Smyrna times., 1881-08-03


The body of young Frederick Wilson,
drowned at Cape May on Friday was re-
covered Monday morning, brought to
Wilmington in the afternoon and buried.
THE GOVERNORS VERDICT.-Thc liveI-
est and most determined campaign ever
carried on in Sussex for a courthouse
Office was ended last week by Governor
Hall appointing VIM. Alexander Polk, of
NanticOke hundred, to be Register of
Wills for the ensuing five years. He was
the natural second choice of nearly every
one and the personal friend and former
schoOlmate of the Governor. Another
strong tie that joined together closely the
two men, was the fact that when Governor
Hall was young and poor, Governor Polk,
the father of the appointee, lent him that
material assistance upon which Governor
Hall was enabled to build up his great
business and present fortune.
DEATH OF COVE SAULsBURY.-Hon
Cove salisbury, Ex-Governor of Delaware
and one of the most respected citizens of
this State, died Sunday afternoon about
800 o'clock, at his residence in Dover,
aged about &C years.
He had been in rather poor health for
several months, although his condition
was not regarded as at all alarming. The
illness which carried him off was very
sudden and only of five days duration.
Cove salisbury was n son of Thomas
Salisbury, and was born in Mispillion
Hundred, Kent county. He was the
second of four brothers, two of whom
Willard and Eli-became very prominent
in the politics of this State, the former
having been Attorney General and u. S.
Senator and at present Chancellor of the
State, and the latter now serving his
second term as U. S. Senator. Cove Sauls-
| bury studied medicine and, although he
soon became successful practitioner, he
evinced decided taste for politics, and i'll
1860 was elected a member of the State
Senate In 1868 he was elected Speaker
of the Senate, and on the death of Gov
ernOr Cannon, later in the year he became
| Governor. In 1866 he was nominated by
! the Democratic party as its candidate, and
was elected for the full term of four years
by large majority over James Riddle, OF
New Castle county.
| He was noted during the war for his
! bitter partizanship and hostility to the
/ Government i'll its efforts to suppress the
| Rebellion and the Communication Bill which
was intended to thwart the Draft, and
were credited to his fertile BRAIN
In 1871 an exciting contest ensued
between the Doctor and his brother Will
lard for the United States Senatorship
The excitement ran so high that bad
blood was stirred up, and when the Legis-
lature, which, with the exception of Lean.
der F. Riddle, from New Castle county
was unanimously Democratic, settled the
difference by electing peither of the con
testants, but fell back and elected Eli, the
third brother. 1t is said that ever since
there has been a coldness between the
three brothers on account of this hotlN
contested struggle.
Doctor Salisbury then went into {
forced retirement from office and resumed
the practice ofmedicine, which was alway.
large and generally remunerative.
DR.. salisbury was happy in his domestic
relations but of late years has had mucl
afflictiOn. About five years ago his daugh
ter Rosa, who had just graduated from
Vassar College, died of consumption. TIL,
mother was so affected by her death tha
she soon followed her daughter, and nov
with the decease of the Ex-Governor
Willard, a son of 10, is the only representa-
tive of the family left.
Doctor Saulsbury's wife was sister o
Ex-ChancellOr Daniel NJ. Bates wife, re
Gently deceased.
His death is said to have been caused b,
an attack of bilious diarrhea, but ther
are other statements again that attribut,
the death to other causes. He leaves
good estate. His funeral will take plac
tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock.