Smyrna times., 1892-09-28


nights ago.
VIM. 2. CUMMINs, it is stated, will
retire from farming because of i'll
health and move to town, and will be
succeeded by J. Frank Denney, of
White Hall Neck.
j. w. CARSON, whose boiler blew up
at Clayton Thursday, will not attempt
to replace it 50 near the end of IL sea-
son, and has disposed of the remainder
of his crops to Osborne & Bro, of this
town.
OUR quotation for wheat is 8 cents
better this week than last, the Trans
pOrtation Co. paying 70 cents per bushel
to-day. 1t is hoped that it will keep
on the ascending scale. Corn is quoted
at 81 cents.
LADIES purchasing % cent tickets
for the Calef Comedy Company enter
tainment on Monday night, that will
be distributed through this town and
Clayton, will be entitled to reserve
cents.
ELMER HOFFECKER, who has been
running a successful meat market near
the post Office has bought through the
agency of Beck & HAZEL, the stand
lately conducted by Michael Riley, and
will run both places.
The dedication of the new NJ. e.
Church at Cheswold on Sunday next
will be an important event to that
town. The dedicatory SERVICES will be
in charge of Presiding Elder Smith,
Rev. DR.. S. J. Morris preaching at
1880 o'clock.
The fire seen southwark on Satur-
day night was the barn of Charles
Vaughn near Dover, fired by lightning.
Two mules, two horses, a quantity of
fodder and all the farming utensils
were destroyed. The dwelling of John
Colt, in Dover, was also struck, but
not ignited.
f. r. COCHRAN and J. Il. Budd of
MiddletOwn, quarantine commissioners
for Delaware, will accompany the
Pennsylvania commissioners aud the
members of the Chester board of health
on a visit to Bombay Hook island this
week for the purpose of investigating
for a quarantine location.
POTATOES advanced last week to so
cents per basket. This is big jump
from the prevailing price for several
years, of 25 cents per basket,
caused by the long drought and short
crop. 1t is not likely that the general
market will be as much affected as our
local market, as it was much more sea-
sonable in the potato growing region
further north than on this peninsula.
Sweet potatoes are selling at 10 cents
lower, 40 cents per basket.
REV. Geo. w. Bounds, of the 2nd
Church, Dover, preached at the NJ. e.
Church, of this town, on Sunday last,
morning and night, and pleased the
people more than ordinarily for one of
his years, being member of the Con-
ference only since 1890. He reversed
the usual order of things by having a
larger congregation at night than
in the morning. He gets the good
will and sympathy of his audience in
the early part of his discourse from his
evident singleness of purpose, simple.
ity and candOr of address and above
all, because he breaches for the spirit
ual ediicatiOn of his hearers.
THE Phosphate dealers are now in
the midst of their harvest that has the
largest ingatherlng of the year. Of
our local dealers who advertise in
these columns, it can be said they are
on the stretch day and night. L. M.
Price, who manufactures all his brands
under his own eye, is apparently
troubled very little about any thought
of going to Congress, but instead. is at
his factory all the time or seeing per.
sOnally after his sales. w. G.. Pierce
believes in Norman Bone, and is hust-
Ter in the Phosphate trade, and gener-
ally sees from the beginning to end.
A. Lee Cummins is up with the lark.
and between seeing after the mapufac-
ture of his brand that has stood the
test of years and analysis, and gather
ing up his old patrons in the business.
hasn't an hour in the day that goes to
waste. Listers High Grade Fertilizers
has a wide range, and J. Allen Moore.
tells us that it is with difficulty the
firm has been able to fill its orders.
WE referred in a recent issue to the
fact that three of the candidates on the
tickets for Legislative hOnors, two of
them on opposing tickets to represent
Wilmington one of whom must be
elected, were but a few years since
boys in our streets. We have this
week to refer to another nomination.
who, differing from the others has not
wandered to other places, but still re-
sides among us. If not as certain of
an election as the others who
are candidates on the tickets of the
TWO great parties, he marks a peg or
TWO higher in choice of position. We
refer to l.. M. Price, our verv worthy
citizen who was placed by the Prohi.
6ltlonists on their ticket last week for
representative in Congress. IF the
party is to grow as many of the Prohi-
bitionists claim and believe until it be.
comes the leading party, Mr.. Price NAV
have the chance yet of securing the
great prize.
ALEX. CARsoNs, who paid the Fair
managers $45 for the peanut privilege
of the Fair at Dover last week, com.
plains that his business was damaged
by the two dozen or more tables of
gambling devices that attracted the
crowds that would likely be his Gus
toners, and so infatuated number of
them as to clean them out Of all their
means before they were aware of it,
leaving them empty of pockets and
poor in spirit, with empty stomachs.
Among the many thus placed was a
colored man who went there with ten
dollars in his pocket and in a little
while the gamblers had it all, not leav-
ing him enough to buy bag Of pea.
nuts. There is little pity to bestow on
those persons who thought they could
beat the gamesters out of their own
game, but in their robbery others were
robbed of the profits of legitimate mer-
chandise for which they paid largely
as privilege. Mr.. Carsons says that
he, and the fruit vender who paid the
same tOOk tho prit;Iao,o % 49, lit