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Smyrna times., 1884-07-02
EXPRESS,

NctO Castle accommodation T,,jys -Taovo yvn
mlngton at 6.l5 A. NJ. and 3.O0P NJ Leave New
Castle at 9.3J a. NJ. ana 4.50 Pm
SMYRNA BRANCH TKAINS.-LeayeS Smyrna
lot clayton ll5, S53, 1921 and II Oj A. NJ, 21O 437
. ~ anu l4J P. NJ Leave Clayton for SMYRNA
739' 9O3 l0.55 and lIlG 4 W., 2.2i, AS So and
7.57 p. NJ " '' ~ ~ "''4
CoNNEcTIoNS-At Porter with Newark a. Della
ware City Railroad. At Townsend. with Queen
aI@He INC sS Kent railroad. AtClayton, with Delaware
Az harrington with Delaware Maryland & Vir-
Glhia Rallroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge &
Seaiord railroad. At Delmar with Eastern Shore
Railroad. Wicomico & Pocomoke ENiIrood anS
Peninsula Railroad ''''
ClIAS. L. PUGII, General Manager.
>. X. WOOD, General Passenger Agent
Smyrna times., 1884-07-02
smyrna Branch Trains
CIoainp OF MniIs

Going North, 7.l5 NJ. S.53A. NJ. l1O5A.M 54OP NJ
Going South, 1921 2.1OP.M. 437PM. 745 "
Smyrna times., 1884-07-02
Philadelphia, Wilmington Z Baltimore sslvsad,
DELAWARE DIVISION.

On and after MONDAY, June 23rd 1881. (Suu-
days excepted trains will leave us follows;
soUTHWAkD NORTHWARD
Smyrna times., 1884-07-02
County and State Items

From the North, ll30 A. M, and S15P.M
From the South, 735 and l.SO AN.
Smyrna times., 1884-07-02
FOR SALE.

One Second hand Steam Engine and Boiler for
Immediate delivery This Engine and Boiler has
been running IN our shops and been replaced by
larger power but will do good service for long
while yet. For particulars apply %
GEO W. * s. TAYLOR,
oct81.tf Smyrna, Del.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

Donnell, Lawson 4 Simpson have
made proposition to their creditors
10 give them twelve and twenty-four
months paper ate per cent. n this is
accepted they can and will resume
business.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

The Carl Churs Club, Of Fort
Ksogh, will give y dramatic enter
tainment at the post ON Thurday even
Ing next. It will be followed by
dancing, and will be very pleasant
affair.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

The assistant cashier Of the First
National bank, H. F. Bachelor,
started yesterday msring ON the stage
for Dsadwood. and will 90 from thence
to vsit friends at the smoky old city
Of Pittsburg, Pa.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

The loot ball does 70 rather close to
those telephone wires, boys. and
they're not easy things to repair.
You've got II straight now, for q fact.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

w. Graft, Of Nashville, Tenn, ar
rived here yesterday and was busy
during the dsy preparing to open up .
large cattle business In the district
east Of here.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

H. H. Holemberg. the contractor for
stone and mason work Of the Stock
Growers' National bank building,
went to Billings this morning.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

Bob Coleman, the obliging barber
at the Inter-Ocesn, Is under the
weather, suffering from an attack of
feYer.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

A reduction from S25 to SIS in In.
itiation fees IL quite motor In favor
Of joining the order of Kinights Of
Honor.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

Rustling news ON q street corner Is
not the easiest work In the world Oh q
warm evening like the last.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

An attractive showing Of lsts style
goods, boots, shoes and fancy articles
is made by the dry goods and notion
house Of q. w. Parker 4 Co.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

Brill . ONcpd announce In to.day's
JOURNAL tbsis- shility to feed the
hungry, and eater TO the tassss Of the
spicure In all commodities In their line,
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

The usual long trains still 70
through every night, aud manage to
make the time ofarriving here reason.
ably well.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

Thomas Parker, of Chicago, came
from the east yesterday and will re-
main here day or two.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

J. b. Herford, the well known Mus.
selshell cattle grower, arrived here
to-day.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

w. H. Marion, Of Bozeman, arrived
from the west by this morning. train.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

Signs to meet the times. See Morri.
son, corner Park and Pleasant streets, 4
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

Rev. Z. p. Linnell returned ,yester.
day from trip to Crane, Headley l.
Go. g sheep ranch.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

1t was jolly crowd that perambu.
lated Main street for q short time last
evening.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

The latest caper In mixed drinks at
Guy Durkee's Sideboard saloon.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

w. Carpenter, of Chicago, registered
at the Inter- Ocean this morning.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-05-24

Branding has been going on at a
lively rate at the stock yards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

