Smyrna times., 1879-10-29
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
THE Benevolent Society will meet at the
residence of Mrs. E. j. Colts tomorrow
evening
Thomas LAMBE has been granted letters
OF administration on the estate of Andrew
Mahoney, late of Blackbird hundred.
SEVERAL copies of books have been pre-
sented to the Smyrna Library this week,
! among them Whittier's poems and Stanleys
Expedition Through Africa.
E. M. FOWLER, who has been advertising
pretty literally in our business locals" is
so full of orders that he has had to send off
to the city for an additional tailor to help
him out.
WHEAT and corn have suffered a further
decline in the Philadelphia market since
our last issue, the former ten the latter
three cents per bushel. The quotations are,
wheat $l.40 and corn 81 cents.
SOME shares of the Fruit Growers
National Bank, of this town, were put on
the market last week in Philadelphia and
sold for $1O3, the par value being $780,
This speaks we'll for this young institution.
The Government is giving the lighthouse
at Bombay Hook thorough overhauling
at cost of 81 200 Among the improve
ments is new oil house, the purpose
being to use kerosene hereafter instead of
lard oil.
On Saturday night last while the horse
and carriage of Geo. Carey, of Raymond's
Neck, was hitched under the shed erected
for that purpose in the back yard of Beck's
store, some thief stole all the harness, ex.
cept the bride, from the animal.
JACoB c. BENNETT, near Blackbird Mills.
raised this season on one.sixteenth of an
acre OF ground bushels of peanuts. for
which he has been offered $3.50 per bushel.
Would they not be a profitable crop for
some of our small farmers to raise.
Our real estate broker, A. P. Griffith. has
sold the farm of Jacob c. Bennett, in AID.
poquinimink Hundred, New Castle county.
to Gilbert Moore, of Michigan, for SS26.
Mr.. Moore came with his family and has
taken possession of the farm.
UNTIL the last Legislature the law com.
PEELED all the constables in the county to
meet at Dover on the opening day of Court,
whether they had especial business or not,
out by the recent enactment this compul.
SION was relieved and they attend only now
when business calls
IHE shares in mining and railroad stock
which have been advancing at such pitch
for the past several weeks have had the
effect to bring out and put in the market
several roads considered worthless. Can't
the directors of the Bombay Hook road
give it "boom" while the excitement is
on?
The cold snap of Saturday and SUNDAY
last making ice quarter of an inch thick.
extended to the extreme Southern States
In the Northern States there was a GOOD
snow fall and the aspect was decidedly
wlntry. The looked for rain that was TO
follow, was only a pretence of shower, and
1T remains as dry as ever.
ADvERTIsERs.-Wm. B. Collins adyertises
building hardware, farm implements, sau. |
sage cutters, &c.
+. Mitchell, Jr., Wilmington slate, gravel, |
plastic slate roofing, slate mantels and roof |
ing materials.
Geo. B. Wells, & Co., PHILADELPHIA.
Quaker city hat emporium.
Arm BRoEEN.-Yesterday as Hon. Robt NJ
Foust was passing at his residence from one |
room to another, in ascending a step (beinp |
IN enfeebled health from paralysis he lost
ms balance and fell backward and in the |
iall striking and breaking his arm lust
below the shoulder. DR.. Collins was sent |
LOT and reduced the fracture, but to one of
mis- age and feeble health it was a very
severe shock to his system.
The TINES Office published last week for
the Wardens and Vsstry of st. Peters p |
T. Church, a temperance sermon RECENTLY |
preached by the Rector, Rev. William 3. |
Uordon, from L Con-, IX,-25-" And every |
man that striveth for the mastery is tenn.
Perate In all things" 1t is clear, decided |
ana stralghtout in thought; full of facts |
ana argument, and altogether, a discourse |
that 1t would be we'll to place in every
thinking mans hand in the community.
KENToN.--The village camp. meetinp held
at Aenton NJ. E. Church, commencing last
sunday, attracted large congregation of
people. Rev. A. R. Bender, of the Confer.
ence Academy, preached in the morning. I.
+: Corkran, student of the same. in the
afternoon and William r. McFarlane. of
!! Marydel, at night. The meetings will
De continued through this week. The
i I nelo last week at this place by the
Ladies Mite Society was well patronized.
PROTECTING GAME.-At a meeting of tba
y delaware Game Protection Association held
last week at Harrington fund was raisad
ior the purchase and protection of game in
y elaware. The Directors ordered 200 Migra.
Tory qualls to be bought from Europe. T6ev
also ordered lOO California quail, 80 prairie
chlckens, and what was left of the funds
u 70 De devoted to the purchase of North
Oaroiins and Kansas partridges, all of
wn1cn are to be turned out equally in the
inherent counties, on the land of persona
VINO VIII agree to protect them, or allow the
association to protect them, until thew
propagate. my
NOoPER'-Our former citizen Cooper it will
De seen gets off with light sentsnca fron,
what was antleipated-fve years of DenaL
servltude. But, then, it was understood
that at the end of that time he would bs
handed over to the United States autbor;.
ties: He intended eight" until he was
made acquainted with the fact that his
career was known and published, when he
resorted to his tactics of penitsnce and good
DehaVior In order to work on the svmpa-
tnles OF the Court. While serving out a
similar imprisonment in the Philadelphia
PenItentIary, by protesting conversion, a
desire If he could get out TO atone by good
deeds FOR his former life, and general good
conductj he SO wrought on chaplain Ruth
lalso q former Smyrnianl that ba ives
granted unusual privileges and a mart &c
his term OF service mitigated. Coons, a.
pious only when in durance. His carear of
crime commenced again soon after his "a.
lease. and illuminated in his heavy forpcrv
On TreadweD ia California and flight 10
~ nhngland. 1t seems TO heye been born in
Of ~ oone I for a. q boy he was known as one
mon ne :. snartest, brightest, cleverest but in
,-o,,ss Sy matters one of the lightest fingered
'0"'As ever raised in the town.