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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-20
by Grubbs K Apperson,
Real Estate Auctionccrs,
No. { north Eleventh street.

by GrubbS Apperson,
Real Estate Auctionccrs,
No north Eleventh street.
4 UCTION SALE AT "LOWER
"A WEsTIIAM . OF FARMING MACHINERY.
lMPL EAIENTs, WAGONS, HORSES. MULES,
COWS, &C, &C, &C.-The owner having rented
out his farm " Lower Westham," we will sell. ON
the premises. beginning at l X O'Clock A. NJ, ON
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1888.
everything necess ry for the use of a large farm.
Including CHAMPION REAPER, CHAMPION
MOWER, FARQUHAR THREsHTR, CLAN
ER, FAN, DISC HARROW. CORN-MILf. ONF-,
TWO-,and 'rlIREE-lI0IsE PLOCGBs, CULTI.
yATORs, HARRQMS; &C., and GEAR; 2 WA
CONS and HARNESS, 6 FINE MARES aud 7
FINE MULES, 2 SUPERIOR FILLIES; IS
COWS, mostly Young. some To the pail, aud
number soon will be. among them SUPERIOR
MINERS; FINE BULL: HOUSEHOLD aud
klTCHEN FURNITURE, CORN, sHUCKs, &c..
&C., &c.
TERMS: For all sums OF $50 and andcr, cash ;
above that sam, three months credit, for APP
proved endorsed negotiable notes. with Interest
added. GRCBBS & APPERsON
NH 10 Auctioneers.
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MONDAY. MARCH %, 1883.

In pursuance Of the aforementioned decree In
said suit, the undersigned. appointed special COM
missioner thereby will offer for sale. upon the pre-
misses. on
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DEPARTURE OF STEAMERS.
ONLY ONE DOLLAR ftrsU.
" TO M0AHkxfE1k .
NoRyOIK AND NEWPORT NEWS

VIRGINIA. STEAMBOAT COMPANY's
JAMES RIVER LINZ FOR
NEWPORT NEWS,
OLD POINT COMFORT, NORFOLK. FORTS
MOUTH. AND JAMk>-2iVER LANDINGS,
CONNECTS AT PORTSMOUTH FUR
OLD POINT.
BAL TIMOaE, AMI THE NORTH
SANE AFTERNOON,
STEAMERS FOR HAMPTON, SMlTHFIELD,
AND EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA.
ONLY ROUTE WITHOUT TRANSFER, AND
ONLi ALL-WATER ROUTE.
JAMES RIVER BY DAYLIGHT.
CHEAPEST ROUTE.
RATES MUCH LESS THAN HALF CHARGED
BY ANY OTHER ROUTE.
FARE TO NORFOLK. Sl.0u. M limit
FARE ROUND TRIP. $500 : ~"
WAY-LANDING FARES FROM 25C. TO 9OC.
MEALS. 75c.
one OF the Company's spacious and elegant
steamers
CITY OF RICIIMOND OR ARIEL,
carrying United States mail.l
Y. G.. CLIFFORD, Commander,
leaves Richmond every MONDAY, WEDNES-
DAY, and FRIDAY. at a. NJ, FOR above-nained
places. Return ny the steamer leaves Norfolk AT
$3.50 A. NJ, arrivne at Richmond at about Il. Nj.
Through tickets on sale on steamer and ~ Car
beis Agency. 1000 Main street. Baggage checked
throuTh.
sTATEROONS CAN BE ENGAGED FOR DAY
OR NIGHT.
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GALE AT AUCTION OF TWO NEW
- FRAME TENEMENTSI IN SIDNEY. on TIE
EAST LINE OF LAUREL BETWEEN ALBt-
MARIE AND SPRING STREETS, On Tie
DiST CHURCH AND THE NEW SIDNEY
BAPTIST CHURCH-At the request of the owner
We shall offer for sale at public auction, on the
premises, oil
SATURDAY, MARCH "a, 1888,
ut 3 O'Clock i. NJ. those TWO NEW FRAME
TENEMENTS located as above, each containing
fiyerooms. They are In an improving locality, net
only very conveniently arranged. but are remark
ably well built, and can readily be rented out to
good tenants at from S12.50 10 SIS per monh.
TERMS: Reasonable, aud made Known at the
hour of sale. W. GODDIN son.
NH 90 Aucti0necrs.
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RAILROAD LINES.


THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC
i IA respectfully invited 10 the advantages OF
Ashland ~ a SUMMER RESORT. To accom,no,
"a,vt' about May LIST TWO ADDITIONAL
lrRAiNs will be run between Elba lheid Of Broad
streetl and Ashland. making In all Five TRAINS
IN EACH ID RECTiON daily Except sundays.
THE new trains Will run about as follows:
Leave Ashland GAO a. NJ; arrive ut Eiba o'i'
A. M. nm. c.to
Leave EIba 6:35 a. NJ; arrive ut Ashland 7:15
Leave Elba z +. NJ; arrive at Ashland 7;30
And will make no stops between Ashland and
The accommodation train will run as at present.
Communication tickets at low rates.
For further Information, apply 70
&. A. TAYLOR.
NH 1S-SuSTu2m General Ticket Agent.
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IPasg'r daily Freight dat freight DAHL
exc, SUNDAY 'lyeS. sund'yl ~. Sunday.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11
Press Comments.

The Susser journal exclaims: Lift
up your voices all yc people of Della
ware and rejoice that bill for q
general stock law for Sussex has at
last been presented in our Legisla-
ture"
The Kent NeUs says the item we
published last week that "Chestertown
has forty-six widows and only six
widOwers," is yGrn and asks us where
we got it from. We do not exactly re-
member, but think we might be safe in
credting it to the Middietown Tran
script until we are quite certain.
The Deldwdrcan says Difficulty has
already arisen between the native and
foreign Oystermen in relation to the
dredging upon the natural rocks. The
law passed during the present session
is ample to protect the beds and it is
the duty of the watch boat to arrest all
offenders 1t has been a source of
vexation that these men, with no inter-
est in common with the native oyster
men, should be allowed to pillage and
deplete the natural rocks and thereby
deprive many Delawareans of the
means of obtaining that which gains
them u livelihood. 1t has been assert
ed by some that they would snap theil
fingers at the law, and since they have
begun the swapping process, we believe
in swapping the law upon them anC
giving them a taste of Delaware Justice
which, like the law of New jersey, i!
swift and sure.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11
The school Directors.

The Board of School Directors met
on Monday evening to reorganize and
elect the seventh Director las per the
provisions of the law, James p. Hof-
fecker being unanimously reelected to
this place as well as the office of Treas
urer.
The members of the board are: VIM.
M. Bell, President; DIR. E. NJ Cloak,
Secretary; Jas. p. Hoffecker, Treasur-
er; DIR. d. 7. Smithers, John H. Hof-
fecker, Geo. w. Taylor and Wm. A.
FAIRIES.
While the vote at the election on
Saturday showed that there is practic-
ally no opposition to the necessary
movement for a new school house,
there is yet in the minds of a number
serious apprehensions of a greatly in
creased town debt. These Commits
siOners are all property holders as well
as conservative in the expenditure OF
public funds, and are not likely to i'm
pose on others burdens that they would
not willingly bear were the circum-
stances reversed. The new school
house is a necessity They will build
it at the least possible expense com.
menserate with the demands of Oul
educational interests and the credit o.
such a building to the town. The
taxes will of course be increased, bu
not more than fifty or sixty per cent OF
sufficient to pay off about 81 900 pc
year of the bonded indebtedness.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

