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Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

George Tdynlan DrOwned. Mr.. George
Tayman, who resides at Frederick
town, Cecil CO., was accidently drowned
in the Sassafras River on Monday
evening last week. Mr.. Tayman and
two companions were going down the
river in a sail boat to fish their pound
nets, and when near ShalcrOss' wharf
a flaw struck struck the boat and upset
it. The occupants were all good swim.
mers and two of them managed to
reach shore safely but Tayman from
some cause was drowned. The de-
ceased was a young man about 35 years
of age, and son of DIR. Tayman of
Galena, Kent County.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

w. Denney Hazel, merchandising in
Cecilton, has determined to quit busin-
ess and return to Smyrna, his native
heath. Messrs. Jackson & Stout, two
merchants of Kenton, Del, have
rented the storehouse which Mr..
Hazel will vacate about the close of
the year.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

Robins and CrOlCs.-Any one at all OBJ.
servant in driving through this section
OF the country cannot fail to note the
unusally large quantities of robins and
the scarsity of crows. Many farmers
have called attention to the scarcity
of crows this season. What does this
indicate?-CentreUIle Record.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

Judge Robinson at Chestertown has
sustained the decision of squire who
fined DR.. w. S. Twilly of Baltimore
$3.50 for riding bicycle, in violation
of the law, over the bridge connecting
Queen Anne's and Kent counties.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

THE "TIMEs" is published every Wednesday
afternoon by RoBT. d. HOFFECKER, Editor and
Proprietor. at Smyrna, Del.
RMs-SUBsCRIPTIoN-One year, strictly in ad-
vance, s1.5O; if not paid in advance, $780, No
paper discontinued until all arrears are paid
only at the option of the Publisher.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate
of Seven Cents a line for the frstinsertion; sub
sequent insertions Three-and-a-half cents.
liberal discount made to quarterly, semi-annual
and yearly advertisers
OBITUARY NOTICES will be charged Five Cen
per line.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

Cabt. Daniel Friel, of Queenstown,
Queen Anne's county, sued Mr.. T. 8
Embert for $500 damages for alleged
carlessness Oh the part of Mr.. Embert
in causing the death of a Happy Rus.
sell colt by collision of vehicles.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02
THE MARKETS
GRAIN.
PRODUCE.

o,v,,, ~ Y0UR BACK ACHES.
ing i is general debility' Try VI i..e'- a.oan-
IA w,lJ5 J5stsO ..s!OJ Y.RlAs IRON !I5ffrkRS.
VA Su1S yoq' cleanse your liver, and give
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

S. G. STINsoN, who finished some
important work at the residence of H.
ID. BOyer-bath room, side porch, etc
last week.-Mrs. made considerable i'm.
prOvements to the front OLA. N. Mont.
gOmery's store this week.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

kets. He is paying 40 cents per bushel
OF Y pounds. He reports that new
corn was never in better condition to
market than it is this year.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

THIS is a week of political roorbacks. s.
Statements put off till so near the
election are generally erected on a
very flimsy foundation.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

The analyses of phosphates US ed in
this state, will be found in another part
OF the paper, as prepared and published
by DIR. Wolf, State chemist.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02
Smyrna and Vicinity.

MEssRs. Bitter & Luesher made the
largest shipment of hosiery on Friday
they have done since they commenced
business here.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

A full attendance of Harmony Lodge
No. 13, A. f. A. NJ, is requested for
tomorrow evening, at O'Clock: work
on the third degree.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

L. @. WALLER has big advertise
ment and big things to offer to the
public in his line. Read what he saws
and 60 and see him.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02
A WONDERFUL Invention

The PEOPLES TYPE WRITER the
latest invention by one of the chief inven-
tors of the Remington" Ahead of ali
others in simplicity, Cheapness and Mani
folding. Has copper type, uses a ribbon.
and claims so words minute. So simple
that anybody can use it in a few min
utes Will be in Smyrna only few days.
Price $50. See its merits or write for Cat
alogue.
Il. R. OWENS, Gen'l Agt..
5l4 N. Gilmore ST., Baltimore. Nd.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

