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Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
For the Smyrna Times
Commodore Jacob Jones.

Jacob Jones was born not far from
Duck Creek Cross Roads, on the farm
which belonged to the Spruances' ever
since the writer OF this article can re-
member, until recently, when it passed
into A. l.. HudsOn's possession. Who
owned it in ITO, when Jacob was born.
do not know.
His father was married twice. His
mother died while he was an infant
and when but four years old he lost his
father. His step mother raised him,
treated him kindly, and provided for
him a liberal education. He studied
physic and surgery under DR. Sykes. at
Dover, Del. He graduated at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania"
After trying OdriOUS ways of making
a living at Dover, none of which an
peared to suit him, he resolved to enter
the Macy, and accordingly did so, as
Midshipman, when he was % wears
old. His friends greatly opposed him
in this new calling, but it was the onIv
one he tried adapted to his taste, and
accordingly he soon became distin-
guished.
Jones was married twice, and had
two sets of children. His first wife was
from Kent county, Delaware his sec
ond, from Kent county, Maryland. He
had handsome daughter by his first
wife, whom l have seen in Smyrna with
her step mother, when they returned
the call of my sisters. Miss Jones was
educated at the Convent at George
town, District of Columbia, and several
years after she had left the nunnerv.
. hn rof cd To
remained there during her life.
Col. Pope and wife, of this place.
were living in Georgia during tn. war
of 1872 and when the numerous Union
victories were being proclaimed
throughout the length and breadth of
the land, her associates sal I to her.
why Mrs. Pope, we hear nothing from
Delaware ~ Soon after this the great
victories obtained by Jones and Me-
DOaOugh occurred, and Mrs. Pope took
special delight in calling their attention
to them.
| recollect when there was a dinner
given to Commodore Jones at Mrs
LockwoOd's Hotel in Smyrna. That
was the only hotel we had in the viii
iage at that time, and was what is nOlV
known as the " SmyrRd House." He
mad been absent many years and gained
many laurels, and the inhabitants of
all parties united in paying their res
poets to him. It was stated in the
newspapers of that day that his suf-
terings at TripOli victory over the
FrOtic, and his subsequent capture by a
seventy-fOur in the moment of victory
are circumstances of general interest,
calculated to excite a general feeling of |
admiration and esteem"
Among the tOasts given at the din
ner at smyrna was one by the writer's
father, which was, "Ihe State of Della
aCqre-SmGt!, but great in the production
of statesmen and heroes, and this Though
spoken in a corner, may be proven be- |
yOnd the limits of the Lakes, and the |
highway of nations"
James Davis, son of Judge Davis.
having been well educated, and blessed |
with an uncommon degree of natural
abilities, said the above toast was the
best given on that day. Commodore
Jones died in Philadelphia in 1850.
August Sd.
The above history is not satisfactory
to myself, because was unable to ret
the information 1 desired.
SARAH P. MASON.
Smyrna, DEL, Feb. 6, 1888.
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Personal.

Mrs. w. F. Clement had "donkey
party" on Friday night in honor of her
visitor, Miss Clark of SwedesbOrough,
N. J.
Miss Flo GoOtee is visiting in Balti-
more and Miss Arabella Bond, of Bal
timOre is visiting friends in town.
Mrs. Susan Hazel, of Wilmington,
formerly Of Smyrna, is the guest of o.
B. Voshell
DIR. E. S Dwight has been appointed
by the Town Commissioners a member
of the Board of Health to take the
place of DR.. w. T. Collins, removed to
Camden N. J.
JOS. L. Lavender moves from his
farm west of Clayton this week to Will
mington.
B. Benson Cahoon and Medford H.
CahOOn who were born in Smyrna but
who went West, the first on complet-
ing the study of the law in Dover, are
succeeding finely in Fredericktown.
Mo-, where the first located some fif-
teen or eighteen years ago. They are
doing business under the firm name of
CahOOn u CahoOn, attorneys at law.
The senior member finished and moved
into $4,000 dwelling a few days
before Christmas.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
the first cup of coffee since he had dis

