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Smyrna times., 1885-02-18

HE DeJaoarean takes issue with the
oil that has been presented to the
Legislature in regard to establishing
an experimental farm and saws .stbe
~. p our judgment ought not pass.
Fa'l authority is already granted to
'he State Board of Agriculture to
make all necessary experiments. and
they ought to be allowed to undertake
the work before any authority is vested
IN any one else. The bill now started
grants the sum Of three thousand dol
lars we believe for a specified time to
Try experiments upon the farm about
to be established. The question nat
urally suggests itself can the State afford
10 engage IN experimental farming
with the financial affairs of the State
IN the present cramped condition ?
We have at the present time a surplns
after paying the necessary expenses Of
running the State government of about
eight thousand dOllars.s The granting
OF the proposed sum will cut that sur
plus down to less than FIVE"
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
O11r C1i,nnn4n

We often have the variableness of
our climate abused as if it were the
worst climate in existence for its tickle
ness. This is, it is true, a winter of
freaks, one following another in quick
succession-cOld, warm, rain, snow
but when we take up the daily papers
and read what it is in other places. the
delusiOn at once vanishes. And these
other places" includes almost every
part of this continent except Florida
and the Pacific slope of California,
While subject to greater depressions Of
temperature in the North and West
they have been blocked up on their
railroads by fearful snow storms while
we have been exempt almost entirely
until the past week from snow falls
In some cases these detentions have
been for days and weeks subectino
them to great privations and even
death. The cyclones that visit the fer
tile plains of the West in Summer and
the bliZzards that blind and bewilder
the citizens when Overtaken, within
sight OF home, are strangers to this sec
ton between our two bays. Ours in
comparison is happy lot, and if our
people were as good as their climatic
opportunities, ours would indeed be in
It's fullest sense gOodly heritage"
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
Public Sales.

The following persons will sell their
personal property, consisting of horses.
mules, cattle, farming implements, &C.
at public sale:
Henry w. Stout, in "White Hall -
Neck, on Friday, February 2Oth. B.V.
Weldon, AuctiOneer.
Reese F. Bell, at the late residence
OF Susan H. Bell, this town, Saturda V
2lst inst.
J. F. Hill, near Green Spring, on
Monday, February 23rd. IN. Bovd.
AuctiOneer.
n. r. Leverage, on the road from
Downs Chapel to Blanco, on Monday
February 23rd. B. V. Weldon, Auc.
Matilda Cleaver, near the "Big Oak 5"
on Tuesday, February 9th. B. v
Weldon, AuctiOneer.
James LecOmpt, near Blackiston's
Cross Roads, postponed sale, on Thurs
day, February 26th. b. V. Weldon.
AuctiOneer.
Christopher Hilyard, on the road from
Green Spring to Blackbird, on Friday.
February 9th. John M. Bovd. Auc
II. II. Appleton, administrator of the
late John NJ. Appleton, near Odessa,
on Friday, February 9th.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
Personal.

Theodore Townsend, of the Milford
Chronicle, was in town on Friday and
made the TIMES office a fraternal call.
Miss Anna Mansfield, of Philadel-
phia is visiting Mrs. Robt. D. Hof-
fecker.
Miss Sophia Dubosq and Miss Jennie
Albright, of Philadelphia, are visiting
Mrs. Jos. +. Williams.
Miss Moll.e Brisbane, of Philadel-
phia, is visiting Mrs. J. d. Wilds.
Glenn. Spruance, of Wellington,
Kansas, is " home" on visit of week
or SO to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Presley Spruance.
Walter o. Hoffecker is off for a visit
of a week or two to friends near Odessa.
DR.. and Mrs. c. o. Swinney returned
home to-day from attending the funeral
of their uncle, Rev. w. B. Gillette, D.
d., of Shiloh, N. J.
Walter McMullen, of Philadelphia,
formerly of this town, has been spend
ing a day or two with his old friends
here.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18

