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Smyrna times., 1883-12-05
Y. w. G.. Il. III.

Miss Anna Gordon, Miss Wizards
private secretary, held meeting in the
M. Il. Church on Friday afternoon last
for the purpose of organizing a Young
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
The meeting was opened with sing
ing, followed with prayer by Mrs.
'owlnney. Miss Gordon gave a Verv
interesting and instructive talk, of half
an hour, telling of the work and of the
good that is being done by the Y. w.
y. i. U. Societies in other States.
1nere were q number of younp
ladies present and she organized n V
w. Z. 4. u, with the following Off
GERS; President, Miss Bett Smithers :.
Vlce-Pres. from the M. E. Church
Miss Kate r. Douglass Vice-Pres
from the Presbyterian Church, Miss
Kate Spruance; Vice-Pres. from the
Episcopal Church, Miss Edith Cum
MINIS; Recording Secretary, Miss Jen.
ME q. Smithers; Corresponding Sec
rotary, Miss Allie Smith: Treasurer
Miss Clara Beck. After the organiza.
ton of the Society, Miss Gorden offered
prayer, asking Gods blessing on the
young ladies that they might be sue
taken up. w
The Society met in the M. E. Church
on Monday evening; the meeting was
opened by Scriptural reading, followed
with prayer by Mrs. Martindale.
Inere were fifteen present including
ladies from the w. G. Il. u. The Con-
stitution was adopted nine signed the
pledge. The Society purposes taking
up regular line of temperance read
ing and study. All the young ladies
and gentlemen are cordially invited to
meet with the Society on Friday even
ing, December 9TH, at the home Of Miss
Allie Smith.
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05
The Price OfCOrn.

The low price of corn this Fall is far
from satisfactory to our farmers. rulinU
as 1t does several cents below the price
OF last year, with no material change in
the product at large. "Will there he
an advance" is the anxious question.
or shall we SELL" The following ex-
tract from Western letter on the grain
market may present some idea of the
condition and prospect of the market.
The movement of corn throughout
the entire country has been small dur
ing the week, and the receipts at the
principal interior trading points have
been light. There are indications now
OF better movement in the PRINCIPAL
corn states, and while the weather is
not very cold, it is frosty enough to be
favorable for getting the new corn in
condition to ship. Hence, an increase
in receipts, especially at the lake mark
cts Is anticipated, especially as the adj
Vanced prices will induce farmers to
market more freely.
The visible supply of corn in the
United States has decreased $4,000
bushels since last weeks report. The
corn markets of the West and North
west have been excited, stronger and
higher during the week, with an almost
steady upward tendency in prices.
This state of affairs has started
speculation very actively, and resulted
in the present advance, which has, also,
been accelerated by the advance in pro-
visions and the opening of French ports
for the admission of American hogs.
Many dealers now look for much high
er prices, both for corn and provisions.
The advance, however, has been large
and rapid, SO far, and reaction may
be expected"
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05
In and Out of the Hands Of
SharperS.

