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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16
The Town Water.

The question Of what is the matter
with our town water ?" has been solv-
ed. 1t got so bad, especially in the
upper end of the town near the stand.
pipe that the commissioners had to
make an effort to get to the
root OF the matter. The eut-Offs at
Union streets were closed at two
o'clock Monday morning, the stand
pipe was drained by means of the fire.
plugs, and Geo. w. Taylor, who had
been sent for, took the great iron re-
ceptacle in hand. A way was dug to
the man-hole, the screws unloosened,
and the pipe entered from beneath.
As the latter is 100 feet high, and no
way for anything to get into it except
from the top and the main that enter
ed It below the surface of the ground,
u was naturally expected to be clean,
nut IN this they were much mistaken.
A considerable mess of sediment had
collected at the side on the bottom.
among which was the remains Of what
appeared to be several hundred birds.
supposed to be swallows that had been
drowned in the water during the past
six years. But few Of them were in a
condition to be recognized, and they,
with the stirring up of the mass by the
Flushing" of the pipe q short time ago.
led to the nOticeably bad condition of
the water. The sickening mass has
been removed and the stand pine Il
being put in as clean condition as a
water bucket. But not only this:
effective means are being taken TO
prevent like thing from ever han
pening again. A complete eoyer is
being made that will prevent any bird,
leaf, or dropping getting into the water
leaving wire escapement only under
the cover, for the vent of the water.
when it is necessary to flush the pipe.
During the time the water is shut off
from the pipe for these necessary i'm
prOvements, which will take some two
weeks, the supply to the water takers
Will be by direct pumping. This will
require the services OftwO engineers as
the pump must be kept going day and
night, and cause q consumption of 800
pounds more of coal day. Our ex-
perience with birds seems new and
unexpected. The stand pipes Of Mid
dletown, Easton, and other places, are
said to be open like ours, but there is
no knowledge of any such experience as
we have been passing through. For.
getting the past If possible, it cannot
occur again. The water is now sweet
and refreshing, and hence enjoyed as
has not been all summer.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16

E6IbUudl.
Fletcher E. Cooper, of the staff of the
Daily Times, New York, and Irving
Cooper, of Philadelphia, came home
Saturday for day or twO's visit to
their parents, Mr.. aud Mrs. John b.
Cooper.
Maurice 3. Collins, of Camden, N. J.
is visiting relatives in this town.
Frank Williams, of Wilmington, is
home on visit to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs.. f. Williams.
Rev. Harry G. Budd, who was un-
decided, when he left home, whether
he would attend Drew or Boston
Theological School, has decided on the
latter.
Mrs. G. E. Moore and children, of
ROanOake, Va, are on visit to rela-
tives here.
Miss Ida Lofand, of Milford, is a
guest at the Delaware House.
Miss Clara SnOwden, of Baltimore,
was a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. p.
Hoffecker last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard F. Weldon,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Wood,
who went to RoanOake, Va, last Jan
uary, are expected home this evening.
not to go back again. The neighbOrs
and friends have planned TO meet at
the residence of Mr.. Weldon to give
them Il cordial welcome home, ending
with the usual table of refreshments.
Miss Nan Wood has returned to
Philadelphia with her visitor, Miss
Young.
John Peterson, of Philadelphia, was
a guest at Font Hill" last week.
J. E. Carter and wife will leave to-
morrow for Pennsylvania for a two
weeks trip.
Will McClenahan, of Port Deposit,
was a guest of Miss Nettie Tschudy,
Sunday.
John p. Hudson went on business
visit to RoanOake on Monday.
J. Z. Jerman has returned home from
New Jersey.
Miss Annie Legg is visiting friends
in Camden, N. j.. Mrs. Lillian Cloak
in Odessa; Mrs. Chas. II. Register in
| Wilmington, Miss Addie Hoffecker, in
Baltimore.
VIM. G. Mitchell and niece, Miss
Sadie Mitchell, returned last week
from a visit to Niagara Falls.
HirOns Clifton, of Clayton, has
gone to Washington College, Chester.
town, Md.
]. w. LattOmus, of Green Spring.
returns to Delaware College to-day,
to enter on his fourth and closing wear
Miss Matte Robinson of Whining.
ton, is visiting her cousin, Miss Maggie
Collins, of Collins Beach.
Mrs. r. NJ. Huggins and Mrs. Mag.
| gle Johnson, are spending several
weeks with their nieces at Mt. Union.
| Pa.
Mrs. Harry Priudle, OfPhiladelphia.
Pa, and Mrs. Sadie r Buckmaster. OF
Wilmington, Del, are the guests OF
Mrs. William T. Short, near town.
Geo. F. Brown left to-day for Vir.
ginia.
Miss Ada Truax was given a surprise
party IN honor of her 18th birthday. on
Monday evening. Refreshments were
served at IL clock after which she
was presented with handsome rock
ing chair. Among those present were:
Misses Celia Clements, Centreville,
Md. Ida Lord, Lizzie Clements, Ad-
die Davis, Salle Pratt, Katie Clements.
Emily Spruance, Florence Hall, Elva
Armstrong, Mary Stuart, Sallie Co.'S
grif, and Messrs. Herbert Brown, Wal.
ton Busteed,. Edward Boyd, Harvey
stuart, Luther Truax, Frank Sparks.
Fletcher Truax, Edward Beck, Will
lard Weldon, Virgil Gordon and John
NJ. Truax.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss
Name Davis, of Camden, N. j.. and w.
+. Stubbs, of Philadelphia, on Monday
evening, Sept. 2lst.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16

