Smyrna times., 1884-10-01
Smvrna and Vicinitv.

place here, the middle of the month.
The shipment Of peaches, this year
numbered 4,306 car loads. The last
car load went over the road on Mon
day.
THE market for evapOrated fruit
seems to be in sympathy with the grain
market-depressingly down in the
scale.
A GREAT many persons have been
attracted to the fair to-day to witness
Prof. JacksOn's exhibition of fireworks
this evening.
JOHN ?. COLLINS peach crop cleared
him $l25 per acre. The net average
was 63 cents n basket, marketed in
Philadelphia.
THE Hynson Bros, of Milford. who
have been running the Hopkins evapo-
ratOrs at Leipsic have put up some
$4,000 pounds of evapOrated fruit.
E. w. LAPHAM had a valuable alder
ney COW to suddenly lose the use of
her hind legs last week She was in
the pasture field when discovered.
IT is said that there are one hundred
and thirty-iive bona fde entries for the
races at the fair at Dover, this week.
the largest ever made in the State.
L. w. LAPHAM evaporated between
21,OOO and $4,000 pounds Of peaches
this year This was all of his crop ex-
cept 300 baskets which were shipped.
ROBERT DERRICKsoN. of Thorouob-
fare Neck, had nine horses affected
with the pink eye" last week. They
were under the care of. NJ. Boyd, VS..
JOHN REMLEY, of Kenton Hundred.
brought to this Office. on Friday last.
an ear of corn that contained LOO
grains. 1t was filled out to the very
tip.
THE public school at Kenton closed
last week on account of the prevalence
of diphtheria near there. A physician
there we hear had sixteen eases last
week.
SPrrTAL's Detective Agency. of Phil
adelphia, including thirty uniformed
policemen and two sergeants. have
charge Of the police arrangements at
the fair.
A GREAT many apples are being
shipped to Philadelphia by the steamer
John z. Iygef. TIE freight being low
the growers get nearly all the money
they are sold for.
THE Friends Social Lvceum of
Philadelphia, will have an Autumnal
excursion up the Hudson to West
Point and Newburg, Saturday. Octo-
Der 4th. Adult tickets, $3.50; children.
S1.25.
The farm we noted last week. as
bought of VIM. Fl. Money. bv Nathan
Moore, 100 acres, for 1000, was after
wards changed to l5l acres for $4,000. |
The sale was effected through the real |
estate agency of e. II. Beck.
MISSES SUE r. COLT, Minnie Glenn
snt, K. i. Storm, S. +. Tullidge. Mary
Peeky, Kate Rothwell and Clara Den.
ley' OF this town and vicinity, have at
ractlVe articles on exhibition in the |
lrt and ladies' department at the State |
Fair. '''''0
MRS. II. NJ. CANTWELL intends to
move in week or two to Charlestovn
Nd, where her parents reside and will
'e succeeded by J. W. Scott Chief
Jerk IN superintendent Mills Office at
layton, whose family has been resid-
ng in Oxford, Md.
JOHN ANTHONY shipped the first and
he last lot of peaches, the last shin
nent being on Monday, tyentv-four
baskets of beautiful Salwavs. Everv
asKet OF the season was carefully Gull
q and Col. Douglass, his shipping
gent, says he leads in his averages.
Why can't our school children have
trip to the Electrical Exhibition in
Scholars Of the Confer
nee Academy and Delaware College
ach to the number of about thirty
laGe excursions on different days last
1eek to this interesting place of prac-
ical information.
JACOB LEINBURGER followed his
ooks rather than the weather in GET
ng sausage in market on SATURDAY.
II. j.. knows when it is time for Fail
'eather by years of experience, and in
lls particular he is wiser than the
ummer which has not yet found out
nat it is time for it to retire.
THE sprinkler finished its work on
aturday, licked out by the dust and
ne heat Of a remarkable SeDtember
was tlme to stop of an ordinary sea-
ln' put october sets out as dusty, if
OoC the most dusty month of the wear. I
ne sprinkler went down to Dover. on !
Ionday, to assist in dampening the i
'ack at the fair grounds. '
MORE people go, perhaps. from {
myrna to the fair at Dover. than from
ny single station on the road. below c
'llmlngton, and yet no provision is
ade for them to connect with the 7
'ecial train, either going or coming
eIsohs VINO came up from the fair
Gu1us ;,t.. on u last evening, had to foot '
into town from Clayton. a
B3,RowNINGs, the great clothiers of
llladelphia, opened their new store Mt -
" ana 9lZ Chestnut street Saturday 7
IS double the size of the old store 3
id mas separate children's deparf- :,
ent on the second floor, reached nv
.uFa9iic elevator The space con
ms $1,000 square feet of clothing
Ill and see them when in Philadel-
lia. ''''''O0i- d
HE Philadelphia Times on Sunday Z
81 contained the following item: "
John Shelton and Henry BiIes of Il
lyrna, were fatally injured, on Thurs y
y, by being buried under falling bnijd-
Ihis will be news to to their friends g
town, and if they have been at anv r
ne seriously hurt, no one knows anv- q
ing about it. wy II II
The following horses from tbis vici, d
nave been entered for the races at b
'veT; Z. L. Clayton, Mac; Ed B
'rd Streets, Nellie Gray; CHI, Cole h.
Fianet; Frank Thompson. S Della st
IRE Boy; J. +. Goldsboronrb m
.dy NJ. CyclOps, Of Queen Anne5s Ii
unity, and Young Smuggler. of Kont d
lHJy, Nd, will be in the trottino W
lldtest' tomorrow, for the purse Of d'
IT Is now stated that there are three re
ldidates from this Hundred. for tbe Ia
ice OF sheriff In addition TO James ill
koDlnson, whom we named last al
ek, the friends Of Horace r. Mus
a and Peter p. Collins each will
re a light for the delegation to be
eeted next Saturday, to represent pa
5 Hundred in the convention. There ae
u doubtless be Soma eoruoet ,,,e.I = BY