Smyrna times., 1878-01-02
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

FoR the first half of the new year Jupiter
will be morning star.
TUE days will begin to lengthen now. and
the cold to strengthen.
GOODBYE, 1877. May your successor be
traught with happiness toanll our readers
One and all, great and small.
Good luck good health good cheer
Throughout the coming year"
BE careful in turning your leaves for the
new year that you do not soil them on the
start.
J. N. CLARK as executor will sell at public
sale Jan. 10th, the personal property of s.
5. Hallett near Blackstone Cross Roads.
PRoF. CHAs. 7. DuNxrxG, instructor in
languages at Pennington Seminary, n. j.,
and formerly Of Dover, was in town this
week.
BY advertisement in another column it
will be- seen that the meeting to organize
the Kent County Agricultural Society will
be held in the Levy Court room, Dover.
next Tuesday.
THERE is, we learn, pretty conclusive
evidence as to the identity of the man
who threw the cayenne pepper in the town
hall at the Teachers Institute. He hailes
from the country.
The bride and groom, Mrs. and Mr.. Jas.
ID. Wilds, with their travelling companion,
Miss Alice Hotlecker, returned last evening
from a pleasant trip in the coal and oil
regions Of Pennsylvania.
By advertisement in another column if
will be seen that Mr.. Colbourn & Co. Ct Sea.
ford, have reduced the price of their lime
% per cent. for the present year They
now offer it at cts. per bushel.
HONE FOR THE HoLIDAYs.-Those off at
school who have come home to spend
their holidays are the following: Misses
lizzie Garrison and Lizzie Rees, Bor;lentown.
n. j.; Moses Price, Media, Pa; F. r. Chal.
mers Umsted, West Nottingham, Pa.
The watch meeting at the NJ. f. Church
on Monday night was well attended. the
| auditorium being filed. The occasion
was one Of considerable solemnitv. and
several arose for prayers. This is the be.
ginning OF the annual protracted meeting.
The directors of the Bank of Smvrna
| have called a meeting for an early dSv in
January, 1878, to consider the propriety OF
| reorganizing the bank, under the National
| banking Laws. At the reorganization the
branch bank at Milford, it is understood
Will be discontinued.
LARGE YIELD or WHEAT.-Henry Slaugh
I ter on tho Raymond farm" in Raymond:
Neck, belonging to Henry Stout, has got
/ 1852 bushels Of wheat from As acres. Thi,
would be n fraction over 3j bushels pei
acre, and is the largest yield for the mum
Der OF acres, in Duck Creek hundred, and
SO Tar as we know in the county.
THE first of the year brings the settlin,
| time. Our merchants, our manufacturers
&c, are now to take an account Of stock
| They are to balance their accounts to Sc,
| how it has been going with them for thC
/ past year. They must see whether they
have made any forward progress, or takef
steps backward.
IT was decided by the chief justice at The
! New Castle court, that a person finding al
article and retaining it, is the same as if h,
had stolen 1t, and can be arrested for felony
and, on conviction, sent to the penitentiary
The law, no doubt, would apply to man,
/ persons OF our town, as it is seldom al
article is returned, when found, to il
lawful owner.
- ulduc from SuDscfl
bers receiving their papers in an adioinin,
post Office that their papers are not received
and at other times are in a rumpled condi
ton. We know that the papers are for
warded from here to their destination, an.
have satisfactory evidence they are takei
out Of the p. o. by others than the sub
scribers. If may save trouble for the p. NJ
to take note of this.
The bells tolled the exit Of the old year
sounding as it were, a requiem over il
departing sorrows. 1t was fitting thus t
mark its ending. Almost from its begin
ming q shadow has seemed to hang owe
smyrna, and business misfortdnes, untimel
! deaths and sad afilietion have marked il
course. AS the hands Of the dial told tn
advent Of the new year, the bells rang ou
more joyously, prophetic, let US hope G
brighter days,