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Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
WHOLE NO. l,7OI.
Marriage of a Son of Gov. Biggs.

Willard B. Biggs, a son of Gov.
Biggs. was married Thursday evening
to Miss Lily, daughter of G. w. w.
Naudain, of Middletown, in the Forest
Presbyterian Church, of which the
bride is a member, The pastor, the
Rev. W. T. Alexander, oficiated. The
bridesmaids were Miss Mary Biggs. a
sister of the groom, Miss Emily Lam
ming and Miss Carrie Ayers, the two
latter of Bridgeton, N. j.. The grooms-
men were Acknowledgement John
Biggs, brother of the groom, John P.
Cochran, Jr., a son ofex- Governor. and
DIR. W. r. Pearson, of Middletown. An
drew Z. Sanborn and ]. Frank Biggs.
Doth OF theWilmingtOn bar, acted as
ushers, assisted by Frank Kennedy. of
Wilmington, Charles Carey, of NTassev's
Md, E. I. Cooper, of Dover, Del, and
Frank Watkins, of Odessa, Del. Among
the guests were Secretary of State John
T. Salisbury and Mrs. Salisbury, Adj
Gen. R. r. Kenny and Mrs. Kenny
John II. Bewley and many others of
Gov. Biggs's political and personal
friends. A reception was given at the
house of the brides parents from 8 to
$50 P. NJ, when Mr.. and Mrs. Biggs,
accompanied by the bridesmaids and
groomsmen, took a special train for
Wilmington, where the happy couple
separated from the party and departed
for brief tour through the Northern
States. Mr.. and Mrs. Biggs will reside
in Middletown.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
Burial of Mrs. E. B. Bowman.

The Rev. T. H. Haynes left Frede-
RIGA Wednesday by the Cape Charles
City route for Williamsburg, Va, with
the remains of his mOther-in-law, Mrs.
E. B. Bowman, where interment took
place Thursday. He was accompanied
by his son Edgar. Mrs. Haynes was
too much indisposed to undertake the
journey. Mrs. Bowman lived to a
great age, 81 years old, and retained
her faculties almost to the last. She
was remarkably intelligent and kept
herself posted in the general news until
her last illness. Her love and devo-
ton to her kindred was unbounded.
She lived in the Christian faith and
ever prayed Gods blessing on every
one who bestowed on her the least at
tention.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
A Good Winter for Peaches.

A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
writes from Chestertown, Md. Kent
had very meagre peach crop last
year. Hundreds of orchards were al
most entirely barren. Growers are
therefore dOubly hopeful for the pres
ent season. The failure of an orchard
to bear one year makes it very much
more likely that it will bear the fol-
lowing year. Up to date there has not
been a single peach scare. The past
winter has just been right for peaches.
1t has been cold enough to keep the
buds backward, and there is a promis-
ing outlook for a good crop. The
peach crop Is never sure, however
until after the June fall, that is until il
is nearly ready to market. The posi-
bility of fruit crop is already enkind-
ling interest in the matter of disposing
OF crop if there should be one. The
Still Pond Farmers and Fruit Growers
Club has been actively interested in
establishing a Fruit Exchange in Balti.
more. The Kennedyville Club has
been offering inducements for Gamers
to locate in that section, and has been
in correspondence with a number o.
parties. A large Baltimore canning firm
has leased land adjoining the Chester
River Steamboat wharf in Chestertowr
and will put up necessary buildings
before the fruit season. The firm will
can vegetables as well as fruits, and
will possibly pack oysters through the
next following winter.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
The White Cross.

The " White Cross Movement" is
the subject of a recent entertaining
paper by Frances E. Willard in the
New York Independent. Miss Willard
says that it seems already certain to
become to modern what the Age of
Chivalry was to ancient history. The
crusaders of old may be said to have
discovered woman, so the crusaders of
to-day have set out to redeem her.
The central thought around which
their aims are crystallizing seems to be
this: If one woman ought to be pure,
all women ought to be pure; and if all
women ought to be pure, then all men
must be So"
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
A Cold Day for Applejack.

