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Smyrna times., 1883-07-25

REPORTS from the South as well as
from the East lay additional stress
upon the need of a strict observance of
quarantine regulations at all the ports
of the United States. The cholera in
Egypt seems beyond all control, and
the possibility that it may soon spread
to places on the northern shore of the
Mediterranean Sea stares Europe in
the face. There is no call for nervous
ness in this country through fear of
of this disease but there is surely in
fection enough around us to make
careful precaution imperative.
Smyrna times., 1883-07-25
BUSINESS LOCALS

Read the Large Advertisement of ].
B. Cooper.
Kindling Wood, at rs cents a load.
deliver at any part of the town. osS
III. G. MUSTARD & Co.
lin Roofing done at low figures, by
VIM. FAIRIES, Smyrna, Del. .T4E
When it comes to Neck Wear, Shirts.
Collars, Cuffs and Hosiery, we are still
ahead. John E. Phillips.
Devoe's Brilliant Oil, ]. B. Cooper's.
A New Departure. A choice line of
Ready-Made Clothing, at John E.
Phillips'. y ARs
When you want anything in the way
OF Dress, go to Phillips. He is bound
to please you.
Smyrna times., 1883-07-25
Among the Peach Trees.

The nearness of the time to the pick
ing season makes representations
more valuable because they can be en-
tered upon with more accuracy. The
most industrious prospectors have been
the Commission men of the cities.
Some of these men have very little
knowledge OF the peach only as they
are In market, but there are others
again who have been brought up with
the peach, know its peculiarities las
well as they, can be known) and thus,
irom close observation are prepared to
Judge OF them as they hang ON the
trees. u. Frank Truax, of the firm of
Hiil q Truax, Philadelphia, both from
this section, has been making clever
Smyrna times., 1883-07-25

ATTENTION is called to the following
requirement of the Kent County Mu-
tual Insurance Company;
That all persons using steam
threshers within sixty yards of prop
erty insured in this Company, shall be
required to take out permit and pay
at the rate of 15 cents on the 500. 90
on all property within the said sixty
yards of the engine, and they are re-
quired to use hard coal and proper
spark catcher"
Smyrna times., 1883-07-25
.SMYr'n0, DeI.,
"Wednesday Afternoon, July 25. 1888

THE TIMES" is published every Wednesday
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Smyrna times., 1883-07-25
EAiYRNA
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ACTIVES.
RIMS nY INNINGS

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Actives ......"......~.... 4 0 o 0 o %
Base hits Smyrna, 9; Actives s. Two-base hit.
Passed balls Simmons, /: Barnes, l ; Evans, 2
Wild Pitches, Melville, ,; Barnes, = Morgan, l.
Flys caught, Smyrna 4 Actives 7. Flys missed
Smyrna, 8; ACtives, l. Double play, Smyrna l ;
Actives, l. Time of game, 1.3j. Umpire, A. W.
Cummns. Scorer, f. Gootee.
Smyrna times., 1883-07-25
For Sale Cheap.

Turbine Water Wheel 80 horse
power with 6 feet head), with Gearing
and Band Wheel all complete, just the
" rig" for Planning Mill, Circular Saw
Mill or Grist Mill. Address -, ,e.ls
s, ffttf G. H. TOADVINE,
(Successor to H. Humphreys),
Salisbury, Md.
Smyrna times., 1883-07-25

The great strike of the telegraphic
operators against the Western Union
still remains unsettled, the interest of
both in the meantime suffering.
Smyrna times., 1883-07-25

THERE were thirty-nine deaths from
yellow fever last week in Havana.
Smyrna times., 1883-07-25

The deaths from cholera now num-
Der nearly 700 day in Egypt.
Smyrna times., 1883-07-25

- 7 VFED I1EE771
may. a7soh' snsery many uses, and
master is spending tlsses i, increase in
Lansing, Kansas, peanaoitv Of sucb estab-
Smyrna times., 1883-07-25
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
BOOKS AND STATIONERY
GLASS WARE AND QUEENSwAp

China and Granite Tea and Chamber Sets complete or in mar
Dishes, Teas, Plates Tureens and ali otI
Glass Fruit Bowls Slvers Comports Tea Sets Mugs Cor
Fancy Vases Toilet Sets, Engraved Cioblc
Flower Pots Pipe Guards Fruit Jars Jugs Butter Pots GAR
iS, boy,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
A Big Crop Of Trouble.

The latest advices from the various
departments in Washington indicate
big crop of trouble for the Republican
party as pretty certain to beIharyested
during the next fiscal year. They
sowed the wind last winter, and now
they must make themselves ready to
reap the whirlwind. When. they were
making enormous appropriations in
excess of all previous records, they
were warned by the Democrats to be-
ware of their imprudent extrayagance,
and now it is becoming plain that the
warnings were not out Of place. The in
come of the current fiscal year promises
to be ten to fifteen millions less than the
estimates fixed it, and that of next year
has been reduced at least fifty millions
by operation of law, in the repeal of in
ternal revenue tax and reductions of
postage. What the real reduction will
be nobody can say to-day, the expert
ence of the current year demonstrating
how uncertain all estimates are.s These
are facts that were not wholly unfor-
seen, and Congress should wisely have
prepared to meet these heavy sreduc-
tions of revenue by a vigorous retrench-
ment of needless extravaganza in de-
partmental expenses. The Republican
majority, at the dictation of Robeson
with the lobby at his back, chose to fol-
low the directly contrary course, and it
can not now escape the responsibility
for the embarrassments the Treasury
will have to contend with on the eve of
the Presidential election Columbus
(GG.) San.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
Notes.


THE President has approved the findings
and full sentence of the court-martial in
Paymaster Wasson's case, and an order
has been issued from the War Department
officially announcing his sentence, which
is dismissal from the army and confinement
at hard labor for eighteen months in some
prison to be selected hereafter.
THE War Department has received infor-
nation that Major Nickerson sailed for
Europe on the 18th of June.
THE French Claim Commission has en-
tered awards against the United States for
a numberof claims aggregating about $15,-
900, and disallowed large ones, aggregating
$500, 900.
The Secretary of War has received tel
egram from General Pope stating that Da-
vid 1. Payne hasapplied to the United States
Circuit Court at Topeka for an Injunction
against the War Department restraining it
from interfering with his entrance into and
occupation of the Oklahoma district in In
dian Territory.
The Secretary of the Interior has decid-
ed that lands selected under the laws. of
Utah forsuniversity purposes are effective
and valid as to location, but refuses to
anticipate the power of the future State to
endow the contemplated university, hold
ing the question is political rather than ex-
ecutive.
THE President has appointed Frank d.
Conger Postmaster at Washington. Mr..
Gonger lis the son of Senator Conger, of
Michigan.
The excess in value of exports over i'm
ports for the twelve months ended May 81,
1888, was $99, 49,, $40. The total values of
imports and merchandise for the twelve
months ended May 81, 1888, was $721, ,06s,-
4s2; same period of preceding year, $780,
$40, ,T34;. increase, $197, ,74s. The values of
exports Of merchandise for the year ended
May 81, 1888, was $3.50, ,403, ,1s1; previous
year, $762, ,s14 $40; increase, $57, ,4ss ,561.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
The Valley Of the Rio Grande.

The sand and gravel abounding
about Ell Paso and for fully thirty miles
around assure dry foundations for
building and capital roadbeds for rail.
roads, but are unfavorable for garden
ing or farming, very little of which is
vet attempted. Even the corn and
beans, the staple food of the Mexican
population, has in great part to be i'm
ported. Potatoes and other vegetables
are chiefly brought from California;
the green and red chillies frightening
almost every abode wall appear to be
the only articles freely produced.
Poultry, although plentiful like the
children, are left. to scratch about, and
receive scant attention; and eggs are
usually five cents each, but curiously
do not alter in price at different sea-
sons. Chickens are rarely seen on the
hotel tables. Milk is almost invariably
a very diluted solution of the condensed
article Butter is imported from Iowa
or Missouri. Oxen, worn out by many
years team work, dragging their loads
with ropes attached around their horns,
for yokes have not yet become general
here. do not furnish the tenderest OF
beef: the mutton is decidedly scraggy;
the carcass hung up averaging from
twenty-five to thirty pounds. In Ell
Paso great deal of the food used for
animals, as well as for man, as yet
comes from a distance. From Cali
fornia is brought a mixture of barley
and oats, with occasional admixture OF
a little wheat cut just short of ripe
ness, allowed to dry, raked together,
and with hydraulic pressure formed in
to bales of 200 pounds, secured by wire,
and sold here for one and one-fourth
cents per pound. Alfalfa, or lucerne
hay, is brought from Southern Texas in
similar bales, and sells at the same
price. Bran from the stone mills with
old-fashioned separating appliances,
and hence with plenty of adhering flour,
ranges from one to one and one-hali
cents. Dry, hard Californian barley is
chiefly used for the small proportion Of
horses which are granted, and careful
managers give at least one of the daily
| feeds soaked for twenty hours, but not
allowed time for mailing. The stoutest,
best-bred horses in this region come
from California, but there are number:
of smart, active ponies, twelve to four
teen and one-half hands, brought ir
from Old Mexico, where they cost from
$15 to 800. Some of these Mexican and
many of the Indian ponies are cream
and fancy-colored. Some of the mer
chants have good mules from Southern
Texas worth 5000 to $500 per pair, ane
here, as elsewhere, dearer than the cor
responding class of horses.-Londo'
Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
The Fl Era ! oof .Bossisn ,, Ended.

=
Dezendorf has, answered Secretary
Chambers sarcasm with an array OF
crushing facts about the use offs the
Norfolk navy-yard in doing the work OF
sBoss" Malone, which will certainly
impair the future efficiency of that part
Of the Virginian machine. even if the
abuses charged are not wholly stopped.
Let the result be what itrmays however,
the. era of ..bossism', in Virginia is
nearly at an end, and with it ends the
prospect of that detelopmenttot politics
springing up and thriving in the South,
just at the moment it iS-dying out in its
old strongholds in the Republican States
of the North, Malone thought he had
accomplished the transplanting and
Chalmers sfaneied wHs- Job s,ist'is'- =,
the scope OF his powers also eiIhey
knew there was one political element IN
the South more favorable to "Dossr rule
than anything to be found IN the NORTH,
the negro being by nature and habls
eminently adapted for the political peon-
age this sort OF one-mant domination
enforces. They had brought into
politics such wisdom from their time OF
slavery as would teach them to lrebei
against voluntary yassaiage to a self
constituted MASTER while their whole
pohtlcal expeElnce SO lar mas peeh gath- "a
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
A Funny Man Who Was Not at ALI
Funny.

els the man that gets up the funny
column herep" asked a smirking little
chap as he poked dubious little nose
into the room. -'L
=. 90, yes,'' said a bald headed man
with a disordered necktie, grizzled
beard and face like that of an under
taker at an expensive. funeral. s.''Walk
right in;;'' and he caught the little man
yiciously by the collar. -, 4; / a.t5,i
sWant to see the funny man. don't
youP" and he butted the little fell
lows head through seventy-6ye-cent
looking-glass. -.
s"Like to look at the comic, wouldn't
youa'' and he tore the intruder's coat
down the back and took fresh grip on
his shirt. IL So 41E.tt9 =. B - Had
s.Come down from the country to see
the old Clown haven't youp Like to
see him stick his head through a. paper
balloon, say Hey, diddle diddle, the
fools in the middle and get cut
around the legs by the ring master,
suppose and No. ~ boot collided
with the seat of the little wretch's
trousers with shock like that of 8
dynamite bomb. ~. ..sr. s., ;.,
ssThe 'buffoon' amt in; he is training
new jackass. Come right in. Chill
dren half price. Just going to begin
Sit down." and he jammed the terrified
little visitor into keg of printers ink
"The queens jester will be along
pretty soon. Wait for the great show!
he yelled, as the little man madly tried
to escape through two closet doors, ant
finally rolled down stairs, accompanied
by the water-cooler,, two ink jugs ant
the paste pot.
want one more paragraph, Mr.
Graves" said voice through tn
speaking tube, and the solemn NAL
wound a wet towel around his head
sat down at. the desk, and wearil.,
wrote: =
sis man getting up stares when b
buys an eye-glassP'-Boston Bulletin
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
LATEST NEWS.

