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St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-06
Blaine Delegates Chosen.

BATH, N. Y, May 5.-The Republi-
can district convention here to-day
chose uninstructed Blaine delegates 10
the state convention.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-06
For a Pioneer Priest.

Special to the Globe
DARWIN, May 5.-Solemn requiem
mass for the late Rev. Ohm NcDermott,
a pioneer priest of Minnesota, will be
celebrated at Darwin, in st. Johns
church. ON TUESDAY. MaYS.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-06

Wilson and Col. j. II. Starin, which re-
suited in dea lock for three days, YVES
broken tonight, the Wilson delegates
to the state convention being elected.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-06
The DeadIock Rroken.

SYRACUSE, n. Y, May 5.-The con-
test in the Twentieth district Republi-
can convention between Congressman
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-06

Asyou glide thro' the world you
must open your eyes,
For it's business, you know; it's
business. you know.
And the man who is shrewd will OF
course advertise,
For it's bu mess. it's business,
You know.
The fellow VINO smiles and expects
big trade.
THO to drop in an "ad'' in the Globe
he's afraid.
In the language OF Bacon, hes far
below grade"
Not business; not business, you
know.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-06
The River Falling

Special to the Globe.
WINoNA, May 5.-The river is falling
rapidly.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-06
To Vary the Monotony Of His
Business He Espouses
an HeireSs.
Diminutive Maggie Hoskins
and Albert Beadle Joined
in Wedlock.
Justice Nelson Spices
Couple Not Very Well
Mated.

GAIN has the fes-
tive coachman risen
superior to all OBJ
stacles to his love,
a n d given ocular
demonstration o f
the popular theory
that the fraternity
is especially fitted
for fascinating sus-
ceptible heiresses
land wheedling them
IN to matrimony.
There was a time
lw h e n the b a n k
clerk, on a salary of
$500 a wear. had the
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-06
If you want a good place, through

IF you want good place, through
the Globe just apply,
It's business, you know, it's bust.
ness, you know;
4 sign on a window or door is o
guy"
Not business, not business, you
know.
If you want furnished rooms in q
neat, pleasant flat,
Situations for Johnnie, Nell, Tom,
Dick or Pat,
By want in the Globe call atten-
tiOn to that,
It's business, it's business, you
know.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01
At the Methodist Church.

The revival services at the MethO-
dist church are continued. The eve
ming meetings and especially the
preaching services of Rev. Mr. Robin
son on Sundays are largely attended,
but the number of penitents have not
been as large as the earnest labor
warranted in expecting. The class
mostly desired seem, as far as the
meetings are concerned, to keep in the
offing. Five probationers Joined
the church on Sunday, making ten
since the meeting commenced.
An interesting service will be held
this Wednesday, evening.
A Platform Mass Meeting will be
held in the audience room, presided
over by Presiding Elder France. The
subject will be THE duty of the
church to the outside world" and adj
dresses are expected from Presiding
Elder Murray, of the Wilmington Dis
trict, J. A. B. Wilson of tue Dover
District, and T. 0. Ayres of the Sauls-
bury District, closing with evangelistic
exercises conducted by A. d. Davis of
the Virginia District 1t will doubtless
be an interesting occasion to our citi-
zens.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01
Death from a Shot Gun.

On Monday afternoon a colored bow.
Nat Daniels, aged about IS years, came
to sudden end through the accidental
discharge of shot gun. He had been
skating on the Persimmon" pond and
had seated himself on the bank to rest.
A gun was back of him and leaning
over he took hold of the muzzle and
pulled it towards him. In doing so
the hammer was pulled back and sud
denly falling on the cap, discharged
the load at close range, which entered
his side just above his hip. Such a
hole as it made with the entire load of
shot SCATTERING his liver and other in
testines, could not but produce death.
DIR. Dwight was procured as soon as
possible, who had the boy put on a
litter and carried to his home, but he
expired in few minutes after getting
there. His death was from the shock
and consequently with little pain or
suffering.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01

