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Smyrna times., 1885-05-06
Maryland Items.

Herring sold as low as ten cents per
hundred ut the shores of the North
East and Susquehanna rivers last week.
The Greensboro Free Press has dis
carded its patent outside and uses 9TH
cr matter, and is otherwise much i'm
proved.
Edward Bowman, from Newcastle,
England, is trying to establisha colony
OF English farmers on the lower East
ern Shore.
The marriage Of Walter B. Simpson
and Miss Emma f. Parrott took place
at the NJ. f. Church in Centreville
Wednesday.
Invitation cards are out for the mar
riage tomorrow, of Miss Mary f. Guest,
daughter Of Joseph Guest, in Cccilton,
to Albert a. Carson.
John Tracy will run the Atlantic
Hotel, Ocean City, again this season.
Parsons x Nichols will have the Seat
side, and Congress Hail will also he
open.
Samuel B. Richardson, proprietor of
the Forest Park Stock Farm, near
Mas-ry's, recently sold Il team Of trot-
ters to parties in Philadelphia, for the
sum Of $4,000.
Major B. r. Biggs finished planting
last week 1908 peach trees on his
Queen Anne's County farms. His or
chards, young and old, in that county
now number $4,000 trees, covering
$50 acres.
The Chestertown Transcript states
that the grand jury Of Kent county has
indicted Emory Staten and James Mil
Ter, yolored boys, for committing a
felouious assault on Irene Stewart, col
ored, aged II.
The verdict of guilty of murder in the
second degree rendered at Princess
Anne, Friday, against Captain John
Williams, Of the oyster dredging boat
Era, for beating and stamping the life
out Of Il sickly German whom he had
shipped as one Of his crew, was Il good
thing as far as it goes. The jury
could have only made one improve
ment--a verdict in the first degreee.
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DIRTCTORS

GEORGE W. CUMMINS President
VIM. ". Ischudy Dr. Henry Ridgely
John II. lIorecEer, John d. Burton,
George B Money. John W. Causey
Jacob Williams of ScAfOrd Ex-Ciov. James Ponder
WIN. DENNEY, Secretary and Treasurer.
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KILLED HIMSELF WITH A SHOT
GUN.-David Warren, a prosperous
farmer, residing near Middletown,
suicided on Thursday last by placing
the muzzle of a gun against his left
side and pulling the trigger. He had
been Respondent for several days. but
no reason is known for his depression.
he owned considerable property. and
was in Middletown attending to busi-
ness a short time previous to his death.
The authorities of Philadelphia. un-
der the direction of the Board of
Health and a committee of the Iazar-
etto, are considering the advisabilitv of
converting Fort Delaware into a per-
manent place for the disinfection of
rags arriving in vessels from foreign
ports, and also of removing the Lazar-
etto station there. In view of the
probability of the prevalence of cholera
this Summer it is deemed necessary
that such steps should be taken.
ORGANIZATION AND OBJECT OF
DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-In
Dover, to-day, the Methodists will or
ganiZe an association to be called the
" AAAAAAl -IOh NOiilCituCC lOlnGSllC MIS-
sionary Society, the object of which
will be to support missions which are,
or may be, established in destitute Dor
tions Of the regular work of the Will
mington conference and also to estab.
lished Il fund to be used in the pur-
chase of building lots in eligible places
for churches
The society's affairs will be under
the direction Of a board composed of
Presiding Elders Hill, Caldwell, Milbv
and Wilson, the Revs. 4. f. Martindale.
}. b. Quigg and William H. Hutchin
and Layman II. c. WalcOtt of Harring-
ton, r. NJ. Cooper, A. P. Griffith and
Joseph Smithers of Smyrna, A. p.
Novel; and J. Y. Stewart of Dover. A.
G. Cox Of Middletown, DIR. Sudler of
SudlersYille and A. J. Townsend of
Snow Hill
The sOciety's funds are to be raised by
such methods as will not interfere with
the collections for the missionary socie-
ty of the N. Z. church, and 20 per cent
thereof are to be set apart for the pur-
chase of building lots in eligible and
needy places
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Philadelphia, Wilmington { Baltimore Railroad
DELAWARE DIVISION.