One of our prominent farmers resid-
ing in Raymond's Neck met with and
escaped the clutches of New York con-
fidence men. The story goes as follows:
Mr.. F., went to New York, one day
last week, and while walking down
Broadway was hailed by stranger
addressing him as Mr.. Sheridan; OH
being informed that he was mistaken
and that his name was John Farrell,
from Smyrna, the highly polished gen
tleman excused himself and the two
separated, the farmer had not gone far
before he was hailed by another man
by his proper name and asked if he
would deliver a package to his the
sharper's) uncle, the President of the
National Bank of Smyrna. What
says Mr.. F. is this Tommy Cummins?
Yes, said the stranger, and am manu-
featuring cloth in Jersey, in which my
uncle is half partner, and if Mr.. +.
would deliver the package he would pre-
sent him with pattern of cloth, which
Mr.. f. refused to accept, but was only
too glad to accommodate him, as there
was once young and highly respected
boy ia Smyrna by the name of Tommy
"
tentions Of said gent, and by request
went with him to get the package, and
very singular (which made Mr.. +. sus-
picious) he took him into gin mill, as
he expressed it, down cellar and far
back. On reaching the room Mr.. Cum
MINIS asked for his package and began
to show lot of sample cloth. In this
room there was also a tall robust fellow
representing to be Texan drover and
called to the proprietor for a stew;
whilst waiting three cards were thrown
out and Cummins was asked to turn up
the one with the old lUOmdn on it, and
If he could he would pay him $50 to
SoOO, whichever amount he chose to
stake. MIR. Cummins informed the
farmer IN low voice. that he could
turn up the Otd 'COmdn, and to take
hand Orlfnot to lend him$50 to do it with
and he would divide profits. This was
emphatically refused, for here the cat
was let out of the bag on the grounds
that he had no money on his person.
What to do to get out was his next
thought and he showed 81, 100 check
which, If Mr.. Cummins would accom-
pany him to have cashed he would re-
turn for the racket. The two then pro-
ceeded down town to get the aforesaid
money. Mr.. f. requested his friend
Tommy" to wait on the corner while
he went for a friend to certify before
getting it cashed, lat the same time his
intentions were to obtain an officer and
clean out the caboose). On his return
with an officer to his utter establishment
his friend " Tommy" had left and was
nowhere to be found.
MIR. +. then proceeded to the depot
enroute for home, but without The
bundle for Tommy's uncle" but by
this time his bump of caution was in
full play and no more confidence games
for him that day. When near Phila-
delphia he was approached by a Young
man who spoke and called him bV
name and asked if he was correct; the
only answer Mr.. f. gave was rhv.
After the young man left in utter
establishment Mr. F. ascertained that
he was an old acquaintance and a son
OF former resident of this town; but
that young man is none the wiser, for
the manner i'll which the farmer ex-
claimed 'chH made him think it more
safe to retreat than advance.
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05
j Japanese Persilnlnon.

On Saturday one of our bright school
girls, Miss Susie Wyatt, came timidlv
to our office door with a specimen of
trult that afforded US as much pleasure
TO see as for her to exhibit. It was n
beautiful specimen of the Japanese
ferslmmon, measuring s inches around
1t and weighing 5! ounces. 1t was the
smallest OF several she said sent her bv
her uncle in Salem, n. J. He had Oh
tanned the seed in Japan and planted
mem IN MS garden in Salem. This is
the third year from the planting: tbc
bush Is from three to four feet bi@b and
matured this year fourteen pcrsimmons
The complaint of this fruit is that Win
ter Kills it like the fig, but this seems
TO have got along without difficulty
we do not know what protection il
mad. The taste she said was sweet like
our persimmOn, but not so astripgent
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05

The case Of Russell Coe, rs. ex-Con-
stable, ThOs. English and his securities
VIM. Denney Wilds, John T. Poore
ana Patrick Melon, wherein property
seized as John r. Wilson's, for a debt
and replevined by Russell Coe. which
called so many of our citizens to VIII
mlngton as witnesses, will probably
reach termination to-day. The Wit
nesses were discharged last night and
the pleading of the lawyers com-
menced this morning, J. A. Fulton and
Geo. Gray for Coe and Wilson and
Richard Harrington and Geo. II. Bates
for the defendants. The progress of
the trial was continually interruptrd
by legal bubbles, vexatious to the
Court, as well as the lawyers and wit
nesses. Some Of the witnesses were in
attendance three days last wear and
five this year. The claim over which
the suit began was $35.55 and will end
with Court charges amounting to nearly
81 900.
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05

MIR. BLAINE ON THE WHIsKEY TAX.
The letter of Mr.. Blaine last week
on our surplus revenue next to the
subject of who should be speaker at
tracted the national attention. The
revenue is now greater than the needs
OF the Government and it is becoming
subjSct of craftsmanship to know
what to do with it. The Republican
Convention of Pennsylvania adopted a
resolution for a general division of
the surplus revenue among the several
States with view of thus disposing of
1t without changing the Tariff with the
business depressions that might follow.
MIR. Blaine proposes to retain the
whiskey tax as fixed part of our rev.
enue system and turn the proceeds
over to the States according to popula-
ton. While it avoids the objections to
the Pennsylvania plan and the danger
to business by tariff tinkering, it would
Keep tax on a product which surely
ought to bear the burdens of taxation
as long as anything does. "It is wiser
to tax whiskey than to tax farms, and
homesteads and shops"
1t raises revenue in the way the
craftsmanship of all countries has fav-
ored-indirectly rather than directly.
Nobody would feel it but the man who
used the whiskey; and he could afford
to.
The yearly revenues collected by
the Government from liquors during
the last fiscal year was $S6,OOO,OOO, the
apportion for Delaware being $255,OOO
These questions thus coming up indi-
cate that the subjects of tariff and rev.
enue are to be prominent ones in the
next campaign for discussion.
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05