THE people of Smyrna may feel
justly proud of their water supply. as
in the long dry spell, except a few
showers extending Lack to NAV, thew
have been able to use it without stint
or material effect on the well. Super-
intendent Taylor says that there has
never been more than two inches in
the extremes of variation, that is an
inch above or an inch below the line
started with. This is saying a good
deal for its perennial flow, for we have
had several years in succession of
excessive rains, flooding everything.
and bringing the ordinary wells of the
country almost to the surface, and then
again, this year, a prOtracted drought
drying up the wells, and yet the fiow
at our water-works is full and ample
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

BURTON DONOVAN, living on farm
of A. G. Cummins' in White Hall Neck
has three sons working in the West
Yard, the railroad death trap as you
enter Wilmington. Yesterday morn
ing, as one of them, Cove, who has
reached manhood, was walking across
the tracks. the heel OF bis shoe caught
in frog" and before he could extri-
cate himself, he was run over and kill
ed by locomotive. One Of the other
brothers came down to bring the sad
intelligence to the parents, who took
the $50 train yesterday afternoon for
Wilmington, the mother almost crazed
with grief.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

CHRIS. COLUMBUS had his day, and
it will not be long before Kris Kringle
will have his.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

THE monthly bible reading will be
given in the Temperance room, Mon
day afternoon, November 7th, at half
past two. SEC.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

OUR firemen were called out twice
last week, for a small fire at the resi-
dence of VIM. M. Bell, between tue
roof and ceiling, Monday morning, and
again, at IL o'clock Thursday morning
under the tin roof at the furniture es-
tablishment of VIM. A. FAIRIES caused
doubtless by the stove pipe becoming
disjOinted. In the first case, the use
of the hose was not necessary, but in
the latter, because the fire had gotten
under greater headway and was diff
cult to get at, a clever amount of
water had to be used. The fremen
showed great promptness.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

SOME of our wells are very low.
The lack of rain is telling in many
ways. Such dry Fall has not been
known in many years.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

The earth in November plunpes
through the great meteor zone that
lies in her pathway. This occurs about
the 14th, and meteors will be seen ON
the nights of the 18th, I4th, 10Th.
The meteOrs are technically known as
Leonidse, because the point from which
they seem to radiate is in the constelIa-
ton OF the Lion. Every year says the
NetO York Times, brings us one step
nearer the expected epoch when the
meteors in November will fall like the
raindrops in tropical storm and the
heavens will seem to be on fire. The
year 1899 is set for this grand celestial
illumination and It's not so verv far
away. Each succeeding year between
now and then may show us an incres.
ing pyrotechnic display.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

Now that the pork season has COM
menced, the prices of other meats may
have to be reduced.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

THERE must be something wrong
with anyone who cannot enjoy the
glorious weather of the past month.
It's superior cannot be found under the
blue ether, in any country or cline.
1t has been pleasant in the busy haunts
of men, but it is far from the "madding
crowd" in the wooded dell, by the
babbling brook, or in the green fields
that the most enjoyment could be ex-
tracted, and those who have not taken
advantage of it, have lost something
which they may not again have the
opportunity to enjoy.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02
M Marvland Items.

Portraits of former Governors Of
Maryland will be put in the State
building at the Chicago fair.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

AT Reiman's Opposite Post Ofice)
is the place to buy York state apples
and celery, lemons, oranges, bananas,
dates, figs, Almira grapes, etc, at great
ly reduced prices. Il
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

THIS country is no exception to the
numerous forest fires recorded in tbe
daily press throughout the country
The atmosphere has been smoky. the
sun and moon looking as if in a setting
of copper, and Monday morning the
air was thick, with a pungent taste
Cedar Swamp, near Collins Reach
was burning the most of last week. the
ground burning like peat. it is said
two or three feet deep. A considerable
amount Of young timber has been de-.
strOyed, and much other damage done
A quantity of corn was burnt in one
field, and the smoke 30 thick on Fri,
day and Saturday in the neighborbood
that men could not husk corn in the
near fields. Fires have burnt for a
time in several woods in Blackbird and
Kenton hundreds.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02
Iabuated Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers October 1890
! By DIR T. r. WOLF, Chemist

based
p nl InsI
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cents prpound
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

If the method put in vogue is fully
carried out, the old parties will not be
affected by the Prohibition vote. Bor-
rowing an idea from Congress, they
have adopted the pairing off, meth
cd, viz, by agreement, q Democrat
ofsetting his vote with Republican,
and both voting the Prohibition ticket,
the old parties will not be affected in
the result. This seems to be the idea
here, but that it is to be so throughout
the state, we are not informed.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02
FOR SALE.
The Oak Glenn BUSHEL BASKET

