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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-21

We don't know, says the Rochester
Democrat, where the Albany ErDfeSs got it,
but it is fully as good as it woultfhave been
had it been original: "They were, inspect
ing group of statuary and she asked him
who that female figure was. He said he
wasnt certain aboutits but he thought it
must be bust of Sahara--at least it was a
barren Haistn
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-21

Whom Professor Proctor finds an evidence
OF the old age of the moon in the wrinkled
face OF that satellite his astronomical
science seems to have just touch at least.
of oharlatanism. ~ -. -
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-21

A cashier in Louisville, KY. did not wait
to be investigated, but came down at once.
like Davy Crockett's coon. 1t was SAVINGS
bank of course. When the Directors cot
after him he owned up to a steal of SCI, 600.
and cheerfully went to Jail.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-21

PROPOSED MONUMENT TO GEN. KEArygy.--
The Grand Army Posts Of Newark and
Orange, n. j., propose to erect a monument
IN Newark \. J.. tothe memory of the late
General Phil. hearney. Tempory commit.
toes have been organized and citizens are
invited to help them along - -
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-21

''Mamma," said five-year.old, the other
day, 81 wish you wouldn't leave me to
take care of brother again. He was SO
naughty that / had to eat all of those cakes
that you put away for papa to keep him
from crying"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-21

Every appeal for help from Europeans in
distress, when property vouched for, ALWAYS
meets with ready response from America
Money is being given iavishly at present
for the poor OF Ireland, and if those who
have the funds in charge will only ston
wranglinG and decide how it shall he seat
enough and to spare will be fortheomipr
Delays are dangerous when people are
starving.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-05
Cornwall Bridge.

The Second Adventists will hold an annual
camp meeting in the beautiful grove half
mile south of this Station, this being their
third meeting here. They will spare no'pains
in having present talented preachers of both
sexes. The meeting will commence Aug. IA,
and close on the 23rd. Ample accommodations
will be provided by L. E. Curtis for people in
attendance and for the care of teams. Good
order will be maintained, ample refreshments
can be obtained on the grounds and all are in
vited by the Committee of the meeting to at
tend and unite with them in their worship.
Arthur W. Crittenden, of Birmingham, is
visiting friends here.
The Cornwall Bridge Iron Co., are cast
ing large amounts of pig iron and have aver
aged since June 9th to Aug. LIST, SO tons per
week, the largest amount being 134 tons in
twenty -four hours. Thomas Van Alstyne, the
founder, knows how to manage the machine.
There was SHIPPED from this Station 1881
cans of milk, of 40 qts. each, during July
last.
Tobacco ia undoubtedly fair crop; and
farmers have nearly completed haying and
gathering oats.
The Cornwall Bridge Iron Co., are paint
ing their building of an uniform color. Eddo
& Bierce being the artists.
Business of all kinds is brisk in our viii
lage.
Morton Wadhams and family have moved
to Bristol, Ct.
City boarders arrive daily and seem pleas.
nd with our scenery and board.
Amos G. Waterbury has sold to the
Housatonic r. r. Co, a plot of gravel land
which they are using in raising the track
where steel rails were laid recently. Consid.
Grafton. $500.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-05

BE WISE AND HAPPY.-If you will stop all
your extravagant and wrong notions in doctor.
ing yourself and families with expensive doc.
tors or humbug cure -alls, that do harm al
ways, and use only natures simple remedies
for all your ailments, and save great expense.
and good willtell you, is Hop Bitters rely
on it. See another colum Press
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-05
Gle Gjtft)tleIh enquirer,
aaTcHFIELD, CONN.
Clubbing Rates.

70 County subscribers we offer the following peri
tic u.s. with the Enquirer, at the folio wing yearly
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-05
Deaths.

