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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-13
Dry 6uuas.
Special BARGAINS for This Week.


90 Pieces Lace Buntings, in
8 1-2c 49,
800 Pieces Quality 12c elsewhere for
600 Pieces Fine Dress Goods reduced One-haIf
100 Pieces very cheap
1000 ParasOIs from 1Oc. positively
90 Handsome Children goods just
Gloves quality, at only
Dozen Gloves choice quality at only
81 20.
80 Dozen Our Popular Perfumed every pair
ranted at 81 20.
20 Dozen Children's good
200 Dozen Lsle Thread Berlin
with Foster Hook Elastic and Buttons variety.
80 Dozen Fine Silk Gloves &c., equal any &c.
zoe. yard.
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

sweet potatoes (such as the lower part
of the State produces) are always at
the top of the market. New Castle
county in the cereals, Kent in fruit and
Sussex in vegetables, each have their
place to fill, and the markets have
their special demands upon them all.
The money that will come in this year
lis estimated for peaches alone at
$5,000,O00) will have an impetus upon
other trades and enterprises. The pre-
paratiOns of fruits by evaporation for
Winter use, an invention of the past
few years, is having q marked effect in
the commodities of labor and capital,
and it is destined to much wider in
fuence, and doubtless be applied to
vegetables as well as fruit. Then, with
these come the collateral influence on
the health of the people in an improv-
ed diet, the social and moral condition
in improved schools, more comfortable
dwellings and attractive surroundings,
and agricultural machinery that will
relieve much of the drudgery, and
while it will the better work and save
the crops, make the farmer feel more
like a gentleman. Why shouldn't
Delaware be sought after?
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

THE people all over the State are too
busy with their peach and other crops
to give much attention to politics, but
the papers are trying to kindle their
little fires. There has been an appar-
ent lull in the Republican camp since
the appointment of the committees,
while the later nomination of the
Democratic candidates has caused some
vociferation in that quarter. Outside
of the immediate Salisbury family the
nomination of Col. Stockley is hailed
with enthusiasm as the breaking of
shackles that gives them a larger
liberty. AS progressives," " the young
Democracy have something in the in
dependence of their candidate to in
spire them with courage, but this very
fact may be its greatest barrier, for the
old dynasty may feel that with its sue
cess, = down goes their house and to
be wounded in the house of its friends
would be worse than defeat by the
enemy. If statements both public and
private can be relied on, there are
sores, new rather than old, in the lead
ership of both the contending parties
that the best skill cannot heal.
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

EXTENDING SUMMER.-The Summer
used to end with August, but except
with school teachers and few others
that public and private duties call
home and to business, there is dispO-
sitiOn to prolOng it into the Fall. Sep
tember this year like last came in with
some of the hottest weather of the
Summer. With those of the city popu-
lation who can remain, they are eX-
tending the time longer from year to
year. The New York Tribune in dis
cussing these changed habits ofthe peo-
pie, says:
People are beginning at last to dis
cover that the one thing more perfect
than a day in June is day in late Sep
tember, and also how senseless it is to
turn ones back on the late glOries of
bronzed fields, yellow mists and royal
garments of hill and forest, to hurry on
the dusty streets with their foul air
from stagnant drains and overcrOwded
population.
" Another reason why the season will
grow later with each year is that trades
men of all kinds now go afield with
their customers, and it is to their in
terest to prolong the Summer. Grocer,
butcher, wine-dealer, upholsterer, in
stead of being left stranded, as for so
many years, on the barren beach of an
empty town, go with their patrons tC
Newport or the Adirondacks or Ocean
Grove, set up their branch house, lay
their lines, and draw into their nets
new customers from the West. Moth
ing could be more significant of the
practical character of the American, ol
his instructive swift skill in turning
everything in Nature, science, or re
ligion 20 his own actual benefit, thai
the rapidity with which the idea o
seeking the country in Summer ha!
been used by every trade, profession
and class of men. Religious people
were the first; they built Summer cite
on the seashore or mountains in whicl
to convert souls; teachers founded
Summer normal school associations o
astronomers, photographers, dentists
microscOpists, typesetters, free-think
ers, men of every shade of belief o
pTdCIlCe, appOlnIeu meetings out U
, doors in July and August.
"There seems to be a universal re
solve that if men of dissimilar taste
5 and habits are forced to live togethe
: in cities, during most of the year, i
G the Summer like should meet like
The effects of this general OutgOin
have been as great changes in tn
: country as in the town. The 1arme
5 within fifty miles of large city is n
: longer farmer but boarding -hous
keeper; his house-habits and manner
> are altered to suit the demands of tn
n newcomers. The final result of In
n wholesale irruption of townspeople int
a the country will be in a few years sin
ply to build up Summer cities on beaC
or hills like in every particular to tho
e left behind, and to transfer the mass
1t population from one to the other"
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06
RGlrSOnH1.

