Smyrna times., 1879-04-02
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
. election next Saturday.


HARRY C. HILL, of this town, has gone
to Centreville, Md, to clerk for leading
firm of that place.
IT is good indication of land improve.
ment when one dealer has sold 10000
bushels of lime in one week.
PRoF. GROVES examined 42 candidates for
teachers on Saturday last, the largest class
that he has ever examined in one day.
The farmers are busy in pushing for
ward their spring work, but the frequent
rains of last week made it against those
seeding oats.
THE annual meeting Of the Smyrna
Building and Loan Association will be held
on Tuesday evening next, when officers
will be elected for the ensuing year.
YESTERDAY was April Fools day, when
| practical jokes are apt to be played on the
unsuSpecting, but the community seems
not to have been in that frame of mind.
| By an act Of the Legislature last week
| 81 800 has been appropriated to mend the
road from the Cedar Swamp to Collins
Beach which has been submerged since the
October storm.
The traditional character attributed to
March that if it ''comes in like lamb it
will go out like lion," was literally veri.
fed on Monday. for more bosterous day
is seldom seen than was that day.
1T may not be embarrassing, but it is not
so satisfactory for an audience to be enter.
tanned by preacher, in doubt as to who
he is and inquiring of each other at its close
which Of the Bishops it was that preached.
TIE property which the National Bank
of Smyrna owned in Milford and run as a
branch bank until it changed from a State
to National bank has been bought by DR..
Geo. w. Marshall, who will fit it up for a
residence.
THE Trustees of the Bethel NJ. Z. Church
intend to repaint the lecture or Sunday
School room of that church. The Sunday
School has been organized for the season by
making Gamaliel Garrison Superintendent
and Mrs. VIM. Surgen assistant.
The Salem Steamboat Company, who
have an existing lease on the wharf at Col
Inns Beach, will commence to-day to repair
the pier at that place and will have it
finished in about three weeks. 1t is proha-
ble that the steamer artisan will then re-.
sumo her trips.
by Mrs. Williams, widow of the Rev. L. J.
Williams, to return her sincere thanks to
the Order of Free Masons of New Castle,
for their kindness and attention to the de-
ceased and to herself during his illness in
that town. We might add, that his
brother Masons not only administered to
him in kindness, but met all the expenses
of his sickness and burial.
&c h. l,-k 81. Al.
school law was so amended that children
will not be received into the school until
they are six years of age, instead of five as
formerly. The commissioners of District
No. in this town intend to put the law in
force at once, as the school is over crowded
J This will relieve the school Of about fifteen
children between the years Of FIVE and six
The other school, No. 3, has taken the
same course.
TIE late Legislature had less to do foi
this section than any other in the State
Many sections, especially in the lower par
of the State, were considerably stirred VI
on the questions of stock laws. An elfor
was made for the improved intellectual
and moral improvement of men, but it wa.
failure. If it had been to fence in som,
! mans cows they had been after, the
E efforts would no doubt have been crowned
, with success.
. THE Rev. Arthur w. Milby of Harring
!, ton preached in the NJ. f. Church in th
town on Sunday morning last on "Examin
yourselves whether ye be in the faith" |
y was a discourse in every respect full o
o vigorous characteristic thoughts, logicall
. put and bristled all through with theolog
cal points, melowad with the tender fore
( of the gospel. Rev. J. B. Quigg, of Mi
n ford, occupied the pu pit in the evening il
the delivery Of what was generally cor
4 sidered an able sermon on "well doing"
d ENTERTAINMENTS public school a
T. Clayton. taught by John w. Whitaker, wi
e give q public entertainment on Frida
= evening, consisting of charades, tableau
: and pantomimes. Music will be furnishes
IS by the Frederick string band
On the same evening the young peopl
OF of Leipsc will give an entertainment j
the town hall of that place for the benef
- OF the NJ. E. Sunday School, consisting {
p" charades, dialogues, select readings, mus
lie &c.
v. On Thurday and Friday evenings,
n. Downs Chapel near Kenton, entertain
ments will be given consstlngs of dialogue
u recitations, vocal and instrumental mus
le &c.
u SINGULAI COINCIDENCE.-The experient
lc which the Wilmington Conference is no
it. having-two deaths within one week Of i
,e adjournment, Revs. J. Hough and r.
]. Williams, both of them lying corpses
~ the same time-is rarely experienced
ue the bounds Of the connection. But II
or circumstances attending the painful e
nd perience is still more remarkable as a C
incidence. They both took part in II
proceedings of the Conference, the fir
IN named very prominently so. Mr.. Hou,
sat was the one who moved the resolution pied
us ing the ministers to take no part in cam
meetings allowing Sabbath decorations al
"e Mr.. Williams was the one who seconded
M The last sermon that Mr.. Hough preach
Tot was for Mr.. Williams, just before Conf
tie ence. And the last sermon that Mr.. w
liams preached was in this town in Dece
'u' Der before he had a partial stroke
,ry paralysis, not having preached here for l.
ed years. And, to end the parallel, y
Ike Hough was buried here on Sunday Al
Mr.. Williams on Tuesday-~the fune
uH services of both being from the the u.
to Church and both were buried in the saI
tile cemetery and the same lot.