Smyrna times., 1855-12-19
@eneral gnteIligente.
Christmas EesfiYaI

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Church, in DOVER, will have a CONCFPT
and FESTIVAL, for the benefit of the Cbnrcb
on MONDAY and TUESDAY EVENINGS
the Z4th and 18th inst. The public are ras
pecttuly invited TO attend
Professor JOrdau's Juvenile Pupils will r;vo
a Concert at the State House, on Monday eYon.
ing o'o"
Charles Marin. Esq, has consented to do
liver lecture on Tuesday evening. The Gam
den Brass Band have also kindly offered their
services on that evening
REFRESHMENTS will be provided bv tho
ladies' y '"'
Admission tickets may be had at the door.
| o. Price, 25 cents
BY order of the Committee
EXPENSES UF CoNGREss-The souablIo Co.
The prodomlnancy IN the House, is we'll worth,
the attention of potislaus who are lookino for
public plunder The following are the ns;aoa ~.
tor which there are about eight hundred nn,I;
cents: "Pl'iI-
The Speakership. S'l6 day Public pr;n,or
about S75,OGO worth OF work (eyclusiyo &c
paper tor the session; Clerk of the Uopso ~
Representatives, $500; Various Clerks in his
Ofhce' combined salaries, $l3,320; Sergeant
alarms, Doorkeeper and Postmaster of the
House, $6.480; Messenger, 81 ,756 so: Libra
ran ran OF the House, 81, ,800 Reading Clerk, 81
SUI; Clerk to the Sergeant-at-arms. al s00.
live Messengers for the Post Office of the House
OF representatives, 81, 200; Chaplain of tho
House, $3.50. Now for the contingent exnen-
ses: For binding documents, $700OO. for fnr-
nlture and repairs, Ga good job for cabinet ma
Ker') S3OOO; for stationary for members. SID
oOO; twenty-One messengers, including suDer- |
intehdent OF folding and document rooms. $2S
@ no ior engraving and lithngrap phing, 500.
UUO; messenger in charge of the hall. 81 74O
,"r TWO Messengers in Clerks Office, $3O0
iaoorers' $4,000, pages (boys) 1896 for fold
ing documents, including pay of folders. etc
p%u,OOO; Draughtsman and Clerks SO 600
olndlng Congressional globes, So, $40. Besides
other various contingencies" to be supplied
oy friends OF the dispensing parties.
BURNED TO DEATH.-A most shocking acci-
oeht occurred in Gambia, a few miles distant
ro'h :, thls CITY, last Tuesday evening. Old Mrs
rench' lady upwards of so years ofage. was
reading newspaper alone in a room. when tho
the piper caught the flames, and before she
could reach the room where the rest of the
ianlly was, her dress was nearly burnt off of
ner' one was so dis6gured by the flames that
'ne was slght to see, and, after Continuing
alohg IN terrible pain until Than ksgiving day I
Sne dled'--hancheSter IN. H. Mirror.
lNTEREsrING PETRIFAcTIoN.--Tn Is49 Scbuv. :
lei van kennselear Ofths city lost little child
some SIX months old AT that time Mr. Von :
resided al Cherry Hill in tho inn. ;
mediate vicinity of which the child was ;nter- !;
reu' Last week the coffin was taken nm fr 9
ne purpose OF being removed to the Cemeterv +,
oh opening the coffin the body was found ms a
perfect as when placed in the earth. II had 9
'aSsed 'hrongh state of petrifaction. and had !,
'ecouie as solid as marble. Mr.. Van r. in h
"'l'S US th"t the body was buried in earth. n n
o 5e Purt,oh OF which was white clay Wheth 7
II this led to the petrfaction is more than me =
IAN say.-At6Gny KnickerJOcker. -
W Inc steam fire engine "Joe Ross " w.s III
rought out for trial on the 5th, at Cincinnati; a.
,r nu eAploded' throwing the engineer. John %
y ai"!eroott0nl, some seventy feet high, killing
inl instantly and scalding several other per. v,
= Jus just before the explosion the BURSTING L
! ''ie noes nad driven the crowd away from
me- or greater number would no at
ouot' nave been injured. The cause of ,ho ha
ccdent was deficiency of woter in ,bo f- ha
OK of the boiler, which came from, y,o,'t or &c
are on the Part Of the engineer. on
me fortIand Advertiser saws that Josenb ia
lowell OF New Gloucester and SampsI M w,
ardy' OF Raymond, have been examined an co
'e ehaIge OF setting fire to the Congregations tn
"ieetilg- mouse IN New Gloucester on tho an
Ing VI November ~. The fire was disco. we
= ,ou a'iu e"tihgulshed The evidence against lin
=, r.''o - was conclusive, one of them ma wi
ny confession, and they were comnittad 20, wv;
"'e unuer twenty-one years of age. lea
me Yarmouth Register says that Mrs Ro, er'
haIiett, wife of Mr.. Reuben Ho;Io,t ~ do
EAST Barnstable. was fonnd IL :: Iia'iett OF do
iueSuay, 4th. On examination it was Gun5 ,aI
d. Sne aied from the effects of gas from char lev
a. "hich mad been burning in the room NJ DO
up' e@'s's that she planned self.destru,t;on POI
she had been laboring nndor nL 'llon, Doc
lellect. o"erration OF sto
LAuNcHED.-A very pretty schooner of 1o5 Sne Sno
- au"cneu rom the ship yard of Mr.. arc
last week Sha !. -, oh thursday and
]. w. Adkins. of ,h;a ,Io W -nessrs. u. 3. rip
samuel p. Goodwin" complimeptarr ,iaineu 80 oe
end, Mr. Goodwin, of the firm of H.m,.o ou' ooy
yGer q Co., of Philadelphia. The /" Coz SeI1 OeII
is an A No. l, schooner in make and ~, ~ oeil
iaA' and was built in sixty davs. ano,ha- C"i C"I
lner IN friend Scribner,s can D;o,no.., IN S'
Ite. D'""ond Iu
v.,,, Boo
sS" 5 toRN NELEcTIoN.--Samuel Selden. the
i1 oott ana Liquor candidate for Judge 81
Soul. ei appeals, COng term) loses his Ger
cate OF election because the vote of No, q
Saidey ""4 county Is returned for Samuel jon
oelaen' lie also loses the votes of Dtucbcs of (
hty Oy similar mistake. Unless tbere : r,
ie N remedy ior such laundering, Camnben
NJ receives the certificate. ''' OF e
= DIR. Kane declines to accent tho sIooo real
ieu as contribution by George peabodv ried
,;n o sIwaro public testimonial for the plea
70 to begin = snhsa mI. rea6ody also offers ter.
expedition. '"e s"i'ors In o.
II ACCORDING 70 A. NJ H.
mar who wrote .. Lee ew maven hegtster, Kent
DIS nat to the chap who dropped = Is,,as Or
the New Haven post office, a day or t,1a JoNE
o directed to person in ST. Tsrp;Uo /" Kent
ntreville.) A''''"e
oli uiak'hg large appropriations for Mans