In Ononta, ILL.,, June Goth, Mrs. Maria Wal
lace, aged 81 years, daughter of the late Cal
vim Blssell of this town.
In New Preston, Aug LIST, Mrs. Eliza Jane
widow of Elisha A. Whittlesey, aged SO
years and months.
In Roxbury, July Oath, Benjamin Daven-
port. aged SO years.
At Goshen, July Goth, Mr.. Calvin Tuttle,
aged H.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-05

Ladies wishing to purchase Dry Goods
would do we'll to send to w. B. Hall s. Co.,
of Bridgeport, for samples. We copy the fol-
lowing from the Bridgeport Morning News, of
July 2nd:
Messrs. w. B. Hall g. Co who advertise in
our paper to-day, seem to be doing real me-
tropolitan business. Any commendatory no.
tice of the career of this successful firm
would be unnecessary, but we can't help OBJ
serving that their ambition is to place before
their patrons continuous succession of nov
elites and bargains. and it has become a house.
hold saying that if you want to buy under
price go to Halls" They are now going On
| with their marked down sale and we would
advise ladies in search of grenadines, summer
| silks, buntings or white goods to examine the
vast collection of seasonable goods now being
reduced in price by w. B. Hall & Co.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-05

No, SIR!-A Scotch minister once said no
woman could bear pain as we'll as man.
That is not So The fact is generally the
other way. Mrs. Edward Meyers, of Rondout,
N. Y, submitted to the operation of the re-
moval of her hand by amputation, without
taking ether, or moving amuscle or uttcring a
groan. DR.. Kennedy, also of Rondout, N.
T., who performed the operation, said he
never saw such herosm. The lauy's disease
was erysipelas, and afterwards the Doctor
gave his ''Fayorite Remedy to cleanse the
Blood. Mrs Meyers is now we'll and strong.
''Favorite Remedy" at One Dollar Bottle is
the thing for Female Weaknesses and all COM
plants arising from bad blood. But that
Scotchmak was mistaken.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-05
NHarrlageS

In this village Aug. I'd, by the Rev. S. O
Seymour, DIR. Fl. j. Cate and Miss Mary s
Irving. both of New York.
Litchfield enquirer., 1880-08-05

Must commence with January or July number.
Subscribers who are in arrears must make up ar
rn.rages before taking advantage of the foregoing
offers.
Money should be sent by post-oice order. check or
utcred letter. if possible We take all risks OF re-
to the clubbing periodicals. but not OF mon
sent us.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

SHE PLAYED WITH HIM.--A
young gentleman from Chicago, who
was visiting Milwaukee, was Introduced
to girl at. fair, and became very
much attached to her. He talked with
her nearly all the evening, and on
asking her Of her family connections
she toled him that her father was a
noted wood carver, whose labor was
sought after by the best people in the
city. He made all appointment to meet
her the next day, and they held sweet
converse as they paraded Grand ave
nue. For three or four evenings he
attended the fair, and always met her.
At the end Of the week he declared his
love, and offered to marry her and
take her to his ancestral halls in
Chicago, and they we're to live and
love together till Chicago froze over.
She said she would have her father
inquire into his financial standing and
his character, and he made an appoint
ment with the old gentleman at the
hotel. After he satisfied the old man
that be was all right, he asked the
father Of his adored how business was
ii The wood-carving line, and the old
man told him that it used to be all
right, when a man could get dollar
and half without splitting, but now
that the bloody Polacks had got to
saving wood, and doing it for ten
Shillings cord, and splitting and car
rying It in, there was mighty little
money il ''wood-carving." The young
man had just strength enough to reach
the bell-cord, and when the waiter
came he had swooned. It was an
hour to train time. but he made the
train, and the wedding is of. A Mil
waukee wood-sawer i as good as any
citizen Of Chicago, and We will bet on
it.-MLlcqukee SIN.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07
THE POLYPHON =.
By THE LATE IRWIN RUSSELL.

