Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1881-01-26

Beaufort Co., in that State, a year ago and
erected large saw-mill, were burnt out
early on Tuesday morning of last week.
The mill was erected at considerable ex.
pense and we learn there was no insurance
on it. Nothing further has been heard
from them.
COLD AGAIN.-The keen weather of this
week-murcury in the mornings down to
IL and Incomes as did that destruction
"blizzard" in the Holiday week, by the way
of the Southwest instead of the Northwest
The thermometer in Dakota, where it is
usually 150 lower than here, has ranged
very nearly the same temperature there
this week as here. On the other hand
from the South we have the following re.
cord:
About five inches of snow fell at Mo.
bile, Ala, Sunday night. Many valuable
trees were broken by the weight of the
snow. About four inches Of snow fell in
New Orleans, being the heaviest since 1852.
Augusta, Ca, had the heaviest snowfall
on Monday ever known there, but the
snow melted almost as fast as it fell Advi.
ces from the interior of South Carolina re.
port the heaviest snowfall in fifty years
In Wilmington, N. c., about three inches
of snow fell
! HELPING THE PooR.-This has been
hard winter on the poor work of all kinds
having been practically suspended since
the middle of November and the Benevo.
lent Society whose practical charities have
been seen and felt winter after winter in
our community found their exchequer run.
ming quite low. They have been holding a
festival at the beginning of each winter.
but their time having been appropriated,
two season have been allowed to pass with.
out it. TO meet the demands they have
devised an entertainment in popular lee.
lures numbering three perhaps, the initial
one by Rev. J. S. Willis of FELTON, to come
off ON Monday evening next, subject,
"Things in General and Some Things in
Particular" AS a stage speaker Mr.. Will
lis enjoys high reputation and will no
doubt give us a treat in dressing up a sub.
ject Of such amplescope. Mr.. Phelps, who
is engineering the course, has already sold
a hundred reserved seats, and the indica-
tions are for a crowded house. Tickets
bought now will secure reserved seats.
A DESPERATE INSTRUMENTATION Thursday
evening last notorious negro man named
Walter johnson was seen in a noisy intox
icated condition vending his way to Wap
ping or it is generally called d" Whoppsn.'
He remarked before starting that he wat
going down to clean out the Jones family
, meaning Gale Jones, whose daughter wal
his wife. JohnSon's wife, and daughter
three years old, spent their time at the
= housc Of the former, especially the chile
because the latter did not provide then
= tho proper comforts of home, and ever
he won't and came as he pleased and Their
had been no difficulty or harsh expression
!. about il, so the father says. He first haC
J a difficulty or tried 10 with the hostler a
# the hotel and went from there directly t.
a Jones house, which he entered abruptly
C and catching his child by the arm with on
r. sling threw it out the door. He then con,
# menced at his wife's mother swearing b
II intended to kill the whole batch of Their
If and was using her roughly. The daugt
IS ter This wife) tried to get him ava
Q and in the scuflie the old woman got loos
% and Selling a billet of wood pounded hi
IF head until the blood flowed freely. In tn
d mean time Jones' son Jerry (who it is sal
o. carries pistol and uses it too freely cam
,r on the scene and fired two shots at him
al he was leaving the house. In fall whic
he received, or from the billet Of wood, {
possibly pistol shot, a severe wound WI
G. made in the back of the head, but pro-
ID ing conld not detect a bullet. He WI
O. taken to his home and was apparent
III very i'll. but the colored people say he Wi
IN 'possuming" and were not particularly il
10 terestsd in his Receiving, because of h
ic dangerous condition when in liquor.
II. was hardly expected that one bull
I'd would kill johnson and may have been Il
ne reason Jerry Jones has gone thus far u
cs molested, but this aside, he should be a
he rested and suffer the full penalty of Il
10. law for carrying pistol with evil int
ny constantly on his person. 1t is said that
lie number of young men Of this class do Il
ct. same thing, but he has shown readine
mt on the slightest occasion for its use, al
10, twice during the past season on a simI
er disagreement it is said drew it on viii
| LII
tive influence of the law and the autho
''e ties should see that they have it,
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81 DEsPoILING A CEMETERY.-Two days a
is. in an item in another place we wrote Ma
ng Polk out Of Jail and to-day we have t
we duty or privilege of writing her in aga
on She got out as we expected; she gets ba
ng again sooner than we expected. and, WI
en- time in number We cannot tell, for Aid
lot man Budd cannot remember how ma
,us times he has committed her to the cour
,ur Jail. Unmitigated outlaw that she
to. going to Jail had only become a pleasS
'od pastims OF playing "hids and seek" P,
It'll. Downham owns just enough property to
BILE accepted by Dover magistrate as bon
nat man for one or two hundred dollars, bel
EST. entirely unsuccessful in this role at hor
ers She not only supplied Downham W
sla- things to eat but also with firewood VIII
of she cut and luggsd home in great hei
loads, which one man who frequently q
her described hyperbolically as equall
Inc nearly a quarter of o csrd, In this mani
1t she cut and carried away from Can't. Je