Smyrna times., 1886-05-12

OiOehlnS b SShViOAhOu . AuA uAhi9ni"S SONN'Si
hats, &c.
SOME newspaper man who has "becn
there" said Newspaper editing is
very funny amusement. If you give
man puff, he never sees it; but let
one line against him appear, and he
sees it before the paper is off the
press"
If our other farmers wives have the
same luck with their turkeys as Mrs.
John J. Jones had, we are assured of
an abundant crop of turkeys this year.
Mrs. Jones set her hen with 21 eggs
and she came of yesterday with % fine
young turkeys.
E. H. BECK, real estate agent, has
sold building lot on Methodist street |
between the houses of P. Graham and |
DR.. E. NJ. Cloak, adjoining the latter,
to Mrs. Ann Jemima Foxwell, forty |
feet front, 184 feet deep, for $425. 1t is
Mrs. Foxwell's intention to have a res
idence for herself built on this lot this
season.
ONE of the sacred musicians who got
to church a little in advance of the
other members of the Orchestra Sun
day amused himself by playing "ShoO
fly, don't bother me-" the tune being
suggested, it is presumed, by trouble
some fly that tickled his nose. If he is
thus moved to music by single fly in
May, what will it be under the effects
of full brood in JulyP
Mrs. AMANDA SPENCER is building
sixteen foot square store-hOuse on the
lot adjoining her dwelling on Delaware
street for the purpose of opening a
| grocery store. This will be the second
store in that part of the town, and
| gives a commercial aspect to section
considered entirely devoted to resi-
| dences until Mrs. Isaac Pennewill open
ed a store there eight Or-ten years ago.
IT is stated that one of the young
men of the party which went to
Philadelphia last week to witness the
BoOth-Salvini presentation of Othello,
in visiting the Egyptian Musee the
next day tried to get up Irritation
with what he thought a beautiful
young lady leaning over and looking
down at him from banister above, to
find little later on that he had been
winking and blinking at a wax figure.
DURING the war colored man iiv-
ing near MOOrton named James White
was drafted and fell in battle about
two months after going to the front.
Some time after his wife died and his
children, four in number, have grown
up. John H. Bishop, who had charge
of them largely after the death of their
father thought they were entitled to a
/ nt M n n
were getting them, applied for pen
sion through Hon. Geo. P. Fisher who
finally succeeded, notification coming
last week of the granting of a pension
of 81, 500.
SMYRNA can now perhaps boast pos
session of the slowest man that ever
had to go through the excessively ar.
duOus work of breathing the breath Of
life. We don't suppose for a moment
3 that it is laziness-Only natural-bOrI
S slowness. He went to work in the
: basket mill, worked assiduously fol
two days, making in that time twenty
: four baskets at three-quarters of cen
per basket, and when the inspecto
went the rounds twelve of these wer,
Y condemned. He said he could hav,
made twenty-five but for the fact tina
, each nail got rusty in his hand ant
they were consequently hard to drive
THE rain that came last week wa
= very OppOrtune, rather too heavy TO
~ the lOwlands, especially where the cor
had not been planted. The month {
d drought was fine thing for the frui
o crop. The dry weather at blossOmin
time fully insured such. perfect fertil
-, zation that the set of fruit is some
- thing unusual, and that is what az
" counts for many persons finding NOR
peaches than they expected. Ever
ID blossom this year is perfected, where's
1T in some seasons at blOssoming tim
there will be a storm which plays have
os with millions of blooms. Farmers a
Io ways fear a storm when wheat is
. blossom.
~ On Wednesday evening last Lodg
- Deputy P H. T. Wyatt installed Il
" following officers for Smyrna Lod,
y No. 5, I. o. G. T.: w. G. T., GeOrl
a Carter; w. V. T., Mrs. DR.. C.
a swinney; P. VIC T., Frank J. Prat
Ot w. r. S., Fred. Smith w. A. S., Mi
Nan Wood w. F. S., Mrs. Magg
,i. Roe; w. T., DR.. G. o. Swinney;
20 10 c., Joseph Stephenson; w. NJ, E
90 90 ward Phelps; ". D. NJ, Miss Emn
= l.. Richards; w. l. G., Miss Susie
Wyatt; W. o. g., VIM. Clark. G
w ganist, Mrs. Harvey Speakman A
es, sistant Organist, Miss Belle Woo
ars There were two limitations, making Il
es. total membership now 1O4.
or WEare glad to see that the chalybei
to spring in the meadow at the road 81
'rd Just over the mill pond is claiming
1t tention. If there is any virtue in ir
water or more properly water impr'
~, mated with iron, and all doctors agl
his there is, this spring may prove a gr'
sos benefit to such constitutions as cha
ino, beate water will strengthen. J.
Denney, one of our druggists, mad
test of this water last week. WI
ON taken from the spring from which
ess flows, it is entirely clear, but if ]
IN standing few hours it becomes gu
lyr Opaque and yellow. A few drops
tannic acid dropped into a vial of wa
ira turned it almost as black as ink, f
ms ther proof that it is highly impregnat
Tbe with iron.
in THERE is no place in the vicin
be of Smyrna that has taken on m
polish since the first of the year ii
and the old property which S. Glib
,rm Wilds purchased of Reese Lewis, n
raj Brenford, last Fall, now in the ten
the of ]. III. Donovan. A new house
on been erected in a more eligible pl
than the old one, and with the 4
outbuildings of barn, stables, cribs, 1
low will do its share in ornamenting
out Deighborhood. The new and |,
rna lines of substantial post and rail fen
urn look as attractive in comparison to
ven old enclosures as does a ship un
full sail in contrast to an old q
0an scow. There is muDh else to do
Swn to bring the property up to the
,ek prietOr's ideas, but they are in
re- cess, included in which is the level
tier and grading of the public road.
T always thus with bank officers
phosphate men.
the WIN. r. TYRRELL, she cOlored sci
lbay teacher, a young man of more t
de- usual ability, has disappeared in a
: of not expected of him. He left in
I. night about two weeks ago, and as n
ing has been heard from him since,
sod conclusion reached by those interei
Dy in him is that he has gone to s
cted The chief mourner is Charles P,