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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-20

Our sinclair Curtain France is the
only one in the state outside the large
cities. We got it expressly for lace cur
tains. AT Brennan's Steam Laundry,
South Main street. 4.16-tf
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-20

Have your carpets, feathers and mat
tresses cleaned by the Steam Revovating
Company, Shenandoah, Pa. 3-3l-lm
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RenovaI.

Keagey, the photographer, has removed
from West Coal street to near the corner
of Main and Lloyd streets. Don't forget
the place.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-20

John A. Reilly's is the place to get the
purest wines and liquors, best beer and
ales and finest brands of cigars
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-20
WORK nor CITIZENS F.!
Places For Them on the
Public Water Works.
so STATES TIE COUNCIL
Contractor Quinn Has Authorized the
Statement That He VIII Pay Them 81 90
Per Day, If worthy-other Borough
Council Proceedings Last Night.

Last nights meeting of the Borough
Council was a progressive one-that is,
progress was reported on two out OF three
of the important measures upon which
the people had expected definite action
The chief progressive action of the pro-
gressive body was the acceptance of a re-
port from the water committee that Mr..
Quinn, of the firm which has the contract
for building the public water works, is
willing to employ all citizens and tax
payers of the borough of Shenandoah at
SL50 per day, providing they are worth it.
Mr.. Quinn does not propose to pay that
rate of wages to any man who can only
perform one dollar, seventy-fve cents, or
fifty cents worth of work per day. Mr..
Quinn already has men employed on the
work who are paid as high as $1.25 per
day.
Mr.. Lamb stated that while the condi-
tion was not made in the contract, it was
understood that the preference of en-
ployment would be given to the people Of
Shenandoah.
Mr.. Lamb also stated that Mr. Quinn
had stated that if any town people want
to take contract they can have it at "a
cents per yard, and that 10 all he is able
to pay.
The Council has now taken action and
has officially reported Mr. Quinn's will
ingness to do right with the taxpayers of
the borough. Men in need of work at
Sl.50 per day and who can give an amount
of labor equal to the price can now apply
to Mr.. Quinn. The HERALD feels that it
has done it's duty in the matter, but
should there be any injustice as to the
determination of what constitutes a
dollarand-a-half's worth of labor, those
aggrieved may depend upon the HERALD
as a time keeper. For the present, "All is
well that ends we'll
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-20

Deviled crabs, fresh and rich, at Nc
EIhennYIs.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-20

Cleaning lace curtains, % to so cents per
set silk ties, cents ladies' silk waists,
from 10 to % cents. Reliable Hand Laun.
dry, ll2 East Centre street. 4-lS-It
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-20

Get your repairing done at Holder.
mans.
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A Drnp 10 Mont.

Grab salad, deliciously seasoned, at Nc
Elheuuy's.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-04-20

Little neck clans, sweet and luscious al
MCElhenny's.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09
A Ministerial Scandal.

The members of Mt. Zion church,
(cOlOred) famiiiarly called Mt Zina,"
about three miles from town were
aroused Monday morning by scandal
which will bring condemnation upon
their pastor for years to come.
The story may be told in short as
follows: Last Friday these members of
ebony hue, who were somewhat short
on their pastors salary, Rev. Henry H.
Harris, gave an entertainment in their
church to make up the deficiency be-
fore he left for the A. NJ +. conference
which meets in Dover this week. The
entertainment was a success and the
pastor was paid off. At the close of
the meeting he asked the permission
of Kate Logan, young girl fla years
to escort her home. They walked
| along quietly until they came to the
road which parted in opposite direc.
tiOns. Instead of taking her home he
enticed her to go with him to the par
sonage. When he got her there he
locked the house and kept her there
until Monday morning, using her dur
ing the time, as was brought out at the
hearing, for immoral purposes. His
wife was away at the time visiting rela-
tives.
AS Sunday was the last day of his
pastOrate there, a large congregation
met at the church in the morning to
hear his farewell sermon but Rev
Harris failed to put in his appearance.
At night he again failed. This aroused
suspicion among his members, few of
which made raid on the parsonage
Monday morning to find his where
abouts. Rev. Harris ran out with the
| girl and concealed himself with her in
the woods. John Logan, who had
missed his daughter, learned of the
scandal and Immediately came to town
and swOre out warrant before Squire
Cooper for Rev. Harris arrest. The
culprit was caught and brought to the
magistrates Office for a hearing. There
he testified that be was in Harrington
on Saturday but as the evidence seemed
TO be clearly against him he was put
under $500 bail for his appearance at
court, in default of which he was
taken to Dover Jail yesterday.
Such moral delinquencies are un-
fortunately too frequent, and in case
like this can have no claim for elem
ency. The man is a well appearing
and so far as is known attended to his
duties hitherto faithfully aud well, but
his fall, not in fit of passion or sud
den temptation, but as appears from
the hearing. from cool deliberation
should for ever retire him from all of.
fetal responsibility after having paid
the penalty of his crime against society
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09
Our Town Council-What They
are Doing.

