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Smyrna times., 1888-11-28
The Great Storm

The storm that commenced brewing
on Friday and eliminated on Sunday
night was an extraordinary one, and
worthy ofa place in the weather an
nails side by side with the blizzard of
last March. 1t originated off the coast
of Florida, and after lettering about
that State for day or two moved
North to endanger life and property
from Georgia to Nova Scotia. In new
England it was particularly severe.
Telegraph communication with that
section was suspended Monday, and
the Western Union wires We're down
also between New York and Philadel-
phia, so that the South could commu-
nicate with the East only by wav of
Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburg.
From Hatteras nOrthward the storm
was violent all along the coast. In
coming steamers report heavy weather
at sea.
The storm was Of longer duration
than any known for years. Five yes
sells have been wrecked or beached at
Lewes, Delaware. The American bark
Moro Castle, is total loss, together
with her cargo of coal. The crew were
saved. The Norwegian bark Hannah.
with petroleum, is breaking up. The
crew were in the rigging seven hours
before being rescued The schooner
W. I. Marvel, with coal, is ashore. as
IS also the schooner, Helen, likewise
loaded with coal.
The storm did great damage at At
lantic City, the boardwalk, bath houses
and a number of pavilOns being de-
stroyed by the waves. The beach is
strewn for miles with debris.
A telegram from Scituate, AIassachu-
sets, says the schooner Edward Nor
ton, OF from Boston, was driven ashore
on First Cliff Point, on Sunday evening
and went to pieces. The crew consist
ed of sixteen men, and fifteen were
lost.
A despatch from Boston saws the
British schooner Avelon is ashore. She
experienced terrific weather in the
bay, during which three of the crew
were washed overheard and lost. The
schooner Gertrude Abbott. of and from
Philadelphia, is also ashore.
The schooner Cox and Greene. ashore
at Hull, Massachusetts, is breaking nm
The schooner Bertha f. Walker. ashore
on on Toddy Rocks, will be a total loss.
Captain Westgate and Mate c. M
Thomas, were drowned.
The British brig Alice went adrift at
Gloucester, Massachusetts, on SUNDAY.
ana the crew abandoned her on Sun.
day night and went aboard the scboon-
er ). Il J. Locke, which subsequently,
went adrift. Both the Alice and the
Locke are supposed to be lost, as thew
drifted to sea.
The schooner Addie S. Emory. went
ashore near Gloucester, Massachusetts.
on Sunday night and is a to,al wreck
Several vessels that were in the outer
har0or on Sunday night are missing.
ana an II Is supposed that they have drift
ed to sea. A sloop and a coal laden
schooner were reported ashore at ROCK
port and to have gone to pieces. The
storm prevailed throughout Monday
with unabated fury.
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28
Teachers Tnstitnfe

Superintendent Handy and the
teachers of the public schools will he
OIL to Camden next week in attendance
upon the Annual Institute for Kent
county. 1t will be an interesting week
co the citizens of Camden and Vicinity
as well as the teachers themselves. Mr..
Handy wishes US to say that teachers
and others in attendance at the Tnsti-
tute can secure good board at 81 90 per
day. '-'OO P0i
Mr.. Handy will be assisted bv the
following educators: NJ. A. Newell
state Superintendent of MARYLAND
Miss Lila E. Partridge, the well known
anthoress; Mrs. Alma Sager Welsh Of
Westchester Normal School: DR.. A n
Kaub, Supt. Bessey, Supt. Ward. Prof
W; l.. Gooding, W. G. Lake, d. S. ELS,
John q. Gray and W. H. Barnett.
Ihe evening entertainments will he
as follows: Tuesday evening, Rev. DR.
Duncan McGregor, of Brookiyn.-sub.
Ject, Grip and Grapple of Great Men
and Great Nations" Wednesday even
ing, Hon. NJ. A. Newell, of MARYLAND
subject, Boys and Girls" Th1rsday
evening, Rev. VIM. Collins HANDY Of
Vlrginia,-subject, "The African in
America" The Institute will finish
on Friday and adjourn that afternoon
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28
Personal.