New Jersey Applejack is not going
out of use just yet, but if the New Jer-
sey Senate prove of the same way of
thinking as the assembly, some of that
seductive fluid will have to be expor-
ted to find consumers.
The Assembly passed finally on
Tuesday by vote of "a to 26 a combi-
nation high license and local option
bill that will, if it become a law, shut
up the license mills entirely in some
counties and make the saloon-keepers
in others pay roundly for the privilege
of dispensing New jerseys favorite
drink. The bill is a caucus measure
and the Republicans, who control both
branches of the New Jersey Legisla-
ture, have undertaken to make it a
law or throw upon the Democratic
Governor the responsibility for its de-
feat. Five Republicans in the Assem-
bly, bOlted the caucas and voted against
the bill, but two Democrats voted for it
giving it good margin of majority.
The bill has since passed the Senate
and awaits the action of the Governor.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
Now Feature In bubble blowing.

The inventor of n new method Of limo
cent amusement is public benefactor.
The sisters of Frank, Will anc Dan Beard,
the well known artists, illustrators and
lecturers, have introduced a new pastime
into fashionable suburban society which
seems likely to mOnOpOlize much Of the
jOllity of many country parties. It is a
new feature Of these bubble parties which
enjoyed some little popularity three years
ago. 1t is called "bubble range"
The furniture Of the range is very
simple and consists principally Of a long
and narrow stand some three and a half
feet high. The top is five feet long and one
in width and is covered with felt. At ono
end are two short uprights five or six
inches apart The other things necessary
are some common clay pipes, a bowl OF
soap and water and some favOrs such as
are given at progressive euchre. The
way these things are used is something
like this; A girl puts pipe between her
rosy lips and blows a moderately large
soap bubble. She holds it up to the light
for a moment and says; "lsnt It beauti-
ful9''
Then she drops it on the range. II
bursts. She blows another, and keeps on
blowing until she has one which will not
spray when it touches the table.
The young man who is trying his skill
stands at the end Of the range and tries
TO blow the bubble between the two up
rights opposite. He does the same with
any given number of irridescent globes.
The Others in the party try, and there is
an imaginable fun and laughter. The
one of each six who succeeds Oftenest gets
n favor, and those also who get the least
number Of bubbles between the uprights
Afterward, Of course, and depending upon
the time Of the party, there is lunch OF
supper and dance.-New York Evening
SIM
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

1t is stated that another attempt is
being made in Europe to popularize
the beverage known as Yerba Matey"
so popular in paraguay and Brazil. 1t
is said to make Notwithstanding, arc
matte drink, and both as touching it's
chemical properties and physiolgic eff
fects is not unlike tea and coffee. That
is to say "Yerba Matey" arrests waste :;
it does not form flesh. 1t enables peo-
pie to go long time without food, and
the inhabitants of Brazil and the val
ley of the River Plate drink enormous
quantities of the beverage for this very
purpose.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
A Home Made Hatcher.

A Danbury man who has considera-
BILE ingenuity about him and who is
something of an enthusiast in poultry
raising has improvised a very simple
incubator and tested its efficiency. It
is so simple that it will make you laugh
when you read about it. It is nothing
but a fve-cent market basket with
some Gotten in it. The basket is lined
with cotton in the bottom, and then
the eggs are placed in it and covered
over with cotton, and he hangs the bas-
ket over a stove pipe of his sitting
room stove in which a continual fire is
kept. When the fire is burning fresh
and briskly he pulls up the basket a
little higher. At night he lowers it
close to the pipe. He Matched four out
of six eggs by way of experiment.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
Death of John Daley.

Rich John Daily of Templeville,
across the state line in Maryland, died
on Monday 21st inst. aged 63. Mr..
Daily began life as poor boy, hiring
himself to farmer for IS month, and
yet now his estate is estimated at $780,
600. He owned a dozen or more farms
near Hartley. He could neither read
nor write, but his business sense was
inferior to none. He was director of
the National Bank at Denton from its
foundation. He was a Democrat in
politics and usually bossed::his district.
The funeral was held Friday.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

New York has at least had a theatre
built that, according to the descriptions
given of it, is as nearly fre-proof as
as such structure can be made. Very
little woodwork is used in it, brick and
iron being the chief materials employed.
The stage is shut off from the auditori.
UNI by heavy brick walls, double iron
doors to the openings, and fire cur.
tain running in brick grooves closes
the proscenium arch. All the stair
ways and exits are proportioned to the
number of people liable to use them, so
as to insure rapid emptying of the
house in case of accident. 1t is a
pleasure to record such care in design
ing and constructing theatre, because
as rule, play houses, though they
may have much money spent on deco
rative features, are very far from being
fire proof, and are poorly designed as
to their stairways and exits.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

