Smyrna times., 1878-05-29
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

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for this purpose.
ScHoOL PICNIC.-The public schools O
district No. 3 and II, Hermon Roe Princi
pal, will picnic in Blackbird camp meetin
woods on Friday of the present week. Al
invitation is extended to parents and other
to spend the day with them
WHITE HALL NECK claims to have tn
largest fields of wheat. and the best promis
OF yield per acre of any section in tn
county. The Redman farm, near tn
Leipsic bridge, has the ''crack" field. |
was not effected by the rust and stands re
markably heavy.
RoBBED.-The shoe shop of Morris Kirmse
at Clayton was robbed on Monday night
the thief taking two pairs of boots a pair O
shoes, paper of smoking tobacco and
razor. The latter item would suggest the
theft to have been by a member of the
cOlored fraternity.
strawberry festival will be held by the
Sabbath School of Salem NJ. P. Church al
Thomas Corner, three miles west of Clay
ton, on Thursday afternoon and evening
next. They have made arrangements fol
a pleasant time, and among other things
will have vocal and instrumental music.
THE Irma Quartette, of this town, were in.
vited last week to participate in an entertain.
ment to be given by the Delta Phi Literary
Society of Delaware College Newark. on
Friday evening next, but found this week.
it would be impracticable for some of them
to get off, and had to decline the compli.
ment.
LAST WEEK % blooded cattle were sold at
Herkness' Bazaar in Philadelphia for S772O.
Mrs. Mary U. Rogers of Wilmington bought
three Of them, each two years old, for 5000
$3.50 and $490 respectively. These high
prices sound very well, and is all right for
rich people, but would be a losing invest
ment to the average farmer.
JOHN WALKER, a commission merchant of
Philadelphia, was buried at Friendship
Church, in Thoroughfare Neck. on Tues.
day last lie died in Philadelphia some
SIX weeks since; his remains being kept in
the vault of Wharton St. NJ. +. Church
until their removal to the family burial
place. He was about % years old.
DECLINE IN GRAIN.-Snce our last issue
the decline in grain has been heavy.
falling down day by day until it has reached
IN the city, the low price of 81 .l6 for wheat
and As cts. for corn. Perhaps the chief
cause OF the decline is the unprecedented
heavy shipments of grain from the west.
coupled with the prospects of large and
early harvest and peace in Europe.
A CoNvENIENCB.--P. P. Collins, the pro.
prletor OF the Smyrna Hotel, has com.
menced running a hack to the Depot The
primary OBJECT Is to accommodate his own
guests, which is done free of cost, but will
COnVnV ~ bnp q
town on being notified, at a charge of only
10 cts. This must prove great accommo.
dation TO persons intirm. or in poor health
The steamer artisan, plying between
Eonabay Hook and Philadelphia, stopped
at the new pier at COllins's Beach Yesterday
for the first time. AS before stated. the
new pier, now completed, runs out in the
bay directly front of the " Hygenia House"
a distance of $50 feet and is subtantiaIIv
built. '''''''
The artisan on her last upward trip car
Hed 10000 quarts Of strawberries to market.
IHE prospect of the wheat we are told bv
the farmers has very much improved within
the past two weeks. The scare was over
the effect rust might have. A large part of
the wheat, especially the late sowing. |
scarcely grew any at all for a space Of ten
days, but last week and this has made |
marked change. The weather has been
Just such as was needed for it, and tho |
yleld per acre now promises to be nearly IN |
to the average.
PEAcHEs.-The peach men are again on
tne ragged edge" There was not a |
quarter OF crop in this section to begin |
"lth' The curculio has made its an.
pearance and most OF the young peaches, il
IS stated have been stung, many of which
! nave already fallen. The complaints come
rom the entire Peninsula, though the
Iamage VIII not be so apparent below,
Nhere tho tVess are much fuller of frr;t
The crop of the Peninsula is now est;n,,toJ
1t 100000 baskets.
SrRAwBERRIEs.-This is, par excellence.
me strawberry week and the quantity of
berries going to market has been very
arge. The bulk Of the crop will be off by
saturday, though considerable will doubt.
ess be shipped next week. The prices
laVe ranged from seven to ten cts ner
luart, mostly selling at and Q cts. in the
New York market. Good berries il is
lhought will not fall below these prices
Inc number of car loads shipped now
mounts to over 400.
LEMUEL K. ToLsON, brother of Samuel J.
olson, and assistant in his store. was taken
'lth severe hemorrhage on retiring 10
'ed ON Friday evening, from the effects Of
'hlch he died yesterday morning. Hewas.
'hen taken, in his apparent usual good
ealth, and had never had an attack Of the
ana before. Shortly after the breakinc
ut OF the late war he enlisted in the II
+. Marine Service, in which he remained
ntll ! the past three or four years. He was
q years of age.
OPsET.-On Tuesday morning last os s
lrs. Frank Collins, of Collins's Beach. in !
ompany with Mrs. Elizabeth Carr. was ,
arrylng her little boy to school, the horse {
ecame unmanageable and making a sud. {
en- turn in the road, upset the carriage. S
reaklnng the top off, but fortunately not :
enously injuring the occupants. A man |
.orklng IN an adjoining field came to their a
escue and found the carriage bottom nm. !
ards but the ladies had succeeded n (
citing out. The horse cut one of his lens q
ulte severely. :
STEAMBOAT FOR LEIPsIC.-The citizens of 8
eipslc seem determined to have another 9
'eamooat in the place of the Lqmokia.
ompany has been organized, and nearly all ;
10 stock taken, for the purchase Of an !
on steamboat to run to Philadelpbia !
ne boat that the company has in view is =
bout the size of the T11ooL;n tbat vel a.