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Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

The Senate on Friday at Dover sur
prised itself and the friends Of Local
Option as well, by passing the State
Temperance Alliance Bill by a vote of
5 to 4. Such vote from one branch
of body of which nothing has been
expected however strong May have
been the hope), starts the query, why
is it? Is it sincere, prompted from an
honest impulse to legislate in the line
of the best interest of the people? The
usually discriminating correspondent
of the Erery Evening thus notes the
action:
1.-THE Senate astonished itself and
everybody else this afternoon by pass
ing the State Temperance Alliance
Local Option bill. This is a regular
case of " tit for tat" At the last ses-
sion, the House passed similar bill,
and put upon the Senate the herculean
task of eliminating the temperance and
cooking up substitute which should
suit the majority of its constituents.
Now; it is the House which has this
responsibility to shoulder, and only
two weeks to do it in. Perhaps the
House will solve this difficulty by
simply doing nothing at all in the
premises"
How near this may prove a prophecy
we can only know by waiting the ac'
tion of the House on the bill. The
temperance men remember with some
bitterness the defeat they sustained
two years ago when victory seemed
we'll nigh assured-the result of pol
itical trick, and that too, played by {
high-minded, dignified United State
Senator through the paid attorney o
the whiskey ring. The temperanc,
people, feeling that they were stihet
by this powerful mercenary politica
combination, have not asserted them
selves with any force before this Legis
lature because they felt it would b
cloves labor lost" Hence, they wer
surprised and can only feel assure
when they see the Legislature is III
trammelled and its vote honest an
true. Nothing would so thrill the
4 hearts as the promise of a better day
u the domestic peace and public mora
: of our people.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

made up its mind that it's day is over
in Ireland. A number of leading Tor
les in the House of Lords have pro-
posed legislation which shall go much
beyond Mr.. Gladstone's land law to-
ward the creation of peasant propri-
etorship in Ireland, by transferring the
ownership of the land at valuation to
the tenants, who are to be aided in
making the purchase by the loan of the
Governments credit. They complain
that the purchase clauses of the Land
Act do not work fast enough, and that
Irish land soon will be worth nothing
to its present owners. Indeed, land in
the British Islands is falling in value
everywhere under the competition of
America, India and Russia in the grain
markets. The large reductions in
rents made by English landlords have
proved insufficient to relieve their
farmers, and in many places they COR
tinue to throw up their farms. Ofland
in Ireland, Mr.. Parnell remarked, in
the speech which caused his arrest
1.-THE market is falling" Hence the
haste to sell out before matters grow
worse. But, on political grounds, the
haste is open to objection. The land
lord class is one of the few remaining
strands of the British connection.
Ireland without her landlords will be
far nearer to her independence, which
already is inevitable and begins to be
recognized as such, even in England.
If British agriculture is in a bad
plight, the British manufacturer is not
much better off. The Lancashire mills
are adopting short time,' as means of
relief to a falling market. But if this
limits production it also increases its
cost; and as cheapness is the only
point on which the British manutac-
turer rests his claim to the markets oi
the world the reduction of the output
mnst give great advantage to com
petitors ON the continent"
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
News Items.

The Augusta, Ga, Opera House was
burned Sunday.
1t is thought that there is an infer
nal machine factory i'll or near Cork,
Ireland.
The sixty-eighth anniversary of the
birth of Prince Bismark was celebrated
in Berlin, Sunday.
A government bonded warehouse in
Liverpool has been broken into, and
casks of spirits were broken open.
Twenty-six persons were killed and
thirty eight injured by the explosion of
a boiler in St. Dizier, France, Sunday.
The "sevsrest snowstorm of the
season" ragged at Fredericksburg, Vir-
ginia, on Saturday. Vegetation in
that section is not sufficiently advanced
to be injured by the storm.
Dorsey continues his deBials uutil
he has denied everything the Governr
ment charged him with, but has not
produced the books to prove his asser-
tions, as requested by the prosecution.
The vacancy in the Postmaster Gen
eralship was under discussion at the
Cabinet meeting yesterday. The Pres
ident will not leave Washington for
Florida until Thursday or Friday and
will probably GIL the vacancy to-day or
tomorrow.
The President Of Mexico, in his mes
sage to the Mexican Congres, says that
the republic is in a highly prosperous
condition, The receipts of the national
treasury for the first half of the present
fiscal year exceeded the receipts for the
same period of the preceding year by
nearly a million of dollars
At Pittsburg, Pa, on Saturday after
noon, 81 barges, containing 100000
bushels of coal, broke frona their moor
ings and were swept down the river.
Two steamers and a number of barges,
with 247 900 bushels Of coal were sunk
by collision with the ruhilway baIges.
Several tow-boats started in pursuit. OF
the rHnaways, but at last. accounts
those that escaped sinking were
pretty we'll down the Ohio river"
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

