Smyrna times., 1878-10-09
SMYRNA AND VICINITY,
OVERS are becoming scarce.
A FEW chestnuts have appeared.


SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
FLOWERS are becoming scarce.
A FEW chestnuts have appeared.
The green corn season is nearly over.
THE first frost of the season occurred on
Monday morning, 7th of Oct. 1t left a
shining face.
REV. Mr.. Y1NGLING, of Leipsic, is hold
ing successful protracted meeting in the
Methodist Protestant Church at Clayton.
THE National Bank of Smyrna has de-
clared dividend of three per cent. for the
last six months. See also Bank statements.
Our real estate agent, A. P. Griffith, has
sold the farm belonging to Drs. William
Daniels and VIM. Cummins, of so acres,
near Collins Beach, for $lS00.to R. Grum.
ley of Pa.
AN oyster boat 25 feet long, carrying
capacity 80 tons, built by Mr.. Jacobs at
Smyrna Landing, was conveyed to its
owners on the Chester river last week by q
six horse teams.
THE shoemaker who burns his leather
chips of frosty mornings and scents up
square worse than a poudrette factory,
ought to have a pound of Limberger cheese
tied under his nose.
THE awards by the Dover Fair to the
ladies of this town for fancy work, paint
ings, &C., amounts to $45. We congratu.
late our ladies on taking so many premiums
The list will be found on our first page.
THE dry weather is worrying the farmers.
The time has come to put their wheat in
the ground, but those who have hard, stiff
ground cannot do it until we have rain.
fall, and the latter is ardently wished for.
THE temperance meeting at the Town
Hall was fairly attended on Sunday and
addressed by Herman Roe for over half
hour. A committee was appointed to pre-
pare business for the meeting next Sunday
THE yellow pumpkins, the gathering
corn, the preserving kettle, the growing
turkeys, the cool nights and some other
things not necessary to mention, tell us
plainly as anything can that Thanksgiving
is in the prospective.
GREENBACK MEETING.-Bills are out for a
public Greenback meeting to be held at the
Smyrna Hotel on Saturday afternoon next
at 2 o'clock. The speakers are not an.
nounced. The invition extends to the
voters and their wives.
P. F. NICKERsoN, teaching school at Ken
ton, has been charged with taking indie
cent liberties with some little school girls,
thereby causing considerable indignation
in that community. He left on Monday
morning for Baltimore.
AMONG the other instances of "second
crops" we now have second crop of
grapes, grown by Geo. NJ. Stevenson of this
Office. The first crop Telegraph variety
ripened the first part of Aug. after which
the vines blossomed again, and the second
crop is now coloring.
Stoves, heaters, wood and coal, are just
now being discussed in every household; !;
for fall, which the better half of each
household appears to know all about. By
the way, Misses Collins & Savin have just
returned from the city with full supply of
the fall novelties.
We are indebted to Senator Bayard for
the monthly report of the condition of the
crops for September. The prospect of the
cotton crop is unusually favorable; the
national yield of corn will be fully equal to
last year; the wheat crop larger than 1877 !;
buckwheat injured by drought; Potatoes
one-third short of last year.
WE have in our garden Fig tree that
is now ripening a crop of figs. The plant
was brought from the Eastern Shore of Va.
eleven years ago, but has never born fruit
before. Owing to the mild weather of last
winter the tree was not so severely winter
killed as usual, which fact may account for
its bearing this year for the first time.
AMONG the extraordinary displays of fine
corn at the Middletown Fair was a speci-
men grown by Chas. Cochran, twentyfour
ears of which filed bushel basket. Robt.
H. Cummins, who is always on the lookout
for the most advanced things in agriculture,
engaged before leaving the ground, a
quantity of this corn for his next years
planting.
TwENTY-SEYEN hacks contested for the
passengers between the Depot and Middle
town, and the Fair grounds last week,
Blizzard of Dover having the finest turnout,
succeeding in cataging the most passengers,
his receipts for the last day amounting to
between sixteen and seventeen dollars.
One of the number belonged to Jas. Nc.
Dowell of this town.
LAST evening was one OF IQOS0 sou,
beautiful moonlight evenings that delights
poets and lovers, and particularly inviting
to any young persons having in their souls
song or sentiment. Nor are we surprised
that it called out the " Irma Quartette" who
seemed in accord with the evening in
rendering some of their sweetest carols to
float on the silent evening air.
OK Saturday evening last four young
misses, for bit of fun, jumped into II. P.
Massey's carriage, which was hitched on
Delaware st., to have jolly ride. They
stopped at the residence of friend, mile
or so from town, and, while three of them
were in the house, the horse ran away with
the fourth damaging the carriage con-
siderably, but doing no injury otherwise.
SHERIFF's SALE.-Sheriff Blackiston sold
last Thursday the real estate of Joseph Z,
Worden, situated in this town, as follows !:
No. 9, the mill, on Commerce st., to NJ. A.
Worden, for 81, 900; No. l, the lumber sheds
adjouining the mill, to same party, for
$3.50; No. 3, the store house adjoining
Mrs. Jane Hunter, to Tschudy & Cats, for
$1,000; Nos. 4 and 5, double dwelling, on
Cummins St., with barn stable and carriage
house attached, to same parties, for 1926
and 1925; No. 6, building lot adjoining the
Smyrna Circuit M. i. Parsonage, 10 NJ. A..
Worden, for $400.