In order to make another Cabinet position,
Democratic congressman will try to pass a bill
placing the Bureau of Agriculture on an equal
footing with the other departments of the
government. When this is accomplished it
would be but meet and proper to reward Hen
ry Ward Beecher for his eminent services to
the party by making him Secretary of Agri-
culture or Agriculture general, as the title
may be. Mr.. Beecher is Thoroughbred
qualified for such an Office through his expert
ence with his Peekskill farm, where he raises
potatoes at a cost to himself of two dollars a
bushel, or thereabouts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

hoIstered in blue plush, which has now faded to a
dingy white. The material and workmanship of the
entire vehicle was of the best, and the wheels and
framework are good for fifty years to come.
MRS. A. D. EVANS, widow of ex-senator Evans, of
Maine, has an autograph album filed with the names
of her distinguished contemporaries. Among them is
that of Davy Crockett, then a representative in Con-
gress, who wrote, verbatim ct literatim, as follows:
Mrs. Evans of main requests The hunter from the
west to write his name in her Album. Her curiosity
shall be ~grattifed by a Sentiment wishing her helth
and ~hapines-and a Safe arivel at her residence with
her family and friends"
THE papers announce that the birthday of the
Crown Princess of Germany has been celebrated at
Berlin in the customary way. 1t may be hoped that
festivities on this anniversary have not been dis
turbed, as they were last year, when, in consequence
of a misunderstanding the Princess announced her
intention of at once starting for England, and it re-
quired the personal intervention of tho Emperor and
the exertion of all his strong influence to bring about
a reconciliation. His Majesty has a sagacious aversion
to washing dirty linen in public, and never forgives
any royal parsonage whose indiscretion causes a scan
dal. do nothing, say nothingi time will put every
thing to rights" This is his invariable answer when
one member of his family comes to complain of
another.
A FEW figures given 10 Nature by Arthur Parnel
may do something to stop the ravages of the lightning
rod fend: up to date 1 have collected the fullest de-
tails of 320 well-authenticated cases [of lightning
stroke on o -protected buildingsl. In 204 of these,
or 81 per cent, injuries either to rods, constructions
or persons occurred. In ISL cases, or AT per cent,
there were injuries either to constructions or to per-
sons. Out of these ISL incidents seventy-one contain
in their records no allegations as to the existence of
faults, either in the rod, or in its earth, :" until after
the event, and the remaining eighty furnish no record
of such faults being found 'either before OK after the
event" Mr.. Parnell states that his own experience
goes to prove that the majority of accidents occur with
rods deemed to be in good order.
IT seems uncertain whether Taglionis executors
will permit the publication of her memoirs, which are
said to abound in curious and piquant details. Fanny
Elssler's executors will not have so delicate a question
to resolve, as, though she wrote voluminous memoirs
after her retirement from the stage in 1851, she
burned them ten years ago. "Let what is past and
gone be past and gone" was the answer she made to a
friend, who took her TO task for destroying so many
interesting pages. OF the many stories told of her,
perhaps the best known is that of her romantic liai-
son with the Due de Reichstadt, the Inflated son of
the first Napoleon. 1t is said to be the merest myth.
She has over and over again, in recent years, protested
that she was not only never attached to the young
prince, but that she never even saw him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

IT is related that it was a touching scene
when the costly nicknacks of the Buchanan
mansion at louisville were being disposed of at
auction. Doubtless it was, and the unfor-
tunate mistress of that elegant house is to be
pitied, but not a whit more than is the widow
who has an eight-dollar bureau sold if she be
too poor to buy another. Humanity is prone
to imagine that ~luxuries are harder to give up
than are necessities. 1t is the biggest kind of
mistakes. The wife the absconding whisky
dealer will hardly suffer physical discomfort.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18


JAY GOULD is represented as saying that
business is depressed for various reasons.
Zone is that we pass through just such peri
odical depressions at least every ten years.
At such times it is to be expected that stocks
will go below their normal value. Again, the
season about the period of a presidential cleo
ton is always one of dependency. The
prospects of a change of administration cause
a great many enterprises to hesitate. Business
men are uncertain as to the policy of any in
coming administration, and they fear to make
ventures. This feeling of apprehension, l be-
lieve, however, is passing away" When
asked if he thought the outlook for business
was encouraging, he said:
'Most certainly 1 do. I believe that after
the LIST of January we shall begin a new era.
/ think that the year 1885 will be a money
making year. The balance Of the trade of the
world is now in our favor. Foreign nations
are buying of us more than we are buying of
them. They are paying us the difference in
hard gold coin. Millions of this reaches us on
every incoming steamer"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