PRECIOUS JEwELs.-MesSrs. Bailey,
Banks& Biddle opened Monday in tn,
show cases the most magnificent dis
play of diamonds and other precious
stones ever seen in this city. Months
have been devoted to this great under
taking. and the stones now on exhibi-
tion represent about half million of
dollars. 1t is not, however, the mere
pecuniary Importance of the display
that constitutes its chief attraction, but
the rarity of the gems and the artistic
manner of their setting. So delicate is
the setting of the gems that nothing is
visible but the diamonds themselves,
which average from one to twelve
karats, and numbering 2lO. This is
absolutely the most superb set of jew
elry ever displayed by Philadelphia
house, and its value is $40, ,00G. .-Phild-
delphiG Inquirer.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
Smyrna and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
GET Reserved Seat at Denney's for
Col. McClure's lecture.
NEXT Saturday the school elections |
will be held throughout the State.
YOU may look for excellent Vocal |
Music, April 10th. Secure Reserved |
Seat.
APRIL is settling down to better and
more Spring like weather, if it did
come in mid snow fakes and icicles.
GEO. D. STEVENSON is moving
double house from Church street to
lot recently purchased on North Main
street.
City Controller, S. Davis Page, of
Philadelphia, has partly promised to
be present Oh Tuesday evening next.
THE poet who wrote about "Winter
lingering in the lap of Spring" has
found that this Spring has had no lap
to linger in.
/ A COLORED man named George
Camomile was committed to Jail on
Friday by Esquire Hawkins, of Kenton
for felOnious assault on another mans
wife.
ABBEY's New York East LYNNE
Company have engaged rooms at the
Delaware House for two or three
weeks to reOrganize the company and
prepare some new pieces for the stage.
The planting season for potatoes has
arrived and it is hoped large quanti-
of the tubers will be put in the ground.
Potatoes have been scarce and high
now for three years.
No PERSON in Smyrna should fail to
hear Col. Mcclure. Reserved Seats at
Denney's. "Take the Sunny Sids.'
Col. Alex. Mcclure. April 10th.
ALDERMAN BUDD has been given the
authority to appoint the police, subject
to ratification by the commissioners
and he has appointed w. B. Grant and
John Slyhoff.
THE concert pext Tuesday evenin,
: will commence promptly ct eight an(
D the lecture at half-past eight. Thi
9 will give the business men an oppor
tunity to hear the lecture after leaving
the store.
LEWIS HAMILTON was drawn as th
,, Juryman from this Hundred to sery
at the next session of the u. s. Circui
Court in Wilmington. John N CIarI
f represents Kenton Hundred, Jane
McCarter, Blackbird and Clayton I
. Hawkins and w. A. Willis Dover.
e THREE Frenchmen and three cinns
4 mon bears muzzled and chained er
tered town this morning and gave tn
e curious an exhibition of the bear dane
70 and other animal feats. The bat wa
" of course passed around, which impoj
% tant work required the additional sci
2 vices of fogR able bodied men.
he The SMYRNA TIMES is trying |
D. get up a rather childish quarrel wit
lr our wide awake and usually accurai
correspondent" ."-EUery EUening.
y, no. The TIMES is not disposed [
quarrel with the EUery EUeningis youtl
ne ful correspondent, but when It disco
ht ers such gross inaccuracies printed
ad that enterprising paper that affect bot
Ine interest and people of Smyrna, Il
ZINES merely notices the fact in
We own harrow. ffrow -..v
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

