Smyrna times., 1885-08-12

Smyrna and Vicinity.
HEAVY dews.
BUTTER will soon be lower.
NEARING the peach harvest.
The aesthetic sun flower abOunds.
VEGETABLES are getting abundant.
TRAMPs are not so abundant as last
year.
WATERMELONs are late, scarce and
high.
SUNDAY was camp day-white and
culurcd
CHURCHES are poorly attended dur
ing the dOg-days.
BASE ball match games bring rOwdy-
ism and drunkenness.
CAPT. THOMAS MORRIS has bought of
+. Campbell the slOOp Marcus l.. Ward.
The rails ON the Bombay Hook
track, it is said, need firmer foothold.
OF A CARGO of Jersey water melons
200 were received yesterday by j.
B. FAIRIES.
THE f.llOw turning has put corre-
spending squirt of activity among the
phosphate dealers.
JOS. B. BENSON, of Bombay Hook,
has a sun flower that measures eleven
inches across its disc
ALARGE number of carriages passed
through town this morning on their
way to Woodland Beach.
The residence of Mrs. Lydia HAZEL
has been repainted, topped with new
tin roof, and the pavement is to be re-
laid.
A LITTLE son of james Allfree, near
Townsend, stuck u thorn in his foot
from which he died on Friday of lock
jaw.
The doctors are considerably more
busy now than six weeks ago, the COM
plants being mainly diarrhea and
dysentery.
DEVOE, the Hackensack weather
prophet predicted before the close of
the hot spell that August would be a
wet month with one warm spell.
THE last novelty in commercial
way was wagOn-lOad of wooden but
ter bowls in town OH Monday, all the
way from Western Pennsylvania
THE new postmaster smiles pleas
antly from behind the window, but
will doubtless look more at home when
he gets all the ropes well in hand.
S. P. TRUAX is quite expressive over
the saving last week of a valuable
horse from lock jaw by John NJ. Boyd,
V. ). He feels it clear saving of
5000.
QUITE a number of our citizens in
Terested in base ball will attend the
game between the Dover and Middle
town clubsOn the grounds of the latter,
this afternoon.
some of our farmers who have been
way down in their estimates of baskets
are beginning to mark up some as the
fruit develops on the trees under fav-
Orable weather.
The katy-dids made their appear
ance week ago. An old saving is
that frost follows fOrty-fOur DAYS after.
If so, this will bring it about the mid
die of September.
PROF. HERMAN ROE has a new hat.
very becoming hat. We asked him
If the cyclone blew it to him, and he
said no, there was a fire in Scranton
while he was there.
JOSEPH ROBINSON has sold out his
tobacco store and pool room, opposite
the Delaware House to a man named
Smith, from ChestertOWn, Md. Mr..
X. Intends to leave
THOs. L. CARROw is having the
property at the corner of Main and
South streets, occupied by Mrs. II. r.
CarrOw and James Doughten greatly
improved by new pavements.
THE Wharton legacy to the Whining
ton Conference Academy Of $1,000 with
interest for two years, has been secured
The amount needed for the purpose
was SS,333 the amount already paid
Is $8,492, leaving a debt little less
than $4,000.
GRAPES are ready for marketing,
Capt. Scout and son jeff. expect to
ship to-day, and tomorrow James w.
and Levi f, Anthony expect to for.
ward their first picking. The two first
varieties to gather are the Champion
and MOOre's Early.
The change for the better for corn
between June and August is like that
OF wheat from April to June-a won
deriul disappointment to the croakers.
Our TWO staple crops are likely, in all
except prices, to realize the farmers
highest expectations.
REV. HERMAN ROE in the MORNING
and Rev. John France, in the evening
VIII bll the NJ. +. pulpit next Sunday
The pastor, Rev. J. B. Quigg, is on a
visit to the Joanna Heights Camn.
near Reading Pa, where his son, Rev.
II. i. Quigg, is tenting.
jim" THORN, a well-known local
character, departed this life last week,
His distinguishing traits were quarrel.
someness when in liquor, for which he
had weakness, and for a numerous
family of children. Ha was given a
decent funeral by subscription paper.
ALEX. G. CUNIMINs calls attention
through our advertising columns to his
MarrOw-Bone Phosphate, which has
been several years in use by our farm.
ers, aud well known. Dir. &, it will be
seen fights analyses, cOntendine for re.
suits in the field. He proposes to push
business this fall.
MUCH sympathy is felt for Mr.. and
Mrs. William J. CarrOw in the loss OF
their infant son which died on Monday
night. IL had been i'll for two weeks
at their home 10 HObOken, N. j.. OF
Choiera lnfa4tum, and they came TO
the country at the direction of their
physician hoping, but not realizing a
beneficial result.
A NUMBER of our citizens who weIe
driven from home by the prOtracted
hot spell of two or three weeks ago. are
returning, and others will he home this
week. We will all be glad TO see the
business men in their respective places
again, the ladies at home with wide.
open windows, and everything moving
along again with clOck-wOrk regu-
larity,
JERRY &QhBsBOROUGH, who, with
his neighbOr were ip the line of the cy-
clone last week at the point where
IL crossed the creek, gets uD a
graphic account of its pranks down
there, Poultry was blown against the
barn and killed, apple trees piled up on
his house, but he rises TO the point OF
sublimity in depicting the force Of the