Smyrna times., 1882-05-10
Smyrna and Vicinity.
TIE trees are casting a shade.

a. LEE CUMMIN5 has a lot of wheat that
measures fl inches high.
JERRY BRINToN contemplates putting
IN glass front in his stove store.
WIN. c. MITCHELL advertises in another
column for 10000 pounds of wool by Nav
2Sth.
AND now there is war between the
evaporator manufacturers See advertise
ments.
MEssRs. TsCHUDY & Cats expect to
commence the manufacture of baskets in
two weeks.
GEO. ID. ARMSTRONG sold in Phliadel-
phla, yesterday yoke of oxen Weighing
$3.50 pounds.
The potato bugs are sitting along the
rows waiting for the young plants to come
through the ground
HARDcAsTLE & JONES have bought
several lots of the new clip of wool. nav
ing % cents per pound.
THE solution of the enigma for which
500, was offered is answered in the ton of
the last column of this page.
PRIMROSE is selling Off his hats and
fancy goods at cost, with the intention Of
keeping nothing but boots and shoes.
SUPERINTENDENT MILLS of the Della
ware Railroad, will have his office at
Clayton, it is said. the coming peach
season.
THE peach orchard of John J. Jones. on
the " Cloak farm, near town, is claimed
to be the best one year old orchard in the
country.
THE sudden rise of temperature from
90 to So, yesterday was naturally fol-
lowed at night by a succession of heavy
showers.
CHOICE fat Spring chickens are quoted
at 81 to 81 20 per pair in city markets, and
strawberries at twenty-five to forty cents
per quart
Mrs. II. &. SPRCANCE calls the atten-
ton OF the Ladies to her New Stock of
Spring Millinery. p
SINCE the goiag out of so many orchards
in New Castle county, the section about
Smyrna is the peach centre with CLAYTON
as the shipping point
FOUR mast schooner went up the
Delaware one day last week-the first
schooner rigg' four mast craft. people
living along the shore say, they ever saw
on the river.
DISTRICT Deputy Grand Master George
NJ. Fisher says that Msrning Star Lodge
No. g., l. 0. o. F., of this town is the best
UArkiRor lOHno ~,
not excepted.
3. '. WELDON has been appointed tax
collector for the town and public schools.
A number OF persons are paying their
taxes this week thus saving the discount
Of five per cent.
The marriage bans of II. Louis Truax.
near this town and Miss Laura Roberts
near Middletown are to be solemnized this
evening. A number of cards of invitation
have be sent out.
A TELEGRAM was received this morning
that Kate, wife of Joseph Stepenson died
last night in Philadelphia. They have
been married between one and two years,
and when visiting his father Jonathan
Stephenson near town looked the picture
Of health.
A SAFE rule is to retain your Winter
Undertaking until the apple tress bios
som.-Er. The writer of that meant some
other year, not 1882. The apple trees are
In blossom, but where is the individual
that contemplates going down to the bot
tom OF his under garments.
The finest merchant tailoring that has
been done in this town for years. if ever
before, IS being done this season by f. M.
Fowler, as he has FIRST class tailor and
deals Ia very fine goods as well as the
medium grades, and is using finer class
OF trimmings than has ever been used here
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The Pennsylvania railroad makes a
change ia its running time and publishes
its time table afterwards. 1t is a great
inconvenience, not to say detrimeHt TO
business travellers, to be notified after
their intended train has departed. A pub
hcation two or three days in advance
would be much better.
ONE Of our smart men, Moore by name
and more by nature, who knows the art
OF setting Matching eggs, was beaten in
the game by smarter hen. He put
fourteen eggs under her and she hatcked
out fifteen chickens. If the reader has
any doubts, ask him. He will stop count.
ing fish money any time to prove it. and
do it satisfactorily.
OUR carriage shops are turning out some
fine carriages this Spring. Our attention
has beep called to two especially, lust fin
ished at the shops of Beckett & Mackey.
for two Of our farmers (Jas. w. Anthony
and Joseph r. Jeffersop), which are really
handsome specimens Of the pheton order.
The demand for both new work and re-
pairs is active this Spring, rendering a
good deal OF over work necessary to keep
up with engagements.
The crops of Samuel P. Truax On the
Landing road, are progressing finely. His
fallow ground wheat field is perhaps not
excelled in height and color by any i'm
the neighborhood. The same can be said
of his garden; Landreth's extra early peas
twenty inches high, the American Wonder
and MarrOwfat peas both showing a vigor
of stalk and leaf, and some fine rows of
onions and Summer turnips
L. III. FOWLER opened to-day the largest,
best and finest assortment Of straw hats,