Smyrna times., 1882-03-08
SMYRNA and Vicinity.

w NELSOME spring.
TURNIP greens and iowl are now in
order.
A BEAUTIFUL assortment of Easter cards |
at Collins 4 Savins'. p
A NUMBER of our citizens will doubtless
visit MiddletOwn during the week and on
Sunday.
REV. Mr.. RIGG expects to send supply !
for the NJ. L. pulpit from +he Conference
next Sunday.
THE commissioners make financial
statement in another column, of the town
government for the past year.
ONLY 81 pound is the price asked
for new variety Of oats for this Springs
seeding-the Russian white oats.
MEssRs. G. w. & S. TAYLOR are manu-
featuring the Taylor Improved Plow and
New Departure Cultivator in large quanti-
ties.
J. w. JONES, sold yesterday to q city
firm, over $4,000 muskrat hides. This is
the largest sale he has ever made at one
time.
II.
dreth's extra early pea, on the last day Of
February. They are intended for the
city market uid the Tygeu.
The men who are paying so for a load
of hay, will look out on the field already
greenng with the examinations of new
crop, with more than usual pleasure.
GEO. w. WARREN, a we'll known farmer
( II : +
i'll ThorOaghfare Neck, died this morning
! after a severe sickness of pneumonia.
! LAND SALE-A. 2. Griffith, real estate
broker has sold part of G. d. Stevenson's
farm near Clayton, containing 773 acres,
for So, 900 cash, to John AllstOn, of Black
bird.
4 TRUSTEE and class leader in the NJ.
E church of this town, says that for the
next six days the seat of the Wilmington
! Conference will be the GnriOus bench OF
the church.
A GENTLEMAN from another State, who
was present at the NJ. Z. Sunday School
Missionary Anniversary on Thursday even
ing, remarked at its close that there was
talent enough in that school to run 9
theatre.
, MUCH regret was felt in this town al
, the news Of the death of Mrs. Fannie
Ford nee Burns, wife of J. B. Ford, o
Middletown. The most of her young lady
life was spent III this town where she haC
! warm friendships.
The weather prophets have all failed ol
March. Vennor said it would come il
rough but the first has been one of the bes
e weeks on record We can get through t
a the leafy season now first rate if they onl
> won't send along any more cold waves.
/ j. WESLEY JONES, who has rented tn
q store room until recently occupied b
Robt. Denney, expects tomorrow flu
car load of flour, feed stuifs and such as
usually kept in first class flour and fee
J. store Also q fine lot of Maine Early Ros
"a Potatoes for Seed. p
A. PRICE GRIFFITH, who always wan
the best that is going, has ordere
a through J. 3. Cooper, the America
- Wonder Pea at so cents a pint for
: Spring planting. That new garden wi
s. doubtless give us some good results in tt
le Summers products.
70 VENDUEs.-The following persons W
80 sell their personal property at public sal
re John VanGasken, on the road leadil
e. from Smyrna to Duck Creek, on Tuesda
49, March 9th.
q Andrew n. B. Jackson, near Blackistor
~ Cross Roads. on Wednesday, March l5t
WHEN we noticed the post office Ia
ho week, it was in a state of chaos from t
necessary condition of affairs in a remOI
"a and in the midst of the debris of workmt
lst These are now completed, presenting,
re- persons who travel largely say, the Ia'
oh attractive office in the State not erect
= and equipped by the Government.
IN The new carriage shop of Mess
roo Beckett &, Mackey, on Main street,
giving evidence of a decided progress
Ire BUSINESS. The two prOpFietOrs and
ia part of the jourReyman are at it day O
night and to further prepare to meet
demands upon them, they have taken Il
he apprentices to learn the business.
} is THE Northern papers have begun Ell
ort but mildly, in memory of last year, tx
to filings at the peach crop. The Philat
phia Press says: The Delaware pc
hei crop-but what's the use? Each
the brings it's own misery, and the pc
aalf farmer is not always above the ice n
ted who is often no better than he ought
be-"
) of POTATO planting has commenced.
hoped that the high price of the tul
will not deter liberal planting, for
an article Of diet, potatoes in most fami
'ine stand next to bread, and pieptifully
,nn. plied market again will be a great de
sub eratun to the tabl- provider Cons
cir ers have labored under the disadvant:
of short Fall crOn now for three wear
Ving VI . '"O' : al - W '''" 'O- ''l % ''''
light AN elderly gentleman OF large obse
mo tions says tho recent floods have broke
-, the fields of ice in the North and "
ACeu while the SHOWS were melted and the
his nothing to make frosty winds. He
reak we are to have an early Spring and
, IN diets fine crops of wheat, hay, peaC
-, corn, and in fact an abundance of eV
anu thing. Our friend is evidently an optil
A CLOCK in the window Of J. V. Sr
has attracted no little attention hecau
nv" moves, keeping correct time, with no
Lour BILE motive power. 1t consists of a
ulpit dial SO inches in diameter with gilt fig
!, the in the centre of which are the hs
,fI,;. This is all there is of it. 1t is q yer,
geniouG contriVance, the work of Wi
II, Oh b, Smith, and will be puzzle to all
er, of undertake to detect the secret of its
there ing power
echer MOORTON CHANGEs.-Among the {
,terv ges at MoOrton, Albert Danneni
- moved to Dover; D. d. Boggs, Jr,
nO'o ceeds him at Moorton; John RHymOn
-law, Sscceeds Mr.. 3. on the Boggs home
Eli Smith left the Moor farm, ado
MORTON amd takes the Henry Moor
nina beyond Moors, and is succeeded by
~ ;, Davis; Samuel Jones has moved to