Miss NJ. Anna Ofilcy of Philadelphia,
until the past three or four years II
resident of this town, has accepted
situation as teacher in st. Johns Col
lege, Little Rock, Arkansas. While
regretting her departure for so distant
n field, we congratulate her and the
institution which she goes to serve on
the selection. Naturally endowed n
teacher, with carefulness of culture and
quickness of apprehension, she has an
enthusiasm in her profession that
readily extends to her pupils and
makes the task before them both a
duty and q pleasure. She left on
Thursday for her new mission. Her
many patrons and pupils of this her
native town, wish her every success in
the new field she has entered.
John A. HOfiecker, who for several
years has held a position at boOk-keep-
ing in large firm in Philadelphia has
deemed it prudent on the score of
health to return to the country again,
and has accepted position in the
employ of the Pennsylvania railroad
company, at Clayton, succeeding M. o.
Benjamin, who takes charge of the
office on the opposite side of the track
as general train dispatcher.
John A. Cavender, who has been
| confined at his home from sickness all
through the peach season, is slowly
improving.
Rev. J. II. Umsted who has been
spending several weeks in the West
will fill his pulpit in the Presbyterian
courch of this town, next Sunday, 10th
inst.
Mrs. Mary A. KINNEY having dis
posed of her property here intends to
make her future residence with her
daughter-in-law, in Minnesota.
The following are the visitors of the
week:
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Saunders, Mrs.
George Weistenbury and son, Mrs.
May Edwards, Warren b. Bartlow,
Miss Anna Grewer, VIM. Kemp, Fred.
DIETRICH, Edward Evans, Charles
Massey, Charles Waters, Miss Ida
Clabourn, Alex. Humphreys, Jr., Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Todd, Misses
Susie and George Millaway, John
Keys, Wilmington.
Mrs. Isabella M. Bittinger, Master
Wilson and Charles Bittinger, Clarence
Nourse, Washington, ID. G.
; Miss Zippora Spencer, and Mrs.
Anna King, New Castle.
Miss Maggie Jester and Miss Anna
Fleming, Harrington.
Miss Mary c. Roche, Brooklyn, n
Y.
Miss Carrie Leatherbury, Chester, Pa
J Miss Julia Oldham, Christiana.
Miss Alice Cowgirl, COwgills Corner
; Miss Kate Warren, st. Louis, Mo.
/ Miss Laura Caullk, Middletown.
Samuel G. Pratt, Pittsburg, Pa.
: Charles Hazell, Laurel,
, r. ii. Civilian, Gloyersville, NY
) Mrs. I.ottie Ralph and daughter
/. Church Hill, Md.
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

THE election in Maine will be the
most closely contested of the three
political struggles that takes place this
month. The election will be held next
Monday. The only State officer to be
chosen is Governor. There are five
candidates representing parties locally
known as Republican, ,Greenback Demo-
cratic Fusion, Straight Greenback,
Prohibition and Independent Republi-
cans. Each of these parties also has
four Congressional candidates at large
in nomination. The State election in
Arkansas was held Monday, and that
of Vermont yesterday, the first going
Democratic and the last Republican.
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

