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general. can ever hold their proper
place, or have their proper influence,
till brought into due subordinatiOn,
and dependence on Him who himself
took our infirmities, and bare our sick
ness" And l verify believe, he re-
marked with emphasis, that the reason
why so many diseases battle the skill
of the medical profession, is the wide
spread scepticism and materialism that
prevail in it; the want of just appre-
citation OF its relation to Jesus as the
Great Physician Of the body, and due
subordination to and dependence on
him for success. When this relation is
properly appreciated, and this subordi-
nation, and dependence rightly under
stood and acted upon, have not the
least doubt, he said, that cures will be
wrought almost universally, and dis.
ease in a great measure be unknown
in the world.
The ministers of religion, and the
ministers of healing, and the philan.
thropists of the world all together
realizing their proper relation to Christ
and placing their entire dependence;
upon him for success, would soon con
vert the whole earth into a Paradise
and make it radiant with millenia
! glory.
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Deceased.

Michael Riley one of our we'll known,
useful and reliable citizen died on
Thursday last after painful illness in
the 62 year of his age. He was native
of Ireland and came to this town thirty
five years ago and succeeded beyond
most men of his opportunity. His life
was that of an industrious, Trustworthy,
inOfiensive citizen. He was a quiet
but devout adherent of the Catholic
faith and to him more than any other
the society is indebted for the comfort
able house of worship they have. He
was visited in his last illness by Father
Bradford who administered the sacra-
ment of Extreme Unction, and High
Mass was celebrated in the funeral
services at the Church on Saturday
after which, and brief and Just tribute
to the departed, the remains were at
tended by large number of the friend:
and relatives to Warwick, Md, the
nearest Catholic place of interment.
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The True Physician.

Rev. J. Il. Umsted in the course of
his sermon on Sunday, having for his
subject Christ's healing of the sick at
Capernaum where the whole city turn
ed out to receive the physical benefit
of his miraculous power, gave some de-
cided views on what he considered to
be the true relation of the physician to
society. After remarking that all the
philanthropic measures employed and
al the benevolent efforts put forth by
individuals or communities and society
at large for the melioration of the wants
and woes of humanity, for the relief of
human suffering, and especially that
produced by bodily disease, are but
| combinations of the merciful work
begun by Christ himself on the earth,
he said, bad as the present age is in
many respects, it is eminently distin-
guished aS an age of philanthrOpiC
effort and benevolent action. In this
respect it is more Christ-like than any
preceding age. AS Christ came to be
the great Healer of the body as we'll a.
the soul, to begin the benevolent work
of curing bodily suffering, we cal
readily see the relation which Physi
clans, and the healing art sustain t
Christ in the continuation of his work
in this particular and the importance
of every physician being Christian
1t is from Christ that he derives hi.
power to heal. The medical profes
sion, more especially, when governed
by right principles, and actuated b!
becoming motives, bears the same rcla
ton to our Lord, as the Physician o
the body, that the minister ough
always to sustain to Him as the Physi
clan of the soul. And neither this pro
fession, nor the charities of life il
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The New Buildings.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.