1t is pretty good sign of prosperity |
when bricklayers getting three dollars |
and fifty ceAts per day strike for four
dollars. If the four or five thousand
men in Chicago who have Just taken
this step carry their point the rate of
wages in that trade they will be higher
than at any time since the year follow
ing the great fire.
The Philadelphia Court of Common
Pleas on Saturday decided that the
Governor was acting within the scope
of his constitutional authority when he
ordered Recorder Lane to VacSte and
appointed u successor. Mr.. Lane still
holds the Office, and has applied for a
writ of certiOrdri. The emoluments
are said to amount to $4,000.
With the increased supply and the
decreased demand, the price of wheat
has fallen several cents in the bushel.
With the reported failure of the crop
i'll England and the prospect of light
er yield in the great wheat growing
section of this country, it is not likely
the figures will remain for any length
OF time as low as they are now.
Phillip Ryan, Of Chicago, who is al
legged to have embezzled $4,000 from
the Sand Blast and File Sharpening
Company, of Wilmington, Del, and for
whom officers have been searching for
a year, was arrested at Boston Monday.
lie claims that the money was spent
for the benefit of the company, and
will not return without a requisition.
The dynimite fiends seem to have
thrown all London into a State of ter
tor and excitement, and the greatest
precautions are taken to prevent the
destruction of the entire city. If the
English Government was not so ty.
rannical and bigotcd it could by on,
weeks moderate and judicious legisla
tiOn, remove the main source of thi.
constant agitation and restore peace
and tranquility throughout the United
Kingdom.
On the 10Th of April of this year jus
one hundred years will have elapsed
since George Washington announced
to the Continental army that a treat,
of peace had been concluded between
Great Britain and her American colo
nies, whose independence was by tn
same instrument irrecOverably aC
knOwledged. We observe that Bisho
Coke proposes that i'll the Episcopa
, diocese of Western New York. at a
T events, the significance of that even
/. shall be duly cOmmemOrated, and it
: surprising that no general mOvemer
| has been made to the same end.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

The bill which passed the Senate
last week legislating against the vice
of intemperance, can hardly be called
a Local Option bill, though it goes by
this designation, for there is nothing
local" or "optienal in it as ap-
piled to a locality, but its provisions,
on the contrary, apply to the whole
State. 1t is all or none. We are taun-
ted as State for our diminutiYe size
mot as pOpulous as some single coun-
ties of other States) and the trainers or
amsnders of the bill may have deferred
TO this taunt in making our whole
State an Optional district. Many
would Eave preferred county or per-
haps smaller districts, but the passage
of criminal laws to abate a great wrong
in society is not often made to apply to
sections, but rather, 70 the populace at
large. Intemperance is recognized as
the most mischievOus and pauperizinQ
crime by all persons land if they do
not, figures prove it), and if the aid OF
the law is necessary for one part, why
not for the whole, as all are equally
guilty before the moral law.
1t may seem hard for rum hole ,
as, for instance, the lower part of Viii.
Rington, to defeat the virtuous vote Of
the rest of the State, but the principle
as 1t is resOrted to, must be abided by
There is one other and perhaps tn,
strongest reason why the bill as applies
to the State may be the best. Th
counties of Maryland along almost tb
whole of our border line have alread,
existing local option laws prohibitin
the sale of Intoxicating liquors as
beverage, and each State would aid tn
other, whereas now Delaware is tar
talizing disturber of the peace of ou
reforming neighbor.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
GRAIN. &c.
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PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
MARRIAGES.

YNCH-QUILLEN-Att the Circuit NJ. parson-
age, Smyrna, March 2lst by Rev. J. T. NanBur-
kalow Thomas A. Lynch and Miss Annie l..
Qunlen. both from near smyrna.
LEY-BARRETT.-April 3rd. at the resi-
dence of the brides parents, LeipSic, by Rev.
f. c. Atkins, Joseph IIinsley and Miss Susie A.
Barrett. both of LeipSic.
POLK-ATTIX-At the NJ P parsonage, KentOn,
April LIST, by Rev. W. d. Lucas, G. NJ. Polk
and Miss Isabelle Attix, both Of Towns Chapel
WALLS-DILL.-At the Presbyterian parsonage,
March llth, by Rev G. Huntingdon Thomas
Walls, of Kent County, and Miss Annie Dill, of
Church Hill, Md.
DOLE-STEV ENSON.-At Milton. March 7th, by
Rev. G Ellgood. Captain Robert X. Dole, OF
PennSgrove, y. j.. and Miss Lizzie Stevenson of
Sussex County, Del
URN-LANKFORB-At Seaford March
9th, by Rev. J. E. Nicholson, Thomas Colbourn
of Sussex county, Del, and Miss Ella LankfOrd
of Dorchester County, Md.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