NEXT year will a memorable one in
the history of the United States. A bills
to be introduced in the Senate duriugth the
present session for an appropriate cele-
bratiOn of the constitutional centenary
at the National Capital Fit becomes
law-and there is no doubt of that
the presidents and other responsible
functionaries of the republics of South
America, fifteen in number, will be in
vited to participate in the ceremonies.
The forty-six governors of our states
and territories will be asked to attend.
Doubtless the pageant will be a glOr-
Gus one to witness and to remember.
making 1889 bright red letter year in
our calender. Another great measure
is also to be submitted to the national
Legislators for approval during the
Fiftieth Congress. A bill will be intro
duced to sanction an international ex-
position az Washington in 1892, under
Federal auspices. There will be es-
tablished under the same act a perma-
nent exposition of the three Americas,
in honor Of the four-hundredth ami
versary of the discovery by Columbus
of the American continent. All these
things are to be done under in
structiOns of Board of Promotion.
recently selected. To think of the
proposed plans must fill the mind of
every patriotic citizen with pride.
Those who live to see them completed
will have perhaps a better right than
now to say This is a great country p
--Er.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01

The american Agriculturist for Feb.
ruaTy comes to us in fine new dress
and two columns to the page, instead
OF three, which is n decided improve
ment. This magazine has filled the
bill for over forty years, and is better
than ever.
Harper's Magazine for February con-
tains many excellent articles. This
number is finely illustrated. It's novel
cites and shorter stories are charming
and the easy chair and editors drawer
contain interesting matter. Among
the prominent articles we name Con-
tribution on the Tariff" Socialism in
London" American Shipping Inter.
est" etc.
The Century for February contains n
delightful essay by James Russell
Lowell. 1t is accompanied by a from
tllspleee portrait of Landor. "A Rus
sian Political Prison" Rough Life in
the Far West, " Living in Paris.n and
number of Othe excellent articles are
served as pabulum for mind of the
reader. 81. Nicholas for the Young
ioiks IS frst-class work. Make me
young people new year present of q
copy.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01
William Ringold Cooper,

A special from London to the New
York Sun, dated January %, saws:
Joy and pride are prevailing emo
lions at Scotland Yard to-day. Will
liam RingOld Cooper, who is recog-
nized by the rascaldOm of two hemis-
pheres as the'king of the forgers, was
safely lodgedin PentOnville Jail TODAY.
and will in due course be tried and
convicted of gigantic forgeries, and
sentenced to long term of penal ser
vltude. Cooper, of whose interesting
career the American newspapers gave
details aprOpOs of his arrest bv the
French police on December - last is
only 40 years old, tall, dark, handsome
dlgnlhed and courteous in demeanor,
with voice soft, musical and even
caressing, the very sort of a man to set
women talking. He is well-educated
and charming cOnversatiOnalist. The
English detectives who brought him to
London to-day, say Cooper may pos
sess all these beautiful gifts, but they
saw more of the devil than of the angel
IN him. Cooper was arrested at FOn-
tainebleau in the forest hotel, dear to
sporting Frenchmen, far from other
habitatiOns. He had been Shaving
there some time in company with a
charming young lady, and did a good
deal Of shooting in the forest, but for a
day or two previous to his arrest he
seemed unhappy and nervous. The
smiles of his pretty companion only
irritated him, and he INDUCED heavily
in brandy. He tried to kill the French
detectives who arrested him on a Scot
land Yard warrant, so they put him in
chains. When arrested he hal sever
al thousand pounds in his pos, .Ssinn.
but after the usual search the French
detectives credited him in official doe
uments as having only few hundred
francs, n discrepancy which caused
cooper to utter many sarcastic and
unklnd remarks respecting his captors
In particular and the French police in
general.
The prisoner was formally charged
with forging check on August 20 on
the London and Westminster Bank,
and he was remanded until Friday
next. 1t is not known publicly that
Cooper made big haul of bonds in
San Francisco in 1877 by means of a
forged order, which he induced a 70
year-Old boy named Frank Caul to
present. While serving his last term
in British prison he was visited bv
Captain Lees, chief of the San Fran
cisco police, who offered not to apply
for his extraditiOn on his release if he
would say how he disposed of the
Frisco bonds, and it is believed some
sort of an arrangement was made.
How Cooper scOOped in $4,000 while
in the employ of the Navy Department
at Washington, how he collected $I8.-
600, at Mobile, $64, 700 at San Francis
co, and other exploits is recorded in
the pigeon holes at Scotland yard, and
will be mentioned in court after he has
shown cause why sentence should not
be passed upon him.
Cooper went to England shortly
after he left Smyrna last July.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01
News Items

