Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1881-01-26

emily the usual cry of "wolf," and acting on
this alone express faith still in peach
crop this year. Experienced growers are,
however, offering to sell out for the season
very cheap. The barter is not brisk. B.
B. Allen has bought George Tbompson's
half interest in his crop at "Sunny'side,"
20 acres, for horse and sleigh with bells
and harness.
PUNCHED CoIN.-Iti is not generally known
that coin with a hole punched through it
is not money, and therefore not legal
tender. The Government will not receive
it, and it is worth only what it will bring as
bullion. A hole is an innocent looking
thing in coin, but experts manage to get
FIVE to thirteen cents worth of silver by
making a hole in silver dollar. The pen
atty for mutilating the coin of the country
is fine of not more than two thousand
dollars and imprisonment for not more
than two years.
"YEs, this is the prettiest winter l ever
saw" remarked an elderly and observing
man the other day. "Well," said another,
if that is so it has also been the gayest."
The remark of the first was called out by
the remarkable hoar.frost of one morning
last week the second or third of the kind
every tree, limb and twig, presenting a
heavy but delicate fringe that seen through
a grove or orchard as the golden rays Of
the sun fell upon it looked like enchant.
msnt. The speaker was so enthusiastic as
to say that he had never seen anything SC
beautiful, and he is not poet either.
bridge, son of Mrs. W. P. Smithers of THU
town, has accepted the position of Pay
masters clerk under Major NJ. w. Colds
borough, and will shortly embark on {
three years cruise.
| John A. Lavender and wife observed
their 40 marriage anniversary on Thursda!
evening last in which they were Joined b.
a large company Of relatives.
II. C. Conrad, of the Morning Ne,os, Ac
tuary of the Colored Schools, has been OIL
his annual visit this week to the schools il
this vicinity and county.
The Morning NeooS thinks and argues q
the length of a column, that as the peopl
of the Peninsula are cut off from Bait
more by the ice blockade on the rivers an
intinidated by a small pox scare about Phi
adelphia, that Wilmington should stan
out prominently as the business mstropoli
that should receive their trade. The trad
of one half the professions is off the mil
fortunes of suffering mortals and Whining
ton has not only right to make goo
deal where the opposing hands are weel
but as the metropolis of the Peninsula sh
ought to get liberal share of the publ
patronags-~more liberal than she has hal
But Wilmington merchants must learn
draw.
Right after the recent large fire our Gil
zens las usual after the danger was passet
were quite stirred up to the importance
making better provision 10 meet such
catastrophe. 1t served for a ten days top
and then was quietly laid away to Slumb
until the next fire. The stockholders
!, the Kent County Mutual Insurance Co.
: their annual meeting in consideration
the large interest they have in the vario
q towns liz the State passed the followil
q resolutions RESOLVED, that the Directors
instructed to meet the town authorities
!. other Insurance Companies, and apr
d pirate such funds as they deem proper
g digging large wells and procuring chemiC
v engines.
SOMETHING DEMANDED.-The way the
titions for Local Option are being sign
.r would indicate that the mass of the pr
Is pie, certainly more than a majority wi
,e prohibitory legislation or its equivalent
t. the sale Of liquor. There has been
excitement, not a single meeting or pub
appeal, but enc by one in quiet and sc
consciousness each individual has affix
le his name to this prayer beseeching I
10 Legislature for aid in supPressing v
k. more than any other detrimental to
as peace and prosperity of the psop
h Among the number are the manner Of ma
is persons who have heretofore been host
to stringent legislation on the subie
There has evidently been a devslopmt
70 from the Hstons age" to higher pla
m and this development will sooner or la
ey reach the Legislature.
he LAND SALEs.-A. P. Griffith, Real Est
rs Agent, has sold the home farm of VIM,
Riggs, in New Castle Co., containing
acres, for Sl0,s00, to Samuel Robel
ed He also sold part of the Brick Dwell
ok on Commerce ST., known as the Mani
mt Estate to Miss Sarah and Catherine Will
he for $3.50. Mr.. Grifith's mode Of do
lis business-showing the properties and Il
Ter bringing buyers and seller together,-
TT only oommends itself to his numer
customers from other States but to
home people, these two sales published
- day being to our own people. A g
"' proportion of Mr.. G.'s sales are to our
%, zsns, which tells we'll for his honors
" mode of doing business, and now
Is there is so much money seeking inv
,"' ment, We think that capitalist and oil
- can really do better by investing in D
ware Farms than in the numerous linsi
he investments that have no fSed value.
,.v PUBLIoATIONs.-"T The New York Trib
-. Almanac" for 1881 has been received.