Lawyer Biglow has brought suit
against Mrs. Mason for $500 for his
services in trying to get her husband
out of the Albany penitentiary. If he
charges this amount for his failure to
effect the sergeant's release, all the
pennies that were given Betty and the
Baby would not have requited him had
lie been successful in hisieff0rts.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

THE EUery EUening has got the Del
a.varean in hole on the question of
education for the colored children. 1t
appeals to that paper to lay aside preju-
dice and answer its arguments. That
is Just what is wanted. More reason
and common sense and less prejudice
and nonsense. Will the DeIawdredn
heed the appeal to reason with e. E.
or will it hold on to it's old stock in
trade, prejudice.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

The English war Office has taken the
question Of explosives iq hand, to de.
wise means Of thwarting dynamite
workers. Extra precautions have been
taken to guard public men and public
buildings. The extra police force in
Limerick, however, has been reduced.
The 81, james GGz0tto says that the
Fenians are sending packages of linen
infected with smallpox among thoir
enemies.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
d. ID NJ Nj. H. j!

The above letters are the initials Of f. NJ.
FOWLER, and he can now be folnd in the store
house recently occupied By Miss NJ 4. Sipple, the
said store house being situated on Commerce
Street, Town of Smyrna Duck Greek Hundred,
Kent County, State of Delaware, United States of
America, and for fear gou tcW 90 dstrGy lcW also
tell you that the said store house is on the right
hand side of the Fruit Growers National Bank,
and on the left hand side of Mrs. winfords
trimming stone, and opposite Isaac NJ. Wilson's
harness store, and nearly opposite the stores of
W. W. Tschudy and John CoSden, and if you can
not find where the place is by these directions,
vou had bnttnr hi ira a hack
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
SmY2'n~, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, April A, 1883.

THE TIMES" is published every Wednesday
afternoon by RoBT. D. HoFFEcKER, Editor and
Proprietor, at Smyrna, Del.
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ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate
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sequent insertions Three -and-a-half cents. A
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and yearly advertisers.
OBITUARY NOTICES will be charged Five Cents
per line.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
DEATHS.

HARTEN.-At California Md, March Goth, James
Harten, formerly a resident of this town, in the
74th year of his age
CATTEL In Dover, March Goth, Charles II. Cat
tel. aged about 63 years.
THOMAS.-At PiersOns Corner, March 23d, Mrs.
Harriet Thomas, aged II years, months and l6
days.
HISS.-At Bay View, March 25th, Nicholas Hiss,
aged sc years.
FINSTHWAIT AT Magnolia March 2Oth, Mrs.
Ann c., widow uf Thomas X. Finsthwait, aged
80 years months and l6 days
PERRY-Tn Dover, March 9th, Mrs Annie
Perry, aged about 20 years.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
w. H. |. T. K. 7.

These letters are the initials Of question several
times asked, namely: "what lie intends To Keep
There ?" aud we will answer,
FIRSTLY Y.-MERCHANT TAILOR
ING and large and more complete
line of Cassimeres and Suitings than he
has ever had before, and to make them
to order in tirst-class style.
SECoNDLY.-GeAts' Furnishing Goods,
such as Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Ties,
Scarfs, Underwear, sc.
THIRDLE.--HATS, and don't forget
them, as they are all new stock and
styles,
FoURTHLY.--Tobaceo and segnFs, and
don't forget that either.
FIFrHLY.-Everything man wants
in the way of wearing apparel or smok-
ing and chewing, in other words fix a
man up from the crown of his head to
the soies of his feet, except his shoes,
and maybe we will tell you more about
it in our next. So call and see me in
my new quarters. i
= E. NJ. FOWLER,
Commerce Street, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

The Philadelphia American in the
following item, lets in flood of light
on the condition of affairs in England
and Ireland:
The landlord interest seems to have
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

borrow 100000 to purchase water
rights. The bill as amended passed
the House and the Senate concurred
in the amendments.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04

on a visit to Dover in attendance on
wedding festivities.
Miss Lou. Russell, of Philadelphia, is
visiting Miss Minnie Clement.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
FOR SALE.