The stone work on the new Presby
terian Church is completed and the
carpenters are putting up the frame
work of the steeple that surmounts the
tower. OF course it looks very differ
ent from what it will when entirely en-
closed, but there is enough done to see
that it is going to be thing of beauty"
With its green stone walls OF well ne
fined lines, brick trimmings for Win
dows and doors, and generally pleasing
architectural design, it is altogether
uniuue-the most attractive structure Ill
modern design in the town. AS soon
as the steeple is completed the roof
proper, also of slate, will be put on.
In the mean time the tin roof of the
chapel has been completed by l.. e.
Mccoy and it is in the hands of the
plasterer, Jas. T. White. 1t is the de-
Sign of the pastor and building commit
tee to have the chapel completed and
seated for holding the initial service
the first Sunday in October. During
the past week large and heavy slabs oi
granite were laid at the three entrances
SCHOOL HOUSE.
The new Public School building has
not advanced as fast as designed by
the Building Committee and Mr.. Fer.
rec, the contractor, yet it is expected
to have it done in the specified time
January LIST, next. The trouble ha:
been with the brickworll, the sub-con
tractor, Mr.. Ruth, not being able tc
keep on a sufficient number of reliable
workmen. The walls of the wings arr
completed to the square and the car
penters are placing the roof timbers il
position. The gables to the wings ant
the third-story of the centre buildin!
will complete the brick work, whicI
will be accomplished in the next tw
weeks. The building so far in its con
struction fully meets and in fact eX
ceeds the expectations of the publ
generally. 1t is both massive an
attractive in design, and will he one {
the greatest ornaments of the town.
EPISCOPAL RECTORY.
The new Episcopal RectOry is enclo:
ed, floors laid the outside paintin
,, partly done and Mr.. Wright, the huilC
er, pronounces it ready iur the plaster
ers. 1t is going to be an attractiy
, building with excellent rooms and col
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Smyrna and Vicinity

Smyrna and Vicinity.
GRAPES and peaches-peaches and
grapes.
Isn't it time there was an organic
change in a certain organ?
MACKEREL and coal are rising in
price just as they are needed.
THE steamer Clyde makes an excur-
sion to Fortescue Beach to-day.
BELLIsTIc is the style of architecture
of Smyrna's new school building.
ALAwN TENNIS club is now on the
tapis with some of our young ladies.
Our peach evaporators were all we
learn put in operation again yesterday
Ar apple stands very poor chance
for the next two weeks only with the
hogs.
A NOVEL article of pedling was thai
yesterday of a wagon load OF dried bee
hams.
THE murcury struck down to within
six degrees of the frost line Monda,
night.
THIS is the morning glory season
but the sun flower makes the bigges
spread.
Carr. A. scoux = .aon are shippin
about half tzyI l''s's~<lass ~aostl
Concorda. .sy1
THE stea~n I'm III
time tabI
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veniences for a pleasant home. A
double bay window lights up the sitting
room and the bed chamber above,
which are separated from the library
and chamber above by spacious halls;
the otherrOoms are of good size and well
lighted in addition to which there are
convenient closets, store room, bath
room, garret, pump in the kitchen,
three porches, and heater in the cellar
Tor to be- for warming the whole house.
We congratulate the Rev. Mr.. Gordon
on the early prospect of new dwelling
which he has had the pleasure of plan
ming after his own ideas of II home.
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SATURDAY and Monday were the
heaviest shipping days from Clayton,
up to this time VIM. G. Hill has ship
ped "a car loads and H. @. Douglass 100.
SUPERINTENDENT of Public Schools
Williams and Assistant Carpenter were
in town, on Saturday, looking fresh
and youthful and as if ready for the
work of the scholastic year. They
commence with this week in the ex-
animation of the New Castle County
schools.
THAT was rather a refrehing sight on
Monday afternoon TO see eight wagon
loads of the luscious peach all in row
on their way to market-they don't
stop in our market-to regale the
palates of the city folks. The lasting
benefit of all this however come in
ducats to the shipper.
THE Quarterly Conference of the
third quarterly meeting of the Nj. E.
Church, of this town (which Sunday
represented), will be held on Friday
evening at y o'clock, instead of 8
o'clock, as formerly stated. On Sunday
excellent sermons were preached by
Rev. j. Il. Umsted in the morning, and
Presiding Elder Martindale at night.
AS A RESULT of the Saturday night
whiskey drinking, which is very exten-
sive now among the darkeys, George
Polk struck John Truitt Ia recent Jail
bird) fearful blow over the forehead
| with base ball bat, laying it bare to
the bone and knocking him senseless
in which condition he lay a consider
able time. They are all such set o.
worthless characters as to claim no at
tentioH from the departments of either
law or medicine.
In enlarging the TINES p columns
we thought we would avoid the neces
sity of the use of small type in Oul
news items, but the big Phosphate ad
vertisement of J. E. Tygert & Co.
knocks this calculation in our very
first issue. This is only of short dura
ton however, and we will be all righ
in week or two. While speaking o
the Messrs. Tygert, we would call tn
attention of the farmers to the new ties
timonials of their well known brand.
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The Basket Mills.

The basket mill of H. r. Mustard
& Co., of this town, finished its work of
the season yesterday, just four months
from the beginning of the work in pre-
pairing the mill and nine weeks since
the first basket was made. 1t was a
busy place all the while and the turn
out of work was large. 1t Is the pur-
pose of the proprietors that the place
shall not be idle fit can be helped,
and they are now seeking some other
enterprise to devote their time and
machinery to out of the basket season
The Tschudy & Cats mill also shut
down yesterday after five months
run
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ENLARGEMENT.-Wit this issue we
send the Smyrna TIMES out enlarged in
length to type space of q columns. In
doing this we are only putting in execu-
ton purpose formed nearly a year since
to enlarge the paper in justice to our
patrons, as we have been forced in the busy
advertising seasons to curtail reading mat
ter or resort to the use of type too small for
a large number of our readers who are ad-
vancing in age. We appreciate the
patience of our patrons and hope by their
assistance to make the TIMES moro than
ever a welcome family visitor.
Smyrna times., 1883-09-05
Kent County Bible Society.

The annual meeting of the Kent
County Bible Society will be held in
the NJ. E Church, of this town, on
Thursday, September Goth, at IL
o'clock A. NJ. All churches are request
ed to appoint at least two representa-
tives to attend the meeting and the
pastors and rectors are earnestly re-
quested to take up a collection for the
benefit of the Bible Society and report
the same to the Treasurer, JnO. T.
Jakes, at Wyoming, previous to the
meeting or at Smyrna on that day.
Smyrna times., 1883-09-05

