Smyrna times., 1884-07-02

MS carelesSneSS III dropping the rGlnS
on alighting from the vehicle.
WIN. II. BAGGs, our worthy post
master, has Just been reappointed by
President Arthur, the name being sent
to the Senate for confirmation on Sat
urday. This will make his third term.
That no other person applied for the
place is the best proof of his success as
an officer.
GIDEON E. ROTHWELL, Road Com
missioner of Blackbird hundred, is
strongly impressing his personality on
the roads of the hundred by plOwing,
rounding them up, &c, and when he is
done with his work the people who
travel over them will remember him as
II public benelactOr.
WIN. G. HILL shipped the first car
load of new wheat from Clayton yes
terday, and the first that has passed
over the road This wheat was bought
on private terms, the price for new
wheat not yet being established, but
the indications are that it will range
from 95 cents to $1.00 per bushel.
TIE corn field of E. Lower, near
Brenford, stands from five to six feet
high, hiding man and horse in tilling
it. The particular point about this
corn is that neither manure nor phOs-
phate was used on it. The field was
covered about year and a half ago
with so bushels of lime to the acre.
T. r. TAYLOR, of the firm of Wells,
MCllick & Co., commission merchants,
32S Washington street, New York, was
in this vicinity last week in the interest
of his firm who are cligibly located for
handling Delaware trade. We COM
mend them to our berry and peach
growers who are not already suited in
a commission house.
JAMES MCCLusKEY has been APP
pointed supervisor of the streets in
town and is now at work putting them
in order 1t is seldom they are In as
bad condition as at present, and if the
work were done IN the month of May
it would cOnduce to the health of the
citizens as well as add to the general
appearance of the town.
FRANK +. MEREDITH, Il siX-year-Old
son of John w. Meredith, on Saturday
afternoon went into DIR. G. Q. Swinney's
stable, in meddling with the feed cut
ter, got two of the fingers Of his left
hand in the cogs, crushing the ends of
them badly. He was immediately
taken to the office Of the above named
doctor, who dressed the wounds.
THE Town Commissioners at their
last meeting elected the following per-
sons as the Board of Health for the en-
suing year: DR.. VIM. Ashcrait, John
G. StOckly, VIM NJ. Bell, DIR. VIM. II.
Collins, WIN. II. Baggs, DR. J. w.
Clifton and Robt ID. Holfecker. This
is a continuation of the old board ex-
cept that DR. Clifton takes the place Of
DR. Il. ;. w. H;rons, who resigned.
TIE storm last week retarded wheat
cutting and Il number Of farmers did
not finish until this, especially down
the " Neck" Some of the heaviest
fields were so much blown down that
they could not be cut without diff
ticulty. The upper lands were har-
vested mainly before the storm. We
are told by several farmers that the
yield will exceed the expectations be-
fore harvest.
WE acknowledge this morning from
Mrs. c. f. Peterson a creamy white
bloom from the Magnolia Grandillora
that graces her beautiful grounds. 1t
is a magnificent specimen, the open
petals covering space of eleven
inches and as fragrant as it
is beautiful. The tree bore about Il
dozen flowers this year. 1t was sent to
her several years since by friend
living in the South.
THE heavy northeast storm of wind
and rain which set in on Thursday
morning last caused considerable an
prehension for time that much dam
age had been done TO the peach
orchards. The trees were smartlv
broken but the damage will not be felt.
A glance through an orchard after a
storm makes II few broken trees here
and there look like a greater destruc-
ton than it really is.
THE humid condition of the atmos-
phere the past week has made it verv
much against our farmers who wanted
to thresh their wheat from the field.
/ There has not been so much water fall
/ until the good rain of last night the
showers being confined mainly to New
Castle county and extending but little
/ below Middletown. The heavy rains
in the upper part Of that county have
greatly interferred with the harvest
/ ing.
The MiddletOwn Transcript in the
/ following utters what may be consider
ed general complaint at the change
of the schedules when it says
1t seems to be the policy Of the
railroad officials who have charge of
the advertising department tokeep the
public in the dark in regard to changes
in the running of passenger trains until
the Saturday night preceding the Mon
day on which the new schedules 20
into effect"
THE Cecil Wing takes over two
columns to describe the damages caus-
ed by the devastating floods occasioned
by the rains Of Wednesday night and
Thursday morning, the losses being
estimated ut a quarter of a million dol.
lars. On noting the fact gentleman
in our Office remarked that 1--WE come
Off mighty easy in our little section
we have something of all that is going
but never in over doses " like most
other sections.
AMONG the flowers that adorned the
old time flower gardens there were few
more snowy than the hollyhock. For
the past few years they have not beer
so great a tavorite as formerly, but
like the daiiodil and many more of the
old garden flowers, are working thcil
way to the front again Mrs. Amanda
/ Spruance has perhaps the best collcc
tiOn Of them in tOwn-about dozer
varieties of all shades of color, thai
make Of themselves as beautiful a vast
of flowers as can we'll be gathered
together.
The Diamond State Pickling Com
pany are making important changes il
their establishment preparatory to con
Meeting the canning with their business
of making pickles, which they propos,
to enter upon next month. 70 thi
end the boiler and engine is being re
moved from the inside Of the building
to the outside to connect with tn,
large stack that stands in the rear
over which house will be erected
This change in the lower part as wei
as those being made in the upper room
will add greatly TO their convenience