Smyrna times., 1888-07-11

Elwood R. Norny, fish commissions,
1l Cnls state and member of the lowe
mouse OF the General Assembly. session
Ol 1851 died Monday at his home nea1
Ouessa. Several weeks ago Mr.. Nor.
ny was stricken with paralysis. which
aIecGed all of one side of his bodv and
winch eventually resulted in his death
Editors, as rule, are always kind
hearted and liberal. An excbange
tells of a subscriber who died and iaft
IUurUeen iTTl years subscription unpaid
~ a ne e1lCor appeared at the grave as
Ine lld was being screwed down for the
iast time, and put in linen duster. a
thermometer, a palm-leaf fan and 4
receipt for making ice.
Norman B. Huxford. a brotber.in.
law OF Charles H. Treat. died very
suddenly in Georgetown on Tuesday
afternoon, July 8. Mr.. Huxford was
standing on the street near the rail.
road station cOnversing with several
friends when without anv warning
Whatever he fell over on his face and
instantly expired. He has been for
some time the treasurer of the Charles
ID. Treat and the Sussex Manufacture
ing companies.
MIDDLETOWN TRANSCRIPT Sold
The MiddletOwn Transcript has been
sold by the MOreau brothers to Will
liam p. Mifliin of that town. Mr.
Mlhlln IS the publisher, while Alexan-
der Il. Moreau continues in the edi-
torlal chair. The Moreau brothers
took charge of the transcript on july
/, 1855, having purchased it of w.
Scott Way. They have since that
time published a clean, careful, newsv
Journal, and their exchanges through
out the Peninsula will be glad to learn
that A. l.. Moreau remains as the ed
itOrial head of the paper.
The damaging report which has
been current in Wilmington for the
past few weeks, affecting the reputa-
ton OF a prominent official of several
loan associations there, has been thor
oughly investigated by the Star and
found to be without any substantial
basis in fact. Just now the air is fnII
OF all sorts of damaging rumOrs, and in
the present excited state of the public
mind, consequent upon the Cummins
and Lichtenstein troubles, stories of
this nature should be received with
great caution and all the direct and
collateral facts carefully sifted before
forming an Opinion.-Sunday Star.
J. P. r. Polk told at the Dover meet
ing what the bureau had already ac-
complished. 1t had the names of over
800 towns in Canada and the United
States, and he produced a book con-
tanning the list of towns, the popula-
ton OF each, and the names of one or
more reliable commission men in each
town who had been recommended bv
the local banks. He had sent circulars
to each town to see how many cars
they could take daily. Towns OF
10000 inhabitants, he thought, ought
to take one car day. Itwas designed
to have kilograms from each town
every day telling how many cars thev
could take. All that information
would be collected at one table at
Clayton, where shippers could learn
from the distributor where it was ad-
visable to cOnsign fruit.
SERIOUS CHARGE.-Publicati was
made in Wilmington on Tuesday af-
ternoon that Walter Cummins, Judge
of the Municipal Court, had abused
the trust repOsed in him by clients to
place mortgages, aggregating $50, 300
on properties owned by him, the as
sessed valuation of which is only S44,.
525. Judge Cummins' chief creditor is
Levi H. Miller, farmer, who had en-
! trusted him with $42,968. Other cred
itOrs are the Germahia Loan Associa-
ton, $4,000; Perpetual Loan Associ-
ati0n, Sl9, 100; Clayton Loan Associa-
ton, 200.-PAiLddelphid Ledger.
Since the above was in type Judge
Cummins in card in Wednesdav's Is
Morning Ne,Us pronounces the whole
| thing as utterly false. A card from
Lea Pusey, Esq, President of the Per.
/ petual Savings and Loan Association
also pronOunces the story, so far as
that association is concerned, as untrue
The Evening Journal, that first made
the charge that has since found its
way in one form or another in all the
papers, reiterates the charge, and in,
sists that he shall resign his office, as
do the other papers.
GEORGE ALLEN SMITH GETS THE
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George Allen Smith was sworn in Sat.
urday and took possession as keeper 0.
the New Castle Range, front light, in
place of Oliver L. Bell, a One-legged
veteran who resigned the place upon
request on June l, the resignation tax
ing effect on July 1. ]. ]. Reed, o.
| Philadelphia, light house inspector o.
the Fourth district, made the request
of Bell upon charges brought by Bank
som Il. HOlcOmb, recently appointed
keeper of the rear light at New Castle
Bell says that the charges were brought
by Holcomb's family which are very
well known and remembered by every
body in this city where they lived prioI
to HolcOmb's appointment. The charge
was that Bell spent most of his time
both day and night, in this city.
Bell says that he demanded an in
vestigatiOn of this charge, but Reed re
| fused, cOndescending merely to tel
him tO.get out by June or he would
be fired. Bell denies the HOlcOml
family charge and says that he car
prove that he paid only five visits t
Wilmington from December 5, 1887
until May IA, 1888.
Bell is hearty, hopeful man wh'
takes his deposition very gOOd-natur
eddy. He took possession this week Q
the premises on the n. w. Cor. of I'll
and Poplar streets, where he propose
to keep cigar, tobacco and trimming
stOre.-EUening Journal.
Maryland Items.