Smyrna times., 1884-12-03

brokers, have sold the dwelling house
OF Edmund L. Stats, at Smyrna Land
ing, for $1,000, to V. Isbell, of Dover {;
also farm of 190 acres, near Downs
Chapel, belonging to Alexander Mar
tin, for $4,000, to John @. Adams, of
Chester, Pa.
CHAs. SMITH, of the Chester House,
is erecting at " flat iron point re-
frigeratOr for keeping beer. 1t is to
be Is feet s inches square, and "a feet
high, and is being constructed with a
view to keeping ice, being intended for
Summer use, the ice being kept above
and the beer below.
WIN. H. JANEY, of Baltimore, Md.
has been appointed Cashier of the
National Bank of Smyrna, Uice, VIM.
NJ. Bell, resigned. He has recently
been at Cambridge, Md, having pre-
viOusly learned the banking business
in Baltimore. He is expected to as
sumo his duties next week.
NOTICE is hereby given that there
will be another excursion to Cape
Charles City on the 10Th inst. Tickets
will be issued on the regular train at
reduced rates, good for 10 days, giving
those desiring to go time to examine
the land. Any one wishing to 90 will
notify G. w. Ingram, Middletown.
L. S. WADDINGTON, of Salem, N. J..
who we stated last week had rented the
room adjoining the store of John w.
Meredith, Commerce just below Main
street, has this week commenced busi-
Vryif n 10 or s -. 1.
CO, &c. Mr.. WaddingtOn claims to
have superior brand to OfeI for sale.
AS J. L. Cavender was riding uD
Commerce street, Monday, he was
run into by l.. G. McCOy's horse, which
was loose in the street, and had one of
the front wheels of his carriage broken.
No one was hurt however, and having
taken his carriage to the shop and bor-
rowed another, JOS. proceeded on his
his journey.
MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON, resid-
ing with her son Geo. Il. THOMPSON.
near the " Big Oak" fell down stairs
on Friday last and hurt herself severe
ly but not seriously, it is hoped.
Among the wounds received was a Sc
we're cut on the face. Mrs. Thomson
is now past seventy years of ace. a
period of great risk in such accidents.
FIVE months ago Chas. A. Cleaver
presented Mrs. VIM. G. Mitchell a Dig
which on being killed and dressed last
week--six months old-weigbed 076
pounds. A gain of one pound dav to
porker is considered very satisfactory
progress but this one made the extra
ordinary gain of about one and a half
pounds day. Mr.. Cleaver has now
40 pigs of the same stock. Chester
county white.
THE Superintendent of the Presbv-
terian SuEday-schOOl, noted the fact
Thursday night in his report, in sneak
ing of the attendance, that there were
q more children that attended the
public school of the town than did the
Sunday-schOOls. When taken into ac-
count that the attendance of a number
OF children on the latter is very irregu-
lar it would seem that there is some
room here for missionary work.
JOHN TRUITT, a negro who has be-
come notorious for his bad character
on Saturday in attempting while drunk
to go out of the store of Jas. NJ. Waters
instead of going out the door made his
exit through the window. After thus
getting out he insisted on going back
again, when he was arrested bv the
police and put in the lookup. On
Monday morning he was made paw the
usual cost for drunkenness as we'll as
the damage to the window.
DIR. and Mrs. ]. w. Clifton were
treated to a genuine surprise party on
Friday evening at their residence bv
their friends, it being the seventh ami |
versary of their wedding. The guests
were masked, some of them in striking
and laughable costumes, and with mer7
rlment, dsncing, &c, the evening was
most enjOyably spent. The guests |
went prepared with refreshments as |
wells social enjOyments and the Occas- |
ion was ended with a repast from well |
supplied tables.
The section of country about Black |
bird has been greatly disturbed the |
past week or two by a strange animal
in a woods two miles from that town. /
IL makes, they say, sound between |
the grOwl of dog and the low roar of |
a lion and Is about the size of a two
year old calf. VIM. i. Reynolds got a
shot at it but did not Kill it, The
does not want such an
animal around loose, especially as it
has been seen chasing sheep and young
cattle several times.
WE have from the Rev. DIR. A. G. !
Shears, Of New Haven, Conn, a little |
book OF over 20 pages containing the
funeral sermon of DR.. II. n. Powers on
the death of his wife together with a
OF poems, mostly tributes to
personal friendships written by DR..
Shears, himself, containing MANY pas-
sages of beauty of thought as we'll as
rhythm of expression. DR.. Shears is
personally known to S. B. briggs, Geo.
w. Cummins, Mrs. G. f. Peterson and
others, who are personal friends.
THANKSGIVING evening was divided
between the eSunday-schOOl anniversary
at the Presbyterian church and the
festival of the NJ. Il. Mite Society.
Neither were so fully attended as has
been the case on former Ocasions.
though the evening was pleasant with
out and agreeable in the entertain
ments within. The Sunday-school ex-
ercises consisted entirely of singing bv
the school, the report Of the SnDerin-
tendent, Geo. w. Taylor, and an adj
dress by the pastor, Rev,J. II. Umsted.
The enterprising, wide awake house
Of a. G. Yates & Co., whose pictorial
card appears elsewhere in our columns.
is fully prepared for the coming sea-
son, with large and complete stock
Of ready-made clothing, and we ad-
wise all in need of goods in this line to
make it point, when in Philadelphia,
10 call at the Ledger Building, Sixth
and Chestnut streets. An examina-
ton of the goods, the general make up
as well as the quality of the material
coupled with the extreme low prices is
almost sure to lead to a purchase.
SOME of the meat dealers have been
doing quite a good trade in sausage las
D side dish) the past three or four
weeks, but as the general slaughter of
hogs come with December, quite a lot
g finding its way into the market from
he farmers. The former found ready
at Is cents per pound, but
he country make sells at II cents.
double the price of pork, and some
nay so as low as ten cents where it Is
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