A German spy attempted to kill the
editor OF the La France Monday.
A freight train was wrecked and
burned near Chicago; naptha caused
the fire.
Cable dispatches again announce
that war is inevitable. Now look out
for peace.
A Russian Army officer has shot him
self IN order TO escape the necessity of
shooting the Car.
At Santa Anna, Cal, Aushlag and
Dyer, were lynched for the murder of
Mr.. and Mrs Hitchcock.
Put up the bars against paupers and
anarchists. The Republic wants only
good and able-bodied citizens.
Intemperance makes sensible men
fools, and natural fools nuisances. II
obscures the good and magnifes all the
evil.
Dr. Mackenzie and four German pbv
siclans examined the Crown Princes
throat Monday and found no signs CT
cancer.
The man who tries to be perpetuallv
funny IS one of the most serious trOn-
pies mat tolerant society has to con-
tend with.
The milk famine in New York
doesn't worry the people over there
mere are other things in New York
to drink besides milk.
Three colored prisoners accused Of
MURDER were ia ken from Jail at Plvm-
ouIh' n. T.; and shot to death by a
mob Of masked men.
The Minnesota Farmers Association
mas passed resolutions demandinp that
oleolhargarlne makers be compelled to
color all their product pink.
A repeal of the Bland COMPULSORY
3l'Ver Coinage act is one of the reforms
mat Congress should effect but if is
SAFE TO say that it won't do it.
Speaking of "the deadly car stove -
1t Is not such a diabolical institntion
after all when one is snowbound ON a
railway tram for ten or twelve hours.
Five large buildings were burned on
Monday IN New York the loss esti.
mated at 81 100000; two firemen in
Jured; the cause of the fire unknown.
The large Free-trade meeting at the
Academy of Music, Thursday. was adj
dressed by Congressman Breckenridge.
OF Kentucky, and Hon. Frank Hurd,
Of Ohio.
The movement in Nebraska to re-
ward heroic teachers for their human
lty during the great snow, is a simple
recognition of courage that has won
the admiration Ofthe entire country.
Developments in the Central Rank
investigation at Toronto. tend to show
a deliberate case of bank wrecking
and nearly all the officials have already
crossed the border to the United States.
Tommy CunniG, known in sporting
circles as the Glass House Marvel ;
ran one hundred yards Saturday morn.
ing in nude condition for a wager of
SIO. The thermometer registered 6
degrees below zero. Time 80 seconds.
The deadlock in the New York
Democratic State Committee and the
opposition to Mr.. Cleveland in Ohio.
New Jersey, Indiana, Connecticut and
Massachusetts, have inspired the antag-
onism to his denomination with re-
newed vigOr.
General Bragg, the new minister to
Mexico, is in Washington receiving
instructions preparatory to his depar-
ture for his post. One of the hints to
him should be: LOOK not upon the
pulque. Remember Sedgwick.n
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01
are misleading.

are misleading.
1.-THE Smyrna TIMES publishes a
statement taken from the Philadel-
phia Press to show that the State is
out of debt and has a surplus of about
quarter of million dollars, and saws
that the State is earning 25 per cent.
more than her total expenses. The
State, to be sure, has assets in excess
of her Indebtedness by over quarter
of million, and to be exact, and pre-
else the investments of the State ex-
coed the debts by the sum of 1914, O49.
To make it plain the total debt
of the STATE is 1924, $50, and the assets
are 81, l68, 799. This, however, can not
all be claimed as assets to be used for
general purposes. There is to be
taken from the assets 1896, 749 that is
dedicated to free school purposes, and
ought not and cannot be touched or
disturbed, or used for any purpose ex-
cept for free schools. So that the as
sets of the State that can be used for
general purposes do not exceed the
Indebtedness.
LAS for the statement that we are
collecting twenty-five per cent. more
than enough to pay expenses, that is
simply nonsense. At the settlement for
the fiscal year ending December 81,
1856, Mr.. Houston, then State Treas
urer, showed that he had on hand, APP
plicable to the State fund, $8,977. Sc.
Mr.. Herbert's accounts show that he
had on hand on the 3lst of December,
1887, one year after, the sum of $l6,578.-
50. This shows that the actual sur
plus for the year 1887 was but 81, 6OO.99.
The actual expenses of the State inclu-
ding interest on the State debt and
money spent for schools, etc, was
sos, 632 IS, so the learned editor can see
that we have no such surplus revenue
as he is talking about.
No doubt that our revenue will
increase during the coming year. The
authorities have suit against the
banks of the State which they have no
doubt will be determined in favor of
the State. If such is the case that
alone will put over one hundred thou
sand dollars in the treasury. Again,
the authorities expect an increase of
revenue from the tax on the Baltimore
and Philadelphia Railroad of about
forty thousand per annum. If we are
successful in getting this money and
settling up some outstanding claims
against the Federal Government we
have no doubt that we will be in con-
ditiOn to relieve some of the persons
from the tax they pay. The war taxes
of Delaware never did amount to but
little and they have been gradually re-
duced as the State debt decreases so
that no one but professional men, man
utacturers, merchants, insurance com
panies, &c, pay any State tax. We
shall welcome the day when there will
be no necessity for taxing any class of
individuals for State purposes"
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01

