Smyrna times., 1888-02-22

IHE musical notes of the Gardeners
fish horn were heard this morning.
WIN. BUCHANAN has an attractive
laundry sign in front of the Johnson
building.
The stock of boots and shoes of VIM.
Walker will be sold at Sheriff sale
March Sd.
CHIEF TEMPLAR HERMAN Roe went
to Dover this afternoon to address a
Temperance Meeting.
The fare on the branch or lateral
roads of the Delaware Railroad it is
announced, will be raised March LIST to
four cents a mile. The charges on
freight are also to be raised.
SMYRNA CONcLAvE HEPrAsoPHs
Will meet in the Odd Fellows Hall on
Ihurday evening for installation of Of
tlcers. A full attendance is requested.
The District Deputy will be present.
SAMUEL G. STINsoN is building for
himself dwelling house 24x16 feet,
hve rooms. corner of Pearl and Frazier
streets-on part of the Cummins land
laid of into building lots year ago.
WILL WRIGHT, who recently re-
tanned. his majority, has left j. w.
Jones. He went with Mr.. Jones when
a small boy, nine years ago. He has
taken the position of clerk on the
steamer Tygert.
The meeting of the Trustees of Della
ware College held yesterday. at New
ark, was to devise ways and means to
spend the $4,000 which the Govern
ment gives annually for experimental
agricultural education.
JOSEPH BRINTON, who has been do
ing business in this town in connection
with his father, J. G. Brinton. has
made arrangements to take the stove
and tin store in Millington, Md. as the
successor of VIM. Green, deceased.
THE school children revere the
name of Washington a good deal more
today than in the past, because for the
hrst time in number of years. thew
are given Washington's Birth Day for
holiday.
THos. B. MEGEAR who has been on
the Cummins corner for several years.
will change his place of business, w.
M. Bell, the owner, intending to fit up
the rooms now occupied by the Misses
Megear on Main street, for store for
him.
THE big ice house at the pond is be-
ing enclosed, leaving a space of two
feet which is filled in with bent bav
ms expense is gone to to protect it
from the sun and heat thus saving the
ice inside from what would otherwise
melt it.
| FRANK SPRUANCE, son of James w.
Spruance, met with a painful accident
ON saturday. He was in the stable
loft and jumped down on NOW of hay.
not knowing there was a fork in it.
running one of the tines through the
fleshy part of the leg. The wound has
since been inAamed and is of course at.
tended with considerable pain.
A GENTLEMAN whose taste leads him
to collect peculiar statistics reports
that l23 persons were lynched during
the last year. Now if he would sun
plement his information with figures
showing how many persons escaped
lynchlng during 1887 who had richly
earned that attention, the public curl
Osity would be better satisfied.
| g. HOWARD VANBUsKIRK. book
keeper for A. G. Cummins sewers bis
connection with that phosphate house.
after a service of five years. The de-
sire OF the proprietor to curtail his for
elgn business operations, makes the
employment of any clerical force un-
necessary. 1t is hoped that Mr.. Van
Buskirk may find something to suit
him in our town.
The hand engine which the author.
tiles of Delaware City purchased of us
ON the completion of our water works
aid them a good service on Saturday
night in saving them from what prom
ised to be a serious fire. 1t started in
a stable alongside of Moody & Co.'S.
carriage factory, but was confined to
the building in which the fire origi-
mated.
DIR: E. B. TANNING, homepathist.
who has been practising medicine in
this town for the past four years. il is
stated intends going to Crumpton. Md.
to pursue his business. He has been a
good citizen, attentive to his work. and
acquired quite a good practice, and
leaves only we presume, because he
felt there were too many hOmmpathic
physicians in this locality, he being
the last one to come,
1T wouldn't do for all to be econOni.
cal, and after a man has enough put
away for the traditional rainv dav-
to tide him over sickness or times of
depression in business, he ought to be
liberal in his expenditures. It makes
brisk times, and helps the storekeepers.
keeps the factories and machine sbons
busy, and all hands happy. The man
VINO puts his money only in govern
ment bonds isn't of much use in a COM
munity.
RISE up, my love, my fair one. and
come away for, 10, the winter is past.
the rain is over and gone; the flowers
| appear on the earth the time of the
singing of birds is come, and the voice
OF the turtle is beard in the land" It
was Solomon, the wise man, the man
of many affinities and SIGH, who got
this of, and as we heard the birds
singing Sunday it seemed very aDpro-
pirate, but we wouldn't advise our
readers to commence their gardening.
or the whitewashing of their cellars. in
the the expectation that winter is over.
just as like as not we shall have lots
of snOwstOrms before tickle spring
comes to stay.
Mrs. NJ. E. LORD has a red bird
whose CHEEKY notes under the softened
atmosphere of the past two or three
days and especially the bright sunshine
OF this morning, revive vernal memo
ries as they Goat into our Office window.
The red bird, as is well known. is a
thoroughly wild forest bird, never fire.
quenting the abodes of mankind. but
this particular bird has been a Gagged
pet for some years, without a knowl-
edge of its species, until it has become
thoroughly dOmesticated. It has its
liberty, fits from tree to tree, sings like
courtier, but never gets out of sight
home. II has no worry or care for the
morrow, and in its thorough confidence
in the protecting hand of its mistress.
shows a faith that the most devOute
christian might envy.
SUPERINTENDENT MILLS and VIM.
Geo. Hill, of Clayton, took trip down
to Hampton Roads, on Wednesday.
for little sport at ducking. When