Smyrna times., 1879-03-26

PRoF. GROVES will hold an examination
OF candidates for the position of teachers
next Saturday.
BY Conference proceedings on first page
1T will be seen that Dover was decided on to
hold the next session of the Conference.
Smyrna next.
a FISH wagon at every corner fails to re.
duce any of the fnny tribe to the price of
corn except the 'yaller ned" Herring are
% cts. dozen and shad have not vet nut
in an appearance.
In addition to the Phosphate Factory of
A. Lee Cummins, tho contemplated i'm.
provenents at Clayton are, a brick ward by
Mr.. Wright and the erections of new or
enlarged dwellings by Jas. w. Anthony
and Henry P. Massey on their farms a
mile west Of that place.
SEVERAL families from the mining regions
OF Dauphine CO., Pa, moved down last week
to farms purchased through the agency of
Jonas Keyser near Bombay Hook. Henry
George goes to the SeversOn farm and G. X.
Snyder and Edward Workman to the
Comegys' farm. Frank Hamburger from
the same place-Lyking Valley-movad
to the John Benn farm about month
| ago.
The Rev. L. j. Williams, who was the
pastor of the NJ. f. Church at Millngton
| during the past year, and who has been
unable to preach since Christmas, but who
had SO far recovered as to be ahle to attend
the session Of Conference at New Castle, was
suddenly stricken down on Friday and is
now lying in very critical condition at the
| house of Mr.. Gordon in New Castle and is
not expected to recover.
a RATHER amusing paragraph appeared
in the Repu6lican of Friday last, in it's re.
! port OF the Conference proceedings at New
! Castle on Thursday. 1t thus speaks of one
of the visitors who were introduced to the
Conference: Rev. Mr.. Arizona, principal
| Skinner of the Conference Academy"
| When this was read it afforded Ouite a
good deal Of amusement at the expense of
the worthy President of the Dover School.
CHEAP ORANGES.-It remained for this
spring to present the anomaly in the prices
in semitrOpical fruits. Oranges cts. a
| dozen and we have heard of some being
sold as low as e cts. per dozen. In looking
up the street the first thing you generally
see is an orange, with a boy behind it, and
in some OF the stores they are more plenti.
full than potatoes and about as cheap. If
this state of affairs continues they will
scarcely be considered luxury cut and
sugared for supper.
BRISK BUsIHE-s.-Our town has not for
years presented the brisk mercantile ac.
tivity it does this spring. The old dry
goods stores are all occupied, with the adj.
dltlon OF one very large new one BY reference
to our advertising columns it will be seen
that the merchants have laid in large stock,
Of goods, and they have bought them with
the knowledge that the competition is sharr
and they must be sold at low prices. The
> competition was perhaps never greater than
5 1t Is to-day. And there is no town on tn,
) Peninsula whore goods are sold at as small
: profit as in Smyrna We call the atten
ton of persons living in the adiaccn
. country and villages to this fact, and hop,
, they will remember it. The trade Of tht
town ought, and we think will greatly en-
large when the people Of the out.layin.
D country come to find out that they cal
, purchase more goods with less money il
Smyrna than they can any where else.
I The NJ. P. CONFERENCE, which held il
session at Centreville last week, made tw
G appointments out of what has heretofor
s comprised Leipsic Circuit The new ar
1 ponment is Clayton, to which Rev. Nj
J. 1inEling, the late pastor Of the circuit VIII
1 recently removed from Leipsc to thi
n town, is appointed. lie is succeeded a
n Leipsic, which has been set off as station
n by Rev. G. J. Smith. The new circuit q
Mr.. Yingling embraces Clayton, Down,
:, Chapel and Bethesda. Among the othe
appointments were r. S. Rowe, Warwick
: ). A. Hoblitzell, Chestertown; f. r. Littel
: Kennedyville; d. l.. Greenfield, Centrevill,
= w. w. White. Crumpton +. r. Tag!
i Easton; T. D. Valiant. ST. Michaels; j
= d. Melvin, Talbot; a. d. Dick, Caroline
: ii. f. Miskimmon, Seaford; a. A. Harr,
: man, Milton j. l.. Straugh, Laurel; w. ]
Grouse, Sussex; a. T. Melvin, Whale
< Vile; j. w. Sheridan, Salisbury; Wm v
y Strazer, Snow Hill, and Rev. J. E. r. Ewel
IS Newtown.
q The time Of the Representative in tn
u Legislature from Little Creek lid. seems
u have been largely absorved in legslati,
, schemes against the moral interests of Il
Is State. He has been the plant instrumei
9 of the whisky ring of Wilmington in pc
sistent efforts for free rum. and actual
30 slipped through the House bill when II
Is members, it is said, were not awake to
or Yesterday he turned up in another II
Of which was nothing less than the presentatic
re Of an Infamous Lottery bill, the passage
m (which he urges on our Legislature, entire
t. indifferent to the effect it would have
r. making Delaware a stencil in the nostri
" of the Nation. As bad as the other is tn
is worse, for our State would be used by Il
Lottery swindlers to curse the country
- large. Nothing feathers the nest" of Il
~ rnanipulatOrs like rich Lottery bill, ar
- the seductive local benefits offered are C;
n culated to capture men of low moral co
~ ~ victions, without regard to the welfare
- =, the people.
wv OUR CANNED EDIBLEs ABRoAD.-An a
ol. count Of a Christmas dinner at the Unite
rs. States consulate at Bangkok, Siam, in,
' Gates how widely distributed are Americ;
~ preserved viands in distant lands, and
~ which our Peninsula so largely contribut
ho 10y its extensive packing establishment
- An American can go to the ends of the ear
and yet subsist on the products of his Ov
"a country. At the dinner in Questio
~ thousands of miles away, in addition
r turkey and chicken and corned beef, we
40 80 American mince and pumpkin pies, salmo
~ Holsters, mackerel and CLANS, with Ca
''N fOrnia potatoes, Delaware tomatoes, Scheme
tady asparagus, California peaches, Bal
ger more raspberries, New Jersey pears al
wn Connecticut blackherries. 1t may seem
P. marKable to the average reader that all Il
ed American fish. flesh and fruit should
I02 procurable at Bangkok, but he must
1873 member that our edibles of almost eve
Ire kind go in cans to every part of the wor
| Al. rl,ltA Ann1nu ~