Smyrna times., 1886-10-27

THERE is a vast difference between
this year and last in regard to gather
ing the corn crop. Last year the corn
was green, late and so damp that it
was hardly fit for market the whole
Winter. This Fall some of the farmers
have already got a large part of the
crop husked, and they say it is as dry
and suitable for market now as in Mid
winter last year.
COMPLAINTS still come from our far
mers of the ravages of the hog cholera,
some having lost nearly or quite their
entire crop of fattening hogs. The
parts especially affected, as is found
by dissection, are the melt and liver.
One of our farmers as an experiment
bought lot of quinine the other day
to give those not already diseased,
with the hope that it might act as a
liver preserver.
THESE bright Autumnal days arc
making the spOrtsmen look forward
with some anxiety to the day when the
law protecting game expires, the 18th
of November. Partridges are said to
be unusually abundant, and so are
squirrels for the limited amount of
woods that now exists, but woodcOck
have been scarce, and so are rabbits
The fact that the latter are less in
numbers than usual is owing doubtless
to the heavy rains that fell throughout
May, June and July, drowning the
young. The cunning season commen-
| ces q month later than it did some
years ago, made necessary to prevent
| a destruction that indicated an eXter-
| minatiOn.
Mrs. ELIZABETH GRIFFIN, widow
of the late Samuel Griffin, died at her
residence in this town on Sunday
morning last, in the 81st year of her
| age. She was the daughter of Ma
thaniel Wilds, who resided near Ken
ton and reared a family of eleven chill
dren, Mrs. Grifin's death leaving but
four of the eleven remaining. Her
life from the time of her marriage
until Mr.. Griffin moved to this town
| some twenty years ago was spent at
their quiet country home near Bryn-
zion Church. Hers was essentially a
home" life, where she had the love
of her children and the respect of heI
neighbOrs. She had been in feeble
health for some years past. Her re
mains were taken to the family buria
ground at BrynziOn Cemetery thi:
morning for interment, followed by {
large number of relatives and friends
SATURDAY week a flock of turkey.
belonging TO Robert Gass, residing
about two miles north of this town
strayed into an adjoining woods belong
ing to Samuel Armstrong, remote from
any house and were quietly feeding
| when some ruthless brute or brute
fired volley after volley of shot int
their midst, the flock numbering be
tween fifty and sixty. Shortly after
wards Mr.. Gass' two boys, accompanied
by young friends from town, went Ou
into the woods for chestnuts and fount
twenty dead turkeys lying on tn
ground, their bodies still warm. Upol
examining the flock it was found tina
ten others were missing, presumabl
carried off or else, badly wounded, ha
flown into the depths of the woods t
die. Mr.. Gass, who was away i
Philadelphia at the time, estimates hi
loss at not less than $45. He cannO
find a clue to the perpetrators of tn
deed and can conceive no motive eX
cept reckless cruelty to prompt it.
DURING the early part of last even
ing while five or six gentlemen wer
sitting in Johnson's shoe store convers
ing, large metallic lamp attached to
rod on the counter took fire, burnin
both from the base and top. An explos
2 ion was the very natural conclusion
and all struck for the door and a sal
! position on the outside except Waite
, | o. HOffecker, who, after surveying it
r second or two boldly faced the burnin
globe in an effort to eXtinguish it b
. manipulation, but falling in this sui
ceeded in smothering it with a heav
cloth. His hands were smartly burne
D in putting out the fire, and at the sug
t gestiOn that Brazilian Balm was th
} | best remedy in such cases, Mr.. Johr
son soon had a bottle from the dru
t store and it brought the relief that wa
e claimed for it. Mr.. II. was joked 6
the outcome of his bravery, that as tn
insurance agent of the Fire Associs
ton, of Philadelphia, he had place
I an insurance of $1,000 on the property
and was acting in the capacity of a fiji
! patrol to preserve his company frOl
loss.