An artesian well at Atlantic City at
a depth of HOO feet has struck a supply
of water that is said to furnish 100 gal
Ions per minute. That would be
enough for a small-sized town. If
good water in sufficient quantity can
certainly be secured on the seashore
by sinking artesian wells they will no
doubt be sunk in many places now
depending ON the rain fall for their
water supply. The expense attending
the boring of very deep wells prevents
experiments of this kind, unless there
is strong prospect of success in the un-
dertaking.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

After seven years trial of the high
est kind of high license, the chief dis
tiller of Nebraska assures his brethren
in the trade that high license does not
lessen the consumption of liquor. He
states in letter written to guide the
liquor dealers of New York in their
movement to gain high license law,
that such law is the grandest for the
liquor traffic because of the protection
it secures to the business; and if the
repeal of the law were left to the deal
ers themselves they would almost
unanimously vote against it.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

A meeting of the congregation of the
ElktOn Presbyterian Church was held
on Wednesday afternoon for the pur-
pose of electing a pastor to take the
place vacated by the Rev. R. w. Beers
in June last. The Rev. 1. D. Cation of
the Chesapeake City Presbyterian
Church, acted as moderator, and DIR.
John H. James as secretary. The Rev.
H. E. Cobb, of Princeton Theological
Seminary, and the Rev. Mr.. McLane of
Odessa, Del, were placed in nomina-
ton. A ballot resulted in the former
being called, he receiving 60 votes to
IL for Mr.. McLane.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

Trusts and railroads, the one when
under investigation and the other when
dealing with strikes, sometimes act as
if they thought public opinion was Of
no consequence to them. A man liv-
ing below a dam might as we'll think
the dam was of no consequence to him.
The force Of public opinion, bottled up
in law, is all that saves capital from
daily plumber.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

DR.. McGlynn and Henry George,
the founders of the Anti-Poverty So
ciety, do not speak as they pass by,
and each will organize a Society of his
own. The trouble seems to be that
George, who is Free Trader, proposed
to turn his following over to Cleve-
land, while McGlynn who cares little
about the tariff and nothing for Cleve-
land, favOrs a straight Labor nominal
ton for President.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

A little Chicago boy was paying a
visit of several weeks to an aunt in
Philadelphia. One day after he had
beed there long enough to get acquain-
ted, he was standing at the window
looking out on the street in a reflective
mood, and his aunt came in.
Auntie, isn't Philadelphia a very
good city ?" he asked.
Yes, Tommy, I believe its reputa-
ton for piety is superior to that of any
city in the land"
Thought so" said Tommy, in all
seriousness, for it's Sunday every day
in the week. Washington Critic.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
A Dozen Negatives.

There are round dozen things that
you can never get a lady to plead
guilty of, be she old or young:
That she laces tight
That her shoes are too small.
That she is tired at a ball.
That she uses anything but powder.
That It takes her long to dress.
That she has kept you waiting.
That she blushed when you mentioned particu-
lar gentleman's name.
That she says what she doesn't mean.
That she is fond Of scandal.
That she never lirted.
That she cannot keep a secret.
That she is-in love-
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY %, 1883.
The Devotee.

For forty days and nights 70 go
In saekcloth and all that you know,
With not rag that's fresh
To stop the dance right in full swing,
Because folks say it is g the thing"
To mortify the flesh
For forty days to peak and pine?
No place to go to dance or dine!
Why was l ever born?
The theatre it is taboOed,
And all the gay and giddy brood
Of fashion is forlorn.
Bereft Ofball-rOom and of beaux.
What shall do, heaven only knows
That's left me in the lurch!
Some dissipation l must find,
Or l shall really lose my mind
One cannot hirt in church
Night after night, day after day,
Full forty, just to fast and pray
And play the pertinent,
With naught to do but ponder on
The Easter bonnet 1 shall don
Ife'er live through Lent!
Boston GLOl
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

d A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer Of Chat
tanOoga, Tenn, writes that he was seriously az.
hicted with severe cold that settled on his
lungs: had tried many remedies without benefit.
Being induced to try DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, did so and was entirely cured
by use of few bottles. Since which time he has
used Il in his family for all Coughs and Colds
with best results This is the experience Of thou
sands whose lives have been saved by this Won.
derful Discovery. Trial Bottles free at JAS P.
Hohecker's, Drug Store.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

