Smyrna times., 1885-12-16
WHOLE NO. 1881.
Here and Elsewhere.

Inc hrst air pump was made in 1854.
Measles of malignant type are now
ravaging the homes of Quebec.
The Mormon defiance of our Fed
eral authority should be stamped out.
The man who has the Presidents
ear seems to be the President himself.
An exchange says: Mans average life is SO
years Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup will always live
Washington has been selected as the
site OF the q. A. r. monument to Gen
eral Grant.
w. II. Vanderbilt told a Cleveland
o., man that his income in 1888 was
$20,000,000.
A bell cast in 1853 and Bible print
in 1882, are relics preserved in the State
House at Dover.
Salt Lake City is being picketed by
Federal troops, in expectation of a
Mormon outbreak.
To Congress: There is no use in fir
ing peas from sling-shots at the Nor
mons. Cut the cancer out!
A train, on which there were seven
carloads of cotton and three of peanuts,
passed up the Delaware road last week.
What grand, great country this with its vast
Nenl Nldi Vici cure. It's Salvation Oil
Three bills to permit the building of
the Baltimore and Ohio's Staten Island
bridges have been introduced in Con-
gress.
An estimate of the final result of the
! Rrifich oIoofio,,e L.,
Parneilites combined majority of ten
over the Liberals.
The London newspapers are in
ecstasies over what they considered a
cheering prospect for the destruction of
the American tariff.
King Thebaw's wives and mothers
ln-law can now wake up in the morn
ing without feeling of their necks to
find if their heads are on.
John w. Causey has appointed L. A.
Z. Gerry, of Maryland, as deputy col
lector. Mr.. Gerry has been in Office
since President JOhnsOn's term.
Forty Servians have been shot for
mutilating themselves by blowing their
trigger-fngers of and otherwise injur-
ing themselves to escape military ser
vice.
Three Philadelphiansh have been down
at RehObOth shooting, and they went
home last Friday with q wild geese,
26O wild ducks and twenty dozen par
tridges.
Mr.. Hendricks is to be honored with
| a monument in Indianapolis, and the
! Sentinel stand guard over the cash-box,
' into which everyone may toss dime
: or dollar.
: General Logan's declination of the
Senator's presidency probably spoiled
}. more Democratic editorial matter than
e any one mans act during the present
. generation.
Six little children of Newark, n. J.,
# were bitten by mad dog December
r 1st, and means have been secured by
contributions ia send four of them to
DR.. Pasteur at Paris.
The Mexican rebels under Rodriguez
have made their headquarters at Villal-
Of dana, a town of 5000 inhabitants on
n the Mexican National railway, sixty
d miles north of Monterey.
II Edward Atkinson in an article in
Bradstreet's, tries to prove that the vol
u ume of gold has increased since 1849 in
d a much greater ratio than has the pop
! ulatiOn of the world.
le The Message as a whole is sound
l. and conservative. 1t is, perhaps, less
le Outspoken upon some points than
s. had been expected, but it contains very
d little that can be successfully antagOn-
a lied.
TO The lumber dealers of Ottawa are
le making unusual preparations for ship
&c ping timber this Winter they feel en-
Al couraged by the Presidents recon-
70 mendatiOn to remove import duty on
IL lumber.
.r- Congress and the cold weather struck
ne the country almost simultaneously
nd but the sad reflection is borne in upoI
ST. the public mind in this connection tina
Congress is likely to Outlast the COLI
es- weather.
p Probably about the time the Senat
ne goes into executive session to cOnside
Ill certain federal appointments, a gOOC
10 many Democrats will begin to wis
10 that General Logan had accepted tn
We presidency of that body.
M In spite of all the croaks of the croak
It ers business goes on rising. There
in yeast under it, East and West, and
,at refuses to down because the weeping
aal Jeremiahs sit on the fence and scratcl
his themselves where they don't itch ant
en- growl about the condition of everlast
a ing smashedness in seeing which the
have a monopoly.
snt Natural gas is getting to be NOR
ICY dangerous than druggists mistakes
OF In the mad rush to put in pipes every
In where and anywhere undue carelessnes
to is engendered and people are blow
'lic up right and left, not to mention sue
rty trifles as boats and houses. NaturS
mo gas needs a little legislation to contrC
II its effusiveness.
asi. Rev. w. S. Robinson received a ca
rm from a member of the congregation
ov- the NJ. E. Church of Milford, who col
ON. tributed two hundred dollars toward
oc- the payment of the debt on the parsoI
nh age, and made it obligatory on him nc
ice to divulge the generous giver's nam
fee This is unusual for Milford, says tt
his Chronicle and we have about made I
ave our mind that the millennium has a
: a rived.