Smyrna times., 1878-03-27
SMYRNA ARID VICINITY.

The Benevolent Society will meet at
Mrs. I. B. Megear's on Thursday evening.
Mrs. GEoRGIANNA GARMAN and Col. II. C.
Douglass have taken letters as admins.
traitors on the estate Of Randall B. Garman,
deceased.
DANIEL g. PEARSON, on the Ocean"
farm, between Green Spring and Black
bird, will sell his personal property on
Saturday next at public sale.
An up town merchant has SQUARED up
that 90 cent affair of honor, and the rail
road Is again selling excursion tickets from
the Smyrna and Clayton stations
NEW Dry COOP SroRE.--John B. Cooper
has opened in the store room recently oc
cupled by Jas. II. Cotton, connecting with
his already large store, a full dry goods
department.
IN our advertising columns will be found
the report Of the condition of the Fruit
Growers National Bank, and the Paragon
Shirt" manufactured by J. p. Doughten of
Wilmington.
GIPsIEs.-Two companies of Gipsias
numbering about twenty persons, ten or a
dozen wagons, some of them very nice
ones, and having twenty or thirty horses.
are encamped in the Blackbrd camp
meeting woods.
The papers contain the advertisement
OF ten persons who intend to make appIi
cation at the next term of court in this
county for license to 'sell Intoxicating
liquors on the premises in less quantities
than one quart"
MEssRs. r. NJ. & w. II. JOHNSON las per
advertlsement) intend to close out their
store in Dover for want of suitable build.
ing, and will devote their personal attention
to pushing their business in the stores in
Smyrna and Middletown, especially their
custom department.
MARKETs.-The serious aspect of afT,irs
between Russia and England has stiffened
the price of grain and wheat is quoted Q
cts. higher in the Philadelphia market and
corn cent better. The quotations are.
wheat Sl.32, corn SO cts, dressed chickens
ii to IL cts and eggs II cts. per dozen.
Z. MARRIOTT FOWLER having fitted up the
room over his store, corner Of Commerce
and Main sts., suitable for tailoring es.
Enlistment, it is now occupied by Mr.. L.
+. McCurley, who comes to Smyrna highly
recommended as a first class fashionable
I"iAoF. MI rOWlef, we understand, intends
to keep good stock of cloths and cas-
sinners.
SHERIFF BLAcKIsToN sold on Thursday. in
this town, the farm Of Asa Clifton, near
Clayton, containing Ill acres, to Tschudy
d Cats, at $3,400; also of the same party
to Robert g. Reese, containing Is acres. at
$780, also the farm Of John r. Griffith
containing 34acres, near Raymond's Church.
was bid in at $1,000 for John Rice, terre
tenant.
A HEAVY northwest gale swept over a
large part of the country on Sunday, ac.
companied by a remarkable fall in temper.
ature, and in few hours the balmy at.
mosphere Of spring gave place to the
keenest Of wintry blasts. High southwest
squalls Of wind prevailed at intervals until
noon, when the temperature was GO
degrees. The wind shifted to the moth.
west, and blew gale most Of the day and
night, the thermometer standing on Mon
Gay morning at 20 degrees, being fail Of
nifty degrees. There was a small rain fall
mere; IN the north and west there was n
snow fall OF ten and twelve inches and at
Montreal, Canada, l8 inches deem. with
nigh wind and severe cold,