THE editor of the Conference ChrOni.
Gle, Rev. w. J. Duhadway, devotes the
leader Of his last paper to the discus
sion of the subject, "Is the extended
term a success ?" referring to the ex-
tension of the pastoral limit in
the Methodist Church from three
to five years. The editor has
opened up an important subject that
will bear looking into, as it greatly in.
terests the masses as we'll as prosperity
of the Church. The extension may
have worked well in some cases; in
the most it apparently has not. In
the Smyrna Church, as far as we have
heard expressions of opinion, the feel.
ing is almost entirely in favor of the
three years limit. The following par.
agraph will indicate wherein the ex.
tension will not be satisfactory.
1t is not yet absolutely certain that
a mistake has not been made in ex.
tending the time limit. A number OF
ministers have remained their full
term, to their own comfort and the sat
isfactiOn of the churches they have
served; and some of them, it is fair to
presume, could have remained indefin-
itely with equal success, in which case
there would have appeared good reason
for removing the limit altogether. But
what few can do furnishes no rule
for the church at large. Many in our
churches are opposed to the long term,
and some of our pastors have either
felt obliged to leave appointments
where they were entirely comfortable,
or have continued under embarrass-
ment. The present rule will work
against both the young and the old men
in our ranks.
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News Items.

The schooner Mary E. Hobson,
bound for Milford, Del, was sunk In
Delaware river by the British steamer
Ripon City.
Mr.. Frank. Brown, the Democratic
candidate for governor of MARYLAND.
said that he would accept the chal.
lenge OF Mr.. VIM. ]. Vannort. ReDuh.
lican candidate, to plowan acre of land
TO ind out who is the better farmer.
Diphtheria is epidemic in Shelby.
vile, Ind. The public schools have
been closed and general auarantine
established. Thirty deaths have %.
CURED within the past fortv-eioht
hours, and adults are being attacked aa
well as children.
1t Is estimated that two thousa nd
persons have persisted by foods in the
province of Toledo, Spain. It Is inn.
possible TO send assistance to the sur
vivors, as all road and railway COM
munieatiOn has been cut off by the
water.
A large Number tf wealthy farmers
met at Sc. Paul, Nina, and inoorpoFa-
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16

The Wilmington Fair was a success,
at least in numbers, Thursday the
crowd numbering 10000, and the lar
ger part there only to see the races, or,
to be in a crowd. Very many Of these
caught the oft dropped expression that
sit was a poor Fair" while at the same
time there was five times as much as
they took the trouble to look
ut. There was enough in the way of
stock, land it was very fne,l grain,
fruit, vegetable, machinery &C., to take
more than halliday to inspect. The
mass Of people didn't look for these
essential exhibits of a country fair.
Tie chief features to the ladies, as we'll
a- conference.-the paintings, em-
brOideries, needle work and articles in
the culinary art,-were lamenlabl,
deficient, nor could it have hrrn *
pected otherwise, when the I,relnin H.
awarded at the previous FAN y re- e..
go unpaid. With such wealth, a pre-
vailed, there is no excuse for tri- thing
TO be said this year. The part allotted
to the Fakirs is not the least attractive
feature Of q Show grounds to a large
part Of promiscuOus crowd, " hen the
gamblers are kept out, as seemed to be
the case here. Those who go for a day
of amusement should have IL. las the
city's share Of such an enterprise) so
long as they are not harmed. The
races was the feature that took hold of
the multitude. AS this fair is more q
Wilmington than county affair, with
such a send off as it had this year, it
should have the spirit Of go in it.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16

