Smyrna times., 1880-10-20
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

KENT County Court meets next Monday.
THE Presidential election is now not two
weeks off.
WE have not had good potato crop
now for three years.
Mr.. E. LOWER, near Brenford is husking
corn AZ ears of which fill bushel basket.
CAPT. AL. H. SMITH of the steamer Tygert
is fully voted the right man in the right
place.
The animation of the political campaign
in this section, in noise and show, does Ht
begin to come up to what it did twenty and
thirty years ago.
Mrs. MARY A. KIMMY has a second crop
of pears in her garden the size of hickory
nuts. She gathered good crop from the
same trees in the summer.
The Kent County Teachers Institute will
meet in this town on Wednesday Nov. 18th
and remain in session until Saturday morn
ing. The prospect is that the session will
be brilliant one.
The Iron Bridge that spans the Creek at
Fleming's Landing was finished the first
part of last week. The delay in getting
the work done was considerable incon.
venience to the trade and traffic in that
vicinity.
Mr.. E. C. FENNIMoRE, of Odessa, is ahead
in sugar beets, so far as heard from, one
brought to our office last week weighing
20 Tbs. Mr.. F., we believe, took the pre-.
| MUM in beets sent to the sugar factory
last year. Mr.. F. used Star Bone Phos-
phate.
ADvERrIsERs.-W. G. Hill, of Clayton, ad.
vertises clover seed wanted.
| j. G. Brinton full line Of stoves, hea-
ters, &c.
Ferd Carson, of Wilmington, merchant
tailoring
John P. COLLINS, near Collins Beach
commenced marketing his new crop oil
corn on Monday week and perhaps is done
by this time. He shipped on the success
sive trips of the steamboat, getting So cts
per bushel for it.
TIRE Wilmington Daily Morning Ne,cI
comes to US this week with a new and more
classical heading, new type and otherwise
looking as fresh as dew drop. 1t is more
largely read in our town than any othel
Wilmington paper.
THE tiny baby in the family of Mr.. Joh1
Van Wrinkle weighing when born six week
ago u fbs., and which attracted so mucl
} attention in our town, died last week
Both living and dead it had much NOR
consideration than most babies. 1t gainet
half pound while living.
JAMES STARTLING, and Mr.. Crossley, from
near Leipsic, have been buying Western
sheep to sell our farmers for stock purposes
\ This Is rendered necessary as to sell a
lambs is found more profitable than t
grow them to full size. Sheep are som
higher in price than for several years.
Mr.. CHARLES NUMBERS left at our offic
last week bunch Of wheat containing 10
: stalks that the minutest observation coul
s not detect that it grew otherwise tina
[ from one seed. 1t certainly had the al
pearance of being a single root, and if froI
: one grain showed remarkable multiplici
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"329' that was chalked here, and O
the fences, doors and pavements through
II out the nation was so talismanic in Indian
and Ohio that the Republicans here col
cluded it would be good card for the
o flag suspended across Main ct. and it a
% cordingsy has been affixed thereto togeth
" with the majorities in these States.
s. The frost of the past two or three NOR
So ings, the mercury dropping TO 3l0, meal
a death to the fowers and green leaves tn
have for the past six months so beautifi,
= nature. There would be something gloon
g. in this evidence of death and decay, b
1T for the reflection that there will be brig
,e ter resurrection the coming Spring.
~ FRosg.-The heavy frost with ice yest'
"a day morning coming SO suddenly on t
beautiful and mild October weather, b
y considerable of q northern backing.
n Sunday violent snow storm visited Dakc
n. and Wisconsin, extending down but wi
A less violence TO Chicago and Cleavelar
:, The wind blew at the rate of sixty
!, seventy miles an hour and the railws
~ were blocked up with snow drifts ten
N twelve feet deep. The damage from I
nm wind and snow was very considerable
81 loss of stock and shipping on the lax
10y heavy frost is looked 10 as putting 81
ne to malarial influences and as such will
welcomed.