Smyrna times., 1879-10-01

SEEDING wheatis general with our farmers.
We hear of several whose wheat has been
through the ground week.
THE several sales of real estate advertised
in our columns to take place tomorrow
afternoon will doubtless call together a
number of interested parties.
REV. C. NJ. PEGG, of Wilmington, is ex.
pected to speak at the temperance meeting
at the town hall on Sunday afternoon, and
we presume, preach at the M. Z. Church at
night.
Mr.. IDE" STAATs, who had his saw
mill at Cedar Swamp, Thoroughfare Neck,
destroyed last Spring by fire, is fitting up
again and has purchased the saw mill ex
hibited by G. W. & S. Taylor at the Dover
Fair.
Mr.. CHAs. w. PoULsoN, Smyrna boy of
former years, and in his connection with
the great railroad and steamboat lines,
one of the greatest travellers in the United
States dropped down on a short visit TO our
town yesterday.
Mr. HENRY w. TYGERT brought back with
him from Colorado a cabinet of the various
mineral products of that famous mining
country that are very interesting, especially
the gold bearing quartz and silver carbon
ates of Leadville. The collection numbers
40 specimens.
Mr.. WINTER has in the window of his
confectionery store six baskets of Dutchess
pears grown by Robt. II. Cummins of very
large size running up as high as % ounces.
| Mr.. G. has on several occasions exhibited
| his pears at the Horticultural Exhibition in
Philadelphia and, always with a high
award
SUDDEN DEATH.-Chas. Z. Stern of Will
mington who was attending the Dover Fair
| where he had pictures on exhibition was
found dead in his boarding house on Fri
day morning. The body was brought to
the residence of Alex. Ii. Wilson of this
town whose daughter Mary he married and
from whose house he was buried on Mon
day afternoon. Mr.. S. returned to this
State nearly a year ago from two years
residence in Europe where he had gone for
his health, and was thought since his re.
turn to be in much better condition.
THE Corn CRoP.-The farmers mostly
finished saving their fodder last week-a
week or ten days later than usual. This was
owing in part to the lateness of the season
but largely to the pressure of the farm
work caused by good crops especially of
fruit. Now that the fodder is off, the crop
of corn can be seen to better advantage and
it affords us satisfaction to state that the
crop is a full average and in many sections,
especially in low lands, the yield will be
much larger than usual. This has been a
marked year for our secton-riCh crops
fair prices and no disasters.
THE EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION of the
colored people last Thursday was not a
success. The number in attendance by
reason of improper railroad arrangements
was small and consequently there wal
! Butler, of Wilmington, on Our Day and
It's Work" indicated a man of superior
mental ability. On the subject of the
Exodus he said if the planters did no
. settle squarely with the negroes this yea
as they had compacted to do, instead o
robbing them as heretofore, that they woulC
leave the Mississippi Valley almost eI
mass. And such procedure would almos
ruin that section as the white man nor th
Chinaman could endure the field work il
cotton culture. He was opposed to thei
emigration to a foreign country and tn
r. disturbing influences affecting the Soutl
? had little or no relation to Delaware.
JocKEYING.-Considera has been SAT-
y not only in the free conversations respect
ing the Fair but in the daily papers notabl
@ the Philadelphia Times about the jockey
t. controlling the races at Dover. The re
It porter of the Morning Herald puts it in th
n following strong language:
"The old Point Breeze ring were dow
Ii. 4 H.. l,,A
the Judges stand, Van Austen, the startin
k judge, being openly denounced as the toe
j; of the Ring, owned by them body and sou
>; and the other judges mere figure head
r, who jumped as he and Page, the Secretar
d, of the Point Breeze Association pulled th
strings. This state of affairs produced
feeling of most profound disgust, and curse
:, both loud and deep were heaped upon til
y heads of both the judges and the member
~ of the Association concerned especially til
y Secretary. 1t was freely predicted that
= this crowd was to run the thing, the soon'
the management of the Fair admitted I'll
three card monte meE and pool seller I'll
Il. better, make as much money as possibl
N and break up. This thing will ceFtain
Ia hurt the Fair, both at home and abroa
a many people in Dover, who have bee
n active in promoting the success of the Fa
+ proclaim their intention of having nothir
to do with it hereafter"
1t is believed that "Sherman Morgan
IN the pet of Dover sports and on whom
V. many of them staked their " spare change
I'd was Intentionally beat in the interest of Il
a jockeys. If there must be racing, the pc
g. pie want fair and square, levelbest test
lis speed, and if the State Fair Directors wou
confine the entries entirely TO horses of o.
0taka
up the course as would be satisfactory to Il
In exhibitors, it would not invite the Poi
lr- Breeze ring to come down and manipula
ge the races to fill their own pockets.
or "BILL" COOPER AGAIN IN THE Tolls.
at William Ringold Cooper, one of Smyrna
hopeful boys who has figured so largely
so many sharp transactions, is again in t
al tolls, this time more securely than on a.
~ IN previous occasion. He has been such
W expert in his adopted profession of " cor
VI dence man" and forger, that he stands
III the head of the list in the known wor
'il' His last exploit has been in London whitE
pc he went about year and half a
AZ az after his successful operation in securi
eu I the $4,000 on the California bonds. Af
ne going to London he secured a palace
one Of the suberban towns and lived in
ka most sumptuous manner keeping SIX nor
he with carriages, servants, etc. During t
nd time he has been busy in laying his plf
oh for bolder operations. Last June he forg
ng note successfully, according to the cor
nse spondent of the New York Herald, on I
yer Bank of England since which time the
ina tectives have been on a sharp look out
the the perpetrator. He went under
mo assumed name of Neville Hunter. Rece
in ly by a most skillful forgery he secul
I a $4,000 from the Banking house of ely
om Mills & Co. He kept his private account
nIv this bank, and after he had got the moi
ads on the forged note and it was known a
at talked about he went into the bank Q
ish. while transacting his other business ash
me what was this about forged note.
ms detectives had found something in work
up the case of the Bank of England to
suspect him in this, and he was arFes
par. on the spot-deliberately run his head