Smyrna times., 1881-03-09

INV knife and picked the flint" A spark
a report, kick by the gun. and boy fell,
when rose | saw at a short distance what
looked like torn rabbit skin, on examina.
tion found it to he my new fur cap shot
to pieces. Fortunately my head was not
in the cap; but have never gone gun.
ming since that morning. That was boys
scare. A much more serious scare was
that of Miss Mary Cook, on the Cook farm.
She had gone into the summer house in
the garden and there saw large snake
coled up that raised its venemnus head
and commenced Kissing at her. II fright
ened her "out of her wits" and | think
she never entirely recovered her right
mind. She was Of gay and jolly disposition
and temperament and fond of music and
dancing. When in her most melancholy
moods, Mrs. Wilmer would send her man
Noah. who was the fiddler" fer the parties
in those days, out to the Cook farm and
most generally when Miss Cook caught the
sound of the violin she would at once take
the floor and "trip the light fantastic toe."
Noah ran away and music and dancing
ceased. | remember some big scares that
! pSrmeated the whole town. One was the
reported negro instruction in Northamp.
ton and Accomac counties, Va. Another
was when the Asiastic Cholera first made
| its appearance in New York in 1880, and
another was when the falling stars
threatened to burn up the earth and all
! that therein is.
And now Mr.. Elitor have "spun my
yarn" to much greater length than con-
t~mplatel when | commenced writing
these "reminiscences of Smyrna and her
people as | remember them when | was a
boy. Asstated in my first letters, may not
have been entirely correct il some of my
rpcOllections. but | think those of your
readers who were living there then and
who have followed me in my walks through
the only three streets that then existed,
viz: Main, Commerce and Methodist
streets, will generally confirm what have
written. AS to the people whom | have
introduced, | have to say that in giving
my impressions of them, | have had nc
desire to eulOgiz- or disparage any one.
, have written in "charity for all ana
malice toward none" and if have unfor
; tunately written anything to hurt or offend
the feelings of the most sensitive, and if in
r formed of it will take great pleasure it
making the amend honorable, and it shall
not br such an apology rs | once heard
Rev r. NJ. Greenbank make at a CAM
, meeting. when he was on Smyrna circuit
A collection was being taken up and Mr.. G
, told the collectors to 20 out among tn,
r stragglers The collectors afterwards tolt
Mr.. G. that many gentlemen who wer'
standing at the head Of the grounds, tool
1 offence at his remark and declined to con
2 tribute. In the afternoon Mr.. G. from th,
j. stand, apoloeized Eor using the word strag
p glrr and explained its denotation and said
to an educated person, the word had n,
3 offensive meaning, but unfortunately man,
Americans of much pretension knew n,
b mere about the English language than di'
F.. BdaLim'S Ass. As he was an Englishman
}. his apology aggravated his first offence.
|, If your readers have derived as mucl
Y pleasure in reading as | have enjoyed il
I recolecting the scenes and incidents Of IN,
p childhood, spent in Smyrna, and if it shal
@ induce others more competent than !, t
r gather up and preserve to pOsterity, mem
orials of our fathers and mothers to WHOM
| nol I r.
i that the time and labor have devoted /
:. these articles has been well employed.
r. While thinking Of hoO fc,O there are no,
is living who were the men of Smyrna 5
e years ago, and how many of their chldre
IF have since passed away, am reminded &
- an eloquent passage in the British Spy
AZ William Writ, written while viewing tn
I ruins ut jamestown. have not seen tn
m book since WAS a boy at college and ma
Dr. not quote correctly: Another and anothe
r. generation has rolled on, each emulatin
er its predecessor in height, towering for
10 moment and curling it's foaming honors I
le the clOudS, then roaring, breaking an
,e perishing on the same shore"
lP AlueEtO nave CioStH eACH HfllClP VIII
III the premise Of I" More Anon," now
le Finis, reverse those words with more 81,
to nificancs.
il. 20 sad no more!
mr. o sweet no more
o strange no more!
III o the many things that have gone before.
81, Now buried fathom's deep TO rise,
IN No MORE.
NJ P. SIN the twelve letters, thasti
p wrtten) your compositor has succeeded
nj well in deciphering my chirography, that
}" though there have been some topographic
ed errors have not deemed them of sufhrie
he Importance to call attention to them. B
by some means the name Of Bishop Seabur
ut OF Connecticut, was made Saybrook, and
zee this is OF historic importance, you W
Ter please note il, E. W.
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There is now q substance which is bo
= professionally and popularity indorsed al
=, concerning which, Mr.. J. B. Ferschweill'
- Butteville, Oregon, writes: | have oft
r. read of the many cures effected by
- - Jacobs Oil and was persuaded to try t
~ remedy myself. was sufferer from rhe
malism and experienced great pains, q
a leg being SO swollen that could not mo
it. procured st. Jacobs Oil, used IL free
an and was cured. .-FreepOrt tIll.l Bulletin.