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Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

How He CARRIED THEM.-When a bow can
carry anything at one load he will not 90 twice
after It, This was the case with bow who
was working his way through Elm street. New
York, the other day, with twenty bean noles
on his shoulder. Now one bean pole is about
all an ordinary mortal can safely carry and
nobody butSa boy would undertake. to- carry
twenty OF them. He had tied them together at
the middle, leaving the ends loose. and had
thought on starting, without doubt, that he
was BOY OF remarkable promise. Bean poles
are naturally uneasy. When they can't move
one way they will another; but they will move,
and IN spite of all precautions. These did'
lie had them on his shoulder at first. but some
OF them got to dropping down behind, and
striking against people, and others fell down
IN front, and stuck into the sidewalk and made
hlm stumble. When the boy stopped, as he
was Obliged to do, some one in the rear would
step on the poles or in among them, and swear
at him. Finally, he turned round to see what
the matter was, and knocked the face out of
clock man was carrying in his arms. The
unfortunate youth then took the awful things
up in his arms, but they wouldn't Law still.
they Kept together at the middle, but were
demorallzed at the ends, and whirlcd about so
rapidly as to scare him. He looked like a
windmill, and presented such an awful spec-
tacle that people precipitately took to the
street, and several horses attempted to climb
up into their wagons. He had to drop the
load or be shot down in his tracks.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

SUMNER PLAY.-Nothing can be more cruel
and nothing more foolish than to place children
where they must be dressed every day in fresh
and fashionab ble clothes, and their freedom to
play curtailed for the sake of appearances.
What childhood needs is perfect freedom
among the things of natue-freedom to romp,
to make mud-pies, to leap fences, to row, to
fish, to climb trees, to chase butterflies, to
gather wild-fowers, to live out of doors from
morning until night, and to do all those things
that innocent and healthy childhood delights
IN, in cheap, strong clothes provided for the
purpose. Exactly that which childhood needs,
manhood and wOmanhood need-periect liberty
and perfect careleSsness. So, whether the
dweller by the sea go inland for his summer
play, or the resident of the inland city go to
the sea, he should seek some spot unvisited by
those devoted to fashionable display, and pass
his time in unrestricted communion with
nature, and in those pursuits and amusements
which without let or hindrsnce, perform the
office of recrsation.-Dn j. G. Holland
| ScriJner'S for july.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
WHOLE NO. 947

STOKES PERFIDY.-The Chicago Inter.
ocean, In trenchant editorial review of the
FISK tragedy, thus powerfully epitomizes. the
case against his assassin: Wv
.1here was perhaps, never, in the history of
crime, a more unjustlfiable homicide than the
k:illng OF James Fix, Jr., by Stokes. For
t tlLie tne latter was gilded parasite of the
loTiher lhe small speculator lived off the
crumbs from the table of the daring stool
operator; he wheeded from the reckless rail
way King the secrets of his ring. and traded
WIN pFont IN the shadows Of Wall street while
MS master waded safely through the deener
waters. But not content with these comnara-
liVey honeSt gains, picked up under the
S4auo" OF the man he began to hate because
OF OF his boldneSs and Of his good luck he
IIcrMed doubly di>honorabe alliance with
MS patron mistress dlsgracefu in itself be-
cause immoral and shameless bocanoo ~ "
hdlous to his friend. This alliance was a
Wretched partnership; the female role wac IN
hours OF confidence, to extract from their mn
.uaI protector the secrets of his business and
tHe tHe male role to use the information on
ChahgG Tor personal profit. Fisk discovered
the double perhdy of mistress and friend and
ueceNlhg the former, led the latter to the
verge OF financial ruin. Then followed the
Iu"SuitS Avs ana arrests. Both Stokes and Miss
IanSneid regarded Fisk's estate as lawful
i,,.,I l. ;SeI JoIhC cupldlty Both had
abused { n ms confidence ; both lived and -four
lsn9a S Ion on his bounty; both were extravagant
anu reckless; both saw ruin at the bottom of
the cup OF immortality they had drained TO the
oIe3S' D0th required money to support them
IN the costly pleasures Of the upper circles Of
vice; but every effort of ingenuity. every de-
vice or cunning, every trick of the desperate
gambler in the smiles of fortune, had been
exhausted, and in the heart of Stokes there
renamed nothing but the brutal thirst for re-
venge. '0' Az
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