Edward shepherd, Of Harrisburg, H., says
Having received so much benefit frOm Electric
Biters, feel Tiny duty 10 let suffering humanity
know Il. Have had running sore on my leg for
eight years my doctors told me would have TO
have the bone scraped or leg amputated. used,
instead three bottles Of Electric Bltters and seven
boxes Bucklen's Arnica SalYe, and my leg Is now
sound and we'll" Electric Bitters are sold ct fifty
cents bottle, and Bncklen's Arnica Salve az %
cents per box, sold by Jas. P. Hohecker, Smyrna,
Delaware.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

To quickly remove headache, pains
in the back, the discomfOrts Of indiges-
ton, etc., use Laxador which promptly
relieves all such pain.
lfany trouble is attendant upon the
baby's teething, don't hesitate to use
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup. 1t is invalua-
BILE. Price % cents bottle.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

The Mugwumps are as much re-
joiced ovet General Sheridan's refusal
to run for President as Jubal Early
was to find that his horse could Outrun
Sheridan's in the Shenandoah Valley.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

That eminent and genial exponent of
the doctrine of spoils, Senator Vest, of
Missouri, expresses the opinion that
civil service reform won't be much of
an issue this yerr."
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

DEACON Jones Ito country minister
some Of the members Of the cOngrega-
tion. Mr.. Goodman, complain that you do
moi sneak quite loud enough.
country Minister speak as loud as
can afford to, deacon, at $500 year
The Epoch.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

l have found out a gift for my fair.
1t is not a ring of gold, nor flowers for
her hair, nor pearls for white neck,
but Salvation Oil for her sore throat.
She's a singing bird.
Loss of life.-Thousands sink into
an early grove for want Of bottle Of
DR.. Bulbs Cough Syrup.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

Vest is for Voorhees, for Vice-presi-
dent, and Voorhees, is for Voorhees,. If
Villas will only get in line the VS. may
be able to pull together this year.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

Chicago's grief over the action Of the
Rational Democratic Committee will
doubtless be embitteyed by a sickening
fear that st. Louis may take a new
census while the Convention is in
session.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

clear skin adds to the beauty Of fine face
and often lends charm to homeliness. To
Deautity your complexion, you should purify
your blood with Ayers Sarsaparilla As q tonic
ana aileratiye medicine II has no equal. Price
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

without the means at hand for combating It,
a cold may prove more dangerous than the
small pOx. No family Is safe unless provided
for such an emergency In sudden attacks OF
cold, Group, asthma etc, Ayers Cherry Pectoral
Is an invaluable specific.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

The real trouble with little Josef
Holman seems to be a violent attack Of
itching in his papa's pocket-bOok.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

The farmers of New Jersey are COM
'bining on the tomato question, and
have resolved not to grow them for less
81 per ton.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
a UNIQUE sPECTACLE.

