Smyrna times., 1878-11-13

BUSINESS N0TICES.-Wo note the TACT as ,
an evidence of home patronage, that the
tailoring department of +. M. FOwler's store
is kept busy day and night.
1t is an evidence of superior taste and
on the part of one of our
dress makers when she receives orders all
the way from Florida.
j. Alexander Fulton, Esq, advertises at
trustee sale, on Saturday next, the lands OF
the late Major James Chiffins.
Misses Collins & Savin advertise cloth
for ladies coating.
L. P. Mcdowell adv sale of Short
horned Durham Cattle on Nov. 2lst.
Geo. II. Raymond adv. store house and
dwelling for rent.
w. F. A. Woodcoc1 adv. a watch and |
chronometer maker from Scotland.
THE MARKETs-The markets for all kinds |
of country produce are low and no pros
pect for improvement. The best white |
wheat will bring in Philadelphia from $lO4 |
to $l.06, while common red is $l.03, and |
some grades as low as 95 cents. Corn Is
worth 46 to As for old, and new from the
Peninsula sells in Philadelphia for 46, but
not much is going in. Delaware eggs bring
27 cents dozen, or more than bushel OF
oats sells for. Nothing at present that
farmers produce will pay them so we'll as
tcrest to have warm houses with glass
| fronts and the best kind of food to induce
the production Of eggs in winter. Turkeys
in the city market are selling dressed at
| from - to IA cents rs to quality and ap-
pearance. Dressed chicken and ducks are
selling at from s to 10 and dry-picked from
| 10 to l3 cts. per pound.
THE TEMPERANCE MEETING at the Hall on
Sunday afternoon was presided over by j.
V. Smith and the scripture lesson read by
Rev. Mr.. Haynes. After appropriate music,
Rev. J. II. Wiley, of Townsend. was in
troduced and for twenty-five minutes held
the closest attention of the large audience
which had assembled to hear him. His adj
dress was scholarly in thought, incisive and
epigrammatical in manner of presentation
and delivered with the graces of the trained
elocutionist. His theme was the moderate
Drinker," which was presented as the most
deceptive and dangerous Of all the phases
of the inebrates life, and was greeted on
its Gloss in an applause equivalent to an
, encore.
DR.. Collins stated that it was the desire
! of the friends of temperance to hold 4
State Temperance Convention in this towr
some time before the first of the coming
., year, and moved that committee be ap
: pointed to make definite arrangements fo
5 this purpose. The following was the com
}, mttee appointed, viz: ]. V. Smith, DIR. w
u r. Collins, Jas. G. Lassell, VIM. w. Nelson
VIM. II. Baggs and DR.. j. G. Swinney.
l. The CLoUGH AND HONEY HEIRS Claim
y to a Large Inheritance-We have given OF
u two or three occasion during the past year
IS items in regard to the contemplated effol
to obtain two estates in England by heir
in this country, viz to the Clough an
g Honey heirs We speak of them both
Is the same connection, though they ar
G. separate and distinct, except as to til
rs means Of procuring them. The Cloug
Of estate runs back to our early histOr.
er Sometime before the Revolutionary wa
four brothers of this name came over
at this country and bought lands, the titles
10 which were recorded in England and A
in napols, Md. One of the brothers returnC
* to England and died there, the others /
of mained in this country. The brOthe
or owned lands, which now stand in the tow
of Swansea, South Wales, and it is fro
the rents Of these lands that the money
"a, accruing to the Clough heirs
"a M 1t is the heirs OF James and Chan
" Clough scattered in Delaware Marylan
On New Jersey and some tout west" that a
iS uniting in the effort to gain this lost esta
'e' CLANCY ClOugh has a connection with t
history of our State, having allied hims
to to, and was warm partisan OF the Tori
rs and for killing man in an effort to CT
mi ture him in his Forest fort, was hung
will murder at Dover.
ng. The Clough family are more numerC
ted in the vcnities Of Templeville and Chul
Hill, Md, but a number of them reside
"a this State Among them are the heirs
oh (lAmi
~, Reed; heirs of Christopher Byles; John
Ion Ho Voshell, near Hazletteville; the Tayl,
out @ near, Magnolia; the Kemps, near viii
:I Grove and Red Lion and John S. Rash {
"'i the large family of Hayes near Kent
The prospective heirs number altOget
nd about eighty. They have had sew
eek meetings, the last one being held at II
De a plevile, c. r. Merriam of Dover tax
OF charge of it in the interest of their
ND torney, J. w. Green, of Brooklyn, '
.eet' could not be present. They resolved
lngs raise $500 to send lawyer Green to Engla
who will be accompanied by Noah Clol
ddi. of Church Hill, the latter defraying
with own expenses. Some ten years ago,
eek stated, Thomas Mallalieu, of Milling
ach. was sent over to England in the interes
bout these heirs and learned that the me
Y to was in the Bank of England, then amo
rs Is ing 10 ABOUT ~ I,OOO'OOO' suPPOseu Ho"
lces nearly double that amount.
the The Honey claim amounts to about
same figures, also in the Bank of Engl
20. The property comes from Great uncle
80 ~ died there, leaving no heirs and who W
,p nnd his property to his heirs in America
- o." this we hear of but two claimants, |.
LIE TIE man Honey of Dover, son of Lood
th;e Honey, of Kenton Forest, and a mai
-" sister living in Philadelphia They
ne of are " Piace Pooo ~ i"|yet ~, It -"
,ly Of VINO VIII lnS5Seleato @ uoo'; o1SdnS MI In
IN i'1'ho he and Mr.. Clough are expected to sal
England.