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Smyrna times., 1879-05-28
How Not to Get Local News.

The other day an old and respected
citizen came into our Office, and, after pay
ing his last years subscription, took a seat
and remarked:
81 guess you needn't send me the paper
any longer. l have just subscribed for a
Philadelphia paper which suits me pretty
well, and it doesn't cost as much as the
Observer"
Here he handed us the paper for inspec-
ton. We found it to be neat looking
sheet, handsomely printed, with large en-.
graved head, and containing about forty
eight columns of miscellaneous reading
matter.
" Fair looking paper" we remarked, as
we handed it back to him; "but did you
ever see anything in it concerning our
county p"
well, l don't know as I ever have"
Anything in regard to the State?''
Nothing"
And yet you give up paper that con-
talns the local market reports, the state of
the crops, the deaths and marriages, and
the thousand and one happenings from
week to week which make up the history
of the region in which you are most in
terested, and which you can get from no
other source, and take instead city paper
simply because it comes little cheaper.
Yes, and it contains more reading mat
ter" he added.
Certainly" we remarked, "but what is
the character of the matter? Nothing in
regard to your own village-your schools
your churches, your local improvements
and the thousand and one things that
happen in your county. There is nothing
in it that helps to build up your county and
| support home institutions. 1t is as foreign
to you as the city in which it is published
1t may contain more reading matter but
your neighborhood is not represented in its
columns"
But why can't you furnish your paper
| cheaper If they can afford a much larger
one in the city at a low price?" be queried
Labor is certainly cheaper here"
For the reason that a country paper
has a small circulation compared with
city paper, and the labor expended upor
| 1000 papers is about the same as on $4,000
especially when it is taken into consider
ton that the city weekly, which is furn
ished for q dollar per year, is made up O
the type set for the daily"
"That's enough" exclaimed the OLE
gentleman, as he pulled out his wallet
"just send me the ObServcr for anothe
year!"
AS he babe us ''good morning" and pas
sed through the sanctum door, we heart
him remark: It's my belief that a MAJ
who stops or refuses to subscribe to hi
local paper simply because it doesn't cor
tain as much reading matter as one mad
up from daily and published in the cit
should be supplied with medical almanac
at the public expense. > Waterloo (N J.
Observer.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

Ex-Reprcsentatiyc Cain, of South Caro-
lima, addressed a meeting of colored men
in Washington in favor of the negro exodus.
lie declared that he favored the emigration
of colored men to India, Africa. or any
other place in order to improve the condi-
ton Of the race. lie declared that the
movement was not the work of politicians,
but spontaneous uprising of an oppressed
people, who are doing as God directed Mo-
ses to do with the Israelitcs. Under the
rule of Wade Hampton in South Carolina,
he said the laws are imperative as regards
the colored race, and now to-day one hun
dred thousand people in that state are
anxious to 60 out anywhere for peace. In
closing, he advised that all the aid possible
should be given to this movement, as it was
"God's way.n
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

A SPECULATION IN BoNRs.-A Newbury
port Mass man was badly sold recently.
He had great project on hand for boiling
down bones to make superphosphate.
All the neighboring boys were engaged to
collect material. The man thought, how.
ever, that he would first try the bones as a
fertilizer without burning. So, having lot
Of grapevines, the first lot of bones were
planted around the roots of one vine. The
boys saw the proceeding, so at night they
went and dug them all up again. Bright
and early the next morning they presented
themselves with supposed new lot. The
process was repeated till fourteen grape
vines had thus served and fourteen times
had those identical bones been sold.-
Boston JGautol
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

CHILDREN's DAY IN BRooKLYN--The
fiftieth anniversary of the Brooklyn IN.
W Sunday School Union was celebrated
last Wednesday, and the observance of the
event was general throughout the city. All
the public buildings, the city hall, court.
house, municipal building and the various
places of amusement were tastefully deco
rated, giving the city holiday appearance.
The children, the superintendents of the
schools, the teachers and others assembled
in their churches little before o'clock in
the afternoon, where appropriate services
were held, after which the scholars, ag.
gregating nearly $4,000, marched forth to
join in the seven divisions of the great
army. When the parades were dismissed
the children returned to their school-rooms
where ice-room, cakes, oranges, lemonade
iellies, &c, were served with great liberality
by the teachers.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

