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Bible Headings, wit! benefit them to tibow how the The railroad authorites do not share Attention is called to the advertise the snow which surpassed anything in Smyrna and. Vicinity. the memory of the most of our people. I GRAIN. in the general belief of the destruction ment of John H. Bewley, in which he Friday Evening, February filth, 1886. i hing is worked. It is hardly thought The Delaware River is nearly clear It was more fearful titan the immense t.’iat there is a fanner in this commu Cjjf Smnrna Chius. of the peach crop. offers his entire stock of goods at a PRAYER. OFFICE OF c of ice. bargain. His stock of dry goods and snow storm of a week previous, be 1. —Divinely commanded—Matthew 7, 7; Luke ai ty who would not rather take his Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Maclary hoots and shoes are especially noted cause capable of greater destruction to 21, 36; Puai. 27, 14. The oratorio of Esther, the Beautiful 2. —Instinctively needed—Job. 23, 3, 4, 5 ; Past 39, in. <;iey home in his pocket than to ship Philadelphia & Smyrna Transportation Company gave a dinner party yesterday to their for their excellent quality. His pur property. We have had greater rains 12. his fruit and put himself at the mercy Queen, is only a week off. February 17lh. 1880. 1 Smyrna j '/)el., son Jacob C., who recently marrie«! pose is to dispose of his entire stock of before without such damaging results, 3. —God the only object—Malt. 6, 6; Ex. 20, 2, 3; of the Kail road Company and the com Miss MacManee, of Blackbird hundred. John 17,3. Wei Wednesday Afternoon, Feb. 17, 1886. The White Rose Minstrels will give goods and rent his store as soon as pos hut the frozen condition of the ground 4. —Christ the only access—Acts 4, 12; I Tim. 2,5. mission men. When he sells his fruit their entertainment week after next. The quarterly meeting of the Bethel sible, and can he seen at the store of and the melting snow which perhaps 5. —All men subjects—1 Tim. 2,1, 2, 3. through an exchange he leaves the PER 1IUMIKI doubled the volume, made the quanti 6. —Must be ottered—(a) With repentance, I’sal. 66, Wheat, lied...... The organization of a Good Temp A. M. E. Church will be held ou Sun alternons from two to five o’clock. 1»; 2Cor.7, 10; Acts 17, worry to t lie buyer, where it belongs, “ Fultz...... * THE "TIMES" is published every Wednesday day next. The place of Presiding ty of surface water immense. Hence, 30, 31. as h« (the funner) has enough worry '.««) lars Lodge is proposed for Down’s Under the bright skies and genial Dry Corn, Yellow, new .42 (Join afternoon by Robt. D. Hoffecker. Editor and the breaking out of so many mill dams, (ft) Fervently, Col. 4,12. over cultivating and getting his fruit to Chapel. Elder Heath will be filled by Rev. south wind of Sunday, the streets had (cI Sincerely. Psal. 17,1. “ " While, .41 Goin washing out of railroad culverts, &c. market. Corpus. Proprietor, at Smyrna, Del. Chas. A. Herbert, M. A., who enjoys more of the appearance of a holiday id) Consta, tly, Coloss. 4, 2; “ Cob Corn. .3“ Many of the country roads are cut The Smyrna mill pond, on the South 1 Thess. 5,17. TERMS—Subscription—One year $2.00 in advance some distinction as a preacher. Servi than for some weeks. Everybody Latent Prices given now at thin Office or $2.50 if not paid till the end of the year. No up, caused by the recent heavy snow side of the town came near being car le) With Faith, James 3,15; ces at the usual hours. The protracted seemed to want to get out. and as far Horn. 5, 2 ; Heb. 11,6. paper discontinued until all arrears arc panl— and rain. ried away, with all the gates pulled Business Locals«. meeting will start with next Sunday’s out as they could. The mill and the (/) By helpof the Holy Spirit, Goin only at the option of the Publisher. out. During the afternoon it was visi Rom. 8, 26; Titus 2, Ladies', Gent’s and Children’s Gossa- Smyrna Price Current, Feb. 17, 1886 Goin See what Caleb Boggs has to say services. inroads that the overflow of water had 11, 12. 13,14. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate ted by a number of our men to see the meres, at J. B. Cooper’s. about the early rose ami burhank pota made on its banks was the objective j Temporal—Rom. 14,17, 18. PROVISIONS. of Seven Cents a line for the first insertion ; sub The buds on peach limbs that were water running over the dam, which it 7. —Results, y Eternal—ICor. 15,55,36,07 ; 2 Tim. 4, or ale sequent insertions Three-aud-a-half cents. A toes in his advertisement. covered up by snow and thus iu a mea point Southward because the mud and ) 6.7, 8. F S .