On and after February lst, 1885 Sundays ex-
ceptcd), trains will leave as follows:
NORTlIWARD.
Smyrna times., 1885-05-06

NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA Il NORFOLK RAILROAD
EXPRESSES Leave Philadelphia $50 Al m. week
days, and lilo p. IN daily. Leave Baltimore go
a. m I. 81 p. IN. Wilmington 80 a. IN, week days
and II .j6 p. m. daily, stopping at Dover and Del
mar regularly and at Middletown, Clayton,
Harrington and SeafOrd to leave passengers from
Wilmington and points North to take on paSSen-
gers for Delmar
North -J0und trains leave Delmar 124Oa. m, daily
and 400 p. m. week days Dover l.j6 a. M, and
Sis p. N arriving at Wilmington 80 a. m, and
G2l p. m, Baltimore 64j a. m, and 9O5 p. IN, and
Philadelphia 400 H. III and 10 p. IN.
NelO castle accommodation TTdiHS.-Leave Will
mington at Gl5 a. NJ. and > so P. NJ. Leave New
Castle at II % A. NJ and 4.5j p. NJ.
SMYRNA BRANCH TRAINS.-Lcave Smyrna
for Clayton 723, S53 $50 and ll.O7 A. NJ, LA, ilj
442 and 7.I3 p. NJ. Leave Clayton for smyrna
73i, S44 1901 and Ills A. NJ, Isl, 4.25, 454 and
7i4 +. NJ.
CONNECTIONS-At Porter. with Newark X Della
ware City Railroad. At Townsend, with Queen
AnneS& Kent Railroad. AtClaytOn, with Delaware
d Chesapeake Railroad and Baltimore Il Delaware
Bay Railroad. At Harrington, with Delaware
Maryland Il Virginia Railroad. AtSeatorl /, with
Cambridge Il SeafOrd Railroad. At Delmar. with
New York, Philadelphia * Norfolk WicOmicO 4
PoComOke, and Peninsula Railroad.
CHAS. Z. PUGH, General Manager.
J. X. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
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Opening of Mails.

Going North. 100 and 1O4O A. NJ, and 8.5OP. NJ
Going south, 9j0 a. 81, and 7.20 P. NJ.
Smyrna times., 1885-05-06
County and State Items.

From the North, 1l.00 a. NJ, and SIS Pm.
From the south, 7.35 and ll.30 A.. NJ
Smyrna times., 1885-05-06

The Ameer of Afghanistan is a
large, healthy man, fond Of conversa-
ton and extremely self-reliant. He
pridts himself ON his travels and the
information he has gained from the
men aud scenes he has met and studied.
Smyrna times., 1885-05-06
l647 KENT COUNTY 1884.
Mutual EaSuraaGeG0.,
DOVER, DEL.

InsureS against loss by fire, issuing mutual poll
cies only under which payments are made an
nually in advance during membership. and on
ceaSing to be members whatever remains uneX-
pended after paying losses, expenses and divi-
dendS is returned, thereby furnishing insurance
Mt cost.
Smyrna times., 1885-05-06

A salvation army will take charge of
wicked Wilmington this Summer.
Smyrna times., 1885-05-06
Abstrnct of Statement. Issa.

Receipts for the Year 1855 SS...........S IG,3iO 81
Losses and EXPENSES for the leur lsS3.. l7,52l.Ol
Dividends Paid " ... 2Ugg4 Oi
Paid Members ul WitEdrawal............... 2469 93
Amount Observation-Disclosures t. Dec 81 ,lss3 1861 IS
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Smyrna Branch Trains.
Closing of Mails.

