Smyrna times., 1858-01-14
DetGaUGre Aff0Srs.

To CHANGE HANDS. MIR. Jones. who f,
some years was propr etor of the hotel at Ney
Harden, chester county, Pa, has rented In,
holel IN Milford ct present occupied bv Geo
Y. Tumlln, and will take possession about tn
hrSl OF February. Mr.. Tumlln intends reno
wing 10 Ne" Castle county, and engaging il
The business OF flaming. Milford Ne~s
GFPetitons praying Congress to establish
an agricultural bureau are being circulated
Tor signatures. committee has already been
appointed IN the House of Representatives tc
consider the matter, of which we believe Hon
w. u. Whiteley, is chairman.
OF The wife Of win. Gregg, who reside.
near the Red Lion, gave birth 10 three chi.
dreD, on Saturday last, all Of which are living.
Unfortunately the tax on the strength of the
Inoiher was too great, md we regret 10 hear She
died on the following Monday
DEATH.--On Monday week, Mr.. James d
OIIns the Collector OF Dover Hundred died at
Ills Residence In Ilaz!ettvlllc, Of typhoid fever.
In LucK.-We arc pleased 10 hear that ON,
friends Curtis d Bother, of Newark, have been
awarded the contract, class No. =, for supplying
tne U: .: government with paper, amounting
from S5,OOO to $)OOO0 The agreement wns
to have been signed before Hon. Willard H,u
Judge OF the U. ). District Court, OH Thursda
last.
Ut On Monday night last valuable hor.e
was stolen from the stable OF DIR. Frederick /
Owens, otCIark's COrucr on the Delaware Rail.
road.
Academia man named Zebulon Clark
living near WIllamsville, Kent county. in o,'
tempting to get ON his horse While in n stnre of
bcdstiy intoxlcatlon, on Tuesday last. INST bis
equilibrium, aud yielding to the attraction nj
grdvitation, tumbled backward I'd INTO a putteraud
broke hts collar bone. Such accidents be,pr |
OF frequent occurrence, should teach that class |
OF uhiortunates, VINO Will sometimes cram their |
SKINS 700 fuil Of Il. G, the serious proprIcty Of
keeping quiet when they find themselves too |
tight TO inaIntaIna steady perpemd lcular. DIR
Owens was called III the case and set tho t,ac
lured bone.--DeL. Demo rat
G~r party Of men eng2 gcd in cutting wood
Ior the raIlroad, made an attack upon the dwell
IIhg ot an IhonenslVe man residing ab0u mile
below Dover. lie and wife were obliged a.
ilee to save their lives. The house IN which
tney hVed was nearly DESTROYED. ComDIoin,
was made to Sheriff Green, who about nonn nm
Sunday, summoned posse Of about one hun.
dred men and proceeded 10 the Macedon,on
camp" where 1t was supposed the offenders
lived. The woodcutters, 1t is supposed, re-
ceved notice of the Sheriff's party, and quietly
left. Being unable 10 fnd them, the army re.
turded from the expedition without success- ,
the return was occasioned BY fear :
lest the enemy might appear. we are unable to
say.
STUDY lNDIAN.-SOrae of our country co,em. n
porarics are grumbing sorely about the inordi. 4
nate length Ofthe public documents nova days.
whether emanatDg from WASHINGTON mr. H.
State Legislature. There can be no doubt tLoI
here is disposition on the part of the publie
eryanls TO give them bushel of words TO A Y
,rain Of ideas, and we second The motion for k
oform. The Indian speeches that were made p
: the White House, the other day, were mod.
e, which every public man ought TO study
ne req man there had plenty of ideas, and the
yords he expressed them in were far more eIo-
Iuent and touching than the white mans. when
e is speaking or writing for Buncombe
'iudy Indian.--N Y. Express. ." :