Smyrna times., 1886-10-20

uulllS CulS winter.
The great morocco strike in vii
mlngtOn has been declared at an end
The men are applying for work wbor
ever they can on the best terms offered
Mrs. A. H. Martindale left Dover on
Friday as delegate to the Natiora1
convention of the w. c. II. II. wbicI
meets in Minneapolis, Mimi. on the
22d inst. 0' ''i'
The inspectors and judges of elec-
uons VIII earn their money this year
says the PeainsuLGr NelUs. for in most
poillng places it will require about
twenty-tour hours to count the
scratched ballots.
The Sussex county committee of the
temperance Reform party have ar
ranged a series OF meetings for the
next three weeks, at which prominent
speakers in the party will set forth tbe
merits of their cause.
john Boulder, one of the most re-
spectacle colored men Of this counfv
who has, for a long time, lived on his
own land near FOrd's Corner. in Ken
ton hundred, dropped dead in his own
held ON Wednesday morning.
Joseph Burchinal, Esq. has been re-
appointed prOthOnOtary for this county
by Gov. StOckley. Mr.. Burchinal had
made most efficient officer and there
was no opposition to his reappointment.
Ills term expired Saturday night.
Considerable progress has already
been made towards rebuilding that
portion of Laurel, recently DESTROYED
by fire. A new hotel is going uD on
the site of the old one, the building he
ing so by so feet, three stories bipbS and
contains forty rooms.
DIR. w. L. LafTerty, said to be the
oldest p@acticing physician in the State
dled at his home near Canterbury
tuesday OF last week. He was a prom
inent Mason and Odd Fellow and
warden of Christ Church, of Dover.
He was actively engaged in his profes-
sion up to the time of his last sickness.
lie was S0years of age.
1t Is we'll worth visit when in Will
mington, to call on J. 7. Mullin s. SONS
Clothing Establishment, 9th and Mar
ket. This firms success has been AL
most marvellous, but when YOU read
their advertisements and understand
the solid principles on which they
solicit business, you do not wonder
that they have so succeeded.
J. Frank Wilds, Register of Wills for
Kent County, has granted letters Of
administration upon the estate of Sarah
Massey, late of South Murderkill Hun
dred, to Samuel Wharton; upon the
estate of Eliza Brayman, late Of Kenton
Hundred, to Theodore +. Brayman +;
upon the estate of Rebecca Wells. late
OF Smyrna, to Peter Meredith.
William Price, of Warwick, Md, has
bought the home of w. Scott WAY, on
south Broad Street, Middletown, and
Will take possession of the same about
the middle of November next. Mr..
Way will set out for California to find
new home there, about the time Mr..
Price moves in. He is dispOsing of his
household goods at private sale.-Mid-
detOWR Transcript.
That Wilmington Democrats heartily
detest civil service reform as hum
bug, was amply demonstrated at Fri
day nights meeting by the applause
that greeted Major Biggs' emphatic
declaration that he was not civil SER
vice reformeT, AS ne teFsely expressed
it, he did not care to fight 25 years for
a victory and then let the Republicans
have all the bread and butter.
The Temperance Reform party held
a public meeting at Wyoming on last
Friday evening, ]. V. Smith and Peter
l.. Cooper, Jr., were the principal
speakers. Last evening Richard NJ.
Cooper, Peter L. Cooper, Jr., and A. n.
Brown addressed a reform meeting at
Willow Grove. Meetings will be held
at FELTON, on next Saturday afternoon
and during the evening at Frederica.
The applicants for the vacant post
office at SeafOrd are six in number, in
Guiding W. F. HOrsey, H. l.. Phillips,
T. r. Harper, Edward Martin Scott, J..
r, Darhee and Aaron Viven. At least
one of these applicants was circulating
a petition in the community before the
late Postmaster Phillips was dead.
Some of these petitioners had two or
three names on their papers when
Phillips's death was first announced.
The Randolph Peters Nursery Com
pany this season raised over 10000
bushels of fine Bartlett pears in their
orchards, near Hare's Corner and New
ark. About 5000 bushels of the lus-
ciOus fruit have been put upon the mar
ket at a good price, and over 1000
bushels have been put away i'll ice to
keep until winter. The company has
an immense refrigerator near Hare's
Corner, with capacity for storing sew
eral thousand bushels of fruit.
The indications are that in some hun
dreds the resident nominees will not
poll a majority of the votes of their own
party, though they may be elected by
the vote of the whole county. For a
man to lose his own hundred with q
Republican ticket in the field is bad
enough, for it shows that a majority OF
his neighbOrs do not desire his election;
but how must a man of any pride and
sensibilty feel when a majority of his
neighbOTs and acquaintance Of has OlOi
party vote against him !-MittOrd NelCS
A Wilmington paper in speaking Ol
the apathy in the political realm, says
Horace Greedy Knowles can draw q
bigger crowd at Laurel to listen to his plea
for temperance and reform than Senator
Gray and Candidates Riggs aud Pennington
can draw in Wilmington to listen to thei1
laudatiOns Of the ancient history Of theil
party. There were as many men in Ly
nam's woods near Newport. on Thursday
last, to attend the Reform Harvest Home
as were at the Opera House on Friday even
ing"
The report going the rounds tina
those who favor water supply are II
favor of bonded debt of 100000 is no
true in any particular. Not one 0
those who favor water have mentioned
any such sum for the purpose. Th'
cost Of "a water supply for MiddletOwl
will not exceed $4,000, and provision
can be made for its easy payment, ant
bonds covering it can be placed at
per MiddletoiOn Transcript.
We have a political split in Broad
kiln, the result of which is hard t
foresee. Great animosity exist
against Mr.. DOrman. the DemOcrati
candidate for Senator, and If the Tenn
Perancc and Reform movement ha'
nominated a man whom the averig
voter would, or could, think a proiH
man for this position, the result nish
be different. Many Of the foremo-
politicians Of Broadkiln opposed Nj
DOrman's nomination, and are as hii
ter to-day against him as they wer
previous Million correspondent Of N
Milford Chronicle.
For a nnu,har of vpara mast a lar0