Smyrna times., 1880-07-28
ATTENTION is called to the advertisement
Of Mrs. +. Griffith, for boarders

ATTENTION is called to the advertisement |
CT Mrs. +. Griffith, for boarders.
THE NJ. f. Sunday School, of Middletown |
will make another excursion to Woodland
Beach on Thursday, August 5th, the train
will leave Smyrna at 7.30 A. NJ. Fare for
the round trip, 80 cts.
UNDER what star we have been living
the past few days, has been frequently
asked and not without some cause. Just
after going to press last week, there occur
red series of accidents and mishaps very
unusual in our quiet community, sufficient
in number, and appalling enough in detail
and brutality, to form the basis of dino
novel. First came the report of a runa-
way, with serious damages to both horse
and man, after sitting the matter we find
the facts as follows:
Mr.. Moses Price and son were waiting
the train at Brenford, the horse took fright
at an approaching train, and ran away up
setting the carriage and throwing the gen
tlemen out, but doing no series damage to
either. The top was torn from the buggy,
and the horses legs slightly injured, which
Mr.. p. thinks could have been everted had
the engineer blown the whistle as the law
requires when approaching crossing.
Our attention was next attracted by
crowd gathered at the corner Of Main and
Commerce SITS. where the air soon became
thick with the curses and yells of an en-
furiated and drunken woman, evidently on
the muscle, who sailed forth, brandishing
her "little hatchet," in a manner to make
it and herself feared, as a man from the
Landing, whose scalp seemed to be the
object most desired, can testify. One lick
, from the aforesaid hatchet, started him and
the crimson gore at the same time. 1t is a
disputed question, which ran faster Dur
, ing all this time, not a glimpse OF either OF
l the town police was had. Drunken men
are bad enough, but drunken women,
! armed with shoe.knives and hatchets, are
indignities, to which our good people
should not be subjected
While these disgusting scenes were being
;, enacted, Alderman Budd was busily enga-
: ged listening to the yet more serious
charges preferred against j. b. Wisby, by a
little sx.year-old daughter of j. B. Thomp
son. The alderman held him in $500 bail
v for his appearance at court IN default oil
n which he was sent to Dover Jail. but has
Q since been able to procure the required
r bond, and is now at liberty
r Next in order were the cries of about &C
pounds Of wife, under the Chastenlng ROD
of 24O pounds of drunken husband. We
h time and hope we may never have occasion
it to write them in this connection.
n A REMARKABLE VOYAGE.-The three Smyrna
voyagers, Captain Walker, First Mate Rot
and Second Mate Rosin, in the Mary an,
it Walker, glided peacefully and serenel,
f. down tho creek on Wednesday afternoon
m the 2lst, and entered the Delaware Bay a
g night fall After a pleasant nights sleep
,e unbroken and undisturbed, save by tn
to dreams of the morrow of schools of fish
large and small, enticed to their hooks ant
:, safely landed in the capacious bottom O
= the jfCuy Inn, they moved to the tishln
ia ground, the far famed Tombstone. After
al long, patient trial, the second mate success:
u, u, fully boated a huge trout, then with eager
III ness did the captain and first mate troll
III their hooks hoping that soon fish woul
take their bait. But alas to human el
co pectations the fish were not there, and til
~ clouds that had been gathering in strengt
-. "let down their wet blanket and old Rolu
-, let loose his North Easter and whipped til
NO bay into foam. Says Captain Wake
h,, reef the mansail." First mate obeye,
= Hard on the starboard,' says the captain
Second mate turned the tiller and the .Ma
ed Inn shot for Woodland Beach, which havir
re reached the vOyagers RECALLED themselv
Int for an hour. Finding it necessary the
to took pilot and rounded the steambo
I'm pier. Says the captain, "Ill take vii
en me the second mate and put the pill
nd ashore" Which they did, leaving the fir
mate to take care Of the Mary Ann, anchC
ed in the bay. The captain nearing Il
or shore swamped the boat, but fortunately
old lives lost. However all attempts to rea'
mt. the. Mary Ann again were futile. So +
at. five hours the first mate kept his lone
eX' watch amidst the rain and wind. Says
lry to himself, "this craft cannot much long
ap- stand this terrible humping. However
will HE me to the cabin and see to 0
:. commssariat If | can only keep the Fl
.sc' @ fed with substantial fuel, | will defy t
~ ~ angry clements" But louder the win
LAY roared, higher the pillows rolled, Al
~, madder became the Mary inn until t
me- NC water dashed into the cabin, and the 10
-, -, mate put the pump at work to keep t
'"J' craft from filling. Visions of his hap
and peaceful home fitted across his mir
T. The lonely wife, with the prattling Geori
ross came distinctly before him. Says he
on can stand it no longer, if | stay here {
loo lost, | can but 20 to the bottom in any
ont tempt to reach the shore and home"
but came his boots, down went his hat .
,cn distractions being removed he was ready
ro. make the plunge for safety, but at Il
nor moment the captain and second llate s
rlict ceeded in reaching the Mary Am a
,ovo brought the first mate ashore in safety.
10 he discovered that his boots were go
and home he came a wiser, wetter a
G Is "bootless' man.