Smyrna times., 1884-08-13

WHAT thing it is to have a friend
at court Here is SMYRNA mr. MI
creek with commercial traffic over ite
: waters exceeding 100000 that could
not get cent appropriated at the last
congress. to help its navigation. while
1t. Jones creek with scarely any trade
Gt 0Gt a few oyter boats got $l4,882.
Why is this thus?
The field of wheat of Col. Geo. w
Cummins, which was the "cracl, y
field before harvest keeps the lead offar
the thresher, G40 bushels from % acres
81 bushels to the acre. The above
was the machine measure which is
usually heaping and Mr.. Cummins
says 1t will tally out 700 bushels, or 35
bushels to the acre.
Col. GEO. w. CUMMINs and his
tenants have raised and marketed he
tween 1900 and 1000 bushels of oats
The usual crop of 5000 to 5000 bushels
has been lessened by the planting ont
OF several new peach orchards There
are very few fields of oats grown IN
this section now other than those
grown on the farms of Mr.. Cummins
The business Of one person trying to
get another's domestic help away from
them is justly held by the public as n
mean business, but it isn't often that
the condemnation is as forciblv ex-
pressed as 1t was the other day when n
man was kicked out of the ward for
gong to house and offering the SER
want girl higher wages to 90 with him
to his home '--
SEVERAL canneries will not be run
TINS year. One at AIiddletown and |
one at Wyoming will not be operated |
Whlle one at Camden and another AZ |
Lebanon have been burned Tho |
machinery taken from the one at |
tarmlngton, which was purchased bv
the Diamond state Pickling Company
OF TINS town, has been set np in their |
factory here and will be rnn actively
during the season.
Don't lie on the damp ground: and
to avoid lying upon the damp oround
unexpectedly, keep civil tongue in
your head at all times.-Via MddIo-
t0Wn transcript. 1t seems to us that if
the damp tOOlishness in that paragraph
was intended for wit it should have
Deen Kept on the grindstOne about n
dozen more revOlutions;-or NAV he
we don't see the point in that case will
the transcript drop us line and state
where the laugh interYenes?
ONE OF our citizens, who has sDent
considerable Of his life amid books has
novel theory in regard to the cause
OF earthquakes. He thinks tbev are of
electrical Origin-that the liIhtning
strikes through the earth and cominS
IN contact with some sensitive mineral
SUBSTANCE, causes the same disturbance
mere tllat 1t does in the air above rs
lie admits the originality of his theory ,
put says he is going to stick to IL unfij ,
It Is proved to the contrary. :
VENUS IS now the particular BRIGHT
morning star. A star gazer saws, t
Inc glorieS Of the daWning morn /
Wheh the air Is clear and the sky fairly '
Tree OF clouds are enough to temnt The t
rover oi nature to fOregO his forty !
wlhks and foresake his bed From ont 4
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venus glows with a silVery brightness a
'XcelEng in purity her appearances
Nhcn viewed through the air of twi-
lSht; while well up toward the zenith
saturn CLEANS with less bright bnt -
not less pleasing lustre." ~ :, T.
The peach season is week or ten g
lays This year in advance of the Dasttwo Il
,ears. The TrOths are finished bv the f
u Iine NE picking commenced last wear !!
me Mountain Rose and Yorks are 1
low III order and these will be crowded o.
ly tle Crawiords. The varieties are c.
iipehlng together, to the ANNOYANCE Of b
ne farmers and the marketmen b.
-ast year they followed each other In "
latural succession in fine condition for le
ither drying or shipping. But such a h
ear as last does not come usually but IN
nee IN The life of peach tree. re
TIE gate at the main entrance NJ -, -
ne Odd Fellows Cemetery has been =,
'ut IN place-tWelye feet wide or y,
ather two, swinging from either side ~
DIlhlhS thls space. At either side arc :,
wO smaller ones, four feet wide for v
euestrlans to enter. The large gate
spanned by an arch II feet bi@b fbot
: 70 pear the name of the Cemetery on
ne paneled face, and from the centre W
nc VIII be suspended the three svrn- ia
AAN9N5 Ao diHO the letter.
~, will be in gilt. J. V. Smitb,s 1ot re
handsomely fixed up: it is enclosed tn
18th nicely made coping of wood so
lrmounted by very low ornamental 80
on railing. '''' su
Owns he
ONE OF our young ladies (she is still ce
her teens) has never had an aoue W,
lake, though of Eastern Shore origin re
nj while not exactly coveting one Of or
lese visits, has had considerable ar
lnosity to know just how thew felt m
ne very naturally connected them Of
lth the Queen Anne's county stvle Of Sn
'me years ago when the shake Of the kr
atient would rattle the doors and en-
lndows. Sunday afternoon She was do
eiing bad enough to lie down. and mo
nile IN this position experienced the br
lFIDquake movement that was felt bv bu
many Qg our citizens. Later in the cel
~, lgnoraHt Of what others had ex- faI
7fleBced, she told some young callers cai
lat she bad bad chill about two nm
clock that she had felt the shake of th,
ne very perceptibly. She has since tn,
und out it was not iit Of ague and an
anitests some chagrin that It was NOT 81
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