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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-11

AMERICAN ENGLIsH.-"I proved my
devotion to my wife by marrying her
when she still said things were real
good" said an English husband of his
American wife. To be an American is to
belong to a nation of which we have as
much reason TO be proud of as any people
under the sun have of their country; but
American vulgarity is no dearer TO our
hearts than the vulgarity of any other
nation, and it is unfortunately true that
English gentlemen and gentewomen do
spoak the English language more correctly
than most Americans.
Here and there thoroughly trained
scholar speaks his mother tongue in its
perfection; but nine out of ten, even of
our professional men, say sensible for
all words of that class. For prudence,
prudent, president, impertinent, we have
prudunce, prudunt, impertinunt, etc.,
and al is turned into ut, and we have
musicul, suicidul, and the like.
The crying sins, in fact, of American
pronunciation are the use of the sound
where other letters belong, and the
misuse of it in its own place. We hear
stupid and duty and tune and virtue, and
o.her words with u in them, pronounced
as if they were written with double 90
as if they were dooty and stoopid and
toon.
Then there are words ending in ince,
like province, which we often hear pro
nounced provence. Yellow becomes
yelluh; piano, pianah; and, though we
triumphanty flaunt our his in the faces
of the English Qhough, by the way, it is
only the lower class of English whose his
are ever mispiaced.) we often hear Amer.
leans say wat, witch and wen for what
and which and when.
These are but few examples of very
prevalent inaccuracies in pronunciation !;
but there are also errors in the nse of
words which are equally American, and
equally common. "Reat good" and "real
nlce," instead of "reatty good," or Every
good" are in constant use. ITO fix" is to
tasten, to make firm, to attac b, but we
constantly hear the word do duty instead
of arrange, make over. put in order New
Englanders guess" southerners "cacu-
late" and westerners "reckon," instead
of think, or imagine. or suspect.
Yes, sir" and "Yes, ma'am," are used
in England only by those " ho are employed
to their employers; and they are no long,
er considered good form in America,
except by very old fashioned people.
The tone OF the voice is something
which should also be subject of consd,
Grafton. A high ,itched, screaming voice
would do more 10 prejudice a stranger
against the speaker than any one can
realize who has not noticed the difference
between the average American girl. and
we'll trained English girl, Let us be as
American as we please; but let us prove
10 our detrac,ors that to be Americans is
not to be loud, and inaccurate and ungram.
matical. Youths Companion.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-11

Our best words will rule the world some
lay. Their meaning will fash cut some
ime. Speak them boldi,. and Trust the
growing soul OF the race for future COM
pensation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-11

Anything that M .kes the heart warmer,
tnything that makes the current of atfec-
ton run fuller, anything that makes
gratitude and love and honor ard truth
md reason stronger, makes the nun
stronger
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-11
Selections.

Earth IS fun of heaven
And every common bush afrc with God
Mrs. BroWni'g.
The world is cold to him who pleads;
The world bows low to kniYhtly deeds.
E r. Roe.
The sore of the world is trouble,
The cure of the world is faith.
DR.. Deems.
The souls hiIh pride
Is writ in all the conduct of the skies
Young.
Know ledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men
Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own
-CO0per.
Midst soulless forms. and false pretence
OF spiritual pride and pampered sense
Avoice saith, What is that 10 thee?
Be true thyself and follow Me-"
-Whttier.
o Wad some power the gifts gle us
To see ourselves as ithers see us!
1t wad fra monte a blunder free u.s.
And foolish notion.
-R0bert Burns.
Whether on the scafod high,
Or in the battles van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is Wlere he dies for man
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18
Legislative Notes.

Both Houses have been doing their
best this week, and an adjournment is
expected on Friday. During the Ses-
sion OFT bills have been introduced in
the House and about 200 in the Senate.
The Senate bill regulating the prac-
tice of pharmacy was passed by vote
of 8 tot.
Mr.. Cooper introduced an act amend
ing section 21, chapter Is, Revised
Code keeping the polls at the general
election open until Z o'clock
The bill increasing the salary of the
judiciary was presented. A motion
was made to accept the report and dis
charge the committee. 1t was lost by
Z to 8.
A bill dividing Wilmington into 26
election districts will be introduced in
the House.
The Judiciary Committee reported
favorably on the constitutional amend
ment reforming the judiciary with an
amendment made necessary by the
Municipal court in Wilmington.
The disgraceful Fougeray divorce
case was called up in the House Mon
day afternoon by an uncertain vote
and passed by to 6. 1t probably
could not have passed on full voteAnd
it is very doubtful if ie will get through
the Senate.
Speaker Bates introduced Monday q
comprehensive bill for the government
Of New Castle county primaries and
applicable to nominating electors O
any party for candidates for city, hun
dred and county officers and delegates
10 State or county conventions or Il
meetings held for the purpose of nomi
Mating such candidates. The officers
are required to take an oath under
4 penalty not exceeding 500.
The bill in relation to insane prison
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18
I'm Darkness.

