Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1879-12-10

SERIOUS ACcIDENT.-Ye sterday while Jas.
Saxton, living on the "Spear" farm on the a
road to Collins Beach, was loading horse r
mower. bv q slip of the latter q crow-bar K
which he was using was thrown against his
law with such force as to fracture it, :.
WE give on our first page the concluding q
chapter of the story written for our columns W
entitled " Woman's Love-" Its non-appear-
last week was owing to tho displacement
of a page of the manuscript. 1t is prece
ded by poem of more than usual soul
breathings and is fine commentary on the
passage The worship of sorrow is the
inspiration of poetry"
The public meeting of the Bryant Literary :
Society on last Friday evening was well at .
tended and the exercises entertaining, es- !
pecially the monthly Oaol, edited by o. B.
Vosholl and Miss Lillian Speal1man. The
addresses of the next monthly paper are
Misses Lizzie Mcdowell and Emma Hough.
At the meeting on Friday evening next ,
officers for the ensuing three months will be
chosen.
Hoe KILLING.-For some reason there
has been much less said about big hogs this
years than ever before. There has not
been a single astonishing figure; as if by
|
cheat the local editor out of an item.
| Heretofore ON warm Sundays in October
! and November certain persons skilled in
! hogology would surround the pens Of the
| fat porkers like flock of appraising turkey
| buzzards, or sit around the store stoves Of
evenings and squirt tobacco juice and swap
pig "yarns" until the fumes would give the
young and tender clerks the sGuints, but
| somehow this year we run across none of
this, and but for an occasional "rooter"
with the inevitable corn cob in his jaws
stretched out stark and stiff in market, we
would hardly know the hog killing season
had come. Perhaps, however, the prevail |
ing mild weather has had much to do with |
prolonging tho season of ''freshes."
We are not to be cheated out of an item, |
however, and shall proceed on the princi
pal that one hog is as good as anothsr-as !
far as he goes. Mr.. James I. Truax near
Brenford may wonder how we know, but
it is fact that his pen of ten hogs killed
this week weighed 1854 lbs. which tallies
we'll for their age.
Geo. N. Stevenson, of this town, killed
two which run along in weight exactly, the
one that weighed two pounds the most
when put in the pen in the Spring weighed
, Just two pounds the most when killed.
Their united weight was 5l4 Tbs. Mr.. S.
, kept an account of their "cost Of keep
and found it was At cts. per pound.
Geo. w. Cummins at "Woodlawn" yestcr
day, killed four hogs which ran nearly as
4 close together as the above-34l, $40, 35l9
= and 352 aggregating l3934 pounds.
THE GREAT BooM.-We have been hear
ing q great deal recently about "booms,"
9 but the great boom is coming on apace in
two weeks it will be here in its force and
fullness. With the young there is an in
g stinctive knowledge of its approach: they
n sniff it in the air, it pictures visions in their
/, dreams, the well-flled stocking and the
t, christmas tree are lived over in blissful
It anticipation long before the time of reality
2. arrives. The predictions of "Old Proba
h bilities" may affect the result of this and
that anticipated pleasure, but moving tides
nor chilling blasts have any effect upon this
d great "boom." Aside from the advertise,
., ments of the live merchants, the approach
u of the holidays may also be read, even by
Ar the most careless observers, in the faces of
OF the children. Their rosy cheeks begin to
+: glisten with sort of resemblance to the
OF holly berries which our Christmas wreathS
are decked with, their smiles increase
- and their affability also. 1t is astonishing
&c to note how much genuine courtesy may be
developed in those of tender years by the
uOPo anu VIC plOSPSSG vi OAliy PSAihJ
IT. faVors, and by the reasonable expectation
-, that money pots" may be made to increase
80 in weight as the holiday days draw nigh
% AS for the shop windows, the Christmas
'boom" is already upon them, every one
he All the shrewd dealers know full well tina
us children not only have both eyes and ears
rs. but also that these organs of sense affair
ID, a preternatural quality of apprehension
k. Just about this time of the year. The,
on know that the selling OF goods must b.
les preceded by the making of goods known
ac- They know this is the season when ever,
child past the age of infancy is a capitals
and purchaser, and that every urchin il
lnc the town who has twenty-five cents t
OF spend must see or hear of at least iv
I'M hundred dollars worth of goods before h
ION can make up his mind as to the characte
lSS of his investment.
ely
wo The MARKRTs-The advance in corn la.
ust week put the corn shelter in active n
QUESTION and the stir among the farmer
bo. has been of much more than usual sctivit.
80 AtClayton, Brenford, Morton, Leipsic, &c
mo. the teams have been waiting day by day
for take their turns in unloading In fact
,rn, has been difficult for the Il. r. to supp
- the requisite numbe" of cars.
, or Our grain dealers are paying SO cts. p
10. bushel. A clever number sold at so CT
100 now that it has advanced, a much larg
number are hurrying it to market, viii
still large number of our heavy grove
YER are waiting for a further advance. III
the shading is all the time upward in the CT
market. The following are the Philad'
con- pha quotations:
the There is not much activity in any depa
D. ments of trade except among hold
goods dealers, and we have very few fiU
the tuations to record in prices. Cotton NEE
,wn- a strolg INQUIRY from manufacturers,
n of the recent advance in coal has restrict
very the demand for that article. The expo
j of movement in breadstuffs is limited, b
1ade holders of -four are enabled to realize Fl
figures. In provisions, after long peri
RING of quietude prices have taken an upwa
the turn. Wool is looking up. No. l Gu
sht. citron Bark is in small supply and has
End clined to $32 per ton. Cotton is quite fiji
two and sells at l3fc., cash on time for middli
that Uplands. CloVerseed is weak small salt
ths Roses. for common up to 94cs for choi
,sm. Flour is exceeding firm, but the demand
cent confined to small lots for home consun
IL To ton, extra family, at $6.50@7; patents a
This other high grades at $7.25(98.50. Whea
,Ioca in good demand for milling ungraded
GOOD $13501.42; red at $l.50(9l .55; amber
ndor 1854. and white at $l.50(91.5 5. Rye 81
at 87(088c. Corn is held firmly, old yell
at &c old mixed Western at 6l062
0 the new yellow at $4,000, according to d
N We moss: new and old mixed at 59c, and r
y the white at 5S(062c. Oats are selling to
gain, extent at 45l046c., for mixed and stain
nan a and 47(050c. for white. Feed is look
dss up and bran sells at $l63@174 per t
lsncy Hay and straw are advancing; timot
It the good to prime, selling at $l7018.50;
us OF Minnesota, $l6@l8; rye straw, 5000
It Of wheat staw, $ll(@12, and oat straw at 81
true O12 ner ton.
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