Smyrna times., 1886-07-14


for peach baskets Notwithstanding the
partial failure over so large a portion
of the country. The stock of H. r.
Mustard & Co., had been so exhausted
that team which drove to the factory
on Saturday morning had to wait until
the afternoon to get the full quantity
desired.
A BLIND man was sitting in COM
pany with some visitors, when one of
the company left the room. "What
white teeth that lady has," said the
blind man. Why" said a friend, in
great surprise, chow can you tell?"
Because" answered the blind man,
" for the last hour she has done moth
ing but laugh"
SCOTT WAYS broad-brimmed hat,
which he had evidently captured on
his recent trip to the Western plains,
came near causing him to be suspected
on Sunday of being a Western cowboy
who had suddenly turned up in
Smyrna and captured "Gene" Davis.
There was no disposition to go to
Genes" relief, as Way seemed
peaceably inclined and was not belted
VIVA SASSbAAA5 AAOAos
BY another change in the time table
of the Delaware Division the morning
train that left our depot at 7.15, now
leaves at 7.l9; the express and mail
trains leave on the same time as former
ly-8.28 and II o'clock. The afternoon
train north which formerly left at SOB,
now leaves at AS. The passenger
train going south that left at 9.58, now
leaves at 9.48. The POI continues as
formerly. The 4.43 train now leaves at
4.45. The evening train continues at
the old time, 7.45.
AT the last regular meeting of the
School Board the teachers were all re-
elected for the ensuing year and the
salary of Miss Storm advanced $25. A
resolution was also passed fOrbidding
the use of the schools to all children
not actual residents of the consolidated
districts. The Primaries will be con-
tinued as the past year-bOys and
girls separate-it having proved very
successful. A committee was also an
pointed to look after the heating ar
rangements of the school building be-
fore Winter sets in.
WE are authorized by Presiding
Elder France to state on his authority
that the article in the EUerg EUenin0
land published elsewhere in this issuel
naming Rev. J. B. Quigg as one of the
aspirants for the Eldership of Dover
District made vacant by the death of
Rev. A. w. Milby, is entirely incorrect,
that MIR. Quigg was in no sense a can
didate for the place. Presiding Elder
France also says that he does not
think that another minister of his dis
trict named in the same connection,
Rev. ii. 5. Thompson, ever dreamed of
seeking the place.
How AMUSING it is to US to see a
Sussex county farmer cultivating his
land with a cOW IN harness. .-SmUnG
Record.
A Sussex county lady residing in
Smyrna wishes to state through the
TIMES that the above is not near so
amusing as to see an unsophisticated
Kent county editor who don't know
the difference between a COW and an
OK. The occasion for the remark in
the Record was a yoke of oxen as seen
from the excursion train on Thursday
pulling a plOw or cultivator through
corn field near Lewes.
SAMUEL H. BARKER, Most Worthy
Grand Patriarch, of Dover, installed
the following officers of Mcdonnell
Encampmet, No. 2, l. o. o. F., of this
town, last night, for the ensuing term:
Chief Patriarch, B. V. Weldon; S.
Warden, Jos. II. Wright ]. Warden,
Abel S. FAIRIES High Priest, Chas. B.
PeregOy; Scribe, E. M. Fowler; o. S.,
VIM. E. Riggs, Jr.; 1. S., Isaac H.
FAIRIES; Guide, J. D. Scout; First
Watch, Carl w. Willumsen; Second
Watch, John r. Cameron, Jr.; Third
Watch, Morris Kirmse; Fourth Watch,
John r. Harris; Guards of the Tent
Geo. NJ. Stevenson and ]. p. Patterson.
THE attractions at the mill pond for
sailing and rowing was further en-
HANGED on Monday evening by the
attendance of the Smyrna Cornet Band.
The evening was delightfully."- cool and
the dozen or more boats as they sped
through the water were attractive OBJ
jects of interest to the spectators who
watched them from the shore. The
band were taken aboard of the Mary a !.
Walker, by Capt. Walker for moon
light ride, and with their flaming lights
made quite a pretty moving spectacle
as they slowly hOated up the lake,
ever and anon giving some music which
reached the shore in softened cadences
on the principle that distance lends en-
chantment, &c.
NATHANIEL PRATT alarmed his fam
lily on Saturday afternoon by drinking
a whole bottle of laudanum and shut
ting himself up in his room. DR.. Ash
craft was sent for and admitted after
some parleying, but Pratt told the doc
tor he would take nothing unless it
was something to kill him. The doc
tor had to leave him, and it is not
known that he took any anodyne at
all. 1t is also said that he went out in
the evening and got man who did not
know of the circumstance to get him
anOther bottle on the plea that his
child was sick, but the whiskev he
has been drinking the past two or
three weeks seems to have been the
proper antidOte to the fatal drug.
THE Easton Md Star thus dis.
courses on the cost of raising wheat:
The average yield in England of a
good crop year is about 80 bushels to
the acre. When the crop comes up to
the average, it pays there to grow
wheat. We can plant our wheat and
harvest it as cheap as the English can.
1t costs us no more for fertilizers.
Many OF our farmers grow more than
30 bushels to the acre. It's mistaken
notion, that growing wheat at 80 cents
bushel will not pay. 1t can be grown
for 90 cents per bushel, if it is a good
crop yield. But it is those only that
fertilize literally, and prepare their
ground carefully that can make profit
growing wheat at present prices"
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