Smyrna times., 1884-09-24

YESTERDAY was the last day, per-
haps that the shipments of peaches
from our depot will approximate a car
load. There will be some struggling
lots the balance of the week for ship
ment or the canneries. Thus closes a
year most satisfactory to the peach
growers.
A FARMER near BlackistOn's Cross
Roads raised, on q quarter-acre of waste
land, 106 baskets of potatoes, besides
those used for home consumption,
using no fertilizer and giving them no
attention whatever Their weights
were from l pound 3 ounces, to u
ounces each.
J. V. SMITHS store and dwelling re-
ceived its finishing touches last week,
from the hands of the painter, and can
not, in its bright color of haywood for
the woodwork, Tennessee marble for
the porch pillars, and dark pictOu for
the walls, fail to attract the attention
of the passer by.
DIR. G. o. SWINNEY received yester-
day by mail from his sister, Miss Ella
f. Swinney, in Shanghai, China, figures
of battles, bOmbarding fleets, storming
forts, &c, which is the national procla-
nation calling the natives to arm them
selves for the war which the French
are forcing upon them.
The Peninsular Bone Fertilizing
Company is doing a thriving business
in PhOsphates. They are loading one
or two vessels, and from two to seven
cars each day, and their orders are
coming in so fast, that they have had to
put on an extra force of Workmen, and
run the factory of nights.
SUNDAY was a bright pleasant day,
and the churches were we'll attended.
At the nj. +. Church the Rev. Mr..
Quigg preached an educational sermon
in the morning. and at night DR.. Cald-
we'll preached to 4 full house on the
Pursuit of Happiness" showing very
fully the right and wrong way to OBJ
tain it.
The days and nights are now exactly
the same length. Friday will be two
minutes shorter than the night, on
Saturday the day will be five minutes
shorter, and on Sunday the day will be
seven minutes less, and so the nights
will go on encrOaching upon the day,
until it cuts it down to the short dark
days of midwinter
JOHN FRASER, who bought the Oak
dale Farm, of I. G. Oakley, and sold it
a year ago to ]. 7. Moore, returned
yesterday, to Forest Ontario, with his
family. Mr.. Fraser likes Delaware.
and returns to his property in Canada
because he could not suit himself at
present in farm. He may at some
future time again make Delaware his
his home.
A LETTER received from Mr.. Cole
man, the patentee, states that the Do
mestic Fruit Dryer (the patent right
for which, for this Peninsula, has been
/ purchased by A. Lee Cummins) took
the first premium at the New jersey
! State Fair, last week. Mr.. Coleman
| designs taking some of these machines
to the Worlds Fair at New Orleans.
next winter.
AN observing gentleman, who does
a good deal of travelling in this State
and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
concludes, from the amount of phos-
phate he sees being delivered for the
use of farmers, that they are using it as
freely with wheat at So cents, as they
did when it was $1'25 per bushel. The
farmers, more than any other class OF
business men, have to draw on their
faith for the future.
WE have received from Richard Saal-
field, u Bible House, New York, the
following pieces of music: "With
Cleveland we Shall Win the Dav," a
veritable Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
melody, by John p. Skelley; "Clevc-
land and Hendricks Grand Victory
March" by J. S. Freeman; "You Ask
Me to Forgive the Past" by Ed.
Greene; "Better Luck Tomorrow -
by Henry Martyr "Amatori Waltzes.' -
by Frank Conway.
THOs. Z. BAILEY, John L. Boyd and
Henry p. Massey, have each Bilyeu's
late October peach in bearing, the first
named 700 trees. They will be ready
for gathering, Mr. 3. says, in about
three weeks. He put one in his secre-
tary last year that kept until Christ
mas. Mr.. Boyd was the first to trv
them, and found them, from the pecu-
liar quality of his land, very profitable
which the others have not; the trees
not bearing near so full or maturing as
well.
IT may be of interest to our people
to know that the President of the Kent
County Bible Society has placed the
local depository for this hundred i'm the
care of Mrs. NJ. +. Lord, and persons
in want of bibles can find them Mt her
store, near the corner of Main and
Commerce streets. The object of the
Bible Society is to furnish bibles to
people in need of them ut the lowest
possible price, and families or individ.
uals without. will be surprised on ap.
plying to Mrs. Lord, to find how low
she can sell them bibles.
H. w. MORROW, of Wilmington
delivered addresses on Sunday last al
Leipsic, Clayton and Downs Chanel
on the Temperance issues in theil
moral aspect, to good and appreciativt
audiences. At the last named place
there was a packed house. He had
considerable difficulty in obtaining a
team in this town to make the place
but succeeded after discouragement,
that would have deferred most any
one else, and reached there Just as (
" local brother" was apologizing tC
the large audience for the speaker
absence.
Miss BERTHA BECK, daughter O
Mrs. Harriet M. Beck, died on Satur
day last, in the fifteenth year of hel
age. She was girl of naturally brigh
partsand popular with her companions
but that jOyOusness and buoyancy tha
IS the accompaniment of the schoo
days period, was much restrained b,
sickness, which finally eliminated in
complication of diseases that cut shor
her life at the threshold of the doc
that opens into the broader avenues o
, wOmanhoOd. Her funeral was largel,
attended on Monday afternoon. Afte
the singing of two selections by quar-
tette and address by Rev. Mr.. Quigg
her remains were conveyed to the Odt
Fellows Cemetery for interment.
Deaths From Diphtheria.
Much sympathy is felt i'm Kentoi
and throughout the bounds of his cir
cult, for Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. d
Lucas Ia tho loco % flnfr I,,I,. - n i