Professor Jones was very wise,
/ And wore green goggles on his eyes
/ Or itWuud be better, suppose,
I To sly he wore en- on his nose
! And was SO very tall and slim
The stree-hots made y jest Of him,
And 10 Ills garments wuu attach
4 The label Here's liking match.
Yet this unganly friend of ours
4 Ma le daily gain in M ntal poweis-
| To him, each coming moment brought
4 Some thing of mnment-iact or thought
4 And he conld bid the boys defiance
4 When rumbling in the paths Of Science.
For many weeks. Professor Jones
Made study of the laws Of tones
| Uf monographs, and telephone,
And megaphones he had q store
/ That filled up half his study floor
/ The number Of his tools, indetd,
/ Would make work zoo long 10 read
/ With any SORT oI ttisfhrtlon;
| Buifhagneis were tie chief ATTRACTION.
/ With these he aLored. ruch inleEi
On making 4 new instrument
| Which should, by means of snund-vthrations
Make both 'ttraEsnissions' aud transldtlons
Said he f: For speech, We must have tone,
And every langnag has lis O~n--
L
| And 50 and-so The lowest Duichl l-
its given rules ID gnide infection
In some particular direction.
There's phlIologic evidence
That all our languages commence
In some lost parent tongur-each root
Each nation mUdlfies 10 suit
Aud Lazy uhges, lis clearly found,
In no way differ but in sound.
Now, niaphragms NAV we'll be trusted,
II once thel re properly adjusted
For langu ge A and language B,
According 10 the Phouic KEY,
land then connected 10 a circuit
By persons competent TO work il,
TO transpOse these root-derivations
Which differ with the tones Of nations
So If one sends an English sermon
Twill sound il souud discourse in German,
And cur Italian learned ut home
Can he well understood at Rome
So saying, the Professor toiled.
And hammered, polished, flied and oiled,
Until, adjusted and connected,
Behold The poly phones perfected
One stood upon the study table,
And one was downstairs in the stable,
Where curious ntighhors might not spy it,
And naught renamed 10 do Iiut try it.
A toy plar, d ut the sending station,
To speak (fnr consideration
The noble language Of our nation,
Professor Junes hled up lhe stair
To lislen 10 The sounds, up there,
Which would at once, no doubt, determine
II English could be changed TO German.
That hoy below, sad ID relate,
Was not in a regenerate state:
Il II IA ~ HI z3f seheols
Or 60 hy proper laws AMI rules
His SPEECH WIS very shrill, but, oh
Its tone WAS most exceeding low
So thenta ard there ihe stable rang
With slang and nothing else but slang,
Which, having 10 Equivalent
In German, cloaged the instrument
And while the disappointed Jones
Stood quakin At the hurrid tones
That came from the receiving-plate,
DiscOrdani Inurliculate,
The boy began the last new song
There was a-clang rs from gong
And shattered were the polyph0nes,
And exc the intellect Of Jones !
-Seri5ner's Brio a. Brdc. Il
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07
WHAT'S THAT THING :

