Smyrna times., 1880-08-11
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

orn crop. ,
IoE now costs our dealers, including the ]
lauling, $ll per ton.
The Sunday School of the Dover NJ. Z.
church mako an excursion to Woodland
Beach" to-day.
CAPT. JAS. P. Snow has taken out letters
Of administration on the estate of the late
Andrew j. Snow.
The aroma arising from pig pens during
the peach season is hardly equal to that of
tho ottar of roses.
A LOT of worthless tramps who refuse
work when offered them are infesting the
whole peach district.
we have some samples of beautiful |
evaporated fruit from the drying establish
ment of N. T. Underwood.
REvs. J. T. UMsTED and T. II. Haines |
have stuck it out all Summer, and so far as
we know, do not intend any vacation.
JAS. LovEGRovE we'll known mechanic
died at his residence near Bombay Hook,
where he has resided tho past several years.
In our local markets tomatoes arc sell
ling at so cts. per peck, sweetpotatoes 80
cts. per peck, apples Is and peaches 25 cts
per baskets.
PERHAPS the finest prospective view from
our town is the landscape northward as
seen from the street fronting the residence
of VIM. w. Nelson.
THE Philadelphia papers have been quo
ting chickens for tho past week or two at
IL cts. per pound, while here they have
been selling at IA cts.
CAPT. A. SCoUT has shipped to New York
and Boston about ton of grapes realizing
500. The first shipment was Aug, I'd, the
Concord bringing and the Lady Grape 10
cts. per tb.
If the peach market was glutted with
the 100000 baskets needed for the evap-
orators in Delaware and on the Eastern
Shore, what would it have been with them
out of the way?
The attention of those having children
to educate is called to tho advertisement OF
Delaware College. The curriculum is up to
our best grade institutions, the society OF
the town good and the cost less than any
similar Institution.
ALDERMAN BUDD, with an enlarged police
force made a raid on the tramps last night
capturing two who were put in the lookup.
The rest got wind of what was up and
skedaddled." The police have orders to-
day to arrest any tramp seen entering o
private gate.
Mr.. A. LEE CUMMINs has samples of corn
at his Office on which "Natty" Farson used
the Diamond Crown Nitro Phosphate
that stands twelve feet high and has three
ears to the stalk. "Natty" says that i
; it hadn't been so dry it would have hat
five or six ears to the stalk.
! TEE Philadelphia papers quote apples a
so cts. to 81 per barrel, Bartlett pears S. +
81 per barrel, cooking pears 50 to s.
Grapes 5 to cts. per 10. for Concord ant
3 to cts. for Ives Seeding, Damson's ant
: Plums 81 to $3.50 per bushel, Sweet pota
: toes IS to so cts. per basket and Whit
potatoes 25 to 35 cts. per basket.
! SAMUEL B. DRIGGs has very fine pate
. of Okra, plant not known in this sectio
but much used in the West Indies.
bears pods abounding in nutritious muci
e age, valuable for pickles and soups. Fc
d the latter purpose they are gathered an
IS dried for winter use and are growing
q popularity with city hotels for this purpos
lie SHERIFF SALE.-On Thursday last tn
2, farm of John II. Bewley in "Rich Neck
u was sold at public sale to Mrs. Bewley ft
y $500. This, including the per cent. 70
:, :, feited by Tschudy & Cats 5000 on the
purchase six months ago necessiating
II being put in the market again, makes IL
n sale lust the same. Sheriff Dunn also sol
III the farm of Jos. Tomlinson, so acres, neI
Of Leipsic, to Mr. Kuntz for $500.
10 BURNED TO DEATH.-Yesterday afternoo
a Mrs. VIM. Kaiser residing near Bombs
in Hook, while kindling fire preparatory
20 getting supper, called to her aid can
10 coal oil which exploded, enveloping her
flame, and when extinguished had burnt
l. her so seriously as to cause her death in
- few hours after. Mr.. Kaiser came to th
ta section from Pennsylvania with his fami
n over two years ago. Much sympathy
ee felt for him in the neighborhood.
o Coon RIDERs.-One day last week Isa
a. s. Taylor was threshing grain for Mr..
is Lower, near Brenford. 1t was dark VIII,
o. he hitched up his horse to return HON
d, but found on arriving at the latter place,
ne Duck Creek, that some chickens, whi
TX had taken roost on the centre pole of
a dearborn, had ridden the whole distanC
y some four miles, without being disloge
- They were tied and returned the next ds
oU This sounds like an Eastern Shore itel
W 10 but it is vouched for by two responsit
A. witnesses.
re In our last issue in speaking of our dl
at ing establishments the types made us 8
U.s. they used from one hundred to four hr
"a dred baskets per week. 1t should hs