DIsINFECTANT.-Af few pounds of copperas
dissolved in water and cast into a cess-pool.
will effectually and almost Immediately deprive
it of its noisome and unwholesome stencil. AS
the cost of this disnfectant is but few cents a
pound, why should not every housekeeper
apply it in the direction We have indicated |?
Such a course would be promotive not only of
public health, but of public and private COM
fort: We therefore earnestly advise the i'm
mediate adoption of this suggestion. The
warm weather is upon US, the cholera is
raging in the West, and may at any time make
its appearance in our midst. Let us do what
can be done to repel it, and one of the effectuaI
methods of accomplishing this is to maintain
] cleanliness and pure atmosphere. -.-.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

CoNFEDERATE CONFESSIONAL brave
anu sKlii1ul commander in the confederate
armies III the civil war has been making a
speech at Jefferson Barracks. giving 10 his
hearers, many OF whom had served in the same
armies his understanding of the reasons whv
'hG coniederates surrendered. They are
rather remarkable; and in order that we NAV
10 MN I no injustice we quote his own words:
VIII tell you why the southern soldiers
gre" weary OF the contest, and surrendered
'nelr arms It was because, after all their
PiiEItlohS anu losses. and cruel grief over the
Dloody graves OF their fallen comrades they
began to look to the future, and to saw: We'll
what then?' Made wiser by the stern educa,
tlon OF war, their love of constitutional liberty
naGe them tremble for the consequences of
nnal success. They saw that the end of the
war III that way would be but the beginning of
| others. ~
! !hey cast their eyes upon the government
at Rlchmond, and its constitution recognizing
the right OF any State, in certain contingencies.
% set up separate nationality for itself, with
Its little President and its little Senate. its
!lttie supreme Court and its little navy: with
It's Palmetto Its Pelican, or its Lone Star for its
nag, ana the soldier began to ask himself: For
what am | fghting? Will nv children he
Detter on when the wrongs | am redressipg
shall have been succeeded by others of greater
msgntudef Will my constitutional rights that
VIII remain to me in either event be as safe
uhuer the new nationality as under the old
Ana what can posterlty gain by exchanging for
| stlll another experiment the illustrious fabric
that Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson and
Adams, and the brave, wise and good men who
shared their counsels and dangers, established
and bought with the blood of my ancestry Of
the Revolution of l776'"
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
POetrV.
TWENTY YEARS.

Twenty years Sure, that's not long
My wife and are lovers yet
She sings to me the sel-same song
That won me when-I don't forget
The blssful time but then, you know,
To name the happy date and place
Would make it seem so long ago;
And Martha wears the same fair face
She wore when we together played
At some stll game by parlor fires:
When I was bashful as the maid
Who filled my heart with strange desires.
We're older now; our daughter Jane
Was turned eighteen some months ago;
Il see her walking in the lane
With neighbor Aliens tall son, joel:
But yet despite the growing years,
cannot quite outlive those days,
And Ottimes turn with happy .ears
To walk in dreams the same old ways
We walked, when meath the June rose trees
We fOndly fingered, hand in hand;
And, borne upon the summer breeze,
Game faint, sweet smells thro' all the land.
And how in garden paths we strayed-
To gather flowers tor you, my dear;
Till, safe within the high walls shade,
whispered in your blushing ear
Look: Where! What did you sayr
Our daughter Jane and tail young Joef
--"Yes, dear, he's telling her to-day
What you told me 80 long ago
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
American Morals.

