Smyrna times., 1881-02-16
" PoRTIA at the Bar" Tuesday evening.

sons sold last week to John Wanamaker,
Philadelphia, 450 pairs of mems CATERS
and expect TO 6nd in him good customer
during the season. They are making alter.
atoms in the building for business accom-.
modaiions, and expect TO push their whole
sale and retail trade more vigorously than
it has ever been done, and they say at the
"hottom prices" in each department. They
have already established a good and grow.
ing trade on the Peninsula among the mer.
chants whose customers speak of their
goods in isttering terms. The Diamond
State Shoe and Leather Co. has been in.
corporated by special Act of Legislature
and organized with good working capital
with the following members: r. NJ, W. T.,
+. j. and T. F. johnson.
TIE Grand Jury of New Castle Co, in its
VoluminOus report which embraced about
everything noticeable, called attention to
the unlawful manner in which many col.
ored people are living and the need of
higher moral views on the subject of the
marital relations. The colored preachers
say while they regret this as much as any
one for their race, the fault is chargeablS
largely to the so cts. license that belonged to
the days Of slavery and has never been re.
pealed. This low license is en- advantage
OF for immoral purposes. 1t properly had
its ending with the adoption of the 18th nd
18th Amendments, and while some Justices
of the Peace will not issue them from pru.
dental reasons, others with less conscien-
tious scruples do, and thus add that much
10 the evils complained of. They want the
license fees the same without regard to
color.
FROM Texas Wm. A. c Hardcastle has
returned from his trip to Texas whittier he
went some two or three weeks since in
company with Jas W. Spruance with the
view Of purchasing lot of Texas ponies or
horses. They found in San Antonio the
stock in sufficient number for $40 to $25 q
head, but the winter has been so much
severer there than usual (the animals are
not housed but feed out on mesquit grass)
that they were hardly thought in cOndi.
tion for such long journey, especially as
they are strangers to corn and have 10 be
taught to eat it, which is sometimes attpn.
dsd with difficulty. They were found to
he wild and unbroken, and have to be
caught with lasso, when not already i'm
pounded. Some of our farmers were wait.
ing for this stock and wouldn't have objsc
ted at all to a horse that could get along
without eating corn. Mr.. Spruance re-
mained.
SUPPORTING TEE MINIsTRr.-An article in
the Conference Worker notes the payment
per capita Of twenty of the leading churches
Of Wilmington Conference, and Smyrna il
way down to the foot of the list-$l.78 a.
the average per member. Mt. Salem heads
the list, $5.SS per member, Grace $500
MIddletown $4.36, Odessa $4.32, Laurel
s. Sc, St. Pauls 1912. Dover 1924, Milford
$2.46, Asbury $500, Union $500 1t would
appear from this that the Gospel costs the
people Of Smyrna less than any other place
in the Conference, and perhaps it does as
whole, but there is a considerable per cent
who glory in free gospel, viz: one that
costs them nothing and this class numbers
a good many besides children, widows, and
those whs are really not able to give. The
bulk Of the church contributions falls on a
comparatively few persons, whose contrihu.
tions not only TO the support of the minis.
try but all the collections, are liberal.
Miss CowzINs has no superior on the
American stage as a lecturer. Go and hear
her.
The vendue Of James Truax, at Roth
wells Landing, yesterday, is said to have
been one of the largest gatherings Of people
at public sale that has ever been seen in
this vicinity. The auctioneer, VIM. j.
LaRk, had embarrassment in showing the
articles up for sale for the press of the
crowd. The articles however sold well, al
the following prices will show: pair ot
mules, $3.50 Tom Bayard and Pete Wilson j
horses, from $50 to $l42; COWS, $50 to $40
hay, $22 per ton blade bodder, $2.65 pei
hundred; shotes, I cts. per pound pigs
$3.40 apiece, and berkshire SOW with 6
pigs. $50.
Mr.. Truax after winning an enviable
name as a fsrner, and rearing six sons thai
have an equal reputation as successfu
agriculturists mot to speak Of two daught
ers that can he named in the same cate
gory) rstirss from the business and viii
take up his residence in our town to enjoy
the fruits of his labor.
AN Eye OPENER IN THE LEVY CoURr.-
The new Levy COurtman from Duck CrseI
Hd., John Farrell, does not propose TO be
figure.head at Daver. In the regular pro
cess Of business in the Levy Court lss
: week, the attorney for that body, John
, Salisbury, Esq, brought in some smal
sums of money which he explained a
rents for the Court Room Hall for enter
tainments. Mr.. Farrell wanted to know
! that was all there was coming from tina
: building. He replied, yes. Why" sal
Mr.. F. ''thers are a number of sffices OF
cupied by lawyers and a saloon undei
meath, do they not pay any rentf" "NO,
A was the reply, "they never have" "Well,
= said Mr.. F., "I will impure into this" an
!. thus it seems that the Offices Of that buil'
g ing numbering ssms eight or ten thI
= should bring in q revenue of sOmsthin
!. like 81 900 have all been lost, and that to
;. since the erection of the building som