Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1884-01-02


A. P. GRIFFITH, real estate broker,
has sold the farm of Elizabeth Dill,
three miles north of Smyrna, contain
ing 90 acres, for $1,000, to d. r. Say, of
Pennsylvania.
THE sleighing that commenced on
Christmas eve was kept up until Sun
day last, but was not much INDUCED |
in as q pastime in our streets after the |
rain of Thursday.
THE 1884 almanacs tell us that only
one eclipse will be visible in this coun-
try next year, and that there will be a |
total eclipse of the moon on the morn
ing of April 10th.
A PIECE of poetry of five verses emit
tied, Zone of the Smyrna Widowers,"
by "Knotty," which reached us by the
mail, is without the prerequisite for |
publicatiOn-the authors name.
THE late cold snap with its attendant |
sleet and icy roads has proven to be
harvest for the blacksmiths, who have
been hard~pressed from early morning
until late at night roughing horses and
preparing them for travel on slippery
roads.
HERMAN Roe began his select school
on Monday with a fair attendance and
expected an accession of six or eight
scholars to-day. They are largely
from the surrounding country. His
new furniture, iron-frame desks, are
expected in a few DAYS.
PROFESSOR LEWIS SWIFT, of the
Warner Observatory at Rochester, n.
Y, has discovered that the POns comet,
which had a single tail in 1912, now
has double tail, shorter three degrees
in length. 1t can be seen with the
naked eye early in the evening.
YESTERDAY was not the kind of a
day to make one especially cheerful,
but the most pleasant looking individ-
ual we saw was man who had been
examining into his business for the
past year, with a better result on the
credit side than he had anticipated.
LEvICK NJ. HIRoNs who succeeds
II. H. huntington on the "Hill is
fully launched in business and calls the
attention of our citizens of the town
and country to his stock of goods. Mr..
H. has been in the mercantile business
for a number of years and is known as
a popular salesman.
THE n. Y. & n. e Railroad was put
in charge of G. p. Clark, as receiver, on
January LIST, on account Of default of
interest on it's funded obligations.
This is the railroad over which all the
fruit shipped from the Peninsula to
Boston is sent and this announcement
will be received with regret by fruit
growers.
THE steamer John Z. Tygert will leave
Rothwell's Landing (Fleming's on hour
later for Philadelphia, at 2 o'clock,
p. NJ, on Tuesday, January Sth; return
ing, will leave Philadelphia, Thursday,
January 10th, at - o'clock, NJ. The
boat is fixed up so as to make it COM
Portable for passengers during the win
| ter season.
SEVERAL of our citizens started get
ting ice on Saturday, anticipating, as it
has proved, a moderation of the tenn
perature and thaw. 1t was from two
to three inches thick. The arrange
ments were made for general har-
vest on Monday had the freezing
weather continued.
THEY have been having cold weather
where Levi f. Anthony and wife are
spending a part Of the Winter, Troy,
ny A note received from him last
week said, Yesterday was a very cold
day: at a. NJ, the thermometer was
240 below zero, at 11.30, s. below, and
P. NJ, 81 below. Ice is foot thick
eight inches of snow and elegant sleigh.
ing"
THE thunder storm which occurred
here on Thursday last is noted by oul
exchanges from several other places as
phenomenal occurrence for the
Christmas season when the ground was
covered with snow. 1t did not belong
only to the Middle States but the same
unusual event occurred in New England
where the lightning was severe enough
to do some damage.
THE mill pond is a great temptation
for the skaters when there is ice and /;
: number of the boys repaired there OIL
Saturday. The freezing was very
! irregular, thick and thin places, ant
for this reason very unsafe. Two boys
: Edward Woodward and Charles Cover
: dale, broke in at different times durin
) the day in water over their heads, bu
were speedily rescued.
, We have received the Manhdtta
Magazine for January, 1884, and find
as usual full of interesting matter
: Among the leading contributions ar
Il "Luther's Monument at Worms" b
t ]. Leonard Corning; "Pompeii Pas
and Present." by Anna Ballard, bot
y fully illustrated; THE Doorkeeper,"
: poem by Edith NJ. Thomas; "Creatio
: or Evolution" by Geo. TicknOr Curti
a etc. The Manhattan hasn't an uninte
: esting article in it.
l. IT seems to have taken some of on
/ citizens a long time to get over Chris
mas. There is a great deal of heather
. ism in observing this Christian even
2 and some parties who are nominal
V Christians all the rest of the year g
q wholly unchristianiZed when the Sc
son for the approximation of "PeaC
. on earth, good will to men" rol
IL around. Is it wholly the demon
e drink that sends such men headloI
r into the dead sea?
a. ONE of the oldest subscribers Of Il
r TIMES is John G. Raymond, residil
near Leipsic, in fact commencing wi
its first issue, nearly 30 years ago, al
m continuing in an unbrOken line un
n. the present time. AS punctually
ne the coming of the New Year Mr.. Ra
: mond visits the TIMES office to rene
- his subscription, nor shall we look 4
Id break in his New Years visit so lo
at as he is blest with a continuation
Id his good health and strength.
to YESTERDAY was the annual movi
ID time in all the State below Duck Cree
ro Little Creek and Kenton Hundre
w and on the Eastern Shore of MarylaI
Our moving time is March 1st, and
= New Castle County March 25th. He
are three moving days for the thu
contiguous sections, and farmers char