Mr.. Warner, respectable and law
abiding citizen of Baker street, Detroit,
rode home in an express wagon the
other day, having a hand fire extin-
guisher and the driver for company.
What's that thingf' asked his
wife in contemptnus tones as she opened
the hall door
whats that? Why, that's q fire
extinguisher-best thing you ever saw
meant to have got one year ago"
"Jacob, you are always making a
fool Of yourself" she continued as she
shut the door. Every patent right
man gets around you as cat lays for
a mouse -
docs, eh ? If you knew anything
at all, you'd know that every store and
office in Detroit has one O these.
They've saved lots of buildings and
may save ours"
"You throw it at the fire, don't you?"
she asked in sarcastic tones.
He carried it up stairs into a closet
without replying, and she followed on
and asked:
''Does it shoot a fire out ?"
eff you don't know anything I'll
learn you something! It is full of
chemicals; you strike on this knob on
top, and she's all ready to open this
faucet and play on the fire"
She grinned as she walked around
it and finally asked:
do you get a horse to draw it
round ?"
No, l don't get horse to draw it
around. You see these straps? Well,
back up, put my arms through them,
and here it is Oil my back"
Il see it is, she sneered.
"And can't run to any part of the
house with it p he demanded. ''See-
seq"
And he cantered along the hall, in
to the bedrooms and out, and was
turning the head of the stairs when
his foot caught in the carpet. He
threw mp his arms and she grabbed at
him and both rolled down stairs. He
yelled and she yelled. Sometimes he
was ahead, and then she took the lead,
and neither of them had passed under
the string" when the extinguisher,
humping and jamming, began to shoot
off its charge Of chemicals.
"You old-!,' she started to say,
when stream from the nozzle struck
her between the eyes, and she didn't
finish.
"What in-o-u-c-hp roared Mr..
Warner as he got dose in the ear.
They brought up in a heap at the
bottom Of the stairs, the stream play
ing into the parlor, against the hall
door, and up stairs by turns, and she
gasped:
"I'll have you sent to fool asylum"
"And I've broken my back /" he
shouted.
It was sad house when these two,
highly respectable old people got so
that they could use their eyes, and
discuss matters calmly. And she
doubled up her fist and horsely said:
Take that investigator or distin-
guisher or whatever you call it, back
down town and tell everybody that
you are lunatic. "
And he said:
"Dummit, know more than all
your family put together.-Detroit
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07
nublic sales, &t.

No IA Black Mare, well bred and with
foal
No "A Sorrtl Horse, an elegant worker,
and prompt free driver on the road
No. IA Bay Mare. with foal can be nsed
either on the road or iaEmaand can te driven
hy lady.
No A Black Horse. good worker in
all respects on the farm Or -ord.
No 5-A Black Stallion Morgan and st
Lawrence Stock. 4 perfectly dncle animal,
can he srabled with only The ordinary halter
alongside any Other horse Very seIEiceahle,
either for driving, heavy draft or The I'd
No Ga Grey Mare, barge and wrl!-buiit !;
hy All odds the finest work mare in he neieh
horhood This mare aud No. have dra wn
Al different times, 4, 500 pounds with serming
e,sr
No IA Bay Horse and thoroughbred
b, Joe Holt. This horse is only parted with
for want Of use Very stylish and handsome,
showing blood can and will drive ten milfs
an hour all day, fearless Of cars and can trot
in 80
No "a Dark Brown Horse, perfect. gen
lie, can he driven by 4 lad,, and 4 capital
worker. if so needed; can rrot easily il 2 80
and if properly trained in 2-3O, and is ieaE Eltss
Of cars.
Nos and lO-Two Nv year cd cnlts.
The above mentioned stock are, without ex-
ceplon. perfectly sound in al respects. ANY
purchasing can get written guarantee 10
that effect.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07
WHAT SAVED HIM.

