Smyrna times., 1886-04-28

Mrs. SARAH MAGUIRE, the oldest
citizen of Clayton, died on Thursday,
aged 85 years and months. She was
the mother of Patrick, John and Ed
ward Mcguire, well-knOwn in the bus
mess community. The remains were
brought to st. Polycarp Church, this
town, on Monday morning, at eight
o'clock, where the funeral services
were held, Father Dennis. J. Flynn,
the pastor, officiating, after which
they were conveyed to Wilmington in
special car for interment.
THE Court including the most of the
lawyers were in Wilmington on Mon
day morning attending the funeral
of Judge Whiteley and did not convene
until 8 o'clock, large part of the re-
naming time being taken up in q tes-
timOnial of respect to the deceased
judge, Chief Justice Comegys reading a
series of resolutions which were respOn-
ded to in an able address by Hon. N.
B. Smithers. No case of special impOr-
tance has yet been tried, that of ]. H.
Ostrander for alleged fraud being be-
fore the court to-day.
THE sexton of the Presbyterian
Church at the conclusion of the PRAYER
meeting on Friday evening neglected
to turn off the gas in the cellar, and the
consequence was that when the church
was entered on Sunday morning it was
very much like a gasOmeter. With all
the airing it could receive it was scarce
ly endurable for worship, and such was
the density of the gas in the cellar that
lighted match might have caused an
explosion tearing down the church. The
only result however otherwise than the
discomfort will be an inflated gas bill.
THE following officers for the Clay
ton Savings and Loan Association
were reelected at the annual meeting
yesterday. President, l. N. Mills
Vice President, w. S. Reynolds; Sec
retary, John A. Hohecker; Treasurer,
Joseph Smithers Directors, Aubrey
| Vandever and VIM. d. Hudson; Audi
tors, w. H. Janney, Chairman, DR.. c.
o. Swinney and Geo. Fox Denney.
SYNOPSIS.
Received from all sources during year Si.897.9l
| Disbursed-Paid Withdrawals IS 1900
| Loans cOnsummat-
cd ...................... 4,lOOOO
| Expenses incurred. 2l475
| baldhcc III treasury Ool9-Sl ,59lS1
| Loans now in force................S3 10000
/ Value of property of Association 96.T
balance in IreaSury.............. 6S19-S3. .86i GO
! Value of advance payments. Of. 500
Value of list Series $50 9O-S3 SOL &c
AT a regular meeting of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union, Oi
Smyrna, Del, on April goth, 1886, a
committee was appointed to prepare a
paper giving some expression of the
sentiment of the society in re
gard to the death of Sister
ter Mary Nelson. The committee wa.
requested to send a copy of the same
to her family and to the Smyrna
TINES for publication. The following
are the resolutions as prepared:
First,-We bow in humble submission
to the providence which called her away
from us on April 4, 1886, in the 72nd year
of her age. We have. however, painful
sense of the place made vacant by her re
mOval to the home of the angels and God
SecOnd.-Her steadfast devotion to tn
Temperance cause never faltered in the pres
ence of any difficulty, nor indeed of any
duty to which she was called. Sustained
by faith in God and the righteousness O
the cause to which she had given her hand
she was always ready for heroic endeavOr
Ihird.-We are deeply affected be
cause of the suffering 50 long endured b.
our sister, and cannot forget her exampl
Of patient submission and the implicit trus
with which she met and oyercame her las
enemy.
FOurth.-We tender to her bereave,
husband and aged mother our earnes
prayers and warmest sympathes, an
trust that the Comforter may cheer thei
loneliness by His presence and give sue
consolation that they may rejoice even j
their sorrow.