Smyrna times., 1878-09-04
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
JOHN Fl. HoFFECKER started his cannin
factory last week on tomatoes.

PROF. GROVES examined "a candidates
for teachers on Friday and Saturday last.
The firm of Buckmaster & Co., at Clay
ton, has dissolved. Mr.. Buckmaster will
continue the business.
REV. E. STUBBs is spending the larger
part of this week in town and has warm
greeting from his old friends.
WIN. SURGEN, near this town, has heifer
2years old that gives gallon and half OF
milk daily and has never had calf.
SOME of our people are complaining that |
the weather this week has been more |
oppressive than any during the summer.
Mrs. I. G. LApHAM sent in to-day to Mrs. |
DR.. w. T. Collins a saucer full of fine straw
berries. A rare treat for the 4th of Sep
tember.
MEssRs. HEwEs & FLUcK, from Philadel
phia, have opened a cigar mandatory In
the Farrell building on Commerce near
Main street.
The public school commenced on Mon
day. but the hot weather has certainly not
been conducive to quiet demeanor or close
| application in studies.
The fishing by hook in the bay is said to
be excellent, especially of trout and crocus.
| The latter are much more abundant on our
coast than usual, though not so large.
THE CLOSING NIGHT of the season at Col
Inns Beach will take place on Thursday
night week, 18th inst. This is said to be
most successful year the "Hygenia" house
has ever had.
Our correspondent "Citizen" calls timely
attention to practice that is getting more
prevalent and reckless, is in violation of
our town ordinances, and likely at any
time to result seriously.
MANY of our farmers commenced fodder
saving last week, but this week it is general
This is the chief source of provender with
a large number of our farmers and they are
fortunate in having good weather.
THE ice house of Messrs. Carr & Flick,
confectioners, has given out, and the former
is getting ice from Philadelphia. The pri-
vate houses have also, we learn, run out or
nearly SO, and the supply Of ice the rest Of
the season must be limited.
LARGE PEACH.-Wm. D. Hoffecker, from
the farm of A. P Griffith, near Kenton,
left at our office Crawford Late peach,
that measured 104 inches around it and
weighed II ounces. This is one ounce
} ahead of the Pen;nSular Ne,cs crack peaches
The excursion to Ocean City yesterday
} perhaps from the early hour of starting
/ 5.55, was more slimly attended than any
attentive and obliging post master VIM. II
Baggs, who took his first airing of the
season.
EXCURSION TO CAPE MAY.-By advertise
ment, it will be seen that another oppor
o tunity is offered to persons wishing to make
;. an excursion to Cape May-Tuesday next
: 10th inst. Excursion tickets good for the
day will be issued from all points of the
J. Delaware Railroad.
- ROBERT DENNEY is an exception to th
IS general failure of the peach crop, hi
;. orchard, situated at the mouth of Duel
s Creek, producing this season about 100
; baskets. The crop has been sold mostly Oh
the wharf of the steamer Clyde at from
|" $l.30 to $l.50 per basket.
% AN OSPREY, or as commonly known fish
IL ing hawk, has regularly every night for tn
1t past ten or twelve years, during its stay i
,r the warm weather, roasted in a certain tire
~ at Collins Beach, standing in front of tn
- Hygenia House. 1t comes in regularl
u between six and seven o'clock.
~ THE trustees Of the Centennial NJ. ]
N Church, in another column make an appe;
" for help. They have a certain amount {
re money to raise by given time or q serioI
y. difficulty awaits them. They need hel
!, and Post Master Bags will receive for the
" whatever our citizens may feel like givln
Il A GENTLEMAN in town this morning fro
a the country says he has cured four of b
ry horses which were sick with the stagge
le by bleeding them from the vein under Il
no eyes. We note this for the benefit of ow
ers Of horses. All other remedies ha'
sc failed and if this proves etfectual, it will
6y invaluable.
al Mr.. TURNER, near the " Big Oak" who
no "Little Giant" thresher we referred to la
ed week, run with two horses and six me
tv threshed, he informed US, % bushels
!. wheat in one hour and ten minutes al
NJ fifty bushels of oats in an hour. Its capaci
1t is from $50 to 300 of wheat and from 500
Iys 600 bushels of oats per day.
is PETER LOOSE, who bought the farm
be longing to A. P Griffith, in Raymond
lin Neck, last spring, 1234 acres, traded t
,so same for the Gerker farm, near Kento
-'o belonging to the Bailey heirs, containi
orS 536 acres, paying the difference at the ra
eri. of $3.50 per acre. The change was eff
ote ted through the Mancha agency.
ce, SAMUEL E. SPARKS one of the substi
his tial farmers residing near Thomas Corr
est in Rlackbird Hd., was stricken down w
mo paralysis on Monday evening and was C
'"0 ried off by q second stroke on Wednesd
en- He was in the prime of life and had be
no apparently in robust health. He leaves
md wife and large family Of children.
FRANK DUNN PEARs.--Nathaniel Ears
ass. brought to our office yesterday two lal
tho luscious pears which he denominat
- Frank Dunn" pears. They were divid
tne and eaten with especial relish, and if
hat Dunn's qualities as a sheriff are as good
ing the pears that bear his name, he is wort
sfnI of the large suffrage he will receive.
hat ANTHONY D. BYLEs, who made the
bed map of Kent CO., in this State more ii
,vos twenty years ago, and for which he reali
$4,000 in the space of six months, is
nus town looking after a tract of land n
not Greenspring which was offered him.
.xes followed up his first venture here by sui
in quently mapping the counties of \
~ York and other States, and realized c
hall siderable money.
'"''' CLOVER SEED-The second crop of clo'
emu usually appropriated for seed and VIII
The grew so luxuriantly this year has been
oses and the thresher put to work. The re'
rour is great disappointment, the yield
amounting to over one quarter of an a
age crop. If the yield is the same in OF
the. sections as this, the effect must be an
In vance in the price. Our agriculturists h
l;no been finding this one of our profits
,e crops.
tion Our neighboring hundred in New Ca