Smyrna times., 1879-12-31
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
HAPPY New Year.


Your Insurance expires to-day. Do not
neglect it.
Tomorrow will be the day to settle your
bills, sware off FROM your vices (if you have
ANY, and make new resolves.
Our town commissioners are found fault |
with for not keeping proper and ready ap- |
pliances for the quick suppression OF fires.
DESPITE the bad weather preceding the
great holiday, our merchants and shop
keepers report large and satisfactory sales.
New material has been procured for
fence for Glenwood" Cemetery and proba-
bly, during the next several months it may
be erected.
| The usual watch meeting will be held at
the NJ. Z. Church tonight, commencing at
10 o'clock, and the meeting will be pro-
tracted from this date.
We give on our first page two poems ap-
| propriate to the season by instructors of
our town though from different desks,
whose stances our readers will no doubt
follow with interest.
| lHE 4gSCII dI0
further travelling accommodations on their
! steamer by having hunks or sleeping apart
ments constructed on the lower deck for
the use of the colored passengers.
, THE dividend days Of the Fruit Growers
Bank which heretofore have been the first
Tuesday in February and first Tuesday in
) August, were yesterday by action of tbs
t Board changed to the second Tuesday in
, January and Second Tuesday in July. The
profits Of this bank the past FIVE months
have been five per cent on the capita
. stock, clear of all expenses.
On Christmas-eve, preparatory to closinI
up the store for the night, John B. Coope
was agresably surprised by the presents
IS ton of an Oxford's Teachers Bible by hi
IS clerks. The presentation speech was mad
Il by Edgar L. Haynes, and received by MI
Cooper in appropriate acknowledge
both for its value as book, as well as
& token of esteem from those in his employ
DURING the past several years because {
70 the dullness of the times some of our sul
T. scribers have been allowed long rope, bu
1t the time has come for a change Our o.
penses consequent upon publishing
larger paper have very considerably il
" creased, in addition to which paper an
a. other printing material has advanced frol
is twenty-five to forty per cent, and we thr
"a notify such subscribers that necessity d
:. msnds that We shall draw in the lines.
m The maxim of the great teacher that
al is "more blessed to give than receive"
frequently verified. An incident of th
q holidays is case in point. A little be
IS. was the recipient of several dollars wort
liz desirable presents, but none Of theI
50 brought the animation to the chesk an
sparkle to the eye as did his expsRditul
VI of small piece of silver in purchasir
II. presents to give to others. And his was q
is exceptional case.
I'd A CURIosITY.-Mr. Benz. A. Hazel, WI
We runs across maHy novelties in his travel
as in his last home coming brought with hi
"a a piece of the incineratsd bone Of I'll
>. Baron de Palm, which he obtained from
w gentleman in Pittsburg The Baron, it wi
NJ be rscollected, was the first cremationist
IN this country, the burning taking place
h. Western Pennsylvania some two or thr,
years ago. He directed in his will tn
c' after the incineratioR the ashes should
&c cast to the four winds, but this and perha
N. other specimens of the larger bones we
RI gathered up by curiosity seekers. 1t
white and very light and porous.
At DEATz FROM A PEANUT.-On Friday Ia
in little sixteen months old child of Chs
Dennis, of Kenton, while eating peanut
BIZ got an end of the hull lodged in its win
m pipe, the removal of which baffled Il
he skill of the physicians. On Saturday NOR
N ing Drs. Collins and Ashcraft, Of this tow
were sent for to assist in the delicate opel
" ton of opening the windpips ltrach sotonn,
OF but the child had died an hour before tn,
err. arrival. DR.. Cooper OF that place made
Ii.. post norton examination and found I
:. hull, (about quarter Of the usual n
VT size,) firmly lodged in the windpipe, til
ay obstructing its breathing and causing
he death.
:" The WILD DEER.-Last Summer we 90
ng an account of two wild dssrs that W,
running at large near Morton. They w,
semitic John Short, residing near Hoffsoks
his Mill, some two years ago BY relative livi
of in the West. One Of them was caug
20, says the Sentinel last week, by q celol
man living near Dsnney's School Hou
on. The way it was caught by the man Jol
not was by placing feed for it where it had b,
the seen in . wood near his house, and gr
oxa ually getting closer TO IL. until finally
got near enough to catch IL by the hol
tue He says he is not anxious to have assot
rom tussel with deer, as this one gave him
evi. good shaking up before he conquere
ison for him to forget it soon. The desr's hs
,lves have five bucklsrs upon them, shown
to be in its sixth year.