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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08
WHOLE NO. 1897.
Chowder,
PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS.

IHe pest time to buy Christmas nresent,
Is "hen you have the money.
va IT. IS becoming as vulgar to display silver.
ware as underwear at weddings.
A new hotel, like sleigh cannot mako
much Roadway without runners.
when Frenchman feels cordial in hi,
neau he also feels cordial all over.
A man cannot become intoxicated b,
music unless he drinks in the melody.
me reformed actress" who is lecturiro
book agent. " REFORMED
beware OF the man who pretends TO lap,b
"heh he comes down very hard on an ;cv
pavement lie is hypocrite.
There are only seventy.fve men in Obio
wi, Tho nave no hope Of ever being president.
iney are IN the penitentiary for life.
AN Ohio man died the other dav from
swallowing concentrated I've. He read ono
Vi I'll fefklnS stories and believed it.
some operate singers have such moor
voices that they would attract little atten.
tioh were 1t not for their loud costumes.
People who won't "move nm in the
street car should be very careful of them
'se'Ves now, hog cholera has broken ont
again. 0U'
1t is said that Saratoga's springs are dry.
ing up, but it occasions no concern TO hotel.
keepers Few persons now 90 to Saratoga
to drink water.
At a private fair in New York a Young
lady sold five kisses for FIVE dollars each
now fortunate it is that this is not the reg.
ular market price.
Sarah Bernhardt would marry an Ameri.
can IT she could find her match. but no
Amerlcrn bachelor will own up to an equal
number of accidents
A Minnesota woman had her Inns frozen
the other day and nothing can convince her
Jealous husband that she had not been
flirting with Charles Francis Adams.
James Freeman Clarke says that "angels
win wings and arms are anatomically incor.
rect but as be never dissected one, we do
not see but what he can know about it.
A bride at one of the New York hotels
has Tor the last three weeks appeared every
Gay IN a new costume. She is trying 10
wear all her dresses at least once before the
styles change.
A. Bronson Alcott, the sage of Concord,
learned to write by practcing with chalk
on his mothers kitchen floor, from which
we infer that his mother wore laced shoes
instead of slippers.
The most fashionable bonnets are made
OF plush and are very simply trimmed. No
reduction has, however, been made in the
price on that account, for to mark them
low would be to render them unfashiona.
ble
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

IRISH BoYCoTTING,-They call it " Boycott.
ting" landlord now in Ireland to block.
AIDE him in his house, drive from him his
laborers and household servants, and re-.
duce him to position where he can neither
gather his crops nor procure food, neither
live in the country nor safely get out of it.
At meeting of Land Leaguers last week
resolution was passed to =" Boycott" thirteen
landlords and land agents. Thus signif
cant terms often grow out Of local events
and in this way Captain Boycott's name
will probably be taken in vain in Ireland
generations after both he and the armed
relief movement in BalIinrobe have been
forgotten. Boycotting" means very
lively and determined and revolutionary
thing in Ireland to-day.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

The Patent Office did large and profit.
able business during the last fiscal year.
More than 10000 applications were re.
ceived, more than 10000 patents granted,
and there was net revenue to the Govern.
ment, over all expenses, of nearly 5000, 900.
50 the apple-parer that won't peel, and the
abortlve fly trap, and the perpetual motion
machine that is perpetual in everything but
motion, and all the thousand other short.
lived products of Yankee inventive genius
that appear every year in Washington have
their uses. They do no harm to the useful
inventions, and they help Uncle Sam a
very little with his annual bills.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

Colonel VIM. G. Gordon, of Chesteryille.
Ohio is said to be ll3 years old, and still a
comparatively strong and active man. He
Is wealthy and manages all his own bust.
ness affairs. In his youth he served in the
British army, and says that be knew
Napoleon l. He has but one peculiar
hablt-that of persistently eating crackers.
tie keeps a large basket of crackers hanging
on his bed-post, and besides three hearty
meals day, he eats, upon an average,
twelve pounds of crackers a week from
this basket, taking several whenever he
awakens in the night.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

