Smyrna times., 1886-12-01

CHRISTMAS is less than a month off. |
Do not wait until the last week to lay |
in your stock of presents. Give the |
shOpkeeper a chance.
E. H. BECK, real estate broker, has |
sold the farm of James Griffin, in Black |
bird hundred, New Castle county, con-
tanning 33 acres, to ThOs. w. Handy, of
ClaymOnt, Del, for 5000.
AN exchange gives as an infallible
sign of a hard Winter, the increased
number of rats and mice infesting
houses, of which it says there is greater
complaint this fall than usual.
THE editor of an exchange says:
The longer we run a newspaper and
write about people and events the
more we realize how utterly impossible
it is to scratch every man on the spot
where he itches the most"
REV. VAUGHN SMITH, of Whining
ton, preached in the M. E. Church, of
this town, on Sunday, morning and
evening, sermons that were listened to
with pleasure by his hearers. The
reverend gentleman exhibits more than
usual mental and physical force for one
who has given 48 years of his life to the
ministry.
AN exchange in noting the habits of
some parents in listening to the com
plants of their children from difficult
ties growing out of their misdeeds, in
stead of threshing them, says:
/" 1t is an affliction with parents IN THIS
town that they accept as truths from their
own children what they would believe to
be lies from the children of other parents.
This is what makes trouble between teacher
and pupil, and finally between teacher
and parent"
THE season of death to porkers is at
hand and from every quarter can be
heard the mournful death song of the
animal as it struggles in the hands of
the messenger of death who comes
around, leaving cheerless pens in his
wake. This is also the season when
the man with the biggest hog COM
mands more attention in certain quar-
ters than any other individual. Thus
far ]. Wesley Blades has the lead with
two, weighing 48O and 460 pounds
while John w. Start swings into line
with one that weighs 453 pounds.
1HE mousse Vi lGb6E THU, Ou Jut
farm near Pryor's Corner, just be
yond Duck Creek, on the State road
made narrow escape from being re
duced to ashes on the evening of the
; 18th inst. He had a sale that day o
} his farming utensils and household
., goods, his son to succeed him in its OC
cupancy. After the sale a stove tina
, was in another room was removed ant
E in clearing it out the ashes, which it i
/ thought contained some live Goals Wer
: put in a wooden box in the kitchen
The kindling that was prepared t.
start the fire the next morning wa
d likewise thrown in this box and in ad
e dition Mr.. Fritz threw his coat over il
/ Some time in the night the family wa
It aroused by a sitting smoke and de
e scending the stairs found the box {
kindling and the coat nearly consume
- and the door and furniture on fire, an
n but for the timely discovery the dive
" ling must have been consumed.
r. For two Thursdays in succession "
er have been treated to wind and raj
i storms of unusual violence-somewh;
after the order of the Western visito
/, that we read of. That on last Thur
- day-Thanksgiving Day-came iii
q. a roaring tornado, the only evidence
h its approach being the peculiar ro
o., and heavy black clouds so low as to 8
of most sweep the earth. Persons wi
4 were out in it compared the clouds
their position and looks to that som
times seen issuing from a locomotiy
ly 1t came in successive waves of altern
n, ting black and light clouds. Fodd
it. stacks were torn to pieces and scatter
in in many places, and we hear of who
'n ricks of fodder being picked up bodi
r. from one position and set down
ill another. A man riding between IL
town and Clayton in a carriage had Il
.ss TOP lifted out and carried over the fie
ho leaving him no protection but the sil
10 curtains. S. p. Truax gathered fro
'eess the broken peach trees in his Orcha
lie the two following days ten wag
al loads of wood, enough to last him
rs Winter.