Smyrna times., 1883-08-15


very large. A cloud of dust followed
each team.
A NOTE from Assistant Superintend-
emit Carpenter says that all persons
who desire orders for tickets to attend
the Teachers Meeting at Rehoboth may
get them from ]. E. Carroll, of Dover.
THE THgert carried 1000 baskets of
peaches yesterday. The heaviest ship
ment of peaches it is said will be this
week. The peach crop in the section
that ships by the boat is very light this
year.
On DIT: The bride whose name has
figured so prominently in the papers
the last week is recognized as more
than usually skillful performer on the
piano forte for one of her age-three
months short of seventeen years.
C. H. REGISTER, for G.. w. Judd,
sold 13 baskets of Mountain Rose
peaches yesterday, sent by VIM. S.
Jones' for $3.50 per basket, and 16
baskets at $500 per basket. Troths
sold from 20 to 80 cents per basket.
The Cape May excursion fever SEEM
ed to eliminate ON Wednesday last
when larger number went there and
at Woodland Beach than on any pre-
Vious day. The lessee of the railroad
promises better car facilities in the
future.
A DRUNKEN tramp was arrested yes
terday by Constable Weldon for using
abusive and offensive language at the
residences of d. j. CumminS and DIR.
VIM Daniel, and refusing to go away.
He was locked up until to-day to sober
up for hearing.
PRICE OF PEACHES. telegram to-
day from Hill & Truax gives tho price
of peaches in Philadelphia as follows:
Extra Yellow, 81 1.250$1. so per basket;
Reds. 80 cents to $1.00; Primes, go to
65 cents. The New York quotations
by telegraph this morning were, 70
cents to $500 per basket; Boston, $1.5O
to $500 per basket.
THE State Teachers Association
which meets at Rehoboth on Tuesday
of next week, holding four days, will,
we presume, be attended by large
number of our teachers. The meeting
of the Association at Rehoboth COM
bines two attractions, the literary treat
as indicated by the programme, and
the attractions of the sea.
ONE of the fullest and most prOmis-
ing peach orchards in good fruit in this
section is that of A. l.. Hudson, Occu-
pied by his son VIM. Hudson, late the
farm of Horace Spruance, deceased
The Mountain Rose" variety which
has been going to market the past sew
eral days are very fine. The prospec
tive crop is 10000 baskets.
A LITTLE grand-child of Elijah Ben
son, living on the farm of Esq. McCaul
ey, west of Kenton, wandered away
from the house on Monday Afternoon
and at the last accounts had not beel
found. The last traces of it were il
the neighborhood of Howell Husband
farm. The child, which is between
three and foul years old, had recent,
come on a visit with its mother fror
r Chester.
5 The Town Commissioners shoul
have during these tramp days" tn
: lamps kept burning when there is
new moon especially, and other night
|
? lives beyond the depot was stopped o
O Friday night by three burly tramp
about half past nine o'clock, but he &C
out of their way as speedily as possib
e as he did not relish such company
the dark.
IS E. LOWER, near Brenford, has a goc
crop of grapes coming into market an
10 is adding to his vineyard about or
n acre year of choice varieties. H
peach crop for some reason has faile
him this year, as is the case with h
Is neighbor, Isaac Baker, though he h
y given his orchard careful tillage al
fertilized it WELL He does not expe
If over 300 baskets where last year
ID got 5000.
So the editors are to meet at Reh
is both at the same time the pretty scho
ID ma'ams do. We are not surprise
Last year they tried a stag party
Oxford and worked themselves up
oy the feeling that they had good tin
Is but we knew that when they foul
out some others had better time
IT. the Teachers Association, every ba
d. head editor would want to be the
this year. We knew all the til
Brother Way was lecturing US last "
"a, for not being at Oxford that he mes
ID to be at Rehoboth this, and slip il
day ahead.
ret A REFEREE case before Esquire G
III a few days ago, decided q rather no
case. Frank Greenwell, of Kent
I'd. bought property of John w. Shahan
he sheriff's sale, for $50 and afterwa
ay. sold it for $3.50 and Shahan broui
suit to recover $50, with some otl
'nC items) claiming Greenwell had pro
On ised to give him this sum if he sold
N property. Fhe verdict was in favol
the latter, not only because it was
of property to do what he pleased wi
md but because the former had occup
bed the property to more than the MOI
claimed without paying rent.
re- A SINGULAR SMoKE.-About ei
DR.. o'clock on Saturday evening our to
ing was enveloped jp thick smoke lil
heavy fog, dense enough to shut
the stars and penetrating enough
,er, smart the eyes. 1t lasted for tw,
mas mas three hours, and led to much qC
scVs where it came from. A damp he
air from the bay, that kept it near
,us- surface of the earth, indicated f
Iear where it came and we have since le
My ed that it was the product, in sm
of 80 hay stacks ON st. Georges Isl;
,,;e near Leipsic, belonging to Isaac CO
M M right that had by some means
peu fired in the afternoon.
ket. STREET IMPROvEMENT.-It is
L.; pleasure that we note the street
mp provements that are now being m
2 a oe The vent of water at the Four G
y ~ ers" has been a subject of comp
NUS for several years, the water run
,ond over and washing the road at e
ear. heavy rain fall, because the Gull
fine were too small or checked up SO a.
ting to admit of its passage. The ]
Commissioners after considerable d,
co not being able to get stone masoI
do the work, are putting in larger
60 with cast iron tops. 1t is thought
3Ho the water will hereafter be preve
= fon" from backing up on, and covering
pavement with debris. In front o
4. P. Smyrna House yard the paveme
next being elevated and o number OF
Hof- citizens are making preparations
uray lay old or put down new payem
The castings for the cuiveFts were n
hoo, factured by Geo. w. & =. Tayic