Smyrna times., 1883-03-21
News Items.


Virgins will now try his hand at
prophecyiHg about the next peach
crop.
A cold rain in western Texas last
week inflicted heavy loss ON the sheep
growers.
White laborers are superseding the
Chinese on the new railroads in British
Columbia.
Divers report that there are four
hundred bodies in the hold Of the
wrecked steamer Cimbria.
A drunken man in Hall county, Ga,
named Herring, Saturday poured a
shovel of hot Goals on his infant child
and burned it to death.
Alexander II. Stephens had thirty-six
pall-bearers. How many would such
a statesman as David Davis require, if
weight is to be considered in such
matters?
For seduction, under promise of
marriage, jury i'll the Marine Court,
New York, awarded Kate Junker a
verdict of $4,000 damages against
Peter Hickman.
OF the II 900 immigrants that arriv-
ed in this county in January, 5,O44
came from Germany. 1t is such cold
| figures as these that depress Bismarck
when he thinks of the future of the
German Empire.
Watterson, of the Courier Journal, is
in the field making war against the
new tariff. He wants it made the
issue in the next Presidential election
If his Democratic brethren agree TO it.
we do not believe the Republicans will
find fault.
1t is estimated that there are more
!
there has ever been at any one time
since the town has been health re-
sort. Hotels and private boarding
houses are all full, and the cry is still
they come.
The damage caused by the Fenian
explosion in London on Thursday
night is estimated at $4,000. The ex
plosive material was placed on the out
side of the building. A reward o
$1,000 has been offered for the discov
cry of the perpetrators of the deed.
Bonded whiskey'' means whiskey
that has not had the taxes paid on i
and is consequently in the hands O
the Government. The whiskey mel
in the West have overproduced an,
asked Congress to extend the time il
which they could pay the taxes OF
that in bond. The bill did not pass
5 however.
e The apparent attempt to blow II
Il the English board offices in Westmir
ster, and the presence ofdynamite nea
4. the Times office, has caused great e1
: citement in English official circle
Irish agitators are, Of course, suspected
and the matter is undergoing offici;
investigation. War, even of the col
traband sort, is full Of surprises an
harshness.
A horse thief who hung himself in
Texas Jail, Thursday, in the valedi
tory which he addressed to whom
might concern, after confessing to IL
murder of four persons, expressed Il
regret which was aroused in his boso
at his neglect to kill two more. 1t
not often that this unamiable varie
of remorse is exhibited by gentlem;
in such circumstances.
The question of high license is to
tried at the polls at the next electi,
for Mayor in Chicago. The reformC
have decided upon the price of$25O
beer license and $500 for whisk
license, while the other side seek to
D tain the present low terms for liceni
The liquor question, in this shape,
to coming up in many parts of the cou
lis try; and it is a very interesting shal
1t, too.
ng
I'M The steamship Ndrdrre, which we
down in a gale in the German Gee
s. on Thursday, is the third steamsl
~ that has foundered at sea within
W month. This time sixty-fve lives We
lost. 1t is evident that were all dang
of collision removed ships would y
be lost at sea. Occasionally, perha
storm is encountered which wol
Ne send the best ship that man col
wy build to the bottom, but nobody v
III believe that the limit of improvemt
in ship-building has been reached
. long as vessels go down one af
another in this way.
CO1orodo iS hound IN no Xvnll ron