Smyrna times., 1880-12-08

DO one is dying, but 1t is calculated to
make the undertakers look serious. There
has not beer a death in the town or vicinity
for three weeks.
THE slate is being put on the new steeple
of St. Peters and the work is thus rapidly
nearing completion. The architecture is
much more attractive than the old one,
and when done and the scaffolding removed
will be an ornament to that part of the
town.
Hoe killing among the farmers com.
menced las: week to limited extent, but |
is quite general this. A. l.. Hudson, killed |
on Monday his pen comprising fifteen, all ex.
ceeding 800 pounds but two. The highest |
reached 362 and the lowest 2S2, the aver.
age weight of the fifteen being 332 TBS.
Mr.. JAMES DALEY & Son, whose adver.
tisement appears in another column, have
shown themselves workmen of considera,
BILE industry as we'll as skill in getting
out new patterns. Their designs in rag
carpets are quite snowy. They have woven
since the first week in Spring 1850 yards
on a single loom.
THE children of No. School District
met in Mr.. Resins department on Friday
and had an afternoon of interesting exerci-
ses including defamation, which was wit
messed by several visitors The audience
was much interested in Col. Raymond's
we'll prepared narrative of a tour to the
White Mountains.
LAST evening as Mr. Edward Ward was
returning from church and when passing
in front Of the store of j. w. Jones. stepped
in an uneven place throwing him back.
ward and hurting him quite severely. He
was conveyed to his home on o chair and
had painful night, but there are no
serious apprehensions.
AT one of the tables in our town quite q
literary spirit has recently sprung up
manifesting itself especially in the spelling
of familiar and difficult words. The meals
seasoning seems to be highly relished by
the board. They are sometimes let down
where they least expect
! THIS week Postmaster Bags has been
engaged in counting the mail matter that
passes through our post.ofice during the
! week. This is in pursuance of regula.
ton Of the Postofice Department requr.
ing such a count to be made one week in
each year in every post-ofice in the United
States. The number of letters, postal cards,
&C., mailed the first six days of this month
was 26l2.
The Democratic electors, Messrs. Lore,
Whitley and Russell, chosen at the late
election, met in Dover last week and after
casting the vote of the State for Hancock
voted to make John II. Bswley, Esq, of
this town the messenger 10 carry the vote
to Washington. Mr.. Bewley purposes to
deposit the sealed package with the vice.
President next week. This makes the
second time he has been chosen for this
purpose, being the messenger from this
State at the election of Buchanan in 1856.
THERE are evidences in every shop in
both city and country that the Christmas
buying has begun already and in earnest
The ladies have discovered that they can
get through the process at this stage with
comfort, and not only make their selec
tons at their leisure, but even find the
prices a little easier in some cases. The
advantages of this method over the regula
ton way of pushing ones way into the
stores three days before Christmas, endur
ing agoniss of crowding and waiting, and
emerging with draggled skirts and hats al
awry, are obvious.
c. f. BAIRD. supreme organizer for the
. Improved Order Heptasophs, is in Smyrna
for the purpose OF institutinga conclave o
that order. The objects of the order ar,
to create an endowment fund Of from on,
, to five thousand dollars to be paid to tn,
bene6caries of deceased members. Their,
has been two conclaves instituted in Della
E ware-one at Dover and one at Whining
= ton. There Will be public meeting of
, limited number Of gentlemen in Johnson
Building on Thursday evening of thi
week when Mr.. Baird will explain the oh
e jects and principles of the order, and tn
e advisability Of establishing a conclave il
our town will be considered.
] THE BOMBAY Hook COLoNIzERs.- Las
e night some thirty of the prospective Bonn
bay Hook colonizers, including some womel
= and children, came down in the cars AM
IN lieu OF other arrangements, their pa;
sage being provided for only to Clayton, re
q NAMED there all night. Some of the cap
Q talist of Philadelphia and Wilmington.
is announced will come down to-day I
make further Investigations and report to
i meeting of the stockholders in Whining
|
sections and settle as soon as the purchas
!. is made and land surveyed. As a speculi
!. ton, the originators, it would appear, hay
been giving some time to finding an Quite
for the disposition of stock.
. The colored people sometimes have tbej
fashionable weddings like the whites, and i
such events the final comes out about tn
4 same, showing that civilization is imitativ,
r At church wedding at the Centennial
If last week the bride and groom, Rose Whit
and John Hawkins, after receiving the cor
gratulations of their friends, retired
e their residence, which the groom ha
neatly fitted up and furnished for a CON
' Portable abode to take his bride and th
II next night they were treated to a cal
thumphian sersnade, an unmistakabl
j.. evidence that they were copying the civil
- cation of the more enlightened race. Tn
u IS the first serenade, we believe, that ht
.r occurred among the negroes in our town.
CHURCH LYcEUM.--Among the new featu
es on which the late General ConferenC
=" took action was the item Church Lyceum
embracing in its scope the intellectual
- aesthetic and social culture of the young
," the congregation Of both sexes. The Ed
- cational Committee of the NJ. E. Church
re TINS town in their report at the Quarter
Or conference last week recommended Il
"a formation of such a society here. II
"a contemplated by the Sunday School
ar purchase a new Library to take the MIA,
OF the one destroyed by fire Just before Il
enlargement Of the church, and the inte
" est of the School and Lyceum NAV thus
to united in effecting and selecting a nc
Lh library. Such movement cannot
or otherwise than vastly beneficial to Il
It. young Of the congregation if eFecte
which we hope will be for the good of Il
numerous young inen and women wi
co need some such mental stimulus.
T.,