ents which had been sent in anticipation of
the marriage with the other fellow. Now
comes Paxton, with the threat of entering
suit against his father-in-law for their value,
relying upon the legal advice already referred
to. The whole affair has a deep and indelible
tinge of dishonor and scurviness. If true,
Paxton is too pusillanimous to have any sort
of a wife, and it may be predicted now that
the young miss will live to rue her bargain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

to their services alone, satisfying the national
conscience, and raising them above the in
trigues and even the support of faction; if
lawyers and civilians looked for reward not to
a party, but to the Nation incarnate in its
chief magistrate; not to political maneuver-
ing, but to the performance of public and pro-
fessional duty"
What would the bauble of "stars and rib
bons, k~nighthoods and medals" be worth to
General Grant, especially if the same honors
were bestowed, as suggested, on Lee. Long
street, Semmes and Wade Hampton, "not to
say Quantrell and Captain Wirz. Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan and Hancock are ennobled
above the bestowal of carriers and such jewels,
and no official ribbon would raise them in the
esteem of the people. The name of Yelling
ton would go as far Town the corridors of
time without the honorary "duke" attached to
it, just as that of Cromwell does without any
title at all save the name his plain old mother
gave him when he kicked up his heels a babe,
%unmindful of his great destiny. The United
States has got along nicely for over a hum
dred years without titles, and will probably
fill out another hundred in the same demo-
cratic wav
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

In view of the increased facilities offered for
"demarriages' by France, and the laxity of
opinion and laws on the subject elsewhere,
the Pope has issued a letter strongly donounc-
ing such violations of the most sacred obliga-
tons that can be assumed. Certainly some
thing of the kind should be done. 1t has been
shown within the last few days that not less
than 400 divorce cases are now on the dock
cts of Philadelphia and Chicago courts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

THE st. Louis Post Dispatch is of the opin-
better off if it did not have the %perilous priv
ilege of electing a senator in New York this
winter. If this great thought were properly
introduced to the minds of New York Repub-
lican Legislators, they might be induced, for
the sake of their party, to allow the Demo
Gratis to choose a senator, The Democrats
are just magnanimous and elf-sacrifcing
enough, too, to accept the risk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18
cratic way.

Mr.. FOSTER comedies that the treaty he
has negotiated with Spain will reduce the
government revenue at least $25, 900, 900.
Yet he says that the reduction of the reve-
nue. was one of the great problems that had
to be solved, and the presence of a surplus
is "a white elephant" which made itself felt
in the campaign just closed, and against
which a majority of the people of the coun-
try have pronounced. The Philadelphia Press,
speaking of this admission and statement of
Mr.. Foster, says:
need depletion. In looking round for a
worthy object for American benefcence he
finds the Spanish government willing, or, to
use his own language, he thought it better
to reduce our revenue in this way All this
will be highly satisfactory to the recipient of
this great gift enterprise; but have we no
more worthy object at homer While in some
States 80 per cent of our adult population are
returned as unable to read and write, ana
while our shipping industry is being pushed
to the wall for the want of the fostering care
of the government, Congress, we fancy, will
not accept Mr.. Fosters proposition for a hand
some gift to one of the meanest governments
on earth, and, moreover, one that has insult
ed the American flag and calmly looked on
when American citizens were being MUIR
dered."
By the Constitution treaties are made su-
preme above laws; and it may be doubted
whether it Il is we'll for the executive branch of
the government to be regularly committed to
what is really an encroachment upon the pre-
rogative Of Congress. The Constitution
especially RENTS questions affecting revenues
to Congress, and provides that all such meas
ures shall originate in the popular branch, the
House of Representatives. 1t may not be
well for the executive department of the gov
eminent to fspread" over an area specifically
of Representatives has been standing on this
point of constitutional etiquette" 1t is this
which has tied up the Mexican treaty in the
House, and it is not improbable that the same
point will be urged against the new conven-
ton. We are not urging thic against the
merits Of the treaty, but merely as a
suggestion that if ours be a government of
limitations, it might be better were the limita-
lions respected as much as may be practicable.
1t is within the proper purview of discussion
whether isolated treaties, concluded by the
executive branch of the government, and to
which, to a high degree, the good faith Of the
country appears to be pledged before the
world, is the best method of inaugurating a
''policy" upon which the country can proceed
in the future in the extension of its
and the development of its industries. Is the
basis broad and stable enoughP
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18
THE QUESTION OF TITLES.

