Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-28

tons in the old carpenter shop on Metho
DIST street for an Office in connection with
his phosphate manufacture.
SMYRNA is to be congratulated Milford
Middletown, Odessa, New Castle. &c. are
having an epidemic OF miaistrels while SC
FAR we have escaped. Our young folks dc
| not aspire to smartnesS in that way.
Our three phosphate factories are mus.
terlng their forces for the spring campaign
and each will enter tho field with a larger
corps of vaiants than any former season.
Whllo the older firms moves with the force
and skill OF veterans, the two younger ones
are coming up with stalwart proportions
and imposing banners They mean col
lectively that Smyrna shall distance nil
competitors in the fielG.
If some of our Peninsular papers could
De believed, the wheat crop is in great
danger. 1t might be readily inferred from
some OF the statements that it would be
out III head by the "idVs of March" In a
recent ride of nearly hundred miles, we
qlG not 500 the least occasion for alarm.
1t looks greCnsr undoubtedly than ordinary
winters, but we did not see single field
that needed the whole stock to be turned
upon it to keep it down. The Smyrna phos.
phats will do its werk, but there is no use
being alarmed about it.
The question" Resolved, that capital
punishment is opposed to the genius of
modern civilization" was the subject of
an entertaining debate at the meeting
of the Bryant Literary Society on last
Friday evening. The question could have
been much simplified in the wording. and
would have lost no fercs thereby. The dis.
putants on the affirmative were O r
Voshell, DR.. f. NJ. Cloak and Walter O
Hotfecker, on the npgative-Gilbert r
Taylor and Gao. T. Baggs. The negative
was weakened by the absence Of Prof !
ID. Groves, and of course was only two
thirds as strong numerically. They, how.
ever, contended bravely against the odds.
although the Judges decided for the
affirmative. A vote on the merits of the
question resulted i'll favor of the negative.
HORSE AND WAGON TAKEN.-On Saturday
nlSht last Jas. Stewart, from near Brem.
ford, came to town ard hitched his horse
and dearborn on Maine ST.. Between eight
and nine O'Clock it was taken by a party
who drove it to Logan Mill. The horse
was then turned in the direction of ITeffeck.
er''s Mill and left to shift for itself 1t
went about two miles and stopped at the
residence of Franklin j. Smith, who kindly
stabbed tho animal and cared for it until an
owner came. The next day two young
men OF the town were riding by Mr.
Smiths and knowing the team gave infor-
nation that led to its recovery. The walk
ing being rather muddy, colorsd man it
Is thought residing near Logan's Mill
q fAHt /.
1t would have been more kindly to have
asked MI. Stewart to so along to take care
OF the team when he had no further use
for it,
LEG AMPuTATED.-J. Supple NOVEL;, re.
siding near kenton, has been great SUI.
tersr. year ago he had long attack Of
typhoid fever, during which his life was
several times nearly despairsd of. Ills re-
covery was attended by assesses on his
lower limbs which wore very painful and
likewise threatning to MS life. However.
alter several months, hO got about and was
able to attend 10 business in the Fall, but
IN November he was re.attacked by the
ulcers with great violence, the disease so
affecting the bone that it parted Just above
the knee. He remained in this condition
Tor three or four weeks, the doctors deem.
ing his vitality too low to risk an effort at
amputation. Finally DR.. Hunter, of Phla.
delphia, was sent for and on Friday the
operation was performed very successfully,
and there is strong hopes Of Mr.. Nowell's
final recover.
RRLIGIoCS-Rev. Dr. Kettell Of the New
ork East Conference, who has been on n
visit to his daughter, Mrs. Henry G. Budd, |
for several days preached for Rev. Mr..
Haynes, on Sunday morning last, or the
. New name" Rev. LII: "To hin that
overconsth will give to eat Of the hidden
mama, and will give him 4 white stone
and IN the stone i new name written,
which no man knoweth save he that re-. |
cleveth it. His exegssis Of tho passage was
able and clear in ANALYSIS, but exceedingly |
direct IN Its application topersonal religion. |
llsstrpped the professor ofall sontimentand
his usual distinctive vesture, branded him |
with honesty" as a trade mark, and burnt |
1t in with lunar caustic.
The pastor, Mr.. Haynes, preached in the !
evening to crowded house taking for his |
subject the striking incidsn of the woman Of |
Jana, Matt. 1921 Dps, illustrating the hurnil |
lty, faith and perseverance, of the earnest
seeker-a sermon of fine thought and dis. |
crlptlVs utterances and delivered with much !
more than usual dramatic power.
PERsONAL.-Samusl Voshell. late 4 clerLl
with A. II. Hobbs, o. this town. has taken
a clsrkship in a Life Insurance Co. in Phila. |
dslphia.
Edward, sen Of Jonathan Evans. of thi, |
town, started for Philadelphia to-day to
earn the drug business under Samuel p. |
Wright, native of this town.
DR.. VIM. r. Smith, of Salisbury. Md has |
been Frustrated for several weeks bv ner. |
vous debility and neuralgia, and though |
somewhat improved, it may be sometime
before fully restored to his wanted health. |
Rev. Thos. T. Terry, of Beckwith's and |
Spsddins is booked for Seaford at the .
coming conference, the Rev. +. +. Martin.
dale, of Middlstown, likewise has n call to
Union Church, Wilmington, and Rev. ]. |
d. Mann wishes for transfer TO the Phila- J
dslphia Conference.
John h. Oakley arrived at Yonkers from
sydney, n. s. w. via San Francisco. en- |
last Wednesday. Mr.. Oakley represented
several American manufacturers at the |
sydney Exhibition. lie comes back to
complete arrangements for the Melbourne
which opens in October next.
II. II. Colclazer, of the EUcfy Eceaiag,
paid our sanctum visit Yesterday. He |
has Jus: recovered from a long illness from
typhoid fever, and recumed his place IN
the editorial corps this week. BY the wav.
ne IS writing a story entitled "Patty Can. |
aon" for Scribncr'S Magasine, which will be
Illustrated with cuts, picturing many Incl.
dents in the life of this notorious Sussex
County woman.
PERIODICALS AND BooKs.-The Nwsury
the charming little monthly, published BY
John l.. Shorey, Boston, for February is
received.
AN excellent number is the American
Agricult'rist for Feb. |, with its l25 articles
and items, and 100 engravings, giving prac.
tical, useful information. Among these