Smyrna times., 1878-06-26

Mrs. Mann went out into another room
and presently came back with gloves and |
hat, and saw Mr.. Mann emptying all the
boxes he could find in and around the
bureau. Then she said:
In the shirt you just pulled off"
Mrs. Mann put on her gloves, while Mr..
Mann hunted up and down the room for
his cuff buttons.
| "Eleanor," he snarled at last, " believe
you must know where those cuff buttons
| are"
81 haven't seen them," said the lady,
setting her hat; didn't you lay them
down on the window-sill in the sitting
room last night?'
Mr.. Mann remembered and went down
stairs on the run. He stepped on one of
the boots and was Immediately landed in
the hall at the foot of the stairs, with
neatness and despatch, attended in the
transmission with more bumps than he
could count, with Webs adder, and landed
with bang like the He'll Gate explosion.
Are you nearly ready, Algernon ?"
asked the wife of his family, sweety, lean
ing over the bansters.
The unhappy man groaned. "Can't
you throw me down the other boot?" he
asked.
Mrs. Mann pitying kicked it down to
him.
my valise?" he inquired, as he tugged
at the boot
Cup in your dressing room," she re,
piled.
"Packed?"
g do not know, unless you packed it
YOURSELF; probably not" she replied, with
her hand on the door knob. 81 had barely
time to pack my own"
She was passing out of the gate when the
> door opened, and he shouted
"Where in the name of goodness did
you put my vest? 1t had all my money in
it,"
"You threw it on the hat rack" she
: called ''gOod-bye, DEAR
Before she got to the corner of the street
she was hailed again.
Eleanor! Eleanor! Eleanor Mann Did
you wear off my coat?'
She paused and turned, after signaling
the street car to stop, and cried:
You threw it in the silver closet And
the street car engulfed her graceful form
and she was seen no more. But the neigh
i bors say that they heard Mr.. Mann charg
: ing up and down the house, rushing out o
I the front door every now and then. shrek
= ing after the unconscious Mrs. Mann, t.
!" know where his hat was, and where she pu
- - the valise key, and if she had any clean sock
- and undershirts, and that there wasn't
y linen collar in tho house. And when h.
y y went away at last, he left the kitchen door
~ and the front door, and all the down stair
windows and the front gate wide open
!" And the loungers around the depot wer
10 somewhat amused, just as the train wa
= pulling out of sight, down in the yards, t
- see a flushed, enterprising man, with hi
i, hat on sideways, his vest unbuttoned an
- necktie flying, and his grip sack fappin
u open and shut like demented shutter o
q March night and a door key in his hanC
:" dashng wildly across the platform an
T. halt in the middle of the track, glaring i
detected, important, wrathful mortifcatio
io 20 at the departing train, and shaking his fiji
70 at pretty woman who was throwing kissC
- at him from the rear platform Of the la
u car.
;n The bills introduced in Congress durin
10 the session just closed numbered 5000.
~ ~ these $40 were passed, of which only i
~ -. are public measures. While We may +
nc gret that certain other bills were n,
~ passed, we may rejoice that some 5000
W those introduced failed to become law
III As the next session will be short, ar
-. chiefly devoted to political discussions, v
l"V may hope that most of these bills will
10 allowed to sleep the sleep of death.
40 THE WHOLE SToRY.-A farmers daughte
hi living near Cleveland, answered person
mo in newspaper, entered into corr
mo pondence with the unknown" finally m
t0 him, was married, went to the city to Ii,
and returned to her fathers house in t,
ee. months, dressed like beggar and looki
nj twenty years older than when she we
away. Her husband was gambler anC
red loafer. This is personal" romance il
NO nut shell.
ier Sixty-nine colored emigrants sailed fro
lhe New York last week for Liberia under [
10" auspices of the American Colonization
| "e clety, who will support the emgrants
'"y six months after their arrival. Abou
ave s dozen cabin passengers are also on the sh
On 1t is understood that efforts are to be ma
ing to open up the back country Of Libel
Eer and by the construction of roads to bri
~. ne the products to the sea cost.
had The board to examine into the case
;, 10 Gen. Fitz John Porter convened at W
lied Point, N. Y, last week. The members
at the court are Gems. Schofield, Terry a
I. Getty Gen. Porter's counsel were JOS
my Choate and Anson Maltby, of New Yo
:. and John C. Bulltt, now of Philadelpl
lleu Mr.. Bullitt is democrat; the other
re counsels are republicans.
re- ...
AN ELECTRICAL AsTONIsHER.-The la
ann, invention in New York is an electrical Y
cry connected with the windows and door
1T a houses, and with the gas. A burglar op
door or window and enters, when
ices, whole house is lighted at once. VIII
ats surprise it will be to the burglar who
re- experiences the novel sensation.
-
the Two Young men empanneled on b
rent more jury got drunk during an adjoI
ment of the court, and the judge publ
ann, discharged them and declared them
out after inelipible to the position of a iuro
% all that court. Severe. but wise and inst.
tting Senator Lamar, Democratic senator f
raj Mississippi, voted for the bill putting
body Grant on the retired pension list for
d no and for doing this, or something ell
Democratic newspaper calls him ga stu
ike tailed, yallow-haired pup"
tr The farmers of Kansas have cut t
winter wheat. 1t is a splendid crop; bt
eetly, than in 1877. The new wheat is selling
,ting, about fifty cents per bushel. 1t is OF
,oned cellent quality.
they -s--
you Madame Hahneman, the widow OF
," founder of homeopathy, died recent
rt he Paris at the age of seventy.eight.