~ AND all kinds of OAK BASKETS
MADE TO ORDER for farming or n,an,,1 ~ !, : :
IBsScts1rlng purposes. Also WIRE FENCF n
ssl2m GEORGE D. ARMSTRONG.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

building at the Chicago fair.
$3.50 whites and 1919 colored votar.
making total of 6949 is the resnIt ~
this years registration in Cecil Conntv
oyster packers of Baltimore stated
to governor Brown that the cnIIing
law Is not enforced in Crjsf,eld and
other towns.
The eight colored prisoners at Ches.
tertown, who were convicted of the
murder OF DIR. James H. Hill, were
sentenced yesterday to be hanged.
Messrs. Brown, trustees, will sell in
Centreville, Nov. 22nd, Mallalieu's mill,
mill property, farm mansion, ETC., all
situated at and adjacent to Millihgton,
Md. d'
Ex-Governor Elihu =. Jackson and
family will go to Washington next
week to take up their residence there
for the winter. They will have rooms
at the Arlington.
The suit of Mary A.. Haddock
against Levin ]. HOllaway for $40. .O00
damages In the Circuit Court for Wor.
cester county was lost Wednesday on .
ttechnicality and a new suit waS
brought.
shipping cOrg.v-David Smith of cbo.
tertown, Is shipping corn on the aeh q
tne Wilmington and Philadelphia MAJ -
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

'~!IT a. G,nt" posters aIc a.reAhy
t"i du.,a.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

$500 whites and 1919 eolored v,.o..
making a total of 6949 is the result of
this years registration in Cecil County
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

THE total registration in Duck Creek
hundred is 99O-4S0 in the eastern, and
5lO in the western district. The vote
next Tuesday, however, is not likely
to reach these figures. Two years ago
it was S99, and has never, we think,
but once exceeded 900.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

1t doesn't matter how much you
pay for coal, it's bound to go up
in smoke.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

The seven days wonder for the man
who has bet-who'll be elected.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

ALL Hallows Eve, Monday evening,
was duly observed by the youngsters
in the usual methods Of hilarity. A
favorite method of surprises was
throwing corn against windows.
The sidewalks all over town were COW
cred with grains of corn yesterday
morning. We have heard of no dam
age to property, and this is a deport
ment Improvement over most years.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

THE coming election is looked upon
by the interested parties as going to be
so very close, that neither side cares
to begin fattening its crows for the
banquet, after the battle is over.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

HICKS WEATHER PREDICTIoNs.-
Hicks, the weather prognosticator. an.
nonnces the weather for November as
followsj
Bright, frosty days and nights will
prevail during the opening days OF
November. About the 4th ID will grow
warmer, and during the days follow.
ing, storms will pass from West to
East. Be prepared for cold waves to
succeed all the regular and reactionary
periods of the month. The 11th is a
central day for all reactionary move.
ments. From the 18th to the 10Th.
look for rain, sleet, and hard autum.
nal gales. Hard freezing will follow
on the heels of the storms, and con-
tinue up to the 22d and 23d. These
dates will bring higher temperature
and storms, and ia turn, is followed by
cold Month ends with storms, 9th,
18th and 29th; cold wave che Both,
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

WHAT the farmers need now more
than almost anything else, is a good,
steady rain for a day or two. The
wells are dry, the ground hard and the
country roads about as uncomfortable
as they ever were. Rain will
come by and by, in volumes probably
more than we shall want. These
matters cannot be regulated however,
and the philOsOphic way is the best to
take.
TO-DAY is the Prohibitionists day in
Smyrna. The ladies of the w. G. T.
U. have the afternoon for a Gospel
Temperance Meeting at the Opera
House, with address by Rev. F.F. Car
penter and music by Mrs. NJ. NJ. VOL
colt, L. NJ. Price and Rev. Ralph T.
COursey; and at 7.90 o'clock this even
ing an address by Rev. Alfred Smith
and others. AS this is the final meet
ing they will doubtless be favored with
a good audience.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