Rev. G. w. Dame attended the
Church Club Reception of the Episco-
pal Church in Wilmington at the Clay
ton House on Thursday evening.
There were over fifty clergymen and
leading men Of the church present.
At the meeting of the Grand Lodge
1. o. o. F., of Delaware, in Wilmington
last week E. Marriott Fowler, of this
town, was elected Grand Master for the
ensuing year. This is the highest
Office in the gift of the order and there
are comparatively few of the member
ship who ever reach it.
J. Ed. Hoffecker will take part at a
Thanksgiving entertainment at Odessa
tomorrow night in singing solos and
duets.
Miss Anna z. Davis, of Milford, ad-
dressed the Young Peoples Meeting of
Christian EndeavOr at the NJ. E.
church on Sunday evening, narrating
some interesting experiences in mis-
siOnary life in Japan.
David J. Murphey, of Newark, spent
two or three days with his Smyrna
friends last week.
Miss Ella Hall, of philadelphia, is the
guest of Miss Mary Hall.
Will Brown and Edgar Benson, of
Philadelphia, came on short visit
home the last of the week.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of William VanGasken, of Alaska.
son of John Van Gasken, Of this town,
and Miss Emma r. Shaw, of Oakland,
California, in the Advent p. E. church
of that place, Tuesday, December 4th,
at o'clock.
Supt. L. 1. Handy who assisted part
of last week at the Institute at New
Castle, is at Laurel this week assisting
Supt. Ward, of Sussex county.
Miss Louise Russell, of Philadelphia,
is visiting Miss Minnie Clement.
Milton Price, of the Centreville. Nd.
Observer, has engaged with the Smyrna
Record.
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28
Clayton Items.

All the arrangements have been
made for the supper to be given by the
Ladies' Aid Society, of the Nj. E.
church at Clayton, tomorrow evening.
The supper will commence at O'Clock.
and will consist of turkey, chicken and
chicken salad, oysters, ice cream and
cake, and all the other necessary things
for a good square meal. Fifty cents
pays the whole bill.
J. r. Donovan has purchased a lot OF
VIM. H. Tunis on West street so bv
$50.
VIM. S. Colpitts has purchased a lot
on the same street 80 by 100 feet of
Geo. G. Allen.
The owners of the lots between Clay
ton Ave. and Highland streets, on
West street, are curbing and grading
their fronts.
F. NJ. Burrows of the Kenton Nur-
sery has donated the shade trees for
the NJ. b. church grounds.
nSconsequence of the wetness of the
season but very little corn has yet been
bought by our grain merchants.
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28
A November Snow Storm

The cold northeast wind that set in
on Friday morning, the beginning of
the five days of wind, snow, hail and
rain was very severe on the coast. with
all the characteristics of a blizzard on
Sunday, blowing at the rate of so to 60
miles there, while in PHILADELPHIA it
was only about SO miles an hour.
which was probably about the velocity
here. Throughout New England it
was driving snow storm that impeded
travel. The storm was rather peculiar
in its operations on Sunday. In New
York 1t showed from the early morn
ing. In Georgetown in this State it
showed, rained and hailed from Satur-
day night. In Dover the snow com.
menced to fall at 2.3O Sunday after
noon and in Smyrna at $50 but then
only an hour or so of scattering flakes.
In the night it showed and hailed most
ly the latter, followed by rain Monday
morning and trees cracking with sleet
giving US an inch of slush. and a
covering of white over everything. 1t
was little singular that it was warmer
IN Philadelphia than here, melting the
snow there as fast as it fell, while here
everything wore the garb of winter.
Altogether, it was spell of weather
not often seen in November.
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28

The late election in Sussex county 70
Still engaging the attention of tbosc =
the political realm, if we NAV iudoo
from the attention given it in the nnb-
lie prints. The fact thatitdrops from the
roll OF Senators the names of the baads
OF TWO families who have dominated
Delaware politics for more than a oen-
Grafton, is why the dailies of the great
cities give it so much attention and
send correspondents down here TO in
vestigate the causes that have led n
the change. Another, and a wider
national interest grows out of the fact
that the election of Republican Uni.
tea States Senator makes that body
secure to them when otherwise Il was
a possibility Of its becoming a tie? The
4ettera Of " Blakely Hall,'' a staa cor
respondent Of the New York Sun. nm
der the general assumption that It was
money did it, undertook to sift the
matter and reached the conclusion that
quay Of the National Committee did
not iet them have a cent, and with the
exception Of one or two thousand AL.
aars obtained in Philadelphia the monav
used was raised in the State and most,
" in Sussex county.
The Milford Chronicle, published il
the upper end Of the county saws.
From reliable sources we learn that
the campaign money Of the democratic
ana republican parties in Sussex for
tnedast election day, was within two
hundred dollars Of the same amount.
and the foul slander sent, broadcast
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28

