Smyrna times., 1886-01-20


much annoyance. 1t is probable that
such letters will be forwarded in fu-
ture and the postage collected of the
persons to whom they are addressed.
THE "Queen" is the new and likely
to prove popular candidate for public
faver among the women who are par
ticular about the value of their coffee
pot. 1t is a Southern invention and
has grown rapidly into use in that sec
ton. 1t claims economy as well as ex-
Cellence. Geo. V. Case the attorney
for the pateptee will have it on exhibi-
tiOn at the store of VIM. A. WinfOrd
for two or three days, where our citi-
zens can see it at practical work and
test the merits of its production them
selves.
AT the meeting of the Town Com
missiOners last week the long deferred
question of the engineership of the
water works was settled by the cleo
tiOn of Abel Taylor, who was appoint
ed superintendent also, with salary
of $720 year. Mr.. Taylor, who is a
practical mechanic, will doubtless fill
the Office satisfactorily. The main was
tapped several times last week to put
water into dwellings, but the digging
of the ground, which was and is frozen
about foot and a-half deep, was found
slow work.
The special services at the NJ. e.
Church which were commenced the
first of the mOnth-nOOn day prayer
meetings from 124 to II o'clock, and
revival meeting during the evenings
are still continued. The meetings
have been growing in interest and con
sequently in attendance. The noon
day meetings have been especially en-
jOyed by the membership, many of
whom have been greatly quickened
and revived. There has been little in
terest manifested until recently outside
the church circle, but several CONVEX
siOns have been reported and last night
there were seven penitents at the
altar.
THE lecture of John f. Mowbray,
Esq, of Frederick, at the Town Hall,
on Friday night, is spoken of by his
audience i'll such phrases as magnif-
cent, grand, &c. 1t is seldom an audi
ence issO generally delighted, some say
ing that he eclipses Dan. DOugherty,
the siiyer-tOngued orator. His sub
ject was The Universal Complaint"
commencing with the first cry of the
babe which was a complaint, and fol-
lowing him up through boyhOOd and on
through the progress of life, reviewing
especially the environments of his do
mestic, social and political life that
form the universal complaint of the OPP
pressed masses.
SOME low-grade individual who stirs
early in the morning has reprehensi-
BILE habit of squirting tobacco juice on
the porOhes as he passes. The com
plaint comes mainly from Commerce
street, nearly every morning last week
the pOrches or steps on the north side
of the street, from the " Hill to Main
street being thus befOuled. Boys some
times do mischief in fun and thought
lessness, but as this is done by man
whose only object can be to annoy or
spite those whose position in life
is better than his, he ought to be COM
PEELED to change his abode to the wilds
of savage life where such things as
marble steps wouldn't seem to excite
his malevOlence.
THE James & Webb Printing and
Stationery Company, of Wilmington,
announces in another column of this
impression that on the 1st of next
month they will publish a work of
over three hundred pages on the culti-
vatiOn of the peach and pear on this
| Peninsula, by John J. Black, M. D., of
New Castle. As the advertisement
shows, the book will touch on almost
every kind of fruit grown in this part
of the country. 1t will be sold only by
subscription, and applications for agen-
! cies should be made Mt once. DR..
Black has given especial attention to
the culture of fruit for a number of
years, with as careful a study from a
scientific basis as possible, and his de-
ductions from his experimental tests
ought to make his book one of value
to the fruit grower.
The pouch of mail matter that left
| this pOstoffice on Thursday last for
| Philadelphia on reaching there was
thrown on the mail wagon, from which,
in crossing the car track it was iOstled
/ UlEEtLlN
after the wheels of a passing train ran
over it grinding the pouch and its con-
tents to pieces. 1t was however for
warded to the Superintendent of Rail-
way Mail Service at New York and
from there returned, about One-quarter
Ofthe contents, on Monday to this Office,
the letters 50 cut and mutilated as to
be almost unrecOgnizable. BY COM
pairing pieces the letters were, however.
gathered together and returned to the
writers except one signed "Bert the
Bum perhaps written by a drum
mer or a Snowman. It would seem
that they need in the cities to get lar
ger wagons or take smaller loads, when
they transport such valuable material
as mail matter.
YESTERDAY morning Mrs. James p
HOffecker turned on the draft in the
fireplace heater of her parlOr, to start
up the fire, going upstairs Immediately
afterwards to do some work. On re,
turning in what she supposed to be
about ten minutes, to shut it off, she
found the mantle lambrequin Ia heavy
deep-fringed one, on which she had ex
pended much labor in a light blaze
She rushed to tear it down, but in doinl
so caught fire herself By this time
the servant girl had come to her rescue
in aiding her to get from out O
the flaming dress, and by the com
bined efforts of the two it was tori
from her person and thrown on the
hall floor. The girl then ran to tn,
drug store and called in a voice o
alright to Mr.. HOffecker that his wifi,
was on fire. In fastening to the seen,
he picked up a heavy burlap which
was thrown over the burning carpe
where the dress had been cast, as vel
as he could see for the smoke, and thu
speedily smOthered the fire, fortunate
ly with no further loss than q damage,
carpet in both the parlor and hall ans
camp stool that had also beer
burned, Mrs. II. sustaining no iniury
except the blistering of her fingers.
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