Smyrna times., 1885-12-02

A FULL line of new and beautiful
Christmas Cards, cheap, at Cloak's
Drug Store. IT
THE quarterly meeting for this cir
emit and station will take place next
Saturday and Sunday. Presiding
Elder France will preach at Bethel, on
the circuit, at 104 o'clock in the morn
ing and in this town in the evening.
The quarterly conference of the station
will be Tuesday night next and the
quarterly love feast on Thursday night,
the 10th inst.
THIS is the mOurnful time of year
when the wind moaneth at night
timeth, aad the frisky fly perisheth and
adhereth to the window pane whereon
he dieth, leaving his paled and CHASTITY
carcass a token of remembrance of
other days when he foundeth the
morning reposer still slumbering upon
his cOucheth and pestering him tooketh
pleasure therein.
ONE evening last week as Mr..
DOesch, of the Smyrna bakery, was
going to Clayton in his wagon, he ran
into post that stands too prominently
at q corner in West Smyrna, the con
cussiOn throwing him from the car
riage, by which he sustained a severe
bruise, but. fortunately no broken
limbs. The running gear of the car
riage was also injured.
On the evening of THANKSGIVING dav
the parsonage at Blackbird was invaded
by few of the neighboring friends of
the pastor and family, where a pleasant
hour was spent in music and cOnVersa-
ton, followed by an equally pleasant
one around table we'll filled with re-
freshments. Many substantial tokens
of their kindness were left at the par
| sOnage.
AT the Centennial of MethOdism held
last Winter at Baltimore, a resolution
was adopted to hold week of prayer
throughout the denomination the first
week of the present December, to pray
for the Outpouring of Gods spirit on
the people. In accordance with this
resolution the Rev. J. B. Quigg is hold
ing MONDAY meetings at the M. f.
Church, from l24 to II o'clock.
A COMMITTEE who have had the
matter in charge have obtained, we be-
lieve, homes for the teachers of the
Kent County Institute, which meets in
this town this day week. The OPEN
ing session will be on Wednesday af-
ternoon, the institute closing on Satur-
day morning. The meeting of the
teachers here will be this year doubt
less as it has in the past, an occasion of
both social and intellectual endowment.
WE are pleased to announce that
Joseph l.. Beckett who has been un-
der a recent very heavy pressure be-
| cause of an unsettled claim due on his
| shops has relieved himself of the en-
barrassment by paying the owner YES
terday every dollar of the Indebtedness.
Mr.. Beckett is recognized everywhere
| as an honest, industrious and enter
prising citizen and he has the good
wishes of the entire community in the
success of his carriage works.
THOSE persons who intend to intro
duce water on their premises would do
well to commence the work as soon as
possible, as freezing weather is liable
now, as we are in December, to set in
at any time. The water rates can be
obtained at the store of J. B. Cooper.
Secretary of the Board of Commission
ers. The rates, which have been
fixed by the Board, are lower, we are
told, than in the other places where
WaterwOrks have been established.
J. X. KELLER, representing Yates
y Co, the large clothing house, 9th &
Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, was in
town on Monday with his dog cart.
calico horse and spotted dog who is
the dude among the CANNES in everv
village he enters. Mr.. Keller rode
through our streets to the music of
tingllng bells when not blowing his
bugle, scattering in the meantime cir
culars and cards advertising the bust
ness. He has taken a circuit of the
Peninsula down as far as PocomOke
City during the past three weeks, and
expected to get back home to-day.
EVERYBODY ought to own their own
home. Paying taxes on real estate
may pinch sometimes, but it adds to
ones self-respect, and it is better than
| paying rent. The property owner
feels that he has stake in the coun-
try more than he used to have. More
than once when the popular mind was
| tempestuOus, have building assOcia-
| tlOns been as oil on the troubled ele-
ment. Rioters don't come from among
those who own property. 1t should be
the proud boast that large proportion
of our workingmen own their homes.
Home owners don't fall into the
clutches of the law. On the contrary,
all their efforts are toward the preser-
walton of that good order which will
make life and property secure.
WALTER GREY DEAKYNE, or as he
IS Familiarity known and called. Grew
Deakyne, to whom we referred in our
last issue as having a fve-mile race
with Charley aughley-the latter
whipping his horse numerically and
both horses badly used up-wishes us
to correct the statement in reference to
himself. He says he did not use the
whip on his horse but once and then a
slight cut when it broke into q run
when he was within a quarter of a
mile of his gate, the end of the race ::
that when Raughley put his horse into
a run under the lash he made up his
mind not TO serve his horse so though
the race was go-as-yOu-please one,
and says that his horse received no in
jury from the race. The impression
Ouh1 uC WAS III JLS same condition that
Raughley was, Mr.. Deakyne very
much dislikes, as he had not been
drinking and would not have been in
the race at all but for the urgency of
some young men at the hotel. two of
whom prOfered $5 each of the amount
wagered. While admitting that he
was open to censure for the assOcia-
tions of the evening, we are glad to see
that Mr.. Deakyne is unwilling to he
classified among those who are SOW
ing wild oats broadcast" Mr. Raugh-
ley also comes forward and saws his
case was exaggerated. He maintains
his horse was not damaged and the
reason his whip was all broken to
pieces was that it had hung in the store
SO long it had got dry and brittle.
New Advertisements.
The attention of our readers is called
to the following new advertisements:
Royal Baking Powder.
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