Smyrna times., 1878-08-21


mind the propriety of the thing.
SEND us the news. When anybody dies,
gets married, runs away, steals anything, |
builds house, makes big sale, breaks his
| leg or gets his brains kicked out, or does
anything remarkable, and you know as
much about it as anybody else, don't wait
for anybody else to report it, or trust to our
instincts to find it out, but come to us or
send a postal card, with the names and
| facts.
A LARGE peach grower remarked the
other day that it was we'll the trees had
failed to bear this year. The wet warm
weather that has prevailed with the unusual
| tendency to rot has rendered it difficult to
| get what few there are to the city in a
marketable condition, and had there been
a full crop such a season as this he says,
they would not have been worth three cents
basket.
Mr.. /. G. LAPHAM, near town, is putting
his progressive ideas into model hog pen.
1t is about Is by 80 feet, substantially built
and will cost about $500. Two Of the novel
features in its construction are garnet and
cellar. The chief object in view with
Mr.. L., aside from having, as he has every
thing else, good pen of hogs, is to facili'
tate manure making, and the best index to
good farmer is his manure compost.
The CAPE MAY EXCURSION Persons de-
string to visit Cape May are offered an op-
portunity this day week, 28th inst, such as
has not been offered before this season-on
one of the staunchest and most attractive
boats of the river. The steamer Clyde will
start from Pennsgrove, mot Philadelphia)
stopping at Delaware City, Port Penn and
Collins Beach, and for the excursonists on
this road at Bombay Hook. 1t will be fine
and perhaps the last opportunity.
MosT people have natural hatred for
wasps and wage war against them at every
opportunity. People who have gardens
should study them and their habits ere
they vent their animosity on those useful
and warm little creatures. They are great
destroyers of the currant and other worms
that are so destructive to kitchen gardens,
and a nest of them in the garden, the wood
shed or the garret are q blessing to minia-
ture farming. The wasp, the spider and
the toad are the farmers best friends.
THE Duck CREEK HUNDRED BIBLE SOCIETY
held its annual meeting at the Presby-
terian Church on Monday evening with DR..
VIM. Cummins, President, in the chair.
The former officers were reelected and also
the executive committee. Delegates to the
> County Society, to be held at Frederick on
} Sept. 10Th, were appointed as follows
Revs. W. B. Gordon, T. Ii. Haynes, j. 7.
Umsted, DR.. VIM. Cummins, A. P. Griffith
Frank Raymond, Jacob Lienberger, w. w
Nelson, Jos. Wright, w. B. Collins, DR.
. w. T. Collins, Geo. Taylor, John Mustard
DR.. ]. G. Swinney.
The different churches in Duck Creek
!. Hid. are requested to take the annual col
e lection for the Kent County Bible Society
before its next annual meeting, which il
Sept. 19th and forward the same to the
!, Treasurer j. T. Jakes, Wyoming, Del.
n THE STEAMER THOMAS CLYDE-We have
!. several times referred to the Clyde as a fin
,. boat, &c, but had not proper idea of he
q superior merits until revealed by trip or
q her last week. She is by far the best boa
I that has ever run to our shore, and has bu
one superior that runs down the river tn
Republic, and is inferior to her in nothin;
'f but size. The CLYDE passes everything OF
d the river, and some of her friends roget tha
a the Republic starts at an earlier and return
ot at later hour, thus precluding a posi-
W bility of their coming in contact for trial
The Clyde is new, neat, convenient in al
q its departments, we'll ofiicered, and not tn
Is least among its attractions is the music
X piano, cornet, violin and swiss bell ringer.
I. which with the many changing scenes O
,e the river are additional charms to a mos
delightful trip. She carries a number
passengers from our landings in addition t
"a the large crowds of daily excursonists.
" OUR FRIENDS WITH Us.-This week W
ID publish the largest list of visitors we hav
of had this summer, numbering about thirt,
five. The names of those formerly of tn
town have star placed before them. The
q are the following: *Robt. S. Wilds, viii
.o and child, Mrs. Annie Boyer, *Beniamin 4
y Palmatory, *Joseph Stephenson, Miss Kat
- - Lienfelder, *James Stubbs, *Lober Tempt
'h *Edward Shugard, Alvan NJ. Prickit
*Mrs. Annie Swanton and children, *Mr
is Ellen Cahoon, Philadelphia; *Miss Emm
,b jefferson, Miss Cora O'Daniel, Mrs. Walt'
elk Buckmaster, *Reese F. Bell. Wilmington
es. *Miss Sallie Baynard, Miss Venie Baynar
to Miss Amy Silvers, SWIM, Baynard, .jr., Nh
lb- Mary Z. Osbourn, Miss Ida Dale Baltimor
Mrs. Mary Quetil, Mrs. DR.. VIM. Davi
). nehemiah Davis, Camden, n. j.; Mi
'n' Eliza Corbitt, Delaware City; Miss Emn
'ie Lord, Odessa Miss Laura Roberts. Mi
oy Addie Merritt, Middletown SWIM. B. CT
Io So Inns, jr., Chicago; Saml Draper, Washin
NO ton.
o. Budd, our two magistrates, at the instan
~ of the Moral Reform Association" wro
~ letter last week to Mr.. Fred. Gerkt
Lessee of the Kent Co. r. R., who had a
we we vertised q Sunday train to Millingt'
~, -. Camp, advising him not to run the train,
~ it was objected to by q number of the ci
Ho zens, was in violation Of the law, &c. Th
thought it best to take this course fir
ea- though having the written instructions
eir the States Attorney last Summer to arr
hel in a similar case, the men in charge of t
1ell train. The train nevertheless slipped
in quietly on Sunday morning and picked
eet a dozen or so Of passengers and proceed
,er- to the camp. The probability is a repe
are ton of the thing might have ditfere
result.
l.. The truth of the matter is the Sund
81 sacrednesss of former years is being serio
Ia.9 .n ly encroached upon. One of the stipu
iSoO .O tions of the charter of the Delaware r.
onJ III road is that no trains are to run on Sund
oou ~ and to do so is to vitiate it, but in sr
.us, of this stipulation, on the same day as
~ ~ excursion named above, an excursion '
a.eo ateS run from Wilmington to FELTON, to atte
? 20 a colored camp.
~ After all, perhaps the greatest disturbal
of the peace and quiet Of the town was
sion casioned by the hacks running to and fr
ins' the camp meetings. This was especii
Dhia the case with the colored campj they b
ex. no rules about closing, and noisy hack 10
ster, as late as one and two o'clock and perh
and later, frequently disturbed the quiet of
City citizens as they passed through the sire
per- Our magistrates, if set to work, we tn
orn. are in mind to "close in" with the WI
been batch of Sunday law violators, and lei
stand or fall together.