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Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
Delaware Weather.

Meteorological stations will be estab-
lished in Delaware under the auspices
of Prof. Neale, of Delaware College,
for the United States Government.
They will be located at Seaford, Mil
ford, Dover and Middletown. The U.
S. Government has a station at Lewes,
and the College at Newark makes the
stations about twenty miles apart in
Delaware. The instruments for max
ing the proper observations are fur
nished from Washington, and are
loaned for the purpose: The salary at
tached to this service is only 500 per
annum, but to one interested in this
work, salary is no object. The Milford
Station, says the Chronicle, will prob
ably be under the care of J. Y. Foulk,
who has for many years kept weather
records, and will make an efficient
officer.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

The following Delawareans are en-
rolled as pupils of the West Chester
State Normal School for spring term
Fred. Brady, J. A. Eliason, ]. G. Green,
Cecil Green. J. c. c. Kelly, Middle
town; Lydia J. Durham, Yorklyn
Joseph C. Gibson, Odessa; H. D
Griffin, Kenton; Urania B. Johnson
Milford; Frank R. Pool, McDOnOugh
Lizzie Robinson, FrankfOrd; Glars
Vinyard, Houston. Among the Mary
land pupils are Benjamin Passmore
Rising Sun; J. E. Rochester and Fan
ME Wilson, Denton.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

The following officers of Smyrna
Lodge l. o. G. T. were installed We'd
nesday evening, May lst: William
Carter, C. T.; Miss Annie Hoyle, V. t.
Miss Annie Mcdowell, s.; Miss Emma
Weldon, F. S.; Edward Beck, T.; VIM
McKowE, NJ; Mrs. L. G. Swinney, D
NJ; William T. Beck, g.; Mrs. NJ. E
Voshell, S.; Charles Porter, P. G. 7.
Miss Maggie Sisco, Organist.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
Costly Frivolity.

1t is estimated that the recent anna
teur circus given by Mr.. Waterbury,
at his country place near New York,
for the entertainment of a select num-
Der of guests from that city, cost some
where between $4,000 and $4,000.
Forty years ago either of these sums
would have been a very respectable
fortune for man to acquire as aresult
of a lifetime of patient effort. Some
parts of our society are rapidly ap-
preaching the frivolous expenditures
of the French aristocracy just before
the great revolution and of the earlier
Roman patricians.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
Still Growing.

The atlanta Constitution started out
a few weeks ago to raise $4,000 to
found home for Georgia's disabled
and needy Confederate veterans. Up
to Friday last the subscriptions ag-
gregated S43, ,455, and the indications
are that the desired amount will be
subscribed before the committee ap-
pointed at the organization meeting
last week is ready to issue its appeal
for subscriptions. This is certainly
creditable alike to the Constitutions
enterprise and the liberality lof the
people of Georgia.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
Election of Sunday School
Officers.

The following officers were elected
Sunday to serve the ensuing year in
the NJ. E. Sunday School of Dover:
superintendent, Professor Lee Cannon;
Assistant, James E. Carroll; Woman
Superintendent, Mrs. Ella Cannon !;
Secretary, James c. Wickes; Assist
ant, William Haman; Treasurer, G.
E. Dawson; Librarians, Robert ].
Ferguson, Herman G. Taylor, William
Pennewill and Thomas F. Dunn :;
Organist, Miss Caddie Kerbin; Assist.
ant, Miss Ida Geiser; Chorister, E.
B. Louderbough; Superintendents of
Infant Department, Mrs. Sallie TODD,
Mrs. N. B. Smithers, Sr., Misses Mary
E. Salisbury, Ruthana Day and Ca
milla Cowgirl; Organist, Miss Kate S.
Haman.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
Wheat Blown out by the Roots