—A good Door Frame, PER roust». art i.o/kn did on the lower side for a space of with a three light transom. Geo. M. Lard, country...... Froi liberal discount made to quarterly, semi annual If February gives much snmv sure protected from the frosty air, are remnants of show banks made the road Hams...... 12 ..... Froi fifty or sixty feet the most of the after Stevenson. - Oranges .... II and yearly advertisers. A fine Summer it doth foreshow. found to be green, plump and healthy. to “Belmont” and “Woodlawn ” unde noon. The ground being frozen and Queen Esther. Shoulders...... OBITUARY NOTICES will be charged Five Cents —Old Rhyme. One of our farmers who was looking sirable to travel in. Some, however, Side Meat...... 8 PER BASKET. the road packed very hard, it resisted The rehearsals for this beautiful Ora Granite and Porcelain Tea and Fresh Reef...... 10{&H »tat Cf per line. forward with bright anticipations to in their eagerness to enjoy the open 1*0 Rev. Dr. Tullidok tilled the pulpit with more than usual stubbornness torio are making good progress and in Chamber Sets, plain and decorated, at Butter...... his crop wishes “ by george, that the air after the six weeks’ imprisonment J. B. Cooper’s. Turneys...... 1* (Mill 1 of the Presbyterian Chnrch on Sunday the force of the rushing waters, hut as its presentation on the 25lh and 26th Geese...... ,1Maryland- met on Tuesday evening, February ney’s mill race would have had many Hats from the new aud large stock of to dwelling to Samnei Boherts, residing The Caspersou mill near Clay tou was advanced with their work. The chan ire .11 Maclîcrci. N ■\20l Si:» 23d, at the residence of Mrs. E. J. more visitors hut for the John E. Phillips, Feathers iut Delaware ship-canal. mun y not so fortunate. Anticipating» heavy iu Colt. near the Alley Mills, who expects to stretches of snow banks still unmeltcd, ges made iu the caste have made a little Wool...... D* Herring...... pressure from the down-coming waters, more rehearsing necessary than was The Capitol Shirr, will he Made to i move to town the first of April. Dr. that covered the usually excellent GRAIN. Dr. W. T. Collins, of this town, has Shreve intends returning to Philadel that in the pond was only about a half thought would he required when it was Order in Any Style, by leaving your ’COt Forty thousand people tried in vain been appointed one of the surgeons of walk. The chnrch services were like a head in the middle of the morning, Measure with W. B. Megear. PEP. BUSH f*F I nr- « f of - phia. He and his wife have made wise unusually well attended morning first proposed to give the Oratorio. Wheat, Ke«I...... to get into Music Hall, Cincinnati, the L'elaware Division, P., W. & B. many friends during their sojourn with but from this time it increased aud at Prof. Wyatt says his characters are Window Shades and Spring Fixtures, •• Fultz.... .S3 MI'M in tov and evening. 3 o’clock the dam an«l race hank both j doing Com, yellow..... 10 s M til IX... where the Rev. Sam. Jones was preach railroad. us who regret that they contemplate splendidly and the eutertaiu- at J. B. Cooper’s. Loops and Fringes. “ White...... 40 limn.... gave way, precipitating a large body of A number of cellers were flooded by so early to leave our town. : ment will he a fine one. OrIh...... far ing Sunday night. The Historical Accurracy of the water on the pond of Robert Denney the overflow of water caused by the The following persons will take part A Large Stock of Capitol Shirts Just D«> It is with great pleasure that we Scriptures. below, when its gates were doing all Received tit M »‘gear’s. heavy rain and melted snow of Thurs in the Oratorio as representative char PHILADELPHIA MARKET'. announce that J. Ed. Holfeckcr, of they could. The dam stood t he pres £5.(J0riÿ$7Chickens...... The position of the House commit day and Friday. Rev. Wm. B. Gordon had a large acters : Order any Book you want, at J. B. Flour...... 9 • H» Baltimore, will take part in the ora sure with the water pouring over it a Wheat...... , (dt ,'M Turkeys...... 1; ■ tee on coinage is regarded ns corrobor torio of Queen Esther. Mr. Holleck- congregation, the largest of the course, (jueen...... Miss Klva C. Curruw. Cooper’s. Corn, white.. 41 Kggs..!...... Rev. Herman Roe will preach at to hear his sixth lecture, on Sunday foot or more deep, hut the race gave Queen’s Attendant» ...Miss Mary Anthony “ yellow 4 I'riiu Butter .. tin ating the view that there will he no the Presbyterian Church next Sunday er needs no introduction as a singer to way for a distance of fifty or sixty feet and Miss Dai *y Dorman. Globe Shirts, Crown Collarsand Cuffs, Oats...... 30 ai 37 N Y. Cheese ho this community, and his voice will be evening, the subject being “The Epis silver legislation at this session of Con both morning and evening. Rev. Dr. tles of St. Paul viewed in their histori an«i through it the waters surged, a lit Queen's Maids...... Miss Laura Furies and take the lead. J. E. Phillips. hri great addition to the chorus. Mr. Miss Nora W. Cotton. Umsted is convalescent. cal character.” In the forty minutes tle further tin striking tile S'ate road gress. H. will probably he given a prominent between the race and large bridge with Zeresh .....Mis« Klva Smith. F. 11. Burgess’ Capitol Shirt in All PAYNE G. GREEN, I Edward Gilbert, carriage painter, occupied iu its delivery the speaker place among the characters. such force as to make it impassible. ! Z» resli Attendant: Miss Carrie Heck and Gratles and Styles, Cull at Megear’s. CO; Senator Cameron, it is said, will who has been living the past two years rapidly, succinctly and learnedly re Miss Susie K. Wyatt. 