Smyrna times., 1881-07-13
News Items.

OH L I1udy.
Vice President Arthur will return to
New York to-day.
The whole country has resolved itself
into Garfield party.
$134 ,629 of the quarter of million to
be presented to Mrs. Garfild has been rails
ed.
1t may be ferOcious and atrocious" to
say it, but the ex-Primate is the deadest
man of this epoch.
1t seems to be settled that the name of
Stalwart will be dropped. Nobody enjoys
calling himself one any longer.
A short history of the designation Stall
wart." Blaine invented it. Conkling ap-
prOpriated it. Guiteau spoiled it.
During the week ended on the Sth
instant % deaths occurred at Havana
from yellow fever and 10 from smallpox.
Reports show that the crops of Europe
will be excellent this year. The vintage
in France will probably be the best for
Is years.
The bicycle riders have at last obtained
permission to ride in FairmOunt park
without restriction as to hours of the day
i'll which they can exercise.
More than five hundred persons claim
to have been the first discoveries of the
comet. Applications for the 5000 prize
may still be forwarded to Professor Swift,
Rochester, \. y.
Ida May DraytOn, of Jersey City, n. j.,
three Years of age, died Sunday last of
hydrophObia, under most distressing cir
cumstances. She was bitten by dog on
the 18th of May.
A party of surveyors on the Mexican
Central Railway were attacked by Indians,
and two engineers and four assistants
were killed. Mexican troops are in pur-
suit of the savages.
The first bale of cotton of the season of
Dewitt county, Texas, was received at
Galveston on Saturday, and sold at the
Exchange, Monday, for 1925.
HoratiO ]. Kentz, Philadelphia artist.
has brought a suit to recover $4,000 dam
ages against William Delker, druggist.
doing business at Tenth and Arch streets,
for alternating the affections of his wife.
Rev. c. H. Spurgeon of London. has
$500 members in his pastoral care. His
Thursday evening sermons are attended
by 800 persons. He urges all his mem
berS to sign petitions against the opium
traffic.
No man will ever again accuse Presi-
dent Garfield of a lack of backbone
Greater courage and GOODNESS have never
been shown by any man than he has
shown in this heroic fight against death
He is hencefOrth the Nations hero.
The large mill of Dean Bros, in South
Chester, Pa, was burned to the ground
Monday morning. The entire loss will
reach $50, 900 which is partly covered by
insurance. The cause of the fire is sup
posed to have been from spontaneous
combustion.
Fourteen cars of a freight train on the
Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha Railroad
broke loose at Hudson, Wisconsin, on
Sunday, and crashed down steep grade
into another freight train, causing damage
estimated at $4,000, and killing George
Frider an engineer
John GriscOm finished his fOrty-five
days fast, i'll Chicago, at noon Yesterday.
His weight was 149, the same as on Sun
day Mt noon, his pulse so, respiration 13
and temperature 97.3-5. His maintenance
of weight during the 48 hours from Satur-
day at noon is attributed to the cool damp
weather which has set i'm there.
The stalwarts at Albany still refuse to
vote for the republican caucus nominees.
The ballot yesterday was as follows: For
the Conkling Vaoancy-l4apham 60, COnk-
ling 2S, Potter IS, Fish l, Cornell /. For
the Platt vacancy-Miller 81, Herman IS,
wheeler Is, Adams g Evarts /, Chapman
z, Rogers 3, Starin /, Fish ,.
George /. Seney's contributions to edu-
catiOnal and other institutions have
amounted to an average of 81 900 a day
for two years and n half. Mr.. Senev;s
wealth has been increasing rapidly from
the good judgment with which he invest
ed his capital few years ago in cheap
western railroads, which We're being sold
under the hammer. These have become
fine properties.
The United States Signal Service tber-
mometer in Cincinnati registered maxi
mum temperature of 103. 3.5-10 ON Sunday
ee~i hOOh' III ot. LOUIS u maximum tenn
perature of 104.1 was reported-the high
est ever recorded in that city. Twenty
three fatal sunstrokes have been reported
IN that city since Friday. At Vicksburg.
Miss, where the temperature was slightly
lower Il fatal cases of sunstroke have been
reported since Saturday
The bank robbers who recently carried
on the bonds of a savings bank in Buffalo
have received the usual commission fixed
by the laws of the trade. The amount
stolen was about $10O,Q00; the amount
paid for the return of the bonds is under
stood to be S25, 5,O00-or tWeenty.fivs,es' s,s''i Der
cent: With prizes like these holding
themselves out in the business of hnrglary'
it need not be surprising if our college
graduates begin to turn their backs upon
the libeFal-and illib,eral@ professions.
John N, Perry, managing editor of the
philadelphia North AmerScdn, was wound
ed % years ago just in the same manner
as President Garfield was, and was told
then by his physicians that in three
days he would be with the angels. and
consequently in land where managing
editors are unknown. This somewhat
equivocal statement made Jack mad. and
ne determined to live. He is one of the