the first cup of coffee since no had dis
carded it ten years ago.
In one of Thos. McCOy's, Jr.. gar
ments which was left for the flames to
deVOur in his hasty exit was a purse
containing SIS. After the fire was
over, in a collection of burnt wool
en- and Goals, it was discovered nearly
destroyed but enough of it is left it is
thought to have the notes redeemed.
On Monday Col. Geo. II. Raymond
by little effort raised a purse of $50
to purchase the Messrs. McCOys each
an outfit, and the comrades of r. c. Jr.
raised another purse of $25 for a simi-
lar purpose, before nine o'clock that
morning.
Mrs. WinfOrd on Monday moved her
store goods into the room of the John.
son building recently vacated by the
Candy Kitchen.
The Messrs. Mccoy likewise took
their tailoring establishment to an Of
flee of A. II. Wilson opposite the
Smyrna House, until recently occupied
by E. Harrison.
}. b. Scott, former fireman render
eel the Hose Company very efficient
service in their long and arduous
labOrs.
Geo. NJ. Stevenson and c. F. Lippin-
colt two of the firemen, in mounting a
fragile awning that involved personal
risk to get stream of water into the
Mccoy building, called forth an an.
plause by the clapping of hands from
the observers on the opposite side of
Among the narrow escapes from the
lire or rather the missing" that
would have resulted from the removal
from Mrs Winford's, was a wedding
dress. The owner had fortunately
taken it home few hours before.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08

We do not pretend. to be booked up
in the Interstate act and where it
draws the line between a simple COM
plimentary pass to a man who renders
no service-a politician for instance
and one who does weekly service I'M
der an engagement as any other bust
ness is done. Agreeing with the
Morning Ne'os, that the good will of
a newspaper toward a railroad ought
10 rest on broader public grounds, and
not on an incidental exchange of cour-
tesies," land we know of none where
the contrary of this exists, we would
like the Nel0s to tell us why, where two
railroads passing through state under
Il general law to which both are equally
amenable, why one can give a pass
beyond the State lines in the fulflment
Of a contract for services rendered, and
the other cannot?
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
News Ite,nS

The New Jersey Board of Eduea-
ton elected Colonel Charles w. Fuller
Republican, state superintendent of
public instruction.
A farmer near Duluth, MINI. reports
the discovery in the woods near his
uWeiilng OF a stranded balloon, and in
balloon bad caught, the dead and half.
diecayed body Of a man who had evi.
IDENTITY been thrown from the balloon.
The treaty between Italy and Ger
many stipulates that if France attacks
either country the other shall send an
army OF 100000 men to the French
frontier, |Na
A decision by the Supreme Court of
Michigan brands the notorious Bohe-
milan Oats Company as an illegal con-
Germ and outlaws contracts held by
that companheahy dGhigan for $50, 900.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
Obituary.

The Forest Free Press, Ontario, Can
ada, has the following notice of the
death of Donald Fraser, who spent four
months last year with his daughter.
Mrs. John Wood, near town, and was
known by a number of our people:
Donald Fraser, of this township,
who died on Thursday, the 10Th inst.
after weeks illness, was born in In
verness, Scotland, in 1912. He emf
grated, with his father, to Nova Scotia.
in 1920. In 1880 they moved to On
tariO, and settled in London township.
Deceased was one of family of fifteen,
eight of whom survive him, For a
number of years he was a member of a
government surveying company, and
helped to lay out into townships all
the country between here and Code
rich. His great physical endurance
was put to severe test while thus EN-
plOyed. Many a night he slept on
boughs with the snow for pillow. and
on one occasion he carried 100 lbs. of
flour from Brewster's mill. above Port
Frank to the farm now occupied bv
Arch. McGhee, distance of 20 miles.
In 1883 he married Miss Isabella Ross.
OF Scotland, a cousin of the Hon. G.
w. Ross, whom he survived five years.
Their issue was eight children, three
sons and five daughters, of whom six
are living, viz Mrs. John Wood.
Smyrna, Del; John Fraser. Mrs. E.
Lapham, Mrs. VIM. SymingtOn, VIM.
Fraser and Mrs. David Brand. of Bos-
anquet. Deceased was for a number of
years member of the township coun-
Gil. He was a consistent member of
the Presbyterian church, in which he
held the Office of elder for over % wears.
By his death is removed one of the first
settlers of BOsanquet, of whom very
few are now living. During his So
years residence in this township he was
always noted for his hospitality to
strangers and his kindness to friends
and neighbOrs, and had the highest es-
TEEN of all who knew him."
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08

