Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-01

conference year will occur next Sunday. |
Presiding Elder Martindale will preach at |
Bethel on Saturday morning and Sunday |
evening. and in this town Sunday morning. |
The quarterly conference for the station
will be held Friday afternoon and Love.
feast 9 o'clock Sunday morning
A FEW mornings ago Messrs FAIRIES &
Bros. man.ofa ll-worI built fire in his
cabinet ware room and went to the stables
leaving basket of kindling sitting near
the stove. Shortly afterwards the basket
and its contents were found consumed, the
room on fire, and ten minutes longer the
flames would have been beyond control.
The Conference Worker in noting the pur.
chase of property by Rev. James Stubs,
Photographed from the TINES, locates it half
way between Duck Creek and Dover, an
undiscovered country as yet to Mr.. S. To
be precise so that the Worker cannot mis-
take, his new home will be just ten minutes
walk, English gait. from the NJ f. Church
of this town.
THE winter weather of last week found
| quite number of farmers with a portion
/ of their corn crop unhusked. One farmer
"down the Neck" who counts his bushels
| by the thousands, it is said is not more than
1 half done husking. The quantity remain
/ ing unhusked in the Meek" is estimated
! at $4,000 bushels. The crows have already
had a jubilee over the event.
LAST week we gave an account of the
! remarkable feats of COW, among others
its lively foot lifting in one instance taking
the button from the milkman's shirt collar.
An evening or two ago several men were
talking on this subject and some lively ex-
periences came out, but the last speaker,
and he from Kenton Hundred, topped
them all. He said he had a COW that
was as gentle as a lamb in Winter and
never gave any trouble, but when fly time
came she could kick the shortnin' out of q
biscuit and never break the crust.
THERE seems to have been very little dis
counting of the weather last weak among
our farmers as there had not been in theiI
recollection they did not expect a January
freeze in November and consequently there
were a number of minor losses. Chas. d
Everett lost about $40 worth of celery, an
/ article scarce this year. John Ii. Simpson
had 80 bushels Of potatoes frozen in hi
barn. Messrs. Benz. Collins, Jos. Stevenson
e John Young and others lost potatoes il
their cellars where they do not usuall
8 crops of turnips have been frozen in tn
ground.
THE State Sentinel is cracking its whip owe
= the head of the Delawarean weekly withou
IL eliciting any response. 1t charges def
cheney in round numbers of $S4 900 in tn
~ county finances in the last ten years. 1t
= taking the subject up by Hundreds and b
its showing there is an unaccounted for def
cheney in this Hundred in 1873 and "A {
< $3,lS2.0l. The people of this Hundre
;, want to know what went with their take!
and the DeLawarean which said that tn
accounts have been kept right should e,
OF plain. We have thought it could: now fC
d. the proof. 1t is a question of finance
and finances everybody knows are worke
-. out by figures.
is. BETHEL.-The congregation of Bethe
H. on the Circuit united on Thursday
Thanksgiving services with an appropria
sermon from the pastor, Rev. j. A. Brindl
IL In an informal way there were clay" e
rs. pressions Of several cogent reasons WI
at this year especially was one for returnil
thanks. The discussion was continued
-. the residence of Mr.. Surgeon where Il
~ pastor gave his views on the partition
u turkey, treating the subject in practc
10 way rather than passing it by as a matt
of indifference only to the Turks. II
,u new church organ came on Saturday. Nj
- Lizzie Garrison and Brady Cooper will ha
! charge of the instrument.
WEDDING NUPTIALs AT ODEssA-T
event in Odessa last week was the consul
a nation of the wedding nuptials of NJ
Dg. Kate Appleton, second daughter of Ii.
ms Appleton, ESQ.,, and Alonzo 5. WhittoC
the ceremony being performed by Rev.
B. Merritt in the NJ. f. Church. At t
mas appointed hour the church was filled wi
relatives and friends. Shortly after, t
sns bride elect leaning on the arm of the groC
entered the church attended by the ushe
Cyrus Polk, ". o. Hoffecker Charles Pc
I'D, and VIM. Perry, proceeded to the Altar
ons the time of the wedding march. Spanni
the the altar was large evergreen horsesl
rk- across whose disk were the words in lett
made of ivy, Good Luck" Hating
meath this arch the rite Of matrimony
day solemnized by the minister, using the ri
the ceremony, and with his congratulations
less bridal company left the church for the r.
lrn- dence of the brides father where a r
collation. awaited the guests which numt
ed some sixty or seventy persons.
nan young couple received not only the hea
IL IS usually large number of costly and beaut
ierS tokens of esteem and affection At
close of pleasant evening the bride
groom repaired to their home near
On Pleasant.
to A BREAK IN THE GRAIN Market
ons rushing of grain last week into the Elk
tors at Baltimore caused a higher rat
charges for storage and break in the mar
= Al
lght Philadelphia. There was a manifest br
the in the market there on Monday and a
ther of a cent and half in December VIII
which closed weak at $l.2O bid
sold nominal after call at $ll9I. Wit
TT three or four days December has decli
= ~ L. six cents, each day bringing a fur
.S tn break, with other futures falling col
'A'' pondingly. There are standing on Il
about 1000 cars, representing 100000 b
store els of grain, waiting to be unloaded.
Intry elevators, says the Times, are full to
s in utmost capacity and small exports ar
inter ported; there are no vessels in por
under orders, and tonnage is light at
Breakwater. Business in grain, in fac
uild- at a standstill, and there is little prospe
the relieving the port for a month or per
John two. The market it is thought will
1900. tinue to decline, though not to any
ng. extent, because prices are approaching
values. In Baltimore the elevators ar
FRO full, and 100000 bushels of wheat is or
gram track, with no prospect of UNLOAD
'Veral Western merchants have lost confidC
ty of and shinments have almost ceased
MEM consequence of this furry in the cities
the difficulty of getting sufficient ca
clear their granares, our local dealers
nyrha ped down below so cts. or refused offt
ance. that price.
| loss. PERsoNAL.-Mr. J. Z. Eyer, of CHI
on to was guest at " Woodlawn" to cal