THE wheat market has dropped con-
siderably during the past week. Many
of our spectators had loaded up with
wheat, expecting the foreign specula-
tors to keep on buying heavily, as they
did early in the season. In this way
they were disappointed. The export
business died away. To make matters
worse, there was an enormous move
ment Of grain to the centres Of our
grain traffic. At this juncture prices
began to tOtter. The collape and
steady reselling in the foreign market
precipitated q general tumble. Corn,
oats, pork aud lard joined in the
downward dip. The Baltimore Sun
in speaking of the cereal situation says
The large decline in cereals last week
ut Chicago and New York, following
close upon the collapse OF the British
grain market, was a notable event, and
must cause for a time some disappoint-
ment among those sangnine persons
who have been counting upon steady
advance Of prices. What the farmer
gets for bis grain Is determined by the
prizes sc which his surplus sells Ia Lon
den sad Liverpool. except on these
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16

OUR two United States Senators, who
nave been summering in Europe, have
returned home, Senator Gray last
week and Senator Higgins on Monday
The friends of Mr.. Gray took Sunday
for theirs, and, headed by ex-Secretary
Bayard, a car load went to Rehoboth.
where the Bright House and a good time
was at their disposal. The friends of
Mr.. Higgins to the number Of5O or 60,
took the $50 train at Wilmington Mon
day morning, rode over to New York,
boarded a cutter, met and took Mr..
Higgins from the steamer in the bay,
and returned home that night.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16
For the Smyrna Times
Peach Growers, Attention.

Ask Superintendent Holiday to
place a Jumbo" car on siding at Clay
ton and have il loaded with Tschudy's
flexible rim baskets (empties) and see
If 1000 can't be easily gotten in.
Freight to Boston on such car from
Clayton is 1912. Freight charged 10y
agents and commission men, $3.50.
Signed, AN OLD SHIPPING AGENT.
DEAR SIR:-Growers were robbed
to the tune of at least 10 cents per
basket to all points east Of New York
and cents to New York.
Mr.. Holiday no doubt will place II
6 Jumbo" and also a smaller sized car
at the dipOsal of any large grower and
Mr.. Tschudy would no doubt loan the
baskets for few hours, and will vol
unteer to load them in cars, and not
break the rims as the agents did, and
think l can put at least 1000 in
Jumbo" and $50 in small car
Please call attention TO this, as growers
have been terribly robbed
Very truly,
w. II. MASSEY.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16
GEO. w. INGRAM
SO. MIDDLETOWN, DEL.

SHERIFFS SALE.
~ BY virtue of writs of Venditoni Evro,,.
to me directed W i'll be exposed 10 puli 10y T.
az . tne Dela"are House, IN the town Of SmyrTs
Delaware, on " VI
SATURDAY, the Bird day Of OCTOBER II
1891, at O'Clock. p. m " 49,
the following described real estate 20 wiz
All That certain piece or parcel Of land .itIs,,,
IN DUCK Creek Hundred, in Kent Connie 49,
STATE OF Delaware, and contained in the f,l,"
ing meteS and bounds to wit. Beginufu., 80 "
post at low water mark in Duck Creek near 10
west corner Of the phosphate warehouse snJ
also corner for parcel Of land intended Ia Inv
conveyed unto the Philadelphia and smyrna
south AZ degrees east percheS to an iron No.
near the well" thence south u degrees r.. +
perenes 20 a stake in the north side line oi the
smyrna ana Delaware Railroad tht nee win liz
same north u degrees. east 43 perches u A .rst.
at the edge OF the tank aud opposite thu. c.,.t-
OF the run OF the branch adjoining lands If MI
liam W1ndle, thence down the run and biuJi
theTeWlth y perches 10 post in the centre -,
the run at the public road, thence crossing nv.
road and running with the branch north y de-.
BreeS, west perches, thence north SIS 9p5i..s
west perches thence north l6 degrees w., +,
percheS, thence II percheS to low water line H.
DUCK Creek, and thence up the creek and bind
ing lhereWith 70 $40 percheS 70 the place of h..
ginning, containing Acres and 81 Sgusr-
Ferches more or less. being the same lands sIJ
premises which John f. Tygert and other, Ir
deed dated April 27th, A. D. 1852 and raoori.5
IN the Recorders Office in and for Kent county
in Deed Book n, Vol. 6, Page 81. etc. did eraif
sud convey unto the Peninsula Bone Fertilizar
Company in fee simple The improyements
upon which are large phosphate factory win
It's appeHdages, one twO-stOry frame oulbuildino
three two-story frame dwellings and other SINAI
oHtDuildings, recorded in the Recorder Office
at Dover, in and for Kent County in Bo0k +
Page AIS, reference thereto will more fully and Ar
large appear.
Seized and taken in execution as the pror,.rt,
or PENlNSUIAR BONE FERTILIZER tOV.
PANY, and will be sold for cash.
70, AMOS COLE Sherit
Sheriifs Office Dover Del, ''''
Sept l6, 1891 OLGA
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16