One York Carriage, nearly new; also a Young
Mare. year old. For particulars apply at the
TIMES office. mar 2S-tf
Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
FOR SALE.

~ A Young Bay Horse. years old.
nE1A gentle and kind in all harness
&1O Apply to
.AACsI%, ". FRANK JEFFERSON.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
Arkansas Railroad.Aid Bonds.

New YORK, May 2-The following will APP
pear in the World tomorrow: "A meeting
of holders of Arkansas Central State-aid
bonds was held in this city yesterday. OF
81, $50 900 bonds, $500 600 were represented
A. H. Johnson, president of the road an
nounced that he acquiesced in the decision of
the United States courts making the road re-
sponsible for these bonds. This places the
road practically in the hands of the holders
of State bonds. C. G. Wolff and J. D. Man
bondholders to unite in extending the road
to Little Rock Wolff sails for Europe on
Saturday, on this errand. About 81, 900 900
of the bonds are held in Amsterdam.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03

came to blows, and johnson, seeing he was get
ting the worst of 1t, drew murderous-looklng
knife and stabbed Allen in the back. The
wounds are serious.
Messrs. ]. n. Silverthorn and J. W. Allison
have retired from the staff of the Evansville
journal tn accept other engagements The hr9t
named had been connected with the paper nearly
twenty-one years, while Mr.. Allison has for
number Of years rendered valuable service to
the Journal, and acquired envlable reputa-
ton as ewsgatherer and writer
Mr.. Aaron Robbins, the well-known Madison
horseman, while cleaning his stallion on Mon
day evening, was viciOusly attacked by the morse
and seriously injured. The animal caught him
with his teeth across the small of the back and
lifted him clear off the ground. A gentleman
came TO his rescue, and forced the horse to re-
lease him by striking him over the head with q
club. The horse made the second attack on Mr..
r., and caught him by the hip and shook him
like dog wOuld a rat, and started to run away
with him, but was prevented by well-directed
blow from q club IN the hands of a bystander
that nearly felled the horse 10 the ground. Mr.
X. was carried TO the house badly injured, but 1t
Is hoped not fatally.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03

The mayor of Nashville gets the muniticent
sun of So per annun', and the aldermen 81 each
family residing between Nokomis and Ram
sey were poisoned by eating pOke-rOot, thinking
it was horse-radish.
The elevator in NOkomis, belonging to Middle
coff g. Co., wins torn down recently and shipped
to La Due, Henry county, Mo.
large amount of tree planting Is being done
In various parts OF Peoria. The soft maple and
box elder seem to be the favorite varieties used.
A White county man, who is in the enjoyment
OF his second honeymoon, with a sIxteen-year-
old bride. has been sued for the burial outfit of
bis first wife.
The largest walnut tres in Greene county was
sawed down n few days ago. 1t made three logs
twelve feet long and ono ten. The stump mems
ured four feet four inches across. and the tree
scored over a 200 feet of lumber.
A couple OF men, while hunting IN Washington
county. scared a large she wolf out of u hollow
log. Upon examining the log they found litter
of ten young wolves only a few days old. Four
years ago q litter Of nine was found in the same
log
The Centralia Democrat is authority for the
statement that 10 child was born there weighing
a little over pound 1t WAS about eight inches
in length, aud its limbs were very near tho
thickness of a leud pencil. All the parts of the
body were perfect, except the head was larger
in proportion than other parts of the body. Ii
died through insufficient care.
At a special competitive examination held in
Freeport, on ruesday, by the county school
perintendents Of this congressional district,
Charles Gorham, OF Winnebago, Winnehago
to the vacancy in the Annapolis Naval academy
from this district The appointment win be
made by Congressman Robert II. Hit.
william Mitchell, one Of the largest stock deal
ers ana very extensive land owner and largely
interested In the Caledonia coal shaft of Lit
sale, died, On Tuesday morning, at hs resi-
deuce, few miles north Of that City, after an
illness OF fifteen months duration He was born