Smyrna times., 1889-04-24
TUESDAY, April Both, will be legal

TUESDAY, April Both, will be a legal
holiday.
J. B. MIFFLIN is using Port Deposit
stone screenings-two tOns-fOr his
yard walks.
REV. G. w. DAME will deliver lee
ture at Harmony Lodge A. F. and A.
M. tomorrow evening.
/ c. G. ARMSTRONG of Clayton. pur.
chased at the sale last week, the furni-
ture of the Smyrna House.
"COws in Clover" is an old game
that the cows in every BARNARD
throughout the land would like to see
revived at once.
The garden park recently costructed
in Clayton under the direction of Su-
perintendent Mills, has been enclosed
by a woven wire fence.
A THANKSGIVING and prayer service
will be held at the Presbyterian church
on Tuesday evening next, April 3Oth,
in harmony with President Harrison's
proclamation.
The first strawberries, (of Southern
grOwth) were furnished our citizens
last week by Geo. M. Stevenson, whose
main object in purchasing them was TO
make strawberry ice cream.
S. B. FREELAND, of Baltimore, has
taken exclusive charge of the painting
department of Joseph Stevenson's bus
mess. MIR. Freeland comes well recon-
mended as a sign painter, frescoer, etc.
THE steamer Mary U. Citizens will
run during the month of May for the
Philadelphia and Smyrna TranspOrta
ton Company, leaving Smyrna Land
ing on Wednesdays for PHILADELPHIA ::
returning, leave Philadelphia TUESDAYS
and Thursdays. Time table will be
published on Friday.
AN old shoemaker living near CLAW
ton is now in Dover Jail for indiscrimi-
nate use of his revolver at Clayton on
Thursday last. He first fred into a
crowd of small boys, but fortunately
none of them were hurt He cOntin-
ued to flourish the pistol in and around
the railroad station and was arrested
for it.
DANIEL B. CUNIDIINs of Philadelphia.
formerly of our town, as friend and
executor of the late I. V. Williamson
of that city, will have one of the
largest fees on record. At the legal
rate of Pennsylvania, five per cent.
his executors fees on settling the es-
tate of about 100000 will be nearly
a-half million of dollars.
GEO. G. ROTHWELL, Levy COurtman
for BlaCkbird hundred, is shaking
more hands and distributing at the
same time more cards bearing on it,
For Sherif-DemOcratic nomination
$780," than any other man in the
county. George knows what he is
about, and that he has the encourage
ment of large number of the leading
men of his party.
THE children and teachers were ac-
corded holiday on Good Friday. and.
linking the two following DAYS with it.
had refreshing little holiday. Some
people complained about the little in
terruption in the affairs of one of our
public institutions, and wanted to
know what movable religious feast
day" had to do with our public
schools? That's the question for the
future.
The lower part of Main street is
keeping up with the procession" in
local improvements, and as the "Boule
ward" of the town, demands recOgni-
tion in the way of we'll graded streets.
There are said to be some uneven
spOts-fve by actual cOunt-that the
committee on streets have not been
able, with their natural optics, to see.
They should be furnished with micro
scope of good magnifying properties
for use on Main street.
CATS are reported as bringing three
dollars apiece in Dakota, owing to the
presence of myriads of mice around
the grain bins, and a despatch from
Dubuque, Iowa, says that two carloads
OF tabbies have been shipped from
that city, where they were bought at
wholesale for fifty cents and one dollar
each. Here is a chance for some en-
terprising citizen to make "speck" on
Smyrna cats. There may not be mil
lions in it," but it would be light work
and rive The fOVtyu a bopp,r ,,;Ilo..-