THE last two weeks of concentrated
winter, frigid within and without, I'M
relenting to even the direct rays of the
midday sun is period of weather let
US hope, will not be repeated. 1t was
desirable for the ice harvest, but it laid
an embargo on most all other trades
and pursuits and virtually checked the
wheels Of general business. While we
had the bleak winds and the keen
frOsts, we have been spared the snow
billiards that have blOckaGed railroads
north and west for days together, and
enshTOuded hundreds of victims blind
ed and bewildered by its fury. We
enter with to-day on the last winter
month with an ascending sun and
lengthening days, that bespeak ere
many weeks, the genial warmth of
Spring.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01
Sale of Property.

The well known hostelrie, the
Smyrna House, was sold at Sheriff sale
on Saturday afternoon for the sum of
$4,000, the purchasers being James
Startling, Henry Slaughter, John Far
rell and George Cook, who were the
securities for Messrs. Jefferson & Clay
ton when they purchased it at the sale
OF the real estate of the late Tilghman
Foxwell three or four years ago. The
carriage shop, and adjoining store occu-
pied by c. F. LippincOtt erected on a
part Of the hotel ground by Messrs.
Jefferson & Clayton after their pur-
chase, was bought by Jas. c. Lassell
q Co., for $4,000. The hotel property
as it then existed was bought at the
executors sale of Mr.. Foxwell for
$l2,O5O. The improvements named
above and sold separately with some i'm
provements about the stables, cost over
$4,000, showing considerable decline
In hotel property in the past few wears.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01
For the Smyrna Times.
Letter from KentOn,

P. f. Johns, principal of Kenton
public schools will move to Green
Spring. He has sold his new property
on High street to Jas. d. Wright, of
this place.
Miss Bessie Foster, of Wilmington,
returned home to-day from an extend
ed visit with her sister, Mrs. Geo.
Walker, of this place.
Misses Elva and Lydia Riggs, of
Wilmington, are home on visit with
their parents.
Our people have been able to get
nine inch ice with which to fill their
houses the past week.
There are seven more cases of
measles in town in addition to the
twenty cases reported last week.
We have heard of men who were
loved " for the enemies they make :"
We are inclined to love the editor of
the Sentinel for the " fun he makes"
VIM. Greenwell, our young butcher.
left for Philadelphia this morning.
where he will accept a position as
clerk in provision store.
AGRICOLA.
KentOn, DEL, January 3lst, 1888.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01

THE new high license law of Penn
sylvania it is stated will in the next
two weeks close about 1000 saloons in
Philadelphia. The high license fee has
driven hundreds of German saloon
keepers out of the business, and they
will turn their places into bakeries,
meat shops, and grocery stores. The
chief trouble lies in the difficulty of Sc
curing bondsmen, in consequence of
which a rigid canvass is being made by
the Lager Beer Brewers Association
and kindred interests for property
holders who can qualify as bOndsmen.
In some cases exchanges of property
are made by applicants, so that there
can be a mutual extension of favor in
the. way Of requisite surety. Whole
sale liquor dealers are already feeling
the effects of the Brooks bill, and
some of them will lose thousands of
dollars in bad debts, besides a heavy
decline in future trade.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01
The Eclipse on Saturday.