ALL Europe is disturbed by the ex-
plosive plotters against the existing
governments and England especially
is agitated.
1t is not strange that the English
people are excited to great anger by
the dynamite fiends. The efforts of
these miscreants have not done serious
harm as yet, but their persistency leads
to the impression that considerable
harm may be prevented only by the
exercise of vigilance in repression
which is hardly more cOngenial to the
British Government than to our own,
Thus far, this power has scarcely been
manifested, because there has seemed
little need for strong measures. But
the discoveries just made have evident
ly produced a strong feeling of resent
ment, which will sustain the Govern
ment in almost any steps that it ma!
deem advisable.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

WE give ON our first page the opin-
ion of writer in the Scientific american
that the Egyptian obelisk is not q
monolith but composite manufacture.
The statement has elected a great
deal of attention from the scientific
world because the question had never
been raised before. The position of
the writer, if correct, will explain the
mystery of the construction of the
Pyramids and how those immense
stones could be carried to an elevation
of $50 feet, viz: by the bucketful
The Scientific american in a subsequent
number, says, without attempting tC
confute his arguments that the writer
is incorrect in his conclusions.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

and MINUS H. Coverdale were the
next to go. The last to go was Andrew
T. Smithers, son of Joseph Smithers,
nearly a year and a half ago, but he,
with youthful ardor, jumped into the
business with both feet and at last
accounts was down in New Mexico
negotiating for flock of 5000 head of
sheep. Mr.. VanGasken it would seem
has got down on the ground floor, in
the most solid style, as the following
dispatch from Miles City, Montana, to
the New York Times will show. 1t
says:
1.-The headquarters of the Tongue
and Yellowstone River cattle ranges
are situated here, and the Government
has been petitioned for the privilege of
establishing stock yards on the Fort
Keogh military reservation, for which
a favorable recommendation has been
secured from the authorities of the
post. The large dressing and curing
establishment of Brandenberg & Van
Gasken is already shipping dressed
beef to the East. The Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, by it's Refrigerator
Car Superintendent, Charles Sleeper, is
also encouraging the dressed beef bust
ness. Ten cars are already engaged in
the traffic, and the number will be in
creased to 200 or more to meet the
demand whenever Mr.. Gashing, Super.
intendeHt of the Motive Power and
Machinery, observes the need of new
cars. Thousands of tons of ice have
been put up at Miles City buildings
Glendive, and other shipping points oil
| the line, and also at points in transit
These refrigerator cars will be utilized
on their West-bound trips to transfe
butter, eggs, fruits and other perishab.t
goods to consumers at the front
When the road shall have been com
pleted salmon will be shipped to tn
Eastern markets from the Columbia b,
this system.
Superintendent Sleeper, of tn
Northern Pacific refrigerator system
says the company prefers to handle tn
dressed product, which is not liable t
damage from enforced delays whe
laid over by snow blockade or Wasf
out. No great damage is done t
dressed beef, whereas injury to a trai
laden with cattle on the hoof is difficu
to estimate, and in case of a wrec
dressed beef may be carried forwar
without appraisement for damag
whereas, if on foot, great loss of Ii
may ensue, and then the consequent;
| damages may be very burdensome
| bear and difficult of adjustment. I'll
/ relative shrinkage between shipmel
5 on the hoof and dressed is as to
per cent. in favor of the latter. A
L ready the line is being crowded Wi
5 freight and passenger traffic, and an
Y thing tending to reduce the bulk
j. freight will tend to extend the tin
l when double trackage facilities will
S necessary to accommodate its increS
v ing traffic. Mr. COwles, one of t
o cattle kings of Wyoming, has just PIT
: chased $4,000 worth of cattle and c
# gagged in the business, and Mr.. Ferr
e of the Sherman House, in st. Paul b
If forwarded from Minnesota sixteen CT
d loads as the first installment of 4,C
1t head that he will range on the PowC
River this season."
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