THE politicians who run the machines
understand each other perfectly in the
methods of obtaining campaign funds;
they get money wherever they can,
but every ofiiceholder of whatever
party knows that his party expects,
nay demands, that he as a beneficiary
must "shell out" literally whether it
come by assessment or not. 1t has
been so since the days of "Old Hickory"
who declared that to the victors be-
longed the spoils." One party is able
in most every instance to back on cleo
ton day the pile of the other. How
great a hardship the assessment "
plan is, may be judged from the follow
ing paragraph from a city paper:
"We chronicled the fact last week of
the appointment of four hundred new
clerks in the Pension Bureau. They
had hardly been assigned places when
they were visited by the Hubbell
assessment agents, and asked to give
two per cent of their prospective sala-
ries. Voluntarily, of course. AS an
illustration of the voluntary character,
it should be stated that the answer to
the circulars having now been gene
rally received, agents are going perso-
nally to clerks who did not see fit to
reply in cash, and requesting them to
pay. How significant this is may be
judged from the statement of one clerk
to a friend that he knew better than
to resist, for his experience had taught
him that it did not pay. Several years
ago he was in another department
when the hat was passed around, and
had neglected to pay anything for the
cause. Soon after he was dropped with
q very distinct intimation that he owed
his loss of place to his neglect of the
committees invitation to contribute.
With great difficulty he procured anoth-
er situation, and rather than be thrown
out of employment, he chose to pay the
two per cent called for, although he
could not afford it, There are hun
dreds who have learned in the same
hard way the beauties of voluntary
| giving"
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

THE Summer of 1882 entered gloom
lily enough-cold and bleak with moth
ing promising but the single crop of
wheat. The disasters to the crops of
the previous Summer, high prices, un-
propitious circumstances, were evil
omens calculated to confirm the posi-
BILE disaster that lugubriOus prophets
had predicted to follow the "cOnjunc-
ton of the planets" The Summer is
now ended with peace and plenty
smiling all around. If the evils atten-
ded the stars in their courses, as was
asserted was the case in similar astrO-
nomical occurrences of the past ages,
history has failed to repeat itself. In
almost the entire nation, the Eastern
States excepted in partial crops, such a
record for abundance is hardly in exis-
tence. 1t is we'll this is so, to balance
the losses of last year. There is but
one thing, an early frost, that can
stand in the way of the full realization
of the years products. The strife be-
tween capital and labor was brought
on largely by the high prices following
the short crops of last year. The sur
plus of wheat and corn should make
the staples of life in the cities cheaper
and the daily provisions less burden
The country and everybody in it hai
great cause of thankfulness that Provi
dence has given us cup full and run
ming over.
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06
Peach Notes.
Smyrna, Sep. 1, 1882.

The peach market closed last week
with another break down and the
farmers looking blue They had not
anticipated this, and some of them
were getting disgusted with the whole
busincss-pickers, railroads, basket
makers and returns, especially the
latter. A man who has large orchard
was asked on Monday what he knew
about the markets. Nothing" was
the reply, "all | know is that next
winter will be Il good time to pull up
the trees" The fruit was not only i'll
excess of the demand but the warm
stcalny weather caused it to ripen fast
and speck before it could be marketed.
Peaches sold in Philadelphia on
Monday morning as low as S cents per
basket, and in some cases those sent to
New York and Boston did not pay
freight. Stree Monday the pure brac-
ing air has put the markets i'll better
condition and the farmers in Il better
state of mind. The "smilingcst" man
who went to the depot with his peaches
was one who sold his orchard for the
cash, in advance. lie was a streak of
sunshine in the gloom wherever he
went.
Many peaches during the damp
weather spcCked and in most orchards
the ground is covered under the trees
with defective fruit. Still there are
too many to bring good prices.
The basket trouble still continues.
Mr.. Donovan, who with others was
losing his peaches for want of baskets
went up to New Castle yesterday and
raised a "rumpus" with the Agent
there. The result was that a lot OF
men were set to loading the cmpties
pitched out there and soon had eleven
cars filled, reducing the acre of baskets
/ that much.
The quantity of peaches going in
this week is large, 235 cars yesterday
The rush now is on Crawtords late
Some Smock are also going in. NeXt
week will about wind up the crop. .;
cars were shipped from Clayton on
Saturday the same number on Monday
and p cars yesterday.
There was another accident on the
New England road last right TO I
passenger train, only l6 of the II peacl
cars getting in on time. They sole
from $100 To $3.50. In New York
this morning the lowest price quoted
is so cents and in Philadelphia 4(
cents. These prices will put the grow
ers in better heart.
The scarcest article in our loca
market is the peach, notwithstanding
there are all the time hundreds o
baskets in mile or two of the town toe
soft to send to the city, but could fine
a market in town.
In our last issue we quoted the salt
of peaches in New York on that day Il
from 60 to 20 cents. A note from MI
: A. +. Young & Co., says they SOLE
peaches on that day at $1.00 and tell
us not to quote New York so lov
when she really does better. Thi
sale was of course very choice fruit
we were getting at the common averag
and are told on the other hand by
shipper that we quoted it too high
Mr.. Y, says that on the previOu
Saturday when peaches were "give
away" they sold J. w. Lightcap's, 80
baskets of one variety, at prices rang
ing from so cents to $3.50.
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