Rev. WIN. S. ROBINSON on Sunday
morning read the Presidents Procla-
nation designating tomorrow, 29th
inst, as day for Thanksgiving and
recommending the people to assemble
IN their respective places of worship for
this purpose, and proceeded to preach
a sermon on the general subject of
Thanksgiving preparatory to a special
discourse at 1870 tomorrow morning
IN the M. E. church. Rev. G. w.
Dame will also hold Thanksgiving SER
vices tomorrow morning at st. Peters
church at the same hour.
ISAAC VICKERs who was first con-
nected with J. E. Tygert & Co., in the
phosphate business fifteen years or
more ago, changing to freight, coal and
the collecting business of the steamboat
when it started, has severed his con-
nection with the Transportation Com
pany, and is succeeded by Edward
Curry. Mr.. Vickers has contemplated
this change for several years on account
of the health of his family, intending
to change his residence. ike" as he
is familiarity called, struck every one
as being especially adopted to his busi-
ness and they had thus regarded him
as fixture in it. Mr.. Curry is a man
OF business activity and there is no rea-
son why he may not be easily as sue
cessful
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28
POcomOke City in Ashes.
9lAIA STORES AND DWELLINGS BURNFl
THE LOSS $253. 600

SIAIH STORES AND DWELLINGS BIrRNFD
THE Loss $253, 900.
Pocomoke City is in ashes. Sixty
stores and dwellings went down before
the hre tend Thursday afternoon in
less than three hours, and of the Dros-
porous business houses which Opened
ther doors Thursday morning bnt
three are left. The fire originated in
the drug store and dwelling of DR. 7
y. Iruitt about $50 o'clock in the after'
noon from defective flue. A strong wind
was blowing aud in few minutes tho
names, fed by highly combustible drngs
anu chemicals, were bursting from
every window. The town had no 6ra
department, and the citizens armed
with buckets and one or two Ere ovtin
guiiSShers' We're utterly unable to cone
with the flames. O0P'
suddenly there was a slight exnlo-
SION Ihat sent shower of sparks on
the root OF the Clarke House one of
Che largest hotels in the town. and in
moment flames were leaping from a
uozeh places on the roof From tbis
Vne hre spread to a carriage factory
Wnlch communicated il to the nost
once, and the following stores Were
tneh destroyed: The store of Towns
enu q stevenson, next a general mer-
cnahulse store, and then a confection-
cry store. The fire next communica-
tea 70 the large brick block oocnnied
0y IL. ii. Merrill, boots and shoes
Lloyd, Dryden & Blaine. drng store
r. ". Foik " Co., clothing, boots and
sqOes the millinery store of Miss
matneus, general merchandise store of
omullca q Paride, Stevens and Matthe-
us's dry goods store, Veasey & Bevins.
general merchandise.
On the north side of the street the
lire struck Blaine & King. pendral
merchandise; Captain Husted's store.
and dwelling occupied by Mrs. De-
Kay next the hardware store of w.
II. and A. B. Davis, and a large milli-
merry store by Mrs. PAYNE: then The
brick block of w. NJ. Dickinson e Son.
-. Fountain, druggist, and another
hardware store. The handsome hotels.
the Clarke House and the Parker
House were then burned. The store
of Mrs. SchoOlfeld, residence occupied
by M. Stevenson, the new residence of
Alfred Townsend, residence of J. Clark |
and a number of other houses. Kings |
livery stable, a carriage factory, the |
printing offices of the Times, the Record
and Gazette, and Peninsula Ledqer were
all burned This leaves the town /
without paper.
At o'clock the FIRE was considered
to be under control. The entire busi-
ness portion of the town is gone. and
only three stores remain. Only A few
dwellings were burned, the bulk of
The buildings destroyed being stores.
The people seem to stand their losses
heroically, but many are heavy losers
The insurance is placed at S153 000
mostly in small amounts.
Pocomoke City is a town Of abort
400 inhabitants, in the southern nart
u worcester county, on the Pocomolfe
'lyer, and also on the line Of the NJ
ork, Philadelphia and Norfolk rail- rail-
DAD. u has communication Will
5altimore by means of the Fasfarn 'sn
shore steamboat Company. and : ! !
hriying and busy town. 0 - q
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28
News Item =