There was a magnificent total lunar
eclipse Saturday evening, visible
throughout North and South America.
Europe, Asia and Africa. Great num-
bers of persons observed the occurrence.
The observation of the moon by the
shadow of the earth began at aga p.
M, and the total eclipse at 5.24 P. M.
The full moon could not be seen for
some time. but gradually its whole
outline became visible, presenting the
color of a very old copper disk.
About z o'clock, towards the end of
the total eclipse, the lower edge of
the moon grew brighter, and its out
line became more defined. When its
lower edge came out of the shadow il
looked like some antique gem. The
upper portion of the moon changed its
color to a dark orange, the shadow
over it looking like a huge black lace
veil. Some little time before 8 O'clock
the portion of the moon unclouded bv
the earth's shadow assumed It's usual
bright metallic lustre, and the shadow
on Its upper portion gave it the appear
ance of being about three-auarters fall.
At 8.03 P. NJ, the moon was out Of the
shadow and full again-the second
time IN one day. An eclipse can occur
only at the time of full moon, or when
the moon Is in opposition to the sun,
and when both bodies are at the same
time near one of the moon nodes
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01
The Morning Star Lodge.

The Odd Fellows Hall, the room in
which Morning Star Lodge No. 6.
meets, has been undergoing some i'm
pOrtant improvements for their conven-
fence and comfort. which it is designed
to have completed for the regular
meeting on Friday night. The walls
have been wainscOated all round sew
eral feet above the floor: above it is a
pretty design of gilt paper, the ceiling
being finished in decorative papering
of panel and figures, giving it a most
attractive appearance. New platforms
and pedestals have also been erected
for the officers chairs, and new furni-
ture has been procured which will be
an important addition to the room. In
stead of being heated with stoves as
heretofore, a heater has been placed
below to do this work. When the
lodge meets on Friday night it will be
in room that is claimed to be the
most handsomely finished mot the
largest) of any Odd Fellows room in
the State. We congratulate Morning
Star Lodge on their general prosperity
and especially on the improved and
handsome condition in which thew
have placed their room.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01
Coroner Wright.

The past has been busy week with
Coroner Wright, one case in Dover.
one near Frederick and two in this
town yesterday. The case in Dover
was noted in our last issue: that near
Frederick on Saturday was a Miss or
Mrs. Seaman who lived by herself and
was found dead in her home. 1t is not
known whether she persisted from the
cold or not, though there was plenty
OF good wood at the woodpile The
cases in this town was, an inquest in
the morning over the hoy who acct
IDENTIFY shot himself on Monday ian ac-
count of which is given in another
place., and in the afternoon over the
death of babe of a colOred woman
named Anna Carter. The child was
two weeks old. When she went to
bed with it at night it was well, but
when she awoke in the morning. it
was dead. That was all she could tell
about it, and the jury's verdict was
cause of death unknown.
Saturday was a bitter cold windy
day and the COroner's eleven miles
ride below Dover and back was cold
enough to suggest the possibility that
with many more such rides he might
make the subject of an inquest himself.
He would have suffered more than he
did had it not been for his circulation
being stirred and blood warmed by the
following item in the Sentinel that
morning:
If the Coroner conducts cases in
other portions of the county as he did
the one in this town on Monday, he
ought to be impeached and his office
given to some one who will at least
have sober men as jurors"
He pronOunces the statement an
infamous falsehood" and has prom
ised " Henry" an inquest the first op-
pOrtunity that offers. He utterly
denies summOning drunken men as
jurors, and says if any of the men got
drunk that night after the jury had
been discharged and he had gone
home, he is not responsible: he does
not do business that way.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-01

1t will be seen that the Clerk had ON
hand when he settled with Auditor
Long-of this particular licensees
blanks. He received since that date
uptO his settlement with Auditor BOvce
a total of l25, which added to the 33 on
hand would give 1873, yet out of th;,
l58, as the books show, he sold 2O3. re-
turned 68, and had still left 113. The
miracle of the loaves and fishes NAV
have beat this little. but not much
The committee saw the futilitv of any
attempt to unravcl such book keeninS
and the majority of the committee
personal and fractional" friends of Mr.
Cochran-knew they would only make
things worse by attempting it. The
committee not only saw this. but every
newspaper man in the State who maid
any attention whatever 10 the pub
llshed reports and the committees pro-
ceedings knew it, All agreed that Mr.
Cochran had not defrauded or attemDt-
ed to defraud the State. But all MS
plainly agreed that the books of his
office were not kept as the law directs
and that was the whole trouble.
When the editor of the Record talks of
malice" does he not know that his
'factiOn"-and God help the faction
that depends on the criticisms of such
as him-had all power in the committee
and shaped things to suit their own
ehds. COMMON SENSE.