Smyrna times., 1881-03-16

templated when making the purchase OF |
the property in which their institution WAS |
lacated. The division separating the bank. |
ing and directors rooms has been torn away, |
making the former one Of the hest bank.
ing rooms on the Peninsula. The Direc-
tors room has been moved to the hack
parlor and is as large again as the former
one. Both of these rooms will he neatly
fitted up for the purpose for which they are
used. The dwelling is also being carried
through thorough course of papering and
painting.
PERsoxAL.-Dr. David Streets who gradu
ated at the Pennsylvania University (Allo-
pathy) last winter, attended lectures this
and graduated at the Hahnamann Collrg-
Homeopathy last week in Philadelphia
and intends TO use the best of both systems.
lie has since been on visit to his fathers
family in the Alley"
Benz A. Hazel, was present at the New
Orleans carnival described in a communi
cation III our Last issue) at which time the
city is given up to the widest excitement
and dissipation. He however he says,
! kept himself untarnished and was none
! the better or none the worse for having
seen it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Buchanan, near
Green Spring station, will celebrate their
Wooden Wedding" on Wednesday the
23d, inst.
Josh Billings when off duty got with the
boys and didn't exhibit the gravity ri
men usually nearing their three score and
ten.
Rev. j. A. Brindle who has been preach
ing SO years. never attended before Monday
evening " Golden Wedding" This indI.
Gates how rare theV are.
A. P. Griffith and a considerable list Of
other persons interested in agriculture.
forwarded petition yesterday asking that
Orange Judd, ESQ.,, be appointed .. s.
Commissioner Of Agriculture.
The bill to divorce Laura C.. Drake nee
Wilds Of KentOn. passed the Senate yester
day having previously passed the House.
This is the FIRST bill of the kind that has
passed.
Our former citizen Owen Ford, has sue
ceeded in capturing and leading to the
altar the daughter of a Texas judge, the
ceremonies being attended by large and
fashionable company In Houston.
"JosH BILLINGS. This noted humorist.
billed to lecture at the Town Hall on Fri.
day night last entered the town in the after.
noon and his walk through the streets was
took but glance to demonstrate that he
was character. Tall, bibls. backed, long
hair hHwing over his shoulders, angular
gait, streng visaged-he looked the very
impersonation of AN Indian Scout or from
tierSman. He looks to be- on the shady
: side of sixty.five and though known every
where as JOSH" his real name is Davi'
q NJ. Shaw, and was school teacher unit
bad spelling made him fortune and Sc
him up to keeping on Madison SQUARE
a New York. Sometime after his quan
;. proverbs had made him famous he br
thought himself to smhody them in
josh Billings Almanac for household
II companIonship and offered the manuscrIp
,s to publisher for $3.50. The publishe
told him that he would not give him $2.5
for it. Josh was not the kind OF man /
r. be thus turned down, so he had it publishs
n. on his own hook, and so popular did it b'
come as to realize him $4,000. His pre-
ent lecture he has been delivering under di
re f-rent names for some eighteen years a
n. from $50 to $3.50 per night for about 81
months in the year. Josh is a trump, an
if he didn't make any money as be say
* until he was As years old, he had I'll
IN segacity at that ago to strike good load.
On ascending the platform he took h
seat and thus delivered his lecture, b
to principle being not TO stand unless tt
i'll audience stands also. His first busine
ly was TO adjust his eyeglasses, survey b
audience in the most 9uizical way, iRspe
the architecture Of the beautiful ~ roo
Us (of course including the comfortable ses
in ings), examine the holes in his handke
ay chief before dslcatelY placing it under b
lecture book on the table, by which tia
the audience was ready for "guffaw"
r. L - 4,
la and people were en- rapport from the sta
en and many were in . broad grin from Il
ok beginning until its coss-ninety minute
Josh remarking that "if a speaker could
strike lie in ninety minutes, it was hPcau
out his gimlet was too snort or there was
i'm lie there" The lecture was a cOmpllati
th. Of his wispst and most laughable saw!
a a with short but characteristic essays on {
mule, mosquito, fly, and other objects, a
answers to nuMerOus correspondents W
cia needed few grains of his hard comm
fol sense to help them along through
ing world. His hits were so appropOs.
ice striking as to he irresistible to the indiv
. s. ual who had any laugh in him. While I
was so, the expressions were almost u
form that having heard him once it suflic
ms hut it was the best enjoyed as an enterta
lay. ment and the largest in its receipts
hnS aDOV6 expenses, OF any IecIuTe Oi
nay winter. This closes the course.
MISSIONARY ANNIvERsARY.-A bril
,L. lights, pyramids and vases OF flowers, tr
on ing vines, the clear, cherry notes Of can
;n birds, the animated faces of several b.
,ho dred children, members Of the sch'
srd with good singing and speaking enjoyed
the crowd above and below, the III.
n,
,oL. most animated appearance. 1t was
,ra. q Jubilee Of the School fer its own enj
'av, ment and others who might wish to d
nt;i in and participate with thrm-this 4
-, nothing more. The house was filed c
- slderably before the hour, and at the pro
,o. time Superintendent Lasseli and ChOri
Groves led the children from their re
below to the seats reserved for them abt
,.ho and after getting seated which was don,
rss;' remarkably fine order, the following
ago gramme was gone through with, occupy
,;ns two hours: Anniversary Hymn, by
. NJ School, sensible and comprehensive
will minute prayer by Rev. t. E. Marund
- before being seated, singing by In
School, Salutatory Address by Miss l.,
-. FAIRIES, solo and dustt by Miss Elva G. Gar
o,or and Mrs. NJ. E. Smithrrs, Sscr~tary's
81" port giving the statistics OF the School,
name and missionary contribution Of Z
A.. class, by Walter o. HofIsckrr, singing
tne Infant School, original poem by Herr
then % u;ii srJ Ma.srs HERMAN Roe
snds rLo.,,a. g., M;s-ior.rv Arch a snsc,
sgain Ia go ;n,sndsd a. sSt forth The d,
sture a a,,oi;,;.a AZ = r,;.s;orarv hv ,ha g.,
ough ;a,and.n, a..;s,sd h. ,ha foliov;nv achr
that ~ M's,;-d"Io R,,Iah Jefysrson A
Phil. m~E.aI,an s Ua.ru P"II W;Il,sns Pr
muss HerveY Hall. Alma Grsves, Miss