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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04
Senator Bayard's Speech.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune SAYS Senator Bavardis
post mortem oratiSn in support of his
dofunct resolution TO deprive the green.
backs Of their lPgal-tender quality was
worthy of a more hopeful cause. It was in
fact, enc of tho best financial speeches ever
made in the Senate. 1t commanded the
close attention of nearly every member Of
the Senate and of large gallery audience.
senator Bayard said that it was not
intended to destroy the convenience and
assistance of the present paper currency.
but that CURRENCY rests upon the credit that
it is convertible into specie and will he Maid
and he felt assured that by letting men feel
confident that stable standard is uIti.
mately to measure all other contracts. thew
will naturally feel safer to enter into con-
tracts This would give them assurance
that lapse of time will not bring with it
| alterations in the basis on which their
agreements were framed. In regard to the
denunciatiOn of the "money power" Mr..
Bayard asked
Is there to be discrimination, suspicion
and assault visited upon those in society
WHO have been more successful than others
IN the accumulation of property? Is it not
money power that enables a poor laborer
to become the owner of the pickaxe or
shovel with which he prosecutes his daily
task? Is it not money power' that
enables him to procure a wheelbarrow? Is
it not money power that enables his saw
ings of years labsr, temperance and
frugality to give him the means to purchase
horse and cart?"
In conclusion, Mr.. Bayard delivered some
points Ia members of his own party for
assuming to interpret the utterances Of the
fathers Of the Democratic party in support
of their heritical theories. The speech was
necessarily historical to some extent. As
was inevitable. much ground was travelled
over that was familiar to all who have
watcAed the progress Of late financial
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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

WOMEN SPECULAToRs.-In an unpreten.
tlous English basement house at No. 40
West TwOnty-fourth street. New York, a
private Stock Exchange for women has
been established where, after proper in.
PRODUCTION, they can transact business in
stocks, with the advantage of direct COM
munication with Wall street, and yet in
the most private manner, free from the
presence OF the other sex. The two lower
floors of the house are handsomely furn.
ished for the accommodation of patrons,
whom stock indicator keeps informed as
to quotations. A telephone communicates
with the office Of prominent down town
banking house, with which all contracts
are made and all accounts kept Many
women of the better class encourage the
establishment.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

RATs.--Lswes is said to be excited over
the immense number of rats the town cen.
tains. So numerous have they become, it
is said that some of the citizens are peti.
tioning the city Fathers to hire the ssrVf
ces OF Prof. Scrags Of New York, the great
rat catcher. He offers to bring forty ferrets
and catch all the rats in Lewss and vicinity
for one hundred dollars. The dead rats
he will ship to New York. Tho skins will
go to the glove makers and the meat to the
Cinnamon. Rumor credits Prof. Scrags
with catching sixtseR thousand rats on the
first day at Fert Delaware, and over four
hundred barrels in the space of fortnight.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04
ETERNITY.

y sombre, vast eternity!
What has been. and what is to be,
The past and future merge in thee,
| think of thee with nameless dread;
Thy roots enwrap the eldest dead:
Thy boughS Of green wave overhead.
| cannot grasp thee with my thought:
The works that all the years have wrought
In thy calm presence are as naught.
The kneenest vision cannot trace
one sign of change upon thy face;
shudder in thy cold embrace.
wrestle with thy mystery.
What has been and what Is TO be.
There comes no answer back to me.
The ages that have through thee rolled
Some fables or some truths have told,
But thou art calm and still and cold.
a child | stand up OH the shore;
hear afar the pillows roar
That break and break forevermOre.
No shore thy current ever layeS;
No echo comes from out the caves
Wherein recede thy ceaseless waves.
There are no burrows on thy brow
Cycles of time before thee bow
Thou changeful and unchanging 1ow
o gloomy. grand eternity!
The loved and lost are all with thee,
Some barren years are left to me.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

