Smyrna times., 1878-08-28
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

some choice Mountain Sweet water melons.
THE poetry of Derlit" is all right, but
the editor would like his personal indentity. |
ABEL SEvIL, living near Salem church,
shipped last week three crates or chests |
containing about two bushels of peaches
which sold for $3.50 or about 81 gallon. |
LARGE APPLE.-Peter Macy left at this |
office on Monday large pippin apple that
measured11 3inches around it and weighs one
pound. Mr.. NJ. challenges any one to beat
| it.
The Crocus or Croakers fish made their
appearance in market yesterday for the
first Our people were fish hungry and
they went off like hotcakes, at Is cts. a
bunch.
WIN. H. DAsHIELL, ESQ.,, for several years
principal of the Academy in this town, and
for some months past practicing law in
Baltimore, Nd, has been elected principal
of the Crisfeld High School.
THIS is the season for the second mend
ing of the roads preparatory to winter use.
The heavy washing caused by the excessive
rains have rendered the work more neces-
sary this season than is usual.
DELAWARE STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
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held in Dover, on Saturday, August 3lst,
1878, at 12 clock, NJ. For further informa-
ton, see their advertisement in another
column.
J. Z. TYGERT & Co. have Just had shipped
to them 200 tons of unground Texas bone,
$50 tons of plaster rock, and 500 carboys of
oil of vitriol. They are running day and
night grinding the above material in order
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THE excursion to Cape May this morn
ing was not so large as was anticipated.
The Clyde had $50 on board when she
, arrived at Bombay Hook, and the train
from the Kent County road took $50 more,
so Of whom were from Smyrna, making 600
in all.
WE thought by the wording of the
posters that last week would end the ex-
cursions to the ocean, but excursions are
: announced again this week to both Reho-
both and Ocean City, making, with the ex-
cursion to Cape May to-day by the CLYDE
from Bombay Hook, three for the people to
choose from.
THE Smyrna TINES man praises the wasp
as one of the "farmer's best friends" We
| wonder if he ever had real live, healthy
: and active wasp up one leg of his panta-
looms, and his suspenders buttoned.-Md.
detoOn Transcript.
, No, but what would be the harm if he
didn't sting?
REV. Mr.. RAwLINs baptized by INNER.
: sion on Thursday last in Cloak's mill pond
E Miss Sallie Hawkins of Kenton. The NJ
J. E. church baptizes both by sprinkling and
immersion, but it is very seldom the latter
\ form is insisted upon. The pond named
1 above is the same as is used by the Baptist
Society of Brynzion church.
S CONSTABLE ENGLISH lodged colored man
j in Jail last week named James Gibb,
). charged with the theft of twenty five
bushels of wheat from the barn of Stepher
Minner at Kenton three years ago. Gibb
J. "cleaned up" after the larceny, and re
Il mained away until the present, evidently
q under the impression he had been forgotten
r or forgiven.
, The colored excursion to the "Biy
:, Quarterly Meeting at Wilmington las
Sunday was big thing The train started
from Harrington and reached Wilmington
If with Is cars. About 25 persons went from
q here. Seven steamboats, and four trains O
cars carried an immense crowd to the city
y and the city for the day wore dark aspect
n They were estimated at 10000.
L MILL DAMs.-At the last session of tn
l. Legislature the law in relation to mill dam
e was amended so as to require the overseer
% of the public roads to keep the roads an,
bridges over mill dams in good travellin
= order. We refer to this as the road super
n visors evidently from their neglect are nc
E. aware of the change in the law, and ma
,e make themselves liable to damages for az
cidents.
= THE public schools will open next MOI
10 day, to tho qualification, no doubt, of th
IS parents and teachers. For the pupils, {
IS, at least the most of them, we can't say S
rt much. The teachers all continue. In tn
: Brick building, Mr.. r. NJ. Rosin, Mi
~ Lizzie Parrott and Mrs. SmitheIs. In TIL
e. upper District, No. 3, Herman Roe, Mi
e, Emma Hough and Miss Annie Doughtel
ly Mr.. Whitaker comes back to Clayton.
of Mr.. JAMES J. TURNER, near the "B
pe Oak" has purchased "little giant" endle
p chain horsepower and thresher. This
"a perhaps the only one in use in our section
an They can be run with small force and al
if desirable for getting out small crops. tt
as proclivity of our farmers seems in the pa
year or two to have been in the opposi
direction-steam threshers that require fro
m' fifteen to twenty hands and that will G
,es out and clean from five to six hundrt
he bushels per day.
en- MUSICAL CHANGEs.--John II. Hoffecke
en- who has had charge of the music in the
a. E. church for the past twenty-five year
81 asked to be relieved as leader and on a
D" cepting his resignation, Prof Jas. II. Grow
lse was elected to fill his place with Walter
,as Hoffecker as alternate. Miss ElVa CarrC
:, was elected to fill the position as organi
in the auditorium in place of Miss HelC
OF Hoffecker, removed, with Mrs. Groves
of alternate and the latter as organist of Il
in Sunday School with Miss Carrow as altt
tic nate. Resolutions of regret were offered
the school at the departure of Miss Hell
ru' Hoffecker and other members Of her fami
ser connected with the school.
eo THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CoNvENTI
IS meets at Dover tomorrow to elect tick
nd for Kent county. From what we can lea
no their is likely to be a warm contest, esq
~ cially for the offices of Senator and Sheri
i"i The latter Office is the bone which contai
he the most meat and for which there
ice usually the biggest scramble. If the
est ever was time when the best men cou
,or be put forward, it is now. In former tim
when there was strong political conte
men were with some reason put forward
- popularity at the expense of qualihcatic
nal When nomination is equivalent to
lst, election, there is no possible excuse
ice filling the offices with any but proper me
oa. THE New REcToR-~Rev. VIM. B. GordC
av. who has been recently called from pari
Nc. in Accomac CO., Va, to the rectorship