Smyrna times., 1885-05-27

The 9th of June having been SET
as Flower Mission Day." the WOman's
Christian Temperance Union of Smyrna
would thankfully receive donations OF
fruits and flowers for distribution
among the sick and needy of our town.
| All contributions to be sent to the NJ. +
parsonage before o'clock, Tuesday
morning, June 9th. All the members
Of the Union are earnestly requested
| to come and help in the good work
and many others will doubles be de-
sirous to lend a helping hand in a cause
| that so cOmmends itself.
THE " Local Personal Z" of the Morn
ing NelUs, of Monday, contains the fol-
lowing item: al. Irving Handy,
principal of the Smyrna public schools,
will probably be an applicant for the
place in the city high school soon to
be vacated by Mr.. BirGsall. Mr..
Handy has been teaching in the
Smyrna Schools for several years. He
| is reading law with Senator Eli Sauls-
bury, of Dover"
Mr.. Handy wishes the statement
that he is law student under Senator
Salisbury corrected. Such, he says, is
not the fact.
YESTERDAY while the family of VIM.
Brown, except little child, were
absent from the hOuse-situated be-
tween Vandyke's and Colts station
Jacob Allen, a young man about 81
years Of age in the employ of Mr.
Vandyke a neighbOr, entered, picked
up an axe and deliberately split up his
chairs, bedsteads, tables, not even spar
ing the clock on the mantle. He then
left it is supposed for Cecil county, Md.
This furniture was all new, Mr.. Brown
only commencing housekeeping last
year. There was no difficulty between
them, Mr.. B. says, and he knows no
reason for the deed.
EDWARD KRONENBERG, the new
proprietor of Woodland Beach, gives
notice III our advertising columns to
the citizens of this community that he
has opened this well-known watering
place for the season. Whatever may
have been said of the place, past or
prOspectively, Mr.. Kronenberg is de-
| termined, he tells us, to have for it
an established good character. He
says not a drop of liquor shall be sold
on Sunday under his management,
and it shall not be q resort for gamblers
and other bad characters. Mr.. Kronen-
berg seems like u man able to enforce
his commands, and the people of the
vicinity will be glad to see him doit
AFTER two or three years Of effort an
appropriation has been obtained to
build a bridge over old Duck Creek
on the road leading to Fraland, on the
lower part of Bombay Hook, known as
the EnOch Spruance road. The
bridge will have n span of about 20
feet, or, together with the abutments,
so feet. The original bridge was
swept away by the 4" tidal wave" of
rs and since the passage to and fro
except by boats has been by the public
road several miles further up the
island. The people in the lower Neck
and Bombay Hook, are very much
gratilied at the prospect of having this
bridge. 1t is expected that the work
on 1t will commence in two or three
weeks.
MEssRs. LEWIS & PRICE have been
so much encouraged by their success in
the manufacture of phosphate, the sales
of this Spring more than doubling that
of last, that they have been forced to
enlarge their building for greater ca
pacity, and are now at work putting
up an annex building, two stories,
4OX70 feet. The machinery will be re-
moved from the old to the new build
ing when it is completed. This will be
a great convenience not only for them
| but to the farmers also, as they will
have a level haul from the second
story, thus avoiding the haul
up the hill, as heretofore. They
are receiving large invoices of mater
ial for the manufacture of the Farmers
Bone Phosphate for wheat.
A YOUNG darkey-a miscellaneous
Jobber-whO has never been over
stocked with early piety, indeed, quite
the contrary, is evidently like many
another agnOstic, thinking of that final
event with a great deal of placidity, if
we may form an estimate of his men
tai compound by his actions. When
ever there are few bricks left over at
any job at which he is at work, he
asks for them and in every case when
granted, he carefully puts them away
to brick his grave, when he dies.
Whether Bob" intends to measure
his life by his pile of bricks-contract-
ing or lengthening it according to their
number-we do not know, but it is
commendable in him to have respect
at least for the grave, if he has no idea
of the beyond.