WE give on our first page a description
of the recent terrible volcanic eruption in
the island of Java. Later reports from
that island seem to raise the volcanic con-
yulsion there to the rank of one of the most
destructive calamities known in the history
of the human race. The loss of life in the
great earthquake in Lisbon in 1855 was
variorsly estimated at from 10000 to 1000.
The earthquake of just hundred years
ago in Calabria, the southern part of Italy,
caused loss estimated by some at 10000,
by others at 100000 Discrepancies like
these illustrate the difficulty of learning ex-
actly the extent of such terrible disasters,
involving great populations and extensive
tracts of country in a common ruin. We
shal never know, probably, with any de-
gree of defniteness the loss of life in Java,
but if the reports are not grossly exagger-
ated this calamity will stand in history
with those of Lisbon and Calabria, and
may even outrank them. Beside it the re-
cent earthquake at Casamicciola sinks into
insignifcance One thing making it highly
probable that there has been vast loss o.
life is the density of the population in Java
The loss is placed by some as high as 75,
600.
The New York Tribune in speaking o
the disaster says:
1.-THE occurrence of earthquake waves OF
the Pacific coast, both in California ant
South America, at almost the same time a
the disturbances in Java, is a phenomenon
familiar in such cases, and which will tenC
greatly to increase the scientific interest o
this tremendous outbreak of mysterious
forces within the earth. 1t suggests th'
possibility that at some future day the Sam
machinery which is now used to tOrtell tn
approach of storms may be of service II
giving warning of earthquakes. Warming
Of the shock that was felt in the Easter
and Middle States in 1870, the most consid
erable one known here during the century
was sent in this way from Quebec to Mon
treal, reaching the latter city thirty sec
onds before the shock itself Unfortunate
ly, however, for this plan, the velocity q
the wave is great, and a serious shock
apt to destroy telegraphic commmunica
tion."
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Our SCHooLs-THEIR OBJECT.-This
week marks the initial period of the schOl-
astic year in most schools throughout the
land. The vacation season has ended
with renewed health and freshness to the
scholar and greatly renewed nerve force to
the rundown teacher. These special per-
iods mark much more distinct lines in
Delaware than they did a dozen years
ago, and in our town, the school and what
pertains to it has never carried the same
general and decided interest as now. This
is because it is living organism" more
than at any former time, with head, body,
arms, feet, life and. we trust, soul. Thus
constituted it is power that is and should
be felt, as the pulpit and the press is felt,
but with greater mental force in moulding
the plastic minds
What ought the schools to be? How
shall its design be best accomplished? is
the question that not only concerns every
tutor but every parent. The true intent oi
the school is to prepare for citizenship. In
Republican government, the family and
the individual mean more than they car
mean in any nation where the government
is autocratic or aristocratic. How and how
far each boy and girl is educated is per
sonal question, and a governmental ques
ton to degree not over estimated
Charles Francis Adams thinks that tn
colleges have run wild with Greek and DR.
McCosh brings similar charge agains
athletic sports, such as boat clubs, bu
there is hardly a chance for such question
to enter our public schools. There is tn
possible one of overcrowding the studies
but this is hardly possible only to irregula
OF dull pupils. Their lessons should NJ
be such as to drag them through the Ion
evenings; in fact the five or six hours {
ought to embrace the most of the "boOk
time of the day. A true school" says 6
educator, "a is family in which all Il
school time is not to be spent in learning
reciting lesson. Physical exercise, res
ing and listening come in as part of Il
variety and refreshment of true school lif
If all schooling is to be an irksome task
should be very short" A judicio
teacher knows how to give judicious lC
son and the requirements requisite to
this Office should in the main put t
teachers judgment beyond question.
The object of our public school is not
prepare for the professions or a finish
education, but for the practical duties
life-such as lays in the pathway of eve
one of them. Our children need ev'
advantage that the school affords for p
sOnal benefit They are soon to constit
the active force Of the nation, and the
vantage derived by each scholar is felt
the aggregate forces of society in state
church and in the business pursuits of ]
There is no land beneath the sun in VIII
individuality means so much as in I
country. Hence from his and low pla
the cry is: Educate. For this reason
can take pardonable pride in the N
large and beautiful public school build
that is now in course of erection becaus
has the promise in it to all, rich or pc
who will make use Of its advantages,
good foundation for all the practical du
Of life.
Smyrna times., 1883-09-05

THE TIMES" is published every Wednesday
afternoon by RoBT. D. HoFFEcKER, Editor and
Proprietor, at Smyrna, Del.
-suBscRIPTIoN-O year 200 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
of Seven Cents line for the first insertion sub.
sequent insertions Three-and-a-half cents. A
liberal discount made to quarterly, semi-annual
and yearly advertisers
OBITUARY NOTICES will be charged Five Cent:
ner line.
Smyrna times., 1883-09-05
PRanh Sales

The following are the prices of
peaches to-day in the city markets as
per dispatches received:
Ne,O York-CrawfOrds, $1.00 to $3.50.
BOStOn-One to two dollars. Raining
this morning, going slow.
PhiLddelphid-70 cents to $3.50.
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MARRIAGES.

the NJ. L. parsonage this
town, September 3rd, by Rev. J. d. Rigg, Henry
Darrell, of Kent County, and WilhcnHiiia Reed,
Of New Castle County.
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INCIDENTS,

