Smyrna times., 1879-08-27
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

VIM. Wilson one of the oldest residents of Middle
own, died on Thursday night aged 60 years.
There is enough business on the Delaware Railroad
low for TWO tracks, and yet it is doEe on one.
The total expense of marketing fruit from Milford
las been about 4S per cent of the gross sales.
The DeIaacare Inquirer of Georgetown appeared with
new head, on Saturday. 1t is neat and tasty.
Prof Stevens Of Odessa, is about to remove to
'eaford, where he will take charge Of a school.
Cattle and sheep were turned into hundreds of or
chards in Sussex to eat fallen peaches last week.
The canning factory of Richardson & Robbins is
running day and night, giving employment to 200
hands
The Delaacare Inquirer estimates that the storm did |
damage in Sussex at the rate of one hundred thousand
dollars.
At Wilmington Saturday, the Democrats nominated |
John Gutherie for city treasurer and Harry Sharply
for president of the city council.
The sloop Mary Agnes of Philadelphia, engaged in
surveying Delaware Bay went ashore on Lewes beach,
yesterday morning. Crew saved.
The faculty of Delaware College are exceeding
gratied with the encouraging prospect of a large
number of students for the fall term.
Hassers celebrated orchestra of Philadelphia is to
play at the State Fair at Dover. Good music is ex-
pensive but it pays = please the people.
1t is now thought that peach shipments from Mid
dletown, this season. will aggregate 10000 baskets
The railroad estimate was 100000 baskets. Some OF it
comes from Maryland.
The thirty tramps which were confined in Dover
iail have been released from their Imprisonment and
have left for parts unknown, and the town last week
was entirely free from this class of persons.
pOyinent to $50 men, women and children. They are
paying SO cents per basket for peaches and the con-
tract pnce for tomatoes is 30 cents per 100 lbs.
One man in laurel paid over 5000 peach freight in
one day last week. The company has put freight up
on cars to Boston $33G6O Shippers say they will
not give this exorbitant price, but are willing to pay
$500 for q car.
State Fair Record is the name of paper to be issued
during the looming State Fair building is being
erected for that purpose, and steam power will be
used in printing it, Mr.. James of Wilmington, will
conduct the paper
According to j. II. Bateman of Dover who has kept
registry of the weather the past fifteen years the rain
and eighteenth inches. The average quantity of
water which falls in this county every year, as tested
| by Mr. Batemans instrument, is about thirty'slX
| inches.
Daniel McKeaver the watchman at Barlow's Bridge,
near Townsend, who killed by the cars recently,
and baltimore Beneficial Association fund but his
widow was given S5UO on Saturday. The association
| is one to provide for common assistance i'll the
| event ofdeath or Of disability ior service.
The Milford Ne1us says: Bridgeville LAUREL and
| Seaiord are shipping more peaches than any other
| three stations on the line of the Delaware road
car loads daily from each is the average
| The NeJCS must have had its eyes ON small figures
for Wyoming sent last week in one day as much as all
these stations put together, and Smyrna went foul
| ahead of them and including those shipped by the
/ MeSSrS IVgertS prODellerS nearly double.
| SALT FOR PEACH TREEs-The following item from
the sentinel would indicate that salt might be used K
| profit among peach trees:
Charles Denney has on his farm at this point one
the finest crops OF peaches IN the county anu ne !
orchard covered with feet of water during th'
storm in Oct. last, and many attribute his crop
peaches to the salt that i'll the Water-he grount
| being completely saturated: and where the tide wa
the heaviest, there is where the most peaches are
BrRDESED WITH FRUrr-The farmers in the lowe
| part of the county according to correspondent o
| Every Erening are burdened with fruit. He writes:
| No one complaining of want of crop, but man.
saying, How shall l save my peaches? / fear
shall loose the half of them One cannot get basket
wagon loads of delicious MiXons and Crawtords pei
ishfng the ground for want of pckers or teams
both, to get them away.
