Smyrna times., 1884-08-06
smyrna and Vicinity.
PEACHES and cream.

WATERMELONs do not promise to b
abundant this year.
AUGUST has been travelling on it
second syllable so far.
| THE street sprinkler is HAVING
bad. WV
WHEN the tramp stole a can of lar,
ne said it was a Greasy Relief Expedi
tiOn. 80 0'''
a FINE crop of mosquitoes NAV h,
expected as the result of the recenr
CHAs. A. CLEAvER has one of tb,
finest fields Of corn in Raymond,
Neck. ''''''"
ONE of our moon observers. an old
farmer, predicts that August will be q
rainy month.
CAPT. A. Scout & Son expect 10
ship Moore's Early and Champion
grapes next week.
A LARGE number Of our citizens
went with the Chestertown excursion
to Cape May to-day.
TABLE corn has been sellino ot %
cents a dozen until this week when
the price fell to Is cents.
The Diamond State Picking Com
pany have now five men making cans
TO be used in canning peaches.
IHE moist warm weather of the past
Two weeks we are told is specking the
peaches and rotting the grapes.
PRESTON GRAHAM, of this town. has
Just completed Il fine residence at ELL
ton, Md, for Miss Martha Finley.
ROBERT DAVIS, of Blackbird. has
SOLD out his stock Of merchandise to
eX-SherlH Richardson, Of New Castle.
IT is said that cloves spread on
shelves where red ants frequent. will
drive them away. Its worth a trial
anyway. ''''
DURING the thunder storm on Thurs
day the lightning struck and killed a
COW on the farm of Peter Fritz. near
Duck Creek. ''0''
The first load Of watermelons of tbc
season visited us Yesterday and soid ~
good prices. They were from tbe
" Eastern Sh'O." ~
WE are not going to say Summer is
ON the home-stretch; that remorll i |
100 common. We will lust sav-it;s |
summers near the end.
The daily fruit line of the Pbjlodel-
phla y Smyrna Transportation Com
pahy VIII commence tomorrow For
see time table.
IHE ZINES Office has been newly
supplied with fifteen fonts of f,nc, any
display type for its already we'll comm.
pea JOB printing department
The morning train will hereafter
leaVe our depot ut 71O instead of MS
OclOck as heretofore. Time table came
100 late for correction this week.
LIEUTENANT JAMES B. LocKwoon
u u the Greely Expedition, who perish
"a q Dy starvation, was cousin Of Mrs.
douglass and Mrs. Allen, of this town
A SUPPLY is expected for the Rev 7
l. Omsted's pulpit on Sunday. He Is
'peh9ihg a short season with his daupb-
eer' Mrs. Belville, at Mahanoy Civ
THERE is an active demand for corn
y ..i tnls time, and the price per bushel is !
,G;IiIIlng ';iIg Wen up to that Of wheat. The :
'rices. ''''' '''' Guy |
WE are indebted to Levy Court {
Commissioner Farrell for a COW ~ tbo c
,abulated Analysis of Commerciai I
st Wolf. '7''''0 Oiielh- t
IHE rains Of last week nut tho il
round IN good condition for nIowina a
3d many fallOw field has been furS' v
easOn. 900uiilS >,
a DOZEN tramps who had engaged =
pick peaches for A. i. Huds0n ~ y
, cents day and board, struck vester- h
ay for Sl.OO. They were pr0mntIv e
lsmissed and their places soon filed q,
MANY of our farmers are boldipo 1
lelr wheat for $1.OO per busbeI on55 II
icy ought to have it considering tLo III
'st OF labor and fertilizers Sin =
rye number have sold, fearino Tho
ice will be yet lower. '''0
JAS. G. LAssELL & Co.. are nnttiro a.
single man wagon for H.. Sc
OAK mat only weighs 100 pounds ia
snail look out for the Doctor with NJ
me interest when mounted in bis b
w vehicle behind his "Jay-Eye-See y al
NEXT to the wheat growers Them 81
ives, the phosphate manufacturors -,
Ohe most Interested in an advonco ,,o
tne price OF wheat. At the present IN
ices the farmers do not feel enconr- ~
ed TO invest in seeding large crons sb
HE proof of the excellent monooo an
snt OF the Delaware Railroad IS f6o sc.
mDer OF trains that pass over II on = Pu
gie track every day, without acci' an
NJ u would seem that n donbIo 20
,ck could not much longer be defer1 10. IJ
i especially when the thron0b Ino ~
completed to Norfolk. -'i0 wv
HE warm rainy weather of the mast Hi
eK Is much more agreeable to the Jel
mefs, when they think of their corn (bC
'p, than the cold, drv. stuntina org
ather that characterized the most est
July. Under the most fnvorobIo usI
lGluops, the corn in many fields can ant
be brought up to full crop. Of Ct
! NUMBER Of the tramps that visit
IN the peach season are "mn@'
mps," viz decidedly literary fn y
II tastes, and next to sometime 70 ..,ii
, thelr greatest desire is for some M M
~ TO read. They differ from the in'' tno
5lhai mug-wump" in that instead n,.s lns
parting their hair in the middle gre gre
y DO not usually part it at all. Ime ~,
HE Town Commissioners Of AIiddIe- con
2 ~ accordance with an act of tba all
,lsl9tqTe, made and provided, have iror
neu the tramps to move out of On
town or abide the consequence riso
DOVer Sentinel in noting the fact sub
three tramps had been Iodpod in occl
complains at the law as undemo- witt
lc, and says the cost the past wear bull
Jne Wholesale arrests and kee1ing stru
2 IN jail to the Taxpayers was said port
mount to $1,000. @'''O will
he Smyrna Home School. Herman RotI M
+, PRINCIPAL. will re-onen ~ NTes,,.It' t'SVi