Going North, 7.23 a. NJ. S.S3 AN. Il.O7A.M.415P.M
Going South, $50 14lP.M. 442PM 743 -
Smyrna times., 1885-05-06
1t will Pay for Itself in from Four TO Eight Week!

yet it is so durable that it will last for
years. Aside from its value as money
maker in preparing fruits, etc, for sale,
the saving to an average family in the
expense for food. by reason Of the prepa-
ration of various products for home con-
sumption, will in a single season almost
equal the price Of an ordinary machine.
The furnace room or section Scpa-
Smyrna times., 1885-05-06
A(iENTS:

ANDREW j. WILSON, General Agent Dover
Goa. w. lIdiidas. NdrG}k r. ~ UHta, Bridger1ie
CcO b. HoHcg. Dct. CUy Lcmad " Naples LCqreS
D. B. MIl0WCy IOWHSsiid JOhH ". WO0ttcl LutICi
j. T. herman, Smyrna. Henry ". Baker, StGtOrd.
4. JuckSoR Jr.. CdmdCn. H. T. DOwning GtOrQe-
j. t. 1HtierSOH FredCricu tOlCn
RcgHCTF Williams. WJOId JtmCS Ponder. Milton.
". u SclrHS0H, ftt0R. y. r. WGgumOH, for lotCer
Cd Huntington, Farming. SitSSer.
TIM.
JOhH p MdHlirc. GreenSbOrOUgh Nd.
Jeremiah b. F7etcicr PrcStDR Nd.
james Cannon, Salisbury, Nd.
r. +. HpiiOlCUg BcrliH. Md.
VIM. q DickinS0n PocomOte City, Nd
All bus ness communications should be addressed
to
WM. DENNEY, Sec'y,
March 4, lSS3 DOVER DEL
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-25

VIENNA, April A.--A dispatch
from Odessa says that % 900 troops
will be dispatched Immediately 70 re-
aIso snys thar other ievIes are ordered.
and that the Russian briny In Fuabe-
nftn
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-25
Eagll-llnen Preparing % Leave.

81 PETERsBuRp, April "a = Many
English residents here are preparing
70 leave the country. The Russian
government has not yet replied % Itn-
glands dispatches, but Will probably
do SO shortly. md IN su';is amannefNs
ftot.ttauea an so,artl, PnaA.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
TEMPERANCE.
THE DRUNKARD'S DREAM.

He sumbered in quiet sleep beneath Heav-
ems sparkling dome.
A man without single friend a wretch with
out home;
And there he lay a spectacle to every passer-
by
The only roof that sheltered him, the star
bespangled sky!
Hungry and i'll, he'd left the town to roam he
knew not where;
Hungry and tired, he slept at last forgetful
of his care;
Forgetful of the agony he'd suffered all the
duy,
He slumbered now, and care and woe at last
had flown away.
He dreamt that he was standing where so long
ago he stood;
Again he heard the cheering of a mighty null
titude;
He was receiving once again the prize his
skill had won
He heard his father blessing God for having
such SOnl
His fancy changed he dreamt he STOOD be-
meath the rustling trees,
Which seemed to shake with laughter at the
antics of the breeze;
thousand flowers were meath his feet, rich,
beautiful and rare.
AS he was whispering love-tales to a maiden
twice as fair.
He saw her startled attitude he marked the
rising blush,
He saw the tears of pleasure from her lovely
eyelids gush,
He saw the joy and happiness she sought not
to repress
And with a thrill he heard again the softly
whispered ''Yes!'
His dream was changed: Again he stood-and
she was by his side,
Within the little village church to claim her as
his bride;
Joy thrills his heart with happiness, his eyes
with pleasure CLEAN,
When, bark that noise! he wakes again to find
it but dream.
The wild wind means in sorrow and the rain
begins to fall;
Where are the pictures of his dream? They We
vanished one and all.
The lightnings fash, the thunders roll and
rattle overhead,
And the very sky seems weeping DER the joy
forever fed!
He tries to rise, but, weak and faint, he can
not stir a limb;
Before his GaZzlcd, weakened eyes the trees
begin to swim;
He hears another rattle, and another rattle
still,
And now through every nerve there runs q
strange and fearful thrill!
A sudden pang has twitched his heart, has
robbed him of his breath;
He gasps u moment, then he falls asleep-but
now in DEATH
The lightning struck him lying there and sew.
cred lifes last link,
And the stars alone are weeping for the vic
tim of the drink.
-TJi,Sl World
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one day whether hung up nv shoes at
night to keep the insects out of them?
try to imagine a man taking the
trouble to hang up his shoes before 90
ing to bed, but can tquite do it. Cent?
pedes are more plentiful than scorpions,
but notquite so likely to sting. | have
seen barefoot man step on one
without being hurt, probably because
the insect had no chance to turn and
use its claws. They are Just about on
par with scorpions as regards the eff
feet of their poison. In some places the
effect of centipede's sting has been
fatal, but it is not so here.
| wanted to end this CHAPTER on from
ical nuisances by saying something
about my ancient enemy, the sand-fy,
but words fail me. 1t is very seldom,
and then only on remarkably still DAYS,
that there are any about in the winter
But during the rainy season they are ex-
ceedingly thick. No mosquito netting
will keep them out, they are so small.
They give no warning, like mosquito,
but proceed at once to business. You
feel a sting on some part of your
skin, and perhaps see there black
speck about the size of a pins point.
But he must be full of poison, for the
bite swells up and itches, and you get
twenty more of them, and you scratch
till they're all sore and get little scabs
on them, make and you look as if you
had smallpox. When I get back to New
York no mosquito shall ever tempt me
into impotence. I'll just think of the
sandflies and be content. = Nassau {Ba-
h0nl0) Cor. Cincinnati EnquirerI,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
THE EARTH.
How This Terrestrial Habitation of Ours is
Growing.