The grand evils which menace the people OF
America now are not to be found in the cor
ruptiOnS of municipal or national rule. The
reign of the rings is broken, or totterlng to Its
fall, and vile men are Fastening to relieve
themselves of the odium which attaches to it.
Even those who seek to form new combinations
tor personal powers and profit find 1t uphill
work, and fail to make their intrlgues fruitful.
The wrongs which now front US, and wait with
desperation or trembling to be rghted, are
connected with the great railroad corporations
and their combinations and mOnOpolles. The
people by whose consent, and for whose bene-
tit, these railroads were built-raiIoads to
which have been devoted enormous areas OF
public land and stupendous prerOgatlVes and
prlvllegeS-are determined to have something
to say about their management, and deter
mined that their power shall be curtalled. The
corporations which have built them and are
administering their affairs are mani pulating or
controlling legislatures, and supeItuUusly en-
rlchlng all connected with them, while the
farmer cannot get paying return for his
wheat at his door, and the consumer buys his
bread at an eXOrbltant price. The fight OF the
people with these monstrous powers is begun,
aud is to be the great fight of the next twenty
years. The issue is not doubtful, though it
may be long delayed. Little Vermont finds to
her surprise that she has been imposed upon,
and haStens to do her people justice; and it is
safe to predict that in five years the railway
kings, and the oVerDearlng mOnOpolles, and
the corporations which run railroads for the
benefit Of their managers, will be so thoroughly
investigated that they will find it for their
interest to conduct their operations with a
degree of deterential reference to the interests
of the people whom they have cheated and op-
pressed.
1t seems to US that there is at this time q
very healthy public sentiment. No public
iniquity lives without protest No wrong -dOel
sits easy and unconcerned in his place. The
old apathy under wrong and misrue is passed
away. The good elements in society and poll
tics are full Of hope and courage; and we be
ieve it to be susceptible of proof that no Euro
pean country is less dominated by corrupt mer
than ours, or more willing and efficient in the
demolition OF all forms OF wrong. If there i
an apparent difference against US, it is simpl!
because We advertise our sins more widely thar
our sister nations in order that the peopl
may take intelligent action againts them
DR.. f. G. HOlland; Scribner tor July.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

AT Hudson, N. H., on Saturday morning,
Henry Jewett, aged 25, rejected suitor of
Miss Ella Wood, called at that young lady
house, and, drawing revolver, shot her in the
forehead, inficting wound that will probably
prove fatal. The young lady's father, Mr..
Chas. Wood, Immediately grappled with the
assassin, and terrible struggle ensued, ia
life. Mr. Wood finally threw Jewett on the
floor, when the latter put the pistol to his own
ear and fired, mortally wounding himself. 1t
appears that Jewetts wife is living, but he
separated from her soon after marriage several
years ago.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
tGHNKpat vATrpr-No. eq

An Act to declare the intent the
June eight eighteen hundred
datory OF the general bankrupt law.
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives
Of states Of America 10 Congress assembled That
IL the intent and meaning approved June
eighth eighteen hundred Seventy entitled
amend act entitled An to establish uniform OF
bankruptcy throughout the United States March
second eighteen hundred and sxtyseveh that the exemp
Ons allowed the bankrupt by the said mandatory should
and II is hereby enaaed that they shall be the amount allowed
BY the constitution and Of each State. respectively
existing In the eighteen hundred
that such exemptions valid debts contracted
the adoption and such State utiOn
well those contracted after the and aRaint liens
Judgment decree State court decson OF such
court rendered since the adoption and Of such eons
tuition and laws to the contrary notwithstanding. ~ %
Approved, March 3, 1873. M
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
CERTIFICATES :

consider the Lady's Friend Washing Machine so
fur superior 10 the DOy that my Dov Machine is laid
asie and for sale al half puCe REV. DANIEL SILL.
Certifcatss from Persons Lining in Smyrna, Del.
would not take one hundred duIIars Tor my Lady IS
Friend Washing Machine, could not get another one
OF the same kind. t. ID. HAMILTON.
cannot now conceive how should be able to get
along without my Lady's Friend.
Mrs. DR. WIN. II. COLLINS.
would not part with my Ladys Friend hardly at
any price. III could not get another Of The kind
have never seen any other kind OF a Washing Ma.
chime that would have. WIN. ii. BAGGS.
My wife wOnId dispose of any piece of furniture in
house sooner than with her lady's Friend Wash.
ing Machine. DAVID T. SMITHERS,
Before got tine Lady's Friend it took four women
nearly all day to do the washing of my hotel but now
a boy twelve yesrs old can do the amount OF
washing byIen eleven o'clock. and do the iron.
ing the same day. CHAS. +. FOXWELL.
sepl86m
For further information apply to
ASA Z. WORDEN, Manufacturer.
Agents Wanted Smyrna. Del.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

While a steward in one of the Msysville
(Kentucky) churches was handing round the
contribution box few Sundays since, taking
up a collection for foreign missions, his eve
and heart were gaddened by observing among
its contents a neatly rolled package that one
could easily imagine to be CHECK" or some
thing OF that agreeable nature On hastily
'ity of human nature was changed to Ger.
tainty by discovering 81 and a cent, and upon
the paper che following: "The cent is for the
heathen, and the dollar to get it to them"
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