The adjourned. meeting was called to
order by President with full Board pres
ent.
Boyer reported that Megear & Son were
the lowest bidders on boots for the Hose
Room and since, so far as he knew, there
were nine pairs needed, he was authorized
by the Board to procure such, according
to his judgment.
The special committee to consider appli-
cations, &c, for an engineer for the Water
Works plant made its report, VIM. FAIRIES
reading II number of letters of recommen-
datiOn on Harvey Rose who had applied
They were mostly from Wilmington and
Middletown, where the applicant had
worked and the list included some of the
most prominent men of those cOmmuni-
| ties Mr.. FAIRIES also stated that the COM
mittee had held a caucus in his private
office, at which place Abel Taylor, the
| present incumbent, was invited to meet
them in conference. Mr.. Taylor agreed to
retain the position of Water Works en-
! gineer at $3.50 per year. besides assisting
Redman in cases Ofemergency; to help put
| up the cOnverters and assist on the pole
| line. Mr.. FAIRIES followed these remarks
| by motion that Mr. Taylor be retained.
| Carried.
Engineer Redman submitted the name
of Samuel Jackson to be his fireman, which
! was Immediately approved by the Board.
After few remarks on the condition OF
| streets. j. &. Robinson moved that the
Secretary be instructed to notify such
property holders in different parts of the
! town who have neglected to do go, to have
their fronts paved
On motion the Secretary was instructed
to have the superintendent place screen
netting over the windows of the power
house. so as to prevent the plague from
bugs and insects, attracted by the glare o
the electric light.
VIM. FAIRIES followed this motion by
few remarks on the Board of Health, EN-
phasizing in positive manner the failur,
of the Board in past years to do the
proper duty. He ended his remarks by
appointing an entirely new Board, in tn,
form of resolution. They are as follows
DIR. Z. 9. Moore, Edward g. Walls, j
Wesley Denney, VIM. NJ. Bell and B. b
Hazel
Boyer moved that the Secretary be in
structed to draw an order for G. +. White
less bills Of Superintent II. S. Anthony an,
Josiah Evans.
Next in order came the list Of appeals
which occupied the balance of the evening
There were about twenty who appealed L
the Town Council tor a change in assess
ment, some of which were granted, Will
most of them continued the same. Meet
ing adjourned.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09
A Raantifnl Home

"Woodlawn," one mile south of
Smyrna, on the State road(fOr so manv
years the home of the late Col. George
W. Cummins) has been noted all the
while for its neatness as we'll as pro-
ductive crops, Mr.. Cummius directing
his attention mainly to fruit, taking up
pear culture as "A sucessi On TO that OF
the peach. It is gratifying to know
that "Woodlawn" is maintaining its
distinctive character as farm and
home. Mrs. Cummins, to whom the
farm descended from her mother. Mrs.
Denney, (so we'll remembered from her
advanced age, 104 years.-as we'll al
beautiful life) with the aid of her
daughters watches after the place and
suffers nothing to deteriorate In fact
there have been additions and improve
ment, notably the ideal" windmill 10
supply water to the premises. woven.
wire fence for lawn Sc. that have been
important.
The fact that there has been an"evo-
luton" 10 farming in the past few years
is not lost sight off, as might also be
said in relation to looking out for those
new products that want or fancy de-
mand of the rural world at remunera-
tive prices. A noticeable feature In
the gardening department is large
square in strawberries now in its tenth
year Of fruiting, and the vines look as
clean, vigorous and strong as most
patches only two years old This Is a
proof against the idea that strawber.
berries run out in two or three years
There are howering bushes such as
hydrangeas that were planted by Mrs.
Denney 20 years ago. The most at
tractiye tree Of the place was an elm
that Mrs. Denney when a young wo
man obtained from the homo Of Cmsar
Rodney and planted, that unfortunate.
ly became diseased a few years a,Io and
| died. "Woodlawn", by the imiirove.
ment ia the foot path Is but an outlying
residence of the town.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09
Mrs Graoev's Address.