TEMPERANCE TARs.-A movement has
recently been inaugurated among captains
OF vessels and others connected with shin.
ping interests at Philadelphia says the
Record, for the purpose of suppressine
intemperance among officers and seamen.
On the LIST OF January an organization was
formed at the office Of the Merchants
Responsible Night Watch, 522 South Della.
ware avenue, called the Philadelphia Mari.
time Temperance League. The object of
the society is to enable all persons in any
way connected with shipping to become
total abstainers from intoxicating drinks
In all ports they may visit. 1t is the inten.
ton OF tho founders of the League to
endeavor to make its Influence felt all over
the world, for the elevation of the nautical
profession in general and shipmastsrs in
particular. On sailing from that port each
shipmaster who is q member Of the League
is furnished with copy Of the rules of the
League to be used by him as authority for the
purpose of forming branch leagues in all
foreign or domestic ports visited by him.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04
How the Deliverance Came,

Deacon Fuller, lately deceased at Ponfield.
N. Y, was Christian who mixed his
religion with his daily life, and in way
that everybody that knew his life felt it.
To him Christ was all and in all. Christ
was The life of his religion, the King whom
he worshipped, the Master whom be served,
the Savior whom he loved. He was as ready
to talk about Jesus as about any one whom
he loved on earth. But one thing more
than anything else that helped him to be so
excellent Christian, was most excellent
Chistian wife. She was a woman of deep
faith in prayer.
Many years ago her husband was break.
ing a colt to the harness, and had one
moraing put him with another horse to a
FARM wagon. His little boy of four or five
years had gotten into the wagon for ride.
The mother was distressed, and besought
her husband to leave the child with her.
But the colt was FESTIVE, and the father was
| obliged to let the team 90 on. In the
mothers agony, her only relief was in
prayer. She went alone, and pleaded with
Jesus to take care of her husband and he,
child. She prayed till her soul was at
rest, and then went about her duties. As
the team was going down a hill the harness
gave way, and the tongue of the wagon
falling down, the wagon rushed upon the
heels and launches of the horses The
deacon expected, of course, that the team,
would dash away in unmanageable fright
and he was in agony for his child. What
was his amazement to see both horses stand
quiet, and hold the wagon till he could gel
out and fix the broken strap, when he put
up the tongue of the wagon and drove
safely on. When he returned home he
told his wife of the strange thing, and wa,
melted with gratitude to God for his specia
intsrpostion. Years after he knew that il
was the mother in the closet praying to hel
Lord that saved them. And was it mo-
Just as direct an answer to prayer as wa.
ElJah's prayer for rain? GAN things what
Sosver ys ask in prayer, believing, We shall
rscOive."--N. Y. Examiner.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

Frank Leslie's viii is now being contested
by his sons, the same young gentleman who
assumed their fathers business name during
life, and who were the cause of much litisa.
ton. The serpents teeth in poor Leslie's
case are bearing crop after death.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

They have Republican newspaner
named the telephone" at Bloomington.
Ind. During the recent absence of the
editor, the editor protena, turned the paper
completely around and made it roaring
Democratic. There was big blowinr.u1
when that editor returned from his trim.
and now the sub is looking fer lob.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

Garfield, Randall Gibson and Judge
Young, the three U. S. Senators who have
just been elected, are all sound hard money
men. When Ohio, Louisiana and Missis
sippiunte torepudiate crooked fnanciering
in this conspicuous way, timorous and
time-serving politicians ought to remind
themselves that il pays to be honest almost
everywhere.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

The man who stole the coppers frem the
eyes Of a corpse has met his match in the
father of the colored man who was hanged
on Wednesday in Tioga county, New York.
The tagged PARENT of tho murderer not
only witnessed his sons execution. but
afterward turhed an honest penny by
selling the body for SIS.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

They had their usual evening quarrel AZ
they sat by the hearth. On one side Law
quietly blinking dog, and on the other n
purring cat; and the old woman pleaded
with her growing husband; "Yust look az
Sat gat unit tog; they never gwarrels unit
tights like us" " YAH" said the GROWER ::
" l know dot; but yust die dem together
one dime, und den you see blazes."
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

A FAST Corn HUsKER.-James II. Butler,
of Blackbird hundred, has husked from
twenty to twenty-five acres of corn every
Fall for the last fifteen years. lie husked
ono hundred bushels and tied and shocked
his fodder in single day last Fall.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