A dispatch from st. Paul, Mimi,
says that after blowing hard all day
Monday and Monday night in the
Northwest last week, the wind increas-
ed to a gale, and did considerable dam
age to buildings and crops. At Buffalo
wheat was in many places blown out
of the ground by the roots. In other
places it is buried so deep that it will
never come up. At Yankton the wind
blew a hurricane. The City Hall
rocked so that the council hastily ad-
journed and went into the street. A
soaking rain followed. At Hinckley
Mimi, the wind did damage to timber
and shade trees. An engine running
between Sandstone and Sandstone
Junction was wrecked by a tree falling
across the engine while in motion. En-
gineer DOOre escaped uninjured, while
fireman Elmer Miller was badly bruised
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

It is a subject of eongratulation that
"Robert Elsmere" has failed as
drama. Metaphysics, moonshine and
a long spell of wet weather cannot be
harmoniously dramatized. Besides
that it ought to have failed because the
plot was stolen without so much as "by
your leave" to Mrs. Humphrey Ward,
the author.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

The four new steel cruisers-Chicago
Boston, Atlanta and YOrktown-are to
be fitted out as a flying squadron and
sent on a cruise around the world.
There is probably no maritime Power
except the United States which could
thus afford to risk the absence Of
what constitutes the chief part of its
navy just when it has at last succeeded
in securing it. The proposed cruise is
undoubtedly good plan for testing
the efficiency of the new ships, but i
might have been made little shorter
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
A Large Crop.

The Atlanta Constitution says the
traffic managers of the railroads run
ming the Southern watermelon terri
tory estimate an increase in the crop
over that of last year of at least 1000
carloads. The superintendent of the
Savannah, Florida and Western Road
also reports that the LeConte pear in
dustry is growing at a surprising rate.
The railroad officials promise quick
transit and low freight rates, in order
to encourage the development of this
industry in the South.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

The fact that the new steamship, the
City of Paris, has crossed the ocean in
less than six days, marks new era in
steam navigation. There are many
yet living who remember when six
weeks was considered good time in
which to make the trip between
Europe ana America. The first steam
er that ever crossed the ocean made
the trip across in twenty-five days, and
this was considered something remark
able. 1t, however, settled the disputed
question of ocean navigation by steam
and from that day until the present
improvements have been CONSTANT!
introduced.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

Postmaster-General Wanamaker has
decided that letters intended for news
papers and which contain no personal
correspondence may be sent by express
or may be taken by train hands with
out going through the post-offices.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

Miss Katherine Drexel, one of the
daughters of the late millionaire
banker, has decided to forsake the
social world and enter convent.
Miss Drexel received as her share of
her fathers wealth, $S,6OO,O 900, the in
come from which she will still retain
charge.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

The latest news from Samoa is to
the effect that the natives are quiet
although Tamasese has refused to
agree to terms of peace unless he be
recognized as King. Germayn's pat
ronage of this dusky aspirant for roy
atty may yet cause trouble for Bis
marck and his ministers.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
DON9T