The observance by the ladies of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
of their Twenty-F'ifth anniversary Sun
day evening at the M. E. church, was
an interesting occasion made especially
so by the address of Mrs. S. L. Graeey,
who by the way, was the first mistress
as the PASTORS wife, of the present par
sonage nearly thirty years ago.
The auditorium was filled, the
younger element predominating. Pas
tor Stengle, at the close of the musical
service, in brief Introductory alluded
to her former residence here, her useful
life, the seed she had sown which had
grown to fruitage, her work in other
felds,and her presence on this occasion
to tell of what the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society, which dated back
in its origin to the period when they
resided in Smyrna, had done for the
christianization and elevation of the
heather nations.
Mrs. Gracey told of how the picture
of mother throwing her babe into the
Ganges had impressed her mind at an
early age, how she had intended to de-
vote her life to work in the mission
field, but which was frustrated at the
proper time by sickness, the desire not
being realized until the appointment of
! Mr.. Gracey as Consul to Foo Chow four
years ago. This position gave them
both the long cherished desire to wit
ness not only the heather field for
| themselves, but the work of the mis-
sionaries. She testified strongly to the
efficient work they were doing against
| great odds, their devotion to their
work, self-sacrifces, and constant OBJ
stacles growing out of prejudice, Gus
toms sc. that had to be overcome.
Their position as representatives OF
the United States Government gave
them access to the Mandarins and
higher classes beyond that of the mis-
siOnaries. The women of these like
those of the lower classes were unedu-
Gated, seldom ever leaving their homes
and were utterly without any of the
rights that should belong to the sex
and were often sold for the worst pur
poses. She instanced an interview witt
high ruler who visited their homo
and dined with them to find if it was
true that the mothers and daughters o
foreign nations could talk and discuss
on intelligent subjects, and expressed
himself greatly surprised. These mel
fear to let their women have inter
course with foreign ladies lest they
might learn and claim some of thei
privileges.
Her address comprised an hour il
which the condition of the people, ,thei
laws, habits, poverty and depravity amt
the Jealous work of missionaries ant
teachers to christianize and lift then
up in their position was set forth il
personal narrative.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09
The Prosnective Fruit Crops.

STATE ROAD, Del May Sd, 1894.
MR.. EDITOR:
AS the peach crop is believed to be
nearly or quite destroyed in this State,
il may be interesting to peach growers
and peach consumers to know what
the prospect is in other States. l have
been travelling some of late and
through sections where peach orchards
abound, and l failed to discover any
harm TO the prospective crop north Of
this latitude. Through central New
Jersey, from forty to sixty miles north
of Philadelphia, saw many orchards,
and so far as anybody had discovered,
the fruit was all right.
Unless something befalls II after this
there will be very fair yield While l
have not learned how the present pros
pect is out through central Pennsyl-
vania, know that peaches are grown
abundantly out that way; and believe
that in that latitude no harm has vet
been done. Much better prices are in
store for those who are the fortunate
ones this year, If the fruit natures
right.
Wheat up nOrthward does not look
very we'll 1t was hurt considerably by
the winter, and there does not appear to
have been the usual amount seeded
The talk is that wheat does not pay.
Every other variety of fruit as we'll as
peaches show promise of fair aver
age yield. In this neighborhood we
do not have the trees. E. r.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09

