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Smyrna times., 1879-01-29
SMYRNA, DEL, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 49, 1879
For the Smyrna Times
MASONIC.

We, brcthercn Of that mystic band,
Which fills the world with chasten'd light;
Are travelling to that better land
Where faith is all absorbed in sight.
Where all is happiness and love,
No mystery is needed there,
For up in that grand lodge above
Wen find all level. plumb and square
Whilst our Grand Architect divine
PreSidcS Der all the sons of light;
No darken'd soul may cross the line
But march to everlasting night.
May you and be on the right
When that grand lodge is strictly tyled,
WIN c9uhtenance supremely bright
And lambskius pure and undcHled.
SMYRNA, January "a. 1879. S. T.. 6.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29
Some Natural History.
THE EDITOR.

"What ferocous looking animal is this?
"That is an editor"
Z" Indeed Are they very dangerous p
Sometimes. When cOrnered up they
have been known to be quite combative,
and again they have been known to 60
through "a convenient back window. Gen.
orally they are mild and passive"
When are they the most dangerous p
When intruded upon by book agent
who wants a forty line adv. for a seventy, five
cent book, or by a poet with verses about
gentle spring"
" Are editors cross to each other?'
Only when separated by several blocks
of buildings"
" Do they often have fearful combats
with each other?'
Occasionally when they 20 out in oppo-
site directions, and come upon each other
by accident"
- Are editors ever cOwhided?'
Sometimes the small ones are but the
big ones are rarely molested."
Do editors eat?'
They do. 1t was formerly supposed
that they ate only at long intervals, and
upon rare occasions, but it is now well
authenticated fact that they eat great
deal-when they can get it,"
What kind of food do they like most p
They are not very particular. While
they wont refuse quail on toast, fried crabs
or roast turkey about Christmas time, they
have been known to make hearty repas
OFT dish of cold turnips and con
sumptive herring"
"Can they eat concert tickets p
we believe not. Some people have
gained this erroneous impression from falls,
teaching in early life, but no authenticated
instance of such thing is on record"
Do editors go free into shows?''
They do when they give dollar and
half local for twenty five cent ticket"
Are all editors bald, like this one!'
"No; only the married ones are bald
But let US pass on; the editor does no
like to be stared at. -Mdiletoun TrauScrp
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

The COLD WAvEs-According to the
latest view, the cold attending these great
waves which roll over the country does not
come from distance, but from overhead.
Only few thousand feet above the sur
face of the earth at this season, the tempera.
ture Of the atmospher is constantly far be-
low zero. 1t only needs disturbance of
the equilibrium, electric or otherwise, which
shall bring down the cold air from above,
and we have at once a sudden fall of tenn.
perature. We have familiar experience
of this kind in the cooling of the air after
an extensive thunder storm. The thunder
clouds are often pillars Of vapor several
miles high, in the centre of which the
heated air rises, and all around which the
cold air from above pours down.
1t is an interesting thought that only a
distance of two or three miles in winter
separates us from perpetual arctic tenn.
perature. We owe our comfort to the deli
cate balance Of the air, of which barome
trio pressure, antagonizing the expansion
Of the air on the surface by the SUMS heat
is one factor, and which is overthrown by
a storm. ni.wave.-PrOvidence journal.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

Everybody liked crack with Jamie, the
half wit of C.. He was always ready
with his answers. One day the minister
met him, and in speaking asked him,
Now, James, which do you think the
most useful animai?' What dae We
think ycrselt' ma, Mr.. M.-?n "Well,
think the sheep, for they both feed and
riothe.' Na, faith, no; think it's the
horse said James "ior if it wasna for
the horse, the gentry wad ride on the tap
O. puir folk"
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29
John China-man.

