Smyrna times., 1857-12-24
FIFTY YEARS HENCE.

FIFTY YEARS HENCE.
TIE generation in which we live NAV truIv he
SAID TO be fast one Men fast sleep fast live
last and die fast and when we come TO look Mt the
Magnetic Telegraph, the Ocean Steamers the swift
ness OF the Railroad Cars al the power obtained by
Mach'neIy, we must come to the conclusion that this
iasI age Only look at it, and imagine the talking
ny lightning, aud travelling 70 miles in single hour
r anu small lump OF machinery giving the power
OF thousand horses Who would have Imagined
this fifty years ago!
Fiity years hence ns cad OF these ill looking tele
graph poes The telegraph will be formed like net
WoIk under ground, and will lay in The deep bosom
oil the ocean buried there TO strike off thoughts into
words.
FIFTY years hence, travelling will have its changes
instead OF the dirty and dirty roads our railroads
will be gravelled over and decked with shade ire
Inc night lines will have their sleeping cars, with
Derlhs Tor sleeping and the hotel Ni be regu-
| lar IN attendance, where meals will he served uu
equal IN style and dispatch 10 rst-cIa.s hotels
ihen at the approach of the cars the wild screams
OF the steam will be changed heralding forth sweet
music and The cars labelled "thrOugh from New York
to Wilmington in hour and 20 minutes, with large
freight of Boots and Shoes for FLANIGEN the cheap
Shoe Dealer"
Fifty years hence the electric batteries will light all
our Street Lamps al viii enable all the clocks
- Keep eX'ct time, and will cause all the re.alarm
bells t. strike at once, and Will light beacons on our
most distant and dangerous rocks, where storms cause
men To hazard their lives and spend their lonely days
Flly years hence, the writer will not write hy our
slow process, at times losing his choicest ideas but
VIII set down to the newest invented ChirographicnI
instrument and putting his fingers on the lie vs. will
wire as fast rs he think and then will write mIIh
prOprlety and say. All, that FLANIGEN is the man
for Boots and Shoes
Fifty years hence. steam will be in general use for
warming houses III winters, and The engine and
car Will traverse our streets III performing the duties
Oh Omnlbsses IN carrying passengers through our city
To FLANlGEN'S Cheap Shoe Store and bearing lug.
gage from street TO street, III hOrse-cars and draws
FIlly years hence. apparatuses will be in use for
carried n ans
Then gas will furnish heat for cooking, and will
10 away with the OldushIOned mode OF cooking by
Fifty years hence, couple will get married in the
morning then step INTO store for the sale OF houses
look over book Oi patterns, pick that sulis
'heir IDEAS aId means and order 1t hOme II will be
SEM home IN the mOrnng-wIl he put up before night
and occupied the same evening For further parlcu-
lars enquire at
FLANlGEN'S Cheap Shoe store.
No. 10 West Second street
Novl8,'57 WIImln%,on' he,
EQUALIrY to All !-Unrformiry of Prices -
a new Feature IN Business-Everyone his own
Salesman!
JONES & CO., Of the Crescent One Price CIorb
ing store No. 200 Market street, above SIKH.
PHILADELPHIA, IN addition to he wing the largest
most varied and fashionable stock of CLOTHING i'm
Ihiadep phIa, made expressly for retail sales have
constituted every one his own salesman by having
marked III fgHreS Oh each article, The very lowest
price 1t can be sold for. they possibly vary
all must buy alike.
The goods are all well spOngcd and prepared ard
great Pus taken with the making 50 that al can buy
WIN The lu assurance OF getting good article at The
very lowest price,
Remember the Crescent, in Market, above Sixth.
-'' N0O' julyS-ly
~" Insurance Notice. The Annual
Meeting of the Kent County Mutual
Insurance Company, will be held at the Office
OF the President, DR.. FIsLER, in Smyrna, on
MONDAY, the 4rh day of January next, that
beIng the first Monday of said month, at 10
o'clock, A. NJ, for the election of Nine Direc-
tors, Secretary and Treasurer, to serve for one
year.
List of interest due will be left with Jas. R.
Clements, Smyrna; VIM. e. Robertson, DeIs-
ware City; James Cowgirl, Dover; Jacob Y.
Foulk, Milford Geo. NJ. Davis, Bridgevile.
Ike interest is due on the Ist day of January
next; and all policies on which interest i, not
pad by II o'clock that day, expire, and are at
The risk OF the owners until interest is paid.
II is, therefore, desirable that persons who
iesire to continue their Insurance, will be
prompt IN payment OF their interest to the re.
'pectlve agents when due. BY order,
GEO. b. DICKSON, Sec'y
decl7 3w