Smyrna times., 1888-09-26

The Republicans of Sussex county
will hold grand out door mass meet
ing at Georgetown on next Tuesday
aIter the county convention has finished
lts work. The Hon. George P. Fisher,
the Rev. Jonathan S. Willis and Chas.
Il. Treat will speak.
The Presiding Elder, Rev. John
France will preach in the M. E. Church
at Hartley next Sunday afternoon, at
3 o'clock. A cordial and earnest invi-
tation is extended to the public to at
tend. Revival meetings will be held
IN the church the week following,
nightly.
The expedition which left Philadel-
phla nearly two months ago on the
steamer Long Branch, to locate the
sloop-of-war DeBraak, sunk nearly 100
years ago near the Delaware Break
water, with a large amount of treasure
on board, have abandoned the search
and returned to that port. The ex-
ploring party, which was under the
command of Captain Charles A. Adams
of the United States Navy, included
DIR. Seth PancOast, Chaplain Kane of
the United States Navy, A. J. Kane,
George Schriner, several divers, and
the crew of ten men. The search has
been in progress for about five weeks.
and on Thursday morning last Captain
Adams asked DR.. Pancoast for money
to purchase coal for the steamer. but
the latter had expended all the money
allowed him by the syndicate and some
OF his private funds, and declined to
furnish any more. Subsequently the
search was given up and the steamer
started back to Philadelphia.
SUICIDE AT DELAWARE CITY.-Mr.
E. d. Cleaver, teller in the Delaware
City National Bank of that place. left
his house Wednesday morning last
about 10 o'clock and told his family
that he was going to take a walk in his
cornteld. He did not put in an ap-
pearance at dinner time and his family
becoming alarmed, went to look for
him. VIM. A. Price and another gen.
tleman found him lying in the cornfeld
about l.3O O'Clock with a bullet in his
head.
Mr.. Cleaver had been very melan.
choly of late. 1t is generally under.
stood that financial trouble was the
cause of his suicide. His accounts at
the bank are all right and there is not
the least suspicion that his trouble was
IN this connection. He was about 55
years old, and leaves a widow, two
sons and a daughter. His eldest son
is with George w. Bush & Son, Will.
mingtOn, and his daughter, Miss Ella
is teacher in the Delaware City pub
lie schools. His youngest son reside!
in Delaware City.
WHO CHARLES H. TREAT IS
Charles Henry Treat, the Republican
candidate for Congress, is a native o
Frankfort, Maine. He was born July
10, 1841. He prepared for college a
the East Maine Conference Academy
entered Dartmouth College in 1862 anC
was graduated in 1865. He first selec
ted law as his profession and desired t,
enter as a student in Harvard Law
School.
His father, Henry Treat, was a com
mission merchant of Cardenas, Cuba
and desired that his son should becom
a manufacturer, and by his advic
young Treat began his career as mana
ger of a hOgshead factory.
He came to this State in 1877 and es
tablished fruit basket and plaque fac
tory at Frankford Sussex county. H
removed his business to Georgetow
in 1882, and in 1888 organized tn
Charles H. Treat Manufacturing Con
pany ofwhich he is president. In 1873
The Sussex Manufacturing Compan
was organized at Georgetown and Nj
Treat wrs elected president.
The manufacturing business of thes
companies is the most important of il
kind in the State and has given an in
pulse to the manufacturing life of Sui
sex county that is yielding importar
results.