Smyrna times., 1885-01-21
Smvrna and Vicinity.

lOWn I1dll bO-uOEIOW ulRlb.
FOURTEEN car loads of cotton passed
up the Delaware road on Monday Uid
Norfolk.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society, will
meet at Mrs. E. J. Colts, Tuesday
evening, January 9th, at 7 o'clock.
The NJ. P. Church, of Leipsic, will
have an exhibition of dialogues, char
AIDES, &c. tonight, and tomorrow
night.
CHICKEN CHOLERA, the american
AgricuIturist asserts, causes an annual
loss amounting to $1O,O00,OOO in this
country.
DURING the high wind of Saturday
the tin roof on Geo. w. & S. TaylOr's
paint shop was lifted up and rolled
into a scroll.
OUR postmaster, VIM. H. Baggs, re-
ceived yesterday a supply of the new
design Postal Notes, and is ready again
to supply the public.
Mrs. LEVERAGE, on Delaware street
is selling her millinery goods, &c, be-
low cost, she intending to move to a
farm in few weeks.
The fire engine and truck purchased
last fall were moved on Monday into
the new engine house erected especi-
ally for them at the Town Hall.
A FULL attendance of the members
of Morning Star Lodge, No. 6, 1. 0. o. F.,
is requested next Friday evening, at 7
o'clock. Business of Importance.
A MAN spent a day or two in our
town last week sketching the houses
on our different streets to be electro
typed, he said, by Il Boston insurance
firm.
VIM. f. FROUDE has repaired over
100 sewing machines during the month
he has been in our town. He expects
to finish and leave on Saturday for
Virginia.
J. f. WILLIAMS will commence this
week Oil a lot of young Western steers
purchased of John Hsitshu, and will
have on hand fresh Wilmington City
sausage. +
SOME parties who started from their
country homes to this town on Satur-
day morning made the journey in much
trepidatiOn, fearing their carriages
would be blown over.
JAS. w. SPRUANCE is contemplating
the laying off of the Bayard part in the
division of the Clayton property, into
building lots, and is very sanguine of
the future of the place
The big talk about going to the New
Orleans Exposition in the Summer
when Commissioner Billy Dean had the
fare down to $13, petered out rapidly
when the railroad put it up to $51.
J. P. STAATs of this town has rented
and moved to the farm vacated by
VIM. H. Money, near Green Spring,
Mr.. Money having gone to the farm
recently purchased near Townsend.
THE remains of John f. Beck. for
merly of this town, but died and was
buried at Centreville, Md, some twelve
years ago, was removed to the Odd
Fellows Cemetery, this town, last
week.
GEO. SLAUGHTER on the farm of VIM
5. Hayes, Bombay Hook and George
Thomas on the Lea farm in the "Allev,'
received brOOds of Prairie chickens last
week from the Game Protective Asso-
citation.
MERCHANTS and shippers are pleased
that the 1ygert has again resumed her
trips, two a week during this month
and February. The days of departure
from this end of the line are Wednes-
days and Mondays.
The bright light down the State
road on Monday evening that caused
many Of our citizens to think was a
house on fire, proved to be only large
pile of peach brush in blaze on the
farm of Col. Geo. w. Cummins.
ISAAC RITCHIE, a well-known col
ored man, OF ThorOughfare Neck, who
was raised by the late George Collins,
and who has remained since in a bust
ness way closely identified with the
Collins family died Monday, aged 68
years.
DAVID J. CUNlNdINs has purchased
IOO barrels Of spoiled fish in Philadel-
phla and has cOmpOsted the fish to use
as fertilizer in the Spring. A former
application of the same kind of manure
was found to be very beneficial to his
peach trees.
A COMMUNICATION from Snow e. 20
commission merchants of Boston, which
VIII be found in another column, saws
OF the Niagara grape, while selling at
the highest price of any grape in the
market, that they were always engaged
ahead OF their arrival.
AT the executors sale of the prom
erty of D. James Price, deceased, yes
terday, near Brenford, J. NJ. Boyd, auc-
tloneer, pair of mules u years old
sold for $279; horses, from s1O6. to
$3.50; cattle, from S33 to $50. and
clover hay, $l5 per ton.
A VESSEL anchored at Collins Beach
on Monday for the purpose, it is said,
OF taking down and carrying away the
pavilion building. The probability
now IS that the rest of the property
there will go in the same way as its
isolation by water is complete.
FRED. J. CARTER who is MAKING n
reputation for savOry oyster stews, will
move TO Commerce street, below Main
on the first of March, when he expects
TO have an apartment for the accom-
modation of ladies who spend the lar
ger part of the day here shopping.
ONE OF the two weddings that came
OIL on Sunday night was John Peeker
and Charlotte Potts, widow of the late
Perry Potts. Johns acquaintance
hardly expected for him to aspire sue
cessfully to this place, but if he will
MI, or come anywhere near to filling
ms predecessors boots in industry and
department, he will make a consider
able advance in public confidence and
respect.
IHE Smyrna correspondent of the
Sentinel corrects the statement of Peter
,. Collins, as made through the TINES.
that he has copy of the PHILADELPHIA
Ledger 30 years old, saying that that
paper is only in its forty-eighth vol
ume. MIR. G. says the copy he has
bears the date of March 26, 1886. and
near enough the exact truth, he
Ihought to be satisfactory to any news
paper man.
1T seems to be admitted that PRESLEY
Spruance of this town will succeed
John Q. Gooden as Recorder of Deeds
though James II. Todd of Dovar -