VOTING BY ELECTRIoITY.-Whena q vote is
TO be taken in the French Chamber, each
member touches one of two buttons on his
desk Zone for yea and the other for nay),
and the ball falls in its proper compartment,
in public place by the side of the speaker.
Thus the vote is taken rapidly and publicly.
As fast as the votes are cast, the whole
number is recorded in sight of all, so that
the process of taking the $50 votes is not
only rapid, but every member sees how it is
going on. In addition the machine writes
down every name with the vote-the yeas
in blue and the nays in red.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

Miss DUER INDICTED FOR MURDER IN THE
FIRST DEGREE.-,Sno,o Hill, Nd, Nag 2l.-
The grand jury, which has been engaged
since Monday in examining witnesses in
the case of Miss Lille Duer, charged with
shooting Miss Ella Hearn, has finally in
dicted Miss Duer for murder in the first
degree. The time for the trial of the case
has not yet been set although it was ex-
pected that it would follow Immediately on
the indictment. What the line of defense
will be is not yet known, but it is believed
it will be that of accidental shooting, Miss
Duer, it is reported, refusing to allow the
plea of insanity to be entered for her. She
will be defended by George Purnel, ESQ.,,
of the Snow Hill bar, prosecuting Attorney
Townsend appearing for the State. Miss
Duer complains that she has been badly
treated by the press. Her version of the
shooting, as given the other day, is as fol-
lows:
a called to see Ella for the purpose of
taking walk. She did not wish to 90. L
begged her, but she refused. 1 then
wanted to kiss her. had the pistol in my
hand after giving up the attempt to kiss
her, and was looking at the cartridges,
counting them, when the pistol went off.
| am not murderess. visited her twice
during her illness. The first time she heard
my voice she called me. l went into the
room where she was confined, and she re-
ceived me in the kindest manner by put
ting her arms around my neck. She then
said: Lii, what is the matter with me ?'
| l told her that she was hurt. "Who hurt
me ?" she asked. al, Ella," replied; "it
was who did it." "Then you did not dc
it purposely, did you ?"
Much of the testimony adduced before
the grand jury will not be admissible, it is
said, at the trial. A great deal depend:
upon whether Miss Hearn's statement tc
her father is ruled out or not, but the
general impression here is that she will not
be convicted.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28
WHOLE NO. 1856.

The following incident is related of the
venerable DR.. Nosbit, formerly president of
Dickinson College, Carlisle: at amazes
me that ministers don't write better
sermons; | am sick of the dull, prosy
affairs" said lady in presece of DR.. Ne8bit.
" But it is no easy matter, my good woman,
to write sermons" suggested the doctor.
" Yes rejoined the lady, Z" but you are so
long about it. could write one in half
the time if only had a text" ooh, if
text is all you want" said DR.. Nesbit, 81
will furnish that. Take this one from Sol
ONION 1t is better to dwell in a corner of
a house-top than in wide house with
brawling woman" " Do you mean me.
sir?n inquired the lady, quickly. "Oh, nv
good woman" was the response, you will
never make sermonizec; you are too soon
in your applications"
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

"Poor Carlotta" is still hopelessly insane
in chateau near Brussels. She paints pic
ures, and writes letters to sovereigns which
are forwarded to them. Her confidential
servant is Mexican. She constantly
thinks that she is at the Mexican court,
and her talk is addressed to persons found
there at state receptions and on other royal
occasions. Her toilet is most elegant and
elaborate, garnish colors being her favorite
ones. Her income is estimated at $360,000
q wear.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28
WHEN THE COWS COME HOME.
When klingle, klangle, klingle.
Far down the dusty dingle,

