Smyrna times., 1880-10-13

or pumpkins. {
THE list of Licenses for Kent county will
be found in another column. Those who
have not taken out and do not before the
term of court, 25th inst, will
be liable to indictment.
THE man who writes "329'i' in the same
on fences and door posts also
made us Il nocturnal visit. lie forgot,
however, to write 396444 and no body took
enough interest in it to do it for him.
THE peach prosperity is manifesting
itself in smoke: one of our farmers, mid.
dleaged, abstemious and who piled up a
few thousand from his crop, it is noticed
now for the first time enjoys the curling
smoke from rich havana.
FOLLOWING the rain of over a week ago,
which made the ground in excellent condi-
ton, the farmers put in their drills and a
better week for seeding, the farmers never
had and perhaps never worked it up so well.
The most Of the crops are now in the ground.
A DAY or two ago in an effort to slack so
bushels of lime for plastering q house,
eight wells were exhausted, and finally |
water had to be carted to complete the job. |
supply to meet the possible contingency of
q fire.
LAST Saturday our butcher wagons num-
bered ten-dsposing of six beeves and six
hogs. This indicates large increase in the
use Of meat and taking this as a sample of
our weekly market it would show that
our farmers have good meat market at
home.
THE following were the Delegates from
this Hundred to the Republican County
Convention which met at Dover yesterday:
j. S. McClary, Cary Frazier, A. l.. Hudson,
Jos. E. Smithers, Edward Beck.
Alternates: Samuel S. Griffin. DR.. d. I.
| Smithers, w. w. Tschudy, E. NJ. Fowler,
Joseph Reynolds.
| ONE of orr Doctors on hearing that
Hon. n B. Smithers had been placed on
the ticket for Levy Courtman said that he
was almost sorry that he didn't give his
name for coroner. By the way, the most
proper person for the Office of Coroner
would be doctor, and in Philadelphia
they are always chosen.
ONE of the customs of political meetings
is to present the speakers with beautiful
boquets. These are very naturally times of
gush, and sometimes the speakers are
lifted quite off their feet in their sentimen-
tai endeavors. This was somewhat the
case last evening with Mr.. Biggs, who in
the profusion of flowers and compliments,
came very near declaring himself in favor
OF womens voting.
THE termination of the pavement at the
Depot or rather its non-termination needs
the careful attention of our Commission.
ers. 1t is always q bad place in rainy
weather and especially bad i'll winter, and
it is wonder how it has been allowed to
GO so long in the way it is. This short
place is just enough to wet the feet of
every one who goes to or from the depot
of a rainy night Let it be speedily abated.
John WINTER, our baker, has pet
chicken that has been running about his
premises for the past three or four weeks
which in the manner of its birth is a nov
city. lie bought lot of eggs, and found
directly after that one of them had peeped.
1t was laid in a warm place in SOME wooden
rags and in few hours young chirper
/ enlivened the monotony Of the store and
5 bids fair to make in due time q healthy
broiler.
4 COURSE OF LECTUREs-Rev. George Ii
| Waters has instituted a course of Lectures
to be given at the Centennial NJ. L. Church
). designated the "Star Course" They con
Il sist Of five, on the 18th, 29th and Novem
o Der 5th, 18th and 25th. The speakers are
n selected from the ablest members of tht
. Conference and will no doubt be enter
- tanning to all who can give them hearing
o The first lecture, next Friday evening viii
II be by Rev. Fl. A. Monroe, editor of tn
| I'M, 1,.9H uh cnh I,
~ 1.-THE Negro Apocalypse" or the Sever
Seals Broken" The lecture will be pre-
ceeded by several anthems and duets b
good singers.
"THE Industries of Delaware" is tn
title of a pamphlet or book of l76 page
principally devoted to description of tn
business Of the advertisers and flatterin
notices Of the subscribers. 1t is illustrate
h. and the latter press.work neatly executed
but many of the likenesses of individual
are mere carricatures. As history of tn
Up industries of the State it is of no value an
the descriptions of the towns if not con
no piled from preceding Directories wer
us made up from the Imagination rather tina
observation. For instance, Brenford
described as having a church, hotel and
ct population of 100, embracing all trades an
On professions; Kenton a population Of so
three churches, two hotels, public hall, &c
Whigville, miles South Of Kenton,
Ie- looking up with population not less tina
he 100, and DammVille, miles West froI
Kenton, is pleasant village of 100 inhab
tants, with a church and store" tn
~ people living in these places will smile
III the extravagant statements Of the compile
Dammville is an entirely new name on OF
,al map. The patronage of the book in SUI
er scrptions and advertisements has bee
quite liberal, at least in this communit
1t may DO judicious advertising to put
=" card in a worthless book that is laid avs
'N and rarely if ever opened rather than
newspaper that opens fresh every wee
ve but we think practical experience wouI
he teach differently.
PoLITICAL-The public meeting of Il
he the Hancock & English Club was held la
I'm evening in front of j. II. Bewley's stor
TO and the speakers, John Biggs and Jas.
Walcott, Esqs., were listened to by three
four hundred persons. Mr.. Biggs was Il
ng first speaker, occupying the rostrum
Iii. three quarters of an hour. There W
ry. probably more interest than usual in he,
ing young speaker because he was Il
>, son of Hon. Benz. 7. Biggs, very familiar
Us known in this community as a stump d
I'M claimer. The son has not the lusty fourt
am of. Julv stvla of ut,oranoa &c al CT
and while grave and precise, he has q rea
ter. flow of language that in time may ser
ma. I'LL sooo purpose as speSker' Inc
~ was not the slightest attempt at humor,
spice OF incident; the candidates VIC
before him and he went for them in cal
in est. He said that the Republican pal
~ was originally composed of pure men "A