Smyrna times., 1880-08-11

THE hay barrack Of DR.. VIM. Cummins
destroyed last week by fire was insured in
the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of
Wilmington and not the Kent County Co.
The DIR. is the agent for the former COM
pany.
SOME of our fruit curing establishments
in consequence of the rush of fruit caused
by therapid ripening, have found themselves
deficient in labor. The canning establish
ment of John H. Holfecker and the drying
house of Messrs. Barker & Gilman at Clay
ton have both been reinforced by help
from down the road. These establish
ments use from 400 to 500 baskets daily.
: There is complaint this year with the ope-
ratives of the factories that the flesh ad-
heres to the seed of the peach to a much
} greater degree than usual.
DRIVEN PUMP.-Among the items ship.
ped on the last downward trip of the
THgert was the materials for "driven wells"
new in this section. We understand sew
eral of them are soon to be placed in this
locality. At Ocean Grove they are in
universal use. At Millington they are es-
pecially popular. At the usual depth of
wells in that town there is a formation of
g earth that gives o disagrceable taste to the
water. One of these wells driven to
greater depth gave an entirely different
water from the other wells and so desira.
l. BILE as to be sought after by the rest of the
. town.
BooT AND SHOE FACToRY.-Wo are glad
to learn that the Boot and Shoe Factory in
N the johnson Building is about to resume
IS operations A gentleman from Philadel.
70 phia (Mr. VIM. w. Crocker) who has boen
spending in our midst few weeks of
leisure, preceiving the marked advantages
:. of Smyrna as q manufacturing centre, has
arranged with Mr.. w. r. johnson, one OF
our young business men, to manufacture
with a view to tho wholesale and jobbing
* trade. We wish these gentlemen good
lg 81 sod in the renewal of their enterprise,
le and the success which well directed effort
10 in so valuable q business merits.
PEACH SHIpMENTs.-Tho shipment Of
tn peaches from our station the past week
p. have run from Is to 20 car loads per day
IN Yesterday was the heaviest day of the
m season, numbering "a cars. After to-day
they will probably fall back to 10 or Il
cars per day. At Brenford they have
Oh been shipping and 10 per day, but afte
- this will likely fall considerably below thes
figures. The shipments from Dover ant
u below will after this be very light as thsr
~ is little late fruit
The steamers j. +. Tygert and Picrepor
ice have been carrying about $500 basket
hit daily, an equivalent of about seven cars
ID. and one day exceed 1000. During tn
nd past five days thousands of baskets hav
to. beer allowed to perish in the orchard be
q cause of inadequacy of price. The price
are now looking up again. l63 cars wen
up the road yesterday, making thus fa
'rn 166S cars.
,sd
81, A RARE PLANT.-Among the many rar
- and beautiful things indigenous and exot
! g at Belmont Park are two large Banan
"a plants standing some ten or twelve fe'
high which with their green trunks an
great leaves do not fail to attract the clos
at attention of the visitors. There is, hoy
to ever, an additional interest in these plan
So, at this time. Ono of them has essayed
md take on its full tropical functions and HI
and sent out bunch of blossoms with evel
ota- prospect of perfecting cluster of frui
lite The purple sheath that surrounds Il
cluster and protects it in its first devele
ment is new separating to give the your
'.0n fruit the full benefit of light and a
'ion These plants were brought to Mrs. Spea
~ man some three years ago by friend fro
icii' Georgia, and have been remarkable ST
ror cessful in their development. Except
anu hot houses they rarely if ever make fri
) ~ so far north.
ose.
PEACHEs.-Tho peach market, which h
the been uniformly good up to Saturday,
ck" came bady demoralized on that day
for New York and Philadelphia. Fruit th
for had been selling for 81 so to 50 went do'
heir to so and rs cts. per basket and ordina
: it peaches in numerous cases did not bri
the enough to pay the cost of freight. T
sold effect on the growers was very dampnir
near and on Monday common fruit, especia
the Yorks, were allowed to go to
ground unpicked. One of our grow,
oon told us he had $500 baskets laying on I
lbay ground on Monday night. The shipmel
y to over the road the day before were I56 ca
n of 103 of which went to New York and
r in cars to Philadelphia. The daily shipmcl
med before lad been about 100 car loads. I
in q shipments on Saturday amounted to
this cars, 80, of which went to Boston, a
mily though a large quantity for that mari
y is did not demoralize it as was the case
Philadelphia and Now York. The seve
varieties ripening together without
Sa4o usual intermission is one cause of
T, e. break in prices. The "Old Nixon" g
'nen was precipitated by this variety hurry
ome' on before the York and early Crawfo
~, in were out of the way.
hich
9 ~. PERSONAL---VERY.. j. V. Smith is visit
,nce Centrevills and Wye Campmeeting.
,Ood The Misses BrindIs, who have been v
dav, ting friends in Talbot CO. the past two
tenn. three weeks, will return home this week
s;ble Mrs. Geo. II. Raymond, Mrs. John N
tard and Mrs. Woodward and daugh