Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1888-03-14

liSueu ana reliable shoe store. See
what he says.
THERE are trusts and trusts, but as
long as the peanut trade keeps out of
the trust business the average street
boy is satisfied.
HE transportation Company put a
heavy team of horses on the road this
morning to break the way between
this town and the Landing.
The English Sparrow is rather a
tough bird, but number of them sue
cumbed to the cold of this week. No
body weeps for the sparrow.
IT IS estimated that there are mil
lions OF men in this cOuntry who get
shaved three times a week. We have
in Smyrna three barber shops and
Duker.
SOME thirty or forty persons found
themselves out of coal to face the storm
and the coal dealers have been overrun
with orders they could not fill only bv
the bucket or bag full.
THE "DIXIEs" who were here a few
weeks ago will give Sn entertainment
at the Opera House April Sd. Pro
ceeds for the benefit of the Musical
Association of Smyrna.
Bishop ADAMS, of Easton, will visit
the different churches in this Diocese
during the latter part of this month.
His appointment for Smyrna is set
down for Thursday evening, 29th inst.
THERE is great satisfaction in the
vicinity of the post office that the
domestic broils on the opposite side of
Inc street have come to an end by the
departure OF the senior to parts I'M
known.
YESTERDAY was the coolest and
most dreary of the winter. Thermom-
oter II in the morning, 15o at noon,
10 at night, and showing and blowing
throughout. This morning it regis
tered at 1872
SLEIGH BELLS were heard yesterday
on the street, but such music is en-
tirely out of tune in the middle of
March. The notes of the bluebird and
robin would be much more seasonable
and harmonious.
The advertisement of Messrs. Wins
& Bros, will attract the eye of all our
readers who desire to refurnish and
especially their offer to young married
couples. w. G. Laws is a Delaware
man. Ask for him.
THE Wilmington papers received
this week indicate that that citv is ne
much showed in as Smyrna. The rail-
roads are blOckaded by the snow, the
telegraph poles down, and, like our
selves, they have no news from the
outside world.
ANDERSON HAWKINS. a well known
cOl0red trader who comes to this town
from way out in KentOn Hundred. had
his smoke house together with his SUD-
ply of meat for the year burned one
day last week. There was a small
insurance on it.
EASTER this year is the first of April.
The earliest possible day for Easter is
March 22nd, and it fell on that day in
1878, for the last time in about two
hundred years. Its latest date is the
18th of April, on which date it occur
red in 1886, but it will not fall on that
date again until 1913.
THE weather on Sunday was de-
pressing on the churches. The con- !
were slim in the morning |
and in the heavy dOwnpOur of the |
evening they were about deserted. |
The young men and maidens who are |
shut in the house largely through the
week and so delight in an airing on
Sunday, were also discOmfitted by the
heavy precipitation.
MARCH thus far has given us more
than the usual amount of sunshine but
a keen frosty air last week decidedly
wintery in feeling. There was no
chance of any development of peach
buds under such a temperature, all of
which is more assuring, for the later the
blossoming the more certainty of crop
This week has heen thus far the most
wintry of the winter.
The eagles are finding the sheet of
water three or four miles below Claw
ton familiarity known as the Hoffecker
mill pond, a dangerous place for a rem
devious. We noted week before last
that Charles Brown, Of Clayton, killed
two, and last week Joseph Thompson
killed another measuring 7 feet . inches
from tip to tip of wings. The wonder
is why about this body of water is such
a resort for them.
The continued cold weather of the
past three days has been Ofacharactert To
arouse apprehensions among the farm
ers that the mercury would drop to
the danger line for the peach. It is
not likely that the small amount of
spring like weather had materially az
fected the buds, though there would
have been great hazard to the crop
had the thermometer fallen to zero or
below. 1t Is a question what NAV be
the effect in the middle Of March Of the
mercury lowering about so freezing n
as 12' for so long a period
as forty-eight hours.
Four years ago Smyrna furnished
two OF the three delegates to the Gen
eral Conference in the persons of Revs.
J. II. Caldwell and J. b Quigg. This
year it sends the two Reserve Dele
gates in Rev. VIM. s. Robinson and
Presiding Elder John France. Mr..
Robinson, whose name had not been
presented in the previous ballots,
was suddenly sprung on the Conference
On Saturday, and he came within ten
votes Of being elected the third Dele
gate, leading all on the vote for Re-
serve Delegates. Considering that be
holds no official relation TO the Con-
ference and is one Of the comparatively 1
young members, his congregation take
pride in the compliment that has been
extended him as an acknowledgements (
Of his merit as Q preacher and his abil-
ty as pulpit orator.