Smyrna times., 1888-07-11

II. r. MUSTARD s. Co, in our adyer-
tising columns call the attention of
peach growers to their superior make
of peach baskets which their factory is
turning out in large quantities.
DANIEL JONES near the Seven Hick-
Ories, has pulled up the trees in his
young orchard diseased with the vel
lows, and there are enough of them TO
effect the appearance of the orchard.
He is taking the right course, work
that should be as promptly done by
by every peach grower.
MEssRs. SMITHERs & MAGUIRE have
commenced the work of important i'm
provements at their gas works includ-
ing three new retOrts a new holder for
storing gas with a capacity of 10000
to 900 feet. When completed. the
works will require the services
OF an additional man to run them.
THE cOrnet stolen or taken (which
ever way will best fit the person get
ting itl from the room of the Hose
Company on the 4th, seems to be an
instrument, the prOprietorship of which
has been in dispute for sometime be-
tween Dover and Wyoming bands.
Since the above was put in type the in
strument was found in the store of O.
ID. Hill and is now in the possession of
the Wyoming claimant.
THE wheat thresher was brought
into requisition by several farmers the
latter part of last week, and we pre-
sumo that all of the numerous thresh-
ers OF this section were engaged to
commence work in earnest on Monday,
but the dripping weather made it un-
fit. The weather will give more or less
anxiety, as nearly every farmer will
want to get his wheat out of the straw
and into the market before the peach
picking season commences.
THE Smyrna correspondent of the
Morning NelCs very properly saws
" The pulpits of the various Smyrna
churches seem to be very ably filled at
present. The new rector of st. Peters
Episcopal, the Rev. G.. w. Dame, is
pleasing every one, while the Presby-
terians are delighted with the Rev. Mr..
SWeezey, a student of the Princeton
Theological Seminary, who is filling
that pulpit for the summer. The Rev.
W.. S. Robinson of the Methodist church
is too well known to need further men,
ton"
THE statement comes from below
that the gamesters of Camden went
home on the 4th from the match game
played here with $1O0Oin their pockets.
This or anything like this being the
case, how much different is base ball
playing from horse racing, where it
starts with a test of speed between
country horses and ends with trained
horses from city stables gathered from
all sources for their speed, driven by
jockeys and backed by gamblers ? The
Jockeys business is to win, and a
sell out is sometimes found as cOnven-
lent as a straight game. The safe way
to keep the game respectable is to come
back to first principles.
THE narrow strip of cloud which
came from the north on Saturday af-
ternoOn seems to have been heavily
charged with electricity for so fragile
an affair Several severe claps were
experienced here and few drops of
rain fell, but in the course of its track
down the Neck a shock of wheat in the
field of VIM. Z. Riggs, Jr., not far from
his barn was struck and burned, and
Mr.. Turner on the Denney farm had a
bolt to descend near him in the corn
field, making a hole in the ground and
tearing up the hills of corn near.
ThOs. Kirby found several days after
the storm of the previous week that
the end of his barn had been struck
and shattered, and escaped firing it is
supposed, because it was empty at
that time.