense enough
to see this, the control of its councils.
CHARGED WITH OUTRAGE.-Last Sunday
evening, in Wilmington, Mrs. Mary Duffy,
of No. 22l East Front street, appeared
before Esquire Brady and swore out war
rant for the arrest of Patriot Mcbride, on
the charge of outraging her little daughter
Mary, aged II years, and quite a child
Mcbride is about GO years of age. He is a
widower, but has several married children.
He denied his guilt at the opening of the
hearing but said nothing during its process
The child, her mother and grandmother
testified in the case, but the Squire
thought there was not much in the affair,
so he committed Mcbride for indecent
conduct before the girl. 1t is quite proba-
BILE he was drunk at the time. The child
was not at all hurt by the old man.
A DESPERATE NEGRo-On the Sunday of