Smyrna times., 1880-02-11
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
EAUTITUL Winter weather.

LEAP year party would be in order.
EVERYBODY who pays their bills promptly
helps others to pay theirs.
Mr.. A. G. CUMMINs' new office, where he
will meet his phosphate customers, is nearly
completed.
TIE bad roads of the winter have been
a considerable hiRdrance to the social vis
ting incident to the season.
YESTERDAY was Shrove Tuesday" Pan
cake day" To-day begins the season OF
Lent, which lasts forty days.
Do not know that st. Valentino had any.
thing to do with it, but Cupids ieats at
archery is the engrossing theme of the
week.
NOTE the advertisement Of W. Geo. Hill.
A pure Western clover seed must be very
desirable to our farmers, especially this
year, as our crop is almost worthless
A WRITER thus puts it; 1T is vain to
hope to please all alike. Let a man stand
with his face in whatever direction he will,
he must necessarily turn his back on one
half of the world.
OUR community fortunately has been en-
| tirely free this winter from those contagious
diseases such as scarlet fever, dyphtheria,
&C., which are such a terror to parents.
Nothing but colds.
The Irma" Quartette Of this town ed.
| Hoifocker, w. q. Pierce, VIM. ?. Dickson
and f. F. Evans) assisted at tho entertain
ment at Cecilton last evening, enterspersing
ba ranI;ru, Of NJ. q
music.
REV. Mr.. RAWLINs reports two of the ap.
pointments OF the circuit, Ksnton and
Central entirely up in their finances, and
the ether tive, Sovsrson and Bethel, nearly
so. The latter place contributed $40 10 the
Missionary collection.
ST. VALENTINES DAY next Saturday.
The hideous carricatures of these latter
days that have supplanted the nicely
wrought valentines Of former Years that
were real love missives, may bring the
blush to sensitive cheeks.
COMMERCIAL travellers tell us that when
they can make it at all convenient they drop
down at Smyrna to spend Sunday-in adj
dltion to other accommodations they have
the attractions of good churches and good
preaching and good singing.
MEssRs. PILCHARD & RAMBo, two printers
OF Dover intend to issue a daily during the
session OF Conference at that place com.
menclRs March 18th. Any one wishing the
paper can call on Geo. NJ. Stevenson, this
Office. Subscription price % cts.
TAX payers Of the class of 1879 must paw
before the lst Of March or the meeting of
the Levy Court or they will be returned as
delincuents and lose their votes at the
November election. Persons who value
the privilege Of veting should bear this in
mind.
LAND SALEs.-A. P. Griffith, real estate
broker, has sold farm of l0l acres, belong
ing to Tilghman Foxwell in Newcastle CO..
to John D. Bsdwell, for $1,000. Also
farm in New Castle county. Of 40 acres, be.
longing to Allen Mead of New York, to II.
Z. Douglass Of Smyrna.
We read of active ice gathering even so
far South as tho vicinity of Baltimore, but
the prospect here is msaere in the extreme.
There has not been enough ice for the bows
to skate upon. 1t is a satisfaction to know.
however, that from the Northern Della.
ware line upward the crop promises to be
ample.
The world is said to be composed Of two
great classes of people. Those who work
and those who spend their time in getting
ready to work. The winter has been so
favorable that many of our mechanics have
been per force Of circumstances placed in
the first named class, the usual winter
holiday not having yet brought them a
period Of rest.
DR.. WIN. CHAs. PERKINS, son of the late
Dr. John ID. Perkins, of this town, for
some years past a resident of West Phila.
delphia, has been on visit to his sister
Mira. Mary j. Davis. The DR.. is carving
his age remarkably well.
Misses Annie Painter and Mary Hazel.
OF MIliord, are visiting our town, guests of
Mrs r. D. Hoffecker.
"THERE is music in the air." Not only
Is this evinced in the disposition of the
young men to organize a brass band, but
IN the young ladies to become proficient in
the more delicate piano and organ music.
This is always good field for such instru
ments, and this week alone two of each
have been placed in this town. One of the
new pianos was for the school of Miss |
Janvisr and Mrs RaimOnd. We hear of
more to follow.
"THE WHITE Rose MINsTRELs OF SMYRNA
is the title of an association of young men
OF this town, who have united together for !
musical purposes. Their ultimate object is |
to organize brass band, and for this pur
pose they will give an entertainment at the |
Town Hall on Thursday evening of next
week, 18th inst, consisting Of farces, bur.
lesques, vocal and instrumental music, &c. |
They have taken considerable care in
selecting the material for the entertain.
msnt, and promise an evening of innocent |
fun.
HE meddlesome newspapers are bother !
ing themselves about matter that belongs |
to another country and cannot at all be |
settled on this mundane sphere. The |
question in regard to recent decease where |
the woman had seven husbands is, whose
wife will she be in the resurrection, the |
wife of ore or the seven? o, ys of little |
discernmenti doth not the good book de. |
clare that there are things that an editor
even has no business to know. Stick to |
yeur goose quilts, and see that the present |
sphere keeps in its proper orbit.
DEpARTED.-Mrs. Abbott is dead. The
news came unexpectedly on Thursday |
morning last, for though she had advanced |
to the age of SO years, her mission had not |
been deemed completed. She was widely
known, We might almost say she was Of |
national fame, for she had arrived az die. |
unctioa among women perhaps without a
parallel IN the nation-the surviving widow
Of seven husbands. She has passed away
in peace and rests in Bethel Church ward.
AS has been before stated in these columns.
her maiden name was Williams and her
husbands were successfully Truax, Riggs,
Faxoy, Wallace, Berry, Pratt and Abbott.
Mrs. A., though never herself blessed with
childreR. had metherly feeling, taking
two orphans to raise ip her first married