Smyrna times., 1882-07-12
,,o,,ntv and State Items.

Conntv and State Items.
-, pori,min :. Caulk, one of New
". NJ nIJrst citizens. died at his resi- I
jence on Main street Ill that town
Friday. in the S3th year OF his age
Roy Dr.. PhUbus, formerly a pastor |
,ftSe NJ. f. Church of this town, and |
=, VI nresant of st. Georges. Del, has |
~ Sasp IN for some time, but Is now hap
PLY improving
pomona Grange, of Kent and Sussex,
80 at Rehoboth on Thursday after
nv nle' IuIy 9th. Quite large delega-
NV noU vent down from Kent and many
oIong 'iTM the J. & B. road took advantage
oft6e reduced rates.
Tho readers of the Morning Ne,cs will
ho clad TO know that the boys who sell
tbo9 naper had their excursion to Bonn
bav Hook on Saturday. If they did
nnt have o good time, it was not
hecause they had not been long and
faithfully promised.
The Milford Caronicle urges the for
nation of an EvapOratOrs Association,
to Systematically market the 800 tons
of eyapOrated peaches which, 1t pre-
dicts will he produced this year. If
tbe nroducers trust the sale of this
fuit 10 middlemen. the ChrOnicie says
the latter will reap the benefit.
Rev. l.. c. Matlack. ID. d., Presiding
Elder of Wilmington District. has gone
with his family to Port Deposit, Md,
for a two months vacation. The Doc
tor has had a long and serious illness,
and is slowly improving. The Rev.
Charles Hill. pastor of Asbury Church,
Wilmington, will act as Presiding Elder
during his absence.
The Seaford Base Ball Club has ac.
cepted the challenge of the Milford
Guerillas. The match is for the best
two in three games. The first game
will be played at Bridgeville on some
day during the next two weeks, thu
second at Harrington, the third, i
rendered necessary, at some place t
be selected hereafter.
Friday the first consignment o
peaches was made over the Delawar
railroads. The shipments were as fol
lows: One crate from Delmar for .JeT
sey City, 2 crates from Eden for Jersc,
CITY. crates from NewtOwn for Jerse,
City and ? crates from Laurel for Bos
ton. Total. II crates They will like
ly now be increasing daily.
After IL citizen Of Wilmington ha
eaten hartily of meat at dinner he wa
told that it was baked dog, and h
went outside and was sick to that e.
tent that a seasick man could haV
pitied him. Afterward he learned thu
he had eaten mutton. and it took thrt
men to hold him while the fellow WI
had told him it was dog got out
sight.-SOmpiriUe Journal
The canning and drying establis
ments located in this town will co
sumo fruit in the following propOrtiO
during the peach season: Richards
4 Robbins, 1900 baskets daily,
1900 baskets during the seasO
Joseph NJ Chambers, 500 baskets dai
or 10000 baskets during the seaso
Dunning & McGonigaPs evapOratC
1900 baskets during the seasO
Vim. Walker. 1000 baskets during t
season; Dover Fruit Drying COmpar
10000 baskets, and DIR. j. +. Regist
1000 baskets, making the total numt
OF baskets of peaches consumed in
factories $4,000. This will be easily
creased to 100000 baskets, or 200 C
lOads.-iSate Sentinel.
The CANDIDATE is consid
able talk among Republicans as to "
the trend in the public mind be
evidently in the direction of b
Fooks, Of Laurel, but the State Sentil
while avoiding an explicit declarati
IN 50 many words, that Albert Gu
the choice of the Dover ring, &C
ments upon Messrs. Curry and FO
% such way as TO clearly indicate
preference. Against him. Foo
personally, no objection can be urge
says the Sentinel, but some RepuE
ans take exception to Mr. FoOks
II that for many years past he has
Oeen an active Republican, not e
Young except once or twice in the
n Oyears. These gentlemen insist IL
n candidate whose Republicanism
sOpronounced ~ that he could be 70
& N the dark days of defeat, and not
oOrn IN the sunlight of anticipated
cess" &c.
lHE PEACH MEETING.--Th NEE
~ M the peach growers at Dover
,tLnurSday was not largely attended
nose who were there seemed (,
Y S;.'ed St.uated by a purpose to institute
b"Ons bo and arrangements that w
e greatly to the benefit of the (
~. Dr. Henry Ridgely was II
M ,a'aiiinan, and J. Alex. Fulton 5,
Iy' Mr.. Robert ii. Cummins ST
e o3lect Of the meeting, and s.
s the SentiRel. for more thar
Sour OF what he had done and c
~ ana manifested much feeling
ue subject The burden Of his
.sns n iayOr of going through Bt
1 % INTO New Hampshire, Yer
Ald other Eastern States. with
~ nare peaches. If the railroad aut
~ ~ would; they could deliver PEI
u M IN Dover in Boston IN sixteen
to- a. ~ well as not. That is, a
~ boston could leave here at hall
r. cock In the afternoon and
= ,'en IN time for the early ms
sb;s % allow these peaches TO
caappea farther North and East.
AZ. ,p,,'Inlns also wanted peaches CT
no,.I o,.Irawberry rates-Si.2 20 per hut
whereas we are now d
Hs E per hundred pounds for pes
sas ~ also desired better facilities fd
meaa, h OF empty baskets, and a
Sho. distribution. He fayore
W Line Of railroad instead 9