Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1881-05-18

ISSOhtAg DSSu GHldCBcu anu ldlu OH III lOLS.
The pastor and his wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Brindle,
We're last Saturday presented with q solid
walnut extension table, by the Bethel Society.
AN unusually good peripatetic Italian String
Band put in an appearance on Saturday after
noon and their performance around the streets
attracted so much attention that Messrs.
Phelps and Van Wrinkle u Co. employed them
to play from the second story over their stores
for the evening. As an enterprise to draw
custom it is said to have been eminenty sue
cessinl. They were engaged again. together
with the Harmony COrnet Band for free
concert on Market street on Monday evening.
the combination calling together very large
cOncOurse of citizens who seemed to enjoy the |
music hugely. The soul of music seemed to !
! be stirred that this did not suffice, and it |
was supplemented by an improvised choir, or |
| club of gentlemen and ladies who sang num- |
! Der of patriotic and sentimental songs winding |
! up at quarter past ten.
PERSONALITIES. T. II. Haynes, of Chester
| town, Nd was on u short visit to town from
Friday to Monday, guest of Miss Hannah
| NanGaskcn.
John r. Senior, of the firm of r. W. Price
| Il Co., Philadelphia and wife have been visit
ing friends in this town and vicinity the past
week
John T. Porter, of Scranton, Pa, has been
spending several days with his father, Able
| Porter, near town.
A letter from Clem. Spruancc tells us of the
State Of things in Kansas. We also have a
letter from another Smyrna boy having extern
sive sight seeings in distant lands.
Rev Mr.. Gordon of this parish and Lewis
of Middlet0wn, exchanged pulpits on Sunday.
Col. John +. Bingham, of New York, agent
for Jay Gould, was in town on Monday.
Rev. w. X. McFarlane of Princess Anne
came to town on Monday evening, stopping on
his return from Philadelphia, whittier he had
been to attend the funeral of his sister.
Jerry Irwin, William +. Clement and
Clarence l.: Vincent of Philadelphia were ON
a visit to friends here on Sunday.
! Miss Mollie Pratt is spending few weeks ut
Chesapeake City, Md.
A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE-Fiction is not
! alone in creating all the sudden and remark
able conditions of life. 1t has its counterpart
! often in actual life as romantic rs that wrought
out in the Imagination of the novelist Sumo
two wears ago u girl in plain attire, as Il change
~ from ner daily toll, went to one of the public
i squares of Philadelphia as thousands of others
! | go to enjoy the shade, look out upon the
a | carpet of green and take III the eXhlaratlng
" fresh air. An elderly gentleman happened t"
be passing through the Park for much the
n same purpose, when the tatigued cOntempla-
J. tive demeanOr OF the young woman attracted
e his attention and he vcntured to remark to her
d docking with the eye of an old physician,
that she was working too hard, telling her
where at the home of friend she could have
"a an easier life. Some months in this family
90 proved her rs he had first read her physiogna-
/. my, to be kind and Obliging, such an one as he
u
m of the house keeper that had been rOODln2
him. and he put her in charge of his hOust
on Walnut street She filled her office st
rs well that the past winter through due process
a of law she became his adopted daughter anc
heiress prospectivetO large part of an estate .
r. several hundred thousand dollars. DR. dos
It. eph Leon is now eighty years of age, Il wild
over. without children and near relatives
His adopted daughter, who now stands to hin
r with all the rights and privileges of an onl,
ms daughter, is the daughter of Thomas Maloney
nd last year farming neaI this town, but now
resident of Thoroughfore Neck Lottie Malo
C. ney is now by legal statute L"ttie JOscphin
# Leun-n new name with a new and prOOahl.
undreamed of existence. The old gentle
We man and his daughter purpose visiting thi
d. vicinity the coming month.