The Chinese question is evidently assum-
ing shape at Washington. The Committee
on Education and Labor have reported
back the bill to restrict Chinese immigra-
ton. Amongst other things the bill pro-
vldes that all shipmasters from the Celes
tlal Empire shall be prohibited from carry
ing more than fifteen Chineses at one time.
As steamer can not make more than four
trips year, this provlso would limit the
importation to just sixty per annum. How
long 1T will take, at this rate to supply the
Pacific slope with its fair quota of laundry.
men, masculine servants and general utility
men; or deplete the realms of COnfucius
and of Joss-hOuses, the committee does not
seem yet ready to elucidate. Joking apart,
the Chinese ito not seem to be much of a
success in California. There are many rea.
sons for this. In the first place, they are
not particularly famous for that QUALITY
which, in all civilized communities, ranks
next to godlincss; they can live on what
would starve any full-blOOded Caucasian
and consequently, can undersell him in
the labor market; they lack moral stamina
they do not become identified with the
country as citizens, but leave as soon a.
| they have earned what to them is sufficient
to live affluently in their iatherland. Ex
tracing all they can, and spending as little
as possible, their presence in the country fo
a number of years does not add much t
the wealth of the country. Taken in it,
moral aspects, Chinese immigration on
large scale, would inevitably lower tn,
standard when brought in contact will
superior types of humanity, in inferio
numbers. 1t is much easier to descend tn
scale of morality, than to ascend. Th
present measure of restricting immigration
may not be the right remedy, but the ex
periences of the past fey years demon
strate the necessity of some modification c
the Buringame treaty.-Media Record.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29
Sugar Beets,

The report of the commission appointed by the
legislature of March 22d 1877, submitted report to
the legislature on Thursday last setting forth the
matter as having been fully and satisfactorily tested
Statistics concerning the experiment of the compcti-
tors for the premiums are as follows K. j. Reynolds
Kent county. first premium, So tons of bects per
acre, a: pounds Of sugar per acre. G9SG. David
Hcyd, Kent county, second premium, so; tons OF
beets per acre, 81; pounds of sugar per acre 53O5
Henry Thompson, New Castle county, third premium
So; tons Of beets per 1917 pounds Of sugar pei
acre, 39S There were 80 lots tested averaging ~
tons Of beets per acre-l0 per cent. of sugar-aI
average of 2gS2 pounds Of sugar per acre. The com
mission have expended S33g33-$iS Sc of which wa,
expended for fare and freight has been refunded by
tie President of the F.. W. Il B. Il. R-leaving
balance with the treasurer of the commission, OF
slO.47 The commission imported from Germany il
1873 fresh seed in order TO have fair test over 1O
farmers applied for seed competitors for tn,
premiums, 10 OF which resided in Kent county.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

Sixteen prominent business men of Bay
City, Mich, have published a card an
nouncing their intention to observe Sunday
as day of rest and cessation of their secu-
lar labors. The occasion for this singular
action was an increasing and open defiance
in that town of all customs, sacred and
worldly, as regards the Sabbath Day.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

IRISH VITA gentleman who had the
misfortune to lose his nose was followed by
4 beggar, in Ireland, vino kept exclaiming,
Heaven preserve your honor's eyesight y
The gentleman WAS at last irritated by his
importantly, and said why do you wish
my eyesight to be preserved? Nothing ails
my eyesight, nor is likely to-" mo, your
HONOR" said the beggar, but it will be a
sad thing if it does, for you will have
nothing to rest your spectacles upon"
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

During last weeks cold snap Salem
lad, says the Sunbeam, had the curiosity to
stick his tongue TO q piece Of cold iron; his
cries brought help, and warm water was ap-
piled, but It took half an hour to release the
unruly member from its painful captivity.
The lads curiosity was satisfied, and he'll
not be apt to make another trial very soon
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

Henry Varlcy's Tabernacle at Melbourne
will, if completed in accordance with the
plan, have a seating capacity Of 5000. Its
central hall will be an amphi-theatre in
style, with large cofiee-house in front.
The buildings around it will provide COM
forts for a working,man's club. 1t is pro-
posed to expend 100000.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

Tecumseh Sherman intends at an early
day to make trip Through Georgia"
lie will also visit other Southern States.
The object of his trip is to examine certain
abandoned military posts, and ascertain
what measures should be taken to reclaim
and preserve the same.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

The late Mr.. McNab, curator of the
Edinburgh Botanic Garden. was once taken
to see Dubufe's painting of Adam, and Eve,
and was asked for his opinion. 4" | think
no great things of the paint, said the great
gardener, 'why, man, Ewes temptin' Adam
wi pippin of variety that wasna known
until about twenty years ago!"
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A FAIR SKIN.-A fair skin may be desi-
rable in women, but not sufficiently desira-
BILE to warranta resort to improper expe-
dients. Some young women use arsenic
to beautify their complexion. 1t is per
nicious habit, and once formed is hard to
shake OFT. A lady in Brockton, Mass,
recently took arsenic to make her skin fair,
and it killed her. Be satisfied with your
face as nature made it.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A gentleman speaking of friend who
was Frustrated by illness, remarked that,
"he could hardly recover, bis constitution
was all gone" "lf his constitution is all
gone" said bystander, 81 do not see how
he lives at all" "Oh," responded the
gentleman, he lives on the claws"
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A scotch parson said recently, somewhat
sarcastically, of topper, that he put an
enemy into his mouth to steal away his
brains, but that the enemy, after thorough
and protracted search, returned without
anything.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

The prize of 800 offered by the New
Orleans Times for the best poem on " the
yellow fever and the charities which it in
spired" has been awarded to Mr.. Henry
Guy Carleton, age twenty-seyen, and an in
habitant of New Orleans. One hundred
and fifty competitors who sent in their
metrical manufactures are, therefore, doom.
ed to disappointment.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29
The Peach and Berry Crop.

