Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1879-12-10
News Items.


The Leadville Chronicle says that most of
Ao.s most prominent in business there
are Hebrews.
orts,ian we'll at Birdvills, Texas, only
.oo feet deep, spouts over 600 gallons OF
water per hour.
Noorlv every village, town and city in
,,t'.;s.inpi is busily engaged either in build
w. or talking cotton factory.
Gin is about to send some small war
n "Is IN Cuba. The visit of the Gar to
t tea theatre at St. Petersburg produced great
enthusiasm.
The Managers of the New York Produce
r!.Innoe. on Friday last, ordered that the
LI.ntal system, so far as it relates to grain,
Iii 90 into effect on the 3lst.
heavy northerly gale prevailed at
A.ninwall last month, lasting hve DAYS
Two briggs and two barks were wrecked
and several other vessels were damaged.
Mr. Gladstone is creating a profound i'm
urs,,iou in Scotland by his vigorous
ius.ches exposing the extrayagancs and
xiv of the Oriental policy of Bsaconsheld.
n Is said the recent democratic primary
factions in Philadelphia indicate solid
S.lscation from that city to the national
.ory.ntion in favor of Gen. Hancock for
the presidency
A floor gave away in grain and flour
,,;T in Brockton, Mass, Friday, precipi-
t,tinp three men into the cellar and bury
40 them under 5000 bushels of grain.
They were taken out dead.
More than 1000 turkeys and 1000 geese
and ducks were shipped from Ingersoll,
Ont. on Friday last, for England. Large
numbers of geese and turkeys are also
being shipped to England from Nova
Scotia.
The other arrests in Ireland were followed
Friday by that of Thomas Brennan, Secre-
tary of the National Land League. He is
charged with sedition, and having approved
publicly of the language used by the other
State prisoners.
At the sand lots, in San Francisco, on
Sunday last, Dennis Kearney announced
his intention of being present at the meet
ing of greenbackers in Washington ON
January s. He will leave next Sunday
morning, and goes first to Boston.
1t looks as if 'the way they do in Gin
cinnati" were about to be modified some.
what in respect to Sunday theatrlcals and
concert shows. The police OF that gay
and festive city, shut them all up on last
Sunday and promptly arrested everybody
they could find violating the order.
The poetic appeal, Woodman spare
that tree" is to be answered. A Mr.. Wood
man of Chicago claims to have discovered
a process of making light and heat with
out a resort to cutting down trees, mining
coal or boring oil wells. Hereafter, &C
cording to his theory, wood will only be
needed for building purposes.
The demonstration in honor of Genera
Grant during his stay in Philadelphia viii
be participated in by tens of thousand
from neighboring cities and towns. Among
others, over 1000 men from John Roach 4
Sons shipyards, at Chester, and a battalion
of cadets from the Pennsylvania Militar!
Academy will take part i'll the parade.
A New York inspector of elections ha
been sent to prison for two years for falsify
ing the returns. In the old days, bsfor
Tammany and Tilden had quarreled, thes
performances meant political preferment
not imprisonment, and the change mus
be sad one for the ten or twelve thousan
gentry in that city, who, like Tweed, use
to write Statesmen" after their names.
VIM. B. Farwoed, president of the Live
pool Board of Trade, who has been maxim
tour of the cotton States, was on Chang
at Cincinnati on Friday last In the cour
of a speech he said that he was Statistic
that the increase of cotton production tn
year would be between 100000 and 30O,OC
bales; that it had been produced cheap
than usual, and was being gathered, pack'
and shipped in much better order tha
ever before.
One of the improvements growing out
the elevated railroad down Filbert street
18th, Philadelphia. will be an immen
hotel covering an entire block, which Il
Psnnsylvania Railroad Company will bui
and manage. With the depot, the hot
and the new City Hall, the Masonic temp
and John Wanamaker's great establis
msnt all clustered together, there will so
be a group of buildings and a scene
active life in the neighborhood of the @
Penn square.