Smyrna times., 1888-07-25

MCGAw & Bro, having about fin
ished building their cannery, are now
putting in boilers and set scales. They
will have everything in readiness bv
end of next week. They find no
trouble in securing all the help they
will need.
THE game of base ball between the
Smyrna and Middletown clubs vester
day was deserved defeat of our club.
made up largely of irregular players,
The score standing Middletown, 6:
Smyrna, 1.
The Chester, Pa, club will come
down to play our club on Friday next.
The third game with Camden is ex-
pected to come off one day next week.
SENATOR SAULsBURY's bill which he
| introduced in the Senate several weeks
| ago for a special appropriation of $685.
OOO to build new post office in SMYRNA,
has been reported on favOrably bV the
committee to which it was referred.
1t Will have to await its turn on the
calender we presume, and may not
reach vote this session. The fact Of
its being there at all, is mark of
special interest and influence on the
part of the Senator.
Two OR three properties on Della
ware Street are having their fronts re-
paved. This is well: it is to be hoped
that as it is now commenced it will be
catching, and extend all along the line.
Delaware street has had the reputation
(which it is hoped it is now coming
from under) of being the most irregu-
lar and worst paved street in town.
The pavement that covers from foun-
datiOn to curb is the one that always
meets with approval.
SMYRNA starts out well up in cam
paign hOnOrs, the PrOhibitionists taking
the lead in nominations and adopting
as their candidate for Congress, our fell
low citizen Chas. II. Register. Mr.. r.
has been persistent advocate of tenn
perance principles, and in having the
nomination of the third party conferred
on him, is only receiving a recognition
of regard for the sacrifices he has made.
Being so far in the minority, however,
the ticket iii this campaign can only
stand as representative of ideas.
A CLAYTON lady who is of very
social temperament ard does a good
deal of visiting, stirred the town up
one day last week: she lost her baby,
and didn't know where she had left it.
A search was set up from house to
house IN which the interest of the
mothers in general were very natur-
ally greatly aroused, and after going
the rounds and the anxiety wrought
| up to the greatest tension, she sudden
ly remembered she had put it TO sleep
III room up stairs in her own home,
where the little innocent was found in
a sweet slumber, all unconciOus of what
was going on below.
WE may say what we please about
| the uselessness of dogs but there is a
bond existing between them and hui
manity that has never been eradicated.
! The dog will watch and fight for the
master or mistress with every evidence
of the intensest loyalty; and they in
turn become objects of both regard and
affection. This was evidenced lately
in a pet dog few miles from the town.
1t took sick and our veterinary surgeon
was sent for. He made four visits. the
little animal duly recovered, and a
| doctors bill of six dollars was esteemed
| light in comparison to the loss that
would have been occasioned by the
death of the dog.
On next Friday there will be held on
the Poplar Grove track race meeting
for Peninsula horses. Among the en-
tries are the following: Peter Pagan,
| WILMINGTON r. g. Roam Ben; and b. Q.
! Harry c.; Alexander Maxwell. Mid
dletOwn, b. g. Garrison; William Biggs,
MiddletOwn, b. m. Fancy; Charles
Smith, Smyrna, b. 6. Unknown; Geo.
Cole, Smyrna, b. G. Hard to Beat
David Reese, near Smyrna, b. e. Char
ley Spruance; John Boyd, Bombay
Hook, b. m. Rosy Pease; William
Perry, Bombay Hook, g. s. Mountain
Boy; John P. Goldsborough. near
Smyrna, d. g. Frank; Joseph Phillips,
Millington, d. &. Yellow Corn.
AN old grudge coagulated with
whiskey is a dangerous thing to Get in
motion, for when it does it makes the
fur fly. This was the case on Saturday
night location, Main street near
Mount Vernon. PersOnGe, a citizen of
ThOrOughfare Neck and two Young
men who had been but now in this
county-over the railroad. Like two
| hostile cats, to meet was to bring out a
yOwl' of bad language, then a blow
and sputter, one brother comes to the
rescue of the other when the first slips
away and leaves him the principal in
the fight. The interesting part of the
affair is the story that each tells how
easily he licked the other fellow.