Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1884-11-12
His Method ornoinr-

A colored man says that editor Hof-
ecker went around to tho several houses
where the band men live, on Tuesday
night, and woke up some who were asleep,
telling them to be ready to come out when
ever they were sent for and they say the
poor fellows stayed up all night Tuesday
and Wednesday nights, and finally went
on halt-cocked on false alarm Thursday
at midnight Rather curious manner for
an independent editor to act"
If the editor of the Record had the
first instincts of a gentlemen he would
not have put the above item in his
paper. But he is INSCRIPTIONS,
cheeky, mean, and his little mind is
ready to take hold of anything that
will afford an opportunity for a mali
cious assault upon the editor of this
paper. We rarely notice anything he
says in regard to us, because we are
known here and have been from our
youth, while he is bird of passage,
and should not in this but for the evil
dent malicious intention on his part to
take advantage of a time of high polit-
ical excitement, to produce political
prejudice against us. The statement
IN the item above is false in every par
tlcular. We never spoke to a member
OF the band for this or any other polit-
ical occasion in regard to making
music, and, that we went around
waking them up is so foreign to our
habit as to be preposterous. We heard
the music only at a distance, and knew
not what it was for, until told the
next morning. Further, the members of
the band say they never said so and thus
the editor Of the Record stands guilty
OF not only uttering a deliberate false
hood but degrading the editorial pro-
tession by using such methods to graf
lily malignant spite. His meanness is
the more apparent and correspOndingly
intensified by the fact that he was
present on Friday afternoon when an
absolute denial Of the charge contained
IN his paper was made by us. His
animus IS too plain to need further
comment.
The Excursion to Charles City.
The excursion for which arrange
ments were made by Geo. W. Ingram.
real estate agent, of Mildlatown. noted
liz our issue OF last week. left for
Charles City on Monday afternoon.
They went by the regular train. half
the party spending Monday night at
Princess Anne and hatt al Pocomoke
City, there not being hotel accommo-
dations sufficient for ali at eithc? plac,
Early yesterday morning they set out
for Charles City, the site of which was
examined with considerable interest.
Ample time and opportunity was
hn nN-anpsiAt,f-f 70.
of the lower Peninsula through which
the new road runs. Last night was
to have been spent at Eastville and
Bell Haven. Va, but they could not
accommodate SO many and So they ran
up To Salisbury where they passed a
pleasant night and took an early train
this morning, arriving home about
noon instead OF at five o'clock this
evening as was expected. The party
consisted Of about one hundred per-
sons from Delaware, New York, New
Jersey, PENNSYLVANIA and the Eastern
Shore. The excursion was Joined at
Clayton by John H. Hoffecker, John
Is. Lewis and RObt. ID. HOffecker. of
smyrna; A. l.. Hudson and John p.
Hudson, near Clayton; John w. Ora.
ham, n. L. Underwood and Geo.
Walker, Of Kenton, and e. Speakman,
b. +. g. Rothwell and George J. Under
wood, near Smyrna II. Milton Farson.
Of Brenford, and f. J. Smith, of Moor
ton, Joined the excursion at their respec-
tive stations. The object of the excur-
sion was to give persons interested in
real estate an opportunity of seeing the
new land of promise which the New
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Rail
road is about to open and give rail con-
nections with the great markets of the
north. The arrival home of the editor
after the material for this issue was in
hand will necessarily defer his account
OF the trip until next week.