,Chrysostom, when banished, said to friend,
ou now begin to lament my Punishment, but
have done so long time; for, since knew
that heaven is my country, have esteemed
the whole world a place of exile. Constanti-
nOpe; whence | am expelled, is as far from
paradise as the desert whittier they have sent
ne
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
IGExERAL xAruRE-Nn. As.l

An Act authorizing the President appoint Frank Ashton
second assistant engineer the OF United
BE il enacted by the House
the United States Of America in Congress assembled That
the President be- and Is hereby authorized by and with
advice and consent OF the Senate Frank VI Ashton
second assistant engineer in the United States subject
to the usual examination. Y
Approved March IL
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
lHENERAL NATURE--NO. 32.I
An Act to provide for the better and protection Of sub


Be IL enacted By the House
Of the United States Of America Congress assembled That
the Secretary of War be- hereby
powered to select from the sergeant the line OF the who
shall have faithfully served therein five three
which IN the grade Of commissioned officer
missary the service require exceed
for each military place OF deposit of subsistence
plies whose duty it shall be receive aud the sub
sistence supplies at the posts under the direction Of the
per officers OF the Subsistence department and under such
regulations shall be by the Secretary of War The
cOmmssay hereby authorized shall subject
the rules and article Ofwar and shall receive for their services
the same pay and allowances ordnance sorgeants
Approved, March 8, 1873.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
GENERAL xAruRE-No. al
An Act to amend

An Act to amend act entitled An promote the de-
veopnent OF the mining the United States
Be enacted by the Senate and House OF
OF the United states OF nerea in Congress assembled That
the IsiOns Of the nth section the entitled
promote the mining the
states passed May teuh eighteen hundred and seventy
which requires expenditures OF labor and mprOVent claims
located prior to the Of said hereby
that the time the 6rst claims
prior to OF said snail b. extended
day OF June, eighteen hundred and seyent, four.
Approved, Nareh /, 1873
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

A touching instance Of woman's devotion
comes from New Jersey A Trenton man was
convicted of burglary and sentenced to long
imprisonment; it turned out aftcrward that
he was innocent, having been in jail at New
Haven, Ct, at the time OF the theft The
noble wife came to the latter city, procured the
Ipapers necessary to prove an .alibi, pocketed
the documents, and ran off with another man,
leaving her spouse to languish in prison.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
IGEsRRAL xArURE-No. 4s1

An change and X the time OF holding the spTng terms
Of the United States circuit and district
OF COvingtOn and Paducah. in the State nf Kentucky.
Be enacted by the Senate and House Of
OF the United states OF America in Congress assembled That
the terms Of the United district
toore hedat COvngtOn, Kentucky, the third Monday
April shall hereafter be held there the Monday
May and the terms OF said heretofore held in Paduch
Kentucky the third Monday in March, shall hereafter be
held there the second Monday April.
Approved March /, 1873.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
IGENERAL xArURE-No. 43.l

in Pennsylvania and for other purposes.
Be enacted by the Senate and House Representatives Of
the United states OF America in Congress assembled That
the Office the of Chester in the district
Philadelphia, provided by the establishing said
proved March twenty ninth eighteen hundred
be, and the same Is hereby abolished.
SEC Thai an inspector Of customs to reside at the said
port Of Chester with the OF deputy collector shall be
appointed TOR said port and shall perform such duties
be dev0ved him according the
such officer shall exceed that allowed
of customs at the port Of Philadelphia i
Approved, March B.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
TGKyyRAI NATrRR-No. sn !

