Smyrna times., 1885-04-01

THE last snow is said by someone
who has kept an account, to have
been the twenty-ffth one Ofthe Winter
And vet we have had enough but Oh
one occasion to make a period o.
sleighing, and the roads have not been
blocked by a single snow-bank all
Winter.
ROBERT S. WILDs, for number Oi
years a leading salesman in the cloth
ing house of A. G. Yates & Co, Phila-
delphia, but who has found it desirable
on the score of health to take an out
door life, has taken the agency for the
sale of Polk & Lords phosphate, man.
ufactured at Odessa, in this vicinity.
The belligerent attitude of England
and Russia had the effect in the city
markets to make wheat advance dur
ing the week about cents, corn
about } of a cent, and oats a smaller
fraction, while cotton declined twice a
sixteenth, and ended a quarter of a
cent lower than at the close Of the pre-
vious week.
THE attractions of the rink for next
Monday and Tuesday evenings will be
the " Midgets u. and Florence Viii
son, aged q and a years. They are
from Indiana, Pa, and said to be a
wonder on skates Tonight there
will be mile and half-mile race by
local skaters for a prize.
PRESIDING ELDER CALDWELL, after
preaching in the morning of Sunday
last at Kenton, at Friendship, in Thor
oughfare Neck in the afternoon, and
ride of between twenty and twenty
five miles, finished up the day by
preaching to a large and appreciative
congregation in the NJ f. Church, of
this town. at night.
REV. JOHN FRANCE, the new pastor
for Smyrna Circuit, moved his family,
consisting ofwife, grown daughter and
two or three sons, from Zion. Cecil
county, Md, to this town. on Friday.
He attended the quarterly meeting at
Kenton. on Sunday, and preached at
Church in the afternoon,
and has made a good impression with
his people and in this town by his fine
bearing.
THE new boiler which the Peninsu-
sular Bone Fertilizer Company have
been putting in the mill at Rothwell's
was completed last week and
the work of manufacturing for the
Spring sales has commenced in earnest.
The new boiler which was needed to
take the place Of the one heretofore in
use for increased power is an immense
thing, with the wall that bricks it in,
as large as a small house.
ST. PETERS Church will be reOpened
lol divine service on Easter Sunday at
l0.30 A. NJ. Our fellow citizens are
invited to join us in worship
ln this most glorious and joyful of all
he festivals of the church. Ushers
will be iii attendance to show those
who are not members of the congrega-
ion to seats. The usual Sunday
school celebration at 7.3O P. NJ.
w. b. GORDON.
OUR two banks will not observe
Good Friday, day after tomorrow, asa
egal holiday by closing, as is the case
n some places and as they did last
year, in a Lenten stroke Of goodness.
They found the letters coming the
next day from all the banks of the
State as any other day that has not
prefix Of " Good attached to it, being
llone in observing the day. They do
not any longer consider it legal holi-
lay
AT the Quarterly Conference of the
NJ. E. Church on Monday afternoon
he proposition to purchase a house in
smyrna for a residence for the Presid-
ny Elder of this district was discussed.
Ind on motion John II. Hofiecker was
by unaniOus vote to con.
'er favOrably, as District Steward, with
he District meeting to that effect. 1t
5 proposed to purchase a home for the
sum of $4,000, to be paid in three years,
making the appOrtiOntment for this
Church $3.50 or $50 per year.
The DelGUarean says the cold snap
Of Sunday the 2lst ult.), froze St.
Jones' River over, and nearly solid"
1t Is this stream, that according to our
'otempOrary froze nearly solid way in
he latter part of March. because it is
80 shallow, for which an appropriation
las been obtained from the Govern
nent Of some $4,000 to dig it out a
distance Of about twenty five miles.
What town wouldn't like to have a
Congressman who can make such a
Inc local grab as that?
Is 1T because Il certain class. who
nave formerly been a source of trouble.
especially in the Winter season. has
become more moral or more provident
hat We do not hear Of theft nocturnal
'ai4s on chicken coops and meat |
louses? We do not remember a com
llaint during the whole of the LONG
" inter Of anybody's chicken roost be- |
ng disturbed or meat tub being inva-
led in this vicinity. Let Us hope that
III advance step has been taken from
hI"h there will be no rece ling.
BY professional card in our advertis-
NJ columns it will be seen that we
lave another disciple of Esculapius in
)r. r. b. Tanning, who has settled in
'uf town to practice the healing
-rt. He comes from Rochester Ny
ind Is Il recent graduate Of the Hanne-
nahn Medical College of PHILADELPHIA
lie practiced his profession short time
u MS native city where he hasa broth