Smyrna times., 1878-11-27

Two ENTERTAINMENTS tomorrow night
the Anniversary at the Presbyterian Church,
and Sociable by the ladies of the Mite
Society at the Town Hail.
On Monday morning Prof. Williams,
editor of the Seaford I,ader, one OF our
bright Sussex exchanges dropped into our
Sanet,tm for friendly chat. BY the way, our
editorial bro. made so good an impression
| here that he need not be surprised if an
| early draw is made on him again for a ros-
trum entertainment.
GONG FOR HM.-The thieves seem to be
going for John r. Wilson. On Friday
night they stole lot of clothes from his
kitchen and made strong but unsuccess
full effort to force the door of his grocery
store. On Monday evening a 80 ID. firkin
of mince meat setting on his doorstep
walked away just after dark. Here was a
loss in this one item of about 81, but the
most serious thing is, John r. will lose his
Thanksgiving dinner mince pie.
THAT WEDDlxG-In our account of an
affair last week that came near resulting in
lady getting two husbands, we hadn't
the doings of the other fellow who, how.
, ever, fell into the hands of the Middletown
, Transcript man. 1t seems that while his
} successful rival was after his girl he was en-
gagng a minister to splice them the nGr
, day. At the appointed time the Rev. Mr.
= Martindale was in waiting when in came
the man alone. Why, how is this" wa
followed by an explanation of how he haC
been fooled and how she had gone anC
married another, &c. "IIow do you fee
about it?" asked Mr. NJ when the younj
, , man had concluded his story. "Why, Tn
glad didn't get herr was the reply, "anC
;, to tell you the truth, wasn't wanting
" wife very badly, anyhow" 1t is not proba
6 BILE that the young man was disappointe,
. badly enough to hurt himself, for we lear
y that he had another girl at church the yer
} next night after the expected wedding day
Some one else's fre-wood will suffer an
n some one else's light be turned down 50 lo
e. now.
: A SUPPOSED CATTLE THIET.-About th
i" time last year man came to this town an
! sold W. Frank Jefferson two fat cattle fc
- - $50. They proved to be stolen cattle, fror
~ near EIkton. Md, the owner, Jos +. Well
~ and Daniel Bratton, from whose field the
~ were taken, coming on here proving an
)" taking them away. Mr.. jefferson was tn,
mulcted out of $50. He could get no clu
to the thief, but on "Wednesday last
le man calling himself Edward L. SeltzC
rs | came 10 illlS lOWD WIln Il UOCk Oh SncC|
to and Mr.. Jefferson thinking him the d
n frauder bad from Esquire Colt Forthwith
re summons served upon him. He agreed
H. deposit $50, as security for his appearanC
C. here on Monday for trial. In placing II
n, money on the desk he remarked that 9TH
y, will not do," | must have s. to take n
IN home While Constable Weldon went
e ascertain if this would be satisfactory, II
Ill man picked up the $45 and met the CO
&c stable, the latter remarking THAT Il
re $45 would be satisfactory" supposing
course of it was in Cashier Bells hanC
:, During the afternoon he went into the bar
w again and remarked casually sis tn
ho money all right?' the latter replying, ii
ot when | get it," This put an entirely n(
t,, phase on the case-thc man and securi
~ were both gone. a State warrant was tn
w gotten out and Constable Weldon start
oi o in pursuit Of the sharp individual ov,
-, taking him at Townsend and bringing hi
81. ,,i- back. lie could not be identified as t
od cattle thief and consequently had to
i'm discharged, but the belief was general ii
IL IL there was crOOkedness in his ways, as
mho m offered the constable 500 at Townsend
let him go.