Smyrna times., 1860-07-12
WHOLE NO., 47O
Fractions of News.

panied by his brother, arrived in ALBANY. re.
Gently, and started for the West the next dav.
Although Mr.. VanBuren is in his 10Th year,
ne is as hale and hearty-lOoking as healthy
man of fifty five.
-Horace II. Day, the famous India Rub.
Der man, commenced his life with onIytwentv.
hVe cents. 10 defending his rights he has ex
pended $6OO,OOO, and he now receives from
MS opponents as settlement $5OO,OOO. He
is besides in possession Of much valuable pro.
perty.
The Louisville Courier saws: "a lady
VINO moves in the first circles of society in this
clty' had her face sadly dscolored few days
since, from the combined effects of fluid wbiien.
ing and artesian water. 1t appears that abe
went to the well and bathed, and after leaving
the delicious bath, she found, to her horror and
amazement, that her face was as black asan
Ethiopian's."
The health of the hero of San Jacinto
lSam Houston) is represented as poor. The
tough old soldier, who has braved an hundred
battles, and defed the powers of shot and shell
10 pull him down, cahnot stand a Presidential
nomination. The old hero has to suceumb-
a Texan paper says he now goes about on a
crn'ch because of lameness in one ofhis ankles.
1t will be marvel if all the other candidates
are not Frustrated before election time.
"A young Mississippi widow is said 10
have spent, at single dry goods house in Mem.
pills. Tennessee, last year, for the adornmeut
OF her person, 1885. An exchange thinks
sue must be very anxious to supply the place
LETT vacant by the dear departed.
An Illinois paper states that mans
nead(mlnus the body has been found near on.
ney' Illinois. II is in charge of DR.. Ridgeway.
at his drug store, and if any one has lost =
mead be is requested to call, pay expenses. and
take his property away.
The Gratlot (Mich.) Ne,os pives an a..
count of a new sect in Michigan called -.
" Church of God" but pass by the name .f
" Wyonabanrians." One of their pecpIi.r ~.
FINANCES consists of washing each others fact.
Ine elder offers prayer, then removes his
coat, girds on towel, and proceeds To w,s,
the ieet OF the member nearest him. y;n;ra -.
Ieet with the towel, then takes him BY The r;ns,
hand snd salutes him with kiss. The w.stos
men washes the feet of the next brother. and
Tue washing proceeds until all are w,sbsd
The sisters in the meantime, are bus;lv enr. s
ged IN washing each others feet Af,sr !.
hymn the services are closed. The clean feet
feature is to be commended.
| in The early days of PENNSYLVANIA ,hera
was law which stated as follows "Tb., g
any white female, of ten years or upwards,
should appear in any public street. lane. biob.
way, church, courthouse, tavern. hall.
theatre or any Othor place of public resort, with
NAKED shoulders Il. e., low-necked dresses
oelng able to purchase the necessary clothing.
shall forfeit and shall pay fine ofnot less thar
one, or more than two hundred dollars The
closing paragraph ofthe law, however. permit.
'ed women OF questionable character to bare
their shoulders, as badge of distinction be.
tween the chaste and the unchaste. Ladies
who are in the habit of barring their shoulders
in public now-a-days, can Judge whether socb
provision would be necessary to sucb law
now-a.days
-Mr Hume, the medium whose iupele-
rles have caused SO much talk both in Europe
/ and America, has recently been giving enter.
tainments in London. He is aristocratic IN his
!, tastes, and will not look at a drawine-room
under certain rank. His mode ofouera,inr
is ever the same 10 its general arrangements.
: the room is darkened, and when the spir;ts NJ
the spectators are subdued by the gloom. The
voice Of Hume is heard, saying that he is rising
on gAosily hands in air. AS corroborating tes.
timony, be occasionally takes a pencil and
writes on the ceiling the name of his host
! Several of the guests declare that, against the
I feeble light of the windows, they have often
= seen Mr.. Hume's feet dangling ia space
!; others are ready to declare that they have fell,
), his feet upon their shoulders as they sat, aw.
i fully silent, on their chairs few. particularly
y favored, assert that they have dimly seen him
a descend with his knees on the table after ons
I Of his @rial flights.
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