Smyrna times., 1879-09-03

The j. e. 1ygert carried 60 passengers
up on Monday and brought 40 down last
1ight.
The Diamond State Super Phosphate
by Victor Lord, Odessa, asE
will be seen by advertisement, is pushingE
out as q competitor in the market.
A HANDSOME ToMB.-Mr. Stevenson, OH
the Smyrna marble yard, has given evidence h!
of fine mechanical taste, but he has no'k
perhaps completed a finer and more deli-E
cate piece of workmanship than in the
tomb erected last week in memory of Mrs
Alice Culbreth Hoffecker, so we'll re-
membered. 1t is q fitting tribute in mel
moran Of q bright and useful life.
PHILATELY, OR STAMP CoLLECTING.--S. C.h
Baldwin, a student of Hackettstown In-k
lstitute, N. j., who has been spendingE
several weeks of his vacation in this town,
has a stamp collection numbering l400,S
gathered from all the nations of the world. 1
Thee have been collected within the last
three years. Stamps have lately assumedE
IA marketable valuable in this country and
Mr.. BIS collection has a catalogue values
lof 800.
DRowNED.-On Monday, near Bower'sE
Beach, VIM. II. Ridgway, colored, better
aknown as jack" residing near Moorton, i
Twas drowned while getting a load of oysI
tiers to shore. He was pushing the boa.
Afrom behind in water waist deep when 81
recoil of the boat from striking the hard
beach stunned him SO severely, that heI
adrowned before he could be rescued. Al
acoroners inquest was held yesterday.
q THE Bio QUARTERLY train of cars
lAhauled up along side of the town on
aSunday morning and took a number of
1Acolored people to the "Big Quarterly at
aWilmington The Morning Herald of Monday
1speaking of it says: "There were proba-
a1bly 10000 colored people here, in attend
lance. They were most remarkably well
sddressed, as a rule, and nothing could eX-
ssceed their we'll ordered conduct. 1t gives
9us sincere pleasure to pay this deserved
4compliment to the colored people who met
here yesterday"
n The LAST ExCURsIoN.-The last Cape May
slexcursion on the Kent County and Bombay
IA Hook railroad, which was Joined by between
gltwelve and twenty from this place, wa
E1almost annihilated by the storm which
Il Aprevailed for several days previous. TIL,
kmorning was clear, but cold and damp anC
sAthe eXcursionists altogether numbered onl.
kaabout 100, while heretofore they hav
EAnumbered from to GOO. The marrow
ESguage railway that runs from Cape Ma,
~ Landing to the town gave way at n "wasl
saout" on the return, and the passengers ha
Ito "foot it, q distance of three miles
kamaking them an hour late getting home
ave have heard talk of another excuis sio
Tor two, but we presume this will be the las
flor this year.
FL THE STORM AND MILL PRopERTY.-l
@Fnever rains but it pours" is a familia
Equotation certainly applicable to the las
1.-TWO weeks of the past month, when twelv
atGand forty -fve-hundreth inches fell-ju'
None third of the annual rain fall. A
4 Aheavy as it seemed here, it was much wors
down the State, especially near the oceal
5 sksjudging from the results. We have hear
! 5Sof no mill dams at all in this section bein
Mswept away, while from Milford down the
can be counted by the dozens, half of tt
&dams in Sussex county, it is stated, entai
ling very heavy losses on the owners of mi
J @properties. The drought was heavier Q
. 8this class Of property than any other, eau
ILeLll W lOSC tue tuOSb VI lIlG SuIilllF
D for want of water, and then subsequent
Mmany of them their mill dams.
Ia A LARGE number of relatives and frien
Eyesterday afternoon assembled at the NJ.
= S,H Church to join in the last services of I
u #spect to the late Joseph Ii. Hoffecker. !
j ~ the funeral procession entered the chur'
I, n from his residence, solemn requiem W
u@played by the organist. After the usu
= Service of scripture reading and prayc
o oNparticipated in by several ministers, Il
Rev. Mr.. Haynes delivered a discourse
Mremarkable thought on the Future Il
land its employments, closing with tribu
:. Ito the character of the deceased, as of tn
r 4small number in communities that ha
lt#the love of every one. The many offerin
tewof fragrant and beautiful floral tributes "
the best evidence of strong friendships, o.
S. .%presented as last token OF regard for o
dMwho was cut down when just on the yer
@of life Of greater usefulness and inhuen'
r. " PREPARING FOR WINTER.-We hear oi
Wlady in town at the head Of a moderI
sized family who has put up Is jars of blaC
n. Eberries, has nearly GO of peaches a
idsahas Just cleverly begun. AS an index
rdMthe average preparation for the seas
)n Mwhen the vines and trees are locked up
of ice and snow, this may be extravagant,
to% lit is enough to show that the consumpti
n. Mof the six or seven millions of families
as the United States must be enormous. A
yhMthis reminds us that when at Ocean Gre
I've met with the manufacturer of
8porcelain cap to the Mason fruit jar.
Nsaid that his firm was given this manuf
of4ture ten years ago when there were 30,C
,d@ dozen gross made annually and consideri
ofAthat the same jar can be used from year
aEyear he supposed that the market woI
ar soon be stocked; but instead, it had be
,c Mncreased yearly until last year the prod
N, H ton reached 10000 dozen gross or lO3,6S
m &000. Considering this is only one of
he #numerous manufactures Of fruit jars, sol
vn Hidea can be formed of the provision
ro Mcareful housewife makes for the conf
d &of the husband and the children.
IA COLLECTING FRAUDULENT NoTEs.-Our re
eMers will recollect the account we gave OF
:, Mattempt to fleece several of our farm
Ily Mlast spring out of considerable amounts by
n as1 agent of ''pate,,t pruning shares named G
al MH. Corey, who had a confederate to as
or him. The PeninSuLdr Ne,cS gives circu
or @stantial account in its last issue of SIM
o. land mostly successful efforts in swindl
no 3several farmers in Sussex county. ]
1eI iii Ne,os gives among others, the following
nc @count of a case brought to justice:
~ "The patent right was decided to the purchase
lef certain section Of country. In this case ~ was
1ot sthe three hundreds of Cedar Creek, Broadkin
MIndan River. and the purchaser was John NJ. /