Smyrna times., 1883-08-08

Countv and State Items.
Tho ovster-packing business of SeafOrd
uetted $250OOO last season.
portv-Ave tents are already up ON the
oomn Grounds near Georgetown.
do;lv line of steamers are now running
botween Lewes and New YORK.
Tho State Teachers Institute will con-
N, Rehoboth on the 10Th instant.
William McConaughey. of Newark, has
rsi.ed 2OO5 bushels Of wheat from eighty |
acres.
M;ddletown manufacturers made over
rE1I gallons of ice cream and water ices
during July.
Alexander Comegys has been elected
,.lrr OF the Peoples National Bank ut
Middletown.
" : Heverin, of East Dover hundred,
Ls. ,a0 diamond back Delaware bay terra
nins in his fish pond.
The teachers of the Methodist Sunday
school. Dover, will give the scholars ah ex-
cnrsion to RehOboth to-day
The wheat yield in some parts of New
Castle county, is 50 light that it will not pay
the cost of harvesting the crop.
The new Peoples National Bank, of
Niddletown is No. 3.0l9. The Middletown
Transcript says that the bank notes will
be ready about September !.
II Paurs NJ. 4. Sunday school, of
Odessa. made about S35 by its very pleas
amt excursion to Collins Beach. The
school. of course, was taken free.
The Dover Fruit & Vegetable Preserv-
ing Co.. have leased their factory to
George Dana & Son, of Belpre, Ohia, who
will run it this season, evaporating peaches
and pears.
The Government engineers, in their re-
port to the Secretary of War, recommend
an appropriation of $4,000 to deepen and
clear the channel of St. Jones creek, in
Kent county.
Two prisoners, Cy johnson and Dick
Sanford, the former held for shooting II
man by the name of Griffith at SeatOrd.
and the latter for burglary at the hotel at
Lewes escaped from Georgetown Jail Sun
day morning.
ThOs. W. Jakes, Jr, killed late Friday
evening young crane on Wyoming Lake
measuring across wings from tip to tip d
feet and from end of toes to tip Ofbill 3 feet
1t was supposed to be about One-hal
grown and beautiful specimen of tha
kind Of bird.
PEXIYsULAR Press AssOCIATION.-W
Scott Way, Secretary of the Peninsulal
Press Association, gives notice of the tftl
annual meeting at Rehoboth, August 2Otl
and Dist An excursion will be made t
New York by the Old Dominion Steam
ship line, leaving Lewes August 2lst o
22nd. From New York the members ma,
return by rail, and the secretary says eae
member is entitled to take along his wife
or best girl, as the case may be.
The Immigration Committee met j
Dover Thursday in the State library rOOI
and reported that 28 families have arrive
since the last meeting and been sent
homes in the different counties. Fiftee
families were sent to Sussex and thirteen
Kent The commission also reports thi
applications are still coming in, and that
expects more immigrants in few week
The date Of the monthly meeting of Il
commission was changed to the last Thur
cay in each month instead of WOdnesds
as before
Aetuary Conrad in his report of the CO.
dltlun Of public schools in speaking of ke
county says: In Kent county the hlg
est humber Of schools reported is "a hig
est number of pupils in attendance, Al
Increase over last year, 146. The Dow
school shows an average attendance of lC
Ine largest, and Houston IL, the lea
From the school tax fund 81, ,4O4.W we
PAID the Kent county schools, and ea
sea"!l received So from the States appI
prlatlun. The association paid from t
4 Old iund due the county Sl39.32, and
grand total of .iS to the 20 school,
The MprHjRg Mems says: In New J,
sey i is penal Offense to sell tobaccn
aiy f'rm To- young persons under III Yei
n Vi age The law was created last Win
ahG Is giving great satisfaction. Here
DelaWare we do not know yet what Ia
were enacted at the last session of the g.
eal Assembly, but we do not think Il
our dealers were forbidden to retail tobal
Il Utne youngsters: ut least they are dol
night along The New Jersey stat
Ougnt to be adopted everywhere and m
gaiy enforced. The race is becom
s.Ied stuhIed both mentally and physical
"Oh the boyish vice of using tobacco"
n The .Eoery Esening says: 'sActu
o9hrad report of the progress of
III SCHOOLS chools for colored people is gratifyi
N 9'u y tends to vindicate the wisdom of
;slaI1re IN providing larger apI
N ad", d,atlon lot these schools. The proces
n slcauhg the cOlored people is painfi
n ~ ohe, but we are not at all sure that
N WORK OF other improving agencies has
nj PACE even with the imparting of b
HI learning to the young. Morality am
81 nesI9 sr9es Is anything but high, and we b
~ 9I avS very frequently an unusual rude
HI ss. ,a D"lsterousness of demeanor upon
vi eI Sa; among cOlored children appare
III sohg TO and from school. The ten,
# b'a. % some extent make up for lac
nj 4srp V"is Training in pupils and perhaps /
All sns.S exercise good influence upon