Smyrna times., 1878-08-07
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

consumption ABROAD.
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
SENATOR BAYARD, Representative Will
liams and Geo. Gray, Esq, are in town to-
day.
THE Fruit Growers National Bank has
declared dividend OF three per cent. for
the past six months.
CHARLES w. PoULssx, with a fishing
party, was nearly swamped by gale in
Lake Champlain on Saturday.
LAND SALEs.-J. F. Mancha sold the farm
belonging to the Gamaliel Garrison heirs,
near Smyrna, containing 125 acres Of land,
to T. Blakely, of Canada, for $4,000.
ABOUT fifteen ladies of this town expect
to go to Collins Beach tomorrow, where
they will remain q week or two. They
will have only one gentleman to accompany
them.
FISHING PARTY.--A party numbering
about twenty men have chartered the
schooner Nettie for a three days fishing ex-
cursion in the Delaware off Mahon's Ditch.
They are to start next Monday morning.
PETTY THETA few nights ago some
person entered the flower yard of f. NJ.
Fowler of this town and stole a hansome
rose geranium. Suspicion rests upon GER
tain party who it is supposed got the plant.
LADY GRAPE.-Capt. A. Scout brought
in town on Thursday a specimen of the
"Lady grape" that was nearly fit for
marketing. This is a white grape and
claims to be ten days earlier, and better
than any other variety.
To RErURN.-G. w. Bradford, photogra-
pher, writes to a business friend in this town
that he purposes to return from California
to Smyrna the latter part of this month,
and take up his residence here again. His
physician advises him to come East.
AWAY FROM TowN.-Rev. T. H. Haines,
on Monday morning, left for Hurlocks'
camp, Dorchester CO., Md, where he will
spend several days. Mrs. John II. Bewley,
Mrs. Rachel Hoffecker and Mrs. VIM. NJ.
Bell are recruiting at Rehoboth. A num-
Der of our citizens are spending from one
to several days at Camden Camp.
THE Gazette and Herald, the two Demo-
cratic papers of Wilmington which thought
they had captured the State for the "rag
baby" and were going to squelch Senator
Bayard, found their rooster couldn't crow
when they took him down to Dover. The
} convention unanimously adopted gold and
6 silver coin or a convertible currency.
ADVERTISING IN OVER 900 Newspapers
A. P. Griffith, real estate agent Of this town
has contracted with Geo. P. Rowell & Co.
. advertising agents of New York, to adver
i tise his farms in over 1000 newspapers ir
), the North, East and West, and throughout
= Canada. Mr.. Griffith is also advertising
very extensively by circular in those parts
A New WHEAT.-Wilson r. Cavende
got last year from the Patent Office
speciment of Oregon wheat which h
@ planted to test its adaptability to ou
n climate. The wheat is u curiosity; lon
e heads very heavily bearded, but the grail
is not so long, plump and transparent a
the original and evidently not adapted t.
- our climate.
h HOWARD PYLE, of Wilmington, artist an,
contributor to Harper's Magazine, is eS
pected to visit this place in day or tw
u guest of G. Speakman) with a view Q
(, getting information in regard to our pre-
a. ducts, especially the peach interest. He
= getting up an illustrated article for Harper
=" Magazine in reference to our Peninsula tina
es will run through several numbers.
II DELEGATEs.-The following were the del,
se gates elected from this hundred on Satu
E. day to attend the Democratic Conventio
1t at Dover on Tuesday, viz John NJ. Voshel
- Ed. Harrison, B. V. Welden, w. E. Hal
20 Robt. Denney, J. Frank Denney, c. L
r. Register and James G. Robinson. Kento
~ Hd: ]. Frank Wilds, VIM. M. Jones,
ly Temple, Nathaniel Griffin and ]. w. Pratt
rs LEGrURR.-Prof. Jacob C. Haley, nativ
Ia born African from the west coast of Sierl
rv Leon, will give lecture at Bethel A. NJ.
- church, Thursday and Friday evenings, 81
az and 9th inst He will appear in Africa
ch dress and discourse on the manners, habit
m customs, &c. of the natives of Africa. /
nd has been lecturing in the towns of Easter
= Shore Nd, and our exchanges from the
VI have uniformly spoken of him as an inte
esting character.
Town VIsIToRs.-During the past wet
- the following visitors have come to Smyrn
on The former residents are in the fiji
,as paragraph.
he Miss Annie Wilkinson, VIM. B. Sta
he Walter FAIRIES, Philadelphia; Miss Lau
ch Doughten, Wilmington; Olin Hough, "a
IN ton, Md; John Oakley, YOnkers, N. Y.
,he Miss Fannie Glide, Edward Bertle
raj Philadelphia; Edward Pennell, Cheste
di- Harper Poulson, Baltimore; w. B. Sande
ry- Wilmington; Mrs. Sallie Foster, Miss Sal
the Riddle, New Castle; Miss Laura Palmato
ley Milford; Mrs. Sam'l j. Hill and daught
for Chestertown; Misses Elma +. Reynolds a
ale. Annie Il. Merritt, Warwick, Md.