Smyrna times., 1878-04-03
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SCHOOL ELECTIoN.-School Election takes
place next Saturday afternoon Put in
the best men for the vacant position.
MARKErs.-The Philadelphia quotation
Tor wheat are Sl.36 to $l.3S; corn, 544 cts;
oats, 80 cts. eggs, III cts. and live poulty II
cts.
BANK CHANGE.-The Bank of Smyrna
contemplates, we learn, to commence doing
business under the National Banking Act
on the 4th inst.
The steamer Pilot Boy, that is now on the
route between Philadelphia and Bombay
Hook in the place of the Ariel, leaves the
latter place every Monday end Thursday at
. o'clock.
LAST Saturday was u full day for our
State Superintendent of Public Schools,
Prof. Groves. He examined the large
number OF twenty-seven applicants for
teachers license.
GAME OF BASE BALL.-The Academy Club
OF baseball players came up from Dover
on Saturday last, to play against the Junior
Il. b. Club of this town. The game was
won by the Juniors in score Of Is to l3
a LITTLE colored child named Redden
came near being burnt to death in Duck
| Creek, last week. Its clothes caught fire
from pile Of burning brush in the garden,
and were nearly burned of before dis
covered and extinguished
RAYMOND is home from the city with q
full lot of dress goods--alpacas, calicoes,
edgings, muslins, &c, at his store opposite
the Delaware House. He dcvotes his at.
tention entirely to dry goods and such
articles as the ladies want
A PEACH grower expressed the opinion
yesterday that if the peach crop escapes
| further injury, there is more money in it
to the owners of the orchards than if there
| had been full crop. But to the laboYers,
the basket and wagon manufacturers and
the carriers, the receipts will be very
different.
HUDDARD's PMosPHATE.-Wo publish in
another column the advertisement Of the
above phosphate, manufactured by Hub.
bard & Bro, Wyoming. Del, and for sale
by John II. Bewley OF this town. Mr.. B.
has tried this phosphate along side of higher
| priced Philadelphia fertilizers and found
better results with good deal less cost.
S. L. KAHN, having taken instructions in
cutting and fitting in a first class tailoring
| establishment in New York for some weeks
| past, intends, with the aid of a practical
tailor, to make specially of custom work
In connection with his ready y-made clothing.
| He has now in store and on the way from
the city, a good stock of cloths and cassi-
| raeres.
POTAToEs are unusually low this spring
! and more abundant in market than
we recollect to have seen them at a CORES.
| pondlng season of the year, especially
sweet potatoes. The latter during the past
week seem almost as abundant and are as
low IN price as at the gathering season last
taIl They are selling at from 40 to IS per
basket, and round are selling at from s. to
40 against so to $lO0 last spring.
SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT.-A public en-.
tertainment will be given by the pupils of
school district Nos. 5 & l07, this town, on
| Friday evening next at the Town Hall.
Doors to open at 64 o'clock and exercises
to commence at I sharp. An admission
| price of Is cts. will be charged, tickets to
be had at the stores of E. Marriott Fowler
and Jas. P. Hofecker. These exhibitions
have uniformly called out crowded houses.
THE OTHER FRUIT.-The papers below
speak of the damage to strawberries and
other fruit. From inquiry here we learn
| that there has been no material damage to
pears, cherries, apples and strawberries.
| Capt. A. Scout tells US he has a patch of
the latter that has had blossoms in it since
the middle of the winter. Except when
in blossom, there has been no damage, and
this may have been the case somewhat in
the lower part of the Peninsula.
A DESPATCH brought the intelligence this
morning of the death Of Mrs Emma F.,
wife of Horace P. Mitchell, near Linwood Pa.
| She has been q great sufferer and her
| demise has been expected for several DAYS.
She was the daughter Of the late John
| Cloak, married the late DR.. Mahon in early
lie, and about three months ago was
united in marriage to Mr.. Mitchell. She
leaves three children. The remains will
arrive here at noon on Friday.
The PEACH CROP.-The ripple among the
peach growers caused by that northern
blast has somewhat subsidized, but the
| general opinion is that the best paving
varieties, Crawford, early and late, Moore,
| Reeves Favorite, Stump.the- World and
Others that are called middle varieties are
very seriously injured or nearly DESTROYED.
The early, such as Beatrice, Hale, Troth.
York and Mountain Rose, and the late.
such as Susquehannah, Crockets White,
| omocK ana galway, are not so badly3iniurpd,
and, should no further disaster oyertake
them, will produce a fair crop.
IMPROVED WAGoHs.-In our advertisinc
columns Messrs. Harper a. Baker, the
proprletors OF the enterprising Agricultural
and Horticulture Warehouse in Dover. call
the attention of our readers to the "Stude.
baker wagon" for which they have the
agency for the State. 1t is satisfaction TO
know that the "lumbardy," heavy old bog
wagons are to be displaced by wagons that
are more slightly, more durable, of less
draft, while costing but little more in price.
These wagons, in addition to their attrac.
tive make up, are thimble skeined and
lron-axled with tires from Ia to q as
desired. We expect to see the improved
make OF wagon take the place of the old
style whenever a new one is needed
MINIsTERIAL.-Rev. r.. II. HAYNES. an.
pointed successor to Rev. Z. Stubbs for the
NJ. Z. Church of this town, preached his
first sermon on Sunday morning last to a
full house and appreciative audience. His
text was from Romans XIV chap and Both
verse: "Now | beseech you brethren, for
the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the
love OF the spirit that We strive together