Smyrna times., 1879-12-24

" Reform"
Ex-Governor Morrill,, of Maine, says if the
counting, out in Maine is allowed the end
of free elections has come.
There must be a political drought in
Delaware. The Bayard boom has COM
pletely subsided.-IHaa. Ertang N1rs
Gen. Grant attended services Sunday
morning at the Arch Street NJ. L. Church
and heard sermon by Rev. DR.. Warren.
Dan Rice, the circus man, has been
converted in St. Louis, under Moody's
preaching, and will become an evangelist.
The fishing season at Gloucester, Mass,
closes with the record of the loss Of % yes
sells and 260 human lives. The vessels were
valued at $4,000.
/ The weather in the Ottawa Valley,
! Canada, was intensely cold on Sunday, the
/ thermometer marking Is to "a degrees
| below zero. In Ottawa the temperature
was Is below zero.
Representative Kenna, of West Virginia
has secured subscriptions from Congressman
in aid of the suffering poor in Ireland to
tho amount Of over 500, and he expects
the sum to rech 81 ,000
Owners of ulsters may as well give up all
hopes of utilizing them--ths " Weather
Man" of the New York Herald decides
that "the heat wave" is to be permanent
during $780,
No less than 3,4O0 Philadelphia girls
sang songs to General Grant Saturday, and
gave him boquets. And yet they say he is
not happy, and even accuse him of wanting
third term.
The suit of the Widow Oliver against ex
Senator Cameron, in Washington, has been
continued until the January term, plaintiff
being allowed to proceed in the case with
out printing the record.
Now that a London chemist has produced
5 crystaliZed carbons which are veritablI
diamonds, there is chance of coal.heavel
becoming as big a man as a hotel clerk o.
megathararian minstrel.
Ismail Pasha, ex.Khedive, is severely i'll
. and sadly exclaims, g | am dying, Egypt
: dyiag," and Egypt will probably answe
: . that if he had died twenty years ago
!, would have been better.
A Republican daily newspaper is to b
started in Now Orleans. The suppression
d of the Republican party in the SoutI
If during the last three years has include
e the complete suppression of its press
e AS about twenty Investigations hav
!, session, the stenographers hope to hav
1t plenty of business at their fingers en-
before the adjournment next June.
p. Great Brittains troubles are accumul
w ting. The serious check the British force
,e have met with in Afghanistan are about I
as be supplemented by general revolt anon
n. the natives of India, if latest rumors prov
ID true.
ls If, as alleged, the "worst elements
of society in Tennessee have combined
repudiate the State debt" there is lit
hope for the honest. In Tennessee Il
y worst elements of society are in IL
"a majority.
- A petition has been received in Washin
TO- ton asking that Delegate Cannon's right
=, a seat in the House be investigated. He
o9 charged with having six wives and it
ar. said the law against polygamy is violat,
frequently in Utah.
Rev. f P Hammond, the revivali
Its accompanied by a number Of preachers
nd London, Ontario, and band of ladies al
children who sing hymns, are visiting t
Tas hotels and saloons and holding pray
IRE meetings. They are politely received
ere all cases.
W "Irelands cup of misery is overfowir
ne but it is not yet filed" wrote gen
'n' young Irish editor once. The news fro
l., the Green isle shows that misery is still t
ut, tba;r distress onnaoIo 70 tba obar;takIo
"a, q" all nationalities.
,sa. Leavitt, the man who made a murderC
Zoe assault upon DR.. Newborn, in Stamfo
nal Ont, stated after arrest that he was unC
hi. conviction at the time that the devil
l. 70 L tba Gua h.,
he He had first assailed a woman with
leir axe OUT sns "Voiueo 'he Olo" ny I"illhe
the ground.
49,. Nearly 500 Southern negroes pas
NJ through st. Louis last week on their way
s Kansas, where they intend to settle. Tn
are now in st. Louis about $50 emigrat
III negroes who will have to be helped on tn
iIlu journeys. The negroes in Arkansas b.
ere ere caught the emigration fever, and about
.se' of them are on their way North.
the One of the Manhattan Bank robbers
God on Friday last sentenced to ten "
oon imprisonment. As the Judge told
in prisoner that he would have received
nth much for stealing $4,000 as he did
vas taking $9,000000, the prisoner proba
onae regrets that he didn't make away "
he $3,000,000,000 while he had his hand in
own A telegram from Augusta, Me-, says
sless Republicans elected to the Legislature Fl
nore Lisbon and Webster, in Androscog
his county, were counted out on the allegat
was that the returns were signed by one Sci
the man, instead Of three, as required by
the The Selectmen, one of whom is a Democ
very have made affidavit that each signed
o sit name separately to the returns, as requ
IS to by the act.
way. p
and Three thin IS to avoid ArrOOanpa npu