Smyrna times., 1882-04-12

was kept up for an hour or so.
THE railroads down in Sussex run
special trains TO the circus which shows at
Georgetown tomorrow. Friday, both
Dover and Wilmington have shows. Our
people who are bound to 90 to the circus
whether or no, can pay their money and
take their choice between the two places
JOSEPH r. JEFFERSON, who commenced
farming two years ago on the road from
" Belmont to Brenford on q farm a few
months before purchased, by his well ar
ranged yard and surroundings, substantial
fences, and fields covered with rich barn
yard compost, takes the front rank with
our most enterrrising young farmers.
The Messrs. Geo. w. & S. Taylor gave
their boiler an Overhauling last week, pre-
paratOry to the busy season. The works
were stopped for several days. Among
their other articles Of heavy machinery
which they have recently constructed is
q stave cutter for basket mill at FELTON,,
run by J. II. Hubbard. 1t is 81 machine
that requires both mechanical skill and
shop facilities to put together.
PEACHEs.-Thisw week has given us the
first peach scare of the season. Snow fell
on both Monday and Tuesday, the ther-
mOmeter falling yesterday morning de-
grees below the freezing point, freezing
the blossoms that contained water, stiff,
and this morning it was degrees below
freezing point, the ground and ponds
everywhere frozen. All admit that it was
rough weather on the young fruit, but the
general belief is that it can stand ii. haV-
ing done so before at 4 lower temperature.
a-n0nilllNv half Tho hIns1~,D,,
fully open.
ACCIDENT.-A young man living with
VIM: j: Lee, near Green Spring met with
a painful but happily not i serious acci-
dent on Friday last. In descending IL hill
with load of manure. his horses became
mcttlesome and in the effort to hold them
back he slipped from his seat, falling in
front of the wagon, both wheels passing
over his shoulders, bruising him consider
ably but breaking no bones. The reins he
had in his hands were by some means
caught in the wheel and were sufficiently
strong to throw both horses and thus check
them in what might have been disas-
uOus flight
THE new comet will be visible TO the
naked eye in about two weeks, Just after
AAAlNhA5Abs tthh W III lCtlltAlu III SlAul uuiI
dawn. About two o'clock in the morning
it will be seen about half way up to the
zenith in the constellation of LVra. and
near Vega the brightest morning star in
that part of the sky. The comet is travel
ling about NOrth-NOrtheast. at the rate of
about million of miles day. 1t will
approach within S00OO.00O miles Of the
earth. 1t is an usually large comet, bat it
will be seen to its best advantage only in
the Southern hemisphere. The comet of
1872 is expected to follow this
Mrs. WATSON. NI6SDIORE AND SluTH
The three sister who died in Philadel-
phia on Saturday evening within ten
minutes Of each Otner all in usual health a
half hour before, were relatives of Mrs.
Frank Wells who with her husband has
gone to attend the funeral. The singular
case as circumstantially narrated in the
city papers show that two Of the sisters
died from the shock Mt seeing the other
suddenly stricken down and dying from
appopleXy. They were all reared in Mil
ford. Mrs. Watson and her husband,
Capt. Watson, spent the winter ia this
town some ten years ago.
THE following officers were elected by
Smyrna Building and Loan Association
last night:
President, John ii. Hoflccker.
Vice President, A. p. Griffith.
Secretary, J. B. Cooper,
Treasurer, J. p. Hoiiec~ er,
Directors, John COsden and William Ii.
Carr.
Auditors, J. II. Groves, Joseph Wright
and Wm. Wells.
Committee to solicit subscription for
new stock, John II. Honecker, j. B. Coop
er, ID. Il. Smithers, VIM. II. Carr, Jas. +.
Hotlecker, b. V. Weldon, and Geo. NJ.
Stevenson.
DUCK CREEK IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.
This company, which was organized
some twenty years ago for the purpose Of
Ieclaming the many acres that would be
very valuable but for the incursions of the
tide, looks now rs if i'll the act of disSou-
ton. The object in the formation of the
company was prompted by the best mo-
tives, and the project seemed entirely
feasible. There were 10000 acres Of mex
haustible fertility, capable of yielding
immense crops OF hay and in some cases
the cereals, that needed only Il small en-
bankment to make them valuable. The
experiment was tried with measurable
OF the parties interested was, that time
only was required for u full realization of
their dreams. Taxes were laid and the
several marsh owners paid prorata du to
build the banks. the old creek was
stopped up, the sides raised, and notwith-
standing there had been several minor
drawbacks, there was nothing seriously to
shake their faith until the we'll remember
ed tidal wave" that SWeDt over BOmhaV
Hook, in October, 1876, like Bosom OF
destruction, and ran far up in the uplands.
The work OF Years was DESTROYED in an
hour; such tide had never been recOllec-
ted before and it brought dismay. To
fight against such elements looked futile,
and the most Of the company lost hope,
but the organization was kept in tact
through the influence of interested parties
The strongest Of these were the bay-side
resorts of Woodland Beach, and Fra
land" The proprietor of tie first named
place, with the company and an apprOpria-
tlon from the Levy Court, attempted to
restore the washed out stopping, and
when within an hour of success On 4 GER
tain evening, arose the next morning to
lind their LABOR all washed out by u strong
tide. 1t was important to Mr.. ReybOld
and the Islanders, that this road should
he maintained, but number of the own
ers who had been taxed more than their
land was worth, refused TO pay, and the
treasurer, Z. Ii. Register was ordered to
make levy and sell the property of
several recalcitrant parties. The sale was
to have been made on Thursday last but
on Tuesday proceeding Chancellor Sauls-
bury granted an injunction putting an
estOppal on the proceedings. This brought