Smyrna times., 1885-04-29

make it an attractive residence.
WHEN wheat will hide a rabbit at
the first of May the farmers feel well
assured of a good crop. Instead of
hiding a rabbit the most of them this
spring will hardly hide a sparrow, and
but very few have any confidence of
realizing more than half a crop. The
warm weather of last week however
produced a wonderful change for the
better, with the most of fields.
THE Robbins show came on Satur-
day according to programme and left
after the night performance for Ches-
tertOwn. The procession through our |
streets was not as good as usual but the |
acting in the tent was pronounced SUI
perior. The show called the usual |
number of people to the town, and a
numberOf cOOns " made it an occasion !
to get tight, but we believe there was
no disorder. The shOwmen were a re- |
markable docile set.
THE decision to widen Methodist |
street will necessitate the cutting
down of the row of shade trees on the
North side that form such Il shady
walk in the Summer. The destruc-
ton of a tree is always a matter of re-
gret, but sometimes, as in this case, it
becomes necessary for a future good
These trees were giving evidences of
decay, and it need be but a few years
ere more vigorous trees and wider
thOrOughfare will be the result.
FARMING on Bombay Hook is now
more promising than it has been for a
number of years. The crops last year
were very productive and the dry
weather Of this spring has enabled them
to plOw their lands almost as early as
in the high lands, which has put them
forward in getting in their crops. But
| the greatest assurance they have is
that the Duck Creek Company will
keep up the embankments and thus
secure them against devastating over
! flows.
! ONE of our young mechanics, Al.
FAIRIES, who has been making a bateau
| for the past year or two in his idle
/ hours from regular work, has it at last
completed as far as the hullis concern
| ed, and launched in the creek at
Green's Landing 1t is some thirty
| feet long and will carry about ten tons.
1t is furnished with deck and cabin and
intended we presume for the oyster
trade. Considering that Mr.. f. is not
by trade ship-builder, it is a very
creditable piece Of workmanship.
JOHN P. SrAATs on the b. F. Truax
farm near Green Springs finished plant
ing a p acre field of corn on Saturday.
He used one Of Geo. W., & S. Taylor's
corn and phosphate check droppers,
and prOnOunces it Il splendid instru-
ment. T.. LOwernear Brenford and VIM.
d. Hoftecker of the Middle Alley" ="
w n. Ransom near this town and
John p. Collins of Thoroughfare Neck
also planted their corn crop last week.
The ground was mellow and in good
condition. The most of the crops will
be planted this week and next.
Font HILL out on the Clayton
road which was purchased few weeks
ago by Mrs. Presley Spruance, is be
ginning to exhibit q marked change in
its outward features, Reconstructed en-
closures, arbOr vitae hedges, sc. The
intended improvements of remOd-
cling the house, putting an addition to
the back part, bay window and other
improvements to the front, when Mr.
and Mrs. S. get full possession of the
place next spring, will doubtless make
Font Hill > as it was a number oil
years ago, one of our most attractive
rural residences.
THE circus that was here on Satur
day was in the " local option town 0
l Easton the day before, but it is quit,
; certain that the clown did not hav,
the same trouble here as there. Tht
, Easton Star says :" the clown made
, circuit of the town, visiting the druj
! stores and other likely places for some
thing to imbide. Not finding any h
+ went back to his tent looking exceed
ingly disCOnsolate. While the rim
performance was going on he got Oi
= the following cOnundrum at the ex
Il pense Of our local option village VIII
u is EastOn like a graveyard? ? Becaus
o the bodies are here, but the spirit hav
n departed.
THE phosphate bill to which we allu
L ded in a late issue as having been dc
e feated in the Legislature, was revive
e again in the shape of an amendmen
n ring the essential parts of the bill re
ferring to analysis, making the Stat
;, chemist the responsible party who's
# analysis shall be on the basis of tn
d present merchantile value of the ingrt
IF dients composing said fertilizers. an
is not the fictitious value under the fol
mer law. While in no sense uniu.
to the manufacturer, it makes the al
lie alysis what it was not under the fo
d mer law, II COMPREHENSIVE and intel
/ gent statement to the farmer,
,s THE road from Kenton to the " Seve
h HickOries including the farms
n Mrs. Margaret Lee, Geo. A. Arnol,
Hon. james Williams, DR.. J. c. Goodwi
lin tenure of his-son-in-law S. NJ. Ia,
ie lOrl and I. Z. Bailey, presents as iii
IN an agricultural appearance as probabI
p can be found in the county. In add
i'll ton to the promise in the GROWN
$, crops, the road has been made mo-
NJ attractive by careful grading and
X field near the farthest end of the lin
that has heretofore had a neglect,
". look has been brought under caref
ie cultivation. The house in which NJ
d Taylor resides, which was almost mac
I'M new last fall, has Il substantial 10,
tn not surpassed by any dwelling in Il
et Hundred. The farms throughout th
of portion Of KentOn Hundred, (which
noted for growing large and fine
colored peaches all look in thrivii
ng condition,
rs
@. The law Of cOmpensutiOns has be-
or strikingly exempliiied in the wealth
,et Of the last few weeks. The temper
nv ture of March, as u whole, was 75 |
N low the normal temperature for tn
month, and away from the modifyi
influences of the ocean, the dispari
ed was even greater Not since 1872 /
ell any March been so cold The iii
&c. half of April was a little below t
IS, standard Fd-about A but the remark
es, bic warmth Of the last week has broug
Ou the average for the month thus far +
See ly 30 above the normal temperature
April. And as for Tuesday and w,
nesday, whose highest temperate
IN was respectively $40 and 87o, they ha
lch no parallel in the records of the Sig
up Service for fourteen years. In OF
lds two years of this periOd-1872 and Is
ry has 8O' been reached in April.
son the former that figure was barely
IN tanned once in the latter, for two G.
secutive days the thermometer re,
-. tered S3o.
ate The Pig Pen Question.
sat The question of the removal of