Smyrna times., 1879-12-31

shows very marked Improvement In |
social morals Save larger number of
people than usual on the street, there was
little to designate it from any other time.
The services Of the police were not used
at all so far as we have heard, except in the
case of some hilarious darkeys--Jas. Berry,
Charles Barrett and Wn. Johns, who were
given a nights lodging in the lookup
and fined.
Mr. TRUAx's PRorERTT.-'The public sale
of the property of John Truax took place
yesterday according to advertisement. Lot
No 39l was bought by VIM w. Nelson for
1925; No. PIG by Charles VanWinkle for
| $l2; No. % for $25, and &c for 1925 by
VIM Bruden; Nos. 92-93 by Albert Hud
son for SIS; No. 8, 24 acres, by Chas. Van.
Wrinkle for $l60; No. by Isaac Truax for
$23 All these are in Spruance City. The
building lot, corner of Commerce and
Pearl rts., Smyrna, was sold to Isaac Truax
for $780, A lot at Brenford Station, acre
and fruit house, to Peter Collins for $l0l;
SO acres of woodland to J. Allen for $3.50 |
per acre; 26& acres, known as the Hazel
orchard, below Smyrna, for $Sl per acre,
and the farm of 100 acres to Isaac Truax, |
for SIS per acre. The two last properties
were probably "bid in"
VIsIToRs.-The holiday season brought |
as usual number of visitors to our town |
for few days Of social visiting. Those in
cluded in the first paragraph are those
who at one time resided among US:
Miss Mary " Spearman, Mount Vernon,
Iowa; Ed A. Oliver, ed. l. Toriallel Yonk-
ers, n. Y. DIR. j. Stiles Kennedy, Michigan;
John s. Hoffecker and wife, Thomas Mccoy,
Eugene Start, Wilmington; DR.. Charles b.
Green, Thomas Haynes, John A. Hofecker,
Philadelphia'; Olin Hough Easton; Olin Uric,
Chicago; William Miller, Baltimore; VIM.
johnson, Burlington College Burlington, n.
. j.; Thomas Rawlns, Dickinson College, Pa;
Misses Hettie Megear, Edith Cummins, Edith
3 Bell, Darlington Seminary, West Chester, Pa;
, DR.. John W. Flick, Stroudsburg, Pa; Miss
!. Lille Register, Dover.
Mrs WILDER H. Myers, Miss Lizzie Myers,
a John Shippley, Philadelphia; j. Turner Mich
!. olson, Yonkers, N. Y. George Raymond,
:, | Wilmington; Miss Jennie Mallalieu, Milling
, ton; Misses Ella Adams, Kate Tucker, Mamie
Wallace, Dover; Frank j. Pearson, Balti-
. more; Miss Mamie Clifton FELTON,; William
u Hough Trenton, N. j.. Mrs Malvina Steven
1t son, Preston, Md; Miss Sallie Legg; Misses
D. Ella Wilson, Helen Eliason, Middetown; ;
Albert Hardcastle, Goldsboro', Md.
D. WHOLESALE THIEvING.-On Tuesday night
of of last week the premises of John J. Jones
8. living near town, were visited and four
BIT turkeys stolen. Suspscting where they
had gone, a search warrant was OBJ
tanned the next day, and the houses
i'll in Petersvills," a row of houses belong
,ir ing to Pete Downham, at the lower end
IT. of East St., were searched. The turkey.
or were not found, but instead, between
twenty and thirty chickens, a ham that wal
stuck in the window to take the place of s
10 broken light, and about twenty bushels o
rss corn. The latter was found in the loft aRC
IN the poultry under o trap door in the floor
Ue | - addition 4n uubiah -
~ chicken cut preparatory to making pc
nc pie to fill peck measure. The occupant
ms of the house, some ten negroes of boil
TAI sexes, knew nothing of how they got there
and would not claim them as their OWE
ia, and, beiRg without an owner, Alderman
n.r Budd very properly had them divided u
IT,. among the poor of the town who are tn
hi, subjects of charity. In regard to the cor
,da it was developed that two bags of it ha
NJ been stolen from John P. Carey, near towr
.rt and William Hamilton was held in 500 fc
q . his appearance at Court Except in th
ov preparations of things to eat, these hous,
Of Downhsm present the utmost squalor-
, Of no furniture and only a few rags to slice
ub on. 1t has for years been den of thievs
but and pest to the community. The feathe
ex. from the poultry are thrown into a we
and those who saw them say that a ton
in poultry would not supply the quantit
and there. The occupants were found main
'om to be those persons who were released fro
hus Jail at the last Court charged with theft.
de.
The CHRISTMAS HoLIDAY.-Ths holds
of the year, which Americans have learnG
u II to appreciate most adequately has con
IS and gone-now recorded with the things
the ths past. The day, nsteorologically, W
boy undsniably dull but the vast resources
~.
lem over climatic accidents. 1t doesn't Deepen
and like the Fourth of July, upon the weaths
lure 1t is celebrated net in the highways, but
ing homes. There might have been son
no difficulty in going from home to home, b
the pleasure anticipated kept everybody
least morally warm and dry. Once throu,
~ the friendly door and all considerations
W." seasons were forgotten. 1t was mid-sul
IL mer under a thousand roofs, and thsrs W
sno q light Of love there which laughed Il
lii clouded sun to scorn. Happy faces al
!. - voices, good wishes and good cheer, Il
= ~ gentle competition of giving, fascinati
~. surprises and a general sense OF newly &
~ quirsd property, with perfect gusts Of win
% falls-all these and much more render
this Christmas q formidable rival of
ups eighteen hundred and seventy eight pl
= decessors, and made up for obsolete yu
log dances and mysteries, for our want
nnistletos, and the absence of boar he
last and peacock from our tables, as was t
has. custom of the Medieval English tim
,uts. Despite the dismal morning the greet
ind. was earnest and hearty. The first in gre
the ing was the Lyric Quartette, aided
orn. several additional voices, the compa
OWN. singing at number of houses some beat
,era. full carols. The colored Brass Band v
nvl. also out early with good following.
heir ak o'clock the bell Of the III. j. Chur
dc a called the "faithfur' to prayers, and gu
the number of both young and old faced |
nut dark and rurky air in obedience to
Tins call.
) its Inc only mernlng services were al
propriste to this day we're observed an
gave sermon preached by the Rector, Rev.
were Gordsn. The church was most hal
were somely dressed-perhaps surprising in
ker's theticsl taste any preceding Christmas
wing niversary.
nght, THE EvRNING.
lored The evening was no improvement as
ouse. as the weather was concerned on the :
ohns ceding part Of the day, notwiGhstand
been which the Episcopal Chapel and Msthof
grad. Church were both we'll filled to witness
w he Sunday School exercises The first nan
lorns was simply for the entertainment OF
other school and others who might be interest
m too the principal features being gifts fro
red it beautiful Christmastrse. loaded with p
horns snts for each child, the singing of ca
ting it printed for the occasion, the distribu
OF prizes for good attendance and