During last October 4O685 immi-
eLahts came to this country compared
with A, l66 in October, 1887.
Navigation on the Upper Hudson
and along the Delaware and Hndson
canal Is seriously impeded bv ice
formed during the present cold wave
Helen Keller, of Baltimore. sued tbe
estate of the late William II. Abrams
Tor $4,000 for services rendered the
decersed as nurse.
Navigation is closing on the internal
waterways up North, and the winter
season SCI; IS beginning promptly on time.
Inere IS evidently to be no evening mn
OF the deficiency of temperature3no
TINS year, any way.
P. T. Barnum. the Snowman an
nounces that he has retired from Tho
circus business. He has given nm he
handsome nan residence, Waldemere. and
W. Mill spend the remaining days of his
me IN a modest cottage overlooking
Long Island Sound. .
1t is said that the Baldwin T.ooor,o
tive works will turn out ZOO Ioc0mo-
llVes TINS year. Considering the intri-
cate character of this kind of macbin-
cry, tins IS remarkable output ovar-
eslng' "s 1t uoes, more than two loco
lhoIiVes for every working day.
An indianapolis special SAYS: Those
VINO revel in the anticipation that there
VIII De clean sweep Of the oflicehold-
erS early next year make a great mis-
take. Close friends of the President.
elect declare that his administratior
VIII be one of the faithful administra-
ton Of the civil service law.
President-elect Harrison has fol-
lowed the example of President Cleve-
iand IN taking a newspaper man for
MS private secretary. There is vie
Gom IN that, for, though an editor NAV
be no better qualified in other waTs
than man of another profession. he ut
ieasG mas experience in dealing with
troublesome visitors, who want wbot
Gated. 00 l'i"-
one OF the liquor representatives.
cnosen to the New Jersey Leei.JItnrs
Mf, Schmelz, Of Newark. uroclaims
I1at there are six of us liquor men
elected to the Legislature, and we will
nor permit any business until all laws
detrimental to our interests are ra-
pealed." For this delightful prosnect
New Jersey is indebted to the 7766 par
ty Prohibitionists who Joined with the
Ilqgor men to defeat the Republicans
ana give the former the balance of
power in the Legislature. - PdHa. Press
Philadelphia is blessed with a second
stephen Girard. I. V. Williamson.
newspaper readers are informed. has
decided to round out his long and use.
iul career by devoting five million dol |
lars or more to the establishment of n |
comprehensive industrial school. in |
which boys may learn various mecban- |
ical trades. The apprentice restricting
policy of some trades unions has made |
such institutions necessary in all Amer
lcan manufacturing centres, if the sons
OF mechanics are to have the same
chance their fathers had.
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28

The disrespect of the editor of the
record for age is again shown by its
exceeding Aippancy in using the name
of Hon. N. B. Smithers. A different
course however could hardly be looked
for after the unprovoked and repeated
slurs at Mr. Coursey and Senator sauls-
bury because they are old. It really
looks as If the editor of the Record re-
garded gray hairs a good deal as a
school boy does foot ball.
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28

over the land by democratic paper,
that the masses of Delaware sold their
franchise, is a base fabrication. WedonOt
pretend to deny that votes were moi
bought to certain extent; unfortunate.
ly this condition of affairs exists in all
states and countries; but we do saw thai
the statement which has been made
that the result ofthe recent election was
due to a large and Over-shadowing cor
ruption fund Of money, is false"
A correspondent of the EUery Even.
ing who writes from Georgetown to
that paper nearly three columns about
the election, the money where raised
and how used, the cOrrupting infiu-
ences of vote buying and the means
that should be used for its suppression.
says
Whatever may have been the
amount used, the fact remains that
there were corruption funds in both
parties, and the burden of proof is to
the effect that the Republican purse
was larger, deeper and more plethoric
than the recptacle in which the Demo-
cratic cash was stored. This. however
was not due to any preponderance of
political virtue on the Democratic side.
but solely to the iact that the Demo-
Gratis this year were unable to equal
their opponents in raising money for
use on election day. This is all.1
The same correspondent learned in
talking with Democrats that they had
something over $2,5OO for the county.
while Mr.. Bacon, one of the active Re-
publican workers insisted that their
campaign fund amounted to only 81 900.
1t is more than probable that the Hun
dred committees had funds of their
own that would bring this amount up
to nearly $4,000. 1t is well known
that each party had a much less sum of
money than has frequently been used
at previous elections.
J. Frank Bacon, Esq, one of the men
interviewed, said:
" 1t would be a good thing for both
parties to break up this system of Inv
ing votes and | would favor any law to
put stop to it. But it is a direct re-
suit OF the family rule that has pre-
vailed in the State for years. The Of
ices have been farmed out in advance
to family henchmen and many voters
feeling that they can never get Office
make up their minds to get what thew
can for their votes.
" But to the discussion of the tariff
and constitutional convention. more
than to the use of money, we owe our
victory, and if the Democrats had rails
ed as much money as we had we would
still have Won"
The correspondent after a general
review of the systematic business of
vote-purchasing in the county, there
being about 1000, two.thirds of whom
usually vote the Democratic ticket.
says:
There are good grounds for believ-
ing that the subject will receive the
serious attention of the next General
Assembly, and that steps will be taken
to break upa vicious system that has at
last come to be regarded as a public
disgrace. A stringent anti-briberv law
IS one of the possibilities of the session.
But even if there should be no legisla-
ton, there are hopeful evidences of a
public sentiment that may check the
Hoods OF corruption that engulf the
elections in this State"
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28
entertainment for THANKSGIVING
Night.

