Smyrna times., 1859-09-29
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SUNDAY SCHOOLS have been commenced in
Russia solely by voluntary efforts.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS have been commenced in
Russia solely by voluntary efforts.
DRIVES OUr.-All but two of the preachers
OF the Methodist Church North have been driy-
en- out OF Texas by the shareholders. Texas is
not yet free, for free speech even.
DR.. NErTLEToN's MAxIM.-Do all the good
you can in the world, and make as little noise
about it as possible.
RICHEs.-lt was beautiful thought of Bos-
suet, that Of all our riches, we can carry with
us into the other world only that portion which
we have given away in this.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CHARLES MATTHEWS are about
to return to the United States and make the.
atrical tour. They may be expected by the
Great Eastern.
Rev. DR. anthem, Of New, York, has de.
sired that his name might be Withdrawn from
the signatures to the House of Bishops, for the
restoration of Bishop Onderdonk.
THE Atlantic Monthly, with circulation of
$4,000 copies, is said to have yielded its pub
fishers an income of $4,000 or $l2, 900 year.
A NEW life of DIR. Coke, the first Bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal church, is in prepara-
tion by DR.. Etherdge, of England.
The American Convention at Utica IN. w
on Wednesday appointed committee to select
candidates from the two tickets already in the
field.
"MARRIED PEOPLE," says Dean Swift, for
being so closely united, are but the apter to
cease loving, as knots, the harder they are
pulled, break the sooner"
AN observation of Ben Johnson is applicable
n " ma at no dau uh0
let's his tongue get the better of his judgment:
lie would sooner lose his best friend than his
best JEST
ALL sides of the Opposition in Pennsylvania,
seem to be indicating pretty freely their pre-
ferences for Senator Cameron, as the next
President.
They held meeting in Christ Church Par
ish, South Carolina, on the 18th inst, and ap-
pointed a committee, to report at a subsequent
meeting, in favor Of re-openlng the African
slave trade!
THE New York Herald is engaged organi-
zng a company of reporters to give daily yer.
batim reports Of the next Congress. The cost
of the enterprise is estimated at between fifty
aud hundred thousand dollars.
STRANGE that belief in ghosts is innate in
so large a portion OF hamanly. No hamlet,
however small, but has its haunted house,-no
family but some member CT it has looked at
some time upon an unearthly presence.
A SIMPLE, but often very effectual remedy
for biIiousness arising from any cause wha
ever, will be found in drinking half tumbler
full of lemon juice 1t can be repeated, if ne.
cessary, and will put many headache to figh'.
MANY a male hirt, where he TO confess the
ba g
field: &" My vanity has very often made me take
great pains to make many woman in love
with me, if | could, for whose person | would
not have given a pinch of snuff"
JEFFERSON says that some men imagine that
they came into the world booted and spurred
by The grace of God ; and we may add, that, if
they don't behave themselves, they deserve TO
90 out " booted " by the grace of mankind.
On Monday last, Professor Pusey ascended
in balloon at Poughkeepse. In ascending, he
threw out a bandbox, which, on striking the
ground, burst, when large black cat sprung
out, to the CONSERVATION of the ladies' who were
present in the crowd to witness the ascension.
LITTLE fairy, Miss Dollie Dutton, the
smallest gIrl of her age in the world is aston.
ishing the good people of Massachusetts, by her
beauty and her wonderful performances. She
is 1" stray angel" " one of the greatest won-
ders of the world" &C., &c. Pass her along.
"WEBsTER's place in history" says the Bos-
ton Advertiser Wait, neighbor, thousand
years. and the people of that day will fix it far
above where his contemporaries are thinking of
placing it.
MOSES KIMBALL Esq, of Boston, offers three
| prizes, of $I2, $9, aud So, TO the citizens of
Franklin county. who set out the largest num-
ber of sugar naples along the roadside, during
the year 1859. and will probably continue the
same next year.