Smyrna times., 1886-01-06


of this town every afternoon this week,
the meetings commencing at three
o'clock.
JONES: Smith, you are the LATEST
man ever saw" Smith: Correct"
Jones: "They say you sleep Is hours
out of every "a" Smith: Correct"
Jones: What do you do it for?"
Smith: " In order to ecOnomize. You
see it costs nothing to sleep, but the
moment you wake up expenses begin"
REV. GEO. f. WooD, a graduate of
Washington College, who has been
recommended for admission into the
Wilmington Conference, has been ap-
pointed by Presiding Elder France to
assist Rev. 1. d. johnson on Appo-
quinimink circuit. Mr.. johnson is in
feeble health and it is hoped that by
being thus relieved of much of the du-
ties of the charge that he will recover
his health.
REV. J. B. QUIGG commenced on
Sunday night revival service to con-
tinue nightly for two weeks. A large
attendance was out then and again last
night with more manifested, interest on
the part of the members than usual
MONDAY meetings have also been held
this week, having special reference to
the work of revival, as well as to act
in conformity with the other churches
in observing the week of prayer.
G. w. FAIRBANKS has a new horse
shoe called the " Never-SIip," that is a
vast improvement on the old method
for Winter use. The caulks, intended
to keep the horse from slipping on ice,
have heretofore been welded on, part
of the shoe. In the new shoe they are
screwed in and when the shoe is once
| properly on the foot, these caulks can
be changed at pleasure to rough or
smooth, without disturbing the shoe.
If the people, young and old, hadn't
good time during the holidays it was
no fault of the weather The boys
have the top craze on now, and there
was only part of a day of the whole
holiday that they could not play out
of doors at will in spinning their tops.
The girls, of larger growth, had week
of evening parties as well as the pleas
ant pastimes of the days, and thus to
all it proved time of more than usual
enjoyment.
In testing the water-force yesterday,
1 the hose was applied to the plug at the
upper end of Main street and a stream
| sent In the direction of the Daniel
Flats in irishtown," hundred yards
distant. A young darkey who was
looking at the fun from the gable win
dow at what was thought safe dis
tance, was nearly deluged and the
water came down on the house with
such force as to send the ''cOOns" out in
a perfect stream.
THOs. B. COURsEY, who has shown
such enterprise in fish culture, has de-
termined to introduced the black bass
fish in our waters and has just returned
from Point of Rocks, fOrty-three miles
west from Washington, on the Balti-
more q Ohio Railroad with four hun
dred young black bass for stocking his
Spring Mills pond. BY the way, we
will publish next week an account of
his q" Perseverance through difficulties
in getting these fish.
WATCH night meeting at the NJ. +.
Church was not very largely attended.
The services were Of the usual order,
preaching by the pastor, followed by
an experience meeting. As the hour of
midnight was reached the bell COM
menced tOlling out the old year. When
the hour of twelve was passed, and the
new year ushered in, the ringing be-
came vigorous, indicating the Joyous
greeting of the new year, which it is
hoped will be crowded with blessings
on our community.
THE editor of the PeninsuIdr NelUs
sneers, as we expected of all others he
would, at the statement we made last
week in reference to the habits of the
employees of this office. He and his
cOntrere of the Morning NelOs may think
it more manly to chew, smoke, drink
and engage in games of chance, but the
attaches of this Office down to the man
of African decent who turns the
machine on press days, have ideas
of different type of civilization, man.
ifested, we are pleased to know, in
having a decent place about them
when they work. This the editor OF
the Ne1Cs does not appreciate. A
cleanly-kept printing office would have
about the same effect on him that q
pool of water does on a mad dog.
FINGER boards at every cross anC
fork of the roads are a necessity
Though it doesn't seem as if the Super
visors thought so. Who, at some time
or other, has not been sOrely perplexed
for want of just such information as
finger boards are expected to give
To be sure, finger boards are not per-
feet. Their notions about distance:
are sometimes indefinite. Occasionally
their points of the compass are mislead
. ing. But take them for all and all they
can be lily spared. Supervisors are
but men, and maybe it is expecting toe
much for them to have a finger boarC
at every cross roads. However, they
may be sure that whenever they mai
up finger board, even if it isn't 9
thing of beauty, it is sure to prove q
JOY to somebody. While on this sub.
ject it might be added that the finger
boards at Letherbury's Corner, thai
marked so distinctly and in beautiful
letters the direction and distance t
Leipsic and Dover, are badly faded
and should be painted over again il
the exact lines of the original letters
But that phosphate rag that disfgures
, the post should come down.
The series of lectures commenced OIL
Sunday evening by Rev. w. B. Cor
don, at st. Peters p. f. Church was no
attended so largely by those for whom
it was intended as it ought to have
been, There were perhaps enough
young men in town in attendance or
no church to have of themselves made
a good congregation. The discourse
, on Sunday night was the FIRST O
twelve against the curse of iniidelity
The reverend gentleman argued the
eXisteace of infinite intelligence in the
construction and various movements
OF the human frame and the universe
saying that it was prepOstePOus to pre-
sumo that the different intelligent
movements in Natures varied form.
were either the result of blind intelli
gence or by evolution, as ascribed b,
, theorists. He drew cOmmon-sens,
comparisons to prove his assertion anC
, asked if the delicate construction O
, the eye, ear and mouth, with thei
, adaptation to one another, could be tn,
work Of chance, His ground was wei
taken and sustained throughout anC
he will delve deeper into the subject
In his lecture on next Sunday evening
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