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Smyrna times., 1876-11-15


THE CENTENNIAL OvER.-The fact that
the Centennial is over seemed to be accep-
ted by the public on Saturday, and though
the day was pleasant the attendance was
small-only about 1880. 1t was painfully
evident that very little further satisfaction
could be had by visitors, as many of the
departments were already fenced up, or
otherwise closed. In the Main Building,
China, Japan, Russia, and parts of Great
Britain were entirely closed. So was the
English Department in Memorial Hall,
visitors being pretty psremptorily ordered
out about the middle of the day. Many
exhibitors had already dismantled their
exhibits, or were rapidly doing so. The
U. S. Government building was closed. In
Machinery Hall everything was silent of
course, the great engine having been
stopped on Friday, and many pieces of
lighter machinery were already taken to
pieces and in process of packing up.
Altogether the interference with sight
seeing was SC great, and the disposition was
so strongly displayed by everybody to
regard the "show" over, that the attend
ance hereafter must certainly be only
nominal.
THE PERMANENT EXHIBITION.
A large meeting of those interested in
this enterprise was held Saturday after
noon. II was announced that $50 applica-
tiens for space had already been received,
and it was certain that the Main Building
would be filed. The question is now sim.
| ply one Of money. IL is proposed to make
the capital.stock 100000. At the meet
ing 200 in cash and $4,000 in Centen.
nial stock was subscribed. The Penn
sylvania Railroad Company communicated
its desire to subscribe its Centennial stock,
amounting TO $250000. The Reading Rail
road subscribed its stock too, amounting to
$l14,000; also, the Lehigh Valley to the
amount Of $4,000. The North Pennsylva.
mia a. Baltimore roads desired likewise To
hand over their stock The meeting then
adjourned until Tuesday.
The house of the German Commissioners
has been presented to the city Of Philadel
phia.
The royalty ON beer and soda water sold
within the grounds will amount 10 about
$500000
The Globe Hotel is to be removed tc
Long Branch.
J, The grounds were open TO the public, free
! on Sunday, and it is estimated that at least
10000 persons we're present during tbs
day,
Tho hotels are comparatively deserted
, and since August 20, Saturday was the frs
day that guests were not turned away from
, the Continental.
, The Germans are presenting some articles
to the German Society for distribution L
poor children on Christmas. The Japanes,
, and Chinese have also made contributions
) You need not neglect your business whel
, troubled with cough or cold, If you onl,
use reliable remedy at once. DIR. Bull
J Cough Svrup Is the best remedy we knop
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

THERE is every probability that some
action will be taken in this town to induce
the Railroad Company TO do something to
relieve us from the disadvantages that must
certainly arise from the present or pro.
posed arrangements at the new depot here.
The danger to carriage travel, as now
threatened by the tracks running along
both Commerce and Methodist sts., prom.
ises disadvantage all around, TO both town,
railroad and travellers, and it is fair TO pre-
sumo that If the r.. r. Company can be
lead TO properly consider the matter plan
can be devised to obviate the trouble. ID is
q serious question in the minds Of some Of
our citizens whether il would not be as well
10 remove the branch road altogether, as
to have il in its proposed shape, If it should
prove the obstacle to travel by public road
it now promises to do. Ii is no more to
the interests of the town than the r. X.
Company that the matter should be
thoroughly canyassed.
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

The PRESIDENTIAL QUEsrIoN.-Thsre is
hardly any necessity for saying that the
Presidential contest is undecided; every
body knowsit. Wethoughtitw was lastwsek,
but we were mistaken. When it will be
decided is hard to tell, but our leading
daily papers seera to think it may be a
week or more yet. The returning boards
of the disputed States-South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana-are to decide the
question when they meet and count the
vote. In the mean time let every one
possess his soul in peace. We do not pro-
pose to discuss the subject, because people
are tired of reading about it in their dailies,
and when they pick up their local papers
twill be "a rest for them to be exemptfro it.
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

