Smyrna times., 1882-02-08
SMYRNA and Vicinitv

'0IAAy II13C dI1O N1c1n1Cy.
ST.. VALENTINES day one week off.
CONFERENCE only one month off-Sth
of March.
VALENTINES have already begun to
bother the mails.
The February crop of vendues, it seems,
after all, is to be quite extensive.
The sun and warm south wind of yes
terday rapidly dissipated the snow banks.
A LARGE number of farmers have gone
down to the public sale of w. c. Mitchell
to-day.
KENTON rejoices in q butcher-Frank
Greenwell-who takes the lead this winter
i'll prize beef.
TEE Sunday School of the NJ. f. Church
is preparing for an entertainment on tho
2nd of March.
TEE real estate office of A. p. Griffith,
since its fixing up, is the most aesthetic
thing of its kind in town.
The process of levelng humanity has
been put to partial test the past week
by our treacherOus side walks.
FEBRUARY, as if to make amends for
December and January, has been giving
us Il respectable touch Of winter
SOME of the roads crossing the direc-
tiOn of the Northeast snow storm Of Sat
urday were so banked us to be almost i'm
passible.
The sloppy weather and prospect of
more of it for the next several weeks
should caution persons to observe care
when exposed to it.
THE small pox, what there is of it, re-
mains where it was quarantined three
weeks ago, and the probability is that the
community will soon be rid Of it.
The old factional fight for the offices
has been renewed in Kenten Hundred,
this time for the collectorship- Mr..
Alinner being the choice Of one wing and
Griffin of the other.
TIE property of VIM. c. Jump, sold at
Kenton on Friday by Sheriff Lacy in three
| parcels, was bought by Messrs. Cannon &
Paris Frank Greenwell and Frank Tenn
| pie. Figures not ascertained
AN exchange says: Zone of the fun
niest things in this country is the caste
! persevered in by small towns. There is
more caste in one horse, sleepy, stingy.
! ungrammatical, pOky old place than there
is in a metropolis
AT the vendue Of Abel Sevil Yesterday
things are represented as having sold well,
| especially cattle, hogs and farming imple-
ments. Horses are not selling SO well as
/ former years, perhaps in consequence Of
the introduction of so many mules.
! THE property Of Villa / MITCHELL lots
in West Smyrna, sold by Sheriff Lacey on
Thursday last were all bought by Ezekiel
| V. Cooper, except No. $50, the one with
house on it, by Edward Blaise for Sl07.
Mr.. CoOper's purchases were No. 3S1. SIS;
/ No. $40, Sl2; No. 1G5, SD sNo. 10. $2S;
No. 2l4, $2l.
AN unusual incident of Sunday, at
| least for this section, was a funeral follow
ed entirely by sleighs. The occasion was
the burial Of an old gentleman named
Nathan Sevil, from the residence of his
nephew Abel Sevil in Blackbird Hundred
! through this town to Brnzion Baptist
| Church, near Kcnton.
COLORED CHURCH, near Tavlor's
| Bridge, known as SCOTS" was burned
down two weeks ago. 1t was being used
at the time for school, and took fire
! shortly after school had called in the
afternoon. 1t was insured for 5000 and
the Insurance Company, we hear, intend
replacing the church with a new one.
ls1t,
emily half so numerous this winter as last
AS there has been no visible mortality
among them, the reasonable conclusion is
they have migrated further south. They
are the most prolific of their species and
will not, at their rapid rate of increase
require long time to over-run the
country.
/ NIDDLETOwN and Dover both boast of
champion chess players-the best thev
think on the Peninsula-but if either of
them can produce half dozen men who
can sit as patiently for hours pushing
| little wooden devices, and wrapt in mental
! abstraction more utterly profound than
! that nunber here, it would be interesting
to see them, viz: to those who delight in
! such distractions
THERE has beef no manifestation Of
concern this winter about the peach crop
like the last, at least we have heard of no
foolish wagers about the next years crop.
There are four months yet in which dis
aster might come, but there is no reason
why the present hopeful attitude NAV not
be maintained all the way through.
There is something very material to our
people in the peach.
The papers throughout the State have
| given the amount of the pension received
by little JOnny Farrell" with a large
multiple. 1t should have been $4l42O
and not So, 900 as published The monthly
payment has to come down also, they will
take notice, from sol to 81. Tho man
who saw the pension paper and said it
was $4,000, as we'll as the pension agent
who made it out knew all about it when
they saw it in the papers wrong.
WE understand that the Smyrna Library
is making arrangements to give literary
entertainment sometime during the pres
ent month. We will be able to make a
full announcement next week The Lii
brary's reputation for eminent success in
its entertainments warrants the prediction
that this one will be largely attended and
thoroughly enjoyable.
New REAL ESTATE AGENCY.-E. Harry
Beck, having disconnected himself from
the mercantile business, has determined
| on entering in the real estate business.
His card elsewhere gives notice To the