Smyrna times., 1879-09-24
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
WHEAT has advanced 18 cts, in the city

PRoF. GROVES will hold an examination on
Saturday, for teachers of the second and third
grade
HENRY w. TYaEET, after a years absence
in Colorado, returned yesterday in improved
health.
AMONG the objects of interest to be seen to-
morrow will be a sea turtle weighing 420 fbs.,
b feet long and4 feet wide.
The steamer artisan, has resumed her trims
again to Collins Beach and Bombay Hook.
See time table for September and October.
ENGINEER ONEAL's son Daniel, boy of
some ten summers, had toe cut off on Sum
day last while playing with the turn-table at
| Clayton.
MISS SUE R. COLT sent two rugs and a
sample of embroidery to the Worten Fair,
near Chestertown, ard got the highest premium
| on each.
A. p. GRIFFITH, real estate agent of this
| town, has secured the services of H. S. Mead,
Esq, of New York. who will travel in the in
| terest of that business throughout the Middle
and some of the Western States.
A MEETING of the Duck Creek Improve
ment Company will be held at the Smyrna
| House, this town, on Thursday the I'd of
October The object of the meeting is to
make levy of tax for the purpose of re-
pairing the stopping and the break in the
| bank.
A LIBEL was, on Thursday, fled in Philadel-
phia ON behalf of John E. Tygert & Co.,
owners of the steamer PierrepOnt her tackle
&c. against the steamer Mary Morgan for run
ming into and sinking the former on the 9Th of
August near Fort Delaware. The damage
l nlain1nd iS &h500
| MISS Nj. ANNA OFFLY commences this week
her fall campaign in Elocution with the most
| fattering prospects. The first class (children)
| will meet Saturday morning at 0 o'clock in
| "CoOpers Hall" to organize. The course for
this class will consist of ten lessons: terms
| $3.50. The Adult class will meet in the same
place on Monday evening at 8 o clock
| THE canvass of Smyrna for the Kent Co.
Directory has commenced and the attention of
citizens is respectfully called to it. 1t will be
general directory of Smyrna, Dover, Wyo-
ming, Camden, FELTON,, Harrington, Milford,
| &C., with business directory, farmers under
their post Office address, societies, &c 1t will
be an excellent advertising medium as a large
number of directories will be distributed among
the farmers gratis.
| The MIDDLETowN FAIR.-The sixth annual
exhibition of the Agricultural and Pomological
Association will open at Middletown.on Tues
day next Both inst, and hold three days. The
Board OF Managers have never before been 50
| wide awake and enterprising. The Main Ex-
hibition building has been entirely rebuilt and
| the display space greatly enlarged. All the
trains will stop at the ground, and a larger
attendance is expected this than any former
season.
THE shipment of peaches from Clayton Oh
| Monday amounted to about half car and were
mainly from the orchards ofD. j. Cummins and
his tenant Mr.. Lightcap, and from the "Cloak
farm, occupied by j. ]. Jones. These peaches
were of the Smock and Salway varieties and We
note the fact because of their remarkable fine
size and color, those grown by Mr.. LightcaI
perhaps taking the lead. The Smock had the
size and appearance of Crawford's Late anC
the Salway, if in season, would have passed
for Reeves Favorite.
TOMORROW promises to be a busy day il
the way of visitors The celebration of the
Emancipation Proclamation will call together
it is expected, 4,OOO people. At one O'clock
there will be grand parade through the
principal streets of the town in which will bC
several bands of music, 200 drilled men,
chariot with 81 females, &c. Addresses will
be delivered in the afternoon and at night Rev
DIR. Butler will give q lecture at the Towr
Hall on "Our Day and its work." followed by
a concert and tableaux.
Mr.. VIM. II. Money, of Green Spring. {
commission merchant in New York, SAYS tha
some of the peaches sent down the Hudson
river week or two ago sold for S4 per basket
Our farmers are thus finding a formidable
rival for their late fruit, and should be ad
monished, at least those planting out orchards
to keep to the early varieties. With OF
4,OO00 600 peach trees coming into bearing NJ
IN Ulster CO.., N: Y, and growing superior
fruit, it would look as if the chances for profit
from this section was slim later than the
ripening of the Crawfords.
On Sunday last Glenn Spruance, Edward
Curry and james Jump, while on visit t.
Bombay Hook, stepped down to the marsh to
cut some choice grasses and take a peep at tn,
reed birds, not thinking of danger from gun
ners as it was Sunday. They had hardly go
to work when the discharge of gunner afte
reed birds carried off the top of "Clem S" hat
one shot entering his head. 1t occurred t.
them the solitude Of the Marsh was not tn,
most desirable place to spend quiet Sunday
and "absquatulated." Bombay Hook need
both missionary and a magistrate.