Where" asks the Toakers Gazette, " will
we be one year hence?" Where indeed
Some of us just where we are, many perhaps
in the poor house, others in Jail, not few
hung or resting in the silent tombs. But,
really, we don't know where we shall be.
Call again about that tims'-N. !. CONNER
cinI
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

It Might Have Been.
The sadcsi words by tongue or pen.
Are thcse,-it might have been"

I'D. UFf'"F.
How many life histories arc briefly vet
truly dellneated n this one short sentence
1t might have been lives which NAV never
be rescued from the gloom of despair be.
cause perchance some cherished plan some
lie purpose has failed, sone bright hone
faded. With no faith in the future thew
SIT with folded hands, morning over the
IDOL that lies shattered and broken, forget.
ing tho uncounted blessing strewn all along
LIES pathway by a bountilul hand.
" 1t might have been that riches have
taken to themselves wings and flown: that
wealth with It's blessings and comforts may
have been exchanged for poverty with its
sorrows and humiliations. Yet though it
may not be desirable, its lessons NAV teach
us TO be meek and lowly Of heart; to bear
aAolhFr burden; as poor, yet making
many rich as having nothing, yet possessing
all thugs. Fame might have been ours,
YET now IKE transient meteor, it is light.
ing It's pathway for a sIoment with beauty
and spleador, then fading into darkness
and oblivion. Or Ike the beautiful! "anples
OF Seldom, growing upon the banks Of
tae Dead Sea, so tempting to the eye yet
II held III our grasp would clumhlc TO
bitter ashes in our hand
- III III nave DSGH lIoL anna lle TRIALS
and temptations OF life, that a good name
has been lost; that the world no Longer
looks upon US with respect, striving TO
keep cur tempest tossed bark from the
haven they too are strivn. to gain vet we
sh@uldrememberthat God alone IS ouriudae.
that those who come to work in His vino.
yard at the eleventh hour, were compenyl-
ted equally with those who came at the
first, and though all laay lrown upon our
efforts to do well it cannot change the
decree Of the Master.
" 1t might have been" They are sad
words when we recall Golden neglected o.
portunities for selEimproycment or doing
others good. When sc.rowfullv and re.
moTsetully we think Of LIES wasted wears,
OF the hidden talent We might have i'm
proved, Of which we know we must crive.
and when our footsteps approach the river
and we cast retrospectinE glance over our
past lifes history, let US not repeat the
words Of one OF Americas poets.-"It
might hav" been" hut look Nv faith for
rest upon the beautiful shore beyond the
pillows of life. Many Norr1s
SMYRNA, Jaa. 10Th, 1880.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

The Rev. DR.. Dashiell, although lying at
the point of death, has been presented
with $4,000 by sympathizipg friends of
New York. This has the echo of "too
late"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

Rev. George W. Miller, the pastor of the
M. +. church at Chambersturg, Pa, will be
the next pastor of Grace church. The
salary will be $1,000 per year, having been
raised to old figures since The reduction
soroe time ago.-Del. Gazette.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

Mr.. Oliver Dalrymple, the great Mime,
sofa farmer, intends to cultivate 10000
acres of wheat this year. He will have
twenty steam threshers in operation with
1856 reaping machines. Last year he EN-.
ployed 600 laborsrs and this year will
increase the number to ZOO.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

A girl who seems to be undecided which
to choose, writes to the Chicago Tribune !:
81 adore Aqustus' beauty and dash I
admire Harry's wit and keenness; while ia
the silent chambers of my heart sit in
humiliation and reverence before the shrine
Of Charles sublime manhood, his pure and
noble principles and his grand intellect"
She had better marry Augustus. The other
men seem to have some sense.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

Mrs. Mary A. Stewart, of Sussex county,
represented Delaware at the recent Woman
Suffrage Convention held in Washington.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

Three immense whales were seen off
Cape May few days ago. They were
spouting tho water and steam from their
nostrils to a considerable height.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

