Smyrna times., 1879-01-01
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
A HAPPY New Year!

BLACK diamonds are popular this weather. a
The holiday season has drawn to close f
Ind the invoice season begun. t
THE boy who didn't get much in his :
stocking can put his foot into it. {
P. P. COLLINS has a glass ball shooting at i
The Smyrna House on Wednesday Sth inst. I
PAY your insurance policy to-day. If
left till tomorrow it may jeopardize your
l
THE cheapest coffee which comes to this
town is purchased from jobbing house in
Wilmington.
NEARLY 10000 pounds of poultry were
carried over the P, w. & B. r. r. to Phila.
delphia last week.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more railroad announce a dividend of four
per cent, payable January 2.
S. f. CLARK, for several months past
under medical treatment in Philadelphia,
has returned home in greatly improved
health.
THE PieYrcpont is ice-bound in the Creek
where she is likely to remain sometime.
She was loaded for an upward trip on Fri.
day morning, but the ice grappled her sides
and held her fast.
The lowest record of the thermometer
was the morning after Christmas-l2o in |
town and 10' in the country. The range
every morning for more than q week has
been from II to POP
REV. w. B. GoRDEN, Rector of St. Peters
Church, will preach on Sunday morning
next on "the evils of our times and their
remedies" This is a subject just now OF
important consideration.
JOHN A. HoFFEcKER, freight agent at
Clayton, leaves to-day to accept position
as book keeper for Zegler Brothers, boot
and shoe manufacturers, III, ll9 and 12l
North 5th st., Philadelphia.
| New SCHooNER.-Julian Jacobs has con-
tracted with John Maher and Gibhard
Leimback of Baltimore to build a schooner
of IS tons burden. He will commence on
her right away at his yards at the Landing.
BENZ. DoNAHo, for long time merchant
of this town, and subsequently Recorder of
Deeds for this county, has rented his farm,
near town, to James Frazier and moves to-
day to Dover, where he will in the future
reside.
THE Christmas trees have been numerous
of the reportorial pen, but after all some of
those which were of necessity on more
economical scale may have given the most
pleasure.
We hear of lot of lads who the past
week did that which deprecated them and
: mortified their friends. The stain cannot
be entirely wiped out, but they can pre-
vent a similar blot and thus redeem their
characters.
, RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENT.-The
National Bank of Smyrna resumed specie
payment the day before Christmas. On
2 the same day VIM. T. johnson paid off his
l shoe factory hands in gold This looks
like old times.
? WM. T. COLLINS, near Green Spring, or
Friday night week, had nearly all his pork
stolen, about 1000 lbs An entrance wa:
/, effected by prying off the side and the
meat carried away in sacks. No clue ha
e been had to the thieves.
+ SKATING.-The lovers of this sport have
had rare season. whole week, with pros
o pect of more During the afternoons, es
pecially the day or two following Christmas
the pond with the gliding figures of ladies
: men and boys presented an animated
j spectacle.
e LAST Thursday night there was gooc
o fall of snow on the lower half Of the Per
. insula and at Pokamoke City, Princes
Anne, &c, there was good sleighing. A
y GEORGETOWN tie snow fell four and at Ha
e rington two inches while here there wa
% none at all.
t. THE PennSular Ne1rS notes with wonde
e ment, as compared with Milford, that W
hos Eua ch calo in n
!. Tuesday 7th inst. These sales are all az
= vertised in another part Of the countr
le where there is no concern in, and from whiC
n, section there is not expected to come
at bid or purchaser. The interest OF neith'
debtor nor creditor are consulted.
ICE-The cold snap that begun Monda
- Of last week was so severe as to make thiC
:, ice by Thursday. On that day our me
~ having ice houses began to gather, and f
~ three days there was a constant hurry ar
W rattle through our streets of the wago
re engaged in storing it away. The bous
ae we believe are all filed and consequent
y the concern for next summers supply
~ dismissed.
i'd. DONATION PARTY.-The congregation
ed Seveson's Church to the number of abo
nd forty persons made an unceremonious vi
1
hit | contents of their well-flled baskets "
mt survive for many days as remembrances
to Rev. Mr. Rawlins and his good lady. Aft
ng good social time, prayer meeting "
MT inaugurated, which watched with beco
of ing spirit and new resolves the birth oil
on new year.
ed. RErURNED.-Geo. w. Bradford, photog
ed. pher, has returned from California and "
les resume business in his former rooms
es. Commerce ST., below Main. Mr.. BradfC
ing is first class artist as our people kno
OF the many who have been waiting for
tes return can now have the benefit of
No. services. Mr.. B. crossed the mounta
ess and plains during the prevalence OF
ons snowy atmospheric wave, and the asp
sia, from the car windows he describes as gra
EAR in its wildness.
~ THE WATCH MEETING held at the NJ.
ows Church last night to greet the advent
co. the new year was largely attended. !
enh services consisted of sermon by the pas
r. Rev. Mr.. Haynes, and an experience M
rod ing. As the dial pointed to II o'clock {
IL the death of the old, the bell rung
cot ioyously the birth of a new year. 1t is
Lar purpose to protract the meeting nigf
from this date The pastor will be assis
~ for some time by Rev. DR.. Harvard, who
,tts. also preach next Sunday morning.
ecks BUsINEss.-In the midst of year
the grumbling. it is profound source of e.
to- 6cation that the year went out n
r. j. auspiciously. Without an exception,
The merchants tell US that their sales for
lrt holidays were good-much better than
The pected. From the railroad officers we le
pary that the volume Of goods shipped consi
ably exceeded that of last year. On
subject the Philadelphia Record says: