Smyrna times., 1884-09-10
Opening of Mails.
County and State Items.
Continued from Fourth page.l

The heat was so great in Whining
ton Yesterday that the public schools
suspended and many laboring men
quit work.
The Georgetown Democrat has mev-
ed into its own fine new building in
The centre of the town adjoining the
court house.
RehobOth hotels have closed and all |
The guests and cOttagers have gone !
home. Everything around the place
has an indigo hue.
The Republican State Convention
will meet at Dover on the Both instant
to nominate candidate for Congress
and select three electors.
President VIM. II. Purnell. of Della
ware College, will not be able to speak
much on the temperance cause, owing
to the pressure of College affairs and
other work.
Judge William II. West, Of Ohio,
who placed the name of James G.
Blaine before the Chicago Convention,
the Republicans of Whining
ton last night.
William Dean, commissioner of
Delaware to the Worlds Industrial
and Cotton Centennial Exposition at
New Orleans, has appointed c. c.
King, of Newark, his assistant.
The Sussex County Executive Com
mittee of the State Temperance Alli-
ance will meet at Georgetown on Tues
dav. September 4th, to make up the
Temperance Legislative ticket.
An excursion from Milford to Phila-
delphia will be made on Tuesday,
Sept. 10th, under the auspices of the
PRESBYTERIAN Sunday School. The
fare for the round trip is only $3.50.
The extensive cotton mills Of james
Riddles Sons & Co., at Wilmington,
shut down for an indefinite period
Monday. because the weavers refused
TO cOncede to a reduction of 40 per
cent in wages.
William T. Croasdale, formerly
editor of EUery Erening, and more re-
Gently editor and publisher of the
Baltimore Day, has accepted a position
as an editorial writer on the New York
EUeaing Post
The stock of dry goods and fixtures
Of William NJ. Kennard & Co., of Will
mington. were sold at sheriff's sale,
Monday. to Mark NJ. Cleaver for
$4,000. 1t is anticipated that an ar
rangement will be made by which
Henry D. Cranor, the junior member
of the firm, will continue the business.
The Newark Ledqer says: Spencer
Armstrong, living on one Ofthe Cooper
farms on the State road, near Red
Lion. has a curiosity in the shape of a
sweet potato patch. He says his
plants this year have blOssOmed the
flower resembling the morning glory.
He SAYS people have been to see it
from Jersey and the lower counties,
thinking they were not the real sweet
potatoes.
One Of the saddest deaths that has
occurred at Dover for some time past
was witnessed on Saturday evening
when Jennie. the young wife of Colonel
Arthur Boyle, of the First Delaware
Regiment, d. Y. NJ, breathed her last
after an illness of about two weeks.
Deceased was a daughter of the Rev.
W. W. Redman, of Dover, and was
married to Colonel Boyle only three
weeks ago.
Thus far everything has proceeded
very satisfactorily at the Dover glass
works, and bright hopes are entertain
ed by the stockholders of large profits
in the future. John G. Pennewill has
been elected secretary and bOOkkeeper
and William Denney, treasurer. The
company gives employment to about
sixty persons. and this new industry
will add much to the present prosper
Gus condition of the town.
The members of the Republican
Committee of New Castle count!
would like to have the State COnven
tiOn called for an early day F.; the,
would like to have it called for som
day between September 20th and 9th
and they would also like to have
called to meet in Wilmington. Thi
looks, says the Morning NelCs, as if tn
Republican Committee of this count
wanted a good deal and as if the
wanted it right away.
President Carroll of the Stat
Teachers Association, has appOinte
DR.. William H. Purnell of New Castl
J.. !. Handy Of Kent and McKeudre
DOwnham Of Sussex county n cOmmi
tee to act in conjunction with Messr
Williams and Carpenter, superinten'
ents Of the public schools, as Il cOmmi
tee TO press upon the next Legislatul
the Importance of changing the scho
laws Of the State 50 as to make re
estate taxable for school purposes, an
to make the hundred instead Of ii
school district the political unit for Il
control Of the schools.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
The September term Of the Unit
States District Court convened yeste
DAY at Wilmington, Judge Wales pI
presiding True bills were four
against Hugh Wynne, former post
agent on the Wilmington & NOrthe
Railroad, for secreting, embeZzling Al
destroying letter, and stealing ar
cles Of value from letter The cOu
after Wyune had pleaded guilty, Sc
fenced him to one years imprisonm1
at hard labor on each Of the T.
charges, 2 years in all, and to P
the costs Of prosecution of both. i
prisoners wife and mother and t
children were in the court room, a
when the sentence was prOnOun(
they wept passionately. The jury a
found true bills against John X. Ill
The deiaulting and abscOnding cash
'oi the Citizens National Bank OF NJ
dletoWn.
GEORGE w. STONE ACCEPTS 7
CHAIRMANsHIP.--The Republic
Committee Of New Castle county ]
at the rooms Of the Young Mems
publican Club in Wilmington on Sat
day. George w. Stone, recently ell
ed chairman Of the committee,
present and formally accepted the
sitiOn. Mr.. Stone took the chair
before opening the meeting for BUSH
delivered a weli-prepared address.
said
There has not been q time vii
the past five years when the kepu
can party could not carry this cou
il it was united and determined,
the fact that is so uniteti, and !
determined. at this time gives me
that it can and will carry the COZ
This Fall. This. however, can only
accomplished by thorough organlza
and hard work, aud this work can
be done By the hearty eo-operatio
every one on the committee, ~
effort ] Rish TO say, what proDaDl