The Clayton Loan Association.
A bill Incorporating the CLAYTON
Savings and Loan Association passed
the House on Thursday unanimously
on Its third reading, and will doubtless
pass the Senate in the same wav when
1t comes before that body. The charter
members named in the act of incorpo-
ration, are: |. n. Mills, JOS. Smithers
John +. Hudson, VIM. p. Wright. VIM.
Geo. Hill, John A. Hoffecker, Aubrey
NandeVer and w. S. REYNOLDS. The
organization when effected, shall con
slst OF president, vice president. sec
retary, treasurer and six directors
The maximum limit to its amount of
business is named at $250,OOO. From
what we can learn the projectors of the
enterprise have not vet formulated in
their minds the exact method of busi-
ness, VIZ whether it shall be place of
deposit for savings and loans on which
small per cent shall be paid. for in
Vestment, or whether it shall partake
OF the character likewise of a Buildinu
ana Loan Association. The prime OBJ
Ject was to give the railroad emDlOvees
ana Others an opportunity to laV bv
each month a small sum of their wages
that IS otherwise squandered, by the
means OF which they can provide them
selves with comfortable homes on the
land that is offered there for sale.
The discount feature if adopted will be
subject to that sensitive test belonging
to the handling of monies in trust but
the savings and building idea is out
side of and beyond xperiment-made
so by the great and lasting benefits
that have followed.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
Couch.

The lecture Of John b. Cough, on
Monday night, at the Town Hall, was
a success in every way. Mr.. Cough
never appeared before a Smyrna audi
ence before the night named, but we
think there was not one of the eaudience
who will not frequently recur to that
hour and a-half of Monday evening
with pleasure. There is hardly a req
uisite Of the complete orator that be
does not possess, and in his subject.
" Peculiar People" he had a broad
scope for his play of wit, humor, logic,
in its sequence nature, in its grand
eur; life in its passions and foibles !;
and above all, that prerequisite of the
effective orator-action. Through all
the varied scenes and subjects pre-
sented he never loses sight Of the great
lesson he would enforce-the life that
is worth living-the character that is
framed in the light of Divine revela-
ton. The life that he presents has
more Of beauties and happiness than of
sadness and sorrow, and the gospel he
breaches is the gospel of common
sense "
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
Water Works.

We give on another page for the
benefit of our citizens interested in the
subject, the proposed Act of Incorpora-
ton in relation to a water supply for
our town. Property holders have all
felt the peril we are in in time of fire.
and how under some circumstances we
are at the mercy of the flames. and
how we have deplored the want of
toresightedness in allowing ourselves
to be in such helpless condition. A
move has at last been taken to lift us
out of our improvident fix by the CON
structing of water-works sufficient for
the exigences OfOur tOwn-a movement
we are pleased to say that has the
unanimous support of our Board of
Commissioners. How stand our prop
erty holders and heads of families on
this important question?
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18

The Bailtcay Age says the indications
that the business and financial interests
of the country are steadily improving
continue to exist and are more and
more apparent. Of thirty-nine roads,
whose comparative earnings for the
second week in January are published,
twenty-eight report an increase over
the same period in 1884. Some of
the heaviest increases are reported by
important Western roads, which dur
ing the latter months of 1884 showed
large decreases compared with the
previous year. Grain is now moving
IN large quantities. Items begin to
appear in our exchanges telling of
large orders received by manufactur-
ing concerns and of additions to the
usual force ofemployees."
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18

TIE bill before the Legislature in
relation to the granting of liquor
licenses to applicants in the city of
Wilmington proposes to take it from
our Court of General Sessions of the
Peace and Jail Delivery, where it is
granted to the rest of the State, and
deposit it in the Municipal or
Police Court of that city. The pro-
curing of license from the honorable
judges, five of them, is easy enough
even where the applicants are of
doubtful character, and it looks to us
as if the move was in the direction of
the whiskey interest.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18

THE prOtracted meeting at the M. E.
Church seems to be nearing its close.
| On Sunday last fourteen persons united
with the church on prObation-twelve
boys and two girls-making twenty
three in all. Several have since pro-
fessed conversion. Rev. Mr.. Quigg,
the pastor, has labOred earnestly in
these meetings, but there has been no
manifested revival spirit permeating
the general membership.
w. DENNEY HAZEL, of Cecilton,
Md, an account of whose loss by burg
lars blowing open and taking the con-
tents of his safe was given in our last
issue, has recovered the most of the
papers, being found in field on the
road to MiddletOwn whittier they had
been thrown by the burglars in their
| flight. The most of the money obtain
ed, about $50, was in trade dollars.
The papers, which were of no use to
them, were thrown as far from the
road as possible. Those which were
not found, it is supposed were blown
away by the high winds.
On the principal that one good turn
deserves another, for Mr.. and Mrs. f.
NJ. Fowler have been the participants
if not the instigatOrs of a number of
similar occasions, they had their prem
ises invaded on Wednesday night last
by about twenty couples of masked
ladies and gentlemen who took posses
sion of their house and made the place
ring with mirth and hilarity. A sea-
son Of jollity is always incomplete
without a good provision for the in
ward comfort, fact they had fully
discounted, as was shown by the am
pie supply of ice cream and cake they
had carried along to end the feast of
fun.
THE death last week of J. Frank, son
of Mr.. and Mrs Jedediah Garrison, Just
past his third year, and Mark G., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Reed LOhand,
aged nearly six months, in contiguous
neighbOrhOods, south of the town,
called forth expressions of warm SYM
pathy from their friends. 1t has been
but few weeks since we noted the
social event that attended the baptism
of the latter at the home of the par
ents, neither they nor their friends
having the slightest idea that more
solemn rite was so soon to follow. It
died with pneumonia, the first sickness
it had ever had, leaving the parents a
solitary home.
CONSIDERABLE complaint was Justly
made on Sunday and Monday that the
snow which had accumulated on the
crossings on Saturday night had not
been cleaned off by the police. There
is an ordinance requiring that citizens
shall clean off the snow in front oftheir
residences or other property in a spec
flied number of hours, but to do this
and leave the crossings thus impeded,
is not creditable to the exponents of
the law. On looking out Sunday
morning Though the night before was
one of the worst of the season. the sun
was bright and the pavements by
church time mostly clear and it was
unkind to those ladies thus tempted to
church, to fill a religious obligation, to
make them wade through snow banks
a foot deep at the street crossings.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
Ice ON the Rivar