The Local OPTIoS MOVEMENT
PenneH CoombSs Appointments in his Slate
Rev. p. Coombe began the canvass Of the
State for Local Option, on Sunday last, in
Dover, where he preached twice on that
day, and delivered two lectures, besides
meeting the Kent County Executive Com
mittee, holding a meeting for ladies. On
the 10th, and 18th, to-day and tomorrow
he will lecture Id Camden, and then 90 to
Georgetown, where he will preach, and
lecture the same as in Dover, for three
days, meet the Sussex County Executive
Committee, and hold meeting for ladies
on Tuesday afternoon. On tho 22d and
23d he will be in Frankford, Sussex CO.,
and thus he proposes TO proceed through
out the State, circulating petitions as
he goes. Mr.. Coombe also proposes TO
hold meetings for ladies, in the day time,
at prominent points, and organize Women's
Temperance Unions.
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

porE PAcKruG AT THE WEsT.-The
,,narxeting of the hog product for the mo
ment attracts most attention. The pork to
be packed during the four naonths of the
winter season it is estimated will be worth
$4,000 600, or SIS. 600 900. according to the
prices which will prevail The movement
necessarily viii have more or less lni1uence
on the money market in that quarter
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

THE TIMES" is published every Wednesday after
noon by JOSEPH H. HoFFECKER, Editor and Proprie-
tor, at Smyrna Delaware.
rERMS-SUBscRIPTI year $500 in advance, or
$3.50 if not paid till the end of the year. No paper
discontinued until all arrears paid-only at the
option of the Publisher.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate of
Seven Cents aline for the first nsertion subsequent
insertions Three-and a-halfcents. Alberal discount
made to quarterly, semiannual and yearly adverti-
sers
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

THE largest pair of shoes ever made in
this town, if not in the United States, was
made by Messrs. johnson, here, last week,
for a negro boy of seventeen years living
with one of the Cochrans, at Middlstown.
His feet are SO large that no shoe measure
is long enough to take their size. No
measure stick is made for a larger size than
'":twslves," but this boys foot, measured
with a carpenters rule, will draw at least
fourteen" in size, according to the best
calculations that could be made. 1T has
been necessary for him to have a pair Of
lasts made, and huge pile Of lumber they
are, surely. They were made year or
more ago, and are now too small, so that
the workman had TO fasten pieces Of leather
on the heels or toes to lengthen them out
sufficiently. A number "S" is an average
size, but this sable youth has "founda.
ton" nearly double the proportions Of an
average man, and what's more, it seems tc
be still spreading.
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

PRESIDENTIAL CoNTEsTs.-Five Preslden-
tial elections in which the vote OF some
one State might have changed the result
occurred out of the % from 1889 to 1872.
In 1896, when the State Legislatures chose
the electors, Adams had only a majority of
two over Jefferson, the vote being II to 60.
In 1912 President Madison was chosen over
De Witt Clinton by 128 to 80. In this con-
test the vote of either Pennsylvania (23)
or Virginia (23) would have made De Witt
Clinton President. In 1894 the full electo-
raj vote of New York (34) would have given
Andrew jackson q majority of all the votes
cast. As it was he received only one vote
from this State, and the election devolved
upon the House of Representatives.
The contest in 1874 was exceedingly
close. Polk received 10 votes; Clay, 105.
The loss of New York (34 votes) was fatal
to Henry Clay. Folks plurality in this
State was only 5000 that a change of
1854 votes would have secured the election
of Henry Clay, with all its eventful conse-
quences. At the sixteenth Presidential
felection (lS48), the vote of New York (34)
or Pennsylvania pa would have given Cass
a majority over Taylor. Buchanan won in
1856 by SO votes. Without the aid of
Pennsylvania he would have had only 148
votes, the exact number necessary to q
choice. Had Pennsylvania gone Repub-
lican in October, his defeat was inevitable.
Lincoln received, in 1850, $50 votes, against
l23 for his opponents. Notwithstanding
his great plurality, he needed the vote Of
New York to give him a majority of all
the votes cast. Henceforth small as well
as large States may deem themselves ol
great account.-N. Y. Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