How This Terrestrial Habitation of Ours is
Growing.
Careful mathematical calculations
have been made recently to ascertain
the residuum left on the earth BY the de-
post of meteoric matter. 1t is known
that the region along the earth's orbit
abOunds in meteors. and that at two
points the orbit passes through streams
of meteOrs where these little planetoids
are unusually thick. These two points
are encountered in August and Novem-
Der, when the precipitation of the little
bodies marks the armament with lines
OF fire. But meteors are falling to the
earth all the time-in other months OF
the year as well as August and Novem-
BERN the day time as well as at
night. Very brilliant ones have been
seen shooting across the sky in broad
daylight, and one who observes the sky
patiently ard attentively any dark
night may count them, A careful esti-
mate makes the average number to be
seen by single observer in a limited
quarter of the sky about twelve per
hour; and another estimate makes the
precipitation of meteoric matter to the
earth from the whole heavens two and
half tons per hour. In rare instances
the meteOrite, or part of it which is a
solid body, reaches the earth in an uncon-
sumed state, but far the greater number
are entirely consumed in the conflagra-
ton set up by their passage through the
earth's atmosphere, and only the ashes
or meteoric dust reaches the soil But
even when the meteorite is thus burned
to ashes, no part of it is lost. All its
original elements survive in the residu-
UNI of ashes and vapor, which, thence
forth, belong to our earth. These
meteorites or planetoids are iron rocks,
and if one of them as large as the St.
Louis court house, in passing through
our atmosphere, were entirely burned
up, it would still bring as much mere
ment to the earth as if it fell to the sur
face in solid mass. The estimate OF
this steady and perpetual increment to
our earth's weight is two and a halt
tons per hour, or sixty tons a day, or
900 tons year, or over 2,000 600 tons
every century. 1t would take 100 ordi-
h"l l@lAlOdu SHu UIdlllS, therefore,
to haul the meteoric deposit which the
earth gathers from the sky every year,
and if this matter could be gathered
into one mass and made to revolve
round our planet it would make re-
spectacle littlq, satellite added to the
earth every year. The earth is demon
strably growing in size and weight all
the time. Relatively, however, the in
crement is small, though it appears
large when considered by itself The
earth has been weighed. If anyone
wants the figures, here they are: 6,000,-
600, 900, 600, 600. 000,000 tons.
1t will take ages of steady precipita-
ton of meteorites to appreciably in
crease this enormous mass of matter,
and the estimate of it recently made
has no other interest, therefore, than as
an astronomical curiosity.-St. Louis
Republican,.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
TOUGH TO THE LAST.
An Authentic Account of the Last Hours
of Yankee Sullivan.

