Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-10-27
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
NEW York apples are coming in.

NEW ork apples are coming IN
Coon cider is selling by the barrel at
twenty cents per gallon.
EACH day now is about two minutes
shorter than its predecessor.
Two comets are within telescope vision.
Wish they would come little closer.
The country landscape is no longer green.
A dingy, but appropriate brown is now the
color.
Mr.. WIN. STEVENS is having an addition
built to the dwelling on his farm near
Brenford.
PROF. GROVES will hold an examination
for teachers of second and third grade Ger.
tifcates on Saturday.
The campaign lies will be nailed to the
wall next Tuesday. Some newspapers have
been carrying heavy load.
THE owners of wheat6elds were rejoiced
at the clever rain fall last week. Some of
the fields are beginning to cast quite an
emerald shade.
Do not fail to attend the entertainment
of school No. 3 at the Town Hall tomorrow
evening. II promises to be pleasant and
entertaining. Admission Is cts.
THE Nursery of Boston, is perhaps the
brightest little monthly published in the
United States. The children take to it at
once. Terms $3.50 per year. Address the
Nursery Publishing Co.
Mr.. GEO. w. KNOTS, near Banco" has
husked two acres of corn which yielded
100 bushels of shelled corn. Thirty-eight
ears would fill bushel basket. 1t was on
"new ground" of the farm of Wilson T.
Lavender.
BUSINESS men are availing themselves of
a new decision that saves two cents on
every bill sent by mail. To 60 through the
mails, however, they must be printed at
the head, whereas if sent on imprinted
paper, they will cost three cents.
The closing meeting of the Republicans
will be held at the Town Hall on Friday
evening and will be addressed by Hon. n.
B. Smithers. Mr.. S. enjoys the respect of
all classes to an unusual degree, and will
doubtless have a full house. We are re-
quested to State that ladies will be cordially
welcomed.
The campaign for 1880 in this town
closes on Saturday next by the holding OF
a public meeting at II o'clock to be adj
dressed by the following prominent Della
wareans: Hons. T. F. Bayard, Eli Sauls
bury, and C. B. Lore and Geo. Gray, Esqs.
We presume it will be central meeting
for the Democrats of other places.
| To-, D,-,crrnsi AssoCr. rrou Tho N Nv
meeting of this Association will be held at
Templeville, Nd, commencing on 10Th oil
November. Among the prominent mem
bers are the following. VIM. R. Cahoon
John Downham, DIR. E. Dawson, J. v
Smith, Thomas Mallalieu, David A. Price
Joel Clements, Thomas Numbers, John M
Clark, and many others.
The Democratic pole raising and meet
ing which was announced TO come Oft al
Clayton on Tuesday evening, was changed
to Monday evening so as to not Interfere
with the meeting at Middletown. There
was a good attendance in the evening and
addresses by Messrs. II. II. Colclazer and
H. C. Turner of Wilmington. Music wat
rendered by the Harmony Brass Band o.
this town.
MEssRs. HOPKINS & Bro, who removed
their evaporation from Leipsic, where they
evaporated peaches the past summer, K
Penn Yam, n. Y, to run on apples, had j
destroyed by fire last week. II is supposed
the fire originated from the furnace of ont
/ of the machines, of which there were fou
in the building. The loss is about $1,000
and the insurance $500. The firm talk o
rebuilding.
ALMOST FIRE-Monday morning abou
three o'clock the cry Of fire was heard from
> the residence of Mrs. M. A. KINNEY
4 Several men were soon on the spot and eX
g tingp shed the blaze before it had got unde
Roadway. Mrs. KINNEY was sick an
awake taking medicine, otherwise it Nigh
have been disastrous. She was made cor
Q scious Of the fire below by the smoke al
:. csnding to her room.
IT is said to be more trouble to get I
IS pay tax to the collector now than it use
y to be for the collector to ooerce the ia
{. from the whole body not actually on tn
\. delinquent list. Up to the last few years
was considered the duty of the collector I
D. collect, and they were rejoiced to be hunte
70 up, but now the whole thing is reversed
r. But, perhaps the county does not nee
!, money as bad as it used to.
il DEATH FROM LocKJAw.--Mrs. Edith Al
.e derson, on the farm of VIM. P. CummjI
:, near town, took cold on Sunday wee
;" but nothing more than usual was mantle
10 ted until Tuesday when she was seized wit
RS a severe pain along the spinal column; {
of Wednesday Der jaws were locked, the 0
tack batting all remedies and ending
death on Saturday. She bad been ia e
cellent health up till that time. She was
a woman of superior qualities. 'fv
of LIPrINcoTT's MAGAzINR.-The numero
bs readers of LippincOtfs Magazine will be 81,
to learn, from an announcement in Il
ne number for November, that with the ne
&c. year this popular monthly, founded near
err. thirteen years ago. will enter on a n,
"a, series at the reduced price of 90 per a
mum and 25 cents for single numb,
ne There are, as usual, some richly.illustrat
tn papers here, viz. "The Ruins of the C
ng orado Valley" by Alfred Jerry Bacon, wi
~ six, and "The Arts of India" by, Jenr
II j.. Young, with ten engravings. There
Ter some clever stories by Olive Logan a
re. Martha Wright