Smyrna times., 1888-08-08

OUk uSluS OF COru nave rarely prom
ised better yield than they did last
week, but if this hot, dry weather con-
tinues, the crop must be cut short.
WHILE the steamer Tygert is making
daily trips the landing for passengers
will be at Flemings The hack will
leave this town II hours before start
ing time.
NEWSPAPERS are growing more val
liable every day. An inmate of Black
wells Island prison, New York, found
in one the other day the cheerful news
that he was heir to $4,000.
FROM an overestimation of the gen.
eral yield and the loss that is certain
to follow in the upper part of the
peach belt from the yellows, the peach
crop has been lowered from some TO-
100000 to say 100000 baskets.
IT was stated in a Philadelphia pa
per on Saturday that the total of the
year is 300 degrees behind its usual
average of heat. If that much has to
be caught up in the next four weeks,
we may look for tOrrid weather pretty
much throughout August.
The fruit season has commenced,
and there is nothing that will give
health, strengh and happiness like
rich, ripe fruit. Delaware is fOrtu-
nately situated to get the best of
everything going, and the Torrid and
Temperate Zones shower their favors
on us with a lavish hand.
IF all the reports of the Good Tenn
plar's picnic at Woodland Beach last
week are true, it would be better for
some of the youths or those who ac-
company them, to go to place where
there is no public bar nor temptation.
The law in relation to minors is not a
conspicuous object in any bar room.
A CORRESPONDENT of a Wilmington
paper Of Friday writes: "a party of
several ladies and one gentleman were
out boating last night on the pond
when, to their surprise, they saw sew
eral tramps swimming toward them.
But by the strong courage of the gen.
tleman made them return to the
Shore"
The remarkable success of the Will
mingtOn Commercial College should
cause all desiring an education for the
times, to read the advertisement which
appears in this issue and to send for a
catalogue before deciding on a school.
This institution is rapidly coming to
the front and has the highest endorse
ment.
THE white camps-Camden and Pen
rOse-are over, the last finishing on
Friday. Now comes the cOlOred
camps, the ones at Friendship being
held last Sunday and the Sunday pre-
viOus, and Union camp in Hardcastle's
woods near CheswOld commencing
next Saturday 11th, to hold over three
Sundays.
MEssRs. A. L. HUDSON and Wilson
n. Brown made their third effort on
Saturday to get a meeting of the peach
| growers in favor of Fruit Exchange
at Clayton, but with no better result
than the two previous attempts. They
speak apprOVingly but do not take
hold. 1r, Hudson feels like trying it,
if he has to go it alone.
MANY shippers delay getting their
fruit to the boat until the last moment
and often delay the steamer. Owing
to shallOwness of water in the creek, it
is absolutely necessary, in justice to
those who do get their fruit down in
time, that the boat should leave
promptly on time. Shippers please
take notice and get your fruit down
early.
The last month of summer has ar
rived, and it is only o few short weeks
before we shall enter on the most COM
Portable season of the year. Autumn,
is always full of enjoyment. Delightful
temperature, genial skies, balmy
breezes and luscious fruits in abun.
dance. The sick will get we'll then
and the robust get even stronger than
before.
THE diligent students of the Teach
ers' Normal School are finding this
very tough weather to pull through
but they hope to "get there all the
same" The school will close mex
week, when Messrs Handy and Lake
will doubtless be as much pleased a!
they for a little respite. They haC
rare weather for July, which comprised
the larger part of the term.
The weather last Sunday was indeed
very warm, but no warmer than Sun
days of previous summers, but the at
tendance on church and especially
Sunday school, was never before 81
low for the same reason in our town
There is perhaps hardly one of thes,
abseRtees who would not have gone
out on a still hotter day to an an
nOuncement Of a match game of bast
ball between the Smyrna and Camde1
teams.
VIM. P. CoRsA in writing to the Earn
and Home about the peach yellOws, tax
ing the ground that the prematuring o
fruit on trees that are apparently entire
ly healthy says: Lee Cummins, O
Smyrna, thinks he has satisfactory
evidence that whereas his orchard las
year was badly affected with prematur
ing fruit, the same orchard this yea
has much improved. Are such condi
tions duplicated in the experience q
others?"
ONE of our clerks who has a pet cal
got some meat from a butchers for
on Saturday which was so tough tha
it came near choking the cat to death
Little puss chewed on the beef until it
jaws were tired and then it commence,
, to swallow, but it was evidently mis-
taken in the impression its teeth haC
made on the meat for, but for its timeI
discovery, shortly after, it would hav
been dead. 1t was in the last throes G
dissolution.
THE believers in the changes of tn
moon affecting the weather had ever
confidence in a plenty or rain thi
week. One of them, whose opinion o.
any other subject would be accepte
above the average, prophesyed ol
Monday morning land the predictio
then looked perfectly safe for any pei
son to make) that we were going t
have rain, and plenty of it. 1t is
sure sign said he, when the Moo
{ changes near the middle of the day fO
} rain, and the nearer to the middle, th
{ larger the amount. The almanac note
! the new moon on Tuesday at O'Clock
Is minutes, which according to hi
theory should have given us an abur
: dance of rain, but instead the weathe
is hot and the sky as dry as a bone.
D SILAs WELLER, between this tow
and the Landing had Valuabl