Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1879-10-22

T,5Ti- AIRY NOTICES will be charged two cents per
line.
A CHEERING report comes that the women
~ children whom the Utes captured are
.'.,o;v;rc kind treatment and il is hoped
4hov will be Immediately surrendered on
.ho arrival of General Adams at the camp
rur Snnreme Court yesterday affirmed
4be legality of the Thurman act requlf-
m,tbo Pacific railroads to prepare to meet |
4ho;r obIcations to the government ana !
now the interest and principal of the debts |
I H., tho limited States. The majority OF
tho Conrt afirms the legality of the act |
an1o associate Justices Bradley, Strong !
and Field dissent
OK Wednesday night gang OF roughsat
hacked train on the Lackawanna ana
bloomsbury railroad when it was near
scranton. They signalled the engineer to
ston. but he surmissing the danger OF COM
nIvinr with their signal, let on steam. The
ro.nonse was a volley of shots, Kidding the
cob. and one ball plowed through the scalp
oftbo engineer. There were about twenty
in the attacking party.
The Republicans OF Louisiana have nomi'
,,otod TAYLOR Beattie, Of Lafourche, for Gov
ornor of that State. Senator Conkling IS
boirc enthusiastically received i'll the
Northern part of New York State. Mar
shall Douglass has addressed q very large
audience at Binghampton. 1t IS stated
that people in Richmond are indifferent to
the Republican victory in Ohio. They
care less for politics now than for business
affairs.
THE figures complied by Dun, Barlow ~
Co. for the third quarter Of 1879 show some
encouraging and surprising results. For
The time mentioned the business failures in
the United States have been less than one
half Of the number during the third quarter
of 1873, the number falling from 1858 to
1.o62-a difference of 1881. In the total
amount of liabilities the reduction is even
greater, being only one-quarter of the total
amount for the same period of last year.
General Sheridan reports that he is col
lectinc a force of calvary companies at
points opposite the southern part of the Ute
reservation, in order to attack the Indians
from that quarter in case the murderers OF
Agent Meeker and the other white men are
not surrendered. Dispatches from Wash
ington state that the Government is resolved
to listen to no proposal for peace until the
guilty have been given up. The Southern
Utes ore very anxious to have the Govern
ment understand their friendly disposition
THE Gazette says that the Improvement
have been progressing in Wilmington at {
rapid rate for the past six months. W.
doubt if there were ever SO many house
put under contract here in the same tim
as in the last three months. New house
are being erected in every quarter of tn
city; at tie same time a large number Q
Improvements are being made to old pre-
perties, giving employment to all the cal
penters in the city. Bricklayers, plasterer
carpenters and plumbers were never NOR
busy.
IL Newark, y. J., the people who thin
that laws are made not for use but orn;
ment, have elected by large majorit
the poor mans candidate " for Mayor, NJ
". A. F. Fielder, over Mr. Mackner, VIII
is styled " the rich and rel gious candidate
The main object Of the Felderists is
secure total disregard for existing statute
designed to promote decent observance
the Sabbath, and to regulate the sale
intoxicating drink. They do not seem
have taken into account that the May
whom they have called to rule over the
must either do SO according to law,
violate the oath which he must take befo
entering upon the duties of his Office.
THE intention Of Ameer Yakoob Khan
abdicate complexities the Afghan profile
still further. 1t deprives England Of
docile ally at Cabul, and may upset Il
British scheme to hold few Afghi
strongholds, and so avoid the arduous Ia
OF reducingt the entire country to subjectio
The Russians maintain that to occu
Cabul, and then wait till Spring to conqu
the rest Of the country would only increa
the fanaticisms of the Afghans and gi
them time to form their plans. 1t may
that England will have to revert to
course she adopted in l841-43, and, wi
DRAWN e allow the Afghans to
governed " ruler Of their own choice
the valiant Dost Mohammed. The alt
naj"' d. and occupying
co9... .-a. 81. extent as Germany
not pleasant prospect for the British t
payer.
The incineration of the remains of
lie Moyne was the most complete e
made in this country. The time consun
was three hours and the ashes weigl
seven pounds. In life the subject weigl
over two hundred pounds The death
Dr. lie hoyne, the chief apostle of crei
uon IN this country, may cause brief
~ FlVal OF interest in the question of Burn
rs. Burying; but, according to the |
observation, public opinion is emphatci
Iainst the innovation, and altoget
u PLY to remain SO. The Doctors furn
stands, having been only used fc
4 r time. After this his heirs will pre-
kf9ull it down, and little more will
a of cremation in that rural distl
; ne the present generation at lie
q prefers to be dust rather than as
Eny discussion of the subject, says
York Tribune, which we have seen
hator has thought it worth while t.
e into the origin Of the metho
~ue. Customs SO absolutely establil
Usually have a reason for their longe
icy are not whims, bubconcrete opin
ahd even among the ancients the hal
burning was by no means universal.
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