A VERY pheasant social gathering
was held on Monday evening. AZ the
homect Miss Nora Cotton, in the form
OF q hallow Zen party, young men
being the guests, given by the b. M.
S. X.
The house had been very tastsgullv
trimmed by the club members. with
autumnal tints. Hallow Fen tricks
was the special feature of the evening,
which was interspersed with music by
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

The ladies Of the Benevolent Society
desire to thank the people of Smyrna
for their kindly aid in making the fes-
tival a success. giving as they did,
with no grudging hand. Special
thanks to the entertainment COMMITTEES
for their pleasing tableaux and music.
(Signed,) SECRETARY.
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

oyster packers of Baltimore stated
to governor Brown that the onlIing
law is not enforced in Crisfeld and
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

POLITICAL meetings will be held
some day of this week ia nearly every
town and cross roads in the state, in
eluding in this vicinity, Clayton, Ken
ton, Leipsic, Walkers School House.
and big meetings in Smyrna by both
parties, Saturday afternoon and even
ing.
- ALL persons at all interested in
type Writers would do we'll to see
tne merits of the Peoples Type Writer,
advertised in another column. It
seems TO be the simplest and most dura.
0te toD price Writer on the market.
Inc Agent, Mr.. Owens, will be here
only few days, and will be glad to
show 1t to all interested
Smyrna times., 1892-11-02

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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-09
So Much a Wear

Ii has been observed that persons who
have a fixed income, without any bother
or worry about making provision for its
coming, live longer than anybody else
on the average. To know that for GER
tam, whatever happens to the rest of the
world, you will have bread and a roof
over you, conduces particularly to peace
OF mind and health of body. Under
circumstances like this the poet, artist,
preacher, philosopher or man of science
ought to do his best and noblest work
During all the last third or quarter of
ones life to get away from the wild worry
and suspense of money making and ouiet-
ly allow all that is best and most beauti-
tul In ones nature to come uppermost. to
pursue the music, the art, the studies
one loved in youth, but had to abandon
for money grubbing, this is the ideal
existence.
Annual annuities are what fit the case
exactly. They have long been popular
In Great Britain, where the government
Itself superintends the distribution of
the semiannual dividend. The .erson
VINO desires to lay by an annuity for his
old age begins to skimp and save from
his wages in youth. The process does not
hurt him any-on thecontrary. By and
by, after long years, when he has reached
the age Of from fifty to sixty, he has a
sum sufficient, put out at interest In
guarantee him a modest income the r,s,
OF his life. He then "buys an annuity y
as it Is called, from the government
That Is to say, the government takes his
money and pays him the highest rate of
interest that Is considered profitable to
itself, usually s per cent. Every half
year as long as he lives thereafter the
annuitant calls on the British e,nr;,,a
for his dividends. At his death, how /
ever, the government becomes sole owner
OF the principal, and here is where its
end of the profit comes IN.
In Great Britain the. annuitants arr
largely old maids and bachelors. Par
tieulsriy this is an excellent investment
FOR women, such as teachers and others
who work in youth. We ought to have
something Of the kind in the United |
States, though it is not at all certain
hat the government should sell the an
'uitcs. But some organization of Co
'peratiye workers might do it. There
re such in existence now on small
Gale, but some plan should be devised
hat would put the system upon an alb
oiutefy sure basis, ~ fixed a. the gov
rnment itsaak.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-09
Columbus Day,

The president has been asked to issue
proclamation requesting the people of
this happy land in their homes and local
nelghborhoods to observe with fitting
ceremonies Oct. 12, the day on which
400 years ago Columbus sighted the New
World. 1t ought to be made the coun-
try over the occasion of such celebra-
tons as America has never witnessed.
The ceremonies can take the form best
adapted to each neighborhood. There
ought to be lectures, sermons, fireworks.
splendid tabfeaux and professions, with
the beating of drums and the marching
of our gallant young national guard sol
diers. The day may be used to give
magnificent object lesson in both his
tory aud patriotism.
Especially valuable is the suggestion
to have simultaneous celebration of
the day In all the public schools of the
land. 1t is desired that a uniform pro-
grainme be prepared and carried out in
all the schools. To the preparation of
TINS programme the best artists and poets
OF the country, as well as the best edu-
cational executive ability should be
brought. The day must be made one
that the public school youngsters will
never forget, but will in time to come
recall and describe to their great-grand-
children with a thrill of patriotic pride. /
It must be a day which shall quicken
sVer after each Americans love for and
noble pride in his country.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-09

The present generation Will live to see
a railway running from the northwest
corner of the United States to the Ar
genuine Republic. The preliminary sur
yey for the road is already well in hand.
The United States commissioners for the
intercontinental railway are Messrs. A.
). Csssatt, Il. g. Davis and K. G. Ke-
rens. They report that there are three
routes which are considered practicable.
The surveyors believe the road can be
constructed at an average expense of
So, 900 a mile. Economy in congress
ought not to take the direction of cut
ting off appropriations for continuing
this survey.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-09
AN INTERESTING REllc.