TRADE dollars are suddenly refused
everywhere. The banks will not take
them and allow more than eighty five
cents, and tradesu,en are refusing them
in all the cities. -.
THREE persons were killed and several
injured by railway train colliding with a
street car in South Chicago on the 1st.
THE steamship Nevada few days ago
landed six hundred and eighty Mormon
converts in New York
STEPHEN 8. PRICE, of Philadelphia, has
been held to answer as an embezzler for
losing in speculations $500, 900 intrusted to
him as the executor of the Richards on es-
tate.
THE Lord Mayor of Dublin gave BAN
quet on the evening of the 3Oth to Senator
Jones, of Florida. Parnell, Sexton and
others were present.
The Governor of Algeria has issued an
order prohibiting the usual pilgrimage to
Mecca this year on account of the cholera
in Egypt. The last bulletin from Damietta
says there were one hundred and thirteen
deaths during the twenty-four hours pre-.
ceding. The quarantine at Gibralter will
extend for three weeks over all vessels ar
irving from Egypt and the Ottoman ports
ON the Red Sea.
A coLoREp man known as Bill Mcdowell
was hung by mob and his body horribly
mutilated, at Louisiana, No., a few days
ago. He confessed to having committed an
assault upon Miss Kate Murry, which has
endangered her life.
ELAN and Bierne, the Richmond, Va.)
editors, succeeded at last in outwitting the
officers of the law, and on the morning Of
he oh
Waynesboro, Va, fought their duel. Two
shots were exchanged and Elam was
wounded in the thigh. The weapons were
Colts revolvers, thirty-two caliber. After
receiving surgical attention on the field
Lieutenant Governor Lewis, twenty-three
miles distant. Elam's wound is not serious
A FREIGHT train to which a passenger car
was attached, broke in two while climbing
heavy grade on the Rochester and Pitts
burg Road, on the 1st, and a dozen cars rar
hack at frightful speed into another freight
that was following. Six persons were kill
| ef, and others were seriously hurt. A four
year-old boy was the only one in the pas
| s.i.ger car who was unhurt.
A DENocRATIc Congressman whose name
| IS not given, is reported from Washington
q. saying that he will introduce resolution
to investigate the charges made concerning
the appointment of Judge of the U. S
| supreme Court, for the consideration o
500, 900, and he will have all the people
who have been making these changes sum
moned before the Judiciary Committee
which, if possible. will be charged will
this investigation, and let them then tel
what they know, or hereafter hold theii
peace.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
He'll Get Adopted.

''Why don't you get somebody to
adopt youP' asked one elegantly attired
young man of another, as the two lolled
in graceful attitudes on a sofa at the
Grand Pacific. "Several Of the incest
boys in town who are in hard luck have
told me they were going to try it. +"
'Good idea, b. George" exclaimed
the other young man, Frightening up as
the thought hit him.
'tIt's much more genteel, you know" :"
the first young man said, ethan to make
your own living, as you just now said
you were afraid you would have to do.
A young fellow of good form ought to
have little trouble in becoming a rich
mans son by adoption, if nature hasn't
done the proper thing and supplied him
with a real father who has plenty OF
money"
Every true," murmured the other
young man. 8
"Think of the rich merchants" re.
sumed the first young man, sswho have
Heaven knows how many thousands tc
spend, and who haven't any gentle.
manly sons to spend them. Think OF
them, dear boy. There's a promising
field for you. Why shouldn't every one
of them have handsome fellow like
you in the family to give it socia.
standingp''
every true," said the other youns
man, hesitatingly. "But aren't those
dreadfully rich people inclined to bt
vulgar?"
''Well," slowly answered the frs
young man, ''there's no denying, m,
dear fellow, that one must run across
vulgar people everywhere. Old folk
never have elegant manners. If yor
don't associate too much with the one!
that you allow to adopt you, a little
vulgarity on their part may be over
looked. Vulgarity, dear boy, can b,
more easily endured than hard work.
.'Workp' gasped the other younl
man. ...Yes, to be sure, I'll get adopted
right away Work is disgusting."-
Ghicn0o Mems ~ .
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05

