Smyrna times., 1880-07-07
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
CRABS are ripe.

Our public schools closed last Friday, to
be re.opened on Monday, Sept. 9th.
SUNDAY was tho coolest and most agreOa.
BILE Fourth of July for several years.
HENRY W. CANNON, the genial editor Of
the State Sentinel was in town last Saturday. |
]. HENRY JEFFERSON lost a good horse
last Saturday; the animal died with gastric |
fever.
WIN. Polk CuMM1Ns has our thanks for |
some very large and delicious berries from |
his famous field of the Wilson Blackberries.
DR.. COLLINS, VIM. FAIRIES and Joseph
Beckett invite attention to the first part of
the 9th verse of the 9th chapter of Isaiah.
The late residence Of Benz. Abbott on
Commerce st., was sold on Thursday last at
public sale for $40, Isaac Truax purchaser.
The NJ. f. Sunday School had the Amer.
lean Eagle on its blackboard on the 4th,
from the patriotic chalk Of the school
artist.
In our locals last week we made an error
| in printing V. f. Holmes Il Co. for V. +.
| Holmes. There Is no one connected Win
Mr.. II.
THE Messrs. Worden have got their mill
in North Carolina all completed and are
saving at the rate of 10000 feet of lumber
per day.
JAMES ENGLISH was thrown from his
buggy one day last week and seriously if not
fatally injured by his head coming in con-
tact with tree.
HAVE you seen those little written slips
posted around about the Cape May excur-
sion? The managers are hard on the print
er. This is gratis.
WE invite attention to the advertise
ment of Woodland Beach this week; also
to that of the Atlantic Hotel at Ocean city,
Mr.. John Tracy, proprietor.
New hay is selling for SIS per ton. With
quarter crop harvested, and this seasons
sowing destroyed by the hot suns there is
no telling what the price will GO to.
THE Delaware & Chesapeake Railway is
carrying peaches quite plentifully this week.
A car load of Hale's Early were shipped at
t Hillsboro' yesterday, and over q car load at
} Kenton.
5 PETER UARDCAsTLE has already sold before
. it is threshsd between 400 and 500 bushels
6 of his white wheat for seeding purposes
at a considerable advance above the Mar
. ket price.
WE publish the TIMES one day earlie
Q than usual this week in order to give al
hands an opportunity to celebrate the I'll
Q by going to the NJ. Z. School picnic; as W,
II did not close on the 5th.
i CAN not that stick be removed from tn
- middle of the sidewalk on Market street
: : near Methodist? That tree ought to be a
q able to hold itself up as persons are to pic
1t themselves up from the walk.
III ANOTHER EXCURsIoN.-The NJ. f. Sunda
IN School of Kenton proposes before long, t
n. have an excursion to Woodland Beaci
:. This place is becoming favorite one fc
" schools, as it is close home, and cars run
n it.
=: THE colored people of Smyrna and vicin
IL ty celebrated the 4th with a grand soci
n, and religious meeting in Spruance's Woo
lie, yesterday. The occasion was success
oo all respects; our colorod friends know no
! to have q good time.
BREATIIEs there a man with soul so dead
er That never to himself hath said
~ This is the great July the four,
~ And will gladly close my store.
nd Ill give my clerks chance to play,
And celebrate the glorious day;
mt I'll close the blinds and turn the key,
IL, For this is as it ought to be-
on R. D. HoFFEcKER, editor of the TIM
has been prostrated the past week by sic
Jay ness, and the duties of his sanctum co
on sequently devolve upon less skilled han
lie than his this week. The charity of o
;f readers is asked for.-Ed. pro TEN.
ted MANY persons in town were disturbed Ii
in Sunday night by a crowd of rowdies W
- had been to the beach and were returni
'@i' so full of beach juice as to be exceed
ire boisterous and dsorderly, at least as ma
of them as were capable of making moi
- THE Quarterly Conference for this stati
Veil will be held by Presiding Elder Martinda
no. on Friday afternoon next. The Elder v
of preach in this town Sunday morning and
ara Seyerson's on the circuit in the afternoon
"a, each service proceeded by the usual 10
10y feast.
nth
- On Sunday evening at about o'clock
0i'' Mr.. Jesse Fennemores team occupied
the himself and two other men, was RETURN
the from Collins Beach, on rounding corr
,are opposite Robert Denney's farm q wheel '
wrenched off and all three were thrown G
anu one of the men being badly cut in the ia
As A good indication in favor of
FIRE the churches and Sunday schools were
bic usually we'll attended, and all the servi
or were well enjoyed. There was not sol
:. ;, indicative of the 4th of July on our sire
" and the young people deserve much Gre
uo" for their respect to the day.
ully The notorious Mary Polk was eau
k at poking around in John Webb's potato pa
nen. Wednesday last. Esq. Budd promptly c.
,,,iffad bar fo iaiI STEALING Y1ota foas E,
the ground is an offence for which th
Ger. was 1o nonaltv I'm to the sitting of o,r
nds, Legislature, but it now comes under
G by head OF misdemeanors with punishm
,osb. severe.
nos. Mrs. HAzELL, up Commerce street,
r set trap for mice; on examining tho
pScF it was found to contain, net a mouse,
ty Of an English sparrow, dead and held fir
most by the head. 1.-THE sparrows are too pie
vor,, full, perhaps this wonld be a good met
of thinning them out. Use the mouse
0Seh and exterminate them with un.sparrov
not certainty.
'ster, IT Is announced on the bills that
one NJ, f. Sunday School excursion train
the morrow will leave the beach at o'cl
or. n This being thought too early, arrangem
-. have been made to leave considerably Il
Ca"' probably half past or s o'clock.
dued train leaves North street at half past G
lnces in the morning. Tickets will be solC
1nfa. the train.
,mer In the Grammar department of SO
1ond No. 3, several pupils were highly conn
i"A" ded for their regular attendance and
at no scholarship. Misses Hester G. Rattle
ID for Susie r. Wright and Carrie G. Beck
sur. not lost day during The school year,