Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1883-09-19

its soft luminous light and +
equable temperature, was one to delight +
the poets. :
A BAND of Italian musicians came to 7
town on Saturday and made some eX- l
cellent street music for the entertain {
ment of the people. t
The brick workmen will finish their :
part of the work on the new school
building this week and hand the house
over to the carpenters.
PROF. GROVES has succeeded Mr..
PhilleO at the pickle factory and went
at his new business like man vino
wasn't afraid of work.
THE MarrOw-Bone phosphate manu-
featured by Alexander G. Cummins is
so popular that the demand this season
is double that Of last year.
CHARLEY SwIGGETT showed us yes
terday four white potatoes grown in
his garden that were very fine tubers.
The four weighed 4! pounds.
MARROw-BoNE and Maize .Oleine
sales have increased so much that it is
necessary to put in Il so horse power
engine and enlarge the factory.
z. NJ. FOWLER is much pleased with
his new tailor G. w. Sturges, of Lam
caster, Pa, who succeeds E. Anderson,
who had been with him the past four
years.
POSTAL cards will not be made any
| longer after the Both inst 1t is proper
to state, however, that they will con-
tinue to be made the same length as at
present.
OUR farmers who are engaged in
peach tree culture will find the COM
munication on the Fertilization of
Peach Trees" on our first page interest
ing reading.
| +. HARRISON has a set of harness
which he has Just finished for one of
our citizens, that is pronounced one of
the finest in workmanship ever made
in the town.
THE steamer Tygert is making tri-
weekly trips, carrying on Friday last
ten car loads of fruit, and various other
freight, and about one car load of pas
sengers each trip.
A. P. GRIFFITH and VIM. d. Hof-
fecker in the Alley" have crop of
about 1000 baskets of fine apples for
which they have refused an offer of
3 80 cents per basket.
THE four days of hot weather sue
ceeding the cold spell of the week
before, were brought to a close on
e Monday night by a copious rain fall
: and cooler northeast winds.
IT is said B. X. Bliss & Sons, seeds
= men of New York, will exhibit 500
a varieties of potatoes at fairs this fall,
,, which is about 495 varieties more than
|, the average farmer has any use for.
e A LATE discovery is that the tortures
is of a cough and the other agonies which
sr eonsumptives have to endure are sooth
If ed by drinking hot water, slightly
Is favored with lemon to prevent nausea
CHARLES WARNER, while returning
it from a grist mill, near Kenton, with /;
re load of grist on a cart, fell off and haC
ID two or three ribs broken by the wheels
ne passing over him. He is not expected
nc to live.
er WILLARD +. WELDON has been bus,
he the past two or three weeks in putting
ty up new stables, corn cribs and othe
ot Outbuildings on the farms in St. Jones
Ike Neck belonging to James Budd, G
OF Philadelphia.
Miss ANNIE WILLIAMS, near thi
town, fell down q flight of steps on
of day last week, and sustained injuries
an her arm almost equal to break, frol
80 which she suffered a great deal of pal
al for several days.
,ur MARROwBoNE phosphate keel
as Capt. Conner, of the Nettie, and Cap
HAZEL, of the Clayton &; LOUDER, an
:. Capt. Brown, of the Clyde, busy ever
eI week taking phosphate away an
Ad- bringing back material.
49, THE music committee of the M. ]
VI Sunday School propose to add viol
's', and violoncellO to the cornet al
ted organ already in use, in their Sunds
ism morning practice, and hope to be reat
by by next Sunday morning.
the The farmers we named last WEI
hey havn't all the tall corn it seems. Jol
t to Williams down the Neck has stal
ion. the ear of which is nine feet from t
cad ground, and VIM. M. Boyer has sta
re- Ii feet high bearing three ears.
ing The Premature" peach sellers q
IS of finding more comfort in the tumble
the market Monday than the men W
the bought their orchards. The latter,
own the way, say there is deal of wa
h from AVO per CENT III IL lhis week
the J. S. HUNTINGTON has put an i
hes proved smut machine in his mill,
de- the State road four miles below Smyrl
Than together with other internal as well
land external improvements, making it n
ohos one of the best grist and merchant m
- r 90 in Kent County.
,rt LETTERS of administration W
NJ 70 granted upon the estate of Henry Pr;
e Sr., late of North Murderkill Hundr
also ON the 18th, on the estate of "
man John c. Pennewill, of Dover.
VIZ" GEORGE w. INGRAM, real esi
anu agent, of Middletown, has sold
walls acres of fine peach land, situated
dists' Kenton Hundred, to William CIR
aptist and III. A. holland, of Middletown,
icy is $40, 900 cash, for T. III. Johnson and
;. d. Goldsborough, of Easton, Md.
, for THE Finale which was placed
Adco- position last week on the steeple of
ndent Presbyterian Church, now in cours
esby- erection, presents very neat fin
} yir- The design comprises a cross, or,
woy- and harp with projecting leaves.
: Tho. steeple win be slated this week and
ng by 'ooi y slS sft+spA A
is so. The break in the peach market \
n any day afforded good opportHnits
,etbod making presents to distant frient
that .nosc Mno Aauny W. A tsat5 nj, ~
myrna m,,S dams ETnress was lite
old crowded yesterday from all poipi
this is the road. AT Clayton the platform
warm crowded by crates and covered bal
directed to individuals at diff
urches points.