LINCoLN's BoDY.-AReged Anenlpt to Steal
IA special dispatch from Springfield, ILL.,,
to the New York Herald says:
"a most daring attempt was made Tues
day evening by several scoundrels to break
into the vault Of the Lincoln monument at
this place and steal therefrom the remains
of the dead President. Some weeks ago it
was suspected that designs Of this kind
were premeditated, and strict and con.
slant watch has been kept. Itwss thought
that Tuesday night being election night,
and everybody busy over the election mat
ters, would be selected for the job. Elmer
Washburne, late chief of the secret service,
and United States detective Tiarell, with
several assistants, were accordingly secreted
in the reception room of the monument
during the afternoon and evening. At nine
o'clock the attempt was made; the vault
was entered the sarcophagus was opened
and the burial case drawn out, when
the detectives sprung out, and by
the accidental discharge of revolver the
monsters were frightened and fed into the
shrubbery. They are now being pursued,
and although there is but slight clue to
their indentity they will doubtless be taken.
The design was q deeply laid plan by sharp
men to arrange for q ransom"
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

BUTTER IN FRANCE.-If our dairymen need
a spur, an eye;opener, a lesson which speaks
volumes in three words, here is one at the
head of this article. Butter is actually
brought from France and sold by the New
York dealers. And this is thus because
there is an actual scarcity in the market of
good butter put up in an attractive shape
for small consumers. When we know that
one dairyman gets $l.l5 pound for his
products, another 81, another IS cents the
year round, at his dairy door, it is easily
seen that it will pay to bring butter across
the ocean from France if it is only good and
shapely enough to suit the fastidious pur
chasers who will have something nice,
whatever it may cost. All this butter is
made from choice cows, choicely fed on
clean sweet food; the milking is done in
the cleanliest manner. The milk is shandled
as carefully as though it were nectar, the
cream is churned with clock and thermom-
eter, the butter is worked with skill, and
is made up in shapely cakes, which do not
require to be cut when brought to the table.
Compare then, this cake-hard, golden yell
low, sweet, fragrant and tempting to all the
senses-with an unsightly chunk, which is
cut out of greasy keg, and smells of old
age and rancidity, and is made from illkept
cream from COWS filthily lodged and care.
lessly milksd, and the difference is amply
accounted for.-Net0 York Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

A MATRIMONIAL DUTY.-The husband
who is in trouble, or involved in difficulties,
should tell his wife all about it at once.
Ten to one, her invention will solve the
difficulty sooner than all the husbands
logic. The wit of woman has been praised,
but her instincts are quicker and keener
than her reason. She is too commonly
adjudged as verdant in all but purely
womanish affairs. No philosophical student
Of the sex thus judges them. Their inten-
tions, or insights are very subtle, and if
they cannot see cat in the meat, there is
no cat there. In counseling a man to tell
his wife his troubles, we would go farther,
and advise him to keep none of his affairs
secret from her.
Many home has been happily saved and
many fortune retrieved, by mans full con.
fdence in his "better half" Woman is
far more a seer and prophet than man, il
she has fair chance. As a general rule
wives confide the minutest of their affairs
to their husbands, having no involvements
to screen from them. Why net recipro
cate, if but for the pleasure of meeting
confidence with confidence. We are
certain that no man succeeds so we'll in
the world as he who, taking partner fol
life, makes her the partner Of all his pur
poses and hopes.
What is wrong Of his impulses or judg
ment, she will check, and set right with
her almost universally right instincts
"Helpmeet" was no insignificant title, a!
applied to mans companion. She is q
helpmeet to him in every darkness, diff
Guilty, and sorrow of life. And what she
most Graves, and most deserves, is conf
dence without this love is never free from
shadow.-D Domestic Monthly.
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

You need not neglect your business when
troubled with a cough or cold, If you only
use reliable remedy at once. DIR. Bulls
Cough Syrup is the best remedy we know
Of. Price only 25 cents.
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

The closeness Of the electoral vote this
year will recall other previous close voting,
in 1897 the Electoral Colleges cast II votes
for John Adams and 6S for Thpmas Jeffer:
son, while in 1901 jefferson received rs
votes and Burr rs, so that the House, as
the Constitution then existed, had to decide
the result, though Burr had boen the Vice
Presidential candidate with Jefferson.
There has not since then been as close a
count, but the House, where several candi.
dates were voted for, has had 10 decide the
contest, no one having had a majority in
1924, when Adams, Jackson, Clay and
Crawford were voted for by the electors,
and the House decided for John Quincy
Adams.
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

