Smyrna times., 1886-08-04

but when it comes to politics and
peaches it gets more attention Just now
than OvergrOwn Texas.
VIM. Prettyman, of Dover, has
bronze turkey hen that laid los eggs
this Spring, and every one of them
Matched out young turkey.
The board of trustees of the Newark
Academy has appropriated the sum of
81 900 to be used in the repairs to the
buildings of that institution.
Elias S. Reed, lawyer of Atlantic
County, N. j., formerly of Dover, will
be a candidate for the Democratic Con-
gressiOnal nomination in the First dis
trict.
The railroad authorities have refund
ed to the Methodist Sunday School
of Dover, 800, because of the poor cars
they furnished, when the school went
on an excursion to Colchester.
Robert Mustard, a prosperous and
wealthy merchant of Shanghai, China,
arrived at Lewes, Saturday, July 18th.
1t has been more than five years since
Mr.. Mustard was last in Delaware.
A prominent merchant in Dover
who is all things to all men, says the
DeldtOaredR, takes the boys up to the
hotel to treat them of late. This is a
new thing for him. RumOr says he is
promised an office.
Mrs. Senator Gray and family ar
rived at the Douglass House, RehObOth,
on Thursday to spend several weeks,
and Misses Bayard, Thomas F. Bayard,
Jr., and Master Philip Bayard arrived
there ON Monday.
The Temperance Reformers held a
meeting at Lewes on Wednesday even
ing. c. NJ Marshall was chairman of
the meeting. John r. Brien, the Rev.
ii. r. Hall of Columbus, n. j., and
Horace G. Knowles made addresses.
Mrs. Milby, widow of Rev A. w.
Milby, having rented her house in Har-
rlngtOn to Presiding Elder Ayres, NOV
ed to Frederica on Wednesday last.
She will In the future make her home
with her son-in-law, DR.. Benjamin
Whiteley.
According to the DeL0WGreIH several
small boys in Dover have goats which
they are training for the fair. They
have selected as a training ground the
south end of New street. They go out
of evenings with their goats harnessed
up in the best style.
The authorities at Rehoboth and the
Railroad are not working together this
year, and as a result this really fine re-
sort is not so well patronized as for
merly. Fifty or sixty persons each is
the highest number of guests any of the
hotels have had at one time.
DR.. Charles D. Green, the we'll
known surgeon, delivered lecture be-
fore the Cremation Society, of Philadel-
phia, few evenings ago, urging the
expediency of cremating the dead in
order to prevent poisonous atoms en-
tering into the organism of the living.
Rev. Mr.. Muchmore of Bridgeville,
because of failing health, has been
compelled to leave his work, and the
presumption is strong that his work is
we'll nigh done. This will be the
second vacancy OF Dover district
which Mr.. Ayres will be called upon
to supply.
The addition to the grand stand at
the State Fair ground is nearly COM
pleted at a cost of 5000. The prospects
of a big fair never was more promising.
In some of the departments the exhibits
have been for year or two falling OIL,
especially is this the case in the Ladies
Department.
New Castle county has had but one
governor in the last forty years, John
p. Cochran, and his nomination was
contested in the convention by the
delegates from Kent county, nOtwith
standing he was the choice of at least
three-fourths of the delegates from
New Castle county.
Senator Salisbury has secured an ap
pointment for Darwin S. Collins, as
farmer for the Crow Indians, on theil
reservation in Southern Dakota, at ;
salary of 5000 per year. Mr.. Collin
will not leave for his post of duty un
til after he has done his duty at tn
primaries this month.
If the man who wants to be Cover
nor of Delaware, be he of the Republi
can, Democratic, Greenback or Prohi
bitiOn persuasion, will please rise VI
and tell us how to make blackberrie
profitable at three cents q quart, tn
office is his, and it shan't cost him
cent to get it either.-PLOughshGre.
The temperance folks of Mill Cree
hundred will hold a grand rally
A. Jackson Whiteman's grove, nea
FbeneZer NJ. +. Church in that hui
dred, on Thursday, August 18th. Th
Rev. J. S. Willis and candidates JAIME
r. Hofecker and Richard NJ. CoOpe
and other speakers are expected
make addresses.
Last Saturday about noon a wage
loaded with three large and three sma
mastiffs from the kennel of E. w. Je
ter of St. Georges, arrived in ElktO
Times must be hard in Delaware whe
the people 90 to peddling dogs for
living, or perhaps it shows CONNIE
dable spirit Of enterprise, it is hard
tell which. h.-EIktON Democrat.
No less than three persons have bee
assured the Office of clerk of the pea
in and for Kent county by the Saul
bury -Biggs-Lore cOmbinatiOn-One
South Murderkill, one in North Mu
derkill and one in Little Creek hu
dreds and each one is now yelping +
Biggs. Look out Bobbie, or you a
leit.-HdyringtOn Enterprise.
Mrs. Mary Ann Stuart's excursi
on Wednesday from Delmar had
cars and claimed to have 400 passe
gers. The train did not stop he
Mrs. Stuart can beat the railroad ru
ming excursions. She does it eve
year. How she manages to charter
train no one can lind out. She is t
only citizen in Delaware who can do
-Susser journal.
Alexander EversOn Of South CHI
tiana hundred raised fair crop
Mediterranean wheat, reaping
bushels to the acre but 4-acre pal
of Martins Amber yielded 30 bush
per acre, or more than 36 per cent
more than the common Mediterrane
This was victory for pedigree Sc
Mr.. EversOn also raised 80 bushels
oats per acre.-PlOughshGre.
Peninsular agricultural fairs are
nounced as follows: Kent County Fi
WOrton, September 21st to oath, W.
stephens, secretary Talbot Coui
Association, EastOn, September 2lsi
18th, Robert Hough, secretary; Dc
ware State Fair, Dover, September 2
to October 1st, ID. p. Barnard, Jr.,
retary; Cecil County Fair, Elkt
october 9th to Sth, John Partridge
retary.
The homeless tanele in which