The sudden death OF Rev. Dr. William
Rudder, for sixteen years the rector of St.
Stephens Protestant Episcopal Church,
Philadelphia, will be deeply and generally
deplored As a theologian he was pro
found and Orudite, as preacher able and
impressive, and as pastor faithful, active
and efficient in the discharge Of the duties
of his post.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

Bishop Stevens OF PENNSYLVANIA has
begun in good earnest another Investigation
into the alleged violations of the canons
and rubrics of the Protestant Episcopal
Church by the clergy and congregation Of
st. Clement. 1t is charged that the
practices Of st. Clement have a direct ten
dency toward Romanism, while the CLERGY
Of st. Clement hold that they have Simply
preserved the forms of the Church Of
England as originally constituted. The
Reformed Episcopal Church is the out.
growth of one extreme Of thought in this
denomination, and it begins to look as If
the ether extreme, led by the ultra.hish
churchman, might also, eventually form a
distinct branch of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.-Phila. Ercning Ne,cs.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

Bishop Simpson is reported to have sug.
gested Sherman's march to the sea.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

The heating OF cities " steam by the
Holly system is rapidly extending. 1t has
been in successful operation for some time
in Lockport, Auburn and Troy, \. y, in
Detroit, Milwaukee and Dubuque, and it is
now, with the consent Of the local authori.
ties, to be introduced into New y ork and Gin.
cinnati. Its principal recommendations
are its cleanliness, economy, genial and
wholesome temperature and freedom from
risk by fire and explosion. The amount of
steam used by each customer is measured
by meter.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

LIQUOR AND CRIME.-The society in New
York for the prevention OF crime propose
to reduce the number OF retail LIQUOR deal
ers in that city from ten thousand to two
thousand. This would doubtless effect
some degree of good, for there can hardly
be doubt that the moro numerous the
sources of temptation and the greater the
facilities for indulgence the more and more
will we have the effects in the commission
OF crime of one sort or other following
upon intoxication and general dissipation
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-02-04

Abridal party in st. Louis Justices office
lacked the bridegroom. He had quarreled
with the bride, and after waiting an hour
beyond the appointed time, she told her
friends that he probably did not mean to
come at all. Thereupon an old admirer
offered to take the missing mans place
The woman hesitated, but fifteen minutes
of vigorous courtship won her consent, and
the ceremony was performed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-26
Portland and Worcester Line
PORTLAND & ROCHESTER, r.. r,
WINTER ADVANCEMENT,


WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
,s,sz,zz,sz On and after Monday, Dec; rs,
E.x11zs7ssrs.s Grand Trunk Depot, P,rt-
land, for Worcester at 1870 a.
m. and 90 p. Leave Preble st. Station at
$50 N. m. and 4. Is p. M, arriving at Wor-
cester at 2.16 p. m. and 7.3O p. m. Returning,
11.15 a. M, arriving at Portland at IL p. M and
COOP m.
For Clinton, Aver juno, Fitchburg,
Nashua, Lowell, Windham, and Ep.
ping at 30 n. M. and 90 p. m.
For Manchester, Concord and points North, at
100 p. m.
For Rochester, Springvale, Alfred, WATT
erbOrO and Sac0 River. Leave Grand Trunk
Depot at 1870 n. m. and LOO p. M; leave
Preb,e st: Station at 30 a. M, Il p. M,
and mixedD at 6.40 p. m. Returning leave Roch-
ester at Cmixedl S.45 a. M; 11;o6 a. m, and
m, Lib p. m. and 600 p. m.
Mills, Westbro0k and WOodford,s.
Leave Grand Trunk Depot at 7.2O a. m. and
LOO p. M; leave Preble St. at 7.3O a. nl.,
LIS, 6.l5 and (mixe6 Gas p. m.
The LOO p. mn. tt ain from Portland connects at
Aver juno. with HoOsac Tunnel Route for
the West, and at Union Depot, Worcester, for
New York via Norwich Line, and all rail,
via Springfield, also with N. Y. & N. Il. Il.
r. c'Steamer Maryland Route'o for PhiladeI-
phia, Baltimore, Washington, and the
South and with Boston Il Albany II. II. for
the West.
Close connections made at WestbrOok juno
ton with through trains of Me. Central K. R.. and
at Grand Trunk Depot, Portland, with through
trains of Grand Trunk r. X.
Through tickets to all points South and West at
Depot offices and at collins & Adams, No. % Ex-
change Street.
def5dtf ]. M. LUNT. Supt
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-26
LEWISTON AND AUBURN.

