Smyrna times., 1891-05-13

WIN new one.
BUCHANAN & COLLINS had peas.
cabbage &c. from the South in market
the past week and will have them
twice a week.
ALL grades of mattings, beautiful
patterns, at MEGEAR's. t
E. G. RoCAP, of Bombay Hook, lost
in this town Monday purse contain
ing SIS. The finder will be suitably
rewarded by returning it to the owner.
If everybody wants a new
CONSTITUTION
everybody must go to the polls next
Tuesday and cast their votes for q
CONVENTION.
THE season of roses is near at hand,
the pink dailies having already
bloomed out. 1t is noticeable that the
buds on the bushes are not so numer-
Gus this spring as usual.
OUR peach growers it is presumed
will find baskets cheap this year. Our
manufacturers sold to H. D. Boyer last
week a considerable lot at $3.50 a
thousand or 81 cents basket.
The several whistles of our indus
tries give quite a business aspect as they
note the work hours. The most musi.
cal is the double whistle of the Hosiery
mill-a tenor and cOntraltO, as it were.
LAST week With its snow squalls and
biting winds, was not good one for
May parties Prudential psOple have
learned to wait until after the middle
of the month before Iakiag an all days
airing in the shade of the woods.
Mr.. SPEAKMAN killed q green snake,
very slim and nearly two feet long in
Belmont Grove last week where it was
resting in the top of n bush. It is
known as ths doctor snake" from its
Of doetoriHg other sick or
disabled snakes. 1t is rarely sesn now.
A WEEK ago 1t was freezing, Monday
tie mercury was again climbing up TO
the nineties and yesterday morning
down again to nearly 5O', a fall of be-
tween thirty and forty degrees. There
is one other change that would be ac-
ceptable now viz a good shower oi
rain.
THE shad is no longer the abundant
fish in our market that it was three OF
four weeks ago. The adYepes Of the
price from five to eight cents q pound
attests this. But as the shad quietly
slips out the weak fish or bay trout
slips in, and the latter has abundant
friends.
We make a specially of fancy
groceries. High grade cOffees,
Mocha, Java, MaracaibO, &C., are care.
fully selected from the importer and
roasted by ourselves every Week, al
prices that will compete with city
markets. Our constant aim is q
please. I MEGEAR & SON.
The trustees, Thomas ]. and B.
Palmer Heating, will sell at public sale
at the Smyrna House at 2.30 Saturday,
the valuable piece of ground opposite
''FoEJ Hill" just beyond the depot,
and on the morning Of the same day a
tract of land in AeW Dsstle county.
See advertisement.
some of our visitors from other
towns have commented unfavorably on
our "slOwness" when they see broken
places in our pavements and other evi-
dences of 3 want of spirit. The special
occasion of che remark was a badly
eurbed pavement In front Of business
places on Commerce street,
HATTIE JEFFRYs, widow of King
Jeffreys, died Monday iu her 23rd year.
Her husband died nearly year ago
from consumption, which she caught
from him, developing with great rap
idity, and few weeks ago her mother,
the wife of Charles Potts, also died.
She was one of the best for efficiency
and good qualities of the young oOloFed
women Of the town.
4 $4,000 horse is not seen by
our lovers of the noble animal every
day, but s. Bowers Richardson, of the
Forest Park Stock Farm, Masseys Md,
nd one in Smyrna on Saturday.
';hilderOy" is the name of the high
blood animal, Thought down from Phil
adelphia on the Steamer Ella the day
before, and was very much admired by
IbOss who saw him.
THE AriOn Orchestra recently formed
in this town though only an Ameteur
organization, and the only one by the
way In the state south of Wilmington
is already superior to most of the trav.
cling professional organizations which
come this way. The orchestra at pres-
ent contains three first and two second
violins, cello, bass, piceOlO, flute, clar-
met, two cOrnets and a trombone.
THE ladies Of the w. G. II. u. who
went TO the trouble and expense a wear
ago to erect fountain Wish to have it
lighted but the Town Board say thew
have no authority to use the funds for
that purpose. They now appeal TO the
people and hope they will aid them
with small contributions. The contrl-
buttons can be handed to the following
q umittee: G. II. Register, DR.. o.
). syinney and Herman Roe.
REv. JAsiEs PEYToE, pastor of
Bethel A. Nj. Church, who had ex-
)ected to go to tlilA annual Conference
which meets to-day, Nut had instead to
30 to Philadelphia with,th remains Of
nls niece, aged IA years, VINO bad come
down on a visit aud bad taken sick
and died with typhoid-pnepnpoQia.
He has been pastor here for two yeahe,
and a strong petition has gone TO con-
ference for bis return.
@. SPEAKMAN near town lost q colt
last week from a very singular cause
an attack Of rats. The mother had
dropped the colt during the night.
When the men went into the stable
very early in the morning the colt was
found down and helpless aud ip an
attempt to help It, as the day grew
lighter Il was discovered that rats had
not only eaten or carried away the
afterblrth hut attacked the navel Of the
colt and eaten into and pulled out
its intraila. OF course It died ~ q