Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1856-02-27
Scett 3fristelanp.
memorabilia of 1885,.

ANA ob4t1d VI 1000,
1a5E y VI sixty years hence, the winter NJ
f avt"o-' VIII be quoted and referred TO ne an
mn-or winter 1t will rank among the mox;.
riri' ~ coid seasons The little bows and
Is VI 'Ae present time, who will then boGin
rothor tt among the oldest inhabitants Will
fbor, tioI , children and grandchildren aronnd
them' to tell them how the thernor'o. atouiiG
10 60 below zero; how there was sini[r6iu "Scu
= hIiddeIphla for nearly two months. 6,,',9 IN ~
"ot young men at first hired sleighs If ton al
h aii hour' put soon found it rather too costlv
-,'. INC StIeets were filled up with the trozon
, "o"' When tEaw came, the crossipors
were III an awful condition: how tho oont.aso
tors 10 clean the streets took two n,,,',I,
noiiday' Constituting their duties to be onI,- -.
i"ui away legitimate mud, and not the s1o,,,
'i"t 10 great deal more troublesome. bou, no
su5'cIS were choked up, and the navomon,s
@"u ccHarS Hooded; how the Della vvare r;ror
"a io%eh up, and how the CITY Ice Roat wos
IHa,a uG"n the river to tow vessels in the bav
pLI'3 oi Keeping the harbor open: how 10
weoLS t. p.ii" merchants after suffering for
to haIJ I'm the suspension Of navigation. had
advort;aa ana raise subscriptions, and
- 'iSe ior thousand men to cut a cbannoI
through the ice; how, in the course o. n
;"'TAS' there were about half million of en-,
:" tle streets among the half million Of ;nhab;
delphia. '''o niue CITY OF Phlla-
VIII have marvellous narratives for
listeners about the cold all over tho
Va, dOout the rivers being frozen over 81
60" ~ VI ~ ana about people gowinr IN foot
..I H'oohIyh 10 Governors Island: about rail
ioad 'ranS detained for hours. or eyon d ia'l-
~ al parts of the land; about the M;ssieai,J .
'I I'"g crossed nearly its entire lenutb ohPpt
III Louisiana, and skating in TpvaS
l IiDous "oS'S IN the tropical States and ;cn
over the Washlta and Red Rivers.
49, oIot niuititudes of grievances on acconnt 81
oiI Gu "llHs about travellers perishino with
lro, Di 'ne desolate prairies, and homeless :
lopulous cities '"0 ''ieets OF
Yes, when little Master Bobbv oh.u
no foIIo,'' Io our much esteemed and venera- ;,
~ -. IeIiow-cItlzcn, Robert -. Esq and IT, y
Mss Fanny - shall have been nronootoJ ~ u
serene Ola dame with different snrnon,o o
~ ~ sr"ndchlldren clustering around her tbo,' q
'e many queer things to tell of the =
s5e ol January and February in the wear q
thor neSues the weather, they will havc "
~ 49, ~ 'nlhgs among their "reminiscences -
- "i'i make their young descendants stare
men they tell them how CONGRESS- yvos ,';
Gems eiectlng Speaker; how The great bm ms h,
~ inc session afterwards was to plot for =
tlal nominations; how in all the c;tos ~
'"c Oh'on there was large class of poonIo ~
voted to the highly profitable and ovb;lora ae
= PtrSuIt called Spirtualism; how in a cir ou
~ CITY there was certain class. of nncor 'h'
~ reputation, who advocated and nractisaa sol
lain strange doctrines commonIv coiIoJ
&c Love; how the fashionable men of tho A.,
re enormous shawls, and the fasbionaho ma
l,ieh enormous hoops how there was man eve
'he PRESIDENTIAL chair, long since forrotton TER
ned Fierce' and how there were a oreai man,' hoi
re- also already forgotten, who had s,on! up
'lcS IN favor OF making Presidents ont Gf ana
m; how, besides the falls in Tho s,D" "s VI to S
re were great many fatal Sins and fsiI1
'hG treacherous pavement of politics onJ !!
'"ere was never any one ready TO holm mn dnrI
sufferers though there were many n a,;,' P nun
|, thrust or kick that would more off,o pres
ly establish their downfall. 0'ie0- und
hey will have strange stories TO tell of hor, Law
e was class of people in 1856. known as says
u logles, who did not believe in 8. man; mat
GeStlny'' denounced flibusterism. and on IN I'll
d the movements to revolutionizo NJ" oP-
,IGo, Cuba, and other States of the Amori -
Union; how, in fact, there was a ycrv
lge PopulatIont;n 1856, who were IookoJ ~.
up upon by the more enlightened generaton hoio
'UO as very slow, absurd, uncontb onJ "'a0 y
etin. VI 'cii'Ss'-Phta. We WI
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