3123 North Second street, bh At the last meeting of the Clayton In fact, the damage to the re el is as Nobby Suits and Nobby Styles of in this town, moved yesterday to Bal viewed the historical data, substantia Zeresh’s Child...... Little Hessie Hynson. PHILADELPHIA. PA. in refrain from voting if the republican Loan and Savings Association money ting the irrefutable genuineness of the great as that to the dam,and will have Prophetess...... Mi«s Clara Wilson. Clothing, very cheap, at Phillips. timore, his former home. to be repaired at the cost of the coun majority makes a direct issue with the sold at 20 cents premium. The asso epistles of Paul, as well as those of the Mordecai’s Sister.. ..Miss Hanna K. Van Choice Mackeral, at J. B. Cooper’s. Wm. J. Campbell, proprietor of the ty. This volume of water going down Announces that for th living of I or; President on tue subject of giving in ciation anticipate issuing a new series other Apostles. The main proofs Gasken Clayton House at Clayton, has sold out together with the high tide, made a Angel...... Miss Mary Anthony. Phillips;’ slock of Underwear, Neck he has secured many patl.-rn D« of stock commencing the second Tues were from the writings of contempor Velvet. Hotly It ni formation about suspensions from office. to Jos. K. Cole, of this town, and the heavy overflow at Smyrna Landing, Maid of Honar. .Mi-s Maggie Walker. wear an«! Footwear, is par excellent. , T • • t r i ,els * lir day of April. Win. H. Janney, Dr. C. ary authors such as Poly carp, Iren- King...... and ingrain ('arts ng K.io Mat-. Oil .Walter 0.11 ker. 20 latter took charge last week. O/Sweeney and Goe. W. Denney were œas and several others who were quo covering the causeway to as great a Hainan...... ■lohn It. Ko'- inson. The Best 75 Cent Shirt in the Market Cloths, Windotw Shadi V A full line depth as at the time of the noted tidal of which will he Representative Hanback of Kan appointed the auditing committee. ted from freely, whose writings the Mordecai...... L. M. Price. —Capitol, at Megear’s. hoW throughout the Every box in the post office is rented Penin-ula by hi- representative Mr. Jos. « >. sas has introduced a resolution in the The association is in a very prosper reverend gentleman has in his own li wave. High Priest...... Win. H, Baggs. hi and more in demand. Postmaster Green’s Branch, half way between Hagoi...... Gamaliel Garrison. The only reliable catarrh •metiy on the mar- MeColl Jr The inspection of all whe ous condition. brary. Paul’s Epistle to the Thessa- ket «Jay is Klv ream Halm, being free Iron» «I; House of Representatives directing a Bewley at this rate will soon have to ther intending t«> buy not : •tfuliv lonians lie said was written only this town and Clayton overran the Scribe...... I, Ed. Hoffecker, , ;tl oiti-n-ive odors it has cured call in the ai«l of a carpenter. Harry Shepperd and John Golds- list-nice i Herald...... I os. L, Cav ender. 1 tli solicited. Will he at the Smyrna llm«-i\ a thorough investigation of all matters railroad track a considerable • ands ol. _ite and «-brunie eases here aii Smyrna, March 5th and nth, borougb, have bought out the bar twenty-five years after the crucifixion . ; I luruonah...... I. Eil. Hotlecker. ! oiler remedies have faded II quickly cures D« The temperature was warm enough and further down at the hritlg»- win r< sa. March l-l and 2nd. connected with the telephone contro ber shop of Jos. E. Cole, opposite of Christ, (a period of time no further I Guards. n dims McCoy, Jr.. Clarence «■old in the head and catarrhal headache, •rice P. IS « hi. Mi. - ac on Sunday and Monday, (the thermom it crossed the Stale road al Duck I fifty cents. dletovvn, 3rd and 4th. Dovei, 8th and ‘.«th. the Delaware House. Mr. Shepperd removed than we are from the late G. Smithrs. Harry Wilson and versy. eter registering between 50’ and 60'1) to Creek, washed away the abutments of Frank J. Williams. has been running a barber shop at civil war) and the most of the other A gooil line of Overcoats and Fancy bring ont the bees and wasps. the hriilge so as to make it unsafe. I King's Page.«...... Masters Paul and Town 1” The funeral of Gen. W. S. Hancock Clayton for some months, hut prior to epistles were written in a very few Cass Suits, til Phillips’. years after. The Gospels were extant Murphey’s Mill, in the Alley, had | send Jefferson. “ A Citizen ” of Hartley sends ns a that was engaged with Mr. Cole, mak J. E. Carter has engaged Joseph H on Satunlay consisted of simple relig among the people either oral or its dam overflown and washed, hut short communication, hat we are pre ing himself well-known and very pop stood the pressure until the abatement I Public Sab s. Stephenson, an experienced paper Important to Farmers t*v ious services at Trinity Church, New written before this time and cluded from publishing it because the ular with the customers, and conse were hanger, to take charge of his papering in freely quoted from by the writers of the Hood. The same was the condi- ,, , ... York, and a military interment at Nor “ Citizen ” does not give his name. quently they will find in him no stran lion of Cloak’s Mill, in Kenton Hun- ; ft»1 °*‘“8 t!>” public sales which department for the season. He is above alluded to who lived at a date dred, hut the Central Mill was not so I 'v,1! ake 1* ace ,l,lmi« lbe ristown, Pa., attended by many distin The thawing of the ground has ger. Mr. Goldsborough is a son of ready for business. Will receive from the WEST this week John F. Goldsborough, of the “ Alley.” no further removed from the scenes fortunate, the race either breaking or ; 1110,1 *’ guished men and many marks of pub made desperate roads and the mettle described than we do from those of There can he no better Shirt than ai being cut, which saved the dam. i A. L. Hudson, residing near Clay- some horses as well as their drivers St. Valentine was in his sunniest di lic respect. the Mexican War, which is remem Tho large gates of Garrison’s ■ ton, intending to quit farming, will the “ Que,” sold by J. B. Cooper only. Three Hundred Bushels come to town well bespattered with mood on the 14th—Sunday—soft skies, bered by many of the present day. h: Mill, the third on the stream, vented sell his entire stock on Thursday, Feb- Pulpit and Family Bibles, at J. B. mini. balmy atmosphere— a day to stir the These writers speak familiarity of the OF is The farmers thought hist week when the water without material trouble, the I ruary 18th. Cooper’s. Dr. Chaules M. Johnson has been impulses of the dullest poets. It was a events recorded in the New Testa- they saw their fields simply ponds of day that hardly needed the presence of thc occurrences of their railroad hank holding hack the water [ B. I). C. Mitchell, living on R. H. Our sales in Hals this season have appointed Medical Examiner of the ment as and thus relieving it from unusual 1 Cummins farm, west of Clayton, will Choice Clover Seed. -Cl Cupid to bestir the tender passion. A times,' in many cases using almost the been larger than ever before. The water that the wheat prospect like that Pennsylvania Railroad Relief Depart Ill jonnie jump-up. in its efforts at peren identical language of the canonical pressure. Blackbird Mill also received j sell his stock ami funning implements cause—superior styles. J. E. Phillips. of the peaches was very bad, hut now ment, on the Delaware Division, with V nial bloom, which had been embedded some damage. The hank of the Wil- 1 on Friday, February IDth. office at Dover. writers. The proofs as presented in WM. GEO. HILL, ti that the most of the water is gone it is in the snow that fell six weeks ago, low Grove Mill racevnear Middletown,J Jacob S. Maclary, living near the lecture were as strong or stronger ti hoped that the outlook is not so dis Howard Reed, son of George T. opened its petals when kissed by the than any that are unquestioned facts in owned by the National Bank ut the “ Big Oak,” intending to quit farm- When Baby was sick, we gave her CASTOIUA CLAYTON. DEL. Reed, who has been a fireman on the rays of the life-giving sun on Sunday, Odessa, was broken. The mill dam at it,«; will sell his personal properly on couraging. profane history, and the “ mythical ” When she was a Child, she cried for CASTOIUA steamer Tygert lor some time, has ac and was plucked from one of our gar school of infidels soon faded from view Dover was saved, though the water M,„wiay February 22nd When she became Miss, she clung to CASTORIA Ol was running over it in several places j „ * ’ „ Hurr‘OWSi livinjt near the cepted a position on the Delaware rail dens as a triumph of the day. before the glare of the abundant his When she had Children, sfig gave them CASTA f.j John B. Gough, the world-renowned road us fireman. hortn.iatcly in none ol I .‘-e ciu-es - |„te...lii.g to 1! Smyrna Lodge, No. 17,1. O. G. T., torical evidences. Such discourses in Oratorio of Esther, temperance orator, was stricken with giving a reason for the “ faith that is were the gates blown out. though f. - 1 ... ,, . . , , 8 S. R. King, teacher of the public will hold a mass meeting in the Town brokenil damsi H and$ races. _ „ „„„are expensive’ , quit} fanning% will sell Ins stock ami apoplexy while lecturing in First Pres school at Downs’ Chapel, who had to Hall on Sunday week, 28th inst., and in them,” cannot hut he both valuable Side Bracket and Extension Lamps, tl to repair and come heavy on the own- j d F~b|.„ttrv 23d. THE BEAUTIFUL QUEEN. h byterian Chu rch,';F rank ford, Philadel resign on account of his health, left expect to make it a very interesting and interesting to believers. at J. B. Cooper’s. ers ol mill property. i J .... ti phia, Monday night and the giavest Monday for his home in Trenton, N. J. occasion. Addresses and music will A. Ennis, iitdr laylor s Bridge, will For a Fine Dress Shirt Call for the WILL BE GIVEN AT THE He was very popular as a teacher. constitute the principal features and results are feared. His death would Are the Peaches Killed? 