toast, "Our Honored Guest" which
was responded to by Col. Mcclure who
paid a tribute to Delaware, its devO-
ton to principle and honest admins
tration of its public affairs, but declared
to it as its friend that it needed more
progressiveness. He says the past
generation has shown more progress
than any in the previous history OF the
world and in NO other time in its
history has politics and moral virtue
stood on so high a pedestal the
United States of America" was re-
sponded to by Mr.. w. SidebottOm, OF
Philadelphia, and Delaware the Dia-
mond State by Col. Geo. III. Raymond
of this town. "The City of BrOtherly
Love" was responded to by S. Davis
Page, Esq. Controller of the city of
Philadelphia, "The Drummer" by Mr..
Benz. A HAZEL of this town, "Our
Native Land by Mr.. L. Irving Handy
of this town, "The Press " by w. Scott
Way of the Middletown Transcript and
woman by VIM. A. Laverty, Esq.
of Philadelphia. These addresses were
all highly creditable to the speakers
and elected frequent applause. Brother
Way was the decided hLmorist of the
evening in that grotesque manner so
peculiarly his own, and Mr.. Laverty lin
the HalD showed an aptness in making
an accident serve good purpose for a
witty speech that put him at once en-
rapport with the audience. There was
q brightness and rich sentiment run,
ming through the whole though there
was no other liquid inspiration than
that which came from the well.
The Quintette, from Philadelphia
several times during the evening favor
ed the company with some eXcellcn
music A vote of thanks was extend
ed with eXpressiveness to f. S. Phelp
the protector of the whole entertain
ment, as was also to w. Frank Jefler
son for the we'll served supper. TIL
toast drinking occupied an hour and
half, the guests dispensing at II o'clocl
to their homes well pleased with tn
full and varied evening.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11
Changing the Mails.

Postmaster Swiggett, of Wilmington,
last Summer made an effort to meet
the existing large mail demands of
peach shippers to have a mail on the
train that leaves Wilmington at Los,
but it was denied for the reason that
New York and Pennsylvania have the
service of only two mails a day. I'm
der the plea of improving the mail SER
vice of the Peninsula he again comes
to the front with his pet scheme of an
afternoon mail but to accomplish it
seeks to deprive us of our morning and
evening way mails which would be q
serious detriment to every business
man between Wilmington and Dover.
The Every Erening and MiddletOwn
Transcript are antagOnizing the change
vigorously and we of this place have
the same reason to resist the taking
away of two of our most important
mails.
His scheme is to take the route
agent off the train that leaves Will
mington at 6.36 in the evening, and
necessarily also off the first train going
North in the morning, and instead to
put a mail ON the SOuth-bound train
that leaves Wilmington at LOS in the
afternoon and the afternoon North.
bound train that reaches Wilmington
at COS. Lock pouches, such as are
now carried on the afternoon trair
going North would be substituted fol
the regular service on the two trains
from which it is proposed to remove
the route agents, but these could only
carry through mail. This proposed
new arrangement would greatly Grip
pie our local service, as under it ther
could be no mail communication be
tween points North of Dover by earle
NOrth-bound train than that whicl
leaves Smyrna at 1920, nor by late
South-bound train than that whic
leaves here at 2.15. Mail communics
ton by these points would be pract
cally heightened twenty-four hour:
for, taking Smyrna as an example, on
could not hope to get an answer tn
same day to letter sent to as nea
points as Green Spring and TOWNSEND
Mr.. Swiggett's scheme, if carried ou
would give the lower Peninsula tw
} mails each way daily, but it would re
; the upper Peninsula of facilities
} communication that our people hay
a long enjoyed and will not suffer to
) taken away without the most empha
ic protest.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

