Smyrna times., 1879-03-05

Ladies Benevolent Society of this town.
Our citizens have been notified by circular .
Of what the entertainment will consist of,
and we have only to add that it comes very
highly commended from places where it
has been exhibited. Half Of the proceeds
60 to the needy of our town and it is hoped
the people will bear this in mind
THE "boys" in helping George Thomp-
son move to "Sunny Side" on Saturday,
after getting him snugly fixed in his new
home entered into a good natured season
of fun and frolic. They first tried their
hand at pigeon shooting each imagining
himself a young Bogardus. They let seven
successive birds fly without dropping a
single one of them. Six of these were
caught and let GO again with better sue
cess, killing two out of the six. They then |
as an introduction to the business of farm
ing bumped the lessor and lessee and |
wound up the first day of Spring as blithe |
and sportive as lambkins.
THE TRADE DOLLAR-what to do with it |
is the question Just now agitating the pub |
lie mind. On Friday last the Fruit Grow
er's Bank, following in the steps Of the Will !
mington banks, shut down on them, as
have nearly all the banks of the State
The National Bank Of Smyrna is, however,
merchants have refused to receive them ex-
cept at discount of 5 per cent. This loss
of five cents on every dollar is an annoy
ance that is considerably discommoding
our people, and the question is how to get
rid of them. Messrs. Elliott, johnson &
Co., Bankers of Wilmington, are taking
them at 9S cts, and several business men
OF that city advertise to take them az par.
CHANGES OF LAND HoLDERs.-Our real
estate agent, A. p. Griffith. is making large
efforts for business the present year lie
is now sending out for spring trade his
real estate circulars by thousands into the
Middle, New England, Western States and
! throughout Canada. He will send this
week 1900 letters to Canada alone. lie is
a good patron Of Uncle Sam," for each Of
these thousand letters must be stamped.
He has, during the year just closed, brought
several hundred visitors toSmyrna in search
of land. These for the most part are from
Canada and the West. Our rail road gets a
help in the way Of the increased number
of passengers, and our printing press gets
some oil to grease its gheels, for these circulars
have to be printed and we do it. Our
tradesmen get pull at the purse-strings of
those that settle here, for when a man buys
farm he must have lumber, furniture,
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will thus be seen what our real estate agent
is doing for us as a community. lie is
bringing people here who would not come
if it were not for his advertisements scat
tered throughout the North, West and
Canada. Every man that comes here is a
benefit to somebody and should have a cor
; dial welcome lie can't be here and not
spend some of his money. And then every
man that buys here is a double benefit fo
| most likely the man that sells to him owe
0 somebody and that somebody owes some
e body else, so when the farm is sold tn
e money goes to pay y his debt and pay
a B and thus all feel the influence that sal
= Of real estate brings by putting that mucl
J. more money in circulation. Northern en-
terprise and capital can and will do mucl
IF to improve and help make ours prosper
b Gus community. There is only one thin
to regret in this influx Of a new population
:. viz: the crowding out of tenant farmer:
v This will eventually work benefit n
;. doubt by causing the large tracts of Ian
h to be divided into smaller farms and cons'
quently homes, and in making better farm
l. ers Of the renters, for the good farmer as
IL rule, will have no difficulty in getting
i. place while the careless and indilferer
.. farmer will be driven to the wall.
rs THE Town ELECTI0N-W When the sun 70.
on Monday morning it was not known
i but Il few that we were going to have
"a Town Election on that day. 1t has bee
NJ customary on the Saturday evening pr
~ vious to meet in pursuance to call an
no. make out ticket or tickets, but even tn
,da was not done. No bugle had been soundt
is. : for battle on any issue; the day scemC
oaE in fair way to pass unnOticed. A chang
oaDoa ovnr all this oDH in a fayy bOurs ypb
~ had been anticipated as a passive, resultt
"a. in decided contest. Shortly after brea
ba sfast ticket ingenously headed " Dem
nd cractic" was scattered through the tow
is. 1t had been gotten up by few perso
quietly who had it printed in Dover al
held ready to cover the field, before 81
ne pected. The manner of getting it up al
the source from which it emlnated W
ew sufficient to show the purpose which it "
o., intended to subserve, viz a renewal Of t
IN. contest of one year ago against the tempo
ed ance men, which they hinged then on t
Ter passage of certain ordinance. 1t is fair
OF the men on the ticket to say that with o
ny or two exceptions they had no knowled
10 of their names being used, and we are c.
ter tain would not have desired their nam
ler used in an issue of the kind. The temp
en- ance men were not prepared, but felt
ISSUE was IOTCeQ Oh IneIIi WHICH Iuey III
vas meet; they moved off sluggishly and {
vas not get in harness until the latter part
his the day. They re-nominated the old boa
of commissioners, majority of whom We
ina Democrats. At 3 o'clock the ticket Fl
ma put in the field was twenty-five or thil
Law ahead, the Town Ticket, however,
ok. 6 o'clock coming out with an average n
,er jority of Is on the Commissioners-wh
obt the contest layed. While we say that
She real contest was temperance (for party p
of tics was not mooted), number of the n
ods on the ticket first put in the field and ma
sed who voted for it from personal or polti
ff. considerations, would not on the max
in. principles oftemperanceh have allowed the
\ as selves to be classified against it. A mum
: to directly repudiated this misuse of tn
1np party name. The number Of votes pol
llti, was DDS against 268 last year and 80
ical year before. There were votes of colo
ood men, ore of whom voted the Democri
ticket. Last year they numbered 35 vo
hod 10 of whom voted the liquor ticket.
Laws following are the tickets with the ballots
30 80 each candidate:
at;I, Towst TICKET DEMOCRATIC TIcKE
The For To,pn Commissioners For T0Un Commission
~ n Geo W. TayTor l22l John NJ VOshcll....
y John VanGSsken ......l2ll James d. Wilds.......
not John H. Hotlecker...l23I John Mustard.........
her j. W. DennG1 Moses Price,
\ John COsdeS 1881 John L. Collins. .........