Smyrna times., 1890-10-22

Ir. Registers shambles.
THE cOlOred barbecue Thursday, for
he benefit of Mt. Friendship A. NJ. E.
'hurch, was not the success intended,
rom the weather and other causes,
hOugh the Ox-rOast was complete in
II its details and about eaten up. The
ayiwas not a good one from its threat
ming aspects, and the night, from its
ieavy dOwnpour, one of the
worst of the season.
Having employed d frst-class con-
ectioner, will have constantly on hand
resh confections of every description
:. G. Bemhler. 4
Mrs. A. NJ. Stephenson, mother of
Rev. r. X. Stephenson, while spending
he summer in st. Paul, Minnesota. fell
lOwn stairs and broke her left arm.
LAST week while returning to her home
n Port Deposit, she stopped over night
n Baltimore. In starting down stairs
The made a misstep, fell aud broke her
light arm in the elbow, cut her head,
lurt her neck and injured her hip.
Her daughter, Mrs. Matlack, left Smyr.
Ia for Port Deposit and Baltimore.
THE black birds are unusually thick
his year in the "Necks" contiguous to
he marshes. We gave an account a
week or two ago of how one man was
shot and severely wounded while he
md his neighbOr were fighting them
)f their uncut corn. The latter being
tut and punched is most protected, but
Moore topped and bladed a
small field, the ears in which exposed
just suited the blackbirds.
Mr.. Moore, found last week that the
only resource outside of spending the
lay in the field with gun in hand,
was to husk it, which was done,
the entire contents Of the field
being in the crib by Saturday night.
SOME of our people who went to the
Harry LiDdley entertainment at the
Opera House on Friday evening for a
quiet evenings enjoyment were cOnsid-
erably annoyed by the conduct OfsOme
six young men who had come up from
Dover, evidently on a frOlic. The COM
plant is made that they were regard
less of the pleasure of others of the au-
dience, noisy, prOfane, INDUCED in
knocking each others hats off &c. We
give the above as it was given to US,
but will add that our people are always
glad to see persons from other towns
who come for legitimate objects of
pleasure or business.
Politics as the science of govern
ment is always an interesting subject
to thoughtful minds. but partizan poll
tics-party adOration-like the fetch
worship Of barbarians, is quite another
thing. In a thing where the line OF
is a simple difference OF
opinion or perhaps respect for ancestry
where friend and neighbor, father and
son, husband and wife may differ on
what is to them often at best but an imag'
mary lie, why should there be rank.
ling, harsh, belittling words that do nc
good but make vast amount of harm in
leaving roots of bitterness that out.
last the campaign?
Hon. Geo. Gray had large audience
to hear him at the Opera House on
Wednesday evening last in discussing
the issues of the campaign. He spoke
for about two hours, cOnfning himself
mainly to the Mckinley Bill. Senator
Gray is a man of fine presence, an i'm.
pressive speaker and aims to attract by
force of statement rather than repel by
use of harsh epithets which character.
ize so many speakers. The announce.
ment was made that Robt. J. Reynolds,
candidate for Governor, and John W.
Causey, candidate for Congress, would
be at the Opera House tonight, the
regular meeting night of the Demo.
cratic Club. Gov. Biggs is also ex.
pected.
ONE Of our citizens (he has no boys,
procured 1000 chestnuts a week or two
lsO and spread them out carefully in a
spare room to dry and sweeten fol
eating. lie did not take rats into &C.
""n', but they did the tempting nuts
their keen scent detected the plunder
f"raging party was at once organized
a hole cut into the room. and when he
went two or three days later to see
after his nuts, 10 they were all gone
but two worm eaten ones which the
rodents had kindly left to mark
the spot where his treasure had been
laid. Where they had gone was plainly
revealed by the hole near by. Now
said individual is humane man and
does not like to take life even of a
mouse unless it becomes too destruc-
tive, but he is from this time on q
sworn enemy of chestnut loving rats.
Z. N. FOWLER, Of the Fruit Growers
National Bank is just being able to
walk about after being a restricted
cripple for period of three months
from very singular circumstance. On
the night of the goth of July on max.
ing his way from the bed to the win.
dow in the dark TO lower it, the air
having become cold in the night, he
struck the inside or hollow of the foot
against the end Of a chair rocker which
was resting against the wall, hurting
him quite severely, but little more
than such an accident usually does,
What was considered trivial matter
in the morning in using his foot, be.
came painful and inAamed by night,
and from that day until last Friday he