oJ The DIFERENCE.-W When an effort was mad
year ago to get an appropriation Tor lmproV
t~ ing the navigation of our Creek and our Sena
w. tors were called upon to urge the passage {
M such Il bill, Senator salisbury especmllY OF
m jected somewhat ON Constitutional grounds
nt we remember right but chiefly because til
ns benefit would be for local trade and not in tn
mn line of general commerce. For this reasO
or the money applied for made appliCab
ro. only to the mouth of the Creek, which VIZ
needed to be put in better condition rs a Hal
Dor for river craft in time of storms. For I'll
las purpose an appropriation of 5000 was obtained
lge The Honorable Senator constitutional UOJr,
ion tiOns, however, seem to be quite elastic
ESQ What was unconstitutional for Duck Cree
ur- was entirely constitutional for Jones CreeI
les because an appropriation was made presum
his bly, at the Senators instance, for the alone col
sideratiOn of the private interest OF Dow
and vicinity. We are not Directing to il, bl
tho the distinction between the two is invido'
has and if his creek like his post office that 9TH
hSt home insti.ution) should go from $1,000
10 to $1,000 he may in the end have ship cha
M mel running up to the capital with eXtensi'
iba quays for foreign commerce. There Is Il lit
wi. local difficulty in the beginning, however,
this enterprise, small or great, which ever
may turn out to be. There are two improv
:; ment companies which want To spend q
- Government money. The Senator or rath
80 the DetdGGreGH cOunseis peace and no CO
~ tentiOn rs to where the money shall be expe
II ded but urges them to leave it TO Col LudlC
IN who has been down to inspect and survey &
f"n Creek We arc not without hope, hOwevC
S9n since the Senator has removed the constlt
80 tOnal barrier of his own free will, tn
win he will find his judgment rs well as his CO
bo,, ! science charging to cover something mo
ny than as finger mark on the map OF our lit
State.
. our FLowERs-THEIR USE IN ADJOINING HOUs
't AND PRIVATE GKOUNDs.-Ine assertion II
ich' been made that the increased taste for hOwI
und - i"O I y - t.,,,.,,t - fi;nOr - :
., necessarily belong To rich people, though tn
80 greater means vi having what public and p
III III Vate taste demand, gives this appearan,
. .; There are in many humble homes genui
h love OF the beauties of nature that is not mt
ny tested because OF limited means or apparC
incOngruity with the general surrounding
As IN racsnt years and % ~,
this nr,i,,r ,,,,r root The rat winter yvoul6 ii
me cover 10 the observer in the most of homes
:; = no few pots of geranlums, II nothing mo
Hih These are found in dwellings often of only c
y " or Two rooms ana the cUl0I cd people VINO
GI AZ initiative OF the dominant race IN many OF |
As .ard 60 ~; s;;I;;nC, inamoncsS in c
with e., o,sao ELo,,;so ,,,,r,,1;r, s host tha,, ~
uens u few window plants.
IT, Twenty years ago it was only an occasion
VIZ thing To mud u flower window: now this win
:. VI; ~; is the producing season of many of oar IN
~ beautiful plants and where convencnces
Dill, ,r"r6sn bas o,e onesn;tv socnnd VIII
= ~ the flower beds and mounds Of the yard
~ y. AZ sum ner The demand for flowers in
- yards is more general than is apparent,
S nigh and tight fence enclosures causing
aLes most OF them to be hid out of sight, whereas
"n.e S recently built towns and city suburban pla
n by tinns Frnm ths citv ZION Uhan rnost ~
etins houses were built of placing them squarely
s'0i' the line and filling up the front, this dillicu
can never be remedied with n number of r
gave dences, but Win many Others II can be,
ecret substituting open for their tightly fitting
or of closures. There are with us many Yards
the gardens that are beautiful in their collection
mOnd arrangement which are never looked upon
nd its cept by the owners and their particular rieT
Hub Were lt otherwise the general public and
With pecially the visitors, would have someth
lausi- tasteful and more pleasant to remember {
lausi- heated brick and mortar. ANYTHING
nc the UeautIdes from the hand of nature also CT
wn to Yates and reHnes the feelings, and nature
atoms thus be made handmade where there
being young minds to develop. The PnkS, Sw