Smyrna times., 1886-02-10


Mr.. JONES, of Wilmington, who has
been plastering the house of Preston
Graham went home on Monday sick
and news was received to-day that he
was dead.
THE selection of the Overseer of the
Poor in the place of T. B. Lewis,
deceased, on Wednesday, fell to E. B.
Smith, of Mispillion Hundred Twenty.
one out of the twenty-seven applicants
were present, 1t is thought that if
there had not been three or four appli-
cants out of the LeWes family, one of
them would have received the appoint
ment
HAVE our Town Fathers considered
the condition of our crossings, that the
packed snow ought to be removed, or
what would have been better, removed
before it was packed. The melting
condition of the snow makes the cross
ings very bad. Another thing ought
to be seen after, that the cutters be
cleaned out to give an unObstructed
passage to the water.
On Sunday night thieves got into
the dwelling of Geo. A. Hall, on Della
ware street, through a back window
and had a good feast on the edibles
they could find in the way of bread,
meat and preserves, taking nothing
with them but small bag of flour and
some things from the cupboard. The
silverware and other things in the
room were not disturbed.
THE Ladies' Mite Society of the NJ.
E. Church held their annual meeting
on Saturday night last and the follow
/ ing officers were elected to serve for
the ensuing year:
President-Mrs.G Geo. A. Hall
Vice-President-Mrs. w. H. Baggs.
Treasurer-Mrs.J John p. Hudson.
SeCretary-Miss Irene Roberts.
Parsonage COmmittee-Mr Joseph
SmitheTs, Mrs. John H. Hofecker,
and Mrs. Edward g. FAIRIES.
THE gypsies are about again and
have been visiting (the women portion
| of them the streets from house to house
in pushing their peculiar business.
They are very unceremOniOus, and en-
ter house without knocking. They
talk good luck and bright fortunes, but
move on to another locality before the
dark shadows and evil times Overtake
their unfortunate victims. In money
matters they are silVerites to a degree
that would do the heart of the editor
of the DeIGIUdredn good.
The churchyard on the occasion of
an interment is always place of gloom
but funeral on such a day as last
| Wednesday with driving snow storm
singing a requiem in connection with
the burial services must have been the
intensity of gloom. Such was the
time appointed and the occasion of the
funeral of Jas. H. Jacobs, an indus
trlous young farmer, who died at the
residence of his step-father, Benjamin
ID. Burrows, on the Saturday previous.
after long illness. He leaves a widow
and several young children. The fun
eral services were conducted by Rev.
E. E. White, and interment at Bryn-
zion Church.
| OUR railroad men have never had a
worse time than last week. The two
/ days snow was bad enough, but the
drift of Thursday night and Friday
was more trying. The Delaware road,
| the trunk line, managed to keep open,
running as it did mainly in the direc-
| ton of the wind, but the most of the
branch roads were blocked up two or
/ three days. The branch road from
this town to Clayton suffered badly
i from the drifts, Friday morning espec-
tally, requiring the combined force of
three locomotives and lot of shovel
lers to get through. The position of
an engineer is we'll portrayed by a con-
| tributOr on our first page.
ROBERT STEEL, Cedar Park Stud.
near Philadelphia, has sold to Terence
! Carvin, proprietor of KentOn Hotel,
for stock purposes, the handsome bav
stallion Spring Hill, foaled in 1887,
sired by Happy Medium, dam Mollie
Jackson, by Voorhees, Abdellah Prince.
Spring Hill was bred by John Brown.
of TOrresdale, Penn. Mr.. Steel sold
Happy Medium three years ago to
General Withers, of Kentucky. for
$4,000. The sire of Spring Hill is
also the sire of Maxey Cobb.
record 2.13l; Buzz Medium, 2.2Ol;
EllwoOd Medium, 224I; Merry
Thought, 1921 Meta Medium, double
team record, 2.15} and score of
]
The antics that the mercury cut last
week were remarkable, in fact we have
never known anything to equal it. It
IS not uncommon for thermometers to
vary two or three degrees according to
location, but last week they went aWav
beyond this. They mostly stood on
Friday and Saturday mornings at 0, 10,
2 or g below, but Capt. Mustard's on
one side of the street stood 1Oo below
zero, while that of Mr.. Nelson's on the
opposite side stood at zero. We hear
OF others in the town and country that
went from 50 to 90 below, but DR..
Shreve has a registering thermometer
and doubtless a more accurate instru-
ment than the most of those in use.
which registered 10 below. A ther-
mometer at MOOrtOn went down to 12o.
while one at Frederick went two bet
ter, stopping at 14o.