When klingle, klangle, klingle.
Far down the dusty dingle,
The cows are coming home
Now sweet and clear now faint and low,
The airy tinklings come and go,
Like chimings from the far-otf tower,
Or patterings of an April shower
That makes the daisies grow;
Ko-ling. ko-lang kOlingle-lingle,
Way down the darkening dingle,
The cows come slowly hOme
And old-time friends and twilight plays,
And starry nights and sunny days,
Come troOping up the misty ways
When the COWS come home.
With jingle, jangle, jingle,
Soft tones that sweetly mingle.
The cows are coming home.
Malvine and Pearl and FlOrimel
DeKamp, Red Rose and Gretchen Schell,
Queen Bess and Sylph and spangled Sue,
Across the fields hear her 100000"
And clang her silver bell;
Go-ling, go-lang, golingle-dngle,
With faint, far sounds that mingle,
The cows come slowly home;
And mother-sOngs of lOng-gOne years,
And baby joys and childish tears,
And youthful hopes and youthful fears,
When the COWS come home.
With ringle. rangle ringle.
With twOS and threes and single,
The COWS are coming home.
Through violet air we see the town,
And the summer sun aslipping down,
And the maple in the hazel glade,
Throws down the path longer shade.
And the hills are growing brown
TO-ring. tO-rang, tOringl e-ringle,
By threes and fOurs and single,
The cows come slowly home;
The same sweet sound of wOrdieSS psalm,
The same sweet May-day rest and calm;
The same sweet smell of buds and bam
When the COWS come home.
With tinkle, tanke, tinkle.
Through fern and periwinkle,
The COWS are coming home;
A lettering in the checkered stream.
Where the sun-rays glance and CLEAN,
Clarine. PeachblOom and Phebe PhilliS,
Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies,
In a drOwsy dream;
TO-link, tO-lank. tolinkle-linkle.
Der banks with buttercups a-twinkle,
The cows come slowly home:
And up through memory's deep raYine
Come the brooks old song and its Od-tiIne sheen
And the crescent of the silver queen,
When the cows come home.
With klingle, klankle, klingle
With 10000, and mOO-OO, and jingle
The COWS are coming home:
And hear DER there on Merlin Hill,
The plaintivc cry of the whip-poOr-will
And the dew drops lie on the tangled vines,
And over the pOplarS Venus shines,
And over the silent mill;
Ko-ling, ko-lGng, k0lngle-lingle,
With ting -a-ling and jingle,
The COWS come slowly home.
Let down the bars let in the train
OF lOng-gone songs, and flowers. and rain;
For dear old times come back again
When the COWS come home.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

DEFIANCE OF LAw.-The harems of the
apostles of Mormondom at Utah, have re-
ceived another accession by the importation
of one hundred and thirty young women,
made by an agent of the " twelve apostles
of the latter day saints" And this is done
under the guise and good name of religion.
If an equal number of stalwart men were to
be imported from the banks of Livingstones
Congo, in Central Africa to till the depleted
plantations of the Southern States, there
would be howl from Maine to the Gulf.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

INFANT OYsTERs.-A note was received at
the Johns Hopkins University Thursday
from Prof. w. K. Brooks, now at Crisfeld,
bringing the interesting news that he had
seen oysters only one minute old. And
even younger than this for his notes reads
as follows: succeeded this morning in ar
tificially impregnaCing oyster eggs. They
finished segmentation in about four hours,
and in six hours from the time | took them
from the ovaries they had developed into
active, free.swimming, ciliated embregoes."
Pretty quick time this for making young
oysters. Only six hours required for one
to pass through all the changes in that part
of its life history passed within the egg, and
it is ready to swim out and enter upon
its active life. At this stage it is very
simple structure, very minute and entirely
without shell. characteristics which are
almost the opposite of those belonging to an
adult oysters, for the latter has complex
structure, is not of minute size, has we'll
developed shell and does not swim free.
So there must be important changes for
this active, microscopic young oyster to pass
through before it becomes a quiet hard
shelled adult. We have not heard of the
exact size of these microscopic infants, but
as Prof. Brooks sent for lenses which will
magnify one thousand times, we infer that
great numbers Of them may live comforta-
bly, and have swimming room in a single
drop of water. Prof. Brooks is the "ad-
vanced guard " and director Of the Chesa-
pealxe Geological Labratory of the Johns
Hopkins University, conducted this year
with the cooperation of the United States
and Maryland fish commissions. The pro.
fessor's special mission to Crisfeld was to
work out thoroughly and completely the
lfe-history of the oyster from the egg
to the adult, and he seems to have already
insured his success by securing in the first
few days these early stages which are the
most difficult Of all to obtain.-BaltinaOr,
Sun.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

