Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-01
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.


The Assessor is assessing the assessables.
TIE State Temperance Alliance meets in
Dover to-day.
TIE John E. Tggsrt turns up its nose at the
ice and passes defantly by.
! PORK is selling at Sc per hundred. This
means country sausage at 10, possibly II |
cts. per fb.
CHRISTMAS is now little over three weeks
off. The children will soon be counting it
by the days.
The next examination of teachers by
Prof. Groves in this town will be Dec. 18th,
instead of the 25th.
TIE frozen roads of last week gave black
smithing boom-one shop, Mr.. Fairbanks,
shoeing twenty horses in one day.
The colored people of the vicinity of
Manship Church, near Mcorton are build.
ing for themselves school house.
Rev. WIN. B. GORDON and Dr. VIM. Cum
Minis were appointed to represent the Epis
copal Church at the State Temperance Al
lance to-day.
The sleet and rain of Sunday made it
almost prohbitory day with church goers.
In fact pedestrianism of any kind was at
a serious discount.
BUTTER is frequently one of the scarcest
articles in the market, and is now COM
manding 80 cts, FIVE cts. higher than is
usual in hog killing time.
Gov. CORNELIUS CoMEGYs, father of our
present Chief Justice, is said to have been
| the first Governor of Delaware that issued a
Thanksgiving proclamation.
A. P. GRIFFITH, real estate agent, sold a
farm in New Castle CO., of SO acres, belong.
ing to Absalom Perry, to Jos. w. Williams
of Kent CO., for $1,000, cash.
EGGS usually go up just before Christmas
but the November cold snap caused q
strike for higher wages among the hens
that will probably last some weeks.
The cause Of the cold weather, it is said,
is not "cold wave" as many persons
imagine, but to the loss Of heat by the
earth by radiation during the late remark
ably dry weather.
YESTERDAY was the annual Noticing day
three months before moving, and the
number of sales Of real estate and business
ventures will necessitate considerable turn
ing round on March LIST.
} A CHILD and God is as strong as a maj
and God a woman and God is as strong a.
an army and God: if God is one factor II i
no matter who may be the other, Their
will be success.-Hanes.
The protracted meeting at "Central" Of
the circuit which was maniFesting consider
able interest was forced by the weather I,
an unexpected close. Seven addition
were made to the church.
TIE way the ponds were lightning u
last week some Of our ice men though
: they would be housing ice this, but tn
I. snow and rain and more moderate weathC
!, y has put new phase on things.
J. The pupils of No. School will be ente
= tanned on Friday afternoon by Col. g.
q Raymond in an account of his trip to tn
n White Mountains and what he saw thi
al would instruct and interest them.
n. one of the products brought to the sto
J. of T. B. Megear few days ago of counts
t, trade was piled up load Of walnuts
le bags-as much, perhaps, as Mr.. Whit
n can use up in walnut candy all winter.
" SALE OF PRoPERTY.-The Smyrna Bull
y ing and Loan Association has sold Il
-, Asa Campbell house on Main st. to Jol
cd Raughley of Duck Creek Neck for $l2(
Mr.. Raughly will occupy it in the spring.
IT is said to be the intention OF the PI
~ duce exchanges to run the price of era
ne up higher than it has been for seye
u. years. This is not from any scarcity
y grain but to use the abundance of une
Gu ployed capital.
nai THE schooner Kate Miller, built at Smyr
Landing seven years ago for Capt. Van
'ue went ashore near Hatteras the first part
' 'n' last week and will probably be a total Ii
Inc She was proceeding from Wilmington
us Galveston with railroad iron.
so THOSE farmers who hav'nt sold their c.
FRA yet look the happiest And herein
me comfort to those whose crops are still
The husked in the fields. still further c
cul- siderable advance is predicted by som,
the there has been decline this week.
ar Jos. E. WILLIAMS has bought of I'll
ons Lavender a four year old beifer that
ions butcher 700 pounds and will be on
bic. market next Monday. This animal is a
| its circumspect than the other, and it is
lour calculated that it will kick over the M,
,r; The streets were merry for two or Il
i,sd hours on Saturday morning with the 81
- bells, but by noon it was over. The s
49,. was just right for the boys and misses
,;Jas their little sleds all day. They, howe
- - needed no music but their own m
en- ~ laughter.
a OF TIE "White Rose MinstreIs," which
costs such satisfactory entertainments last
20 OF ter. have recognized and are preparii
i OF give an entertainment on the 23d of
ncies month. This troupe consist mainly OF
the members OF the Harmony Cornet 3
out. and the proceeds Of the coming enter
and ment will be used to procure uniform
rudi- their band. The troupe has been
ween siderably strengthened by the additi
the several new members who will add q
ution5 70 the entertainment. na au 1