Smyrna times., 1858-12-30
CHRISTMAS How Spent Hereabouts.

CdRlSfMAS--H0 Spent Hereab0utS.
The "great holiday" is now about over,
and will be reverted to BY. many as season of
jyous flmiy greetings. and by others as sea
son of sorrow and woe. With the most of
people, it. no doubt, has been a time offestiyity
as the parents, grand parents and children, per-
haps long absent, have met around the festive
board and exchanged expressions of love and
kindness. Christmas Eve is the greatest day
with the " little folks who are on the qui uiue
enjoying as much in anticipation as in possess
sOn-bounding from one candy store to another
and putting the shOp-dealers to a deal of trou-
Bile, and finally. an retiring to bed with Sleep
less eyes, expecting full stocking and rich
treat from that mysterious individual old Kriss
Kringle. Many persons were in from the
'u"try. and we suppose that every fire. place in
the regions round about, were we'll surrounded
with litlle stockings and handsomely filled by
Old krSs' proxy, the good danes of the house.
hold.
Christmas Eve was remarkably quiet in town,
and but for the number Of people astir, would
not have been recognized as such. The boys
and darkes were deferred from much express
SION or noise by the " Proc 'amation" " and the
POllce-the latter, however, INDUCED in real,
hearty old g" corn .song," in full chorus in the
neighbOrhOod of " Whoppen," which, we be-
lieve, was kept up with little int Permission the
whole Of the next day. Towards Christmas
morning, some fellows (do not know their color,
vino had been up doubtless all night, became
noisy in the streets Ohe greater the noise the
greater the fun), and one, in his earnestness to
give Mr. Robert Preston IN old-fashioned
Christmas morning salute, and being in rather
fuddled condition. put his gun to the key-hole
and, pulling trigger, the door received the
whole contents of the load, shivering it into
eplinters-he lock was blown off, and we be-
lieve has not been found to this day. The in.
mates of the house, it may be readily Imagined,
were made fully aware of the fact that it was
Christmas morning. The general behavior was
good, aud we think there was much less drunk
enness than on former occasions. Just here
we might state how some darkies spent Christ.
snas IN a manner rather Contrary to their
wishes. There were four of them-women,
from the region known as Blanco," a sort of
negro settlement in the " Forest" said to be not
sotally unlike Guinea, who came to town evil
IDENTIFY intent on Christmas plunder and right
well they succeeded. They would watch the
stores and when they found them full und the
clerks in "pother" to know who TO wait on
first, in they would strut, aud two of them sta
tiOn themselves at one end of the counter and
two at the other, and while the first would be
making some slight purchase, the other two
woud be bagging the goods. In this manner
they succeeded in hooking a good lot of De
LANES, stockings, etc, etc from the stores of
J. Henry Jefferson and John H. Bewley. The
former, In putting up his goods at dusk, missed
several whole pieces of valuable De LANES
he immediately suspected these parties of theft,
got out search warrant, and going 10 the
house of George Crisden, 10 whom the women
were related and where they expected TO have
their Christmas frOlic, the goods were found,
and several of the parties arraigned before
Justice Eaton and placed IN the Lookup for the
night. Crisden and wife got bail and two Of
the women were sent to Jail the next morning
20 await their trial at court. Crsden, it is
thought, did not know the goods were secreted
10 his house. Two of the women eluded the
officers, and have not yet been arrested.
THE FESTIVAL.
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