An Act to transfer the control certain and duties in
relation to the Territories to the Department Of the Interior
Be enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives
the United States of America IN Congress assembled That
the Secretary OF the Interior snail hereafter exercise all the
powers and perform all the duties relation to the Territories
OF the United States that by law by custom
cised and performed by the Secretary OF State.
Approved, March |. 1879.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25
WHAT COMES OF SARATOGA Matches

WHAT COMES OF SARATOGA Matches
An interesting divorce suit before the supreme
court is just now the society gossip at New
\ YOrk. Adelinc II. Douglass, the complainant,
first met her husband George w. Douglass,
at Saratoga, six years since, where he figured
as dashing young New York broker, worth
half million, at least. Their acquaintance
was soon followed by marriage, and ever since
lite has been continual jangle with this i'll
assorted couple, judging from their conflicting
statements at the trial Mrs. Douglass charges
that her husband is an habitual drunkard,
frequently coming home nights disgustingly
intoxicated, with his apparel in disorder, and
with temper disposed to vent itself upon her
in abusive epithets, and cruel and violent
treatment, frightening her almost out of her
senses, and making life, at least with him.
simply intolerabe. With the view to obtain
ing snug sum as alimony, she finally declares
that he owns real estate worth $500, 900, and
personal property to the amount of $lOO 600.
The husband, on the other hand specifically
denies all these charges, and heaps Goals of
fire upon her head by mentioning the many
things he had done to make life pleasant for
her, escorting her about to all tn; fashionable
watering. places, taking her tOi1urope, etc.
lie also has grievances to complain of in
neglect on her part, and finally desertion of
him. lie cites an occasion when, in playing
| croquet, she happened to be opposed to him,
| and during the game said to him, rudely,
"Y on state falsehood and are no gentleman"
then threw down her maet and left the
ground. Again, when riding iu Central Park,
she took pains to recognize, in passing, a
gentleman who was his enemy, and upon re-
monstrating with her she lcaped out of the
carriage aud went home alone. Finally, he
says that his real estate is worth less than
$l6j, 900, and is unimprovcd and unproduc.
tive that his wife lives with her mother, aud
has larger income now than he has
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

The Boston Transcript recalls the remark of
a quaint old clergyman of the last generation, in
that city, who used to say that bread is the
staff of life, but bread and butter is a gold
headed cane.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

Socrates called beauty short-lived tyranny:
Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a
silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice,
and Aristotle affirmed that it was better than
all the letters of recommendation in the world
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

A Sedalia, Mo-, servant girl lost her place
merely by straining four gallons of crab applc
jelly through an eighteen dollar veil. =
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

The cOlored Methodists of Washington ara
building one of the finest churches in that city.
at a cost of 100000.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

DEFECTIVE REIGToN.-A religion that
never suaices to govern man, will never
suffice to save him That which does not
sufficiently distinguish him from a wicked
world, will never distinguish him from perish
ing world -HO,ce.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

The married ladies OF a Western city have
formed come-home- husband Club" 1t is
end of it. ''..
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

Beer may not be intoxicating, but Il makr
q great many people lose their five centses.
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

A drunken man at Toledo, Ohio, wrote on
the wall of his cell, jug not, that ye be not
jugged."
Smyrna times., 1873-06-25

o.
AN ACT making appropriations for the consular and dplo
matte service OF the for the ending June
thly eighteen hundred aud seventyiour and other
rnns
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-12-20
RATES OF POSTAGE.
POSTAL.

DOMESTIC.
Letters, to all parts of the United
States, 3 cents each half ounce or fraction.
Letters, drop or local, cent each haH
ounce or fraction.
Miscellaneous mail matter (limite6 90 A
lbs:) Q cents zach 9 ounces OF f.aetioa.-
Books (limited to A lbs 2 cents each 3
ounces or fraction.
Newspapers, seeds, etc, (see list in Post
Ofice) limited to lbs, cent each 2
ounces or fraction.
FOREIGN.
A,..r. Letters per each half OF, % cts
Au'""' Newspapers pr each 4 OF, 8 cts
cb;n. Letters pr each half OF. 10 cts
Newspapers, pr each, 2 cents.
Letters pr half ounce, 8 cents
Newspapers, per each, A OF, &c.
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Newspapers, per each. 2 cents.
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o"i'@e'''"u }Newspapers per OF. 90.
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-12-20

Il H6ez0z dssc0uzst aDsW
be m5U9e on regular rates 10
merchants and others z7a<2:-
chasing large quantities.
The Arizona sentinel., 1873-12-20
New San Diego Holei.
p

THIS CoMMODIoUs HOTEL rs
i pleasantly situated on p street, near
Culverwell's wharf, within easy access Of
passengers by the steamers.
The table is supplied with the best the
market affords, and every attention paid to
the comfort of guests.
e Stages for various points leave this
house regularly.
jail If S. s. DUNNELLS.