The NEW SPEAKER.-John G. Car
Isle, of Kentucky, received the Demo
cratic caucus nomination for Speaker of
the House on Saturday night on the
first ballot, receiving 1O6, Randall get
ting so and Cox 80 votes. Mr.. Car
Isle was the candidate of the "Tariff
Reformers and the victory for them
was greater than they had anticipated.
In speaking of his selection he saws it
was the principle of which he was the
representative that elected him and he
interpreted his election to mean that
" from this time forth the Democratic
party would go to the people with an
aggressive and definite policy, and ad-
here to it because it was right and de-
served to win" An exchange in
speaking of Mr.. Carlisle says che is
most happy in his domestic relations.
He defers in everything to his genial
and dignifed wife, and frankly ac-
knowledges his obligations to her for
the success of his public career. Their
home in Covington is proverbial for
hospitality and good cheer"
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05

BLACEBIRD, DEL, Nov, 80, 1883.

BLACKBIRD, DEL, Nov, 80, 1888.
MIR. EDITOR.-I see in your issue of
November 18th that James Macy and
the Undersigned had a corn husking
match. | do not know where YOU got
your information from, but | think
your accommodating informant ought
to have little more regard for the
truth. We were husking eight hours
iii place of seven and he did not husk
one hundred and two bushels of corn
by any means, but took one of nv
punches and there was at least ten
bushels of corn in the bunch. The
corn was carried over twenty rows
from each side and there were two
shocks in each bunch of corn and will
prove by any farmer that corn cut up
six by forty and two shocks thrown to-
gether, where there is good corn. it
will make ten bushels. Mr.. Macy
says he will husk with any man in the
State for ten dollars. Now what is the
use Of him going all over the State to
get Il man to husk with, when offered
to husk with him for twenty dollars.
Now if he means business let him put
his money in our postmaster's hand
and | will cover any amount be wants
to name, and husk him at anv time or
place he wants to, but want it under
stood that the corn will not Law out all
night, where Interested parties can have
free access to it with a bushel basket,
Iii the morning, before daylight,
and Mr.. Macy will not measure
my corn and his own also, as he
did at our late match, for did and
can prove that he cheated me out of
my just and honest work, when he told
his employer, Mr.. A. Hill, one of nv
punches was his. Mr. Schadwick, an
experienced farmer, offered me two
dollars and a-half for my chance when
Mr.. Macy and | came out of the field.
Now if Mr.. Macy means business let
him put up or shut up.
GEORGE + KETctIr
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05
Canned Goods.

Canned fruits, more especially
peaches, apples and tomatoes. have
fallen to a point in the wholesale mar
ket below profit i'll production, and
the outlook for the canning trade is not
the most flattering. The dcprcs ION in
peaches and Tomatoes Wao entirely I'M
expected as the crops of each forthis wear
were not up to the demand. certainly
not in excess, and it makes the future.
III the way of dividends, look rather
blue. The deception in the quantity to
60 ON the market has grown out of the
fact OF great multiplication of can
ming establishments in both CITY and
country towns, many of them without
experience or capital. The want ofthe
latter has caused Il number of canning
Propretors to put their goods ON the
market at very low figure to meet
the demands of pressing creditors and
hence the depression on the general
trade. The cure for this, as in all
other business pursuits where there is
a tumultuous rushing into it is, to give
time for the weak and inexperienced
to drop. out, and it does not usually
take many years. There is no fault
with the business when it gets down.
or up to the level of other established
manufacturing notwithstanding ON the
merit of established brands. No other
manufacturing products are developing
IN equal ratio to the canning business.
and there is an assured success for ali
establishments of capital and exper-
fence conducted with business pru-
dence. The following from the Erery
Erehtng will give some idea Of how the.
trade is in the cities
An extensive retail dealer of this
city is authority for the statement that
the consumption of canned meats. veg
etables and fruits has increased five
told III as many years. The greatest
innovations have been made i'm the
canning trade and, by the various pro-
cesses now employed, cannable articles
can be preserved and opened almost as
good as when fresh from the trees.
ground or hoof. The perfection which
has been reached in the preservation of
articles of food has done wonders to-
ward developing their popularity and
increased the consumption. The deal
er states that there is some prejudice to
having certain kinds of goods put up in
tins, but despite this the demand in
creases. Quoting prices, the grocer
continued, we can buy tomatoes at So
to 80 cents per case ola dozen cans and
sell them at 3 and cans for quarter.
Corn by the case brings SIS cents to 81. IS
and sells at from ten to II cents per
can. Peaches in big lots vary in price
from Sl.55 to So and up to SAL per
case for fancy grades and at retail Sell
for 10 to 40 cents per can. French
peas per 100 cans are bought at from
$l4 to $25 and sell at from Is to 81
cents, while the American goods by
the case Of - cans sell for 90 cents to
$l.75 and vary from 10 cents to 3 cans
for % cents. The California canned
fruits are coming to this market in con-
siderable quantities, plums, pears and
apricots being 80 cents per can.
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05

The game of foot ball, announced in
our last issue to be played on Thanks
giving day, was a closely contested
affair lasting two and a-half hours. and
was witnessed as a novelty by a num-
Der OF spectators, as many had not seen
1t for years if ever before. The game
was called at 9.35, and in half an hour
the town boys had won two games but
the school boys won the next two, and
when victory seemed in their grasp on
the fifth, by one of those unexpected
turns common in such sports, the town
6oys wrested the victory from them.
1t was noticeable that the school bows
had the best wind. 1t is an athletic
game treer from positive dangers than
many that are played in the field. and
we see no reason why it should not
become popular.
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05
In LaborS Abundant.

The amount of work that falls to the
lot OF Miss Frances L. Willard is hard
~, conceived by the people unacquaint-
&c with her movements. She is in one
state to-day and another tomorrow
her time being almost entirely occupied
III travelling and lccturing. but in addi-
ton to this she has an immense cores
PondenGe to keep up. Letters are adj
dressed to points where it is known
she IS to be and thus what little spare
time she has is thus taken up largely in
letter writing. She arrived in This
town on Friday afternoon about three
O'Clock and between that and supper
time she and her secretary. Miss Cor
don, answered and mailed one hundred
letters. Miss Willard left the Prcsi-
dency of college in Evanston, Illinois
to accept this office of Temperance
Evangelist" because she felt there was
III 1t a larger field of usefulness. and
she is received wherever she goes as
one divinely called to the work"
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05
BUSINESS LOCALS.

EES III you want pure, fresh Drugs, 90
to Cloak's Drug Store.
Mrs. II. c. Spruance wishes to call
the attention of the Ladies to a fuIl line
of Winter Millinery.
Call and see the new Pianos and
Organs, at A. 2. Griffith's. Cash at
bottom prices.
). Is. Cooper is selling some twenty
cent Dress Goods at ten cents. lust be-
cause they are little out of style.
Devoe's Brilliant Oil, J. B. Cooper's
Handsome Oil Cloths, at VIM. FAIRIES.
Miscellaneous Books at City Price,
at J. B. CeOper's.
Call at J. B. Cooper's if YOU want
something really handsome in a Moouet
or elvet Rug, Brussels Carpet. Tidy.
Table Spread, or Blanket.
Rsy@If you want first-class Ready
Mixed Paint, go to Cloak Drug Store.
JOS. f. Williams will have a sunnlv
OF sausage on sale Saturday morning.
Those Noted "Que" Shirts. cheaper
at }. Il. Cooper's.
FALL FASHION QUARrERLY.-send
10 cents to Strawbridge & Clothier. for
the Autumn Quarterly; 12O pages; 1000
Illustrations n valuable articles ON
SUBJECT of interest to ladies: also a
dressmakcrs' page. Every description
OF dry goods illustrated and priced
Tor shoppers by mail. The music nv
w. W. Gllchrist, the celebrated com
poser, Is alone worth double the nrice
OF the book. Yearly subscription. 50
cents; % cents for six months. Sub-
scribe now.
Perkins 4 House Non Explosive
Lamps, at }. B. CoOper's.
Water Proof Boots, at Phillips
Cucumber Pumps, at VIM. FAIRIES
The place to buy good Lamp, cheap.
Is at }. b. CoOper's.
Finest Ready-Made Clothing. at JE
Phillips. o - . -
. Umbrellas and Gossamers, at J.B.
CoOper's.
Gooda of Shoes, at Phillips.
No place SO sure as J.B. Cooper's TO
SUIT you in Carpets or Oilcloths.
y, Magnificent Stock of Neckwear. at
Phillips. 81
lin Roofing done at low figures bv
"m' FAIRIES, Smyrna, Del.
- Read the Large Advertisement of ]
B. Cooper. ~ u .
at Phillips. ->'N' " '''''
In Porcelain, Granite, China and
glassware, J. B. Cooper leads the
Large assortment of Lamps, at VIM.
aries commerce Street, Smyrna.
D. b. Cooper has Decorated Tea and
chamber Sets at popular prices.
Cassimeres worth dollar are being
sold by J. B. Cooper, at seventv-fye
New Stoves, latest styles, at William
FAIRIES, Commerce ST., above Market
Mince Meat, Buckwheat, New Prunes
Currants, Cranberries, &c, at J. R
Everything Gent wants to comnIato
his Outht' to be found at Phillips.
Pocket and Table Cutlery at low
hgures, at VIM. FAIRIES.
VT, The best place to buy Hardware. is at
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05

