Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

THE DELAwAREAN's PosITIoN.-
Much comment, we understand, has been
made over the course of the DeIaiOarea,l in
favoring both district representation and
the election of the county building officers
IN this State One thing can be set down
as certain, the DeLG1CGredn has stuck its peg
and intends to hammer away at it in con-
junction with others, until the people of the
state OF Delaware get what they are now
clamoring for. The time has come when
certain changes should be made. The old
saying Is that when the old constitution was
formed the key was thrown away. The
DeLda1GreGn proposes to assist in finding it
and if it cannot be found, we say batter the
doors down. The voice of the people
should be listened to.
-BRIsBANE.-At the Green Street
Church, in Philadelphia, Thursday even
ing, Miss MOllie ii. Brisbane, daughter of
the late Rev. W. I'll. Brisbane was married
to Geo. w. Polk, of Odessa. The Rev.
DR.. Theodore Stevens officiated, assisted
by the Rev. j. j. Satchell. pastor of the
church. The bride was dressed in cream
faille Franchise trimmed with duchess lace.
Miss Jodie Biggs, of Middletown, and Miss
Margaret Harrigan, Of Wilmington, acted
as bridesmaids. The ushers were Messrs.
}. p. Cochran, Jr., of Middletown; f. p.
Watkins, A. p. COrbett and W. r. Davis,
of Odessa. Cyrus Polk was best man. The
grOOmsmen were Messrs. G. j. Polk and
w. IL. Brisbane The couple left for New
York and will make an extended tour.
A FIGHTING DELAwAREAN.-Col
John Ii. Knight, of Ashland, Wis, who on
last Friday morning made such n violent
assault on Horace Rublee, the editor of the
Milwaukee Sentinel, is native of Delaware,
being born on the " Knight" farm, west of
KentOn, was educated at the public school
at Kenton, and was clerk for time in the
store of Daniel Dunn, in Smyrna, before ne
was grown. He was born about fifty wears
ago and is we'll connected in this State
Colonel Knight came out ofthe civil war
captain in the regular army, but resigned
his post and entered civil pursuits in Wis
cOnsin, where he became the law and busi-
ness partner of Postmaster-G General Villas.
He used to be Republican in his early
days, before he went to Wisconsin, but he
has changed his politics and his trouble
with editor Rublee grew out of reflections
by the Republican Sentinel upon his pOlit-
cal acts and those of the Postmaster-Gen-
eral.
MURDERERs ESCAPING FROM NEW
Observation-Disclosures Becker and Adolph
Kettner, prisoners under sentence for muir
der IN the second degree, escaped from the
Jail at New Castle, Saturday night or Sun
day morning. They were confined in a
cell together and broke q hole two feet in
diameter through a thirty-inch wall. They
concealed their preparations for escape by
/ means of a large double iron bed. The
outside wall, twenty-five feet high, they
scaled by means of rope ladder and Crap
| pling hooks, which shows that they had
help from the outside. A small coal-shovel
was the instrument used to break the wall.
| Both men are Germans and both saloon
| keepers. Becker was sentenced in Decem-
| Der for three years for shooting and killing
a man who had been refused whiskey and
would not leave the premises. Kettner was
/ sentenced two years ago for five years foI
| killing man in quarrel over drinks. a
| reward of $500 has been offered but they
have not been found.
A STEAMER LAUNCHED AT MILFORD
/ The steamer William r. McCa6e was
! launched at 10 o'clock Thursday from the
| yard Of James Abbott ~ Co., Milford
| The steamer is chiefly owned by Col. Sam
| uel Shovel. of Showels, Md, Robert w
Dasey, Of Frankford, and VIM. r. Nc
| Cabe. of DagsbOro. The two latter are
| members of the Delaware Legislature
Mrs. Daisey christened the vesscll while
all Milford, which was taking Il holiday
| stood by. The new vessel has a tonnage o
/ $50 tons, and is to run from ChincoteaguC
and the Indian river to- Philadelphia. A
dinner was spread after the launch, a
which Col. Shovel presided.
/ During the afternoon Messrs. Abbott 4
| Co. launched a small schooner for Georg,
| Reynolds of Milford. w. T. Revell, o
Milford, is building large schooner, and
| he has contracted to build a tugbOat for
| Philadelphian for the Delaware Bay ser
vice. The shipbuiders of Milford are busy
and will be all Winter
For FARMERS Soxs.-Delaware Col
lege, at Newark, has just issued a circula
stating that a short Winter agricultural
course of eleven weeks has been added t.
the college curriculum. Professor Fred
erick d. Chester will have charge of tn
new department, which will include abou
forty lectures on the properties of the soil
fertility, tillage, drainage etc. No on
| under l6 years of age can enter this depart
ment, but this is only test, as the studen
need not undergo any examination. Thi
offers to farmers and farmers sons an cX
celent opportunity to pleasantly and profit
ably improve the long Winter evenings
| OF course in farming rs in all other indus
trial pursuits, there is needed that practica
knowledge which must be learned in tn
field and cannot be gathered from lecture
and books, but the time has long gone b.
in this State when book farming" wa
generally sneered at as something to b
steered clear Of by men who had fOllowe
| the plow all their lives.
HoMEoPATHIsTs IN CONvENTION.-Th
Homeopathic Medical Society of the Per
nsula met at Dover Thursday in annu,
r session, DR.. Augustus Negendaup, of Wi
. | mingtOn, presiding. A number of paper
= | were read including 4" A Case from Prat
| ticc," by DR.. w. d. Tray of Centrevill
+ Md, and " Palliative Treatment Of InfaI
: tile Commissions" by DR.. r. X. Colley,
: Templeville, Nd. The officers elected f,
= the next current year are rs follows Pre-
ident, j. G.. Dawson, Milford; vice-Pres
dent, Peter Cooper, Wilmington trea
r urer A. f. Frontz, Wilmington recOr,
= ing secretary. 5. NJ. Finn CORES spOndr
: secretary, r. X. Colley, Templeville. d
. T. II. Cooper, of Chestertown, is a memb
of the advisory board of three. New mer
= bers were admitted as follows: Joh
: Wesley Cooper, Elkton; w. G. Karsne
o Chesapeake City, and w. d. Troy, Ce
q Md. was also present. The next meetiI
q of the society will be held on the fiji
h Thursday in November, 1887
Is TEMPERANCE AND TEMPERANCE r
r FORM VoTEs.-T6 the Editor Of the Nor
+ ina NeiCs--SIR: As we temperance fol
IS were sneeringly told two years ago tn
9 eve had set the temperance cause ba
r twenty years" will you be kind enough
consult your files and give your readers
number of votes cast in this State for tel
= perance legislation in 1884 and 1886. To
A. sure we have eighteen years before us
" which to catch up lost ground, but it wou
If be interesting to know exactly how we 8
. coming along. IL. w. M
n Wilmington, DEL, November 1Oth, 1886
~ THE Temperance vote in 1884 for repl
- ~ sentatives was: Wilmington, Alfred Ga
throp, 333; New Castle county, lS9; Kt
county, T. b. Coursey, 575; Sussex count
$ j. II. Wiltbank, 387; total in the Sti
st ,4S4. The Temperance Reform vote
is 1886 was: Wilmington, Alexander DE-
W kyne, 1924; New Castle county, %:
OF Kent county, William NJ. Prouse. %
he Sussex county, William NJ. Musta
t. 1865; total in State, 9,057. The nan
e. given are those who stood highest on
IS tickets. .--ED. MORNING NEws.l
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