NEGOTIATIONS between the Porte and the
German and American Ministers in regard
to the treaties of commerce with their Gov
ernments continue. 1t is hoped in official
circles that the result will be favorable to
Turkey.
IT is reported that President Grevy has
refused the request of the Radicals of the
Chamber of Deputies to commute the sem
tence of Louise Michel to exile.
CHOLERA is raging at Damietta, Egypt,
and foreigners are fleeing panic stricken to
Cairo. A strict quarantine has been OF
dered against Egyptian vessels at all for
eign ports. Seventy-three deaths occurred
from the disease in Damietta within five
hours, on the 9th.
THE Paris newspapers are making up
subscriptions to aid in the support of the
families of Louis Michel and her fellow
prisoners who have been sentenced to
long terms of confinement.
THE English House of Lords have reject.
ed the bill permitting marriage with de.
ceased wife's sister, on the third reading,
by 145 nays to 140 yeas.
ONE hundred and thirteen deaths oc.
CURED from cholera at Damietta, Egypt,
on the 2sth, and the disease is still spread.
ing.
BURKE, Conservative, gave notice in
the English Commons on the 29th that he
would move that no arrangement for q
second Suez Canal would be satisfactory
unless it provided for reduction of rates
and adequate representation of British
shipping in it's administration.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05

"A son of 81. T. Shepherd, foreman of
the harvester works at Minneapolis,
Mimi, met with sad and singular
death the other afternoon. The boy
had some paint on his hand, and took
hold of the elevator shaft. The result
was that the hand stuck to the shaft,
and the arm and subsequently the body
were wrapped around the shaft. The
right arm was broken in three of four
places, the right leg was badly fract-
ured and the skull was. crushed in.-
Chicago Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05

Two drunken men fought duel
with no other weapons than their fists,
near Perth Amboy. The risk of the en-
gagement arose from their selection of
the railroad track as the arena on which
to settle their quarrel. A locomotive
came along and killed them both. The
moral of the occurrence is found by re-
fecting that the locomotive was loaded
with water, the combatants with whis.
XIV. Y Graphic.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
An Importan, pen.ion peci;i.n.

) A point of Importance to pensioners has
recently been decided by the acting Secre-
tary of the Interior, in the case of applica-
tion of John r. Collet for an increase of
pension. The decision construes the law of
June is, 1874, defining ''tota1 and perma-
nent helplessness" to mean permanent
injury requiring the regular personal at
tendance of another person, and as those
conditions were found in the present case
the application was granted This is re;
versal of previous decisions of the Depart
ment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05

AT place called Glaufort Brigg, in
England, it is the practice to insure the
lives of children directly they are born,
and the health inspector of the district
draws attention to the exceptionally
high death rate prevalent there in the
mast year,-M Y. Sun.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05

"A number of Syracuse ladies have
formed syndicate for the manufacture
of cake, marmalades, jellies, salads,
ETC., for sale to their neighbors who do
not desire to do this work in the warm
weather. -Syracuse (M " Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05

clerk (since deadJ; Fire Alarm Superin-
tendent James Yuille; Win. McRobie, the
Chiefs son; Archie Grant, Manager fof
Ashdown; VIM. Cade, Assistant Chief of
the Fire Brigade, and a number of other
firemen. 1t is thought several more of
them will die.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05

criminal surgical operation upon a servant
girl in April, 1881, and sentenced to pay a
fine of $500 and to undergo imprisonment
of seven years, the fullest extent of the
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
a Cru.ade AEain.t cine Trade DOLLAR.

Crusade Against the Trade Dollar.
Nearly all business men, including the
liquor and cigar dealers of New York City,
have refused to take trade dollars. It is
expected this general action will drive the
coin out of the city within a very short
time. The mercantile exchange brought
about the change. The bullion dealers are
not willing to pay over eighty-five cents
except to fill out of town orders, and these or
ders have been for speculative purposes. The
movement in New York has extended quite
generally throughout the country. There
are 5000, 900 of these coins out, which the
Government will not take except as bull
lion. ~ = ? -
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05

Cats in Pittsfield, Mass, are worth
something. A s.yowling" Thomas was
shot from an irate mans window the
other night, and next day, on complaint
of the cats owner, the shooter paid a
fine of ten dollars and costs, or $19. 60
in all.