Smyrna times., 1886-08-18
Snvrna and Vicinity.

w. POLK CUNiAIINs is spoken of as
4 probable candidate for the Legisla-
Jure.
The Sunday school of SeversOn's
Church will picnic at Fraland Beach
tomorrow.
THE stores of E. Beck and VIM. T.
Beck have each received a coat Of at
tractive colors
A VERY readable description of
Western life as experienced by Della
ware youth IS given on our first page.
MRS. MARTHA LORD, widow of
James Lord, died at her residence in
Camden, on Sunday last, aged eighty
three years.
II. R. MUSTARD & Co arc finding a
much more active demand for baskets
as the season advances. An advance |
in the price is possible.
HARDCAsTLE & Jones started their
evapOrator at Clayton on Saturday. |
The high price Of peaches is likely to |
to make the evaporating season short |
one.
THE agency for the Mourning Nel0s |
for this town has been transferred to
Harry Wilson, who will hereafter dis
tribute the papers between seven and
eight o'clock.
The Woman'g Christian Temperance
Union, will hold their regular meeting
at the Reading Room, on Tuesday,
August oath, at 4 o'clock, P. N. 4 full
attendonce is desired SEC'Y.
A MUSICAL and literary etertainment
will be given at tina Bethel A. NJ. e.
Church tomorrow evening. Miss E.
Armstrong, of Wilmington, will take
the leading role in singing.
THERE was an exciting horse race on
the Poplar Groy0 track, few miles
from Smyrna, on Thursday last The
race was won by Robert Rice's horse,
the time made being PAS, 2.40, 2.41.
THE steamer Pohotcony, capable of
accommodating about 200 people, can
be chartered Saturday, August 21st
Wednesday, 25th, and Thursday, 26th,
of the Philadelphia e. Smyrna Trans
pOrtdti0n Company. t
The fight fer Levy Court Commits
siOner for Blackbird hundred has mar
rOwed down to Geo. G. ROthwell and
John LOckerman, Abraham Hayden,
Jr., having, we learn, withdrawn in
favor of Mr. Rothwell.
THE bridge near the Roberts farm,
beyond Casperson's MIL, on the Mas
sey's road, which was washed away
last Winter is being replaced by a very
substantial one. The stone work is be-
ing done by Johnson Willard.
THE Centennial NJ. E. Church hav-
ing been through a course of painting
and other improvements, will be re-
opened for service lext Sunday. The
Bethel A. VI. z. Church will hold a
church camp the following Sunday.
THE company of ladies and gentle
lymen of this town, who have been rough
ing it at Fraland Beach for the past
4 two weeks returned home yesterday.
They are quite expressive of the pleas
\ ures which the place and time afforded.
A TEMPERANCE REFORM CLUB is in
/ process of formation in this town. Its
! object is to organize and identify the
/ friends of the Hoffecker and Cooper
temperance reform ticket and labor for
its success in the State election this
Fall.
IN order that the steamer Tygert
may leave as late as possible during
the peach season the Philadelphia and
Smyrna Transportation Company have
put on the steamer P0hOtcOny to ply be-
| tween ROthWell's and Fleming's Land
ings.
THE tramps have perceptibly di-
minished in this locality. Following
the course of the peach belt they have
tumbled largely into Kent county, Md,
where the woods are full of them.
They can be counted in some places
by the hundreds.
IN a company Of ten prominent
Smyrna Democrats who were discus
sing the convention and its delibera-
tiOns last evening after returning from
Dover, six of the number we are told,
declared that they would not vote for
Biggs for governor.
LAST Friday evening was night
blooming cereus evening, Mrs. J. B.
Cooper having plant which displayed
five beautiful blooms, Mrs. VIM. A.
FAIRIES three and Miss Clara FAIRIES
three. The latter had also three other
blooms the following evening.
THE singers at the NJ. Z. Church, to
whom we referred in our last issue as
supplying the place of the regular So
pranos who were camping out at the
bayside, sang again last Sunday with
even greater expressions of pleasure
by the visitors to the church.
THE wheat threshing last week was
uninterrupted by rain as in the pre-.
YiOus weeks, and consequently good
progress was made in separating the
wheat from the straw. There is little
or no wheat now in the fields, but q
good many were forced to stack who
didn't intend to.
JABoB RAYMOND died in Whining.
ton on Sunday, aged 60 years, and his
remains were brought down on the
cars this morning and inferred in the
Episcopal cemetery. Mr.. Raymond
was native of this place and lived
in this town at several different times
! of his business life. He was reared tC
3 the business of merchandising which
! he followed until he went into the
hotel business, being for several year,
proprietor of the Delaware House o
+ this town.
, On Monday afternoon a man named
l John Robinson, working on the farm
e of Robert Hill, in the Alley" started
q to the residence of the latter in thi
town, with load of wood. Before h
> had got out Of the lane, by som
; means, it is supposed to fix q project
g ing stick of wood, lost his footing an,
f fell to the ground, both wheels con
tanning cord of wood running up am
over the lower part Of the abdomen
) producing an excruciating and wha
p was thought q fatal injury. DR.. HaI
a monson, Of Clayton, and DR.. Clifton, {
n this town, We're sent for and renders
what aid they could and have hops
+ unless other complications set in, Of hi
y recovery.