Smyrna times., 1882-07-12

Ocated near Dover have sold their fruit
1t fifty cents per baskets delivered to
.he cannery.
FOUR cars of the Harrington train i
Jumped the track at Clayton, on Mon
day evening, doing some damage but
hurting no one.
THE fireworks at Collins Beach in
tended for the night of the 4th was
postponed on account of the rainy
evening until tomorrow night.
THE real estate of the late Mary p.
deceased, of Dover, will be
sold by John B. Pennington, Esq,
Trustee, at the front door of the Court
House on the 25th inst. See advertise
ment.
THE bureau of correspondence from
this place to Wilmington paper
is considered so desirable, from the ad-
vantage it affords in advertising private
business, that premium has been
offered for it.
WE HAVE sample boxes of both the
Queen of the Market and Turner red
raspberry from Capt. Scout. The Cap
tain expresses a decided preference for
the former because it is twice as large
and mere desirable berry to market.
QUITE number of our young people
assembled at the pond on Wednesday
evening to witness the firing off of some
rockets and other fire-w0rk, by 5. F.
Phelps. Abel Taylor had his hand
severely burned by the explosion of a
rocket.
EDWARD RIDGELY, trustee, sold at
public sale at the Smyrna House
Thursday, a mill and farm, known as
the Hoflecker mill property, situated
on the State road, about four miles
from town, to II. II. huntington of this
town, for 81 800.
BELMONT PARK has been addition
ally attractive the past week or two in
the number and beauty of its graceful
spikes of Yucca with their rich clusters
Of pendent, pearly blossoms. Among
the other attractive plants is cactus
bearing seventy-fve blooms.
JOHN c. BAILEY commenced picking
his earliest variety of peaches, Amsden
June and Alexander. yesterday. This
! is Just two weeks behind the season OF
two years ago. Hales Early will not
be in market before August. Mr. B
is also shipping some fine large apples
IT Is getting to be quite the habit
among the large wheat growers about
Centreville and EastOn to insure theil
wheat when they hold it, We do not
know that our farmers have beer
taking the same measures Of security
but it is getting to be a commodity o
too great value to let secure itself.
THE Grand Master of the State O
Delaware, /. O. o. F., AlOnzo r. Fell
visited Morning Star Lodge on Frida,
night. He eXemplifed the unwrittei
work of Odd Fellowship, after the ad
mittance of three new members int
the order The society finished IL
with cake and cream at Carr's saloon.
If THE effort now being made by tn
E peach growers to deliver their fruit i
Boston the next morning, should prov
successful, it is confidently believe
every basket of good marketabl
} peaches will be worth % cents nor
: to the growers. All the states Ea:
can then be supplied with fres
peaches.
ROBERT II. HILL has a patch of
new variety of red raspberries calle
the Turner" covering an acre and
2 half of ground that has yielded hi
: 500 pints per day for the past ten day
, and has several days picking yet.
virtue over the other red varieties
that it commences to ripen with ii
black cap.
THERE are thirty fruit evaporato
} in Smyrna and vicinity, the capacity
n each being estimated at two hundrt
IS baskets of peaches daily. This wou
Il require $500 baskets which is equal
about eleven car loads. Should I'll
large quantity be evaporated it W
n materially lessen the transportatit
4. by railroad.
- DAVID STEVENSON, of the Smyr
1t Marble Yard, erected last week in t
4. family burying lot of John H. HOffeck
k handsome monument that does hi
= credit as an artist. 1t is in seven SCI
- rate pieces, stands thirteen feet hie
N surmounted by a handsomely cary
le urn. 1t is the most attractive memen
$ in GlenwOOd Cemetery.
THE peach plucks and city cOus
= have put in an appearance simultal
ously. The latter however are getti
the best of it, for while the former q
re living on crusts of bread slipped throu
the alley gate when tOwser is not
guard during the three or four wee
r. they are waiting for the peaches to
ch ripe, the former are presumably feasti
on Spring chicken and cherry pie.
as RAsPBERRIEs have been in mari
" freely the past week, the black SELL
at ten and the red at u cents per qua
of The crop is not so heavy as usual. I
nm canes did not set in fruit so full q
the dry weather of June was not wi
out its effect. The shippers to the c
les markets have been however entir
he satisfied with the returns; Is to
cents for the black and 20 to 80 ce
for the red. This is the heaviest W.
nix of the crop.
Mt.
WE HEAR of one little girl who m
\ $18 by picking Strawberries in the th
l te weeks the season lasted. There was
Ver outfit for the girl, 81 or So to the n
chant or shopkeeper, and the be-
nm part of month of hard labor saved
ras the father. When there are sew,
girls to pick berries there was a
portiOnally larger amount, though
Up few perhaps could reach this fig
II The peach and tomato canning en-
prises hold out similar opportunitie
ew WE the undersigned citizens belieV
for that valuable time is being lost to
% cause of Temperance and Prohibi
and that in organization is our hop
success, would make the following
upon all friends of Temperance, L
tae als Option or Prohibition, to meet in
ior Office of A. p. Griffith, on Friday e.
ing next at o'clock, to form an !
pna ance, auxiliary to the Delaware s
'ect Temperance Alliance.
and John ID. Rigg, VIM. FAIRIES,
NJ J. w. Denney, iona. b. Evan
J. G. Swinney, i. f. Philleo,
ap- A. p Griffith, J. II. Hoffecke