SCARCITY OF MoNRY.--'rhere is no doubt
but the present condition of all kinds of
business and industry is fearfully depressed,
and it bshooves every family to look care.
fully to their expenses. Winter is coming
on when children are liable to Group,
Whooping Cough, etc. Coughs and Colds
will prevail everywhere, and Consumption,
with other throat and lung diseases, will
carry off many. These diseases should not
be neglected. Doctors bills are expensive,
and we would advise our people to use
Boschee's German Syrup. II never has
failed. One bottle at IS cents will keep your
whole family well during the winter. Two
doses will relieve any case. Sold in all towns
in the United States, and by your druggist
Jas. p. Hoffecker, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1876-11-15

Mrs. John Slaughter died very suddenly
of erysipelas in the face, last week, near
Templeville.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-04-27
The Drying Rivers Of Europe.

It is a well known fact that as the set
tlement of o country becomes general,
and the forests are cleared, or the open
country brought into civilization, the
effect is quickly seen in the diminished
water supply of rivers during the sum-
mer.
In Europe this diminished water sup
ply is yearly more felt. Attention is
again called to the subject in Austria,
and circular, accompanied with a re-
port, has been addressed to the scien-
tifc societies of Europe, by the Vienna
academy of science, inviting them to
unite in observations for the determine
tion of the causes of the decrease of the
water in springs, rivers and water
courses.
For certain number of years the wa
ters of the Danube and other large rivers
have been diminishing. The Austrian
engineers and architects union have
taken up the same question, and have
appointed hydrostatic commission to
collect facts and prepare report. Two
members will observe the Danube, the
Elbe and the Rhine; and two others will
study the meteorology OF the subject,
aud the influence that the Alpine gla-
ciers and torrents may bear upon it.
The commission regards the destruc-
ton of the forests as the prime cause OF
the disastrous decrease of European wa
ters, and urge an immediate adoption OF
measures to remedy the evil.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-04-27
A New Hampshire Town Meeting.

Space would fail me to tell half the
oddities of election customs in this
State, writes a Concord correspondent.
They call an election "town meeting, "
and that's what it really is, for the whole
town turns out in the morning and
gathers in the town hall. At nine
o'clock the three selectmen take the
platform and announce that the election
of a moderator is in order. Each party
makes nomination, and if the town is
close there is division-the Democrats
going on one side of the hall and the
Republicans on the other to be counted.
Either side, if dissatisfied, can demand
O ballot, and sometimes the whole fore
noon is consumed in getting organized.
When they get moderator they put it
to vote how long the polls shall be kept
open. Sometimes they close the poll
for representative at one or two o'clock,
and keep on voting for the general
ticket until six. Usually all voting in
the country towns ceases at three, but
there is nothing to prevent keeping the
boxes open until midnight, and. this is
occasionally done in the cities. If there
are three candidates for representative,
and neither gets an absolute majority,
there is q second ballot had and often a
third or if night comes on, and the
farmers want to 60 home to milk, they
postpone the business until next day.
The town, being q petty sovereignty In
such matters, can do as it pleases.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-04-27
MariOn's Dinner Party.

A British officer was at one period of
the Revolutionary war dispatched with
q flag of truce to General Marion.
What was his surprise on being con-
Quoted into Marion's presence to behold
in our hero sw ,rthy, smoke dried little
man, with scarce enough of threadbare
homespun to cover his nakedness! Hav-
ing recovered a little from his surprise
he presented his letter to General
Marion, who perused it, and soon settled
everything to his satisfaction. The
officer took up his hat to retire.
"Oh, no." said Marion, "it is now
about our time of dining, and hope, sir,
tLat you will give us the pleasure of
your company to dinner"
At mention of the word dinner the
British officer looked around him, and
to his great modification could see no
signs of it.
"Well, Tom," said the general to one
of his men, "come, give us our dinner"
The dinner to which he alluded was
no other than heap of sweet potatoes
that were snugly roasting under the en-
bers, and which Tom, with his pine
stick poker, soon liberated from their
ashy confinement, pinched them every
now and then with his fingers, especial
ly the big ones, to see whether they
were done or not. Then, having
cleansed them of the ashes, he piled
some of the best ona large piece of bark
and placed them between the British
officer and Marion on the trunk of the
fallen pine on which they sat.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-04-27
Where to Buy.

