Smyrna times., 1880-12-29
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.


COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
There have been five sudden deaths in
Milton in the past eighteen months.
1t is estimated that the grain crop Of the
Peninsula this year amounted to 100000
bushels.
Governo+ Hall is busily engaged in the
preparation of his first biennial message to
the Legislature.
The Break,oater Light appeals to the peo-
pie to get vacclnated, and thus guard
against the smallpox.
Dover is getting ready to entertain the
members OF the Legislature. That body
will meet on Tuesday of next week.
At Wyoming, Del, Saturday. a boy
named John Clampitt was drowned by
breaking through the ice while skating OIL
Wyoming lake.
Marshal McMullin, of Wilmington, Thurs
day arrested James Duncan on the charge
of voting illegally in the Tenth ward in
that city on November I'd.
r. r. Kenney, who halls from Laurel,
is out as a candidate for re.appointment AS
State Librarian. d. Truitt aud c. r. Will,
hanson are also candidates.
The State Temperance Alliance has re.
quested the pastors Of Evangelical churches
in Delaware to preach on the subject OF
temperance on the third Sunday III Jan.
uary.
1t is impossible for the Delaware Rail
road Company to furnish cars sufficient to
transport the corn crop, and the result il
the local dealers have been compelled to
put down prices.
New Castle doesn't propose to let the old
Court House tumble down. The Mayor.
r Office has been moved into a part of the
building, a private school has been openen
: in the lawyers consulting room and tho
court room will be turned into a public
reading room.
r The editor Of the Morning Newz speaks
for more than himself in the following
paragraph: 1t is a melancholy pleasure
to live on a street corner at this time OF
year. What with Christmas presents and
! cleaning snow there ia but little left in the
e "exchequer."
DISTRICT CoURr.-The jurors for the Jan.
nary term of the United States Court have
o been drawn and the following are the
$ selections for Kent county:
O Grand Jury-Prince Caldwell and VIM
Clark North MurderkIll Nathan Pratt
: Milford; Joseph B. Smith and Peter s
c Collins, Duck Creek.
e Petit Jury-Peter l.. Cooper, North
q Murderkill; Thomas Clements, West Dover
John Wright, Kenton James Frank Den
ney, Duck Creek; William f. Smith
T David Clayton, Dover; Chas N. Wharton
# East Dover; VIM. Quillan, Mispillion.
A SEVERE NORTHEAST SToRM-A heay,
easterly gale set in here at Lewes earl,
Saturday evening, the 25th inst. Tht
Q wind changed at four O'Clock Sunda,
4 morning to northwest and increased in
violence. The bark W. r. Hqr,card, her,
for orders, is high up on the beach above
e the railroad pier, and little side-whee
l. steamer, the Wandercr, from New York
bound south has gone to pieces near tn,
iron pier. The crews of both are safe
The men on the bark landed in their owl
It boats. But few vessels are in the harbor
d and no further disasters have been hearc
a Of. This is the severest gale here since tn
one in October, 1877, ut which time 81
many vessels foundered in the harbor
d The gale has heen accompanied by heav
,r rain which changed TO a binding snow
"a storm,
't DEATH OF A Man WELL KNOWN THROUGH
70 OUT THE PENINSULA" Joe" Burton. lon!
Z known almost from end TO end of thi
% Peninsula, was found few days sine
> frozen to death in a barn near Lewis.
IS Joe's story is a strange and pathetic one
rs His family is well known and well to do il
"a Sussex county, an uncle of his being
. wealthy citizen of st. Louis, one Of hi
brothers holding prominent position il
20 the agricultural Department at Washing
lr ton, and another being prominent Phila
al delPhian. lie was also closely connectet
= with some Of the most prominent SUISSE.
county families. Joe, however, was O
re weak mind from childhood, and at tn
10 death of his parents his fortune, amountin
is TO considerable property, was left uude
II the guardianship OF his brother. The latte
failed. and Joe's patrImony was swallowe
re up in the general ruin. Later the unfortu
d. nate man became a perfect imbecile, an,
1T for years he travelled on foot up and dow
ps the Peninsula, making annual pilgrimage
to st. Louis and Chicago.
". VENNoR's PREDICTIONS FOR JANUARY
pr Mr.. Vennor, the Canadian weather prophet
20 having come very near the exact condition
of the weather for December in his predit
10 tions, his forecast of what may be expecte
at in January becomes of interest. Mr. Yer
or nor says: -" | anticipate that New Year
d callers will have heavy sleighing this yea
from Montreal to Washington, and that
u cold snap during the first part of this mont
IN will preserve it for that period. expec
~ blockades Of snow in the United State
or about the 7th and Sth of January, an
:, rainy days during the month will be exceed
~ ingly few. The second quarter will ope
e. with heavy falls and terminate in a col
ey snap. The middle Of the month will brin
or snow falls, which will terminate in milde
weather toward the end Of the third QUA
" ter. The thaw, which will be interrupte
Nv by brief cold spell will extend froI
ng about the 18th OF the month into Februas,
by The record of this month will show it
:, have been severe one, and the gener,
~ conditions of the weather will remind US c
ny some Of what are called real old.fashione
W. winters"
"0 The Newark Ledger independently tn,
tie puts the question;
The Democrats are fierce in their denui
,al Citations OF the ignorant, brutal and ruffian
al negroes Of eur State, and hold it up as
A. terrible danger that these monsters ms
Va possibly become our rulers.
'er But are the Democrats sure that in doin
tx thus they are not indicting themselves
,ra malfeasanoe and misfeasauce in the a
=, ninistration of our State government
'e which they have controlled tor ten yea
rty paFt.
ret II Is true that emancipation left the u
nO fortunate negroes with most Of the vices
- a subject and servile race, but what ha'
NS the Democrats done to allsyiate III air conf