Smyrna times., 1886-04-28
srnAM Hats al M. F. Clement,s. T


one occupied by ]. B. Evans) to Mrs.
/ N. Lydia Carrow for 81 ,525.
The report of Phosphate analyses, as
published by Prof Wolf in this issue,
will interest our farmers as we'll as
the phosphate manufacturers.
Go TO w. F. Clements for New
York Mills, King Philip, Wamsutta,
Fruit of the Loom and other grades of
Muslin. 4
The WOman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet at the residence of
Mrs. Rev. John France, Tuesday after
noon, May 4th, at three o'clock.
A DOZEN or more of our people are
booked for visit to the city next Wed
nesday to hear the Salvini-BoOth rem
ditiOn of Othello. The tickets are only
$500.
X ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT of Pub
lie Schools, H. G. Carpenter, and J. E.
Carroll, Principal of the Dover Public
School spent Monday in visiting our
school.
SPRING styles of Prints at w. F.
Clements. T
PARTIES paying their school tax on
or before the 10th of May will be al
lowed a discount of s per cent. The
duplicate will be in the hands of the
collector-B, V. WeldOn-On Monday
next.
Mrs. p. H. T. WYATT, received a
telegram from Salem, N. j., Saturday,
announcing the sudden death of her
aged father resident in that place, and
accompanied by her son James, is there
in attendance at the funeral.
XTHE announcement in a Wilmington
paper that Henry Ward Beecher
passed through that city Monday on
his way to Smyrna to deliver a lecture,
was incorrect. he having last week
cancelled his engagement here
X A LITTLE four-year-old son of w. c..
Davis, living on the farm of Robert
Rawley, down the Neck, fell on Tues
day of last week from load of manure
and was fatally injured by the wheels
running over his abdomen, dying yes
terday, just week from the date of
the injury. He had been in the habit
of riding in and out with the wagon
which was used in hauling manure to
the field.
5 THE lone Tanager bird that has
sought our town for its Summer abode
3 for the three Summers past, has return
ed to us for the fourth, its clear but
pensive notes being heard this morning.
y 1t has generally arrived after the Oriole
, in May, but is little ahead this year.
The usual abode of the Tanager bird
is the depths of the forests, and it is a
little singular that this bird should
l seek our town for its Summer home.
!. n H. P. HAZEL, has bought through
: the agency of E. H. Beck building lot
on Methodist Street adjoining the resi-.
dence Of H. r. Mustard, 80 by 1S4 feet
: for $500. He intends to erect himself
e a new house we hear the coming Sum.
: mer. Joseph Stephenson has also
! bought lot corner of North and Union
Streets, 80 by 100 feet for 1925. and E
e H. Beck, has bought the new residence
o of Preston Graham corner of Methodist
: and Pearl Streets, terms private.
;. XABOUT midnight on Monday c. F
< Lippincott was aroused from his slum
bers by a crashing noise below, and OF
# going to the window to see what wa!
: the matter he found that some mis-
e creant had torn his porch to pieces and
/ was at work trying to tear down hi!
q alley gate. After trying to get from
the man in vain what he was about, hC
called to his dog, but the animal was il
!. deeper slumber than his master haC
- been, and slept on through it all. Ii
d the meantime the man walked away
g leaving Mr.. LippincOtt in doubt a.
:. to who he was or what he wanted.
SEVERAL weeks ago one of our far
mers-N. T.. UnderwoOd-asked through
e the TINES why of late years it wa
10 such difficult thing to get a stand o
+ clover in the ordinary method of seed
g ing, but, if anyone knows, they hav,
o failed to comply with the request. Al
+ agricultural paper, in speaking 0
clover as a plant says:
,r Glover growth is helped by lime an,
plaster Large quantities of nitrogen ar
- contained in the earth and air, and Glove
- clearly absOrbs nitrogen more than an,
=. other plant. The plant and air work to
d gether in furnishing an exhaustless suppl
J. of food for all kinds. Of food plants"
LEGUNNERs should be careful wher
Y and how they shoot. On Saturday
h boy was fishing on the banks of tn
Of millpOnd, when simultaneous with tn
III report of a gun he felt a stinging sensa
Of ton in the ball of his thumb which wa
D. grasping the rod. Upon investigatin
ut the matter he found that the thumi
in had been wounded by shot from tn
gun. No gunner was visible nor dit
=, he see by whom the shot was freC
~ By the way, what are persons gunnin
y at this time of the year at all for?
le for birds other than snipe, it is unlaW
VI ful as well as cruel as this is the nest
r ing season, and all such persons shouI
D. be informed on and punished.
IN XTHE statement last week in referenc
=" to the connection of Geo. F. Brow
r with the peach tree case of. II. Ostrar
u der was incorrect he says as to the po:
m ters being sent by Hopes, Bro.
~ Thomas notifying the people that
u. was not their agent, which they ais
le say. Mr.. Brown says he sold the tree
80 only as the agent of Mr.. Ostrander i
" good faith believing them to be wha
se they were represented, and no one wa
% more surprised than he. was to kno'
that Mr.. Ostrander was not dealin
ds honestly; that his attention was fir.
h, attracted to Mr.. Ostrander by seein
Id his advertisement in the Elkton Dem,
or crat, which place was his recognize
III home.
r, THE editor of the BreakVater Li0i
10 asks the question Ought a ma
nc over 45 years of age to hold Office {
y and argues that because about th
'e- time his eyes fail, he becomes timi,
Vi &C., and that, therefore, he should no
If he had put the age fifteen years fu
he ther on, and limited the Office to ne
ell one who was not acquainted with tn
of business and may never learn it,
re, might argue the question to a cOnvin
,m ing conclusion. The Civil ServiC
ur Commission in fixing the age at As
We the latest to begin successfully the tas
nd of delicate and particular official wor
ey doubtless knew from experience thi
w. this was somewhere near the limit of
ire satisfactory age.
OF AT this time in the Spring some on
'hC who has been thinking over VIII
ought to be done, thus classiiies h
re- thoughts:
ng Now is the time to pave.
r.: Now is the time to paint.
Of Now is the time to build.
on Now is the time to paper.
me Now is the time to plant seed.
NoW ie tho fiuna IN olaon bO,eo