Apples, also as fine as ever grew, were lying abou
covering the ground in 100orchards; unCared for an
almost unhought of in the great pressure of the peac
, | crop.
LAWYERS MIiRATING.-There have been statement
for some times of dun times among the lawyers
Dover, and probable scattering to distant parts an
, | now we have the following definite item:
Elias s. Reed Esq, an attorney who has been prat
tcing for more than twenty years, having become d
gusted with the dull times which the lawyers al
having here has determined TO remove TO Phllade
phia and follow his profession in that city. He hf
rented Office in South street. and will remove theI
to commence business the first of September mex
His family Will follow him about the first of Januar
He has rented his dwelling house and sOfce in Dove
| n DIR HAYWARD a gentleman who has come lel
. | within the last year.
, CONFERENCE ACADEMY.-The Hall of the Confe
i ence Academy has been newly furnished with a fu
e outfit of Triumph settees This is a splendid in
| prOvement and adds much to the comfort and col
= venience of the school. A good thing has been dor
{ for the Scientific department by way of fitting
e cases and introducing additions to the stock
S apparatus. We hear that the school bids fair to
u been reduced The Faculty has been increased al
c the aids and appliances for teaching greatly in
g. proved. An Art department is TO be opened und
q the direction of superior teacher This Will &C
much to the attractiveness of this school, The ne
building for ladies is steadily nearing completion
o SURPLUS OF FRUIT.-The quantity Of fruit al
:. | vegetables this year is something wonderful Wat
MELONS are, and have been "glut" in the Wilmin
y ton market for some days past Captain Denney
" the steamer Susie A. Mccall states that there a
:, | thousands of water MELONS piled upon the whary
in New Jersey, and IL is next to impossible to chart
vessels of any kind to carry them. On Thursday Ia
r there were seventy five thousand MELONS shipped
MELONS were selling at the wharf this morning fro
81 to 81 per hundred, and even at that price 1t
"A almost impossible to dispose of them. Cantaloup
" 1 could hardly be given away, The Jenny Limo
he which is one of the best varieties that grows we
ID bringing from TO IS cents per basket. and some
the truckers were obliged to carry them home agar
:, -Gdzettc.
of BURNING OF THE SURF HOUSE, AT REHoBOTH.-Tl
r Surf House at Rehoboth was burned to the groul
about three o'clock Friday morning. Sixty perso
were the house at the time but all tn'
| lives, one woman being slightly injured. Inc que
| lost all their baggage. The fire originated In I
kitchen and was either the work OF an lncendlary
en- he result of carelessness 1t insured for SlO
ha of this amOnnt 5000 is on the building, SlOOO on
=. furniture. and $500 the annex built by MI kg'
III The property Is mortgaged for about SlO'O0O. u
q Surf House owned by the RehoDoth 3encn Caln
a Meeting Association The total .lOss will De aDo
: $4,000. a., ., - .
er fire were Mr. Rogers President Hayess private sec
IL tary his sister-inlaw, Mrs. Osbourne together WI
the children of Mr. Rogers, the party numbering M
ad DOZEN Secretary Rogers and family saved porl
as Of their baggage but Mrs OsbOurne and her husDa
he barely escaped with their lives The servants o.
employes of the hotel, together with MT Bliany, I
PROPRIETOR are spoken of by the guests OF he mouse
ch the most complimentary terms. All that ney cou
do to save the effects of their guests was done Dnt
was impossible on account OF the raplo sPrtsd VI n
TO | flames to do more than was accomplished. y
be piano and few other things from the parIor W.
"a The only portions of furniture rescued MOST OF
~ guests are,yet at Rehoboth among the cottages anu
'3S the Bright House.
ra- MILFORD ITEMs-FfOm The Ne1os.-A party OF respe
Ne able Young men have associated thehsSAtSs tOSetl
40. and formed musical organization with the view
~ studying music and forming silver Vi DiS "Oroi
s Band. -, -. c,-,isb oars ono,
~ IN move the fruit to market on Iuesday last sol
" bo wished 10 shin 10 New York were forced to 10