Smyrna times., 1878-03-13
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.


OF rainy weather interlarded with copiou,
thunder showers.
WM. MAILER, near Green Spring, lost q
valuable mule on Saturday last. 1t had
r worked all day, was taken suddenly sick,
r and died in about twenty minutes.
MANCHAs AGENcY.-A. Price Griffith.
manager, has sold John L. Bilderback's 50
acre farm, on the road to Kenton to Sam'
Boyd, of Philadelphia, for 81, $50, cash
GEO. w. CUMMINs has put in a new floor
and otherwise improved his store-house on
the corner, and being desirable stand.
should not go long without an occupant.
MEssRs. HARPER & BAKER. of Dover. have
the agency for the celebrated Studebaker
Farm Wagon, and next week we will have
their announcement in regard to this and
various other farm implements and ma.
chlnery which came to hand too late for
this issue.
REy. A. NJ. JOINS, rector of st. Peters
Church, who Is holding services at st.
Peters every Tuesday Thursday and Friday
durlng Lent, will not have services to-
morrow, being absent, by invitation of
Bishop Lee, to assist him in his church in
Wilmington.
FARM WORK.-Farmers throughout the
county are now busy getting their ground
broken for the coming corn crop, or getting
Their oats in the ground. This is early for
| such work, but the weather has been so
hne and the land is in such excellent con.
uotioh that farmers have taken advantage
of it.
New SroEE.-uarry II. huntington.
young townsman, but who has been clerk
ing for the last year or two in PhiladeI
phla, has opened New Grocery and Notion
Store on the hill," opposite Worden's
Mill, and in another column he asks the at
tentlon OF our citizens to his stock of new
goods and cheap prices.
DEcEAsED.-We regret to announce tbe
decease of another young man so soon
Theodore F. Murphey, late of the ALLEY,
Mills, and well known in this community.
Ills disease was consumption. He has been
at his fathers house, David j. Murphev.
near Newark, for the past five orsix months.
where he died yesterday.
NUMBER Of the preachers in transit from
below, have stopped in Smyrna several
hours between trains, on their way to Ches-
tertown, where the Conference convenes
today. The papers there hadn the pluck
10 tackle on to daily issue, and we shall
have to look to the Eseriag C6n,m,crc;aI Of
wilmington Tor the daily reports
The several days preceding the rain were |
warm enough for May, and put green
coat on the willows and swelled the neacb |
buds to within few days of bloom The |
great danger to the peach crop is from
frosts In the latter part of spring, and |
growers would much prefer to see their
orchards not in blossom for month vet.
WM. P. SMITHERs, of this town. is the |
authorized agent for an interesting book |
entitled Temperance reform and its great
keiormers," by Rev. w. H. Daniels, A. NJ, |
giving history of the movement from its !
earliest period to the present day. Five
thousand volumns were sold on the an.
nouncement, before the book was issued by
the press.
PHILADELPHIA MARKETs.-Wheat and
corn are quoted shade frmer, the former
Sis and the latter SO cts. per bushel.
Oats advanced to 36 cts. Eggs are quoted
at l24 to l3 cts. per dozen, and dressed
chickens II to il cts per pound. The
greatest decline mas been in provisions
Smoked shoulders are quoted at ) cts. and
smoked hams at 8 and cts.
--hrS' I>SJhef y. Megear, widow
OF the late Daniel Megear. died in this
town on Friday last at the advanced aos of
~ years. Some five years since She was
stricken with paralysis, since which time. es.
peclally IN the past year, she has been in very
feeble health. She was buried on Sundav
at BrnzOn Baptist Church, of which She
was member, and near which she resided
the greater part of her life.
RAILROAD EMPLoYEEs.--The p, 6B
ana Delaware railroads last week rpducad
the force OF employees along the entire
line OF the Delaware Division. William
Ransom was discharged at Clayton and Jas.
u; Wllds leaves that place to take charge
OF the Smyrna Station and John a. Uor.
lecker OF the latter, takes the place of the
TWO ABOVE named at Clayton. This course
Is IS necessary, we understand, on account of
she decrease IN travel and freight, but NAV
oe OF snort duration, as the fruit and berry ,
season is rapidly approaching.
FAST STEAMER FOR SUMNER TRIPs.-To
take the place ofthe ArieL, on the Delaware
tins summer, Messrs. Pusev, Jones & Co
Oh wilmington, are building Il magnificent
steamer for Captain Taggart, to be fitted uD
iuXurously and Of great speed. She will
De used as an excursion boat, and will run
on the Salem line q portion of the time.
W v. are are informed that the Pier at Col.
llnss Beach, which was considerably dam
aged by the storm last autumn, is now
thoroughly repaired and ready for the safe
transit OF stock and vehicles.
ABUNDANT IN LABoRS-Rev. +. Stubbs,
durlng his three years ministry in this
town, delivered ] 900 scouses,-including
iOO sermons and $50 lectures. His sue.
cessor, should he do half this amount of
public speaking, will accomplish fully as
much as most men have endurance to get
through with and for his own considera.
ton much as he ought to undertake
During these three years 36j probationers
have been taken in, 81 of whom have been
dropped, leaving on the church record in.
cluding those not read into full member.
ship, 620 names.
Town HALL TEMPERANCE MEErIYG.-The
temperance ''praise meeting," at the Town
Hall on Sunday afternoon, filed the hall
to its utmost capacity-the interest being
from the character of the meeting, and the
knowledge that it was the last meeting of
the Rev. i. Stubbs with the association. A ,
company Of good singers, with Mrs. Jas. II.
lIfOVag nt the OPpau yavo co,oo ov.alI...A !