Smyrna times., 1882-08-02


tainment are deftly commingled and
the illustrations are all pleasing.
Col. GEO. w. CUAI0IINs is the largest
grower of oats in this section and per-
haps in the State. On his home farm
and those of his tenants the seeding |
was about 100 acres, the yield being |
about % bushels per acre. Last year |
the Weld from the same farms was
about 80 bushels per acre. The oat is
no longer q staple crop with us, but |
very few farmers now sowing them.
VENNoR's AUGUST PREDICTIONS
Mr.. Henry G. VennOr, the weather
prophet, writes: 81 cannot but think
that August will be another month of
storms and unusual rainfall, with one
or two remarkably low curves Of tenn
perature. l expect snowfalls will be
recorded in extreme western and north
western sections, aud cold rains at
more solItherly stations shortly after
the middle of the month. October
will be very similar, but of course
colder.
TRAMPs. The peach plucks or tramps
y
be the most inferior class of this infer
ior tribe that have ever yet been along.
They are bound to come several weeks
before they are wanted, and 1T is
believed that the most of them will not
accept work when it is offered. They
demand artisan wages for farm labor
ers work, which cannot be paid. In
the mean time, the farmers are finding
the feeding of so many they are always
hungry both Il nuisance and tax.
We HAD the pleasure, yesterday, of
listening to the lecture of the justly
celebrated DR.. w. II. BoOle, of Brook
lyn, N. Y, on "The Barbarism and
Usurpation of Liquor Legislation" and
without any hesitation pronounce it a
piece of master workmanship. He
| held the closest attention of the large
audience throughout. We congratu-
late our community in the fact that
arrangements have been made for the
Doctor to lecture here on tomorrow,
| Thursday evening, at the NJ. +. Church.
| Let no one miss it. 1t is rare OppOrtu-
nifty, that our business men and those
in their employ could well afford an
early closing to hear.
AN old farmer thus expressed him
self a day or two ago: "This long
drought, not having good rain for six
or eight weeks, is going to make a
deficiency in the growing and maturing
crops, as yet not realized by many per-
sons. The ground is dry in depth from
eight to ten inches. The peach crop
will be short fourth of what has been
expected. The corn will not be half a
full crop, nor so good as last year.
Potato crop not half one. There will
be no second crop of hay to save
Pasture fields are so bare and dried up
that cattle and farm stock suffer
greatly"
n. B.-This was written on Monday
The coveted rain set i'll last night and
the storm still continues with every
prospect of a good supply.
DOGs.-Every body cries out against
the dog nuisance, and laws are made
to suppress them, but such laws are Il.
difficult ofexecution as the laws agains
alcohol, which everybody likewise
acknowledges the worst of evils. The
dog law, after short effort last veal
to carry into effect, stands a dea(
letter. In the mean time the crop il
apparently increased, if we may judge
by the barking and bowling these no
summer nights. 1t is remarkable hov
, many ours may be found upon oul
streets that have no owners. Whert
they put up, or upon what they sub
sist, is a mystery, but of their capacit,
> to howl, yell, snap and fight there is n
| doubt. Many times, while listening t,
2 these unearthly concerts in the (wha
4 should be- quiet midnight hours, if w
t were asked to state the number of pal
Elephants, we would be inclined t
measure them by hundreds.
1 WHEAT CROP DESTROYED BY FIRE
!. On Monday evening about O'Clock,
/. bright light loomed up in a Wester
o direction from the town casting a re
glare over the clouds, that made cor
siderable stir throughout the COMMIT
y nifty, many thinking at first that it wa
n in the town limits. 1t proved to b
i the wheat barracks of John Anthony
/, a mile out of the town. The buildin,
y which had tool and wagon house 8
either end, contained between 700 an
= wagons, wheat thresher, drill, all n
? plows and cultivatOrs, &c. The los
Z was between $4,000 and $500, o
y which he had an insurance coverin
u from a-half to twO-thirds of the loss,
the Kent County Mutual. The fiji
v evidently was the result of n pipe {
!. incendiaryism, as two tramps wei
: seen by neighbor who passed IL
j barracks an hour or two before, layir
$ on the straw playing cards, and |
,r thinks were also smoking.
PERsoNAL.-Dr. r. S. w. Hirons al
d wife, John c. Bailey and wife, Mi
,e Susan Black and Miss Edith Cummil
Is left this morning for two weeks Wis
ar to Atlantic City.
A. Rev. J. T. Umsted has accepted &
20 invitation to visit friends in the Yves
Rev. VIM. B. Gorden and wife we
to Cape May, Wednesday of last wee
to to spend a week or two.
in Miss Emma Weldon is spendil
rs several weeks in Denton, Md.
d. The following are the visitors of Il
We week:
ne Miss Anna Offley, Mrs. EIizabe
Wright, Mrs. Ann Sparks, Franklin
Wright and wife, Walter FAIRIES, Nj
ie Kate Wrench, Misses Mamie and Jul
a Deveney, Thomas Haynes, Miss FL
K Farson, Luther r. Hoffecker, Philad,
On phia.
9r, Richard S. Culbreth, Esq, J. f
u, Hofecker and Harold Hardinge, Bal
Oy more.
Mrs. ThOs. B. Baker and daughtj
George w. Baker and Thos. J. Bak
n Easton, Md.
sg, Mrs. Mary Fiero, Mrs. Allen Moo
gs and daughter and John S. MitchC
re Greensboro, Md.
ad Miss Emma Watson, Clearfeld, l
ne Nelson Jarvis and wife, Bristol, ]
rt- Alex. Spruance, Indianapolis, Ind
NJ Miss Mollie Wilson, Middletown.
Mis-, Emma Newcome, Millville, N
do Miss Blanche Layton, Bridgeville.
n IN Decline in Grain.