BRECKENRIDGE, as is so often the
case with men of his stripe, will not
subside in accordance with the dictates
of good sense and sincerity, but is seek
ing for "vindication." He wants to be
the candidate for Congress Though in
this he will be opposed for the nomina-
ton by Owensl, and instituted this by
reception" ct Lexington, Kentucky,
Saturday evening to a packed house of
friends and opponents. 1t was notice.
able that the audience was not ccm-
posed of the well-dressed, easy bearing
people of the bluegrass country, and
another noticeable feature was as has
heretofore been the case, not a girl nor
woman from the parquet to the gal
lery Of the Opera House.
The Inauguration of his campaign is
thus stated:
Colonel Breckinridge returned to his
home at Lexington, Ky. 1u saturday
last to begin the work of repairing his
congressional fences, which have been
pretty efiectually destroyed. Breckin
ridge made long speech to his old
friends, and pleaded, in his usual sill.
very and dulcet strains, for a renomi-
nation. His plea was that he had laid
bare to the world the story Of his shame
which has kept him in torment for so
many years; that he now feared moth.
ing, that he was no longer afraid to
open his daily mail, that he was not
afraid OF a sudden clap of thunder and
Hash Of lightning, that his health il
unimpaired, that there are many more
years Of usefulness ahead of him. that
there are other men just as bad as he
is, that all should be forgotten. and
that he should be returned to Congress
The impudence Of this moral leper ia
IN harmony with the life Of immortality
and duplicity that he has been leading
His plea is the plea of a mar
who fails to appreciate the exteni
OF his own confession, and it will be te
the everlasting disgrace of the people
OF Kentucky, and an insult to every
decent man in the Union, If the mar
Breekinridge is ever renOminated. His
career as 3 public man should end witt
the expiration of his present term.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09
For the Smyrna Times.
Mr.. EDITOR :


Mr.. EDITOR:
Any person riding along the public
roads where the fields of farms are in.
closed with Osage orange thorn hedges,
may observe vine generally known
as poison oak, running up the hedge
entwining its deadly coil around the
body of the stem of the Usage and over
tie hedge and if not removed by the
owners of the farms it will in a very
few years take entire possession of the
hedge and entirely destroy it. The
sooner it is removed the less destructive
it will be to the hedge. The writer's
hedges have been so long neglected by
the occupant of the farm that thew
are almost destroyed by this nOxious,
poisonous vine and he has been Obliged
to employ two men who are now at
work with bill hooks going along all
his hedges removing the vines aud all
other interloping foreign plants or
vine that may be found.
The writer has also observed another
vine resembling somewhat that of the
woodOine, which remains green dur
ing the winter mOnths-the botanical
name not being knOwn-which has en-
tirely taken possession of portions of
the hedge covering it entirely so that
only the vine can be seen. OF course
where this is the case the Usage hedge
can have no existence for il is a
philosophical axiom that no two things
can occupy the same space at the same
time. The removal of these two inter
Looping vines should be attended to at
once aud without further neglect or
delay. r. H. G.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09

AT recent caucus of Democratic
Senators a compromise on the Tariff
was reached. Concessions have been
made TO the interests of each of those
Democratic Senators who opposed the
Wilson bill as reported from the House.
The caucus resolution was passed by a
vote of 81 to 1. The one vote in oppo-
sition was cast by Senator Hill. The at
titude OF Senator Hill is causing anxiety
among Democratic Senators, as it is
said he proposes to force his Demo
cratic colleagues to explain what were
the influences that produced the
numerous concessions in the amend
ments to the measure.
The bill is a erydifferent affair from
the Wilson bill, and the delays expert
enced in amending it are more attribu.
table to disgruntled Democrats than to
flibustering Republicans. Even now
the Democrats are far from being salts
Ted with it, and accept it as a compro
mise, the best they can do at this time
The strong call from all parts of the
country is for action of some kind.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09

IT is early in the campaign to enter
on what is called personalities in poll
tics, but it was begun in a PARTISAN
sheet of Dover in depicting fictitious
club meetings some weeks ago, and
last week writers in a political sheet
on the other side, to get even it is pre-
sumed. began a little further than
where their opponents left of in the
blistering inuendo business. If the
one can claim he begun first, the other
with equal certitude can say, Il used
as caustic ink as you did" Candid peO-
pie not in the line of battle see nothing
gained in slug-shotting non-ofical men
from ambush when they are pursuing
their course unarmed and unsuspecting
an enemy. True, it has an admixturt
of humor and produces a smile on the
visage of the reader, but the universal
fact remains that there is a big differ
ence between goreing and being gored
The man who is clothed in politiea
buckram has no cause of complaint.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09
CheswOId Notes.

