Smyrna times., 1886-06-16

Club prospects in Sussex are bright.
John R. McFee, Esq, of Georgetown,
is prominently spoken of for Governor,
on the temperance ticket.
The Old Point Comfort express was
withdrawn after last Wednesday, much
to the regret of travellers.
Charles Barker near Milford, has
shipped about $4,000 quarts Of straw
berries, J. S.Willis $4,000 and J. J. Rosa
1880.
Ex-pOstmaster William Y. Swiggett
has been offered the agency of The
Vacuum Oil Company for this State and
Maryland.
The wedding of young Bayard takes
place on the 18th, and the secretary
and the Misses Bayard are all going to
the wedding.
In Sussex county the strawberry
growers are more than satisfied. They
have more money out of their berries
than for years.
Billy Dean wants to be the next
Governor of this State, even if he has
to receive the support of the Temper
ance Party for that position.
Wilson Lee Cannon, of Dover, will
be graduated from Yale College on
June Both. The subject Of his gradual
ting essay will be "HOrace Mann"
Augustine Pier, at Port Penn, will
be opened for the season on June Both.
Simeon Lord, the proprietor, has re-
Gently built forty new bathing houses.
Jacob Friedel, of FELTON,, shipped over
6,0O0 quarts from one acre of berries
which cleared over cents per quart,
netting him about $3.50 for the acre of
land.
The dedication ceremonies of the
First Delaware Memorial Monument
took place on Thursday ut Gettysburg.
Geo. V. Massey, Esq, made an eloquent
address, and was followed by Colonel
EnOch Moore.
The sale of the DIR. Jump property
aggregated S22,S64, subject to prior
mortgages aggregating about $4,000.
The proceeds of the sales will not be
sufficient to liquidate all the debts
against the deceased.
Nathanial B. Smithers, Jr., of Dover.
was on Wednesday married to Miss
Moore, of Laurel. Mr.. Smithers will
bring his bride to Dover, where he pro-
poses, in the Fall, erecting a new dwell
ling house on State street.
The cause of Constitutional reform
seems to be gaining friends. The Sus-
ser Journal weekly shows the need of
a Constitutional Convention, and the
Constitutional Reform Club of George
town is gaining members all the time.
The Lord & Polk Company at Odessa.
are making extensive additions to their
already large works. They are now
erecting an additional building IA by
20 feet, two stories high. They are
now working on full time, manufac-
turing goods for the Fall trade.
The President Thursday appointed
Robert H. Taylor postmaster at Will
migtOn. Mr.. Taylor was born in Phil
adelphia and is now 36 years of age
He was elected to the city council in
June 1885. Mr.. Taylor is a car painter
by trade. The term of Swiggett, the
retiring postmaster, expired May 10th,
last
A Frederick correspondent of the
Milford Chronicle wants DR.. Albert
Whiteley of that town to be made the
Democratic candidate for Congress, or
if the feud between Messrs. Biggs and
Cochran of St. Georges Hundred,
should prove each others defeat, then
he should be made the gubernatOrial
candidate.
DR.. John w. Sharp died at his resi-
dence in Camden on Thursday night,
aged about 20 years. He had been i'll
for about two months past from a
stroke Of paralysis. DIR. Sharp was
born fear Milford. He was a skillful
physician, a scholar, and an excellent
citizen. A few years since he served a
term i'll the State Legislature.
J. Frank Wilds, Register of Wills fol
Kent county, has granted letters of ad.
miuistratiOn upon the estate of Samuel
l.. Hall, late of Duck Creek Hundred
To Henry S. Anthony ; upon the estate
of Emily b. Conner, late of FELTON,, Il
Alvin B. Conner; upon the estate o
Nettie S. Vaughn, late of Little Creel
Hundred, to Charles Il. Vaughn.
Wilmington is politically more cor
rupt that the city of New York, for il
the latter abuses are sometimes cOrrec
ted. And Wilmington neXer attends
State Convention Of either party bu
that it causes nearly all the troubl
manifested. An honest election j
thought OF no more, and the best voter
stay away from the polls in disgust, a
they did on Saturday last.-Peninsmd
Ne,Us.
Mrs. Curtin of Lincoln, Sussex cOun
ty, saw her 19-months' -Old child play
ing on the railroad on Saturday morn
ing Just as train was approaching
She ran for the child, which was no
seen by the engineer, but she was to
late. The child was struck, and hurle
from the track into a ditch. The trai
was stopped, and all hands went bac
to pick up the remains, but instea
they found the infant without bon
broken or a bruise on its body. 1t wa
unconscious, but it recovered speedil!
THE ORATORICAL CoNTEsT.--Th
contest in defamation for the Dell
ware College Alumni prize took plaC
in the oratOry Of the college on Frida
night before n large audience. III
judges were Secretary of State w.
Causey; Superintendent of Publ
Schools, T. N. Williams, and Rev. ID
Vallandigham. The contestants we
Samuel 4. Buchanan, topic Rob
sphere ;" j. ID. Jacquette, topic, III
Ship;' Harry Whiteman, topic, u
just National Acquisition; john
Boyd, Taylor at Buena Vista :" Joi
p. J. Whistler, Tramp Traml
Tramp !" w. T.. A. Benton, Last Da
Of Herculaneum :" r. Maxwell Nor
son, Look Within" John Ball, "PoI
peii;" Norman T.. Layfield, bryant
ThanatOpsis :" Harry A. Hickma
The Young man in Politics." Frar
Collins, "The Death Of Hamilton
William II. Smith, "Regulus to I
Carthagenians." The young men
acquitted themselves in a very credit
able manner The decision OF t
judges will be announced this eyenin
at the close of the commencement G
ercises, which are held to-day.
DEATH OF PRESIDING ELDER MILE