Smyrna times., 1878-08-14
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SIayIon ana intermediate stations on Sun
day Sept. lst.
Mrs. M. A. KINNEY, of this town, left
last week for Memphis, Missouri, to visit
her son, Saml II. KINNEY, where she will
spend two or three months.
THERE were about 100 persons on the
excursion to Cape May from Chestertown
this morning. Only three from this town
helped to swell the number.
EXAMINATION OF TEAcHERs.-An exami-
nation of teachers will be held by State
Superintendent Groves, in this town, on
Saturday, 3lst day of August.
By advertisement in another column it
will be seen that the Kent CO. train will
make an excursion to Segars Woods Camp
(Millington) on Sunday next.
MEssRs. ]. E. TYGERr & Co., have put in
one OF Rlehles large platform scales at their
coal yard at Rothwell's Landing. Having
the two together they are enabled to put
on their wagons the exact amount ordered.
EARLY GRAPE.-Geo. M. Stevenson, of
this office, has been eating grapes grown in
his garden for week past. They are the
" Telegraph" variety and a specimen left
with us shows them to be very compact
and fine favored grape.
CALL ACCEpTED.-The Rev. w. B. Gordon,
of Virginia, has accepted call to St.
Peters Parish, this town ,and will enter on his
pastoral duties on Sunday, the 25th of
August, with services at 104 o'clock in the
morning and Il o'clock in the evening.
TWELVE car loads of peaches were ship.
ped from the Delaware & Chesapeake Rail
way formerly Md. & Del. R. R.) on Mon.
day and eight yesterday. These are the
largest shipments so far on that road, but
they expect to have still larger ones yet.
JOSEPH V. HoFFEcKER, one of our citizens,
has rented the farm of Barney Reybold
near Delaware City, recently in the tenure
of Eben Eliason, deceased, and will re.
move his family thither to-day. They
carry with them the best wishes of their
many friends.
VESSEL LAUNCH.-The pungy or schooner
Village Belle, which has been undergoing a
thorough repairing at the ship yard of
Julian Jacobs at Smyrna Landing, was
launched on Saturday morning last. The
same yard has also recently put on double
deck and made other very considerable
improvements on the clipper Baltimore.
REV. MEssRs. HAYNES AND RAwL1Ns, oil
this town, returned home last Monday.
The former has been spending a week at
Hurlock's and Camden camps, and the
latter has been visiting, with his family, his
wifes parents at Bridgeville, and also his
own friends in Sussex county, stopping a
few days on his return at Camden camp.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT are indebted tc
Hon. Eli Salisbury for a copy of the
"Ninth Census of the United States
Also, Thomas W. Price, Esq, of Philadel-
| phia, "Notes Of Mexico" a neat little
book of over 100 pages, being the ".jottings'
of a trip to Mexico in company with DR.
Dashiell and Bishop Merrill last winter. Il
is easy in style and exceedingly interesting
EXCURSION TO CAPE MAY.-By advertise
ment of steamer THos. CLYDE and the Kent
Co., Smyrna e. Del. Bay r. r. it will be
seen that Wednesday, 28th inst, will be
the grand excursion day of the season t.
Cape May. The CLYDE is a new boat with
carrying capacity of 1900 persons and the
connection Herewith by rail makes this
rare opportunity to those desiring visit tC
the capes.
| THE Moral Reform Association will hole
a special meeting at A. ?. Griffith's rea
estate Office this evening at o'clock fo
the purpose of taking steps toward pre-
venting the running of the excursion train
from this town and vicinity on Sundays
They say that they will have all those il
charge of said trains arrested and held t.
bail for violating our Sunday laws. A full
attendance of the members is desired
| ErNyu GoDN- DDocDrcr
showers of rain are doing everything 70
corn that can be done and the yield promi
ses to be large. The early crops are alread,
assured, and the late, under the pressur,
of the warm weather, are making rapi(
progress. The only drawback has been tn,
bottom lands drowned by the excessive rail-
falls. With our three staple crops, wheat
oats and corn, so abundant, the farmer
have great cause for thankfulness, if the!
have lost the peach crop.
OUR COMPANY" Our list of visitors i
still lengthy. We have twenty to recort
this week who have come since our las
issue former Smyrnians in first paragraph,
as follows:
Miss Ella Smith, Miss Julia Swantor
Phila. Mrs. Maria Green, Church Hill
Md. Evins c. Reese, Harrington; Waite
Morgan, st. Georges; T. Oliver Cooper
Wilmington.
Miss Molie Brisbain daughter of the lat
Rev. VIM. H. Brisbain), Miss Rebecca Nolir
Mrs. Ellen French, Mrs. Sallie French, Mis-
Florence Albright, Mrs. Ann Dubosq, Mis-
Emma Richards, Miss Jennie Cox, Phila.
Miss Mary Pennel, Chester; Thomas Il
Palmor, Wilmington; Miss Emma Manner
ing, Middletown; Charlie Baldwin (son c
Rev. Stephen J.. Baldwin, D. D., of Fo
Chow, China), Newark Conference Sem
nary, VI; Edward Monday, Camden, n. ]
Mrs. Anna Groves, Centreville, Del.
AN OLD PoLITIcAL PAPER.-Wm. N
Bell, cashier of the National Bank {
Smyrna, in getting away the effects of tn
Branch Bank of Smyrna at Milford, foun
the following old hand bill among tn
papers, which may be interesting as show
ing the prominent names that figured i
the political affairs of our county sevent
years ago:
} Agreeable to a regulation Of the Fede
al Party, entered into in the year on
, thousand eight hundred and ten, larg
and respectable number of the party me
! at the house of Captain Furbee, in tn
! town of Dover, on the first Monday
, June, for the purpose of nominating
committee to form ticket to be supporte
at the next general election. On motion
the Honorable Nicholas Ridgely was unaI
: imously appointed Chairman, and Ebeneze
) Blackiston, Secretary. Whereupon, tn
} following committee was appointed:
EnY DJcL 0rpoL III WIN DANNY Ga,