Percy Greg Though it does not appear who
Percy Greg is), writing to the Fortnightly Re-
view on the subject of titles of honor confer
red by government for distinguished services,
thinks that the possible attainment of such
distinction is an incentive to honorable en-
deavor, a something that money could not
tain that in time money would not buy a peer
age, just as money may now buy such baubles
in Italy and elsewhere, to the scandal and dis
gust, doubtless, of the real genuine markees.
Mr.. Greg deplores the fact that America has
not set up the custom, and s~ustains his posi-
ton thus:
"America lost much by renouncing the
power of comforting personal and visible dis
t~inction, recognized and valued reward, over
those who served her well. This error has
contributed to the low tone of her whole pub
lie life, of her professions and her politics.
The Nation had double cause to regret that it
could mark its gratitude to General Grant
only by the gift of a fortune-paltry compared
with those of stock iobbers and contractors
and a presidential nomination, which en-
tangled him in the tolls of faction. Both the
Office and the man were damaged thereby.
The soldier made a bad President, and gath
cred round him a corrupt and degraded court.
Every element of transatlantic society would
be other and nobler than il is if Grant, Nc
Clellan, Sherman, Sheridan and Hancock,
Farragut and Dahlgren. not to say Lee and
Longstreet, Semmes and Wade Hampton, had
received a visible rank, a public station due
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18
THE little episode in Washingt

THE little episode in Washington will be
remembered, in which a Miss Willard
~'iumped" her intend d marriage with a Mr..
Simpson and became Mrs. Paxton. 1t was
stated at the time that the thrifty husband
had taken legal advice and dis
covered that Miss Willard could hold
on to the presents sent her by
friends in view of her approaching we'd
ding with the bankers son. Miss Wizards
father was on his way from Europe when the
daughter cut up so, but when he reached
home, and was made acquainted with the
change of the young lady's mind, he caused
10 be returned to the donors the wedding pres
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

THE proposition of the st. Louis Manner
chor and Turnverein to celebrate the 18th of
April, the anniversary of the death Of Lin
coin, is in bad taste, as it would inevitably
bring his infamous assassin into too great
prominence. 1t were better to celebrate Feb.
u, the anniversary of his birth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

IT is said that Miss Ransom has a portrait
Of General Thomas that she wishes the gov
eminent to buy. The government owes it to
the memory of Pap Thomas, as he was
called by his ''boys," to have a copy of his
portrait. But can Miss Ransom do the work
as well as anybody else CAM Works of art
should be purchased by the government on
their merits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

THE death of Kossuth, the Hungarian
patriot, recalls a life filled with great deeds
and noble achievements, checked in mid
career by overwhelming adverse circum-
stances. He was one of the most remarkable
men of the age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

THE unique scoundrel of the day is George
Jones, of Serbia, N. Y. He is a drunken loafer,
who has been in the habit of living at his
mothers expense and squandering her meager
earnings. Last week he qnarreled with her be-
cause she told him she would not work to keep him
in money any longer. Having an errand at a
neighbours, she went out of the house. She was
absent half an hour. When she returned her
son had gone away. Mrs. Jones is very near
sighted. She was about to begin work at a
clothes-wringer in her kitchen when a knock at
the door called her away. A neighbours child
had come in to borrow some soap for her mother.
While Mrs. Jones was getting it for her the
child noticed a string running from the handle
of the othes- wringer to q beam directly over
the wringer. Pointing straight low from the
beam were the muzzles of a double -barreled
shotgun. Both barrels we're loaded, and the
hammers at full cock. The string that led from
the handle OF the wringer was fastened to the
triggers. The slightest movement of the handle
would have discharged the gun, and the contents
of the barrels would have lodged in the head or
body of any one who stood beneath. At noon
the scoundrelly son returned home and expressed
great surprise. She was getting dinner for him.
He walked up to her, and exclaiming g. you
are you alive yet2' knocked herdown, and kicked
and beat her as she struggled on the floor. Her
cries summoned passers-by. He will be held for
attempted murder.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

SUPPOSE the authorities at Scotland Yard
turn their attention to the dynamitards that
rendezvous at Paris. They do the work
those in America the talking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

VENNoR, before he died, predicted that this
would be a mild, open winter, very moist. 1t
would be mighty mean to give an opinion of a
man who is dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

f is a story told of a certain rich man
who has had a professional fancy penman write
his will on parchment and then, in an ebony box,
consigned it to the safe deposit company.-New
York Gossip.
Does he have the vain hope of circumventing
disappointed heirs and the lawyers who want to
break the will by these fancy TOUGHEST Half a
sheet of straw paper laid way in a cigar box
would be just as effective.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18

DR.. TALMAGE will offer the opening prayer at
the New Orleans worlds fair tomorrow, and he
will make himself heard in the great building, if
any preacher in the United States can.-New
York Mail, of Tuesday.
This seems to indicate an impression on the
part of the Mail that the Being to whom prayers
are supposed to be addressed requires the sue
cessful petitioner to possess a stentorian voice.
Mr.. Talmage opened the exposition with prayer,
but until it is learned whether he permitted him
self to whisper its utterances, no estimate can
be made, according to the Mails theory, of the
probable efficacy of his remarks.