Smyrna times., 1884-10-29
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AUTUMN leaves can now be gathered
by the bushel.
THERE is less malarial sickness this
season than usual, in the fall of the
year.
FARMERS have been sending wheat
to market the past week in considerable
quantities.
GEO. w. TAYLOR was the lucky one
at the drawing Of the Baynard watch
club last week.
AT the Clayton school house Friday
evening P. E. Atkins gave lecture
on PhrenOlOgy.
THE number of fve-ceut pieces is
put at 126,OOO,OOO, two fives to each
man, woman and child.
IT is less tnan a week before the
great feast on crow comes oil. We
don't expect to be at the big mess.
THE Juvenile Missionary Society
will meet at the usual place on Friday
evening next, 3lst inst, at Z O'Clock.
No meeting has been announced bv
the Republicans for this town. and we
understand none will be held in this
County.
S. B. COLLINS has just returned from
the city with a full line of Fall and
Winter goods Of the latest styles and
novelties.
THE Reese brothers it is now stated
had an insurance of 5000 on the stable
in which the fire of Saturday week
originated.
Duck CREEK HUNDRED is sure of
one thing whatever mishaps may oc-
cur to other persons it is bound to have
the sheriff.
BY the way, betting doesn't carry an
election, anymore than it wins horse
race. And yet, this isalmOst the oulv
method of argument.
PERSONS in want of cheap carriage
will do well to attend the public sale
of JOS. l.. Beckett, advertised, as will
be seen, Saturday, 8th proximo.
THE condition Of some of our politi-
clans after reading the daily papers is
that OF the nursery song,
Now we go up, up, up!
NOW we go down, down, d0wny
]. V. SMITH has erected a wire fence
around his burial lot in the Odd f ell
lows Cemetery. which is ingenious in
construction while it preserves it from
trespass
A. P. GRIFFITH & Co., real estate
brokers, have sold the house and lot
belonging to Samuel Taylor, on Main
street, this town, to VIM. P. Smithers.
for 81 200.
THE services of the NJ. f. Church
Sunday evening will be varied bv a
service of song, the music being con-
Quoted by the choir, assisted by the
Sunday school.
The Americus club will put in a
wire and battery in their room in the
johnson building for their private use
to receive the news of the election on
Tuesday night.
The Salem Sunbeam thus states it:
d" The melancholy days have come.
the saddest of the year, when election
bets will have to be paid, in steeple
hats, long boots, or beer.
WE still have those remarkable sun
sets. The theory that those of last
year were caused by the Java earth
quake IS about exploded and scientists
Will have to hunt another reason.
FRANK WHEELAN, formerly foreman
of the Record and for the past two
months connected with this office, has
moved his family to Dover, having
taken position in the Office of the
Sentinel.
JOSEPH SMITHERs is adding another
bay window to his dwelling. second
story, as a counterpart to the one for
the first floor, below. T. B. Megear
has also added bay window to the
south side of his dwelling.
The showers of rain which brought
such relief to town and country this
day week have had a most beneficial
elect in assisting termination, and the
newly sOwn wheatAelds are already
showing a beautiful shading Of green.
A RETURN game of base ball was
played on Saturday between the club
OF KentOn and that of this town on
their grounds at the extension of
Delaware street, the score standing IL
to | in favor of the latter. It was a
well contested game.
In addition TO The temperance meet
iihgs' notlced IN another item, to be
held within this County, one will be
held at the school house near Sever
sons Church on Friday evening. to be
addressed by Rev. J. 3. Quigg. The
meeting announced for this town on
Monday evening next, we understand
will be addressed by Revs. J. +. Now
bray and r. f. Terry.
THE avenue of overlapping naples
directly i'll front of Belmont Hail in
looking up from the public road is pro-
nounced by lady who saw it on Sun
day To be one of the most beautiful
Autumnal sights she ever witnessed.
Ihe leaves were mass of tints sur
passing IN richness Of color the paint
ers most skilled art, presenting q view
well worth journey to look at.
Mr.. ANDREWS is instructino a class
OF about 40 scholars in singing at
walkers school house, three miles
from town. All the young men and
young ladies who go to singing schools
do not 30 for musical instruction. bv a
long sight, but II number do, and thew
are benefited for life. Those who 90
simply for the pleasure of association.
are compelled to leaFp something, and
II improper matches are not the out
come, there is benefit all round.
a SportsTnan's Manual.
AS the Autumnal cunning season
draws nigh, a demand arises for infor-
nation concerning the best ranges for
game, and the waterways most prolific
IN fowl. For the purpose Of supplying
such a demand, the passenger depart
ment Of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad has Dnhlisbad