THURSDAY, March %.
Ruffianism is let loose.
Mrs. Hunt lectured to thin house tonight.
FL. A. Osgood is convalescent.
Jack Mccormick got 80 day in Jail.
Painters are busy
The weather clerk is tearing mad.
How's this for gentle spring breezes
Captain Perham is chief of Commander
Bangs staff, G. A. R., of Maine.
E. A. Plummer & Co., of Boston, are to &C.
cupy the vacant store in Frye Block
John Webb, of Auburn, died Tuesday, at
the advanced age of 80 years.
HI. o. Cutler has purchased the stock OF
Smith & Peck.
Mrs. Addie Wood, an esteemed lady of Au-
burn, was buried this afternoon. The floral
offerings were extensive
tenement house in the rear of the andre
scoggin station was burned this morning at 3
O'Clock. Loss 81 900. Owned by Peter Clois-
ter. Partially insured.
John A. Boland's house was almost COM
pletely destroyed by fire last evening at half
past eight. Total loss about 81 OOO The house
was damaged $4,000, on which there was 49,
500 insurance in the National Company of
Hartford, Garcelon agency. Mr.. Boland had
furniture. j. B. Smith had $1,000 worth of
furniture, including piano, stored in the
building. on which he had no insurance. and
he suffers loss of about $500. Mr.. Clark,
Waterman in the Bates mill, occupied the ten
ement in the second story. His loss was $500;
partially insured. The fire caught in sleep
ing room in the attic, probably from a defec-
tive flue. The fire department should be COM
mended for their prompt and noble efforts in
squelching the flames.
bo1J 80
Lee was held in City Hall this evening.
A small amount of booty was carried away
from Moulton & Co.'s grocery store in Au-
burn, Tuesday evening. The burglars effected
an entrance through a rear window in the
store. The police have no clue.
The Catholics have been faithful in the wor-
ship to-day. Many places of business were
closed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-26
BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.

On and after Monday, Oct.
lssssssssassssssssH l3, 1879, Passenger Trains
eE ss:5E9=szSss=4 will LEAVE PORTLAND
-FOR BOSTON at 8.45 a. NJ,
LOO, $50 p. M, arriving at Boston at 1.3O, $780,
500 p. m. Returning, leave Boston at 100 a. M,
500, 800 p. m.
For Scarborough Beach, Pine Point, Old
Orchard keach, SacO, Biddef6rd, and
kennebunk at S45 a. m, 100, $50, 5.45
For wells, No. Berwick, Salmon Falls,
Great Falls, Rochester, Pennington,
N. H.. Dover, New Market, Exeter,
Haverniit, Lawrence, AndOver, and
Lowell at S.45 a. M, LOO, $50 p. m.
For Alton Bay at 8.45 a. M, $50 p. IN.
For Manchester and Concord (via Lawrence)
at S.45 a. M; (via New Market Junction) at
Morning Train leaves Kennebunk for Portland at
ITO, arrives at Portland at 8.07.
The LOO p. m. Trains connect with Sound Line
Steamers for New York.
The $50 p. m. trains make connections with
New York all rail.
Through Tickets to all Points South and
West at lowest rates.
Trains on Boston Il Maine road connect with all
steamers running between Portland and Bangor,
Rockland, Mt. Desert, Maehias, Eastport Calais St.
John and Halifax. Also connect with Grand Trunk
trains at Grand Trunk Station, and Maine Central
ton.
ALI trains stop at Exeter ten minutes for refresh
ments. First class Dining Rooms at Portland,
Transfer Station, Exeter, Lawrence and Boston.
THROUGH TICKETS to all points West and
South may be had of vi. l.. Williams, Ticket
Ticket Once, 40 Exchange st.
JAS. T. FURBER Gen. Supt.
8. q. STEVENS, Cen. Agent, Portland.
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