THE Baltimore Sun thus notes the
disquieting State of affairs in Europe
1.-THE evidences of unrest in Europe
are always abundant, but not for a
long time have they thrust themselves
so obtrusively on the attention. The
socialist congress holds its meeting at
Copenhagen, but is ordered by the
government to disPerse, and foreign
delegates were requested not to pro-
tract their stay in Denmark later than
yesterday. An announcement that
would be startling, if such announce
ments were not so frequent, comes
from Moscow, to the effect that the
Kremlin, where the Czar's coronation
was to take place, has been mined, pre-
sumably by Nihilists intent upon blow
ing up the participants in the proposed
ceremonies. In London another ar
rest has been made of a person who
had in his possession a quantity of
stuff supposed to be dynamite, and in
the suburb of Lambeth two other dan
gerous characters, supposed to be his
confederates, have been caught. Ex-
ira sentinels have been posted al
AAdSOA OdSblC anu dBOuO blAC SOVCIu'
ment buildings in London, but the
sense of security which one might de
rive from the fact is not heightened by
the information that half ton of nitro
glycerine has been seized in that city
already, and that a bomb factory hai
been discovered in Birmingham. Tn,
feverish feeling in France still contin
ues. \ rupture Of the cabinet is immi
nent in consequence of factional quar-
rels of its members. 1t is not reassur
ing to learn in this connection that tn
governments of Italy and Austria hav
been affixing their signitures to a treat
approved by Germany and understoo
to be directed against the French Re
public. A treaty may, it is true, guar
antee peace, but it is as often precar
tion against war, and it is suggestive {
possibilities not calculated to produC
general serenity.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11
stock Raising and Shipping Reef.

The Western fever for stock-raising
Is running almost as high as does some
times the excitement over the discovery
of rich gold diggings. The eyes of the
spectators are turned to the cattle on
the thousand hills of the virgin soils of
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, &C., in
which there is the promise of the larg-
est returns for the least labor. The
field presents rich temptation to the
young men, and Smyrna has several
engaged in this enterprise besides
others in different pursuits in the far
West. William VanGasken,. son of
John VanGasken of this town, NAV be
considered pioneer in the stock rails
ing business, going West before he was
! grown some thirteen years since. Next
to him In time is William Baggs son of
Postmaster Baggs, who went West
some i've or six years ago. Abe Brown
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

A boy with a top tried to spin it,
But his hand got thorn right in it,
The sport didn't spoil,
For st. Jacobs Oil,
Cured his hurt in less than mint.
A red-haired clerk in Savannah,
Slipped on a piece of banana,
Great pain he endured,
But st. Jacobs Oil cured,
He now goes dancing with Hannah.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

THE DeLawarc Weekly Morning News,
q reissue of the Morning NearS in week
ly form, made its appearance on Fri
day morning. 1t is well filled with in
teresting reading matter, carefully
written editorials, State and general
news discriminatory collated and in
its manner of issue, a fine example OF
the Free Trade doctrine.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

REPRESENTATIVE JUsTIs from New
port has declared war against the Re-
vised Code. In addition to the altera-
tions to existing laws already passed,
he is said to have one hundred more to
put through before the close of the
session. When this Legislature has
adjourned the people will need a re-
vision of the Revised Code, if they
want to know anything about the laws.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

No ONE knows what the House is
going to do with the Local Option bill !;
in fact nothing was expected until it
passed the Senate. The question how
ever, is now before them and they
have got to face the music, and that
too, without saying it is a pressure
from a set of fanatics" There is
one thing that as politicians they ought
to remember, that is, that the prohibi-
ton of the liquor traffic is the most
qrowing question of the day.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

THE business before the Legislature
has not been such the past week as to
enlist any special interest, though the
routine of work to them in passing
stock laws and making amendments to
existing statutes that the people knew
nothing about, is just the same. 1t
will still be two if not three weeks be-
fore the honorable body is ready to
adjourn.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