An Authentic Account of the Last Hours
of Yankee Sullivan.
[ was very much pleased to meet last
week with Judge MCGOWAN, one of the
Argonauts who, in 1919, discovered the
golden fleece, which has-to coin a
term--royalized California. In the
course of our conversation the Judge
told me the concrete history of the
tragic end of the famous prize-fighter,
Yankee Sullivan.
Sullivan, whose real name was Am
brose Murray, was arrested and i'm
prisoned. He feared that the Vigilantes
would put him to death, though, as
Judge MCGOWAN tells me, his appre-
tensions were unfounded The purpose
of that body was to ship him back to
Australia on the first clipper ship that
sailed to Melbourne, it having been
definitely understood that Sullivan, or
Murray, was an escaped convict The
poor devil, however, was so affrighted
that he took no stock in the hope of es-
cape from the harsh business of Judge
Lynch. He called eagerly from his
prison windows for priest, feeling that
death was settling close around him,
but was answered by ieers from the
mob without. Finally, in sheer des-
peration, he opened the veins of his
left arm with Il caseknife and bled
himself to death.
Yankee Sullivan was one of the finest
prize-ighters in the records. - Washinq-
ton Hutchet.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
SLUM BERLAND.

Ny little child, with yellow hair,
And eyes of April violets,
My heart is full of dim regrets
For the long journey you must go,
A little wrath in robe of snow;
Tonight, alone, through storm or fair,
A pretty pilgrim, bound for where?
If l should put within your hand
A staff, and sandals on your feet,
You would not understand me, sweet;
Yet as in days of old romance,
Unknowng of their fate or chance,
The pilgrims went by Gods commando
So you will go through Sunderland.
Upon what ocean blue and deep,
Across what mountains fierce and cold,
With snow-wrapped SUBMITS, fold on fold
I Or through what valley, safe and low,
Will my wee bedtime traveller go2
While a tender vigil keep
Over the fortunes of her sleep.
may not follow or unbar
The unseen gates of Sunderland;
Though fast in mine her wee white hand
l shall not know what faces bend
Beside her, or what thoughts attend
My darling going fair and far,
To worlds beyond the evening star.
Juliet G. Marsh, in Youths Ompdnion
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13

Nut cake: One and a half cups
sugar, one-half cup butter, two cups
flour, three-fourths cup sweet milk,
two teaspoons baking powder, whites
of four eggs; bake . in two layers;
take whites of two eggs for the icing,
using equal parts of egg and ice water;
thicken with confectionery sugar, mix
ing with a fork until smooth; flavor
both cake and the icing with vanilla;
'rost one cake and cover with English
walnuts; place the other cake on, frost
and cover with walnuts and frost again.
-RuraE Home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13

Stage robberies have become some
what numerous on the Pacific coast,
one stage alone having been pllaged no
less than four times within six months.
-Chic0dO Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13

During the last nine years France
has spent nearly So, 900, 600 per annum
on increasing and recognizing her uni
versity institutions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-25
Boston's Suburban Citizens.