A lonely Irishman was observed one
evening slicing potato in glass of hot
whiskey toddy. "Why, what are you
about ?" inquired Charley. "It's much I'm
maxim, dearr' quietly replied Pat. But
what are you slicing that for?" "To give
it favor" "What! potato favor?" "Sure,
and isn't flavor a flavor, whether it's
lemon or pitaty?'
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

Missouri is preparing to adopt the bell
punch for bar.rooms. The advocates of the
bell punch system of taxing liquor sellers
claim that it will be more equitable than the
present arbitrary state tax of $50 a year,
and that it will cause the number of low
whisky shops to decrease, and the consump.
ton of beer to increase.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

The hunters in Clinton county, the Lock
Haven Republican says, are lamenting over
the destruction of game birds by fires in the
woods, such as pheasants, wild turkeys, etc.
These birds are now Matching, and as they
will remain to be consumed by fire rather
than forsaKe their nests, many have doubt
less been destroyed. The late rains have
put the fires out that were raging in the
woods in various parts of the State, but
great damage has been done.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

81 Stoughton, though heavy drinker,
was a kind husband and father; but 81 was
dead now. Shortly after that sad event the
widow was visited by a spiritulistic friend,
who had come to tell the bereaved one that
she had seen his spirit. She was sure it was
he. "Oh, no, it is impossible sighed the
leave any."--BoSton transcript.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

Ex-Governor Seymour, recently over
hauled by an interviewer, freely says that
the subject of military interference at elec
tions will be the real issue upon which the
next Presidential campaign will be fought.
There is deep feeling on this subject in
the North as we'll as the South.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

A market man was mercilessly swindled
in the town of B. His misfortune gave
him very unfavorable opinion of the resi-
dents, and he expressed his opinion OF them
by saying that if the Angel Gabriel stopped
at B. there would be no resurrection.
Why % asked q listener. "Because the
people would swindle him out of his horn
before he had time to blow single toot.'
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28
Delaware Justice.
FOUR MEN ACQUITTED OF MURDER.

How old Perry DcmJy pas Beaten to Deah on
the Causepay- Witnesses Pointing Out the
Prisoners as The Gully OneS-1He
attorney General Gives Up.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

Mr.. Winans, of Baltimore, is building on
the Clyde river, at cost of nearly a mil
lion dollars, cigar.shaped vessels of four
or five thousand tons burthen, which he
believes will cross the Atlantic in five days.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

The latest war news from South America
show the Bolivians to have become more
formidable They have retaken town
from the Chilians, and another body of
$4,000 men are marching to meet their
enemies,
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28
MUSICAL INSTRUCTION

Mrss MARION p. JONES of the mxHxz
gmyrna Institute, will give instruc- ksrH1 M z8&
tions on the Piano, Organ OF Guitar 20 III NJ W NJ VI
ali narties outside of the school who
desire II. Patronage solicited. TERh5-Sl0 per
quarter. ePAS-~
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

The Southern cities are cleaning up and
preparing to see which one can fight the
Yellow Fever most successfully.
A sanitary council for the Mississippi
valley has Just been formed at Memphis for
mutual protection. New Orleans has an
auxiliary sanitary association which propos-
es to raise by subscription 100000 for its
purposes, and will report any outbreak Of
Of the fever there by telegraph.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

The fishing season on the Potomac has
closed. The catch Of herring is estimated
at 6,000,000, and that of shad at $4,000,
against 100000 herring and 250,000 shad
last year,
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

The wives Of President Hayes, Secretary
Evarts and Secretary Thompson have Joined
the summer school of cookery opened in
Washington by Miss Juliet Corson.
Smyrna times., 1879-05-28

Get good sense, and you will not repine
at the want of good luck.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-30
Butter Making.