The "Young Peoples Christian
Benevolent Society" will meet at the |
residence of David T. Smithers on
Friday evening next at o'clock.
PrOqramnae.- ae.-Instrumental Solo, Miss |
Ella Smithers; Vocal Solo, Miss May
Martindale; Essay, A. r. Fowler;
Select Readings, Miss Maggie Sisco and
Miss Allie Smith; Referred Question,
Miss Hettie Megear "Sketch of the
life of Florence Nightingale"
AN aged colored man named Samuel
Patton, who had life time right in a
house ON the farm which VIM. f. Riggs
sold to John Wright, near Clayton,
went to Wilmington last week to stay,
but became dissatisfied and went to
the depot to return but from a fit or
something, fell from box on which he
was sitting and expired. He sold the
day before he left his interest in the
little house which caused Mr.. Wright
to lose $50, which he would not have
had to pay had he waited day longer.
OUR amusement loving people will
again be entertained by Guinness and
Abbey's New York Company, at the
Town Hall, tomorrow Thursday
evening, when the play Lied Astray,
or Lost in London " will be presented.
1t is unnecessary to say more of this
excellent company, than merely to an
nounce their coming, as this will be
their fourth visit this season. They
will appear but one night only, and
those who desire may secure seats at
E. M. Cloak's drug store. The per-
formance will commence with the very
laughabls Irish sketch Barney and
MOllie's Courtship."
EATING ORANGES EXTRAORDINARY.
Two boys, and they were good sized
boys too, as might be judged from the
capacity of their maw, made a wager a
day or two ago at Clayton as to which
could eat the largest number OF
oranges, the one stopping first to pay
the wager. They went at it, in good
earnest, one dozen, two dozen, three
dozen and still they kept on, but he Of
the tender stomach threw up the
sponge on completing his 10th orange
successful competitor ate 42 and ther
as a settler, ate a pound of gingel
snaps, and has followed it up since
with his regular meals.
DECEAsED.-Peter Wilson died a
his home in the Alley" 3! miles from
this town yesterday morning in the 75tl
| year of his age. Though never
: robust man he has been recognized a
possessing more than usual Vigor an,
nerve force for one of his years until
sickness the past Fall Frustrated hi
vital forces and ended in stead
4 decline that resisted all medical skill
: Mr.. Wilson was Marylander by brit
but for many years a resident of thi
State, mainly in St. Jones Neck belO,
$ Dover, from which place he moved t
S this section sixteen years ago on pul
n chasing the Holding" farm, one {
q the most valuable properties in til
/. ALLEY" He was known as man
i great independence of thought an
s. freedom of expression, but sougl
: private rather than public life.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

THE TIMES" is published every Wednesday
afternoon by RoBT. D. HoFFEcKER, Editor and
Proprietor, at Smyrna, Del.
TERMS-Su year 800 in advance
or $3.50 if not paid till the end of the year. No
paper discontinued until all arrears are paid
only at the option of the Publisher.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate
ofseven Cents a line for the first insertion; sub
sequent insertions Three-and-a-half cents
liberal discount made to quarterly, semi annual
and yearly advertisers.
OBITUARY NOTICES will be charged Five Cents
per line.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11
Smyrna and Vicinity.

y
FoR timetables of the steamers John
E. 1ygert and Maid Of Kent, see anoth-
or column.
JANUARY, February, March, April
one fourth of the new year gone and
nothing done.
TIE most popular man in our town
the past week or at least the one most
sought after has been the gardener.
SEVEN persons joined the Presbyte-
rian Church ON Sunday--four by GER
tiiicate and three by confession offaith.
An exchange says: "Profane swear
ing Is getting to be unpopular and un.
fashionable. This is good sign of the
times.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-11
ID. ID nj. M n.

The above letters are the initials of f. NJ
FOWLER, and he can now be found in the store
house recently occupied by Miss NJ. d. Sipplc the
said store house being situated on Commerce
Street, Town of Smyrna, Duck Creek Hundred
Kent County State of Delaware, United states Of
America, md jar tcpr yoW irU 90 dStrdy prW aiso
tell y0u That the said store house is on the right
hand side Of the Fruit Growers National Innk.
and on the left hand side Of Ms. WinGir!>
trimming stone, and opposite Isaac ~ wilson,
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 objections
Won Ind hrIirr hire q hnck