Smyrna times., 1882-11-15
Smyrna and Vicinity.
THE oyster trade is lively.

be ut hand.
BUTTER and eggs are going up to
Christmas prices. !
The cabbage crop this year is i'm
mense. Smell ditto.
THE stove men are busy, preparing
the stoves for Winter.
RABBIT hunting is now the great
sport for the boys and darkies.
WHY is the work on those broken
pavements going on so slowly?
Don't fail to hear Miss Maria Parsons,
Soprano Soloist, tomorrow evening.
VIM. Jason gives notice in our
advertising columns of his readiness to
furnish all citizens with oysters.
J. w. HALEY, the Texan, came to
town yesterday with a drove of so |
mules. He left this morning for Dover.
THE Democrats of Clayton had their
jollification Monday night. There was
a pretty general illumination, winding
up with 8 bonfire.
EVERYBODY is glad that 1t is over
for two years: IL was wound up last
night and laid away where it can easily
be found when wanted.
THE Delaware House, this town, it
is stated is soon to change hands, Jacob
Raymond the proprietor retiring for
the purpose of engaging in another
| business.
THE warm spell was brought to a
sudden terminus on Monday by a
heavy blow in the afternoon that sent
things rattling. The damage was not
material.
SOME persons, men of business, say
that the political excitement of the
past month was not healty for legiti-
mate trade, and consequently rejoice
that it is ended.
THE limitation on cunning expired
yesterday. Judging from the number
of persons VINO shouldered their guns
yesterday, they must have confounded
it with the day previous.
THE Diamond State Pickling Com
pany" u. B. Evans & Co. are bottling
with attractive tables considerable
quantities of Chill Sauce, gherkins,
, cucumbers, chow chow, &c.
ROBERT DENNEY at Cuck Creek let
the water out of his mill pond on
Monday for the purpose of putting in
new safe gates which are to be enlarged
by the addition of two more.
THE sale of tickets for the concert
, tomorrow night are going along lively
and persons wanting reserved seats
had better apply early. Sixty were
! sold in three hours on Monday after
the chart had been completed.
NEw corn is being bought for market
n but in small quantities, on the cob the
8 ruling price is so cents per bushel of Z:
pounds. Buyers are offering 60 cents fol
shelled corn in condition for market
Z. III. BECK, real estate agent, ha
y sold the farm belonging to the Silve
l. heirs, located about 3 miles from Mil
d lington, Md, containing $50 acres, t
" Wesley Stevens. near Blackiston
Cross Roads, for &c. ,250.
r. THE scarcest and highest products O
= the farm, comparatively, are those G
y cattle and chickens. Beef and butter
e chickens and eggs have ruled the pas
Y season at higher prices than for year.
10 What can the farmer give his attentio
- to that will pay him better?
d OVER a million dollars worth of tn
/. finest, cheapest and best clothing in th
= United States, is to be found at Ga
:" Hall, 9th and Market St., Phila., Pi
y l should be pleased to show you throug
es the stock at any time.
in p F. S. PHELPS.
II The fourth quarterly meeting fl
he Smyrna Station and circuit will occI
le next Sunday. Presiding Elder Martil
IN dale will preach at Bethel on the circu
" in the morning and in this town
1T night. The Quarterly Conference Fl
the station will be held on Frids
evening at "a o'clock.
De 1T is stated that Col. II. c. Dougla
sc will be an applicant for the Office
ds Register of Wills, to succeed John
m Pennewill, whose second term expir
:. shortly after the Inauguration of Go
'sU StOckley. The names of Horace
as Mustard of this town and ]. FraI
ee Wilds of Kenton hundred are also us
m in the same connection.
b. BUSINESS CHANGE AT CLAYTON.
We Abel Sevil who commenced the whe'
~ right and blacksmith business at Cla
~ ton last Spring sold out recently
'h' Thomas Holiday of Millington, M,
an and the past week has bought t
ar stock of goods of II. ID. Boyer at t
bo old mercantile stand of that place. n
- Boyer it will be recalled bought O
'uV and succeeded II. z. HAZEL year az
,st The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT
- The concert of the Excelsior Music
Hu Association of Chestertown, Nd,
est thus referred to by the Kent NetUs
ow that place;
nat "The second concert of the Excels
Musical Association of this town,
IN, their honorary members, took place
let the courthouse on Thursday eyenil
not The house was packed and numb
Il were turned away from the doors
want Of room. Miss Lizzie Kruger,
sun Baltimore, was the soloist of the ev
Ills, ing and sang four pieces with gC
it, effect. She Is perfect in composl
me upon the stage and has an excell
voice, under full control, for operl
and artistic singing. Her voice, hC
ever, lacked the flllness of Miss Ho
ion er's and the sprightliness and mt
the Of Miss Parsons. Mr.. Chas. But
,ast either solo was new feature and
Howard p. Orem gave two clario
ays solos. The Excelsior Band, with +
NAL Perry c.. .Orem, leader, did its part
don the satisfaction of every one.