The volume of ice in the Delaware
Is rapidly increasing and it IS NEXT to y
impossible for vessels to move nm " ~
Gown, the only ones that are abIe to
stand the ice being few of the iargo
ocean steamers. The river steamboafs
are compelled to lay by.
The Iygert, that can run when most
OF the boats on the river are comneIleJ
70 mug their mOorings, ran a part of
last week but finally succumbed tn the
stress Of bad weather. She made the
Trip last week from the creeks month
60 Philadelphia aud back through the
,ee ~ thirteen hours taking two and n
haiI hours to change cargoes. or the
actual time of travel ten and a half
The DGUid ReeUe, the Leipsic boat
was tempted out by the day or two of
open weather the first part OF last week
with load Of grain and was caught bv
the drifting ice and forced into the
cove at Woodland Beach where She Is
lying IN great danger, being a wooden
craft, from the cutting Of ice foes.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18

SENATOR BAYvRD was again called
to Albany on Sunday for a conference
with Mr.. Cleveland, and it seems now
conceded that he has been offered the
portfolio of Secretary of State, and
will accept. He went down to Dover
yesterday with delegation of citizens
of New Castle county to urge the
Legislature to adopt the pending Oon
stitutional amendments.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18

IIle, are frequently, preceded by a sense Of
Meisht III the back, loins and lower part of tie
oouohCh' causing the patient 10 suppose hc has
some affection Of the Kidneys or nc}ghborug Or
ganS Al times, symptoms Of Indigestion are pre-
sell' as Hatulehcy, unca'iHCSS of the stomach
etc. a moisture, like perSpimtiou, producing a
very dlSagreea6le itching, alter getting warm. i a
common attendant Blind. Bleeding ana Itching
IHGS yeild at once 70 the application Of Dr. Bo-
sahkoS flle Remedy. which acts directly uuou
the parts affected absorbing the Tumors, aiiay-
ing the intense itching, and affecting a pcrnI-
neht cure Price 30 cents. Address The pr
HofcCker smyrna, Del deS III
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
Lectures,

Lectures have been announced to
come off at our town Hall on the fol-
lowing dates:
Thursday, Feb. 26th, Rev. Waldo
MessarOs. Subject "HoOks in our
Noses"
Thursday, March 5th, Major Moses
Veal.
Thursday, March 10Th, Charles
Emory Smith, editor of the Philadel-
phia Press.
Thursday, March 10Th, A. X. Nc
Clure, editor of the Philadelphia Times.
Thursday, March 26th, Rev. Way
land Hoyt.
The admission to this course of lee
lures will be ten cents.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
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Smyrna times., 1885-02-18

WASHINGTON must be a bad place
for what are called "young men of
society" as appears by the reports
from that city. A week Or so ago a
son of Congressman Holman got
drunk in the house of which he was a
guest at a party, and struck another
young man in the presence of ladies,
and last Friday night a son of Senator
Malone, of Virginia, while on a
drunken lark, shot at the colored
waiter and at Mr.. Wecker the propri-
etOr Of the hotel with the intention of
killing them. They are wealthy and
it is the old story of the devil "fnd-
ing mischief still for idle hands to do"
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
Deceased.