Under the above head Brother Way
of the Middletown Transcript thus mar
rates his experience with the darkness
the night Of the Mcclure lecture and
banquet last week of which we spoke
in our last issue:
"The Smyrna lamp-lighter regulates
his light by the almanac instead of by
the common-sense rule that street
lamps should be lighted whenever light
is needed, whether there is a moon
ripe or not. Tuesday night was dark
night. There was a tender young
moon, scarcely old enough to be out
alone, but the sky was overcast, and it
gave no light ON the subject. And
though there was an entertainment in
the town that brought many strangers,
including one friendless orphan who
was twelve miles away from home in a
strange land, not one street lamp sent
forth @ cheering ray The Middletown
lamp-lighter Of long ago was accustom-
ed to regulate bis lighting business by
the almanac, but the 1fqnsoyit per-
suaded him out Of the way Of It
smyrna should let her light so shine
that even friendless orphan from fan
away could not get estray.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18
Puck and Peaches.

Puck is a comical and humorous illus
trated weekly paper published in New
York and caters for large number of
fun loving readers. r. X. Munkittrick
seems to be one of Puck's squibs. He
visited Delaware for the first time
about the last of March and had
magnet that caused him to remain a
day or two in Smyrna. While here he
wrote d letter to Puck under the head
Of Peach Pits that contained some
rather humorous things. He says
"This country is full of flatness-it
looks like a country born for race
tracks and cricket-grounds. 1t is flat
and lovely. Very few things are both
flat and lOvely-the fatness generally
destroys the loveliness. But down
here it is different. 1t Is just as fiat as
it is lovely, and just as lovely as it is
fiat. Delaware is no joke, for no joke
can be both flat and lovely"
Munkittrick evidently is in love and
what happy fellow he will be when
he and Mrs. Munkittrick join hands
and visit Delaware in peach season.
Come again Muny. Peach trees will
soon be in bloom. Bring Mrs. MKT
r-k along. Then every thing will be
| lovely.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18


Mr.. Hall has made changes in the
clerical arrangements of his office that
are improvements in every way. His
system of keeping books is after
method that proves itself as correctly
as the balance sheet of bank officer.
1t has been no uncommon thing in the
different counties to find errors amount
ing to thousands of dollars in the foot
ing up of the Levy lists, but with Mr.
Halls careful and systematic method
this cannot occur. He is eminently
fitted to discharge the duties of the
Office.
FURIOUS Bullion Monday morn
ing as a yoke of oxen and a cart be-
longing to VIM. II. Jones and driven
by his little son were passing the farm
of Walter o. Hoffecker they were at
tackled by a Jersey bull belonging to
Mr.. H. that had gotten from the prem
ises into the road. 1t seems to be q
habit with all bovines to attack oxen
when yoked, and this animal, ordinari-
ly quiet and well-disposed, was no ex-
ception, and the longer he fought the
more furious he became. He chased
|
the farm of S. B. briggs, when they
were met by Isaac Truax who fought
him with heavy stick and drove hin
away. When in front of the farm OF
Geo. w. Cummins, the oxen were run
into the hedge and Mrs. Theodore Car
row lifted the boy from the cart Ovel
the hedge after firing three shots at thu
bull from a pistol. The oxen, q valu
able pair, were terribly cut with tho
animals horns, and there were appre
tensions at the time that they wer'
ruined.
PERsoNAL.-Rev.J J. T. Umsted is at
tending the New Castle Presbyter,
now in session at Middletown.
, Postmaster. VIM. H. Baggs left yes
terday for Woodbury., n. j., to atten'
! the annual meeting of the Suprem
, Conclave of Heptasophs.
DIR. P S. Kitchens, of Philadelphia
is spending the month of April on hi
l farm at Fleming's Landing to recupel
2 ate his health from Overwork.
1 Miss May Janvier, Glasgow FREQ
s Marley, N. j.; Miss Annie Drape
: Camden; Walter Rash, PHILADELPHIA;
y have been visiting friends in town.
r Frank III. Hoffecker, Wilmington
! Chas. E. HAZEL, Laurel; J. Ed. Ho
VI Hofecker, Baltimore VIM. E. Water
and wife and Charles J. Waters, ofPhili
It delphia; John Appleton and wife an
e Henry HI. Appleton and wife, of Odes'
e and Robert G. Whittock and wife,
o Middletown, and A. t. Hoffecker al
= wife, of Moorton, have been visitir
of town in attendance on the weddiI
;a ceremonies,
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18