Joseph Moore, a we'll known farmer
living near Cheswold, died last Satur-
day, aged 80 years. Mr.. Moore left a
goodly estate and seven children viz /:
Abram G. Moore, near this town, Jos.
p Moore, near Dover, John w. Moore,
OF Philadelphia and James Moore at
home, Mrs. Charles Wheatman, Mrs.
Henry L. Smith, and Mrs. Short. He
was the founder of Central M. u.
church and ex-Levy Courtman. In
politics strongly Democratic. The
funeral was largely attended at Bethel
yesterday.
Bayard BrisIter, a well known colored
man, until recently residing west ol
Clayton, died in Cheswold last Friday
He was rs years of age.
Rev. ]. Il. Howard, of Asbury church
Wilmington, will lecture in CheswolC
n. E. church Tuesday next 18th inst
subject ''The Forces that VIM"
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09

The foreign miners in the Pennsyl-
vania coke regions dc not intend to
lose their well-deserved reputation as
the champion rioters. Riots are almost
weekly occurrences mostly ending in
some being killed and wounded. The
outbreak, as usual, arose from an at
tempt to drive away workmen who
were willing to work at wages mutual
" agreeable to themselves and their
employers.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09

ALTHOUGH rather a modern institu-
tiOn, the building and loan associations
in the United States number 5,SS8, ac-
cording to the ninth annual report OF
Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright.
This feature in the line of savings in
stitutions has attained its greatest
growth during the past ten or fifteen
years, and the evidence of the thrift
and benefit represented is indicated in
the net assets, given at S45O,OOO,OOO
and the profits, placed at $SO,OOO,OOO
More than 100000 homes are the pro
duct of these semi-banking institutions
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09

The Hon. George v. Massey, Of
Dover, has been appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland to be Commissioner
General of the United States at the
Worlds Fair to be held in Antwerp.
The appointment was made in recogni-
ton of the excellent work done by Mr..
Massey at the Worlds fair in this coun-
try. He returned last week from Den
yer with a sick daughter.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09
THE SMYRNA TIMES.
Smyrna, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, May 8, 1894.

THE TIMES" is published every Wednesday
afternoon by RoBT. d. HoFFEcKER, Editor and
Proprietor. at Smyrna, Del.
TERMS-SUBscRIPTIoN-O year, strictly in ad
vance, s1.5O; if not paid in advance, $500. Nc
paper discontinued until all arrears are paid
only at the option Of the Publisher.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate
of Seven Cents line for the frstinsertion; sub
sequent insertions Three-and-a-half cents. A
liberal discount made to quarterly, semi-annual
and yearly advertisers.
OBITUARY NOTICES will be charged Five Cen
per line.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09
Don't Dict.

II you have dyspepsia, indigestion,
habitual constipation or sick headache,
don't diet. You need the food that
food gives. Eat whatever you want
but take one Of DIR, Deane's Dyspepsia
Pulls after meals until cured. IL Won
are constipated get bottle with white
abel, otherwise with yellow.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09

THE electric power-house, during
the warm nights of the past two or
three weeks has been infested by a
myriad array of bugs and insects, at.
tracted by the glare of the brilliant
lights. They have been quite annoy
ing to engineer Redman, hundreds ol
which have been crushed by the belt
which runs the dynamo, keeping both
belt and dynamo in a filthy condition
The town authorities are going to try
and prevent this pest by placing
screens on the windows and doors.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09
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SpeedWaY Track.

The road from 'Sunnyside" to the
Brenford road is being put IN first. t.class
condition for a trotting track, the dis
tance is one mile straight with two
tracks. The Big Oak and Brenford folks
are i'm It and no mistake. Officers will
be elected the coming week. The
management extends to everybody a
hearty welcome and guarantee fair
play to all. There are quite number
of good horses and promising colts IN
them SPEEDWAY.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09

The papers Of Monday gave accounts
of damage by wind, rain. hail and
lightning in number of places attend
ing the advance of the low pressure
across the States from the West to the
Eastern coast. There was some hail
here in the closing shower of Sunday
night, but not enough to do any harm
while the rain fell in sufficient quantity
meet the wants of the farmers.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-09

THE Principals of the public schools
of this State, will have a meeting or
convention Tor whatever it may be
designated, being the frst) in the Pub
lie School building, Friday and Satur-
day. 1t is for the benefit of the prin-
cipals, as the yearly Institutes are for
the advancement of the teachers.
Twenty-Five or thirty are expected to
be present.