Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1888-01-25

ing Mrs. Susan Wells, of this town. d.
and many friends in Thoroughfare !;
Neck, left for their home on Monday !
last. Mrs. Walker is a daughter of 2
one of our old postmasters, John Lamb
din and Mr.. Walker is the son of l. P.
Walker, of Walkers school house, /
New Castle county. They have lived
in California for a number of years and
speak highly of it.
SUNDAY was the first day without
rain or snow since the beginning of
winter. The temperature was how
ever crisp enough for DakOtan. The
thermometer registered in the morning
from % to 81 above zero, as to position,
about 10 at noon and 90 at o'clock,
falling at night again to 100. Yester-
day it was fresh, dry and bracing, the
temperature ranging between 200 and
30o. There has been no south wind
for ten or twelve days, and icy winter
reigns on hill and dale.
CORONER WRIGHT was called to Do
yer both Monday and yesterday to
hold an inquest on the body of Louisa
Nichols, an aged colored woman who |
came to her death on Saturday night, it |
it was supposed, at the hands of her
husband. Her person bore evidences |
of cruel treatment, but there was lack |
of evidence of its being the cause of |
| death, so the inquest was postponed to |
| yesterday, to hold post norton ex
animation, the physicians deciding
that her death resulted from heart
disease.
THOSE who have taken the trouble
to calculate say that 1000 tons Of ice
were housed here last winter. Of
course it became a matter of concern
when this winter had half passed
away without a pound of ice being
gathered. To have got this same
amount of ice from the north would
have cost say $4,000. Happily, the
cold snap which sat in a week and
more ago has averted this, enabled the
ice to be gathered at home, and the
money necessary for the harvest scat
( tered among our own people.
A RELIGIOUS paper in calling atten-
ton to the wants and preparations for
the year says:
1883 will be a distracting, democrat
izing year. All the political parties
}, will be at work their conventions
= l Will NC uClu UnClA uOulAudblOno AAetuC
intemperance, excitement, bribery,
4 will prevail, and business men to
4 maintain even usual trade will have to
n resort to every stratagem. Unless the
= Church is nightly revived in the next
# three months, it Will unprepared for
the emergency. Its members will de-
cline, its probatiOners anguish"
70 OUR Brenford correspondent noted
i the fact in our last issue that the
< school of District No. 4. two and hal
le miles south of Smyrna, had to be CLOSED
ii for want of scholars, there being only
six boys in the district going to school
the girls stopping during midwinter
le This is a singular state of affairs
" Have the farmers of the district gon,
II to raising girls almost exclusively, o
~ are they like a number of other we'll
aI TODD married people in the town ant
W vicinity-made up their minds to els
III pense with children altogether? Som
of us whose minds run back severa
he decades remember when the hous
b. used to be crowded with boys in atten
es dance on the winter school.
of On Wednesday evening last a yer
if youthful couple, the groom from tn
no Landing and the bride a recent schOC
girl of this town, sought the aid of tn
parsOn to fill their cup of bliss whiC
asst event was cOnsumated at the home (
it. the latter in the presence of a room flu
Did of invited guests, and BENJAMIN Olive
he Jacobs and Miss Victoria Wright wei
it. made one. This was followed by tt
nv usual season of social life incident
i'd such an occasion, ending with refresl
ments. The next evening the yOun
sters who are ever ready for an Ooo
age sion for a racket" gave "Twister
ms, as he is familiarity known by them al
md his bride a complimentary calithumpii
led serenade in honor of the event.
the
T NOTWITHSTANDING the cold wealth
}. and slippery pavements the Method
church Sunday was we'll filled NOR
the ing and night. The Rev. Mr.. Robi
red son was at his best freeing hims,
the from his notes and delving into his su
ing iect with an earnestness of aband
at that was an inspiration to both hims
r a and audience, the time sped faster tn
YER either was aware, and when t
sneaker had finished the elOQue
perOIation Of his morning sermon,
nlte found he had consumed over an hOl
70 His subject was Faith, from Pau
pose Stunning up to the Hebrews"
am faith the walls of Jericho fell do
l l after they were comprised about sew
Ine days" At night after a sermon
dhu equal freedom and earnestness fir,
'zeh the declaration Ofthe Phillippian Jail
the revival services were entered uI
% of resulting in three penitents present.
now themselves at the alter. all of VIII
80 professed conversion. When the d
~ 90 ology of rejoicing had been sung o
nj, ME- the third one, NOW" said the preac
ierlv with evangelistic tact, the jailer v
I ~ asked what he should do to be saw
.os'I1 believed and was converted when
was pointed to the Lord Jesus Chr
joined the church the same nigl
boys 81 give these the opportunity to
ing'' the same thing, and any other per
port who has made up his or her mind
bows forsake their sins and lead new
an to become members of church
what probation" The three converts
the two others went forward, making
has prObationers on the church roll. I'll
{ ten was another conversion at the NEE
on of last evening.