SENATOR BAYARD's speech at the
IroquOis Banquet in Chicago on Friday
evening has attracted a good deal of
attention, in which he lamented cen
tralization and rested his faith in the
local self g0vernment-"t that we have
embarked our hopes upon trust and
not upon distrust in human nature is
not believed in so implicitly by all. A
New York paper published two days
before he made his speech, had the fol-
lowing paragraph:
:" Our large cities are rapidly becom-
ing foreign in all their theories and in
their government. Local self-goVern-
ment is placing them all at the mercy
Ofpersons who have no real interest
in either their property or their char
acter. The issue was drawn last week
in the municipal election at Chicago
between the brothels, the gamblers and
the groggeries on the one side, and the
property owning and permanent citi-
Zens on the other-and the bummers
won. The issues were not disguised
and the result was decisive. The
classes who make law and police power
necessary are in complete possession o.
all the machinery of both. 1t was 6
startling exhibition of the dangers
which under our present methods un
derlie property and organized society il
all our large cities"
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18
Marriage Bells.
HOFFECKER-WATERs.


The social event of the week was
the wedding this morning at the
nj. f. Church, the contracting parties
being John A. son of John II. HOffeck-
er and Miss Annie B. daughter of J. NJ.
Waters. At half past nine o'clock a
large number of relatives and our
citizens, generally, had gathered at the
church to witness from favorable posi-
tiOns the interesting ceremony. The
church was handsomely dressed by the
friends of the young couple. At the
point where the ribbon separated the
family from the spectators, a neat
evergreen arch was erected from which
swung an ivy gate of rustic design
above which hung a floral horseshoe
fragrant with hyacinthsand heliotropes.
In front of the chancel larger arch
made of lockwood spanRed the aisle
from which depended beautiful
monogram of roses and carnations
combining artistically the letters III and
w. The pulpit was banked with rich
and varied plants while at either ex-
tent of the chancel were two stands of
t1owers-calla lilies and cactus. The
whole presented a scene not only beau
tiful but fragrant in the aroma of its
numerous blossoms.
Promptly at the appointed hour the
bridal party entered the church while
the organist, Miss Elva CarrOw, sent
forth the we'll known strains of the
wedding march, the ushers, Walter o.
Hoffecker, A. Lee CummiRs, J. Ed
Hoffecker and Charles J. Waters pre-
ceeding the bride and groom elect
Rev. J. ID. Rigg officiated at the altar
in the full ceremony of the church
service which is always impressive.
The bridal party at it's conclusion
descended to the lecture-rOom where
they were warmly congratulated by
their numerous friends, after which th'
party took carriages for Clayton
where the bride and groom boarded
the cars for Washington.
The bride was dressed in electric
blue silk, wood color chip hat trimmed
to match the dress. The groom il
black coat and gray pants; the usher
in the usual conventional black frOcl
coats and wearing wedding favors, a
also the groom and minister.
The bride has been the recipient o
an unusual number of presents @
beauty and value that will fill tn
wants of Il lifetime
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18

ers just passed, provides for the ap-
pointment of commission in lunacy
to make an examination, when there
exists a reasonable doubt of the sanity
of a convict, and give an opinion on
the subject before sentence is passed.
There was considerable opposition to
the bill at first in the Senate, but an
amendment was introduced authoriz-
ing the Court to use its own Judgment
as to whether prisoner be sent to an
insane asylum, or remanded to Jail,
which removed all objections.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18
BUSINESS LOCALS.