The escape of the engineer and fireman,
who stood at their post, was considered
almost a miracle. The train being behind
time was dashing ahead at a speed of 45
miles per hour when McConaghy saw O
black object on the track but little dis
tance ahead. He instantly reversed the
engine, put on the air brakes, and as he
termed it, "stiffened the back bone of the
train" to receive the shock, which was the
work of an instant. The separation by a
few feet of the car load of " Star Bone
| phosphate from the engine in its rear, gave
an opportunity for a rebounding effect,
measurably relieving the force Of the con-
cussions of the two engines, or the disaster
to to the train and passengers must have
been much more serious.
How did the engine get away? is ques-
ton that is puzzling the railroad men:
The engineer says his fires were banked
and the steam cut off. A tramp who was
fore she started, was arrested, tied and
locked up, but while they were at the
wreck he broke loose and was about the
depot yesterday. While il is still mys-
terry, we do not think the tramp is now
held responsible for this freek of engine
i No. g. The place of the accident was
about a mile below Green Spring.
There Is a superstition on the Delaware
Railroad that accidents 60 by " "threes,
and facts seem to bear this out. Hence,
when this one was heard OF, the general ex-
preston was that there would be others,
but the three all occurred on the same day
IT seems, namely the bursting Of the
boiler heads OF an engine at Greensborough
and the wrecking of an engine and six
freight cars at New Castle by misplaced
switch
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Diamond State .SDpcr-FdosDlr.
Diamond 'State SoiuJie Bonc are ,rS 5'
bly, the most popular fertilizer. n.. ,,.'
featured for wheat. In quality ~
chamical and drilling Condition :, a.
''''''"' w 7"' l'''9S'"' aug b..
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Peaches Shipped to England

Two weeks since we noted the fact
that George A. Cochrane, of Montreal,
had discovered a mode of shipping
peaches by a process of paper ventila-
ton that would preserve them a much
longer time than by any known process
and that he sent ON that day crate to
England. The following letter ex-
| plains the result:
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DEATHS.

BOWMAE.-Near Middletown, September 3rd,
Miss Ann Oliver Bowman, aged about - years
BROWN-In Dover, September %rd, Hon. Charles
Brown. aged 81 years, II months and 10 days
RILEY In this town, August goth, Michael Riley
aged 63 years, 8 months and 27 days.
POWELL.-Near DelanyS Chapel, August Goth
Walter f., SON of John and Mary Powell. aged
l year and months.
COLORED
GlBBS.-Near smyrna August Goth, Nancy J
Gibbs aged - years month and days.
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Total,......

The following is the number of car
loads of peaches shipped from Clayton
during the past week:
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MONTREAL, August 81. 1883


Mr.. H. G. DOUGLASS, Clayton, DEL
Dear Sir Have just received a cable
gram from my Liverpool agents, Messrs.
Woodall & Co, reading: SerUiG peaches
landed, fair condition, sold for 36s. stg."
This proves beyond any doubt that 1 can
carry peaches in perfect order by employ
ing the case and method together. This
test is only of the case alone and the
peaches had to be exposed to the ordinary
temperature of the trip, whereas, by the
method could keep them at uniform
temperature all the way. My idea is they
arrived a little dry and shrivelled as it was
so fearfully hot the day packed them and
up to the time the steamer sailed The
price 36s. is S9-for "a dozen. They were
the Moore's Favorite and of medium size
not the largest or smallest and they wer,
taken from the baskets Hudson haC
ready for market. When get particular
by mail will advise you. Will you tel
others that wanted to know the result as
have net time to write them.
Yours truly,
GEO. A. COCHRANE.
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NOTICE.

All person are hereby forbid trusting my son
A. LEA SlSCO on my account, as will pay nc
bills contracted by him
sep l-lw ANDREW >ISCO.
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Fish and Oysters.

The undersigned hereby riv.. go.
will keep in season mud wacr ,ta,.... - 'al; i.
cured. constant supply of fresh I,,s BE- y,
oysters, at his ,,tib.l,sin,-,.i Hh anC
street, three doors from the rr,I,.- .,f 'l' n.
s3-All orders LEFT with u. VII H., ,1l--v'-
attended 10. " f,-.
EZEKIEL G.. REED
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Peach Shinments.

Peach shipments over the Delaware
Division for week ending Tuesday,
September 4th:
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Extension Lamps, at J. B. Cooeer's
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WANTED,
NOTICE.

Strayed from the premises Of ,toa,
Friday, August 2ith, 4. White ,4-..'e't-r
Boar, weighing from Ia To- 2tI Esr'5'v 'v' ~,
reward will be paid for infurua,i'."' 4 ~,
to his recovery. will ul,l p.y -, ;..a' '" -,
sep '-''w WM. BRYAN. near c'aS, ana