Smyrna times., 1878-12-04

THE STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION will
organize on Thursday evening, Dec. Goth, v
at o'clock. The session will be open to {
the interested public. The evening meet
ings will probably be devoted exclusively to 7
public addresses by eminent speakers The :
convention will be likely to finish its bus-
ness in time to adjourn some time OH Sat
urday. 1t is desirable to have the names
of the delegates furnished as soon as con-
venient to VIM. II. Baggs, chairman of the
Committee on Homes.
THE TEMPERANCE MEETING on Sunday
afternoon was largely attended, j. V. Smith
in the chair, Scriptural lesson read by Rev.
Mr.. Haynes and prayer offered by Isaiah D.
johnson. AS previously announced, the
meeting was addressed by Rev. j. Shilling
of Blackbrd, of nearly a half hour in
length. The reverend gentleman planted
himself in the beginning of his discourse on
the strongest plank of this platform by de-
claring himself radical in temperance,
believing in root work and being opposed to
compromises as only giving an extended
| life to an evil. He avoided the details of
crimes, miserics and deaths that followed |
the use of rum, and attacked it in its moral
| and civil aspect holding that the State had |
no right to license and protect a wrong.
In view of the State Convention to be |
held in this town, commencing Dec. 26th,
| the following committees were appointed, |
viz: com. to procure homes for delegates,
| VIM. II. Baggs, Mrs. j. II. Bewley, Mrs ).
W. Denney and Mrs WV. Tschudy; OF
arrangements for holding convention. &c,
u. w. Denney, DR.. VIM. Cummins, VIM. B.
Collins and John II. Hoffecker.
The meeting next Sunday will be adj
dressed by DR.. Hayward, fine speaker,
recently from Canada.
CAUGHT IN THE ACr.-Yesterday JAS. d.
Wilds entered his dwelling about noon (his
family having gone away in the morning
: train) and shortly after getting inside heard
,, footsteps in an upper room. lie assembled
the stairs noiselessly, and on entering his
, room found "darkey" standing in front
of the looking glass trying on one Of his
collars, and was at the time intent on adj
iusting a gold stud. The negro did not
: know any one was about until he felt II
> firm grip at his collar: "What are you
= doing here?" demanded Mr. Willis Don't
. know, sir,'' was the demure reply. How
g did you get in2 Through the window,
= sir" Break in?n "Yes, sir" ''What
Il have you got in your pocketsT Nothing,
= sir" Mr.. Wilds proceeded to make a
. seach and the first thing that came forth
- was a seven shooter, (the property of the
- thief followed by different articles OF
~ wearing apparel belong to Mr.. Wilds. lie
i, had lust before rihtd the bureau drawers
> and among other articles laid out before
: him, was Mrs. WIS jewelry box. lie evi
IDENTITY was intending large booty in addi
II ton to what he could stuff in his pockets
~ -, The negro's name is John Hutchin
y In an attempt to arrest him in the evenin!
by policemen Richards and Slyhoff, h,
,e made a desperate resistance. He got hol,
1r of the formers black jack; the strin
- parting, he brought it down on Syhoff
-, head with tremendous force breaking hi
bo hold and in the dark getting away. II
os has not since been found.
'es MERE MENTIoN.-Bro. Williams of til
Irt Seaford I1dcr says "Smyrna is blessed wit
rs. several pretty girls" but he puts a wire
Die edge on the compliment when he "knucklc
7" down" before those bright eyes at home b
by the addendum, $50 is Seatord." Perhal
he he has felt the flash of those bright ort
Pas before. The man who always forgets
pts shut the door after him is now abroad
80. the land. Shoot him on the spot" Thu
us savagely remarks the Middletown TraaScri
raj after getting through column on Il
Cold.well Tragedy. After such reading v
would commend to the editor a chapter
on "BaxterS Saints Rest" before seizng
vas goose quill......The boys have been We
to inconsiderate of the editor this Thank
tea giving-there has not been so much as
the finger shot off. The boy who was too wei
lel. to walk to the corn field before it w
urt husked, but who could walk ten miles wi
a heavy gun on his shoulder, deserves
on, pecial consideration from his worthy "pi
I'M lent" Many of our horsemen have t
ere clipping fever......One of the promises
by "old Kriss" is that candies shall be ten ?
lAD a
OF debt to a shoemaker if you would call yo
ent soul your own; nor to tailor if you dol
he want to be basted and cut. Don't go
the tick with a matchmaker, for if you do y
less will soon have no ticker in your pock
l 10 mo class has had so much to say on t
INTO turkey question and eat less of it than t
was country editor. Until Christmas, reqaeS
ton in pacc......We may not like all the co
MEL pany we meet with, but if we are brOug
at in contact with it, we must make the b
The of Addison, the great thinker, sa
u to "The man who will live above his prest
'ney circumstances is in great danger of livi
. l., in little time too much beneath then
astle Is this what is the matter with the count
with ......If a man does not make new acouai
m in ances as he advances through life, he
nth, soon find himself left alone. A man sho
in keep his friendship in constant repair.
4 it, You may talk about the clean
was hungry Cassius," says an exchange, but
g at you ever take side view Of the man v
has run a store ten years without adve
lues- sing g?..... Santa Claus is making up
IN or book of "good boys and girls" to be
It by membered in his annual rounds on CHI
r DR.. mas Eve. Look out for him.. The v,
first of the dying porker is heard in the Ia
......Some people. want the "dollars of Il
the daddies," but it's the dollars of our deb
'hich that we want.....A straight line is shor
anlel in morals as in mathematics......The I
to be four weeks is the mercantile "bonanza
$ for the wear. He who does not strike a Q
I'd he "lode" in that time, seriously think
him taking down his sign......When the pre-
ne OF er can knock it into the heads of the c
and munity-as strongly stated last 'Sabl
the morning-that those who do not give
what influence to counteract the evils perpC
3 per ted in the community by others, are
1t. In takers Of their guilt he will put into t
} this hands talisman for the reverse, that
S too work moral revolutiOn......Aboutth this
Vo at of the year every tenth man you see
Ote to your window is carrying a slip of S
I'd he house plant that he doesn't know the n
II the of, which his wife is going to keep-foI
Alter pleasure of seeing it freeze about Christ
Keep ......A desire TO say things which no
reach ever said, makes some people say tn
was nobody ought to say.
IN of
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