1 have a sale of horses aud cattle on Capitol, for sale at Megear’s. the Hall will he tastily decorated. All Fruit Exchange Meeting. j Thursday, March 11th. Town Hall, Smyrna, s he greatly lamented. It speaks well for our citizens as it We asked this question last week Blank Books, all Styles, Sizes and has iu it the promise of comfort for the of the temperance and religious organ The annual meeting of the stock e izations of the town are to be invited, with ti mental reservation of its cor Qualities, at J. 15. Cooper’s. needy that the festival of the Ladies’ rectness, though the concurrent testi- holders of the Delaware Fruit Ex with a probable attendance of mem change was held at Wyoming on Wed For the Smyrna Times. The Perkins & House Nou-Explos- «I The Delaware Railroad has had the Benevolent Society, netted $150, with mony was that the buds had been such weather as prevailed last week. bers of Dover and Millinfilon Lodges of nesday. The attendance was fair. The Benevolent Society. ive Lamp is the only Lamp fit to he Ttinrsflay & Frly Efims. f. hardest tight with the elements the last This week brings nothing Good Templars. The meeting will he blighted. used among children. It cannot ex t encouraging, in fact about the severe Win. Ridgeway, the President, occu The Ladies of the Benevolent Society two weeks it has ever had. Between The steamer J. E. Tygert left Roth- held in the afternoon at 3) o’clock. plode or break. Sold only by J. B. t work of the frost there is a more de pied the chair and A. N. Brown acted feel under many obligation to the citi FEBRUARY 25th anô 26tti. snow ami floods its losses, mainly for well’s Lauding on Monday for Leipsic as sécrétai y. The latter read a report zens of Smyrna and vicinity, not only Cooper. i for :t cargo of grain ; will return to this Smyrna Lodge No. 17,1. O. G. T., cided sentiment than there was then, extra labor, have been quite heavy. showing the business done by the ex for their generous eon tribu I ions, hut Nervons Debilitated Men you are al- place on Friday and resume lier regu of this town, has appointed Lodge that the general crop has been 100 Resident Performers Dressed in The road to Cambridge was the only Deputy P. H. T. Wyatt as delegate ruined. It is not thought to he so change last year. Fruit to the amount also for the encouragement given by Imi'iMi a Jree trial oj thirty days of the use of Dr lar trips to Philadelphia next Tuesday. of $73,000 was sold. The highest aver their presence and the kind assistance Dye s CelebiHted Voltaic Belt with Electric .Sus Ancient Costume, one not subject to snow blockades and and Mrs. Mary E. Wells alternate, to total as in 1881, when it was a clean pensory Appliances, for the speedy relief and 1 age price obtained for peaches any one permanent eure of Nervous Debility, loss of Vi k The Sunday School of the Episcopal represent the lodge at the meeting of sweep. There may he a few of some remlered. They wish particularly to l iitltT flu* «lireulD*! of washouts. day was over one dollar per basket ; thank the gentlemen of the Smyrna tality and Manhood, and ail k inti red troubles. Church intends holding a festival iu the Delaware State Temperance Alli of the hardier varieties, such as Troth, Also, for many other diseases. Complete restora about two weeks. The scats of the ance, which meets in Wilmington to in some of the orchards, should there the lowest 48 cents. K. II. Bancroft, Roller Kink for the kind offer of their tion to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. Prof. D. P. WYATT. i Following close after the death of chapel will be removed, which will day. The delegates to represent the bo no Spring frosts. But as a crop for the treasurer, reported all the debts of building, free of all expense ; aii«i to No risk is incurred. Illustrated pamphlet, with I the exchange paid and $167 in the treas Mr. Henry S. Anthony for Ids untiring full information, terms, etc. mailed tree by ad the lamented Hancock comes that of give them uu unobstructed ami com \V. C. T. U. are Mrs. J. B. Quigg, Mrs. marketing, with any view to profit, we dressing Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall. Mich. t fortable room. Joseph Sraithers and Mrs. Marv E. think the farmers have generally given ury. The number of stockholders was interest and great assistance in many iA!LLI.vî TABLEAUX Ssutifal Costime;. Ex-Gov. Seymour of New York who over 100. ways. The lailies will he glad to have An enterprising youth sent 25 cents Voshell. The delegates appointed to it up. The buds almost universally died on Friday. He was a strong par- The following were chosen directors: any eases of necessity reported to the MARRIAGES. represent the M. E. Church are John show a shrivelled aspect with a black 1 to a New York firm in answer to an J. G. Brown, E. H. Bancroft, George Society, Realized from t he festival Do not fail t<> bear tho story of the prose tizan, hut a man that had the confi advertisement, “How to make $50 a H. Hoftecker and Chas. H. Register. speck at the centre. For sucli buds BUCKSON — McLAIN.