AS one saunters through a Chinese city,
his eyes are greeted with what at first
forms, to say the least, a unique spectacle
1t is the public patronage of the dealer in
sewerage. Is the air pure? Well. hardly.
Have you ever observed the uniformly
small nose of the Orientals in this coun-
try? If you have, and will accept nv So
luton of that feature, it is that the smell
ing organ has been exhausted by inhaling
the street OdOrs of China. One thing can
be said in favor of thus disposing of the
sewerage of cities, viz: It does not pollute
the water, which is more vital to health
than the air. Then the air has greater
self cleansing powers than water, and.
taken on the whole it is the better plan
to protect the water than the air from i'm
purities. 1t is also true that no poison Is
so malignant as sewer poison, and that is
unknown in China.
Have you ever figured the commercial
value of the contents of our sewers.
which is daily and hourly, like Tennyson's
brook, flowing on forever to pOllute our
own Niagara river? If so you have been
surprised that some method of utilizing
this source of wealth has not been devised.
1t is not my purpose here to dish up fig
ures or statistics on the value of an ar
ticle daily going to waste, and for which
the soil of the surrounding country is suf-
fering. Under the existing regulations
the Chinese farmer is able to harvest
three crops from every foot of ground
every year. In no other way could such
a population be fed. Winter wheat rO-
tates with either rice or cotton. During
winter, when the wheat is getting its
start, radishes or turnips are grown on the
same soil. Then around the margin of the
ground seeded to wheat, beans or peas are
grown. AS soon as the wheat is harvested, If
rice is to succeed it, the ground is irri-
gated and planted with rice. If cotton is
to rotate with the wheat, the seeds are
planted before the wheat natures, by
digging between the drills of wheat, and
when the latter Is harvested, the cotton
plants are well under growth. Then the
space between the cotton plants is dug
up, and the succeeding cropis sole tenant
When these summer crops are gathered
wheat is again sOwn. Not foot of sol
is left non-prOductive. This state Of
affairs could not last, but for the rich
fertilizing methods, and sewerage is the
principal and almost exclusive source Of
fertilizers. The ''Benighted Sic heathen'
has learned lessons in economy and cleanli
ness from which the American people
might learn a thing or twO.-Pen Hws
Lin in Buffalo News
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
WA. FAIRIES & Bro.
Furnishing UldaPtakHTS,
AND DEALERS IN
FURNITURE,
XAE STREET, opposite The Smyrna House.
Furniture of all kinds.

PaTlOr and Chamber Suits. Bureaus. Bedsteads,
Chairs Lounges, Tables Stands, Mattresses. Spring
anteed at or less than City prices for the same
quality of goods. jan II
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29
JOHN CHINAMAN.
SOME THINGS IN WHICH THE
HEATHEN IS PECULIAR.

Incidents and Customs Described by a
Man Who Has Been There-How the
Streets Are Kept Clean-A Pointer in
Sanitation.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-29

Remember these are all
a s0% goods and good styles. Call
Ia u see before you buy. These
bargains win do you good.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-27
SIFTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

Dashes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief aragrsphs-Pickings at
Police Headquarters.
The Missouri authorities have not yet put
in an appearance for Angel.
The Chatham. Artillery will celebrate
May by picnic at Montgomery.
The charter for the Southside Land and
Improvement Company has been granted.
George Rivers (colored) was locked up at
the barracks last night, charged with as
sault and battery
Judge Hampton L. Ferril yesterday
morning adjourned the Court Of Ordinary
until Monday, May Z.
The Savannah Street Railway has given
out the contract for building its lines south
on Montgomery street .
Judge Adams adjourned the Superior
Court yesterday morning until tomorrow
morning at the regular hour
The City and Suburban Railway has
nearly completed the new turnouts on Aber-
corn street for the five minutes schedule.
John Walsh, for disorderly conduct, was
the only person before Acting Mayor
Schwarz yesterday in the Mayors Court.
He was fined So
The company Of boys heretofore known
as the Forest City Zouaves," has changed
It's name and style of drilling, and will be
known hereafter as the Barlow Light In
fantry.
Justice Sheftall bound two prisoners over
TO the City Court yesterday, and in default
of bail they were committed to Jail, Isaiah
Brown (colored), charged with assault and
battery, and Charles Webery for petit lar
ceny.
The Confederate Veterans Association
met yesterday noon at the Guards Armory
Gen. McLaws presided. Committees we're
appointed on nominations of officers and on
revision of the bylaws, and the meeting
then adjourned until next Wednesday,
A negro had Willie Kehoe, Captain of
the Ironsde Base Ball Club, arrested yes
terday, and taken before Justice Mathews,
charged with threatening the negroes wife.
All the boys say that young Kehoe never
saw the woman, much less to threaten her
kehoe's parents filed cross affidavit, aud
will prosecute the negro. He was mad
because the boys were playing ball in the
vicinity of his cabin.
The prevailing GOODNESS of the atmosphere
for the severty-two hours ending at mid
night last night was due to storm from
the Northwest centering over the North
Atlantic coast. In no part of Georgia was
the temperature low enough to iniure vege-
tation, The minimum being Az in this sec
ton, or 12' above the freezing point, while
the lowest in Northeastern Georgia was but
40'. The prospects are for decidedly warmer
weather. The change in temperature was
more keonly felt on account of the humidity
of the atmosphere.