Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1881-05-04

disposal of ice cream and confectionery, large, |
wide porches and piazzas to the main pavilion
arranged so as to throw the side next the bay |
entirely open, the planting out OF additional |
shade trees, &c The management has |
determined to close the bar on Sundays and |
also on Sunday School excursion days.
THE PEACH.-Col. George H. Raymond in |
q thirty or forty miles ride in our surrounding |
country found but one or two peach orchards |
that show the least signs of bloom as seen from
the rOad-quite number of trees in our pro- !
tected gardens in town have nearly the usual |
amount of blossoms-in Sassafras Neck, Ce- |
Gil CO., where a fair prospect of peaches is re-
ported, the thermometer, it is said, in the fatal
cold snap fell but from 40 to 90 below
zero. This same section in rs when all other
points of the Peninsula were overloaded, had
q meagre crOp-Orchards well cared for and
kept in good state CT vitality stood the winter
much better than neglected ones: An oDser-
yer reports two orchards especially, which
were seeded to clover last year as coming
through the winter with little evidence OF life
the section apparently where there has
been the greatest injury to the orchards is that
embraced by Milford and Bridgeville--a
prominent peach grower expresses the opinion
that half of the fruit bearing trees on the Pen
insula, of the past season, will be pulled out of
the ground by the beginning of another year
H H. Appleton, who has had large eX-
perience in peach culture thinks that much
need not be expected from the sickly blossoms
winch appeared IN some OfcHdruS
MINOR MENTIoN.-The most popular legal
phrase with the liquor dealing fraternity Is
n0tte pros. The trout season has common
ced on the Delaware and cream
in month When preacher goes to
strange congregation and does not take the
best sugar stick in his shop he does not eX
hbit the wisdom of his generation. An
opening day for bonnets is exceeded by but
one other in attracting the attendance OF the
/ l,1i 81 t,Nf lis faxy. A
partial eclipse of the sun will take place May
9th, invisible in this part of the U. ); -
| After this eclipse will come Decoration Day,
May S0.-The clothing artists are at work
| on Spring styles, and the milliners are putting
! forth the novelties that will excite the feminine
heart.-The house-cleaning epidemic will
soon be abroad in the land; in fact, it has al
ready set in. -Bummers who poured whisky
down their threats all winter to keep warm
will soon be gulping it down to keep cool.
A well-preserved man is one who is always in
good spirits, not one who always has good
spirits in him. has just been found out
what becomes of all the pins. They are boiled
down and made into herring. of course il
WIS an lrishman who said, that the best way
to look at q friend faults is to shut your eyes
Garlic can now be bought at the rate of ,:
cents pound with lump of butter thrown
in.-Family fans warranted to keep eight o
ten persons cool will be very fashionable th
year.-LaZiness now goes by the name
in the head will be known OEce again as hay
fever.-To make rhubarb pie-take suga
and sour to taste with rhubarb. An eXcellen
> gooseberry pie is made in Il similar manner.
PERSONAL Irene Roberts is on a visi
to Washington.
+, Alonzo S. Raymond has entered a dru
! store in Milwaukee to learn that business.
Francis Woodruff has gone to Bay Shore
Long Island, to reside.
m - H;tobanS ne Dhilodalphio hOs hoo
$ spending several days at his farm at Fleming
# Landing
Dr. Flowers, who spent the winter with hi
sister near Raughway, n. j., is on visit
n his sister, Mrs j. H. Groves.
y Mrs. S. E. Reedy, of Milford, paid shol
e visit to friends in this town while enroute ft
Philadelphia.
Mrs Fairbanks of New York is the que
d of Mr.. w. g. Fairbanks.
d Misses Maggie a. Stevenson and Ida Fari'
&c have gone to Philadelphia to spend sewers
weeks.