The principal difficulty with the people
of Ireland" said the late Thomas Darcy
MCGEE, sis the lack of common sense"
Mr.. MCGEE was prominent agitator, who
was compelled to make his escape from
Ireland in l84S. To inhabitants of this
country it seems singular that when so
much outside aid was required only last
winter to keep thousands of the people
from actual starvation, educated Irishmen
should deem it wise to waste and destroy
millions of dollars worth of the luxuriant
harvests now on the ground.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

1t deserves to be marked as one of the
curious by.points of history that in this
year 1880 the Government Of little Santa
Domingo should decide the proofs sufficient
that the remains found in the Cathedral
there IN 1877 are in fact the remains of
Christopher Columbus, and decree the cree.
ton OF shrine and monument BETTING
the lllustrious dscoverer. Leading of
with $4,000, Santa Domingo asks ali the
American government to contribute to this
purpose. Nor is it an uniting addition to
a romantic life story that more than $40
years after his death the bones Of Columbus
should be identified by Act of Congress
and enshrined with pomp. But that they
really are his bones, after alive must
take our chance and the word of the Santa
Domingo Congress for that.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

A TALL CHINANAv.-ThA Chinese giant,
Chang, arrived al New ork from Liver
pool on Wednesday, He is said to be the
tallest man IN the world, being eight feet
SIX inches in height, and we'll proportioned.
tie has the small almond eyes and promi.
nent cheek bones of his race His fore.
head is broad and mtssive, and he wears
his ''pigtail' neatly wound upon the top of
his head He has small hands and feet for
a man of his size. Heis remarkably grace.
full in his movements, and polite and cheer.
full in manner. He speaks English, French,
German, and little Spanish, in addition to
his own language.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

A dressmaker in Minneapolis, whose
lover recently parted frem her most tend.
erly, pinned for him until her reason was
unsettled. He had set out for business
trip and was expecting to return in a short
time; but she could not wait. She started
for walk along the railroad track, and
became possessed with the idea that she
was commuhing with bis spirit. The ghost
told her who he was and related the cir.
cumstances of his death. The ghost con.
versed with her freely and told her not to
be frightened. She went home, took a
good deal of strychnine and died.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

General Walkers annual report shows
that the work Of the census has been
pushed forward with great energy, and is
near completion. Only seven enumeration
districts out of more than 81 200 are now
unrepresented in the returns. In three
weeks the Census Office will be able to
present complete returns of the population
Of the United States. The special investi.
cations, also, respecting wealth. debt, and
taxatian, statistics of the Indian tribes.
churches, schools and libraries, etc, have
made such progress that their success is as
sured.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

A little while ago the periodical kerosene
idiot was cast in the shade by a woman who
put giant powder cartridge into her oven
to warm. Now they are both permanently
eclipsed by a New York plumber, who went
hunting for big gas leak with gas lamp,
and was the means Of blowing up cellar
and putting two men beside himself into
the hands of the surgeons.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

That CHEEKY De Lesseps says he has
greater confidence in the Panama Canal
than he had in the Suez Canal. "The At.
lantic and Pacific breeEes," he declares,
"will make it the healthiest region in the
world" 1t will be vastly changed then
from the time when every sleeper laid in
the Panama Railroad represented dead
laborer. If those be the assuaging in.
fuences of a canal, no community should
be without one.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

The SOUTH AND GEN. GAEFIELD.-The
Washington Star learns from what it es.
teens good authority that "Gen. Garfield
has been assured, personally and by letter,
by several Southern Senators, that they an.
tend to heartily support his administra-
ton, in the hope that sectionalism, which
is so fatal to the South, may be forever re.
moved from American politics.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

Economy is a sterling virtue, but there is
only thin veil between it and stinginsss.
The economy of your early life, before you
had farm, or owned house, or was estab.
lished in business, would not be economy
now. but penuriousness. The hard and
seclusive virtues that circle about self, such
as economy, if not offset by the larger and
unselfish virtues of benevolence, will make
US narrow and small, and unhappy in our
old are.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

