Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1879-10-15

town Of Shedac, N. B., was burned on
Monday last, with the exception OF one
.toro and the Weldon House. The lire !
on;o;rated in an unoccupied outbuilding,
ond tbirtv.six houses in all were destroyed,
among them being the Adams House. the
1f,,;,7,r Acadcn printing Office, and all the
n;noin,I stores. The total loss will prob
ablv reach 100000. Insurance $4,000.
THp latest list of casualties by the dlsas-
ter on the Michigan Central Railroad on
Monday last places the number of killed
Of X and the injured at 81. All the In
iured are now expected to recover. The
Coroners investigation seems to have de-
veIoned the fact that the yard-master, the
svitcbman and the engineer of the switch
engine at Jackson, were alike criminally
careless, and are responsible for the dis
aster.
THE New York papers are particularly
distasteful to an outsider just now. What
and anti.Tilden, Kelly and anti-Kelly,
articles in the Democratic, and Hayes and
anti. Hayes, Grant and anti-Grant, Cornell
and anti. Cornell Conkling and anti'Conk-
ling articles in the organs, one is perfectly
disguised. And yet the New York people
like all this very much, and think every
body else ought to relish the same food.
BLoxDIx's daring exploits on the rope
in Vienna are just now the talk and
wonder of the town. He calls himself the
"Hero of Niagara and performs at the
building which was used in 1878 for the
Exhibition. The latest thing reported of
him is walking along the rope on stills,
blindfolded and backwards, at height OF
go feet. No net is stretched below him,
and when halfway across he feigns to lose
his nerve, and, putting his hand to his
forehead, waivers, leans, and then slips and
RECEIVERS himself.
A ST. Louis correspondent Of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer tells the sad story of an aged
couple in that city who have not spoken tC
each other in sixteen years, though living
together and sharing the same table. He
refusal to sign deed was the cause of the
husbands anger. Their only means o
communication has been daughter, whC
married few weeks ago and has since dice
in a congestive chill. Even this catastro
phe has not unsealed the lips of tn
obdurate couple, and they continue thei
lives of solitude.
NEXT the bicycle! How furious the feve
will be, or how much money will be lost 0
won by legs on wheels, we shall not ventur
to predict but our hope is that societ
may undergo the epidemic in as mild
form as possible We are to have, it seems
an invasion of French and English veloc
pedestrians, who will be CALAMITY met, fc
the honor of this great and beautifl
country, by an equal number of Colun
bans. Whether the thing can be worke
up to a resuscitation of the public intere
in rather a stale matter we shall see.
THE corners jury which held an inque
to determine the cause of the falling
the grand stand at the Adrian Mich ia
grounds, by which fifteen lives were 10
and 30 persons were injured, have rende
ed verdict that W. T. Lawrence, owner
the stand, Sizer, the architect, and Hen
Armstrong the carpenter who built Il
stand, were guilty of criminal negligenc
All but the latter were arrested on Il
charge Of manslaughter. They were ;
raigned, pleaded not guilty, and were
leased on $4,000 bail for examination o.
%.
The steamer 81. Paul, from San Fra
cisco, with Gen. Grant on board reach
Astoria, Oregon, on last Monday mornii
Statutes were fred from Forts Stevens a
CANDY, and cheers were given by the ere
OF the English ships in the bay. T
mayor Of Astoria, General o. 0. Howe
and Others boarded the g. Paul and G,
Grant wa c'ctj shore, and made
speech, in which he said the scenes throu
which he was PASSING in Oregon VI
familiar, bat IL. not look half
high as ,Acy ia twenty-six years a
Great Improvements had been made sill
then.
The Western States are feeling a pl
perity almost unprecedented. Michigan
selling moro lumber than ever befo
minneapolis is sending off 1900 barrel
Hour day, and the city has $4,000 inh
ants; Duluth, "the Zenith city Of the
salted seas" is receiving 12O car-load
wheat every twenty.four hours, and
Northern Pacific is pushing on. All tn
= comment on the exquisitely abs
I peech of Lord Beaconsfeld, in which
ff presented that our Northwestern st
being depopulated by the rusf
III Frtystricken millions across the boz
kl Canada.
MI RIERs have reached Rawlins '
fhat the Utes have fed from
Nk River battlefield. General Me
thed on as far as White River.
ags at the Agency had nearly
burned down. The dead bodie
-. t Meel<er and eight employees
4 scattered around on the groun
-PSicinity. The women and chill
VI been carried OF. It's reported
Indians lost thirty-seven killed i,
hing with Thornburgh and Ca
III. ne General sherman has telegrs
~ Washington that the Indians M
y! Hsursued, and those captured hel
prisoners until further orders.