The Old Folks Concert at the Onero
mouse tomorrow night should receive
a general patronage. It is gotten mn
Dy nome talent at a sacrifice of time and
convenience, and those who 90 throuob
Cne laOors to prepare an entertainment
Ior those who can't or won't. shonId at
Ieast have the encouragement of tbe
presence OF the latter. The program
starts out as follows:
I e L'fte of Ye Exercifes to be. eiv-
en- at Towne Meeting Hall, VIII Is fette
Gown at Ye X Roads Of Maine and
SSto1nthe, on Thursday Ye xxx Of Ye
Eleventh Month (yclept Nov.) Ammo
Domini, MDCCCLXXXVIII of divine
goodlie Hymns and tunes and likewise
Wordlie Songes"
The singers will be in costume. and
Careful Kemp will make We time. The
following are the particiDants.
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28

The Grangers came in for an explain
alton of the recent upheavel in Sussex
county, and it is claimed that their co.
operation with the efforts of a united
party brought about the result. At
the meeting of the Pomona lodge OF
Changers last week at Cool Spring.
which was attended by about seventy
members from different parts of the
county, number of resolutions were
proposed, debated and adopted, which
will be an interesting study to the poll
ticians.
In the first place they demand the
calling of a constitutional convention
on the vote of last November. This
will please everybody except the few
hopeless bOurbons of both the great
political parties who a year ago were
opposed to the convention movement
They demand temperance reform legis-
lation Of definite character. Thev
want local option bill passed, with
incidental high license. Ballot reform
Is demanded. This will lead to a reg
lstration system for the entire state
similar to that now prevailing in Will
mington at municipal elections. Com
pulsOry education for at least three
months in the year is asked. This
opinion has been growing rapidly dur
ing the last few years. There are too
many irresponsible parents and guar
dians, aud it looks as if the state which
is furnishing free schools for all would
have to go one step further and compel
parents to take advantage of the great
boon. The peach yellows deservedIv
receive a resolution.
This makes a platform on which a
large part of the people of Delaware
can stand. A correspondent of the
Wilmington EUening Journal in report
ing these resolutions says:
"The Grange is not partisan. bpt IL
A4e''>O' VI hCCCoSlty liberal ana thinking
men. and those men were for the con-
stitutiOnal convention and reform on
November 9th. This sagacious deduc-
ton from the facts as they are throws a
Hood of light on the recent political
revolution in Delaware, and especially
on that in Sussex county; and when
this conclusion, so strong and natural
Is supplemented by the fact that lead.
ing and responsible Democrats all over
Sussex county are eongratulatino
themselves on the Republican victory
for the reason that it will hasten con-
stitutional reform, we have the whole
secret Of the remarkable change in
political dominance down there. Lead
ing Democrats of both factions in Sus-
sex have assured representatives of this
Journal within the last three or four
days that they were glad over the re-
suit 1t would retire the bourbons in
their party and disenthrall the state.
they believed. The grange must be
credited with creating this very liberal
and beneficial sentiment"
Smyrna times., 1888-11-28
Two Weddings.
GOOTEE-DEAKYNE

There were two wedding in SMYRNA
ana vicinity last week. On Wednes-
day at noon Miss Mollie K. Deakvne
and q. Frank GOotee, both of the vicin-
ity OF Smyrna, were married at the
brides residence by the Rev. r. X
Stephenson. The attendants were Miss
Emma Richards, of Smyrna, and w. +,
Colpits, of Clayton. Dinner was serv.
ed to the guests Immediately after the
ceremony. The couple left on the :
O'Clock train for a trip north.