The last annual report made to the stockholders Of
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail
road Company contains interesting table showing
the number of carloads Of peaches and berries
ried over their road since lS7Gprncipaly from places
along the line Of the Delaware railroad The crop Gl
peaches in 1878 was, is well known failure only
500 carloads having been carried, while in 1877 the
number OF loads reached 1905. The total traffic in
peaches ard berries from 1867 to 1875 both inclusive
was as follows Carloads of peaches, 3s0S0; DO OF
berries, 1850 total weight, tons SG9G9f
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A correspondent of the New York Sun
thinks Grant would make a good Ameer in
place of Shere Ali, because he would never
run away from Cabul-as long as there was
any whiskey in the place.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

The balloting for Librarian not protracted.
there being only three ballots taken The principal
candidates for the place Messrs GOoding, J.
Wright Percy Fowler and H. H. COclazer, neither of
which gentlemen succeeded in reaching success Mr..
r. K. Kenney, who is law student in Chancellor
Saulsbury's Office coming in the third ballot and
getting off with a majority Of votes. Mr. COlclazer
held l3 votes for two ballots when taken
and, upon Resembling Mr. Kenney, who is a Sussex
man, nominated. il is said because Sussex being
beaten for everything else entitled to something.
8B-For additional County and State lens see second
page.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

WHAT DID He MEAN John Newton
once said to lady with ideas of pure
church, "Well, Madam, if there were u
perfect church on earth, it would cease to
be so the moment You and entered it."
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A guide professed to exhibit Balaam's
sword upon which a gentleman observed
that Balaam had only wished for a sword,
Precisely so, and this is the sword for
which he wished"
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

The late Sir George Rose of the Middle
Temple, Master in Chancery, was wit and
humorist. Lord Lanfidale, referring to the
diminutive church at Langdale, said" It
is not bigger than this dining room. !"
No." replied Rose, "and the living not
half so good"
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29
WHOLE NO. l,244.
THE STORY OF TURKO.

This story of Turko vino belonged to a little girl in
brooklyn. i true one and TurkO was not the unly
uug she had Known no was a rigid Sectarian Cant
NHlth gentleman who lives in New BrulSN lex had
Il Dig who Was an Ep!~rup upaliaI Iii, master became
very much Interested in rcyValiSt who preac he'd III
d bapl!st 'huTrh IN lis Hv!glIburhUod. and the
master went often there but his canine friend could
never DC INDUCED L. enter The vcstbuc of the BAPTIST
CH'iich ms little poem Was written when the
"u'ioI was thirteen years of axe.
y Presbyterian dog was Turko,
And Sectearian dog was TurkO;
ne WOuldn Join the McthOiists;
touId he have doubled up his fists
lie would eiought those NchOdists--y.ould TurkO
lie wouldn't stay at home from Churrh-Turko:
We tred t. leave him iii the lurch yc; Turko
M1uid ma some means To get away
from home on every sabbath day.
lEcFe "as ne use OF saying nay-tO TurkO.
we locked him IN room UP stairs poor Turko
ANA then we had no fears or cares for lurkO
When We were out Of sight he spraug
Right through the window. Then he ran
Through woods until 10 church hc came-would Turko
lie did not take the path We took-sly Turko
But stole along by brook and cruuk-wiSc Turko
He reached the Church before we did
And then, 50 wary, went and hid
OAlI We came, thinking We were Tid-Of TurkO
50 up the aisle, without q Thought of Turbo
Ncwcnt But our hopes were set at n0ught by TurkO
Who, up the aisle straight TO our pew
LIhe number, believe he knew
Walked calmly like a Christian trucdid TurkO
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A girl employed in Delhi (O.) paper
mill found two $50 bills among the waste,
which the proprietor appropriated. The
girl sued for their recovery, and the Su-
preme Court has affirmed the judgement of
the courts below that she is entitled to the
money, on the ground that the purchase of
waste paper does not carry the right to
unknown valuables which may be found
in il.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

Loss BY SNow.-It is stated that the loss
from all causes during the snow embargo
was $65 900 to the New York Central daily,
$4,000 to the Erie, and $45, 900 to the Lake
Shore.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A Salem IN. J.) man has had pet land
turtle for over II years, which would come
at his call and eat out of his hand; it died
q short time ago.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29
The Plague in. Russia.

