Smyrna times., 1877-11-14
WHOLE NO. l,l1G.

According to the Utica H,rqIA, Young
i3dy OF that city, writing to a friend over
the arrival OF her eighteenth birthday, tells
1t IN this JOYOUS style: Darling j.
must write to you to-day to tell that AT last
| am splendid eighteen Think Of if
Splendid clghteen--nOt timed fifteen. win.
ming sixteen, blushing seventeen, or even
bold nineteen, but-splcndid eighteen,
shall commence to live from this lav forth
! shall love everybody and everybody will
love me-"
The financial struggle Of the PbiIadoI.
phla Permanent Exhibition is amusing 70
dIslntercsted observers. A recent device
was day set apart for colored people. but
the idea OF race distinction was not relishcd
ny thc negroes, and all but about five hun.
area stayed away. On Saturday the pay ofall
the employees was intermittcd. and dead.
headS were excluded, so that all the re-
ceipts might 60 toward paying the debt
A GREAT PASSENGER TUNNEL-After three
years litigation the company Organized to
construct a tunnel under the Hudson river
from Jersey City to New York have effected
a compromise with the opposing companies,
ana the work begun in 1874 is to be i'm
mediately resumed. When the tunnel *
completed 1t is expected that passengers bv
ran Will be able to 20 through it from
Jersey City to New York in two minutes.
\ GREAT SHERIFF SALE.-Thc sheriff Of
Philadelphia on Monday week sold under
the hamber the largest number of prouer.
ties Of unfortunate debtors ever put M at
one sale in that city. The sale comprised
439 pieces Of real estate, COMPRISING oyer
LOGO different properties. OF these about
20 were sales made on forclosed mortgages
OF building associations. Many valuable
dwellings were sold.
The Rev. S. F. Smith, the author Of the
so-called National hymn America" had a
formal reception in Washington the other
evening. During the evening the acnoni
zlng request was made that he should give
the particulars Of the composition of
" America" This prayer-which suggests
=" Martin Chuzzlewit'' in its most inspired
passages-Mr. Smith decidedly declined.
TENEMENT House. MIsERY.-The death Of
LIhmlrtz Moritz, a child nine months old.
at No. 9S Mott street. New York. led TO the
discovery by the police that the house in
which the death occurred contained ninety
nine families or nearly five hundred
people. The house is regarded as a small
one, and the wretched families reliving in
many cases in but single room.
70 kILL LICE on UENs.-Put a table.
spoonful OF sulphur in the nest as soon as
hens or turkeys are set. The heat Of the
fowls causes the fumes Of the sulphur to
penetrate every part of their bodies, every
louise is killed, and as all nits are hatched
within ten days, when the mother leaves
the nest with her brood, she is perfectly
free from nits or lice.
General Shermans official salary, it is
stated, amounts to about $4,000 a wear. in
elusive of the usual communication for sup
plies He lives, at present, at the Ebbitt
House, in Washington. He is said to eniov
Washington gayetes greatly, and to feel
aggrieved when there is MOTTO use his
own words-"some sort of a fandango"
every evening.
Are you going to make a flower bed
here, Judkins?' asked q young lady of
the gardiner" "Yes, miss; them's the
orders" answered the gardiner "Why, it
will quite spoil our croquet ground" I"
" Can't help it, miss; them's your pas
orders. He says he'll have it laid out for
horticulture, not for husbandry!'
In Iowa an Irishman was bitten by rat.
tlesnake, but the liberal use of n neighbor's
whiskey cured him. The next day he was
seen walking slowly on the prairie, and
looking earnestly for something. He was
asked what he was looking for.
For the boite of a snake" was the
reply.
Charley Ross's father, in his vain search
for the stolen boy, has spent 100000, his
entire fortune, and is now a travelling sales.
man for an Eastern house. He has made
3OOJourneys in search of his lost child, and
says he shall persevere until it is found or
die himself
Mrs. Morton is preparing to leave In.
dianapolis for New Haven. where she will
live until her youngest son has finished his
college course. After that the two will
return to indianapolis and make that city
their permanent home. Mrs. Morton will
retain her house there.
A colored man, named Stewart, was the
republican candidate for associate judge
in Lawrence county, Pa, in the recent
election. The county went largely repIbli-
can, but Stewart was defeated, and hence
he thinks his party is ungratefu.
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In 1863 the post-olfice delivery at the
town of Pithole was the third largest in
Pennsylvania. Last November it cast six
votes, and the survivors of the great oil
metropolis have petioned for a dissolution
Of its charter.
"Jones, if burglars should get into your
house, what would you do?' 81 would do
whatever they required of me. I've never
had my own way in that house yet, and
it's too late to begin now"