Smyrna times., 1889-10-16

oratory of his scientific department.
MORNING STAR LODGE No. 6. I. O.
o. F., of this town, has been invited
to participate in the unveiling of the
Caesar Rodney monument at Dover
Oct. 3Oth, and will most probably
accept.
THE old colored citizens who in
speaking of their entertainment on
Thursday night at the Opera House
by ldpsus ljnguGe got it Operators
House" WASN'T so far out of the wav
after all.
Mrs. JOSEPH DoNAHO, former res
ident Of this vicinity, for several
years living near Christiana, died last
week and was brought to Glenwood
Cemetery, this town. on Monday for
| interment
A DARKEY named James Gibson
from about Blackstone Cross Roads
was arrested on Saturday night and
put in the lookup for being drunk and
wanting to fight in the yard of the
Smyrna House.
AT a recent quarterly meeting at
SeversOn's church, thirty-two persons
accepted invitations from one of the
members to go to his house for supper.
This sounds as if it belonged to the
customs of forty years ago.
r. NJ. COOPER, near Cheswold. in
tends to give some attention this winter
to the artificial raising of chickens, as
he did last. He will run two incuba-
tors which will derive their heat for
Matching from warm water.
FARMERS are about through seeding
wheat now; it seems strange, but re-
gardless of the low price of wheat and
the dull market, the phosphate deal
ers say they have sold more phosphate
this season than ever before.
THE Salem South, Jersevmdn saws :
Tomato canning is about over in
! Salem county for this season. Onlv
about half of the usual quantity of to-
matOes were packed. Some of the fac
tories are now running on pumpkins
and sweet potatoes"
SOME of the farmers commenced
husking corn last week, and but for
the rain on Monday, there would
have been a general hustling of the
| farm hands to the corn fields. Get
ting this crop in the crib is now tn @
chief work of the farmers.
THE rain that fell Sunday night and
Monday was a benefit to the newly
seeded wheat, the ground under the
effects of the high winds and absence
OF rain for two weeks getting quite
dry. During the good weather the
most of the farmers got their wheat in
the ground.
THERE was a wide difference be-
tween Saturday and Sunday in the
temperature. On the first named the
mercury registered 80o and over and
the next day about 50', fall of thirty
degrees. Monday it fell six degrees
lower, and felt more like snow than
the rain that was falling.
THE burning question in Blackbird
hundred among those politically in
clined is, which district shall the
Democratic candidate for Levy Court
Commissioner come from-the eastern
or western? ? And, what.is more, thew
are trying to force Levy Courtman
Rothwell to be the arbiter in the case.
THERE are 8739 farms in Delaware
51.6 per cent. of which are titled bV
the owners and 17.6 per cent by ten
ants. The largest crop in the state is
corn, there being 220,927 acres of it in
cultivation. The acreage in wheat is
94,790. The yield per acre of wheat is
III bushels; of corn, 20 bushels, and
of oats % bushels.
On an invitation being read in one
OF the Odd Fellow Lodges of this
| county to attend tie Caesar Rodney
| monument ceremonies, one of the
young members remarked inquiringly,
who IS he? L never heard of him
before" This young man evidently
belongs to the class who think nothing
IS worth knowing that does not exist
to-day, and here was an odd fellow
who had existed outside of his knowl.
edge.
POSTMASTER BEWLEY, after holding
the Office four years and two months
yielded the place to Thomas Jefferson.
ms successor, on Monday, except that
he Will remain a sufficient length of
time to instrur: him ia handling the
machine. Nj. Bewley idid his best to
/ discharge his duties efficiently, and
was an obliging postmaster. Mr.. Jeffer-
son has the opportunity before him to
10 the same thing. POstmistress Rut-
ledge is held over by popular demand
into the third administration.
ONE of our old-timers who don't
like the newfangled things that the
young people have been running wild
over this year, was recently disclaim-
ing pretty strongly against base ball
because it made the men and bows
drop everything and forget their work
to 60 see a game, finished by the dec
laratiOn that the Women were getting
almost as bad over q game they called
''long tenOr.,' 1t has become 80 cool.
however, that the young ladies are
hardly likely to yex him with lawn
tennis again this season.
The oyster supper given at the
| Opera House on Wednesday evening
last by the members of the Christian
Endeavor Society was pleasant social
event, but the net receipts were not
what they had reason to expect. only
about $43. This, however. was
that much to aid them on their sub
scription Of 5000 for church improve
ments they had assumed, having pre-
viously collected about $50 privately.
The yiands were we'll prepared, and Il
is doubtful if better oysters were ever
before served in the Hall.
UNDER the influence of the bright
skies and soft southern breezes Of Sat
urday, several chestnutting parties
were enticed to the woods. One COM
posed Of four ladies, went TO q neigh
borhoOd several miles from town where
they thought chestnuts ought to grow,
but after a careful search through the
woods and counting up, they found
they had just twenty-eight nuts. A
boy who lived in the vicinity told
them the reason they didn't find the
nuts was because they didn't grow
He had only been able tc get a quart
this year, against a bushel last year.
WheFeupon, the ladies embarrassed
the critter from the carriage and spent
the rest Of the time allotted for nut