Smyrna times., 1879-01-01

arge crop OF matrimonial candidates. 1T
is not only here that the application will {
hold good, but other towns around us have !
also been passing Through the same ex- (
perlence. 1t one season of the year has
an advantage over another for the Joining
of hearts and hands, the Christmas season
of good cheer doubtless has it. We give
in another item how one of our gay widowers
fixed up this little business. The next day
our worthy Superintendent of public
schools, in the season of the MestletOe and
the Yule log had the festival season further
advanced by pleasant matrimonial event.
The happy couple took the cars the same
day for Baltimore. The next day, the third
in succession, the officiating minister per-
formed the rite again in his own residence.
SUSTAIN YoUE Town PApER.-They have
way of doing things out West different
from what we have East. They move
direct on their object and do not handy
words. Bro. Murdock publishes the Edo |
RADIO (Kansas) Times. His paper goes into |
every family as subscriber. There were
some who did not take it, probably reading |
their neighbors. He said to them, "See !
here; we are trying to build up a town |
here. To do so we must sustain our town |
institutions. If you have not come here |
with this object to do your part in sustain,
place for you. You had better get up and
dust" They saw the force Of what he was
driving at, and as a result the Times as more
| than any other thing representing their
entire interest is subscribed for by every
| family. This is q more direct way of
| procedure than is customary in this sec
| ton, but the principal that governs the
| circumstances in the two cases is the same.
| The feeling Of sustaining home should rule
with every family. There are some worth
thousands who do this by borrowing OF
their neighbors. The latter have expressed
wonder dozens of times mot to you per-
haps) why you did not take the paper
yourself. They feel that it is as little to
lend their town paper as it is to borrow it,
where people have the means to pay for it.
There are q number of families whose cir.
cumstances require the most rigid economy.
These remarks do not apply to them. But
there are others to whom they do and we
want to test them.
MAYHEM.-The holiday passed with but a
single deed Of violence in our town, but
that, as far as the perpetratOr was con-
cerned was most atrOclous one. The be
ginning OF it commenced the previous week.
The two men, George Smith and Augustus
> Belman were playing billiards in Smiths
| MISUNDERSTANDING
got into dispute or quarrel and Smith
J called "Gus" ID Dutchman, and the
) latter instantly knocked him down. On
Christmas day they met in Collins Billiard
Saloon, and, though drinking, neither were
drunk. Smith harboring grudge and de
. termined on revenge for being knocked
down, wanted to renew the fight again, bu
e was told by the proprietor they could no
do it there. lie challenged and dare,
/. Gus" to the yard. The first blow SmtI
+ was fioored again. "Gus " stood and waitet
4 for him to quit or repeat the assault, but il
e parrying his second blow was either trippe
y or fell over some wood, and, while down
II Smith grabbed at his ear like q do
;, and arose with a good part of it in hi
IS mouth, thus disfgurng him for life. Aite
n splitting the ear out of his mouth he WI
e heard to say that "he had got his revenge.
Is Belman perceiying the cowardly and cru,
u damage that had been done him, pulle
his pistol to shoot the man who would thu
maul him, but it only snapped, his Wi
~ having the night before removed til
cartridges from it. Smith walked ava
" unmolested and the same evening left ii
- place and has not been heard from sine
:! DR.. Clifton dressed the wound. Be.ma
.' was considered in great danger for sever
e, days, but is now able to get about agai
:; - The feeling on all sides is that of abho
- renee at a man who could do such IA diabt
" ical deed. Smith, who is a young ma
" some % years old, has rendered himse
- liable to a severe punishment if he shou
~ be caught, as the law against mayhem
II very severe.
tn THE GREAT HOLIDAY.-The Christm
ey holiday was ushered i'll midst q biting
II mospheric wave all the way across the snC
he bound praries from the Rocky Mountain
mt If the snow was lacking here, we had
lly its concomitants. The sharp bracing a
a clear pavements, roads hard and rattling
IRE the echo of swift rolling wheels like th
ial from Belgian pavement, hetoken
mt nature in its most animated mood. One
nd the special requisites for joyous Christn
ey is plenty to eat. Christmas-eve, that is I
IN day before the bells ring in the joyo
nd morning for which all eyes look with {
an, light, found our venders of all kinds pr
les sed with demands at their counters Il
Sc', taxed their utmost ability to fill. Fro
ere all sides comes the Same testimony "we b
ne better trade than we expected" AT
IN the hustle Of preparation, it was perht
the most quiet and best enjoyed of q
,ro that have preceded it. In former ye
~ having the "good tIme' consisted in no
Ia Y'1a explosives, bonfres, &c. This year tn
Iro pt was scarcely sound or smell of gun pc
,bn der. The centre of enjoyment seems
,oo have been in the home circle. Weventl
NO the assertion that there were double
. number of Christmas trees of any form
90 year. noticeable feature was that IL
80, abounded in our smaller, the story a
~ story.and-half houses, as much as in
- more pretending ones. This fact is one
| Al ,g.,ip 10 hop 10 =
10 Santa Claus found his way into ev
ou, house.
- In the early morning, between midni
, III and day break, the advent songs of
- Lyric Quartptte rolled out on the clt
,I. frosty air. Later in the morning, ab
inc five o'clock q company of young ladies
~ gentlemen in different parts of the tC
80, filled the air with the melodies OF Il
~ beautiful Christmas carols. This is featl
,Sad inaugurated last year, that We hope will
,ot as regular and as certain as the visit
.,n "Old Kriss" himself. Nothing could
M more appropriate.
- At six o'clock the sonorous bell frorn
n. ,oe steeple of the NJ. Z. Church called
oroo people to the house of prayer, and goc
'dov number at that early hour met and hs
tLo 'season of refreshing" in the true spiri
80 the "day we celebrate" At l03 o'cl
was Ine - - ie0Iol VI ~ ~. LuiS -: Nv
# of D. NoI"on' Pie"1nO M M nL'"i, w"
: e "e tastefully trimmed with evergreen. In
tion evening EVEN 'ne Zap, .h Sda', ,mJ CO
rrow nlieu W P"i 1iD p"tv -" IT,, -
Gin. singing several good selections of MI
tho repeating the creed and the distribution
80 parcels of candy. to each scholar.
staR children and visitors seemed to enjoy
+ :, occasion which was not protracted hey
= 'adv its proper time. The above summa