During the"hard winter of II, when
thirty thousand unemployed Workmen
haunted the streets of New York,
driven TO beggery, or too often, theft,
a man rang at the door of house in
one Of our largest cities. and asked for
something to eat. He told a glib
story of his discharge from a wooden
mill, and said he had wife starving
not far away.
The mistress of the house made it
lule not to give aims that winter, ex-
cept after personal examination of the
case of each applicant.
She went into her kitchen, and or
dered a substantial meal set before the
man, who ate ravenously.
He was young, honest-looking fel-
low, but there were heavy marks of
dissipation on his face Suddenly he
dropped his knife and fork, and sat
staring at the door
"Whos that?" he cried. Johnny!
Johnny T.
The lady's little girl, child of three,
had followed her from the nursery,
and stood in her white gown in the
doorway, her fair curles tumbliug over
her face. The tramp recovered him.
self with a horse laug III.
Il beg your pardon" he said. "It's
your child, of course. II haven't
seen child for long time"
But his food seemed to choke him.
In few moments he started up again
in agitation and said,-
Madam, am not a workman. /
am Jim Floyd, and l was discharged
yesterday from Moyamensing prison,
where | have served out sentence for
burglary was'a decent man once.
l left my wife and my old mother up
in Pottsville, and-my baby"
While he spoke his eyes were fixed
on the child wi. terrible hunger in
them. "Little one,' he said, holding
out his hands with a pitiful entreaty,
shake hands with me, won't you? I
wouldn't hurt hair in your head
| The mothers heart gave a throb.
The man was foully dirty, just out of
a prison full perhaps, of disease.
But the baby surely God sent it)
ran forward smiling, with both hands
out Jim kneeled down beside it, the
tears rolling down his cheeks. "It is
so like Johnny! T. he muttered. at
Is IS Ike Ike JJehnnFT 7"
you'll go back to Johnny and your
wife and old mother ?" said the lady.
He would not promise. "It's too
late to make decent man of me-" he
said, and presently putting on his old
cap, he went out.
Six months later, the lady received
an ill-spelled letter from Pottsville. 81
am at work here" it said. "That
night l had planned to join the boys
again. But your little girl saved me.
! came home instead. 1t wasn't too
late."-Er.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07
Nil dirc.,ions ,,.,.omnan, IL, i box

Full directions accompany each box.
Sold n ijrug, Feed and General stores Al
the very low price ot tInr Pound box 25 cts ;
Three Pound box 5Or.; Six Pound box 50 CTS.
The English Manufac' ring Co.,
9S HoIIiddy 81 Baltimore Md
Sole manufacturers for The United States.
NE7ANTED-Un Agent for e,ch county.
wv Liberal advertising furnished free and
commission Oh all sales. Der6-ly
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

The Watkins oirls are ta king advan.
tage of their leap year privileges to
inveigle their young gentlemen friends
to the Presbyterian church to hear the
Rev. DR.. Wells preach. 1t is very easy
for a young man to make excuses when
he is asked to 60 alone, but when a
pretty girl asks him to call for her at
her home and act as her escort there
is no chance for him to "crawl out
and thus perhaps his salvation is thrust
upon him while his fate for this world
is being fixed at the same time Wat
kins ErDress.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07
The tollowing TESTIMONIALS .pent y tasir
ASHLAND HOUSE,, z4,h It. / 4,h Ave,

new YORK CITv MHrch 10, 1873.
have used the Eng ish Condition Pow ders
and can recommend Them 10 the turf profess
sion as being pure ana similar TO the import
Cd, and would nsr no other For purity and
quality tney are uaequdLisd and invaluable I"
horsemen
Signed: HARRY HARTMAN.
Late Mntgcr Budd DoJies Turf Stock.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07
B.rrIvoap M August III ls7o.

BALI IMUtE, NJ 2LHYlt"1 7 y AUIV.
used one pound box Of yunr English Con
dition Powders on a mare which was 90 poor
and weak she had to be raised when she laid
down. She j. now ID ppriect health and good
flesh, and credit il al a. The Powders
GEO r. HEBBETL,
T'cnnd ArfnUe and CIifton S.
AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07
TEpa 90 Head Of g
Fine Cattle.

Among which are some fine Short Horns
with young HeifeIs cominL in profit during
the Sp:lng The above are AL Cows (ine
milch cattIe) and Heifets with the exception
Of YER, ine Shori-Horu Bull, two ears old,
obtained from Mr. Mcdowell, and hrou2 BIT by
him from the West Persons in need Of
something fine will do well 10 SEE this animal
hefore purchasing
u Thoroughbred Berkshire
Shoats, and | Fine Thorough
bred Berkshire Sow & l Boar.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

The United Stages publishes more
newspapers, with greater combined cir
culation, than all the other countries
of the world put together.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

It is said the advance in the price
of paper will cost the New York Sun
$4,000 more this year than last. A
dividend-eating sum that.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