A cable dispatch announces that the
German empire, Austria and ROumania.
were concerning measures to draw a strict
cor{oa s1nitaire from Memel. in Prussia, to
the Suliua mouth of the Danube, in order
to keep out the plague, which is reported
to be prevalent at Astrachan. Such a
quarantine will be productive of great in
convenience to Russia, and to Western
Europe as well, and the measures proposed
show serious apprehensions on the part of
the German authorities, as we'll as a serious
conviction that the dreaded disease has Oh
tanned positive foothold in Russia.
The plague is not now the formidable
disease it once was. 1t is recognized to be
the product of filth and overcrowding, and
proceeds from the same causes which have
in our climate produced Jail fever and ship
fever. 1t is a malignant typhus fever,
characterized by an eruption of gangre-
nous carbuncles and by glandular swellings
or buboes, high fever and excessive con.
stitutional disorder and debility. In the
middle ages it devastated all Europe re-
peatedly, but during the present century
has not been severe, except in Turkey
Arabia, Egypt and Syria. 1t has been mOst
frequently propagated on the routes o
MoSlem and Eastern Christian pilgrimage'
to Jerusalem and Mecca, and has repeatedly
of late years been very fatal at Cairo, Con
stantinople, Bagdad, Aleppo, and the port
of Syria and the Persian Gulf. The presen
outbreak of the disease in Russia is proba
BILE due to importation from Bulgaria an'
the Dobraudscha.
Its appearance at Astranchan seems t
have been simultaneous with the return o
the Cossacks from the Dobrudscha AM
from the front at Adrianople. To wha
extend the disease has already sprea'
amongst tho Russian villages and CON
munes would be impossible to conjecture
but if it should ever get foothold in tn
;; crowded and fostering towns and Mrs {
Central Russia, its final extirpation woul
be exceedlY ificult.-Bah. ISan.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

Florence Nightingale has written letter
on the prevailing distress in England, in
which she says: MAY | send you poor
little sum (E25). wishing it were twenty
times as much, and hoping to be allowed to
repeat it, for your relief fund? Might
ask that it should be applied to providing
work for the poor mothers-work which
know has been so well organized; and if
might breathe hope, as earnest as that
which trusts that Sheffield will tide over
these sad times, it would be that her men
may learn from these lesson of prudence
and manly self-control, and when good
times come again, as pray God they may
might use their higher wages so as to be
come capital instead of waste.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A bill has been introduced in the Senate
of Pennsylvania providing for the better
regulation of places of amusement in that
State.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

Here and there Greenback organizations
continue in working order. In Reading,
Pa, a full municipal ticket has been nomi-
mated by the soft money party.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29
COWnZY 0W1 S2uIe Items.
Sport for LegisIaturemen.

The boys around the State Building at Dover have
a very amusing and easy way Of earning fcw pen
nieS. They ask who ever happens to pass to lay
penny on the pavement and the boy who is lucky
enough to strike the penny with his top is entitled to
the money. The sport is watched with apparently
much interest Ly of the Legislators. 1t is not
unusual now to hear Mister lay down penny"
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

Burglars live on the fruits of midnight
toil.-Hackensac& Republican.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A Western woman who has lost two
husbands by lightning is advised to marry
q conductor.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

"Harry, did you ask Mr.. Hicks for the
money, as l told your Yes, sir"
" What did he say?' Nothing. He just
kicked me into the street that's all he
said"
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

There are men so constitutionally dull
that q blister will not make them smart.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

According to Messrs. George P. Rowell Il
Co.'S American Newspaper Directory for Jan,
1879, the total number Of periodical publi-
cations in the United States is 8,703 against
8.34O one year ago. There are l3 more
daily and 307 more weekly newspapers
than were reported in the edition for JAN,
1878. The total increase in the United
States of all sorts is 1863.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

One-fourth of the National debt has been
paid off since the war.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