THE DeIaWarean, that has never been
an admirer of Jimblaine-of-Maine,"
and while still holding that there has
been something unsavory in his pOliti-
cal record, says:
"He nevertheless represents the best
element of the Republican party of this
country and would give this country
purer and better administration than
could be hoped for from the spoils
dynasty. The administration of Gar
field was shaped by Blaine, and no
matter whether it was actuated by a
desire for his personal advancement or
for the good of the country makes no
difference. Honesty and integrity
seemed to be the rule demanded from
the Garfield officials, and the results
obtained during the short lease of pow
er in which the better elements ruled,
is too we'll known to need comment" ."
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

THE DeLGlUGre Ledger and the Morn
ing Nea1s think they have discovered
that the teachers displayed "moral
cowardice while discussing at Reho-
both compulsory education and revi-
sion of the school law. 1t il, however,
hard to see how they could have han
died those subjects in a wiser or Drawer
way. The position taken on cOmpul-
sorry education was this 1.-THE ideal
school system requires compulsory
attendance but the condition of edu-
cational affairs does not at present
warrant the adoption of such law in
Delaware" This position is impregna-
BILE. There are a hundred things yet
to be done before law for compulsory
education can, or should, be enacted.
The teachers in recognizing this fact
proved themselves to be prudent men,
men whose judgement in regard to
school matters can be trusted. When
they came to speak upon the revision
of the school law, the trumpet gave nc
uncertain note. They firmly and boldly
declared, as one man, that the law
needs rectifying, and plainly indicated
in what particulars. True they de
clined to enter upon discussion of th'
comparative merits of County an'
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06
The Evaporation Contest.

