Smyrna times., 1889-01-23

MEssRs. McGaw & Bro. will be in
Smyrna on Thursday tomorrow to
see the growers of tomatoes in refer
ence to acreage for the comming season.
If these gentlemen meet with sufficient
encouragement to warrant it they will
make this town their headquarters.
moving htrs with their families and IN
larging their factory.
IT looked on Sunday morning. with
the mercury down to 230 and a snow
storm brewing, that winter had finally
come to stay. But in this there was
disappointment. The snow that COM
menced falling at noon turned to rain
at evening, the heavy fall carrying It
all away during the night. The tenn
perature has since, however. been
lower than the previous part of the
month, with more of the aspect of
winter.
THOs. MCLANE died at his residence,
near TaylOr's Bridge, last week, at the
age OF 6S years. He was a noted trap
per, as was his father before him, max
ing this nearly the only occupation of
his life. 1t is computed by those who
knew him that he caught from first to
last 100000 muskrats and so tons of
swapping turtles. He had caught as
high as 5000 maskrats during a winter.
and would again drop down to 2OOO or
below. Besides these, he shot a great
many black ducks that would come on
the marsh to feed, and in former wears
often bagged otter, mink and other
wild animals.
THE local question uppermost since
the settlement of the Senatorial nnee-
ton is that of filling the vacancy in our
post-ot1ce, which will come around in
due order next July. One or two of
the six or eight or possibly more asDi-
rants have thought it wise to take time
by the fOrelOck and begin now. Those
VINO think 1t a little too previous to
0egln a half year before the time for
tne change, are keeping a sharp eve on
the early birds who are so eager for
the fruit. 1t is more than probable
That several who have been looking
with wlstful eyes at this nice little
plum will never shake the tree to get
it down. e0'
HEN LEE, our laundryman, who has
teJt the pressure of accommodating ma
tronage, took the midnight train on
saturday and returned Monday with a
COUSIN, Lee Slang, to help him with
his big washes. Hen Lee isimmenselv
popular with the youngsters, who
make resort of his room as a place of
loahng and social meeting. He laughs
and talks with them in his snare mo.
ments, but when work is pressing he ia
as obliviOus to their presence as if he
were all alone. The bows in turn take |
pm to Sunday School with them on
sunday afternoons, and Lee shows |
most attentive observer. His
cousin speaks and writes the English
quite readily.
THE statement made in the Dover
Leder and copied in the Smyrna Record
hat Rev. G. w. Dame "meditates TAX
ng trip to Europe in the near future"
lad It's foundation only in the imagi-
latlon OF the writer. Mr.. Dame had
'nly been home from a six months
,lslt to Europe and Asia when called to
MS parish, and just a year before the
late the above paragraph was written
le was in the Holy Land and VISITING
t that time the city of Bethlehem. the
'lace where the Savior of mankind was
,orn. If he had ever "meditatedn Wis
ting those old countries again it would
certainly be after a greater IaDse of
lme than has yet transpired. II is
'rOOaoie the statement in the same
'aper that Rev. w. B. Gordon intended
n earl ~ return from Mexico is about
s authentic.
= A DANvILLE (Va.) exchange saws:
carrie Stanley appeared before one of
ne most stylish audiences of the sea
on last night. 1t seemed as if the an
ouncement of the beautiful Fast
'ynne was the magic talsman which
eached the hearts of the elite of our
lty. NO actress has ever been greeted
y hner audience here, and from the +
rst appearance of the gifted artist to
ne Iall OF the curtain at the end of the |
lay, she carried her audience with her.
ney were In the words of Duneas
ray when she was gay, and went
hen she was sad We have no hes
ancy in saying that Miss Stanley de- q
srves the great reputation she has t
aimed by her powerful and realistic Z
representations, her acting being SO en-
rely free from art, that the audience t
rgoG they were witnessing a plav. but
7emed It reality. Her voice is one of j
le hnest and most flexible we have
'er heard. She is powerfully grand I
intense and exciting scenes and v
'autitully pathetic in emotional and v
lt1etlc scenes. Her support was verv C