Smyrna times., 1892-05-18

A GRAY shawl was found In front of
the town hall by Mr.. Grant last night.
The owner can have it by applying at
the town hall office.
The trout that are taking the place
of shad, are coming about as large as
this most desirable fish, and are more
costly. The paying of 25 or 80 cents
for single bay trout, when the former
price for the usual run was 10 to Is
cents dozen, seems amazing to the
trout eater, and they go slow, but no
one ever saw them come to market so
uniformly large before. Warmer
weather may make dec ided change
in few days.
MR.. HURTT, telegraph operator, re-
ceived letter from a friend in Ches-
tertown, with Il piece of the rope in it.
stating that Jim Taylor, the colored
man who so brutally outraged little 10
year-Old Nellie Wilcox, at Kennedy
vile, was taken out of Jail last night bv
mob of masked men from Kennedy
vile, Ind hung. The night before sher-
iff Plummer took tie prisoner down the
river in boat, but yesterday and last
night he was prevented from doing this
by men who were determined on
speedy vengeance for his awful crime.
The Jail door was battered down and
the culprit taken to tree and hanged,
The young mems club, jury Club.
we believe was its distinctive name.
adjourned or disband for the season.
on Saturday night or rather Sunday
morning, for one party tells us he
knows they were therein their room
in the johnson Building-and recog-
nized some of them after one O'Clock
and another gentleman tells us it was
near O'Clock when they ceased their
orgies and became quiet. What was
the result of the closing night was re.
vealed in the iilthness of the room and
about the stain steps as clearly as il
they had been dOsed with ippecac 1t
is claimed that outside and irresponsi
BILE parties were the chief actors. Let
us hope this is so, but the members oil
the club were responsible for the room
and all that went on in it, for it was in
their keeping.
When citizen in the early winter
sent communication to this paper
warning parents of the danger to their
children in being allowed to frequent
another and yOuger club, hut lodging
no charge against any other, the mem
bers of this took great umbrage at the
publication protesting they conducted
their club on strict principles of pro
priety, and asked that it be visited by
anyone who wished to investigat,
their dOingS. Habits are not formed
in II day. They were taken at theii
word, and not questioned, at least il
print. hut the other disbanded sc
quietly it was not known to the pub
lie. In this respect il was in marked
contrast to the one to- which il claimet
in its incipiency to be so much super
ior. Their outcome was natural Sc
quence of such organizations. There
are revelations we could but will nO
make. Now, we say to the boys thai
in noting this with the other incident,
or happenings of the week, we do i
with pain. But aside from the st4iI
whicS they must be conscious of max
ing on their own regulations, have
they thought of the deep concern they
have caused their parents and friend:
in nights more than wasted ? They
err in mistaking their friends for thei
enemies, charge that indiscree
youth has often brought against thOst
who have warned them against thr
"snares of the fowler"