The contest between the evapOrators,
which commenced on Wednesday last
continuing 48 hours, was one that elici-
ted much interest, not only in this COM
munity but elsewhere, as the test was
for the championship. The prOprietors
of the evaporatOrs were not only pres
ent but the manufacturers of the re-
spective heaters as well. Besides, in
terestcd persons in other places i'll
evaporating came to take Il look at the
contest as it developed as well as our
own citizens, who were attracted by
interest or curiosity. The Committee
before whom the contest was made,
have reported as follows:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
The undersigned committee to whom
was referred the contest between the
Phillips and Williams Fruit EvapOra-
tors, represented respectively by VIM.
/ Il. Phillips and $. f.. q j. NJ. SprOut, as
per challenge and acceptance of same
in the Smyrna TINES, May II, 1882,
submit the following report:
Persuant to agreement the two eVap-
orators were erected upon the premises
Of Noshell q Jerman, and ON Wcdnes-
day, Aug. 80, 1882, at : O'Clock p. NJ,
the contest commenced. proceeding
without interruption until 10 o'clock
=. NJ, when, owing to Il misundcrstand-
ing, work on the tourty-eight hour
contest ceased And upon agreement
between the contestants the next morn
ing, Aug. 3lst, l75 baskets ofpeachcs to
each, 100 pared and Is 5unpared, (equal to
POO baskets of pared fruit, of quality
alike, should be the test.
At II o'clock p. NJ, Aug. 3lst, work
was resumed as per agreement and
proceeded without interruption. Al
3 minutes of II o'clock a. NJ, Sept lst
the last tray Of fruit was taken from
the Phillips evapOrator, the l75 baskets
of peaches having been completed II
8 minutes less than "a hours. At D:
o'clock P. NJ. the last tray Of fruit wa
taken from the Williams eVaporatOr
the 175 baskets of peaches having beel
completed in BOZ hours, thus cndin;
the contest, the quality Of the evapora
ted fruit being about the same.
In regard to TIE merits Of the tw'
eVaporatOrs. as developed i'll this con
; test, we have to say that having bee
present at various times during 1t
progress, and examined both of them
together with the working of each, an
, the work accomplished by them, W
, accord to the Phillips machine tn
! possession of the greater merits Of tn
/ two, and therefore we award to Wn
| r. Phillips the right to withdraw hi
: deposit of 800 in the Fruit Growers
= National Bank of Smyrna, the so
i deposited by 5. +. & J. NJ. Sprout to b
o forfeited to the poor of the town {
t Smyrna, as per Challenge accepted.
: j. f. Collins,
f. NJ. Fowler,
J. i. Cooper,
I Committee.
' Smyrna, Sep. 4, 1882.
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

THE public debt statement for the
month of August shows a reduction of
more than sixteen millions. However
political economists may differ in their
views as to whether the burdens of the
war should not be more largely imposed
upon the generations to come who will
be most benefited by its results, all citi-
zens must feel a satisfaction in such
prosperity and such an administration
of public affairs as results in steady
and marked reduction of the National
debit
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

Eundred Supervision, because such dis
cussion was foreign to the point at
issue; but that was no sign of "moral
cowardice." They have taken an in
telligent and manly course; and the
people will give them sympathetic
hearing. They are about to enter the
arena of public discussion, prepared to
cross lances with all comers, and that
does not indicate any lack of moral
ooUro0a
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06
Miss NJ. NJ. SMITH,
DRESS MAKER ,
Main Street, Smyrna,Del
esS@Fine Dresses a Speciality. -6sa

The brokers of Richmond, Va, who
have been buying Confederate bonds
have written themselves or their custo-
mers down as Bourbons and idiots"
At least the Hon. Alexander II. Ste
phens declares that a Bourbon is an
idiot who believes that some day these
bonds will be as good as gold.
Smyrna times., 1882-09-06

ADVANTAGES OF DELAWARE.-The
changes in our agricultural condition
the past thirty years has been prodi-
giOus, and realized only by comparing
the condition of the farms, fields and
forests then and now. Over forty years
ago there was almost stampede for the
Western country because our lands
were exhausted, and the people saw
no way for comfortable living but to
go to the virgin soil of the Frontiers.
When the original fertility was ex-
hausted they knew nothing but stable
and barn yard manure to resuscitate
it, and this could be produced only in
limited quantities. Many farms were
reduced to what was called commons
thrown out to the public, not worth
fencing and tilling. When lime and
clover began to be used the change was
very perceptible; guano gave still
further impetus, but not until the use
of phosphates has the high standard
been attained in our crops. The waste
places have been reclaimed and fields
that were once growing up in persim
mon and sassafras bushes are now pro
ducing twenty-five to thirty bushels o
wheat and from forty to fifty bushel
of corn. All this change has beer
brought about by more intelligen
farming. The old methods are beini
done away with, and new and i'm
} proved ones all the time substituted
We are on the ascending scale. TIL
improvements are gradual, but perceI
} tible year by year. Delaware land
: are not passed by, but sought, q
? attested by the number that are CON
ing from both the North and West ]
: search of our genial climate and caps
e BILE soil. Delaware peaches have
! world wide reputation and Delawal