The fashionable name for a woman run.
ming away from her husband to join
another man, is Monomial infatuation."
But when the parties are poor, it is called
the basest of crimes. So it goes. MO
nominal infatustion" is good, and sounds
aristocratic, but we cannot see that society
and family interests are injured none the
less than if it were called by its old-fash.
ioned democratic name.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

Secretary Thompson's report favors the
policy of Governmental aid to steamship
lines. He suggests that vessels built for
carrying the United States mails should be
so constructed as to be easily changed into
war vessels in an emergency, and argues
that to equal the success of England in
building up her commercial marine, we
must borrow England's policy.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

From all that can be seen, Grant is not
likely to die in poverty, The Philadelphia
Times is authority for the statement patri.
otto Philadelphians have already subcribed
100000 for him and purpose raising $780,
900 more. This contribution together with
George Jones Il Co.'S S250,000 will give the
old commander very substantial support
or his declining years.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

The Dead Letter Office report for the
fical year ending June 80 gives some cur
ious figures. OF more than 100000 letters
tenth bore wrong addresses and 5000
bore no superscription. The bulk of the
matter was valueless, and two thirds were
destroyed because the senders could not be
discovered. But 2l,970 contained checks
and drafts amounting to more than a mil.
lion dollars, and about 1000 had money
in them to the amount of nearly $4,000.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

SMALL Pox AND DIPHrHERIA.-A, number
OF smallpox cases have been disc@Bered in
New York this week Health Commission.
er Janeway told a World reporter of that
city that he expected serious trouble from
the disease this winter. He claims that
there are many cases in Philadelphia, and
says its proximity to New York is getting
to be disagreeable. Diptheria is greatly on
the increase too in New York, and is not
confined to any class of people or any sec.
ton of the city.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

A California lady, Mrs. Minnie P. Crop
per, is now a prominent London beauty.
Phe English journals record that she rises
six feet and three inches, but is SLENDER
we'll proportioned and a true blonde. She
seems to be able to 'look down. on all
other beauties of the period.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08
A Nut for Antiquarians.

The other day one of our legal friends
handed us slip of paper, stained and
faded, containing the curious oath and
certificate of which the following is q COPY,
and which is nearly $50 years old. 1t was
found by Mr.. Ellsworth Stonebraker in a
lot OF old paper at Antedam Mills, but
where 1t came from he has no idea. Its
antiquity IS not its only singularity. 1t
VIII strike persons as being very curious
that within the limits of Maryland the
taking OF "money fees" by lawyers should
ever have been prohibited by law, and that
clients were required to take an oath before
bringing suit that they had not given or
caused TO be given, either directly or indi.
rectly, such forbidden fees. Whether
lawyers fees were required by this law to
be paid in the currency Of those primitive
times, which was tobacco or in some
other commodity than money, our legal
Trend was not prepared to say nor could he
md what prompted the passages of an
Act to restrain the Evil Practice of At.
torneys and to prevent their taking Money
Fees" Such condition of things is SO
foreign to the existing condition of society
as TO be quite lncomprehensible In fact it
as as impossible to conceive that a LAWYER
could get along without fees, as that oaths
should be imposed on clients to prevent
their paying fees. The oath is as follows ::
"THE CLIENTS OATH, AND THE JUSTICES
CERTIFICATE.-I Elizabeth Watson Do Swear
that have not given caused to be given or
paid, nor will Willingly or designedly give,
cause to be given or pay, either directly or
indirectly, unto my Attorney or Attorneys,
councillors or Advisers in the Cause now
depending in Queen Annes County Court,
between me and Edward Colgan or to any
other Person whatsoever for the Use of
my said Attorney or Attorneys, Counsellors
or Advisers, any other or larger Fee or Fees,
Gratuity or Reward either for Advice in
the said Action, or any other Services
thereto relating, than they are allowed to
take, by an ACT of Assembly, Enliluled,
An Act to restrain the evil Practices of At.
to"neys, and to prevent their taking Money
Fees, and to ascertain what Fees shall he
allowed to Practitioners in the Law, who
shall attend the Circuit Courts, according
to the best of my knowledge. So help me
God.
Sworn to this 18th Day of February.
Ammo Dom. 1929 before Me, the Subscriber,
one of His Lordship's Justices of Kent
County Court.
&c. HYNsoN, J. 2.
j" Annapolis in Maryland, Printed and sold
w. Parks"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08
OAK HALL, PHILADELPHIA.
W0rtb
Kn0a0ing.

