Smyrna times., 1885-07-29
Smyrna and Vicinity.

smyrna and Vicinity.
FLIES are not so thick since the rain
The soda fountains have had a coed
hzzlng time of late and still keep it up
TOMATOES, homegrown, have been
quite plentiful in our market the mast
few days.
EMORY LUpt lost valuable horse on
Saturday last. Death resulting from
over heating.
The steamer John E. Tggert will
commence her daily trips to Philadel-
phia, on Friday, August 18th.
The hot weather of last week caused
the locusts to bestir themselves and the
air was resonant with their songs.
MOSES PRICE fell from d hammock
this morning sustaining injuries that
necessitated the calling in a physician.
THE cOlOred band was out on Mon
day night serenading several of our cit
lzens. Their music was fully uD to
their usual high standard.
Mrs. MARY E. SHAHAN. of near
BlackistOn's Cross Roads, very elderly
lady and who has been in feeble health
for long while, died yesterday after
noon.
TscHUDY & CATS started up their
basket mill again on Monday. They
are hauling quite a cargo of baskets to
Jersey.
JOSEPH COLE was very apprehensive
for several days that he would lose his
last trotter Planet. He is now, how
ever, at case, as the horse is srapidly i'm
proving.
The steamer Tygert continues to
be very popular line to PHILADELPHIA
and return. Her list of passengers. as
a rule, both going and returning, is
quite large.
OUR town is in full sympathy with
the Nation in mourning the death of
Its greatest hero, as is manifest in the
draping of several of our buildings and
private residences.
Two OF the Tygert evaporators
owned by Hardcastle, Jones, Voshell &
Jerman were sold last week. One to
James FarsOn, of BrcnfOrd, the other
to VIM. LEAFS Sons.
ONE of our ladies blames the warm
weather to the Revised version, the
iTeVlsers dispensing with hell,-since it
mas been closed the Devil has been
working on the outside.
The church camp which had been in
progress for several days at the Cen
tennlal Church, closed last night with
results, it is to be hoped, that were
satisfactory and beneficial.
The huckleberry crop this Summer
will be very small one. The ALWAYS
employed expression, "dey ish very
scase indeed" of one of our old ven
dOrs, will hold good this Summer if all |
reports are true.
ALICE, youngest daughter of JIG
BrintOn, little girl of nine or ten
Summers, fell from Il see-saw on Wed. |
nesday evening last, breaking her arm
DIR. w. Il. Collins reduced the froc- |
ture.
SPRING chickens still command
good price IN our market. sit because
Ihe city cousins have dropped in to see
Us IN goodly numbers, or is it, as the
girls at RehobOth say OF the bows.
= dreadfully scarce"P
Mr.. AND Mrs. J. BIDDLE MrrFr1v
lost their infant daughter Alma lose.
phlne on wednesday night last of
,I lniantum. The child had been
III for several days. Il was inferred
N the Presbyterian Cemetery on Fri-
lay evening.
Mrs. ISAAC PENNEwELI. on Sotur-
lay afternoon last fell down the stair
way at her home, receiving a very 90
we're cut on the forehead and a shock
nat was very trying to one of her
years Fortunately she sustained no
serious injury.
GOVERNOR STOCKLY on Friday morn
ng sent the following telegram to Mrs.
irant: -
., Delaware tenders tho wRrmast sympathy
y 1er CITIZENS N this great hour OF private
CHARLES c. STooKLEY."
JOHN NJ. VOsHELL will commence in
lew days the erection of a new house
y his farm in tenure of Thomas Kirby.
the house will be frame with an 18x4O
eet front building and an 18x2S feet
,ack building. Willard Weldon and
rhopaslE. Hqmphries haye beeontract
or the work.
COMPLAINTS still reach us Of often
i've refuse being dumped on the brick
.iln lot. The Board of Health or [
Town Commissioners should at once
axe this matter in hand and abate it.
here IS no good reason why the people ,
wing ip close proximity to this lot I
hould be made 20 suffer foul odors (
hat arise from it by reason of this G
eckless dumping of ofial on IL. = /