get into the habit of taking medicine for every
little imaginary trouble Nature often reminds
us by slight shocks that we have transgressed
the laws of hygiene, and that our conduct in this
respect needs correction. In such cases prOphy
lactics are more eilcaciOus than therapeutics.
But there are physical autagonisms which 1t is
folly TO neglect Clearly defined disease, requir-
ing prompt and specific treatment-of these
intermIttCntS, chillS and feyer-are the most
common, and Of the remedies proposed some are
so nauseOuS as to be unfit for weak StOmachs,
while others disastrouSly affect the head and
nervous system. From such heroic remedies the
disguised sufferer turns to LOwber'S Brazilian
Vegetable Pills elegantly sugar-coatedl and finds
Immediate relief, without any physical disturb
ance whatever from the action of the medicine
This is the secret of the immense popularity Of
these Pills.
''One Pill usually cures me of headache, to
which am suhjeCt."-A w. SMALL, Lincoln, Del.
"They cause natural evacuation of the bowels
without any of the disagreeable effects common
10 other medicines, l use them for cOStlFeneSS,
E. KNIGHT, 500 Commerce street, Philadelphia.
Peter Smith, Esq , formerly manufacturer in
Philadelphia, now residing on his farm near
Hazlettville, Del, furnishes us Il strong testmO-
mai OF the transcendent virtues OF this remedy.
lie says:
Dear Sir-I was anli icted with fever and ague
from August, 1887, to February of this year 1883
tried all sorts of chill cures without avail, and
grew so emaciated and weak that | could not
get upstairs In February l began the use of
your Brazilian Pills, and before had taken half
the box was so far recovered that could use
the Mall and Wedges. / am now (April 800, in
| up-top' condition. have had dyspepsia all my
lif9, but since taking these pills every symptom
has disappeared, my mind and memory in sym
pathy with the body is clearer and more active
PETER SMITH
so Pills in a box sugar coated 80 cents. Fol
sale by Druggists and Dealers.
LOwber's Worm LOzenges,
| Pleasant to the taste, cordial to the stomach.
| reliable Worm destroyer, excellent for bilious
/ ness in childreu-35 III a box, 25 cts. Druggist
! and dealers
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
A Safe Investment.

Is one which is guaranteed to bring you salts
factory results, or in case Of failure return OF
pnrchase price. On this safe plan you can buy
from our advertised Druggist a bottle Of Dr.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption. i Is
guaranteed to bring relief in every case, when
such as Consumption, Inflammation Of Lungs,
Bronchitis Asthma, Whooping Cough, Group,
etc. etc. II Is pleasant and agreeable @ taste,
perfectly safe and can always be depended upon.
Trial bottles free at Jas. HOheckers Drugstore
Smyrna and C. C. HarmonsOn's Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

"The latest swindle," says the Cecil
NelUs. "is the selling of ribbons. Sharp
ers visit tire farm houses, exhibit rich
samples at very low figures, take or
ders from the ladies, get half of the
payment cash, and promise to forward
the goods, when the remainder is to be
paid. Neither the swindler nor the
ribbons are heard of again" Let the
farmers wives be careful, aud unlike
their unsupported husbands in many
cases, they will escape being duped,
and thereby set a beneficial example
which worthy lords may follow with
profit when the next "hay fork,
'piano" or "Hull-less oat" swindlel
puts in an appearance.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
Morit Wins.

We desire to say to our citizens, that for years
we have been selling Dr. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Dr. Kings New Life Pills.
Bucklen's Arnica salve and Electric Bitters, and
have never handled remedies that sell as well, or
that have given such universal satisfaction. We
do not hesitate 20 guarantee them every time,
and we stand ready TO refund the purchase price
III satisfactory results do not follow their use
These remedies have won their great popularity
purely ON their merits. Jas. 2. Hofieeker Drug
gist, smyrna, and G. G, HarmOnsOni clayton.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
IRON-GXLE HORSE CART, with harness,
in good order, nearly new.
E. BECK, Smyrna, Del.
SEEDS.

ONE hundred and five years ago David Land
" reth commenced the business Of rearing Gar
den Seeds for sale. and was the first IN thls
country TO pursue It on systematic plan. His ef-
forts eminently successful-secured public conf
denee. and established for his produce reputa-
tion unapproached by the other seeds sold IN
America. The concern thus founded has passed
TO the third generation, the present propretors el
Bloomsdale. with whom it has been leading
object 10 perpetuate the professional reputation
Of the founder. The establishment continued on
nrineiples laid down by its founder has been
gradually enlarged, increasing with the growing
wants of the country, and continues to be by
far the most extensive in the Union, supplying
large share of the demand in the United states
and exporting to Europe, Asia and Africa, West
Indies South and Central America, Mexico and
Oceanica Catalogue published in seven different
languages. Our new Catalogue for 1889 now
ready. containing descriptive lists Of novelties
and standard Sorts with y photograph Hlustra-
uons of choice vegetables, with culture instruc'
tious and recipes for preparation and cooking
Sent free to all applicants.
D.LANDRETH & SONS,
Implement and Seed Warehouse,
Nos. 2f and % south Sixth street, or
Delaware Ave. and Arch Sts., Phila
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

An Iowa farmer addressed a COM
munication to Secretary Rusk inquir-
ing whether whiHhe-trees should be
planted in the dark of the moon. The
Minister of Agriculture complained to
President Harrison that people were
taking him for boss farmer instead Of
a secretary of one of the departments
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

The King of Samoa is to be literally
rewarded for aid given to our steamers
during the terrible storm of March 10,
by which three of our war vessels were
wrecked. He is to have the timber
from the wrecks for firewoOd.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

George scuse of Dover has been
granted fractional license and opened
the National hotel at Camden, Satur-
day. w. J. Rathel was formerly pro-
nrietor Of the house.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
Consnmntion surely Cured.

To THE EDIToR.-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above nam-
ed disease. BY its timely use thousands Of hope
less cases have been permanently cured. shall
be glad TO send two bottles Of my remedy FREE TO
any Of your readers who have consumption IL
they will send me their express and pOstOfice
address, Respectfully,
T. A. SLOCUM, n. c., ISL Pearl st.. New York.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

The Methodists are about to estab-
lish great university near Helena,
Montana. Ground will at once be
broken for a building which will cost
Sl5O,0OO.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
MAY.

The birds they sing with all their hearts,
When all the world is gay,
"The month We love the best is here,
May, sweet Mayr
The bashful lover on his knees
Delights to hear her say,
When he has asked if he may hope,
"Yes, you may p
And 0 ye Maries, one and all
Beseech your gallants, pray,
To never call you Name. but thus:
MAY, sweet May !'-PttsJurg Dispatch.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

Plug tobacco is to be advanced in
price and the plugs reduced in size
remedy: stop chewing. or use fine cut.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

"Papa, is Queen Victoria in the
soup, tOOP" "NOt exactly. She is in
the Irish stew"
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
Boot and Shoe Making.

The subscriber offers his services to the
citizens Of SMYRNA as a Maker Of all kinds
of Roots and Shoes. Work done neatly
and with dispatch. His shop has been
moved from Mount Vernon street to Com
merce. in part IF the Rink Building, oc-
cupied by B. b. Allen, ,,o,prs
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15
Delaware Items.
The Delaware House at New Castle
is being changed to a storehouse.

