Smyrna times., 1892-08-03

not bit too severe. His suffering
was very brief. l am astonished that
his punishment should have met with
so much disapprOVal, but it is evident
that everyone does not know the SER
ious nature of the circumstances.
Why, in the west of the State there
is more sympathy expressed for Iams
than for Frick, the victim ofa depraved,
wOuld-be assassin. Iams NAV con-
graduate himself upon getting off so
easily.
Smyrna and Vicinity.
The best cOffees at Buchanan & Co.'s.
II
ICE cream saloons have had big run.
CLAYTON pOst-of1ice is now money
order office.
A NEW ribbing machine has been
added to the machinery of the knitting
factory.
ALLISON START, son of VIM. B. Start,
is acting as agent for the Steam Laun-
dry, at Dover.
SINCE the rains the farmers are
pretty generally engaged in turning
fallow for wheat.
IT is said, no man believes that anv
other man tells the truth when he tells
what wages he receives.
MEssRs. Bitter and Luesher will
give their employees of the Hosiery
Factory, picnic at Woodland Beach
next Wednesday.
Nobody has yet claimed that the
present warm weather is due to the
fact that the Gulf Stream has slipped
out of its course.
MAKE note of the heat of the past
week, so that away in the future YOU
can tell your descendants of the terri
Bile heat of the summer of '92.
TRY Buchanan & Co.'s roasted cof-
| fees.
IT hurts some peoples eyes to see
certain likenesses so often, and there
IS with some Ofsuch a regret that there
was a raising of political banners so
early IN the season.
The Sussex county almshOuse was
not burned as reported. There was a
small loss of straw, but no insurance.
The Kent County Mutual sustained no
losses by the fire in Cambridge.
A PHILOSOPHER says that a girl of
sixteen walks as if she owned the
earth, and after she has been married
few years she walks as if she were
carrying it on her shoulders.
A NOVELTY in the burial of the little
boy, of Mr.. and Mrs. Wharton Novel;.
their first born, on Friday, at Glenwood
Cemetery, was, four girls acting as
bearers. They were all dressed in
white.
SUPT. TAYLOR, of the water-works.
says the long drought and the immense
| amount of water used in street sprink-
ling had no effect on the water supplv.
The water stood about the same in the
well every morning.
BY advertisement it will be seen that
Willard G. Pierce & Co., are in the
market with Norman Bone Phosphate
for the Fall trade. Mr.. Pierce has es-
tablished his name and this brand with
the farmers in the several years he has
had it on sale.
l.. NJ. PRICE has commenced the
manufacture of phosphate for fall sales.
and expects to make the largest uuan.
tity he has yet sold. He manufactures
it under his own supervision, and ex-
poets its superiority to be its great
recommendation.
BUCHANAN & Co., roast their own
coffee. Give it trial. z
NOTICE.-The public will please
take notice that the post Office at Walk
ers' will be open for the transit of mail
beginning August 1st 1892, one mail
each day. Outgoing mail closes 8 A.
N. Incoming mail arrives u. NJ.
II. I. STAATs, P. NJ.
ANOTHER heavy rain fell yesterday.
1t was what the farmers needed, but if |
part OF 1t had come ten days ago, the |
yield OF the early corn and much of |
the late probably, would have been
larger. Nevertheless, the benefit will |
be incalculable.
The well known Tower Hall Cloth.
ing Bazaar of Garitee, Son & Allen. 5I8
Market street, Philadelphia. in their
advertisement this week make an i'm
portant announcement to those desir-
ing clothing. To secure room for Fall
and Winter goods they will make a
decided reduction in the prices of a
large variety of we'll made suits as
well as odd garments. No better
chance to invest can be had. See
advertisement.
Who should walk into the TIMES
OFFICE one of those hot days of last
week but Mr.. Geo. L. Mason, of the
Interstate Trust Co, looking as chipper
and fright, as when leading an excur-
sion 10 Wonderful Marionh last Nav
he ls arranging for another excursion
to Marion, Indiana, on the Both of
August. He was accompanied by
Wash. ii. Cross, of that place, who
will be back again to work up the ex-
cursiOn.
ALL the Fire Insurance Companies
doing business in Delaware have unit
ed in a higher tariff rate of insurance.
covering nearly every class of proper
ty. In some cases, as in risks on mer-
chandise, it will reach to 80 per cent or
more, and in places where there is no
protection against fire, insurance may
be difficult to get at all. The compa-
nies have been subject to very heavy
loss for several years past.
THE party of SO persons from this
town and vicinity, referred to in our
last issue as boarding the steamer
" Excelsior" for the fishing banks out
in the ocean that evening, met their
full expectations, pulling the fish in
hand-over-hand, the boats company
catching altogether about 5000 pounds.
They were spinning fishing yarns for
two or three days after getting home,
that might have made interesting read
ing, had the perspiring weather been
suitable for getting it on paper.
THE catalogue of the Wilmington
Conference Academy, shows that in
stitution of learning to be in a most