The Engine That Figured in the An.
drews Raid Has Been Reconstructed.
OF the many relics of the civil war
to be seen at the Chicago Worlds fair
Few will excite more pathetic interest
than the famous General" the engine
with which James J. Andrews and his
squad of Federal scouts made their won
derful run on April 10, 1862. The
world Is familiar with their story
Under orders from General o. NJ. Mitch
ell they went down the Western and
Atlantic road to break communication
between Chattanooga and the points
south and east. of the twenty-five
raiders eight, including Andrews, were
hanged, eight escaped, and tie remain
ing six were exchanged 10 lisa
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-09

Mr.. Murdock is at present the editor
OF the Wichita Eagle, which is a very
hourishing journal. He is a native OF
Virginia, but he, like many another
young man, took the advice which
Horace Greeley had not then given and
went west He took part in the MANY
exciting events which made Kansas in
the early days of her statehood an ex.
ceedingly lively place to live in. In 1868
Mr.. Murdoch began his journalistic
career by establishing the Burlingame
chronicle, which is still in existence
In 1871, however, having made up his
mind that Wichita was destined to be-
come great city at some time. be
moved there and started the Eagle
which he still OWNS.
Then it was that Mr. Murdock's abil.
lty as boomer was first manifested
Every issue Of The Eagle fairly bristled
with adjectives dezsrfy tive of Wichita's
coming greatness. 4 the city now has
a population Of about 10000, it is to be
presumed that Mr.. Murdoch feels that
his methods and C. rtouce have been
indicated. The y IN editor" ia a
politician, Ssss, enc =, has held
several offices of hesof So profit in
Kansas, the most bzs@xqeDa being he
lieutenant govern SsaseaeA q tate sen.
atorship
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-09
THE GENERAL

The engine was turned out from the
Rogers works in 1854, and continued in
active service till late in 1890, when II
was laid aside After it had stood in
all weathers for eighteen months. the
proposition to reft and take it TO the
Worlds fair excited general enthusiasm
at Atlanta. 1t was put in charge of A.
w. Collier, son of the master machinist
OF the W. and A.. who supplied the
worn out parts with exact fac SMILES of
the original, and it was run through the
city In good style and viewed by large
crowds. With very slight exceptions, II
is Just as it was in 1869, and looks bright
and new.
Mr.. JEFF Cain, the engineer from
whom the engine was stolen. as it were
still lives in Atlanta, and so do Captain
Fuller, the conductor, and Mr.. Anthony
Murphy, the roadmaster. who Joined in
the pursuit. All the raiders who escaped
received medals and other rewards, as
did the pursuers MIR. William Pittinger
one OF the Andrews squad, has written an
entertaining work on the affair, and sew
eral Confederates have given their testi
mony, and it is a fact worth noting that
as to no other event in the war do the
narrators agree so wnuteiy in their
statements,
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-09
Queer Troatmen, of an American.

The Hollanders have queer ideas of
executing the law, especially in the col
onies, and their knowledge of interna-
tional comfy is so attenuated as to be
almost imperceptible. Captain Carpen
ter, the commander Of the whaling YES
sci Costa RIGA Packet. while on a whal-
ing cruise last fall was arrested at Ma
CAESAR. The Dutch refused to tell hir
what he was arrested for, kept him in
prison for month and then released
him. He ascertained that he was &C.
cused OF piracy committed in 1887, when
he picked up n small waterlogged and
abandoned vessel thirty miles from land
and removed the few cases Of goods that
were found ON board Of her to his own
ship as salvage. The government Of
New South Wales is corresponding with
the Dutch government, and Captain
Carpenter demands pecuniary redress
for personal indignities and remunera-
tionxor the loss Of the whole whaling
season.