John Hamilton, one of our we'll
known mechanics died at his residence
IN this town on Saturday last in the
59th year of his age. He was horn
IN Kent county, Maryland, but came
10 tnls town when lad and learned
blacksmithing at the carriage factory
OF the late John NJ. Denning. Shortlv
after serving out his apprenticeship he
went South, but did not remain but n
few months, coming back to this town
and engaging work ut the carriage
works of McMullen q Shermer, with
whom he remained while thev contin-
ued IN business, following the works to
the present site now occupied bv las
G. Lassell & Co. The anvil he com
menced to work on after his return To
TINS town he continued to work on nm
terruptedly until disabled by a severe
hemmorrhage last Maya period of "a
years, Such a record is perhaps not
parallel in this country. MIR. HamiI-
ton was quiet, unobtrusive man. n
good workmen and faithful to his en-
ployers interest," He was the most nj
nome when in the pursuit of his daily
occupation, and when he laid down his
hammer not to pick it up again, it was
because consumption had robbed his
arm of its wanted strength. The last
nine months were spent in the confines
OF MS own home where he was nlIrsed
and cared for by the last SURVIVING
member OF his family, a young ladv
just entering wOmanhood. His re-
mains were inferred at the Ennis.
copal cemetery on Monday afternoon
attended by number of his friends
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
a&Asn. 60 Western Ewes,
HOGS.

Poland China Boar and sow ,Reri,tsredi 30
broOd SowS, nearly all have Pigs. 80 >hUais.
Melgnlhg from 40 10 l25 pounds This stock is
principally Berkshire.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
Tribute to a Distinguished Odd
Fellow.
HALL OF MORNING STAR LODGE,
No. 6, 1. o. o. F.,
CHFxyDAyA nur

HALL OF MORNING STAR LODGE, J
No. 6, 1. 0. o. F.,
SMYRNA, DEL, JAN. 16, 1885.
WHEREAS, The sad intelligence is
made known to us of the sudden death
on Tuesday last, the 18th inst, of our
worthy brother, Hon. Schuyler COlfax,
of the State of Indiana. His conspic-
uous services to the order have made
his name a household word in the great
family of Odd Fellowship, thus de-
manding an expression of sincere sor-
row, therefore be it
Resolved, That this Lodge deeply
mOurns the loss of our brother and
deeply sympathizes with his family and
Lodge,
Resolved, That by his death the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows has
lost one of its brightest stars,
ResOlced, That the foregoing pre-
preamble and resolution be spread upon
the minutes of this Lodge and pub
lished in the Smyrna TINES and a copy
under the seal of the Lodge be sent
to his family and his Lodge.
JOSEPH EVANS, n. G..
GEO. NJ. STEVENSON, p. S.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
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THE representation amendment to
the constitution it is said will come
up this week in the Legislature. There
is much doubt as to its ultimate fate,
as a three-fourths vote is required to
adopt it.
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18

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Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
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New Advertisements.

The attention Of our readers is called
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Dress Goods, &c.-John Wanamaker.
Oak Wood For Sale-Robt. Denney.
Clothing-Garitee, Maston & Allen.
White Oak Post-Robt Denney.
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DEATHS.

GAARRiSON.-Near Brenford. February I0lh. J.
Frank, son of Jedediah and Jane Garrison
aged years month and Ii days
HAMITTON.-In this town. Februarv I'M Jobn
Hamilton aged 50 years
JAtkSON.-ln this town February 18th Mrs
Mary Ann Jackson, aged = years.
LOFLAND. Near smyrna February 18th. Mark
Greers infant son of George Reed and Lavenia
Il. Lohand aged mOhhs and - days
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18
-Four sHoATs, CHICKENS and other fowls
Farming Implements, &c.

Two dw9 seated seated Carriage, Buggy, Farm Wepons
Tio n, ., Wnlch Is nearly new; Farm Wagon with
WWay RIGGING Peach Wagon in good order: Peach
Mmagqn mag body with springs OK Cart and OK Yoke
WWTbalDI2'ln, SET OF Truck Wheels with water tank
HHteaPer and Mower, Hay Rake, Grain Drill 1oTU
SSneiiieT, Grain Fans, Roller nearly new. Wheel
NHsaVatotS ShoVelS' Hoes, Forks, sets of WAGON
Eo SeIs Flow Gears, Brides, Collars. Piows. Har.
of f2p1sar psC cured Hams and Shoulders, 1000 pounds
Oh Bacon, HOgShead, Casks, Barrels Sc P'O''NS
OF Glover Hay. 'N "'O"' < IONS
About 1000 marked Peach Rasl,o,s
Smyrna times., 1885-02-18

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