There is a place in Phila-
delphia where a stranger
may buy his clothes, and
fare as we'll as if he knew
the whole city by heart; and
it he knows nothing about
the value of cloths, or of
clothes, he is as we'll off, as
if he were a good judge of
both.
The reason is that every
thing to be found there is
made there-made and sold
under a system which rarely
allows mistakes to occur, and
which corrects them, if they
do occur.
OAK HALL is the place;
and its practice may be
summed up in a few words.
If you get there what you
don't want to keep at the
price, you return it, and get
your money back.
This means a great deal
more than appears on the
surface. 1t means that you
are not going to get what
you will not want to keep at
the price, if the merchant can
help it. 1t means that the
clothes you get there will be
of honest cloths, honestly
made; and that they will
cost you less than as good
clothes can be got for else
where. 1t means that they
will be every way better
worth your money than you
can get elsewhere for the
same money.
If it means anything less
than these things-ifit means
Door cloths. TRIMMINGS. cut
ting, sewing, or in any way
dishonest or illiberal dealing;
the return of his goods will
plague the merchant, injure
his credit, and dissipate his
trade.
If it means these things
if it means lib eral and honor
able dealing, valuable and
trusty cloth ing, ease and
safetyin gett; ing it, OAK HALL
is the place for you to go to,
or to send to ; and it is worth
your while to know how you
can send, if tits inconvenient
to go.
Write; say what your
occupation is say what
sort of use you intend to
make of the: clothes you
want, whether for everyday
wear or otherwise what
color you prefer, or what
color to avoid; say about
what you want to pay; say
everything that you think
may aid a stranger in
choosing for you. You
will get in reply samples
of cloths and prices of what
ever you want made from
those cloths. You will get
also the means of ha wing
your measure taken by an
unskilful person.
There is only one diff
Guilty left. Somebody mas
got to take the risks of The
dealing; for there are risks.
Send your money along
with your order. That
covers the risk as to your
good faith.s We risk every
thing else; the fit, and
your satisfaction every way.
Our trade, by mail
amounts to half a million
dollars a year; there's no
reason why it shouldn't
amount to five millions.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

Human laws are inadequate to the pun
ishment of such an extraordinary brute as
the woman in Toronto who Yves found
lying drunk with the dead bodies of her
two children by her side. They had been
sutfocated. A year ago two others Of her
children were burned to death.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

Lord Beacons6eld is to receive $4,000
for his last novel. " Endy mion," which 10
said to be- the largest price ever paid for o
work of fiction in England. The next
highest price was $4,000, received by Sir
Walter Scott for q Woodstock"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

PERsoNAL.-King Humbert of Italy wears
corset.
P. 7. Barnum continues too i'll to do
business.
Langtry, the husband of the English
beauty, has come to America.
Beacons6eld is at work on another novel.
which he expects to publish next year.
Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, the charming
story writer, is tall and slim, dark.eyed and
pretty.
The Rev. G. De La Matyr at the end of
his congressional term is going to live in
Florida.
Hart, the notorious editor of the living
Truth, has sued George Alfred Townsend
for libel.
Mr.. Robert Lincoln, son Of the martyred
president, received more votes than any
other candidate for presidential elector in
Illinois.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

There has been a sudden and rapid rise
in silk within the past few days but the
advance it is thought will be only tenn porary,
and to have been caused by spectators.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