—At th«> residence I H. Gildcrslecve, Joseph Waugh and A. $150. of the bride's parents, near Blackbird, cution of the Jews in their Persian Exile, dence of the people. He was the Dem week on a capital of $1.” He received there is no hope, hut some orchards do wicked Hainan’s rise and subsequent down I Invitations are out for the wed N. Brown, of Camden ; Charles Barker, Miss Sarah C. Cummins, President. February loth, by Kcv. 1. D Johnson, I the reply on a slip of paper, “ Fish for not show such a clean sweep, leaving fall, bringing with it Esther's. Mordecai s < ocratic candidate for President against ding of Win. H. Armstrong, son of and J, J. Rosa, Milford ; G. W. Whit Mrs. T. B. Megear, Vice-President. Jas. A. Buck«.>n and Fannie V., daugh fools as I do.” some hope for future developments. ter of Mr. and Mrs. 1). T, Reeder. and the peon) xaltation from their mis- c Gen. Grant in 1868, and was defeateil Samuel A. Armstrong, residing just taker, Dover; A. L. Hudson, Clayton; Mrs. W. W. Tschudy, Secretary. ery All will be vividly protrayed, as the north of this town, to Miss Mary A. L. Hudson finds a hud now anil Rev. James Carroll has finished E. L. Martin, Seaford : W. 11, 15ur- Mrs. E. J. Golt, Treasurer. TUSH —BIRD.—At the M. E. parsonage, text of the piece is splendidly arranged to i by him. then in the tops of his trees ; Walter Blackbird. February Kith, Jacob Tush 1 his protracted meeting at Leipsic, the Young, daughter of John Young, re nite, Felton ; Thomas Bacon, Laurel; Mrs. Lydia McDowell, Distributing convey tho musical impression intend««!. O. Holfeckcr found only two live buds and Miss Anna Bird, botli of New Castle 4 conversions numbering about forty. siding near Green Spring. The groom- J. Wesley Taylor, Magnolia. Agent. See Programme. The Baltimore Weekly Sun, with its elect began farming in January on the in about one hundred that were exam county, Del. The two churches—Leipsic and Ray ined of different varieties; George William Dean and Wm. P. Corsa Tickets. 35 Cents. issue of Saturday begun its forty ninth farm of his brother, Samuel Armstrong, were chosen accredited commissioners yljr lhe SinunM ram*. ! mond’s—have been greatly strength Reed Lolland found no live ones ; DEATHS. volume. The weekly edition of the ened by these accessions. known as the “ Buzzard View ” farm, to the National Convention of the Ag- _ , Reserved Seats, 50 Cents. ( John Jones, one live one in about ten; ricnltoral Association to he held in 1 -lR. Editor:—I would submit the JOHNSON.—Near Down’s Chapel, Feb Sun is one of the best city weeklies in situated near Magnolia, and after the ! The audience of Sauahrah, at the ceremony the happy couple will take J. 11. Donovan, on J. 11. Hoffecker’s New York city next week. j f,lll°wii)g ticket for the suffrage of the ruary atli, James B. Johnson, aged 30 Reserved Seats will be on sale at Hoffecker’s the State, containing, as it does, all the Hall on Friday night was not as large up their residence there. They will “ Alley ” farm, finds them all choco Mr.Cavender, of Clayton, asked how j voters of the town of brayrua, to he years. and Cloak's Drug Stores, commencing Monday, the 15th inst. State and local news, besides a large as desired (in fact it was a very bad be married on Tuesday next at noon. late colored or black and believes them the Exchange was to benefit other sta- voted upon March 1st : MASSEY.—In West Dover Hundred, on dead. It is only on limbs that were the 5th of February, at the residence of portion of national matter. Its agri night), hut those who heard him were lions than Wyoming. Mr. Corsa was j Alderman, Doors open at 7 o’clock. very much pleased with his descrip The following officers were installed broken down and under the snow that her son Alfred Massey, Mrs. Sallie Mas cultural department is valuable to the called upon to answer and replied in ! Henry O. Build, sey, aged 73 years. Curtain rises at 8 o’clock. tions and impersonations. by Lodge Deputy P. H. T. Wyatt, he finds live buds; A. C. Lattomus, a farmers owing to its reliability. May at Smyrna Lodge No. 17, I. O. G. T., few live ones but the most of them had substance that cars would he loaded RANSOM.—In this town, February 15th, The removals of the ice embargo has elsewhere and sold at Wyoming on the Commissioners, at the residence of her son, Wm. N. it live to see many more volumes begin. on Wednesday evening last, to serve a sickly look ; Theo. W. Cavender enabled our plumbers to get to work for the ensuing three mouths: certificate of the inspector. John H. Holfeckcr, Ransom, Mrs. Sarah M. Ransom, aged thinks he has enough live ones to make 8'.) years. again in filling their numerous orders. W. C. T.—J. Frank Pratt. The Directors held a meeting after Samuel Taylor, Desirable Property him, if there is no further disturbance, the adjournment of the stockholders i William A. Farms, The relatives and friends of tho family In the hurry last week we passed Mr. Lippincott introduced yesterday W. V. T.—Miss Belle Wood. a good picking aud thus the opinions are invited to attend the funeral, Thursday water into the bakery and confection and elected Joseph Waugh, president ; j John C. Stockly, FOR SALE. over an intended notice of our cotem W. R. 8.—Benjamin F. Turner. or the conditions differ ; a slender peg, afternoon, at 1 o’clock. Interment at Bryn- ery establishment of Mrs. Dosch & WT. A. S.