Smyrna times., 1879-08-13

An excursion and reunion of the Patrons
of IIusbandry of Delaware and adjoining
States with their friends, Will leave Will
mington at 6 o'clock A. NJ. tomorrow for
Ocean City. Quite number are expected
to join the excursion from section.
The Contract SIGNED.-The contract for
building the new Court House at Whining
ton was signed yesterday by the successful
bidder, Mr.. Archibald Given, who expects
to begin work on Monday next. He will
give bonds, perhaps to-day, in $4,000 for
the completion of the building by October
lst, 1880; B. C. Pearce and Patrick Mona
CHAN being his surities.
Workmen to the number ofabout a dozen,
from the P. w. x B. car shops, have been
sent to different points along the Del. r. r.
to remain during the peach season, examine
the peach trains and report needed repairs.
Two men each have been sent to Middle.
town, Clayton, Dover, Harrington and Sea
ford, and one each to Townsend and
Delmar.
WILMINGTON.-The Republican ticket for
Council in Wilmington is as follows Second
ward, s. d. Roberts; Third, S. A. Price !;
Fifth, two years, II. Evans; one year Alfred
Gawthrop; Sixth, Joseph K. Adams /;
Seventh, c. A. Rodney; Eighth, w. IL.
White; Ninth, two years, c. Febiger; one
year, d. Il. Smith; Tenth, two years, S. G.
Tazewell; one year, w. D. Bush. No can
didates have been named for the First and
Fourth wards, Francis Vincent was nomi-
mated for City Treasurer and NJ. L. Litch-
tenstein for President City Council.
Long and loud complaints are made
against the Old Dominion Steamship Com.
pany. The transportation this year of 300,-
600 baskets will pay the company 100000,
and at fifty cents a basket net are worth to
the growers $l50,000; but the way the
company is now managing the business the
10000 baskets are only netting the growers
$4,000, while the company will all the
same get its 100000 in full. The boats dc
not reach New York until 9 or 10 O. clock in
the morning, when they should have the
stuff on the wharves long before those
hours. The PeninSuLar NewS wants the
growers to meet and subscribe sum tc
test the question of damages in the courts
The PERILs OF CoURTsHIr.-The P, w.
| B. Company sent several of its car shoI
employees down to Dover last Monday to do
little repair work needed there. Two
young men Of the gang had but fairly ar
rived there when they took fancy to twt
young ladies of Dover and accompanied
them home from church one evening
Having seen their fair charges safely to thu
paternal door and tenderly hidden then
"good night they started to retrace thei
steps to their boarding house. The nigh
was dark and the road a lonely one. Sud
denly one of the young men found himsel
in the grasp of two strange looking mel
who angrily demanded why he presumed
to pay such attention to their daughters
The frightened youth struggled loose
tumbled backwards over a projecting piec
! of board fence or something of the kinC
badly barking his shins in the fall, ant
J sought refuge in the darkness and higl
weeds of a neighboring field. His compar
ion did not linger but started down tn
, road at a rate that astonished those who ha
/ never seen him run before When it wa
developed the next morning that the pre-
tended "parients" were only a pair of fu
loving comrades, there was much sport i
that repair gang.-Evcry Erening.
THE MOsQUIToEs AND REHoBoTH.-Th
BreakWafsr Light is in funny mood in il
last issue over the Rehoboth mosquitoes
and has wood cut describing how tn
"pesky critters " disturbed the slumbers {
Miss Webb, the lady who takes so muc
e interest at Wilmington in the prevention
cruelty to animals. Miss Webb when sh
came to the depot with a little hog ski
trunk said:
"When brought this trunk down her
, il was large trunk and covered with hal
Now look at it! 1t won't hold a peck an
a. -, N lo;c =
, these infernel mosquitoes" have
|, friend" added Miss Webb. "who comes I
Rehoboth every Winter ducking, but hoL
he will never come again"
A tall sickly looking lady told US at til
I Rehoboth depot on Monday that she ha
been there five weeks, and had stood aboi
all that an old woman could, but the mo
quitos were too much for her. She said sh
could stand trout and cold coffee thrG
+ times a day, but not mosquitoes.
The editor concludes as follows:
Rehoboth is certainly q bad place fc
:, mosquitoes, and it was a sckening sight
! see the folks leaving there on Monday an
! Tuesday last. However, the season is abol
over there, and the tickle fortunes are VIC
and made. Old Wiley, the primati'
< landlord Of the boarding tent in the grow
1 they say has cleared already $2S00 Walt,
5 Burton at the Bright House is reported
have made nearly $4,000, clear Of all t:
penses. Mr.. Billany Of the Surf Hous
s they say has made no clear money-barel
: enough to pay his rent. This fact is attriI
. uted to his having to board preachers an
/ Methodists with certificates at ruinol
rates. The Douglass House is outside {
the regular order and no one seems to cal
b whether it has done we'll or not. Cap
$ frederick is waiting for "the Gutt'
d Snipes," and expects to make his season
f work off of them. Mr.. Isaac Evans is r
ported dead-that ends it