"If have made discovery, or if every
body knew il before me, will tell it just
the same. AS soon as the cream shows
signs of coming pour into the churn two
or three quarts of water-as near ice-cold as
it is possible to get-and the butter will
gather a great deal quicker and come hard
and firm. tried the cold water lice water)
on the start and found it made the cream
too cold and kept the butter from coming +;
but put in at the last end it is a capital idea,
and will save hours ofchurningin the course
Of the season. Butter will come in fifteen
or twenty minutes, as a rule, if the cream is
IN the right condition and temperature. A
cool cellar is cool enough to start the churn-
ing, and as near right as most farmers can
get it without thermometers and iae, and
cold we'll water will lower the temperature
for gathering. The temperature of our eel
tar is go, and the butter invariably comes
quick, with the help of cold water, which is
probably two degrees colder. When the
cream stands too long on the milk before
skimming the butter will not come so quick
ly, and it is always poorer, and such butter
will not keep well. This is one reason, and
the main one, why there is so much rancid
butter. Better churn oftener,and have good
sweet butter, and skim oltener also Cor,oJ
Rural Net0 Yorker.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-30

Raise winter rye for feeding in May be-
fore your cattle get good bite in the pas
ture. This would enable you to keep your
cattle out of the pasture until June, then in
in May or June put in corn in rows to feed
in August and September This would also
save your pasture and improve it. If the
cattle were allowed to run in the pasture
while feeding the corn they would enrich il
with their droppings, and if the demand for
your butter and cheese would warrant it
you might keep more stock than your pas
lures could carry, taking good care to spread
the droppings, You would find your pas,
lures improving, and If while feeding youl
rye and corn you kept your cows stabbed
half or quarter ola day, besides at night
time, you would have every fall larg,
amount of manure with which to top-dres
your mowings, provided always that you
have a barn cellar, which should be a neces
sary appendage under every barn.-Er.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-30
" Probabilities, by Josh Billings

Josh Billings, who is as usual passing his
summer in the White Mountains, has put
It in the way of the editor of the White
Mountain Echo to print few component
parts of his new book to be published in the
fall. Its title will be "Old Probabilities :
Perhaps Rain-Perhaps Mott" and it will
have for its leading motto "Truth IL scd to
be stranger than fickshun-it is to most
pholks." The selections are these:
About the hardest thing a fellow kan do
IL to spark 2 gals at one time and preserve
good average. Try it.
Don't dispize your poor relashuns. They
may be taken suddenly ritch sum day, and
then twill be awkward to explain things to
them; undoubtedly so.
Next to klear konshience for solid COM
fort Gums an easy boot. Try both.
If a young man hain't got well-balanc-
ed head, like to see him part his hair in
the middle. Don't you
don't take any foolish chances. If wuz
called upon to mourn over a dead mule,
should stand in front ov him and do my
weeping.
There is no man so poor but what he can
afford to keep one dog, and hav seen them
so poor that they could afford to keep three.
l say to thirds of the rich people in this
world, make the most of your money, for it
makes the most of you. Happy thought.
never argy agin success when see a
rattlesnaiX's head sticking out of whole. I
bear off to the left and say to miself that hole
belongs to that snaix.
The infdel argys just az a bull duz chain
ed to post. He bellows and saws, but he
don't git loose from the post, notss Not
much.
thank the Lord that thare liz one thing
in this world that money can't buy, and
that IL the wag ov dogs tail. Yure unkle.
have seen men so fond of argument that
they would dispute with guideboard at Che
forks ov kuntry road about the distance to
the next town. What fools.
Thare are but fu sights in this life more
sublime ana pathethick than to see poor
but virtuous young man struggling with q
mustach. 1t IL thus.
notiss one thing, the man who rides on
the kars every day is satisfied with one seat
bat he who rides once year wants L. That's
so.
Flattery is like colone water to be smelled
Of not swallowed.
The man whom you kant gut to write po
etry or tell the truth until you git him hat
drunk aint worth the investment.
Whenever see a real handsum woman
engaged in the wmmin's rights bizzness
am a going TO take off mi hat and jine tn,
processhun. See if don't.