—Miss Mollio Wells. A. N. Brown, Secretary, and E. H. John VanGasken, zion Baptist Cemetery, near Kenton. porary, the Middletown Transcript in it must he confessed, to hang hopes of Bancroft, Treasurer. The officers and John B. Cooper, Sou. W. F. 8.—Mrs. Herman Roe a crop of any weight upon. WILSON.—In Leinsic, February 0th, its improvements. By enlarging to a J. O. Brown and George H. Gilder- I Wm. M. Lewis, Comfort, convenience, and economical Last week the members of the M. P. W. T. —T. L. Mason. It was colder south than north of us Ethel, daughter of Robert and Mollie E sleeve were constituted the executive Wilson, aged 3 years, 1 month and 23 living depend largely on the interior ar 36 columed paper it has added four W. C.—Mrs. C. O. Swinney. on the Peninsula on those two fatal Assessor, rangement of the home and its surroundings. Church at Clayton gave their pastor, committee. The directors decided to | days. columns to its breadth if not its length, Rev. C. M. Thompson, who has recent W. M.—Jaraes-Lurty, mornings, and from Dover on down, H. 1). Boyer. We offer to those seeking a home our Pro W. D. M.—Miss Laura McDowell. meet monthly. perty on South Street, just above Delaware, and is a bright newsy paper. The ly changed his residence from Kenton the almost universal testimony is that The report of the Secretary showed | W. I O.—Miss Susie Wright. the buiis were blasted. The prospect Treasurer, combining advantages of location, ample Transcript is determined to keep in the to that town, a handsome donation that there were sixty-four shares of I grounds, amongst excellent neighbors, with party, which was enjoyeil also socially W. O. G.—Harry Wilson. from the region of Odessa and Middle- James P. Hoflecker. front line of the Peninsular papers. slock at $80 per share. The exchange j garden of Small Fruits, &c., that cannot be by a large company. On Saturday night some one removed town is somewhat more hopeful, not was opened on August 12th, 1885, for ! Taxpayer. surpassed by properties now on the market. Journalism in Middletown seems to he finding the buds so universally black Smyrna, Del., Feh. 161 h, 1886. Whole House 24x40, is so arranged that all Smyrna seems to have been aroused a danger signal (a lantern giving a the sale of fruit, during which time | at a high présure just now. red light) which was placed at a hole ened, thus making it appear that if the rooms on the first floor can by a series to its duty lately in the matter of there were 37,778 baskets of peaches 1 ... ,. of double doors be thrown together or sep- in the road beside the water main there are any peaches in Delaware TI": ™ «5» ■ »'-—' » JÄ?.; SZ-YÄÄÄ-Ä amusements. There have been sev they will be mainly from upper Kent erated al the will of the occupants, and valve at the corner of South and Main heated above and below by the kitchen The English news was thus briefly eral entertainments each week in the and New Castle counties. STOSS" t!.. umcmwl ”'f n,™: y Views on the Fruit Excise. gwj JJ** STJÎtJS'WrS! streets, carried it some distance up stove and one parlor heater (Spear), con summarized yesterday: Unemployed Hull since the first of the Winter, and tiie same condition of affairs is likely to South street and hung it on a fence. handled by the exchange during the Mr. Editor:—It will ho seen by their pristine vigor and beauty. The soil suming jointly not over seven tons of coal. If you want to secure a Home that you w ill workingmen held a meeting at Birm continue until the Spring. Fortunately no accident resulted from Personal. eight weeks it was in session was $74,- | comparing the prices received by the resembles very closely that in South Amcri- always he satisfied with, call on ingham, that degenerated into a mob this act of deviltry, but had a horse 877.20. The average price of peaches Exchange and those by our farmers in ea. where the first esculent grew wild and The M. E. Sunday School is prepar stepped into the sink and fallen on McKendrcc Downlmm, of the Sussex per basket during the season was 70« this neighborhood that those of tin* Ex- " ye\ t"und there. Our Early Hose which had to he suppressed by the po ing an interesting programme ‘or the the stake waist-high above the ground Journal, dropped in on us Saturday cents. The highest average price was .-hange rule at least fifty ami ...ten ;^ÄM‘a'trÄ?h^ R. M. JOHNSON, for a social chat. He represents a sen lice. -----There were riotous demonstra Anniversary exercises, which will be to hang the lantern on, it would un At the Smyrna Boot and Shoe Store, for sible and progressive journal. on kept. /lh, $1.02}. I he lowest was >evenl\-five pel ctnt. higher, unu (hire temperature induced by ocean influence, tions at Yarmouth and at Leicester. held at the church on Tuesday even doubtedly been severely injured if not on August 25th, $0.48J. , is not that worry connect »I with it they grow large, handsome and vigorous, terms and reason» for selling. ing next. Singing will form the chief ruined. It is strange that there are Mr. and Mrs. John Wiltbank, of ------The committee appointed by Mr. Milton, are guests of J. P. Hudson. that (here is when a farmer ships his making, as proven by the experience of part, followed by an address from the people who will take such pains to be I'm il, while it is true the farmer sells every one who has fairly tested them, a Childers to inquire into the causes Miss Mollie Townsend, of Suowhill, Rev. Alfred Smith, of Greenshorougb, devilish and destructive. Politics a Half Century Ago. his baskets and fruit at the above quo- Se™ Potato tunn ior to nil others for earli- of the recent riots has begun its ses M«L, is tiie guest of Miss Grace Quigg. A mon? some of the old miners of ^ ted prices, vet that is a benefit for the l,c?s andyeld. Crops grown from the For Sale, Cheap. ■> To morrow evening will he the oc sions.