Smyrna times., 1879-08-27
WHOLE NO. 1859.
Items.

Where the will is ready the feet are light.
These are the evenings for counting
strolls.
in lace.
Ocean Grove was damaged by the storm
to the amount Of $4,000.
JOHN II. Oakley was at IIonolula july Is.
on his way to Sydney, N. S. w.
Speaker Randall never has intoxicating
liquors at his social entertainments. His
house is very small one.
New York CoD,n.crcial: The lower ami.
mails never have the gout; but they do not
mix anything with their water
Butler is once more on his native heath,
having arrived in Boston Wednesday, and
now the trouble will begin in earnest.
The health of General Garibaldi during
the last few days has become worse. He
cannot cat on account of arthrtic pains.
Ex.Gov. Curtin says Grant and Blaine
are the popular candidates for the presi-
dency with the Pennsylvania republicans.
Mr.. Carlyle's income from his books is
said to be about $1,000. Patti commands
$4,000 night for her singing Such is life
Bridal parties take very kindly to the cleo
| trio lights at Niagara, and make all kinds of
pretty, sentimental remarks about its effect
on the falls.
Senator Thurman is travelling about with
two sets of opinions, a sangune one for
the public ear and despondent one for
party friends.
| Manly men are the best lovers, the best
! husbands, the best companions for women,
just as womanly women arc the best sweet.
hearts and wives.
An English critic mentions Mrs. Rebecca
Harding Davis as the strongest and most
distinctively American of the feminine nov
elists OF this country. The criticism is cor
rect.
The costumes worn by the ladies at the
Ocean House, Newport, are worth walking
three miles to see. The hops occur on Sat
urday night, and are awfully "swell"
affairs.
"Lord" Willoughby, as one of Saratoga's
prominent residents is called, drives a team
of three horses abreast attached to u ligh.
vehicle. He is the father of Mrs. Edwards
Pierrepont, wife of our eX-minister to Eng
land.
Henry Watterson is undoubtedly tke
, champion seaside correspondent of the
season. Extract from his Courier Journal
letter. "Sea dreams! sea dreams The
$ cynic in the attic and the singer in the dell
find their lots united and their harpS atune
, upon the crag that overlooks the glorious,
ever-changing, ever-moving immensity Of
8 sky and water"
q Says the Philadelphia Times: "Twoyoung
people-the bride being Miss Orr, of this
s city-were married at Ocean Grove on Sun
4 day evening and went to a tent, just put up
) for them on Broadway, for the night.
:, Hardly had they dismissed their friends
/. when the storm came down like wolf on
e the fold and carried the bridal chamber
e across Fletcher Lake. Drenched and nearly
IS drowned they knocked at the door of a
IS cottager and were taken in."
IS MYsrERIoUs.-A Georgia lady recently
s became deranged while attending revival
- - meetings in Worth County. She went
y y raving about the house and yard with a
:. bucket of water, baptizing everything in
her pathway. She baptized her husband
,g and children, and while doing it sang songs
that she had heard but once or twice. AL
., though an unlettered woman she reads any
ar chapter in the Bible readily, pronouncing
e. correctly and distinctly, paying attention
ne to punctuation points, etc. She breaches
ds nearly all the while, uses the choicest words
r. and displays great knowledge in the hand
e. ling of different subjects. Although not a
er Mason, she knows all the mysteries of that
er mysterious craft by heart. Dozens o.
ng Masons have gone to see her, and they al
IT. come away dumbfounded. She neither
,el sleeps nor eats. Her husband has come tC
ne the conclusion that she is a witch.
be JESSE PoMERoY. That boy-murderer, JESSE
Of Pomeroy, in the Massachusetts State
,se Prison, is a perpetual source not only o
rn newspaper paragraphs, but of anxiety OF
he the part of his keepers. When all thu
ed prisoners were removed from the prison t.
the new one, camp-folding chair, which
La Ial.s.