The TARIFF QUEsTIoN.-The posi-
ton the Democrats have taken on the
tariff question in the selection of a
speaker seems to give pleasure all
around-with them that they have
adopted an aggressive policy and with
the Republicans that "the aggressive
free trade element has gained the as
tendency in the party and intends to
assert itself" The latter say "thev
could not wish for anything better. :"
a Washington correspondent saws:
"A majority of the Democrats are
willing to meet the issue and thew are
confident of success. They not only
claim that New York, New Jersey
connecticut and California can be car
RED for revenue reform, but that the
feeling in the Northwest, which made
possible the election of majority of
Democratic representatives in Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio. on
the tariff issue will give the electoral
votes OF at least three of those States
for the Democratic l-candidate next
year.
1t is asserted that the tariff policy
OF the Democratic party in the House
VIII be a surprise to the Republican
leaders. That policy, it is asserted
Will not be to bring in bill calculated
to alarm the various industrial inter
ests that depend for their very exist
ence upon the maintenance of the ex-
lstlng system. On the contrary. it is
not proposed to attempt revolutionary
changes in the tariff, but, confronted
with the necessity for a reduction of
the vast surplus revenues. a majority
being opposed to the abolition of the
taxes on whiskey and tobacco. the
ways and Means Committee will he
organized to report a bill which will
abolish the duty on sugar, thus cutting
OIL at one swOop S49, O00, 900 of revenue
and taking the duties off a few other
articles that are consumed daily bv
the people, and in the native produc-
!lon OF which no great labor-employing
industries are engaged"
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05

The number of sales of farms in this
section the past Fall will cause a num-
Der OF changes of tenants, perplexing
thing when there are not enough farms
to go around. A year ago to persons
similarly situated the business of get
ting suited in another farm was the
anxious labor of months, the LIST of
March finding some still without a farm
to go to. Others may have a similar
experience this year, but said farmer
the other day, with the present prices
OF wheat and corn and the high price
OF labor they may be as well off, if thew
have to depend upon hired labor.n The
old time" rule was bushel of wheat
for days labor in the harvest field and
6ushel of corn for a days labor at
other times, but now" he said. "it
takes two and a-half bushels to nav for
days work" 1.-The independent life
OF the farmer" has passed into a proverb
but that independence" has been So
SUBJECT to contraction for ieveral wears
that there is little of it left to the class
above alluded to. With the decline in
the prices of grain from former wears
there has been a corresponding increase
IN the prices of poultry, eggs, &c, or
many farmers could not make "botb
ends meet"
Smyrna times., 1883-12-05
Dead Editorials

Madam Rumor gives out that the
Philadelphia Times and the SMYRNA
Record were SO confident that sam
Randall would draw the capital prize
in the organization of the National
House of Representatives, that the re-
spective editors of each had, during the
previous week, prepared flaming
editorials, congratulating the business
interest of the whole country. That
all branches of trade would be free from
disturbing elements during the present
session; reassuring all the people that
pennsylvania patriot, Randall, in the
chair everything would be lovely. and
the National goose would hang at q
proper altitude.
In view of the fact, however. that
the Democratic party took a notion
that the Republicans had run it about