HEALING THE SICK BY PRAYER.-The
work OF healing the sick by prayer goes
on apace at the Faith Home in Springfield.
Mass. The Republican states that there
nave been eighteen patients at the Home
during the summer, and all have gone
away. 1t IS claimed, either cured or greatly
oenehted. Among the most remarkable
patients of the summer was Mrs. C.. r.
Russell, OF Montague, who was cured Of
several Affections, especially of palsy, though
since her return home she has caught cold
and her head has begun shaking again.
Mrs. Clara McGraw, of Boston, was cured
OF nervous disease, and after her depar.
ture was attacked with dyspepsia. She
wrote to the Home asking for PRAYER.
which was faithfully offered, and soon after
she wrote that she was entirely cured.
without the use of medicine. One patient
left the house before the Sisters of Faith
thought her cured, and soon after began
taking medicine, and is now dead. The
bedrdden Miss Lizzie o. Smith, of Will.
mantle Conn, who has been unable to lift
her head from the pillow for MANY wears.
stayed with Sisters Orpha and Rosa long
enough to be greatly improved, being able.
when she left to sit up in bed every other
day. The Sisters think that she MIGHT
have been made well had she used more
faith, but she would only exercise faith up
to the point of improvement, and seemed
unable to expect the Lord to work a per.
feet cure. No charge whatever is made for
guests. the Sisters trusting for protection
from imposture to the spirit of the Lord,
which always tells them whom to take.
They use no medicine whatever, and regard
all their cures as miracles, wrought by the
same power as was given the apostles.
Prayer and amounting oil are their only
methods=N L Yrihlne
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

Wilhelmj will return to his home an the
Rhine next May. His concert tour till end
in California in April.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-08

Barnum's Committee had no idea when
they took hold of that forged letter that it
would have sach.e exceedingly hard work in
letting 60 again.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-08-28

STATE Of Louisiana, Ihyish Of Calcasie't- Clerks
" once, 14th JdiciM District Court.
suoopssros or vAIoouR Rnrp, DECEASED. Z

SUCCESSION or vALoouR REED, DECEASED.
DuBLIC notice ishereby given that Estclle,
j Reed, born Guillory, natural tutrix OF
the minor heirs Of said succession Of her de-
ceased husband Valcour Reed, has filed IN
said Court her final tableau and account OF
her administration Of said succession, with
her petition praying for the homologation
thereof. The creditors OF said succession,
and All persons Interested therein, are hereby
cited to appear before said Court, and show
cause, within ten days from the 21st day OF
August, A, d., 1880, by written opposition to
said final tableau and account, why the same
should not be approved and homologated;
and they are hereby notified that ia ease no
such written opposition thereto Is filed IN my
office, at the Court House, III the town Of
Lake Charles Calcasie,i parish, Louisiana,
within said delay Of ten days, the said final
tableau aud account of administration will be
approved and hpmologated tss 1911
Witness the Honorable q. D. Read, Judge
Of said Court, Lake Charles la, August ",
1880. e4 besssf THAD. MAYO,
Clerk OF said Court.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-08-28

WEBG III Great chance TO make money We
EvAHV.Ia need a person In every town 10
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A lady agent reports making over 500 clcar
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July 81, 1885. M Portland, Aaine,I
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-08-28

a.
Our stock consists Of Dry Goods,
Notions, Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes,
'ctothing, Cents Fursishiag Goods,
Clocks, Mirrors, Lamps, Cookery, Tin
Ware, Wiliow Ware, Rope, Saddtery,
Harness, Curry Combs, Brushes, Table
and Pocket Cutlery, Umbrellas, Hard
rare, Groceries, T'o5aeco, Cigars, PoU-
der, Shot, Boiled OIL, Lard oil, Tar
pentine, Mired Paints, in colors. a
large stock Of School Books, Bibles,
Hymn Books, de-, dc. All of which
we are selling cheap for cash.
]. w. BRYAN & Co.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-08-28

APPOINTMENTS GHANGED.-The following
changes will be made in Elder Wills appoint
ments Instead, as before announced, they
win be changed to the following places;
Vincent Settlement, Sept. IA, ii a. m.
Lake Charles, Sept. l5, 8 D. IN.
Philips Bluff, Sept II, II a. m.
) Hickory Flat, Sept. 10, II a. m.
Pine Bluff, Sept. 10, II a. m.
All persons are requested In these neigh
borhoods, to Circulate the appointments,