Eleven prisoners were lashed and
FIVE of them pilloried at New Castle
Saturday.
The Delaware National Guard will
probably encamp at Augustine Pier
this summer.
Port Penn fishermen are catching
sturgeon almost exclusively, the shad
market being slow.
Thomas R. Lally and Nathaniel w.
Davis have been appointed Notaries
Public for Wilmington.
John E. Holgate, a Stanton barber,
was fined $40 and costs in Wilmington
for making his 7-year-old daughter
drunk.
milky" Turner, a colored woman
of Dover, has been toOthless all her
life, and her gums are said to be as
smooth as a baby's.
Clarence Hetherington, aged years,
was drowned in the Delaware River at
New Castle on Wednesday, while
gathering driftwood.
A statue of Caesar Rodney, one of
the Declaration of Independence sign
ers, will be unveiled in Christ P. E.
Cemetery, Dover, on October II next
Elizabeth, wife of Librarian John G.
Gooden, died of heart disease at her
home in Willow Grove Tuesday after
noon of last week, aged about 45 years
The basket factories of Meredith &
Co., and ]. H. Hubbard at FELTON,,
have each force at work and turn
out from ten to eleven thousand peach
baskets daily.
Father Graf, of Holy Cross Catholic
Church, Dover, expects to secure
professOrship in the proposed Catholic
University in Washington, and he will
soon go to Europe.
While playing in lot in Whining
ton on Wednesday evening, some chill
dren found a bottle of vitriol or sui
phuric acid, and, dashing it against
stone, Ella Peterson, aged years was
painfully burned
Captain George Daisey caught a
devil fish at Bowers Beach while fish
ing for sturgeon Monday. 1t is a
queer-loOking fish and measures D
feet long, 2 feet across the back, with a
mouth 16 inches wide when it is open.
The Fruit Growers Bureau of Infor-
nation and Distribution Thursday, at
Dover, reelected J. P. r. Polk Presi-
dent. During the last year, through
the instrumentality of the Bureau, the
fruit of the Peninsula was shipped to
SO markets instead of 15 or 20, as here.
tofOre. Their are 100000 trees repre-
sented in the organization.
About 80 of the students of the Col
5 lege and Newark Academy are now
/ uniformed. The cadets, under com
! mand of Lieut.. Leroy Brown, U. S
r A., are making rapid progress and are
beginning to assume a soldiery air
: The young ladies of the academy now
/, drill on the campus adjoining the
: school It is now a question as to whC
f will attain she greatest proficiency
: Ne,UGrk Ledger.
! In the New Castle County COur
j Edward Gatchell of JohnstOwn, Pa.
was sentenced to one month in prisOl
:, and the costs of the case for fradulentl.
obtaining a carload of sweet potatoe
y from Warren Harper of Wilmington
, James Murray George Howard an
James Dougherty were each sentence
: to two years in prison, to pay $500 fin
- and costs, to stand one hour in th
= pillOry and be whipped with fort
:, lashes for highway robbery, and Fran
- Wright, of West Grove, Pa, was sci
: ~ fenced to two months in prison, o
= dered to pay the costs and restitutic
- - money for stealing clothing fro
' Thomas J. Haman of Wilmington.
Smyrna times., 1889-05-15

When an eavesdropper is caught in
the act it is key-holed day for him.
New-York tribune., 1889-10-18
NEWS FROM THE SUBURBS.

A LITTLE GIRL ASSAULTED AND ROBbED'
The people OF the town OF Kearny N. j.. are mysti
fed and troubled the adventure of Annie Green'
age thirteen, whose father. william H. Green Is
carpenter and builder In Kearny On wednesday
morning Mr.. Green placed two $50 bills and $40
bill envelope, and pinned 1t inside OF the girI
dress pocket to take to L. +" Carlisle, at Clay anu
Ogden sts., Newark, TO pay BILL The girl s'ar'cu
at a. m, toward the Erie Railroad bridge TO cross
the river 10 Newark At 10 o'clock she had not re-
turned and the father made a search for her whlch
was kept up until dark. Shortly after O'CLOCK Mrs
Green heard a dog chained in the yard. bark ana
going out she stumbled over the PROSTATE form Oh
Annie The girl was unconscious. her clothing was
wet and she had lost her wrappingS fhyslcahS
were called and they restored the girl 10 cohsoous
ness after hve-hours' work. Annie complained VI
pain at the back of her head and the SKIN On me- he
heels was abraIsed, while her wrists were
and sore The girl said tnat as she was clIDInk
nm the embanlment of the Erie Railroad 70 Icaoi i
The bridge she was struck by something ana kIioohu
Gown She remembered nothing more uhui ,S,ao 9no
oncned her ewes and saw two strange men stdhuIns
over her one of them put bottle to her nose anu anu
sbe again became unconscious. III was IDuu iar da'
,be money he'd been taken from her po;het. ms ms
terlay the girl was IN 1eNersh oohNi'i0"' ~
noce are investigating the matter
New-York tribune., 1889-10-18
P1cB CARPETS AND UPHOLSTERY.

