Smyrna times., 1882-03-08

EVENT AND CoMMENr.--Roscoe Conk-
ling. the magnificent, declines the ap-
monument of q seat on the bench of the
Supreme Court, after the confirmation by
the Senate. Senator Bayard was right IN
wanting an expression from him before
triHing with the time ofthe Senate. Inc
Supreme Court is generally eongratula-
ted
The following is the stalwart way the
Deldwarean commences one OF its three /
columns of editorials in the last issue:
MEN of Delaware, descended from a long |
line of honorable ancestors, we address
to YOU to-day few words honestly utter
ed and gushing from heart warm, sin /
cere and sensitive to your dearest and
nearest interest"
There are some signs that the bill to
retire GeReral Grant, which has already
passad the Senate, will have a pretty Sc
we're time in the House. They are begin
einc TO poke fun at it and to offer burlesque
amendments, which are about fatal to any
measure. The chief trouble about the
Grant bill is that it is discreditable to
Grant, who should never have allowed such
= matter to be brought forward.
The Philadelphia Times has the follow
inc editorial On dit: "WhO will say that the
world dosen't move when Philadelphia
Democratic committee calls upon Mayor
King to request the appointment OF col
ored policeman? And won't there be
many Republican bosses who will now re-
member how they forgot to make such
request of Mayor Stokley, when Repub-
lican Mavor avowedly made Republican
police force"
General Hancock, who has returned
from an extended Southern trip, says that
even at the time he was there the distress
in the flooded regions was beyond the
power of words to describe" and since
then the water has risen great deal, sC
that the situation has become still more
distressing. From what he saw he be
heves the Southern people for owe
hundreds of square miles are LITERAL!
drowned out
The village of Prince Frederick, tn
county seat of Calvert county, Maryland
was almost entirely destroyed by FIRE las
Friday night, only a few dwellings re
manning. The new Methodist Churc
and parsonage, court house and records
Journal office, hotel, County Commission
er's Office and records, and several store
and dwellings were destroyed. The I'll
started in the church. The loss is estim
ted at $125,O00.
Unapalatable as the assurance may b
the fact stares us in the face that there
"corner" in peanuts. Within sho
time the price has advanced about 81
$I.75 per bushel, and must go still high
before the next crop is marketed, for t
product last year was a million and h;
bushels and that of this year is estimat
a, only half million bushels. The
tidings will fill with sadness the hearts
others than the small boy
Worshiping by telephone has becol
a practical success in Hartford, Coz
Every Sunday a hundred or more 81
scribers are put on the South Church
cult, and generally succeeded in follow
the service with only occasional and slil
interruptions. The solo singing sor
times reaches them in a rather dilapida
condition, and if the preacher turns
back upon the transmitter there Is br'
in the sermon; but Oh the whole the
strument does fairly well by choir {
clergyman.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Is +
absent from Brooklyn ca q lecturing t.
for three weeks in the West. His pu
in Plymouth Church will be filled on
two Sundays of his absenc by two of
brothers, the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher
Elmira, and the Rev. James c. Beeche
Brooklyn. Mr.. Beecher once said Il
were enough ministers in the Bee'
family to constitute whole Presbyt
Mrs. Beecher has gone to Florida, w
she will be the guest of her sister-in-
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The great walking race which term
ted in New York on Saturday nigh
favor of Hazael, was a most remark
affair. So far as an exhibition of hu
endurance was concerned it may be
to be unequalled by anything that we
on record of athletics in ancient or ]
ern times. 1t was supposed that a
who walked one hundred miles in
day would perform an astounding
But Hazael not only made one hun
and thirty-five miles on the first day
actually scored over six hundred mil
less than six days.
Heavy rains fell Sunday in the n
which has already beeen flooded b!
overflow of the Mississippi river an
tributaries. /. ii. Mangum, who
been appointed commissioner 70 re