ted the Grain Growers Association.
with capital stock of 100000 One
OF the farmers present stated that they
had determined to break up the mo.
nopoly of the elevator companies by
building and operating their own ele-
VatOIS.
The Wilmington Eccning Journal
says: John ). Durham, who succeeds
Hon. Fred Douglas as U. s. Minister ia
Hayti, was formerly school teacher
IN Delaware under Actuary Henry c.
Conrad. About ten years ago he
taught PetersOn's school, about six
miles west of Smyrna in Kent county,
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16

Peach Wagons, Peach
Ladders, Farm Wagons,
DearbOrns, Hay Racks,
Horse troughs, Farm Gates,
Bee Hives, Berry Trays,
bragg and Twin HarrOws,
Axe and Hoe Handles, Hoes.
one, two and three Horse
Trees, Hames, Chain, Rope
Traces, Hardware, Cutlery.
Axle Grease, Oils, Harness
and Meats Foot Oils, Lard.
Lubricating, Machine and
burning Oils, Cigars and
Tobacco, Shells, Cartridges,
Powder and Shot, &c. Guns
sold and repaired, Saving,
Planning and general Job
bing, &c, and most any
thing you want, all cheap
for cash.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16

rare occasions when some gigantic
corner" here puts the American price
above the export price. At present
the foreign market is, it seems, over
loaded, with the result that wheat is
now lower than il was a year ago.
Twelve months ago May wheat sold at
Chicago at 81 .08s per bushel. On Sat
urday last May wheat, at the close,
was $1.O2S. The report indicated, &C
cording to some calculations, a wheat
yield for the United States of 600,000,-
600 bushels. Other calculations put
the yield higher, making the margin
for export $50, 00O, 900 bushels as against
the 1S0,O00,000 bushels in current es-
Inmates. Ultimately our surplus, how
ever large, will be taken, it is believed,
by the foreigner at good prices, but the
foreigner will not take it from us at
high prices just now. 1t will be some
weeks. or months, perhaps, before the
requirements of England, France, Ger
many, Spain, Holland, Belgium and
Switzerland will be sharply felt.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16

The rush of European tourists home
ward has begun, and 5000 was offered
and refused for a state-room on a
steamer at London last Saturday. The
number of tourists that went abroad
this year is computed at 100 trav-
cling expenses abroad $3S, 100000 !;
purchases, IL 100000.
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THE SMYRNA TIMES.
Smyrna, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, Sept, 16, 1891

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DEATHS.

WEBSTER Wilmington, Sept 10th. 1891 Of
ypnOld lever, Harry d. Webster aged 81 wears
Sept. 18TH 1891 'u'iu"S
| COLLINS-On 9Th inst. Mary infant dsuab,or
and IA days. 's0' o'''ii9
PARVIS In Dover, Sept. ;, MAY. daughter of nr
W. W. Parvis. aged years " AZ
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16

All Europe Monday was aroused to
. keen sense of the possibilities of war
10 the near future when the announce.
ment was made that Sigri, on the west
coast OF the island Of BTitylene an
island belonging to Turkey, near the
coast of Asia Minor. and within easy
steaming distance of the Dardnnelles
had been occupied by detachment Of
troops or marines, landed there from q
British iron.clad, together with bat
terry Of light Geld pieces and several
Calling guns. A Constantnople dis
patch says the place Was formally
taken - the name Of the Queen Of
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THE MARKETS.
HDATNJ
PRODUCE.
NOTICE.