Miss Salle huntington, who has been spen'
!, ing several months away, mostly in Whining
y ton, has returned home.
le Matt Day, now of Philadelphia, former
Dep. U. S. Collector, has been in town Il
n Mrs. NJ. Z. Catherwood and children
at Philadelphia, have been the guests of Mrs.
re j. Cummins the past week.
at Rev. II. 5. Thompson and family of Bristt
H.,
town. He will most probably occupy the
re Z. Pulpit next Sunday.
rs John d. Baggs, who has been spending t
ID Winter here recuperating his health al
r. assisting his father in the Post Office, W
return on Monday TO Fort Benton, MOntar
His brother, VIM. Z. Baggs, is general man
'et ger in large mercantile establishment
In Stevensville, same territory.
,r- The THoRoUGHFARE NECK SIDE.--The Fl
| oil of tyha xuhiR aff ruR no att
this side are those of Jonathan Stevenson,
ed B. Hazard and John Lightcap on d. j. Gu
he minis, Walker farm. Mr.. Rothwell
it'll the best field of clover, and his corn rows il
l.. field quarter of mile in length arc as strail
as rifle shot. The popularity of the soil
the Neck, cold and stiff renders it more baC
Tor ward in starting, but the wheat field of JAG
VS. K. BOyles on DIR. Kitchens farm at Flemin
". Landing is perhaps the bestin the Neck. !
ii. location of this farm, the lawn slOping gri
ually down to the waters of the Creek, maj
= it beautiful for situation" The peach tree:
,OI the orchard Of this place are an exception
Tue nearly all this section in exhibiting II g
~ setting of blossoms. The farm of Geo. X,
H. Lofand half "a mile distant is likewise attr
tive in its dwelling and surroundings-such
7 would be calculated to make any one fac
u home" Not only Mr.. LIS wheat field
-, the careful preparation of the ground for
~, 49, other crops shows that he is fully up with
'ei old and most enterprising farmers. On
nit and Miss Ann Bewley, under tenure of W
inc F. Green and on the return road the place
inS Ananais Ennis, the Derrickson's, Armstron
1bo Gettysburg" belOngingto Wood, Marsh &
.vie are the most improved, though the latte
evidently not receiving the care it formC
did. The new dwelling of Andrew Spear
on one Of the handsOmest on the road and
two farm is being brought under will-dreC
ov- management. A number of the prOmir
oTn places and far rs of ThorOlghfare Neck
5 of course did not come under observation, 0u
wn. retaining waste places, fencing, draining,
there is evidence of improvement on ev
side.
late
1rty THE CHURCHEs.-Sunday last, though
leet exceptional in the form or manner of relig
lsoh services was so in having other than the re
ade lar pastors in two of the churches and Of
sue terly communion service in the third.
tuIe the Presbyterian Church the Rev. ]
'ess' Squires of Port Deposit preached morning
o,,s evening to good and appreciative cOngr
y tons.
- . In the evening Bishop Lee preached at
fson Peters Church assisted in the services by ]
~ Mr. Lewis of Middletown and Rev Mr.. {
W. don Of this parish The Bishops purity of
bin snect ,y;tbo,,t raoord 70 'aTs II
'i"s and he is always assured of large cOngr
ton when he breaches In Smyrna. His
,,nae was from st. John XI-9vs. -" Jesus answ
, the are there not twelve hours in the day? If
ARA man walk in the day, he stumbleth not,
and cause he seeth the light of this world
con- devided life into II hours, years each:
# infant hour, mothers opportunity to begir
ew framing &C. second inc nouI when the
Gage must be broken and the child learn that
oant ! not to have its own way, sefshness mu
i'm. broken up, as it is impossible to obtain 81
sss IF ton without submission and o continuatio
self indulgences will lay the foundation
life worse than useless, Be- third, the go
ricks hour when education begins during whic
It the MIND Is sharpened, beliefs formed and the
need eral outline formed Of what is to be the fl
week life, this hour occupying the principal part
tho rnncf i'm M, 10 in lifo ouI anNlsf