The Boston depots of the various railroads
centrng in this city present curious study
of human nature in the afternoons from tw o
to six o'clock. Especially is this true on
Saturday afternoons, when great number of
''transicnts" are added to the usual suburban
population. The transients and the tourists
are distinguished from each other by an I'M
failing sign; the former carries bag; the
latter bundle. The man who has gone out
to the seaside or the interior country, with
his family, for the summer becomes, per-
force, a species of local express. When
John Smith comes to town leaving Mrs.
Smith to dream away the day on a seaside
piazza with all the blue Atlantic rolling at
her feet, he is charged with the execution of
various important commissions. He is in
trusted with delicate and intricate shopping
the matching of ribbon. the selection of a
certain shade of gloves, the purchase of the
warmer wrap that has suddenly become es-
sential. Or if Mrs. John Smith presides over
the destnies of cottage rather than the
corner of hotel piazza. the name of her
wants is legion. Everything, from copy of
Esoteric Buddhism to the domestic clothes
pin, is discovered to be wanting. and. with
the usual easy graduation of the American
citizen, John Smith nightly loads himself
down. Talk of womans rights, Have men
no rights that woman is bound to respect
Shall he forever give her the end car-seat on
the water side and stand in the horse cars
that she may sit, and carry her packages and
do her bidding Even so. 1t is the law and
the prophets in America Here in Boston is
a population of from forty to eighty thousand
people who do business in the city and go in
and on: each dav on the various railroads. II
is estimated that 10000 people each day come
by one railroad alone. That such an i'm
mense local migration is carried on with such
remarkable safety, pr0mptness, precision and
| despatch is fact which is most significan.
| commentary on the executive talent of rail
road officers. and also furnishes typical
/ commentary on the age of steam and pro
| gress- Trareiier.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-25
PERSONAL,

Sturgeon, the English preacher, has a son
who Is a pastor in New Zealand. and whose
sermons are said to be even more sensational
than his fathers.
Herr Mlch, the Bavarian aeronaut has
just come to grief, after making more than 200
ascensions in safety His balloon collapsed
at Il height of nearly mile.
Lord Pslmerstop once remarked that the
drawbacks and objections to war are some
what mtigated by the fact that it teaches
geography to persons who otherwise would
never learn it.
T. c. Crawford tells queer little story at
illustrating Ferdinand Wards rapacity.
General Grant, he says, was accustomed to
90 up to New York to attend board meet
ing from Long Branch. and when he did he
received the usual directors fee of SIC
gold piece. This he always gave to Mrs,
Grant until she had some 20 or so of them.
Ward heard of this and got hold of them
He had so coaxed the remote savings of
every individual member of the family tina,
when the failure came there was not single
member of the family who had 800 at his
command
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-25
General News.

The English government received confirma-
ton, Wednesday of the death of Ell Mahdi.
Twelve fatal cases of sunstroke occurred in
New York, Thursday.
In Spain, Wednesday. there total of
2,27S new cases of cholera. and 94S deaths.
The mutilated body of a woman was found
in Charles river, Thursday. 1t is undoubt-
edlv case of murder.
Two per cent of the voting population of
Bell county. Kentucky, is charged with muir
der
Jelly, "speckled" with strawberries, is the
favorite dish for suppers after dances in
ENGLAND
The Associated Press announcement of the
death OF Gen. Grant left Mt. McGregon in
less than minute after his death.
A terrible fire occurred Wednesday night
at Crawford, France. Several persons we're
burned to death and sixteen houses were de.
stroyed
The English government was defeated in
the House of Commons, Thursday evening,
bv a vote of $50 to 1870 on clause of the
medical relief bill.
After mature elaboration the President
and Cabinet have reached the conclusion
that the leases of lands in the Indian Terri.
tory held by csttlemen are invalid and it has
been determined to take steps to have them
set aside.
A new field for stamp collectors has been
furnished by the Prince of Monaco, who has
replaced the current French stamps BY those
which bear his own head in profile. with
'Principality of Monaco" printed above.
In order to prevent their books from being
STOPPED at the Russian frontier. or even
wholly coniscated. G. rman authors are now
obliged to submit all their proof sheets to the
red pencil of the arbitrary Russian censor.
Over 1000 cigars were found by revenue
officers aboard a steamer which arrived in
New York few days ago. The cigars were
found in the ice boxes, the water tanks, under
the coal and other out of the way places.
The marriage of Princess Beatrice, young
est daughter of Queen Victoria, to Prince
Henry, of Battenberg, took place Thursday