Persons indebted to the late DR.. JOS.
a. GOODWIN will please make payment
to the administrators on or before the 25th
Of SEPTEM Der.
nss-I not paid by that time the accounts
will be placed in the hands of collector,
DR.. f. b. GOODWIN. Kenton.
or GAMALIEL GARRISON, Brenford.
Wat Administrators
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MARRIAGES

LEFEVRE-DAYlS In Wilmington, on the I'd
li E:; 3y rev L. +, Barrett, Thomas N. LeFavre,
OF kirkwUOd Del, and Miss A. Katie Davis nj
Mt. Pleasant, Del w. -
| NEWTON-BRAM Galena, Md. on the
"a inst, by the Rev, f. II. Nelson, John William
Bramble, of Kent county, Md.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16
The Freight Charges on Peaches.
A NEW EXCITEMENT FOR THE FARM

NEW EXCITEMENT FOR THE FARM
ERs.
The peach business has been subject
to an unusual amount of excitement
this year, the last ''hubub" being over
the freight, the growers feeling that
with the other losses they have sus.
tanned, there has been what thew call
a species of robbery in extra charges
for freight. This complaint seems to
be general, as if there had been a COM
binatiOn between the shippers and the
commission men on the line of all the
railroads. While the newspapers hold
neutral position on the question. it
IS natural that these complaints should
be carried to the press by those who
feel they have a deep grievance to lay
before the public. In our immediate
vicinity, however, we are authOrita-
lively informed the growers will all be
made good as soon as the accounts
can be adjusted. The principal ship
per at Clayton says he has not in
tended TO appropriate this money, but
intends TO settle the freight charges
on an equitable basis, as he told those
who brought the matter up, and did
send out letters to this effect to those
who shipped through him, before the
season closed,
Other shippers of tie vicinity, we
are told, have since come to the same
conclusion. As to who and what
amount was shipped in he overloaded
cars, is where the farmers feel their
disadvantage.
The farmers, 1t seems, caught on to
1t first at MillingtOn, and suffering
from disappointment in the general
sales, they were the more eager to
hunt up any trail. The thing soon
spread all along the line. They meant
business, and Saturdays issue of the
Kent Ne'Os had the following call for a
public meeting:
TO THE FRUIT GROWERS OF KENT
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-16
To THE FRUIT GROWERS OF KENT
AND QUEEN ANNE's COUNTIES.

WTHEREAS. we, the growers and shippers
Wv OF reaches from MillingtOn, feeling
ourselves wronged by the shippers here, and the
commission men 70 whom our peaches were con-
signed, by over charges of freight a rate an
known TO us, we deem Il due TO ourselves to call
a meeting at the Court Hsuse. in Chestertown, on
TUESDAY, Sept; 10TH at l O'clock P. NJ, and do
hereby invite all growers of the two counties TO
meet Us at said time, that we may advise and
consult for the present, and guard against a sim.
BY order Ofthe COMMITTEE.
The difficulty as we understand it
has grown out of change by the rail.
road in their method. 10 former wears
they weighed the car and charged ac.
eordingly, The cars estimated TO carry
533 baskets, 10000 pounds. The cars
are now OF two sizes, the usual size be-
ing let TO the shipper at $S4, to New
York from ClaytOn) without regard 10
what It contained, but rated ON the
basis of 10 cents a basket. The char
ter price of the larger car was SI10
and all sizes paid 800 additional to
points east of New York. The baskets
this year are light, flexible and easy of
compression to a degree that was not
possible In former years. Thus, eight
coul d be squeezed In a row across The
car intended for seven, and by this
means the car has been made to hold
from one to two hundred more. the
shipper settling with the railroad on
the basis Of the car, and the grower on
the basis of the basket. The differ
ence, 1t will be seen, is very cOnsidera.
Die to the farmer and some of them
claim they would be out of pocket 5000
and $500. Some of the farmers tell us
the adjusted freight will nearly nav
for their baskets at the first prices. IL
Is this which has prompted the fruit
growers over the line to meet and
unite on prompt action.
A number of our farmers shipDed To
various points east of New York. the
freight charges being considerably
heavier. The following is a specimen
Of the encouragement they had in thus
shipping. H. Z. Massey and son sent
lSS baskets to Providence, r. l., freight
% cents a basket, which ought, they
say to have been 30 cents or less. Net
returns $6.9l, while the basket, bought
at the time Of the imitation at our
basket mill for cents per basketl
Sl4.8f, or actual loss 1911 without in
Guiding the picking, cultivation &c. A
Shipment by the same parties of I1S
baskets to Syracuse in the 8 cent has
kets brought them in debt $3.aS.
We are glad to state that Ia our
locality at least the minor differences
about the freight charges are to be adj |
iusted.
The gift basket" they universally
denounce as a delusion and fraud fhat |
20 save trouble to the commission men
mas eeen tn cans Of robbing them Of
/. nunareqas Can they posi-
1'y s7A d method