A Vermont lady sends a protest
against an article which appeared in
the columns of city paper advising
people to go to the city to purchase their
goods. She thinks country merchants
should be encouraged; that their judg-
ment and taste in the selection OF goods
is better than the average housewives s;
that the time and trouble she takes In
going to the city to do her own shopping
gives poor returns; that she might bet
ter give the merchant list of what she
wishes, and get him to purchase for her,
than 60 herself; that the practice OF de-
pending upon neighboring cities tor
shopping facilities tends to make towns
suburban, and keeps them from retain
ing their distinctive character as coun-
try villages; that the ladies OF her town
who make their purchases in large cities
do no better, so far as she can learn,
than those who buy of the country mer'
chant. She concludes thus: 81 agree
perfectly with what you say about buy
ing by the quantity, but we can Go that
without going to cities; and just think
of the loss of trade to country dealers
and the personal discomfort of husbands
and children if women, on the strength
of your advice, fee to the city stores to
spend their money this spring"
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-04-27
The Centennial Rifle Team.

Capt. Macdonald, of the Scotch rifle
team, writes to the Volunteer Service
Gazette that six members of last years
Scotch Elcho Shield team-al who are
able to go to America to participate in
the Centennial matches-intend to shoot
for places in this team, and at least nine
other frst-class shots are ready to COM
pete. No shot, resident of Scotland,
who can 90, has held back. The deputa-
ton of the Irish rifle association, which
interviewed Major Leach in regard to
the organization of an Irish team by that
gentleman, included nearly all OF the
1875 international team. Capt. Mildmay,
secretary of the national rife associa-
ton, thinks the action of the Irish team
definitely settled in the negative the
question of the national association, g
representation, though Sir Henry Hal
ford has not yet received reply from
Col. Gildersleeve to his communication
asking that no team should be accredited
unless under the auspices of the national
rife association.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-04-27
Mrs. FitCh's Diamonds.

The revenue authorities are puzzled
to know what to do with the khediye OF
Egypt's famous gift to General Sher-
mans daughter. The diamonds are
locked up in the big vault in the sub
treasury. They were placed there In
June last, and unlessthey are taken away
before next June, they will be classified
as unclaimed goods, and sold by auction
to pay the duties and storage. Ii this
should happen, the money, after the de-
duction of the official charges, would be
paid to Drexel, Morgan & Co., Ii whose
name the diamonds are consigned. The
trouble is that Congress in authorizing
Lieut.. Fitch to receive the present to
his wife, neglected to relieve him from
the payment of the duties. The neck
lace and earrings which compose The gilt
were first said to be worth $3.50, COO, but
experts have since appraised them at
sis, 900. The duty on this amount would
be about $40, 1000. Gen. Sherman feels
that he is too poor to pay this, and he is
unwilling to appeal to Congress for an
exemption of the payment OF the duties.
Neither the secretary Of the treasury,
the collector, nor any of his deputies are
disposed to exercise their power OF
grapting free permit for the diamonds,
aud the Turkish ambassador, who has
the official prerogative of receiving them
in his name, will not ask for their re-
lease, because the khedive is only recog-
nized by his government as vassal.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-04-27
A Goat Story.

For some time past the clerks at a
station in Louisville have been annoyed
by goats that infest that immedia.e To-
cality. Not satisfied with the other
devilment these sly rascals are guilty OF
they chew all the tags off the cotton
bales sent there for shipment, thereby
cans ng great deal of trouble in ship
ping the cottol. The other day the
clerks surrounded about dozen OF the
goats and succeeded in driving them into
a box car alongside the platform and
fastening the door. That night there
was a carload of goats going north,
hitched to freight train. The car was
left at Indianapolis, and the next day
the door was thrown open and the goats
rushed out and made raid through the
town, upsetting and butting clerks,
hands, boxes, bales, ETC., as they es'
capped. Not being apprised Ct the ship
ment by way bill the indianapolis clerks
chased them all over town, endeavoring
to catch them, Of coErse believing the
company would have to pay for them as
"lost freight" if they were not caught.
By night all were caught and put back
in the car. A dispatch was sent to the
station man in Louisville Send on
your way bill. Got all the goats" A
dispatch went back in reply: Don't
want any. Let 'em CO." The race in
Indianapolis is said to have been very
exciting.