------Landlords in Kent are leas- Rev. Mr. aud Mrs. Quigg were in Among some oi me oin pa pi is 01 i ’ , , iiiimiTinnii 1-land Hose bring in our great Lastern A class for Hilde readings is an casion of a grand time for Harmony vited to a a reception given by Mrs. E. John Quillen, deceased, was found the tanner, lor it takes anothei annoyance Markets ten to twenty cents per basket imr half-acre plots to laborers at a nounced for organization next Friday Lodge, No. 13, A. F. and A, M. The B. Stevens, in Wilmington, on Monday, following ticket for 1833 : from him and that is looking after the more than those grown from native stock, 500 Chestnut Posts, hewed and evening at t lie M. E. Church, under return ol haskitsand he not only gets while the, yield is from 50 to 100 per cent, luminal rental. lodge is in a very nourishing condition in honor of Dr. Butler, of missionary “ FOUR Y KARS AND LIBERTY.” tho charge of Dr. W T. Collins. These and is steadily making accessions to fame, and remained for tlie meeting of paid for Ids basket hut he helps the more, with less proportion of small ones. board, 4 holes. Elector» ’of President and Vice President, basket makers and mill men, as it en- Tbeir shape and quality are pi-rfecti..n classes of Bible reading have been very its membership. To-morrow evening the State Temperance Alliance to-day. The situation in Washington is inter J I aides them to turn out more stock. N;> «me who ha« given the Prince Edward popular and beneficial especially to they will dedicate their beautiful hall. Miss Beulah C. Ilance, of Philadel ae md'hand 70 hors; power Portable Boiler. the younger people wherever inaugur CORNELIUS P. COMEOYS, And furthermore, at the end of the tIsl,,,u't R«*e a fair trial goes back to na- esting according to the reports in tlie The Grand Lodge of the State will be phia, arrived on Monday evening last, , , , fill. live stock. the initial importation was ated. GEORGE TRUITT, season he hasn t thousands of oldbask- ,niulc olevcn v,.lirs llRl, bv j, wcU known papers yesterday. There was a lively present, also visiting members from on a visit to to the Misses VanGasken. HENRY F. HALL. 1 ’euinsulur Bone Fertilizer Company. Dover, Middletown, Millington and William VanGasken, of Miles City, ets on hand that must be stored and Philadelphia Commission Firm, and a few (ightin the Housecommitteeoncoinage, The question “ Does Prohibition taken care of, a great many of which practical potato growers tried them. The Prohibit?” is strongly argued on our other towns of the Peninsula. The ex Montana Territory, arrived on Mon For Governor, weights and measures over the silver are broken, a number with other par- result exceeded the most snngui.'.c expecta- !• i a Kook ot TUii- , - 1,9»ÿ ercises will close with a grand banquet day afternoon last on a visit of several urr.iMit h « »I Oit liaiil und first page, ami llmse interested in the ties’ marks on them, which are of no lions. From that time to the present the question. Representative Bland's hill pro and con of the question may lind it in the Town Hall at 10 o’clock V. M. ma!l rruifm Nut». A weeks to his home folks. Mr. Van use except to pick iu the orchard. <\omsml h,*s rapidly increased, until now l\ • tionpM Arnold Naudain. up* interesting to give the article a careful Gasken is the living evidence of the pinVETHT n I I« Yo" (-aim-S sollt« them juv.iy to market »llllin 5S?"Sw'ÄhiäiKhta 1 r k;o ordered to he reported ailversely. reading. The writer closes with a ref this occasion and P. P. Collins gen healthfulness of the climate of Mon Representative in Congress. . lor it J on do jou run the- nsk of losing who does not inirchaseor striveto purchase IM •ti" ' erence to Hartley as illustrative of his eral manager. Quite a number of invi tana. The fractured limb from which » M ultiv President Cleveland is saiil to have both fruit and basket. the Prince Edward Island Kose for his 'i. I position. tations have been extended to citizens he suffered when home last Winter is JOHN J. MILLIGAN. low fo livra personally thanked Representative There was quite an animated discus- earlv crop. Many do not get the pure r: I or of the town and community to bo pres now entirely well, and he moves about V/V Vf » -v»Mmid KiniitN. Vr We print elsewhere the prospectus Senators, sion over the question of branch ex- stock as the superior excellence and reçu- Findlay for his speech on the silver ent at tho banquet. with his wonted alacrity. V* if ...... -...... _