Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1883-09-12

stiOn have dwindled down to three and
four cars per day.
GEORGE HEINOLD has the thanks of
the TINES office for some fine speci-
mems of his Crawford Late peaches.
RUDDY cheeks and empty pocket
books are plentiful. Boys can't spend
their basket money and have it too.
WIN. FAIRIES has ordered a No. 40
Phoenix heater for J. w. Denney, for
the purpose of heating his store and
dwelling.
AFTER the coolest Summer in half
century the Fall entered on almanac
time and gave us October weather ia
September.
W. Polk CUMMINs has the thanks of |
the TIMES Office for basket of large |
and elegant peaches of the Crawford
Late variety.
SMYRNA is not alone in the death |
list of its old citizens the present year,
but Dover and Milford both lament a
similar visitation.
THE deposits of "peach money" in
our banks equals nearly as much as
last year, though the crop is only about |
oHe-third as large.
A SUMNER without mosquitoes is one
of the remarkable things of this remark
able Summer, and astonishing to the in
habitants along the bay shore.
The Peninsular Bone Fertilizing
Company report a larger sale of phOs-
phate last week than was ever sold in
one week by J. E. Tygert & Co.
JOHN M. BOYD, V. S., has opened an
Office in one of the rooms under the
Town Hall, where his customers in
want of a veterinary surgeon will find
him.
SOME unknown thief broke into the
smoke house of Armor J.. CULLEN, of
Duck Creek, on Saturday night last,
and carried away aquantity of Ms. Q's.
pork.
THERE is said to be mutterings in
the bowels of mother earth in several
places indicating another earthquake,
but the question is, where will it next
strike?
The south-bound Delaware train
Monday night struck flock of sheep
at Blackbird crossing, scattering them
in all directions and killing eight of the
number.
OUR stove dealers don't intend the
people of this community to do without
stoves this Winter. The steamer Tygcrt
brought down nearly forty, at one trip
last week.
HALF of our school children are un-
der the care of two out of the six
teachers, the seventh not yet being
in employ. This is a very unequal
distribution.
Mrs. SUSAN HAYDEN, residing on
Methodist Street, fell down flight OF
stairs on Monday evening last, and
sustained severe shock and badly
bruised face.
A MEETING will be held at the NJ. f
, Church on Friday evening next, to cleo
delegates to attend the meeting of the
, Kent County Bible Society in this town
ON the Goth inst.
WE give on our first page the Law
passed at the last Legislature in rela
4 ton to water works in Smyrna, whiol
are not yet, but may possibly exist il
the womb of the future
THE Smyrna Base Ball Cub has re
o >ceived a challenge from the Mosqait
:, nine of Jones Neck, to play a game O
ball at Dover, OH Saturday afternoo
: next, which they have accepted.
( HIRNHEnIER, the clothier, give
L. l.,
laid in full stock of Clothing, for tn
~ - Fall of 1883, of the latest styles. Boy
and Childrsn's clothing speciality.
IT has been a subject of common r,
- mark with peach growers that the
trees have made an unusual growth
nc new wood this season, rendering ii
chances favorable for a crop next yea
10 Mrs. MATTE A., wife of VIM.
al Manlove, who died last week in Dove
tie was formerly a resident of this tow
in daughter of the late Nehemiah Stayto
On and we'll known to many of our eli
-. Zens.
CHI WIN. FAIRIES seemingly anticipat,
fOr the Wintery demands of this week
lal laying in last week a full supply
ST: stoves and stove material, and the d
nv az mands on the stove man in putti
70. them up has been almost constant.
TX, A MAN who had his shoulder bla
10 broken by the kick of mule on Bo
red bay Hook ON Saturday, went up in t
ing steamer Tygert, on Sunday afternoC
no. for medical treatment, going to t
err hospital We did not learn his nan
Iity On Monday morning with the tn
less mometer between 400 and 50' and sh
.tic ering humanity in every house, it v
Ter enough to start the coal fire in many
u dwelling, as it did, if we hadn't pas:
hat beyond the usual period of hot wealth
I'M TIE Farmers had good time
Sc. Woodland Beach on Friday las
az Farmers Day. Sixty couples sat do
rae at the first table and 40 at the seco
attic or over 200 persons altogether. 7
yed. evening will close the receptions at I
emit house.
con. SOME of our farmers finished IL
1860 peach crops last week, but Isaac Sci
near Blackstone Cross Roads, had
. the beginning of the week about 8
baskets, 1000 of which were yellow
nm orange clings. They all go to the {
= 1,f merry of ]. NJ. Arthur, at KentoD.
It of Jos. E. WILLIAMS, who has retur
from Ocean Grove, N. j., where v
ased his family he sojourned for Il
by months, says that he did not in
IS al three months he was there hear
'ther oath, and as liquor was prohibited
ar course there was no drunkenness.
week A second culvert is being place
" its the intersection of Main and Comm
Ount streets-the flour corners ITO col
good pond with the one put in the other
from two or three weeks ago. There oil
=, after this to be no more occasio
5 t the complaint of overhown pavements
size. How would it do for our County
i've OF hibition Managers to offer liberal
use MUM for the best essayon practical I
-. making and mending? The que.
tnls is essentially live one, and embl
tbrne a subject upon which there appear
con- be needed a more liberal infusiC
, i'm. light.
Long Now is the time to order your
The Philadelphia and Smyrna T
: sew portation Company are selling
/ ne1 quantities of the best hard coal il
ri item market. They are receiving an in
sature of twelve hundred tons, and deliV
6 i'm in the cellar of the purchaser vii
fertile extra cost.
AT the Quarterly Conference
ing at the M. Z. Church, on F
evening, a committee of eight mel