IL is almost impossible to conceive OF a inner col
lotion of carpets and upholstery goods than 'hat
which is displayed in the large establishment oil
n a. J. Sloane at Broadway and Nineteenth-st. The
,tock is SO varied and complete that not only me
wealthy but also people Of moderate means may ma
ANYTHING and every thing desired Ingram carpets,
no longer of cheap and homely appearance, are now
pf fine texture and made up in really artistic designs
enabling the purchaser 10 get handsome and durable
rarpet for comparatively little money. In the line
OF velvet paror carpets of single and double wdths'
and TempetOns Administers for the highest
Glass OF decorations, there is everything that has been
brought out by the improvements in their MANUFACTURE
The exhibit of Wilton and Gobeln carpets Includes
vast quantity of floor decorations OF finest 1apr!cs
and most beautiful patterns. The firm claim to have
one Of the richest and most complete collections OF
Oriental rugs in the world. They also show great
variety of the Nalrn linoleums, which make artistic
and durable floor coverings
In the upholstery department there is magnificent
ino OF brocaded Tussahs, specially imported, for wall
bangings and portieres, fine stock OF brocaenes'
satin damasks, silk tapestries etc. As specalues'
there are painted panels in imitation of the old Au
bussOn apeStries. The firm pay particular attenuoh
10 he manufacture Of pOrteres, hangngs and drapere
decorations. They have a large and gorgeous s1ock
NJ TAPESTRIES silk plysheS, silk shielas. 1ur-
conan curtains and velour, both single and double
Tared In all the new and soft colorlngs. The lace
curtain department IS filled with a large assortment
of finest grade curtains including those OF Colbert an
tioue Brussels, Cluny and Irish point laces window
shades are offered much reduced prices The whole
stock needs inspection TO be appreciated.
New-York tribune., 1889-10-18
THE SANDBAG THEORY PROBABLY WRONG.

Police Captains Grant, Reilly and Murphy sent
reports to superintendent Murray yesterday stating
that they had been able TO ascertain any fac IS
that would justify belief that Edward Il. Wood
ridge and Thomas Carey were injured with sandbags
in Scvenlhavc. last week. Mr.. Murray said that the
men might have received their fatal injuries by falls
Patrick Reynolds. Of No. los Seventh-avo. lately
employed IN the New-YOrk Hotel a waiter was
knocked down with club his home early yes
ierlay morning, and hurt dangerously. lie was
drunk at the time, and had been drinking IN a
Sevenhave. dive" which is frequented by negroes.
He thOvght negro stole up behind him and struck
him with club soon after he left the liquor store.
He was hurt not far from the places where Carey
was not robbed and he walked homo before the police
learned Of his injury.
New-York tribune., 1889-10-18
VARIOUS NEw-JERSEY TOWNS.

F1JZABETH-wnliam Calhoun, OF New-forK' AL
sxncrt who for SIX months has been examining the
financial accounts of the city of Elizabeth for the as
ton wears has made the following report to The Clly
Council Outstanding debt Of city January j. Iooo'
., 900 o91 33 refunded and retired to July l. 1907
"a o7O o15 O3 balance of principal unsetled' sa-o'
o76 o3 interest accrued thereon 1921 ,49o 10 COM
missions to NewYork fiscal agents. S03ooo 20 preeo"
outstanding per cent debt and adjustment oonds'
SO 800. sos 81; profit TO city on deot se','ehnen''
eo O., 90, "a man believed to be John
Zebring of Jersey City, and salesman for Lorenh
ca of No 185 Wiiam-st., New-Iork~ was killed iaS'
evening while fishing on the Newark Bay bridge OF the
Jersey Central Railroad, Elizabethport
PLAINFIELD.-Maggie McInerny, the seven-year-
old daughter of John McIneny, Of South secohust',
while playing the New-Jersey Central hai!ioad
track in front of the house last night was struck Dy
an eastbound Philadelphia express and instantly Neu'
Her body was hurled twenty feet in the air.
RAHWAY.-The convention of tho Young Mem S
Christian Association of the IVth District Of New
Jersey will be held in the Presbyterian Ohurch' po
ginning this evening. The sessions will continue 10
morrow and Sunday.