Smyrna times., 1883-07-11


'oad, IL miles from town, during the {
ain of Sunday evening, was struck by
lightning and piece ripped out from |
he top to the bottom. The shock and
rash was of course pretty severe on
he nerves of the ladies of the house
hold.
B. B. FURGUsON, of Philadelphia, has
rented the house next the post office in
Clayton, for the purpose of opening a
drug store. Mr.. Furguson came when
a boy from Blackbird to the store of j.
w. Denney, of this town, where he
learned the business, but has been for
several years at the University Hos
pital, Philadelphia.
JOHN c. MUSTARD, of this town, has
the contract for putting an ice-making
in Jay Gould's magnificent
new private steam yacht, the AtGtGntG.
Mr.. Mustard was ready to put his ma
chine in the vessel before she left
Cramps shipyard at Philadelphia, but
at Mr.. Gould's suggestion the matter
was delayed a month.
THE leading members of the Boston
houses of Bennett, Rand u
Co., and Snow & Co., who sell the
most of our extra peaches and pocket |
the money 1--WE mean our peach kings |
have been spending several days i'll re-
newing business acquaintance with
our growers. Boston is faVorite |
market with our fruit men.
THE firm of Mitchell & Armstrong
who went into partnership fifteen
months since in this town in buying
produce and afterwards transferred
their business operations to the city i'll
the fruit season, have become firmly
established there with growing trade
from different sections. Mr.. Mitchell
is on tour of the Peninsula and spent
several days last week with friends in
this town.
TIE National Bank building is put
ting OH a handsome exterior appear
ance under the finishing touches of j.
E. Carter's brush. The ground work
will be bronze olive and the trimmings
olive green, a combination that will be
attractive because not in common use.
These changes, and especially the re-
moving of the fence gives the bank
time will soon familiariZe the eye to it.
ATTENTION is called to the following
requirement of the Kent County Mu-
tual Insurance Company:
"That all persons using steam
threshers within sixty yards of prop
erty insured in this Company, shall be
required to take out a permit and pay
at the rate of 15 cents on the $4,000
on all property within the said sixty
yards of the engine, and they are re-
quired to use hard coal and a proper
spark catcher"
! THE new POstmaster-Gene has
decided that pOstmasters who fail to
notify publishers when subscribers re-
move, or fail to take papers from the
post Office will be responsible for their
subscription.
There is another law Il long time in
existence which makes person a bona
fde subscriber to paper if they take
it regularly from the post Office wheth-
er they subscribed or not, and the sub
scription price can be collected from
them,
GUINNESS & ABBEY's New York
Company gave an entertainment in
this town on Friday evening last, rem
dering the following pieces: 1.-THE
German Emigrant," +" " Welded, but nc
Wife," Nan, the ood-for-nothing.
On Saturday night, "The Sweet
hearts" and Country Skewl Marin,
were played. The attendance was no
large because of the hot weather, bu
the playing was pronounced of a mucI
better character than generally come
along.
The entrance to the lot for the ney
: school building can only be made from
= the front on South street, making
clever circumlocutiOn to the children
t in the direction of and beyond the mi
pond. A new street about 100 feet j
length and twelve or fifteen wide CON
: ing out On Frazier street between tn
h residence of David Richards and stabl
5 of VIM. G. Mitchell would be convt
Il nient outlet, and we understand tn
/ Board of Directors intend asking tn
commissioners that such a street /
laid out.
= STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.-Tho
:, the storm on Sunday was not accon
panied by an unusual amount of ligh
- ming, it descended with more tha
y usual directness. We note in anoth,
item the fact of striking a tree on IL
j. farm of Mr., briggs, near the "B
N Oak" On the farm of T, w. BleaklC
q directly East it struck and burnt
le shock of wheat, and directly West
W large sassafras tree that stands on Il
le division line between the farms occ
pied by Isaac Baker and Geo. Re,
Lofland, was also struck.
es MARKETING PEACHEs.-The ear
a varieties of peaches such as Amsd
w June and Alexander are proving a ia
at ure this year because of the rot, hard
Ir- one in ten coming to perfection, I.
Lapham shipped the first crate on p
day which averaged him just % Gel
ma per peach. He has shipped again Il
<y week as have also ID. James Price a
James w. Anthony. A second crs
We containing IL one-gallon baskets, whi
az Mr. Iapham sent through the agen
an of VIM @. Hill, was sold yesterday
Boston, by Curtis Il Co., fnr $ls
,Ie $1.50 per gallon.
y. THE correspondent of the MOrni
%, NeiOs notes the fact that the body o
nS colored citizen was kept from Wedn
"a "a day evening to Sunday morning a
~ ~ queries, where was our Board
NO Health all the timer" If the corr
pondent was as wise as he would hf
49,, the readers infer, he would know Il
~ ~ the case in question neither cOncerI
Jo 'h him nor the Board of Health, for W
sn nd the use of ice, the undertaken in cha
otu kept it as free from decay as any fune
ost., occasion that has preceded it, and C
~ ~ sequently it was in no wise a subj
N for newspaper squib.
ALEX. JACKSON, one of our W
-ers known and best colored men died
the the evening of the 4th inst, after
per months disability and suffering fror
to tHmor in the stomach. There was
let. man who did Q more honest d;
,ck, labor, or who could be tFHsted n
, at implicitly, Perry Potts last Sum-
his and Alex. Jackson this, are losses
are felt in community because
had the elements of usefulness
not larger degree than usual. Jackson
nest only So years old and his loss is
eTf- only felt in the community, but es
,ots, tally in the Bethel A, M. r. Church