THE following is the Analysis of !
the Delmarvia Fertilizing Company's |
Anchor Brand" Phosphate:
Ammonia, PIG /
Available PhosphOric Acid, 7.25
Insoluble PhOsphOric Acid, 1.S5
Total PhosphOric Acid, 9.1O |
Potash, 2.49
Eestimated value per Ton, $31. go.
have now on hand the largest and
best stock of Fine White Shirts ever
kept in this town. Call and examine
the Patent Scratch Pocket and Patent
Vent Pocket Shirts and my stock of
Fancy Sheviot and Percal Shirts, or
anything in the Gents Furnishing
Goods, as l have the best and cheapest
assortment.
w. ii. THOMPSON.
Latest Designs of Wall Papers, at
Wilkinson's next door to the Post
Office.
lin Roofing done at low figures, by
VIM. FAIRIES, Smyrna, Del.
Window Shade Goods and Fixtures,
at Wilkinson's. next door to the Post
office.
Miscellaneous Books at City Price
at ]. B. Cooper's.
For your Winter Under Wear re-
member the Gents Furnishing Goods
Establishment of J. F. Philips. His
shelves are filled with the largest as
sOrtment in Smyrna Quality to suit
everybody-from the 25ct. Undershirt
up to the fine Regular Made Goods.
Whitewash, Scrub, Stencil and Paint
Brushes, cheap, at Wilkinson's, next
door to the Post-office.
John E. Philips has a White Dress
Shirt for $1.00, that gets ahead of any
thing in Smyrna-Made of Wamsutta
Muslin-fne Linen Bosom and Guar
ranteed to fit. Nothing like it in
Smyrna.
Marsching'S French Gold Paint for
all Ornamental Gliding and Decorative
Purposes, at Wilkinson's, next door to
the Post-office.
Hosiery, Gloves, and lots of little
things for Gents use, at Phillips.
Carpets at New York Prices, by Sam.
pie, at J. B. Cooper's. See Large Ad
vertisement.
: AS much as possible we only dea
with the Manufacturer. Our Shirts
: Cotton Flannel Drawers, Suspenders
Neck Wear, Overalls, Umbrellas, Cos
samers, and Oil Clothing, all come from
first hands thus saving the Commits
; sion Mans profit and our customer get.
the benefit of it not only in price bu
in better made and better size goods.
JOHN Z. PHILLIPS.
/ Read the Large Advertisement of J
B. Cooper.
; Work Given Out. On receipt o
1 your address we will make an offer b,
u which you can earn SO to 81 evening
5 at your home. Men, Women, Boys o
Girls can do it.. H. c. WILKINSON
$ Co., 1876 and 1877 Fulton street, NeN
York. jan 3-61
# Those Noted "Que" Shirts, cheape
e at ]. b. Cooper's.
Full stock Hats and Caps. at Phillips
Mr.. d. B. Chensy, of Perryman's I
Hartford Co., Md, used twelve ton
If Diamond State Super Phosphate o
IS Sugar Corn last year-this year he ha
$ ordered twenty tons. He believes
N to be the best. feb 21-3l
G. Extension Lamps, at J. B. Cooper
70 Perkins & House Non Explosiy
, Lamps, at J. B. Cooper's
d Young Men wanting Neck We'
~ should bear in mind J. T.. Phillip
He has the largest and finest stock
ne town. Nothing here to equal it.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18

The SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
The initiatory step taken eight years
ago to have an improved system of
public schools has gone on steadily and
progressively under the guiding hand
of its first Superintendent, Prof. Jas. H.
Groves until his voluntary resignation
and appointment of his successor last
week. The wisdom of his appointment
and the efficiency of his administration
is attested from every school district
in the State.
His successor, Prof. T. y. Williams is
a gentleman of large experience as an
instructor of children as we'll as a
familiarity with public matters, which,
with thorough scholastic preparation
should make him eminently fitted to
fill the position with success. 1t is an
Office the duties of which no one can
properly fill whose mind does not run
in harmony with the methods as well
as the objects of education: this Mr.
Williams is said to possess to the point
of enthusiasm, and we shall expect t.
see him take up the work where hi
finds it and make the most of the ma
terial in his hands.
Prof. H. c. Carpenter, who was ap
pointed two years ago to fill the ofIic
of Assistant Superintendent then crea
ted, has been reappointed to the sam
office. He will enter upon his dutie
with a thorough knowledge Of Ou
school system-what is contemplate
in the law as we'll as the peculiar loc'
hindrances to its execution, and thi
equipped so efficiently, we shall exps
to see our Public Schools move on !
the line of progress SO we'll begun an
efficiently maintained.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18

LOCAL OPTION was laid at rest yes
terday in the Legislature, as it was
supposed it would be, by vote of 10
to 9 for indefinite postponement. The
argument of the principal speaker was,
the effect of the law in Maryland and
Kansas. 1t is singular that the same
incident should be used to defeat it as
was used in urging its adoption. In
the latter case they pointed to empty
jails, homes of squalor made decent
and happy, better clothed children,
&C.; in the former, to occasional viola
tions of law in sending away demijons
and crossing the border to indulge
their animal prOpensities. Such mel
show their moral insincerity by de-
manding perfection in every detail
when the vice of the liquer traffic il
touched, while at the same time they
will admit of thousand infractions o
every other law on the statute book.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18
News Items.

