Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-18
News Items.

The Pope has issued an encycical con
demnins divorce.
The bill 10 protect immigrants Is in
danger OF defeat.
Several chiefs have reyoltcd a.ainst King
John Of Abyssnia.
The British army in Afshaaistan will
advance to Ghu1nee in March.
Mrs, Mary Tweed wife Of the late William
NJ. Tweed, died in Paris on Wednesday.
Sturgeon warns England's rulers against
making bloody wars and expressing nations
The majority in the House is endoavoring
to avoid consideration Of the Porter case.
The Democrats in Congress have made
an issue in support of the lottery business.
The parliamentary elsctioa in Southwark
resulted in the defeat Of the liberal candi-
date.
Danger Of starvation in Ir,i.nd is over,
but the distress still calls for the NEST lib
eral assistance.
The Panca investigation has brought cut
the fact that they were removed partly to
avoid fighting the Sioux.
The Austrian premier says that the in,
crease Of armies in several European States
imperils tho welfare of the people.
Ex-Sheriff Aras G. Williams, of Brooklyn,
y. Y, who died suddenly last week, had
his life insured for $4,000
4 lot of brigands attempted to rob a
Spanish treasure train, but were defeated
by Marshall Serrane and squad of gendar
nles.
Two hundred families of Philadelphia
Quakcrs will form a colony in Minnesota
| on the Northern Pacific railroad, next
Spring.
Members of the House of Representatives.
express themselves strongly in favor OF a
prompt enforcement of the Monroe doc
trine in regard to the luterocGanic Canal.
Ex-Goy Stanford, of California, is arrang,
ing a magnificent arbcretum, which is TO
occupy 300 acres of his farm. Ho intends
to open it to the public as soon as its growth
justifss that action.
The wife OF Adam Murray living near
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, ON Sunday gave
birth to five children, three girls and two
boys. They are finely developed and at
last accounts were doing we'll
Tho Senate Committoe on Privileges and
Elections, yesterday afternoon, agreed
unanimously upon report generating
Senator ingalls,, of Kansas, from the charges
of bribery in securing his election.
The Rev. Dir. Courtney, the assistant
rector OF st. Thomas, in New York, has
accepted a call to ST. James's Caurch, in
Chicago, at a salary reported to be $4,000
per year. He is to enter upon the duties of
his now charge at Easter.
The House Committee on Naval Affairs
agreed yesterday to ask tho passage in the
House, under a suspension of the rules, of
resolution permitting the Secretary of State
to employ a Government vessel for the
transportation Of contributions for the poor
in Ireland.
For the past two years trains on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and peIas railroad have been
fired at and several employees have been
wounded. Friday United States Marshal
Ayers caught n white desperate named
Myers. He resisted desperately, and was
shot fourteen times before he succumbed.
Thomas F. Phillips. retired New York
msrchagt, who is partially paralyzed, was
garroted and robbed in Thompson street,
that city, Sunday night by three negro
women, who were subsequently, arrested.
and gave their names as Mary Panderbock,
! Elizabeth Wilson and Jane Henderson, of
Philadelphia.