Smyrna times., 1886-11-17


MISS NARY WALKER fell down the
cellar steps at her home on Main
street on Monday and hurt herself
quite severely but not seriously.
THE farmers have had beautiful
weather for getting in their corn, and
the majority Of them are done and out
Of the way Of the bleak, Wintry winds.
THos. HEMsLEY has bought Of John
G. Bailey four and Cue-ninth acres Of
land on MonroVia street-Or Church /
Lane-at the lower end Of " Whop-
ping"
W. T. JOHNSON Is adding a hand
some balustrade 20 the portico of his I
dwelling on South street, occupied by |
J. 3. Mif1in, and Is otherwise i'm I
proving the property by fancy glass
doors, street crossing, &c
The Good TempIars Of Clayton will |
hold a public meeting in their lodge |
room this evening and viii be ad- /
dressed by Grand Chief Templar Frank /
Whelen, Of Dover, and Henry ". |
Morrow, Of Wilmington. AdelegatiOn
will 60 from Smyrna.
~ = nave EcCCABCt1 blEOuEQ btlG mali .
| Communication in reference to men
who get drunk and maItreat their
wives, coming down on them ike
/ thousand of bricks for their beastliness,
but as it Is not accompanied by the
| name Of the writer, it Of course cannot
| be admitted.
THE steamer Tygert will not run
/ either Wednesday or Thursday Of next
/ week. The officers and crew Of the
| Tygert have been doing a hard years
| work, and they want a little season Of
rest, with pumpkin pie and turkey
| thrown in, at their own table, and,
ike other people, observe Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
Rev. Mr.. GORDON, rector Of st.
| Peters Church, having been requested
by a number of persons to repeat his
course oflectures on So Reasons for Be
lieving Christianity y has concluded to
do So The first lecture Of the course
will be delivered next Sunday evening.
All the readers Of the TINES are cor
daily invited to attend
WHEN we recorded last week the
death of Mrs. Ellen Jones at the age
of 50 years, land whose record of .
good life was as high in the scale of
virtues as it ran in years we did not
expect to as soon publish the age of
one so advanced, but Mrs. Ann Ennis,
mother Of Ananias Ennis Of thorough
fare Neck, who was buried yesterday
at Union church near Blackbird, was
I01 years Old,-three years beyond that
Of " Aunty" Jones. We know nothing
Of Mrs. Ennis history except that she
had been a member Of church for thirty
years. The funeral yesterday was
quite largely attended.
The ". E. Choir, of this town as
sisted by the ladies Of the Mite Society,
viii hold q festival in the Town Hall on
, Thanksgiving night, and they propose
to have some novelty attractions that
viii add much to the pleasures Of the
{ evening. The proceeds Of the evening
g / will be appropriated to the fund
3 already started to secure q new pipe
: organ, that has been greatly needed for
some time. Festivals, like all other
! places where there is something to eat,
/ have their special attractions, but this
5 | Thanksgiving festival will have in ad-
! ditiOn the attractions becoming a hOli-
{
E and the object to the attention Of our
e people.
: AT the sale Of the real estate of Thos
! H. Denney, deceased, offered last
: week at Dover, by Geo. Y. Massey
!. trustees, farm containing SS1 acres, IN
r. cluding arabic land and maFst
2 and cripple, and situated in White
r Hall Neck, in Duck Creek hun
e dred, was purchased by Nathan
;. Moore, for S12,0O1. The farm wher,
y Mr. Denney formerly resided, situated
% about a mile east of Dover and con
e tanning 1913 acres, was then offered 70
T, sale The highest bid for this farm wa
SIS per acre but the trustee and tn
= heirs not thinking that this bid wa
enough for the farm, withdrew it, an,
it will be offered again for sale at som
? future day.
WITH the cooling of the weathe
.e last week came the hOg-killing season
forced somewhat doubtless by the prev
alence of hog cholera in some neigh
C borhOOds. Chas. B. Archer com
menCed the slaughter season a weel
Ts ago, with thirty-six the first day.
goes steadily along now until the middl
Il of next month, but the two first week
= of December Is the time when the ma
jority Of the porkers bite the dust.
large number Of our people lost thei
lr hogs in this town and immediate viciu
t ity last year, but we have heard OfnOn
at all this Fall. In the farming SEE
- ton however west and south Of tn
town some of the farmers have los
- their entire stock Of fattening hogs.
The law protecting game was out o
ID | Monday and the spOrtsmen, with thei
pr guns and dogs were on the fly like VI
IN Gagged birds The city gunners coul
hardly wait for the morning to come
and from forty TO fifty men with thei
II dogs left both the cities of PHILADELPHIA
az and Baltimore for the Peninsula on th
y first train. Passengers could hardl
move in any direction about the depot
of without stumbling over dogs. Wha
Of with our own men in town and cOuI
n. try who like to look down a gun ba
be rel at a whirring partridge, with tE
pack Of foreign devastatOrs who CON
to try their luck on the helpless bird
% with the swamps where they fOun
y safety largely destroyed, it would seel
a. a slim chance for many "bob whites
u to survive until next Summer, an
from the top fence rail ring out the
W wOndrously clear note calls.
- Mr.. AND Mrs. THEODORE W. CA
he ENDER, residing near this town, we
given a rOusing surprise party On Mo
day evening, that being the date
de their Goth marriage anniversary. The
were decoyed over to a neighbOr
n in blissful ignorance Of what was goir
or on, leaving the daughters, who ha
lly got an inkling Of the intended visit
charge of the house. The evening ha
MA not worn away long before from tow
IN aud the surrounding country they
M gan to pour into the dwelling, going
IT. single and double carriages and pea,
,Ie wagons, from this town. until, of &
ages and classes, the company numbe
ed nearly 100 persons. The position
en Mr.. and Mrs. Cavender was 500
cal changed from being the guests at
;nt neighbOr's to being the guests Of tt
I'M large company in their own dwellin
ms The latter went well provided with
the cream, cake, chicken salad and 9th
Ter fXings and had a jolly time, the col
IN pany not breaking up until near mi
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