Grave charges have been made
against Treasury Department employees
engaged in building the Boston Post
Office extension.
1t is thought that only seven of the
eleven men indicted for the Phoenix
Park murders will be tried on q capital
charge.
S. w. Tallmadge, of the Milwaukee
Chamber of Commerce, has collected
reports concerning the condition and
prospects of the growing crops of
Winter wheat in Is of the principal
States of the Union, and the summary
places the yield 10O,000,O00 bushels
short of last years crop.
London is now in state of dynamite
apprehension certainly greater than
that of any capital in Europe, unless
st. Petersburg be excepted. When
even the workmen going into the
sewers are watched by the Board of
Works, lest they take explosives with
them so as to blow up the city, it may
be fancied what doubt and alarm pre-
vail as to the extent of the dynamite
plot, and as to whom it is possible to
! trust.
Having fished out Florida, or at least
sampled its big bass and mosquitoes to
his satisfaction, the President is grad
ually edging back toward Washington.
With fish solicitously darting at his
hook, alligatOrs turning up submissive
ly to be shot by Private Secretary
Phillips, broiled snipe for breakfast
and oranges from the tree. the natives
can hardly understand why the Presi
dent should hurry away from these
scenes.
The jury Friday in the case of JOSEPH
Brady, charged with the murder o
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under
Secretary Burke, brought in verdic
of guilty, and the prisoner was sen
fenced to be hanged on May IA. Brady
protested his innocence The charg,
of the jHdge was against him. The ex
animation of the three men arrested il
Cork was continued. Canadian detec
tives are in Buffalo watching tn
movements Of FeRians.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18
MARRIAGES.

ECKER-WATERS.-At. the M. L. Church,
4 Hoffecker and Annie b., youngest daughter
of James NJ Waters both OF this town.
TEMPLE-HILYARD.-At KentOn, April 10th, by
Rev. w ]. d. Lucas, G. Davis Temple and Miss
Elma Hllyard, both of Kentun.
IS-MARSHALls--Aprll 10th, at the NJ. +.
parsonage, Dover by Rev. J. II Caldwell, d d.,
Henry W. Davis, OF Philadelphia, and Miss
Annie p. Marshall, of Milford, Del.
RUMMOND-EGNER.-ln Newark, April 5th,
by Rev. L. Vallandigham d. d., Alexander J.,
Drummond and Rebeccn J. Egner, both of Cecil
county, Md.
KUMPEI-wALKER.-A the residence of the
brides mother, Mt, Pleasant, Dell April llth,
by Rev. w. G, Alexander Michal kumpel, Jr.,
Mt. Pleasant
QUIGG-FoRD.--At Bethel NJ Is. Church April
ard. by Rev, J. b. Quigg father Of the groom,
Miss Susie +. Foard of st, Augustine, Md,
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18
Spring.

Last year the peach trees were in
bloom the 9TH of April. Now we are u
week and a-half past that and if there
is not marked change it will be fully
as much longer before we see the un-
folded petals of the important peach
blossom. April has however brought
some pleasant sunny days, the fields
are putting on a carpet of green and
the birds with few exceptions are
warbling their merriest notes. But
with all these encouraging signs of
life, the fact remains that this must be
classed as backward Spring. All the
vivifyiDg forces of Nature have remain
ed chilled and sluggish, and the proba-
bilities are that our genuine Spring
opening, after long delay, will come
like sudden transformation on such a
day as is only seen in our latitude,
when the ongrestrained torrent Of life
will rush onward visibly, with a burst
of melody and gales of fragrance The
only regret will be that too many
things which have been cherished life
will never come. Such a Winter a.
the one through which we have just
labored brings more than the appear
ance of death to vegetation. Plant!
which are classed as hardy in ordinary
seasons often fail when their vita
forces are put to some unusual test. /
may be an intense degree of cold; i
may be long continued frost; it may b.
a treacherOus warmth which betray
vegetation into a premature awaken
ing, after which it falls an easy prey t.
some arctic wave. Until the close Q
February the Winter had not prove,
unusually malignant, but March cam
with blasts that chilled to the centre G
life. There is safety to the crop in tn
delay of the peach blossom, but ther
will be rejoicing in every other respeC
at the warmer impulses that come wit
. more ethereal breeZes.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-18

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