The man who rents, if he adheres
strictly to buckwheat diet may have
back 'itchin' Of his own.-Ed. l..
adams.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

A young lady who came in last
week to advertise for kitchen help
said with sigh and a wiring Of her
dainty, gloved hands "Oh !! | do hope
we'll get one soon. For it does al
most break my heart, to see mother
wash dishes, with her rheumatism,
too. Me Gregor NeaCs.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

What the Kansas people call their
'Dead-head Eden" is located at Vic.
toria, near Kansas City, in that Stale
A few years ago one Sir George Grant
visited Kansas for the purpose Of hunt
ing, and so pleased was he with his ex-
perience that upon his return to Eng
land he filled the heads of former as
sociates full of s,ories of the glorious
country. One of these associates, Lord
LOTUS, and forty other young men of
noble families were lured thither by
the reports. They recently entered
Kansas with a flourish Of trumpets and
founded the Victoria Colony, where
an elegant saloon is now maintained
by drafts upon titled fathers on the
other side of the Atlantic. The spirit
Of boon companionship goes so far that
the bar-keepers have standing orders
to furnish drinks free to all visitors.
The folks of the neighborhood appre-
ciate the kindness of the young noble
men, who spend about $4,000 a year
each, and Victoria is said to be ON a
never-ending,never-fagging lark. Lord
LOTUS is the possessor of large estates
in Tipperary, and his professed object
in leaving London was to get away
from wild associations. How well he
has succeeded is shown by tie Kansas
City Times, which remarks that his
Lordship spent $1,000 for liquors at
the bars in that city during week $
visit last month. The colonists hunt
a great deal, but most of their days
are spent in eard-playing and their
nights in bachelor orgies.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

In some of the schools in Tennessee
and Kentucky Harper's Young People
has been adopted as school reader.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07
s5tlistrllaneous adu's.
ELLIOTT, JOHNSON CO.,
Bankers ard Brokers,

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
GPECTAL ATTE >TlON GIVEN TO TELE-
- graphic orders in Stocks, Bonds, g,
which are bought ind sod on commission
only either on margin OF for investment in
New York ~ Philadelphia W. have DIRECT
pR1yATR w,REs rnnning from our Office to the
New York and Phi aielphin Stock Exchanges
enabling D. TO furnish quotations stimuli iane-
ously as the sales are made.
Government Bond bought and sold Mort
cages carefully negotiated. Je2l-tf
IMPORTANT NOTICE /!
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

Trouble is expected when Sitting
Bull gets out Of buff 10 meat.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

Most people have heard Of the" Seven
Wise Men of Greece," but very few
know who they were, or how they came
to be called so. Here is the story, and
the moral Of it is worth remembering,
if their names are not. The Seven
Wise Men of Greece" are supposed to
have lived in the fifth century before
Christ. Their names are Pattacus,
Bias, Solon, Thales, Chilon, Cleobulus,
and Periander The reason of their
being called wise is given differently
by various authors; but the most ap-
proved accounts state that, as some
Coans were fishing, certain strangers
from Melifus bought whatever should
be in the nets without seeing it. When
the nets were brought in, they were
found to contain a golden tripod, which
Helen. as she sailed for Troy, is sup
posed to have thrown there. A dis
bute arose between the fishermen and
the strangers as to whom il belonged /;
and as they could not agree, they took
it to the Temple of Apollo, and con-
suited the p iestess as to what should
be done with it. She said it must be
given to the wisest man in Greece, and
it was accordingly sent to Bias, who
declared that Thales was wiser, and
sent it to him; Thales sent it to an
other one, and so on, until it had passed
through the hands of all the men. 1t
was finally sent to the Temple of
Apollo, where it long remained to
teach the lesson, that the wisest are
the most distrustful of their wisdom.
Middletown transcript., 1880-02-07

To say nothing Of Mexico, Maine
has had four governors and one militia.
ry dictator within fortnight Rater-
loo Observer.