The iron trade of the past year shows
marked improvement
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A HEAVY CoNTRAcT..-Clark, Reeves &
Co., the contractors for the New York
elevated railroad, have arranged with the
Phoenix Iron Company, of PhHnixville,
Pa, for the manufacture of S0y000000
pounds Of iron grders, columns, braces, &C..
for the New York Metropolitan Elevated
railroad and its proposed extensions along
Eighth and Ninth avenues to the Harlem
river. In these times of slack industry a
contract covering 10000 tons of manu-
factured metal deserves to be more particu.
larly chronicled. The Phoenix Company, to
complete this contract, will he able to give
full work, in night and day relays, to from
! 800 to 1000 hands. The companv's
shops and mills have capacity of l,00C
tons week, and the completion of the
contract will realize to the company about
$3.000OO0. The night gangs will work
under the cheerful glace of two of Brush''
electric lighting machines.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

A DENIAL FROM Mr.. SPURGEoN.-The at
tention of the Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon, the
famous London preacher, having been cal.
led to an alleged assertion OF Gen. Neal
Dow that Mr. Spurgeon used beer and
spirits very freely, the reverend gentle
man has published an emphatic disclaimer.
He saws he never touches beer, and uses no
alcoholic drink as a beverage, being an
habitual abstainer, and, as a rule, a total
abstainer. Mr.. Spurgeon says he does not
believe that these or oth9r stimulents are @
help to any man.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29
State Treasurer, Auditor and Librarian.

On Friday last Robt. J. Reynolds. of Petersburg,
Kent county, was elected State Treasurer for the
ensuing two years; Jas +. staats Of APPOINTMENTS
HID, Auditor, and NJ. r. Kenney of Laurel a law
student in Dover, Librarian. The following are the
ballots of the caucus, the previous evening:
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

Ninevah and Jerusalem are lighted BY
PENNSYLVANIA oil. .e
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

SPEECHES FROM New SENATORs-ITon.
Matthew Fl. Carpenter; upon being notified
of his election as Senator from Wisconsin,
addressed the Assembly. thanking it for
the honor conferred on him. He said that
everybody knew that he was a republican,
and he would represent the party as faith
fully as he could. He spoke of the oblitera.
ton of all evidences of the late war, the
happy results of specie resumption and the
promising outlook for good times. Hon.
George G. Vest, of Missouri, also addressed
the Assembly of that State upon being
| elected Senator. He assailed the republi-
can party as party Of Capitalization and
force, and pledged himself, as a Southern
democrat, to the support Of the constitu
! tiOnal amendments, and especially to the
protection Of the colored people. He de
clared himself against granting any pen
sion, bounty or pay to ex.Confederates, 0,
the recognition of Confederate debts, and ir
favor of'the honest payment of the nationa
| debt.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

The day after washing day is one of sad
irony.
Smyrna times., 1879-01-29

\ Presbyterian dog was Turko,
And Sectearian dog was TurkO.
lie wouldn't join the Mclhoists;
Gould he have doubled up his fists.
Hew would ayefOught those Methodist
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-05-09
LOIHE HREIITiEs.

Mariiigo licenses were issued in Georgetown
Yesterday IL John Taylor and lenuio johnson,
both of Fairfax county, Va, and to Henry Best
and Mary f. GoIuu, both Of LoudOun Co., Va.
Bodeu's c5ercd tand was out last night, and
screuadtd a number OF the candidates for mu.
niclpal cficts.
The steamer Lsdg of the Lake left the Ship
YaId this evening.
Mr.. Oscar Bsgeett will have al his stall in the
II arket 10 morrow foo 10. Of lamb and ether
meats.
Mr.. James Z Green has been appointed a
judge at the primary election in the first wsrd
OH Monday, vice J. c. NevetL declined.
Tho Directors Of the Alexandra Marine Bail.
way and Shipbuilding Company have declared
u dividend of three per cent.
match gsme OF base ball was played yester-
day between the Whitestones, Of this city, and
the Towards Of The High School, resulting,
WhitesLOnes ii, towards 10.
Meisrs. Burke s. Herbert have boen appointed
By lbe American Funding Association agents
for this city, for funding all clssses o: tho old
Virginia bonds into the new bends lately au.
thori2od.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-05-09
AUCTION SALES.
By Grren u Wise

toa Ests:e Agents and Actionocrs.
4 UCTlON SALE OF u N & l. "A M + ID
~ FRElGHT From STATIONSON THE
VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILROAD-We
will sell At AiexsEdris, without reserve. on
THURSDAY. June 5th. 1879, at II o'clock
q. m. the following PROPERTY, on account
of John :. Barbour, Receiver, q! the Virginia
Midland depot LOT! on Duke street, corner Of
Fsyet!o. Terms cash.