per county is fastening its doom, that
county by its natural growth is rapidlv
advancing to a position where she
can control the whole State, so that by
her immense vote, by the enormity of
her SINS, by the intensity of the popu-
lar Indignation the doom of the party
there will prove the doom of the party
throughout the State, though Kent and
Sussex may be as strongly Democratic
as ever In that day New Castle will be
able to elect a Republican Governor
over the wishes of both Kent and Sus-
sex. In that day, unless we have
new Constitution which shall pro-
vide that each county shall elect its
own officers that Republican Gov
ernOr will fill our Court Houses with
Republican officers, and the Dem.
ocratic majOrites of Kent and Sussex
will be pOWerless to say to him nay.
These Republican officers will be a con-
slant menace to the Democratic major
tiles of the lower counties Nor is that
all through the immense patronage
welded by the Governor, New Castle
will be enabled to control legislation.
She will have a power in the legisla-
ture greater than representation &C
cording to population, and that power
will rest entirely in the hands of one
man. 1t is the duty of Kent and Sus-
sex to take warning from the frequent
wrongs that are perpetrated in the up
per county and provide some means of
curtailing her power. This can be
done through a Constitution COnven-
tiOn-thrOugh elective officers which
will decrease the patronage of the
Governor, and through district repre-
sentatiOn which will divide her
strength"
The editor of the Sunday Star in de-
claring that "no honest and self-res-
pecting newspaper can afford to re-
main silent in the face of such das-
tardly assault upon the rights of the
people" says:
" The main purpose of all this is
plain enough. 1t could not have been
palmer if a placard had been hung up
over the assessors bearing this inscrip-
ton: "A machine designed to make
Chief DOugherty mayor But this is
not the worst feature of the affair !;
sooner or later such trickery finds its
own corrective, and we venture the
prediction that even if nominated Mr..
Dougherty, in view of his work of the
past week, will never DE mayor of this
city, if the decent and self-respecting
Democrats of Wilmington can have
anything to say about it. The most
humiliating part of this business, how
ever, is the attitude of Mayor Rhoads
in the matter. Indeed, he is indirectly
responsible for the whole affair, for
without the aid and support of the
police, the assessors would have never
dared to go to the outrageous lengths
they did, and it was within his power
to prevent that aid and support being
given. That he did not do so is a mat
ter of grave concern to his party, and
OF the very gravest moment to himself.
The mayor, of late, seems to be merely
a piece of putty in the hands of his
chief"
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
Letter from Kentnn-

The report in your last issue about
T. F. Johns selling his house is a mis-
take; he has not sold it and will still
reside in town.
William Pindar lost his infant child
last week, it dying from the effect of
measles.
One of our young men will be united
by the holy bonds of matrimony this
week. Who will be the next?
A number of our young folks gave
Miss May Cook surprise party last
Wednesday evening: the evening was
spent very pleasantly.
We need a crossing near the depot
very badly, the lumber is already
there; but through some neglect, the
commissioners failed to place it in last
fall. We hope the commissioners will
give it their favorable consideration.
J. Frank Wilds, of Dover, spent Sun
day in town.
AGRICOLA.
KentOn, DEL, February It'll, 1888.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
FOR SALE.

=, A farm containing l25 acres, situated in
hiaekbird Hundred, New Castle county
miles west of Clayton; nice location on .
public road, good buildings, 1000 neacb
trees, goo in bearing, balance 2 wears old.
La acre Strawberries, young Apple Orchard
5g rear, ~ Ounces and so Lice Plum
Trees, Apricots, Grapes, and other Small
Fruit, Will be sold for a bargain. FOR
particulars call on the subscriber living
JOHN REALDEREAN.
Jan zO-aw Clayton, Del.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
An Old Ticket.

One of our citizens hands US the fol-
lowing ticket, which was nominated
and elected in this county in 1874, the
year of the great Clay and Polk cam
paign, fOrty-four years ago:
WING TICKET.
Electors Of President and Vice residen
Of the United States,
ALFRED DU PoNT,
ENOCH SPRUANCE
THOMAS DAVIS.
GoUernor,
THOMAS STOCKTON.
Representative IN Congress,
JOHN w. HOUSTON.
Senator,
George Fisher.
Representatives,
William Temple,
Joseph Hoffecker,
William Cowgirl,
George P. Fisher,
John Gruwell,
Shadrach Raughley,
John w. Adkins.
Sierlf,
Caleb Smithers.
Coroner,
David NJ. Smith.
Levy Court Commissioners,
Nathan P. Green, d. II.
3 Vincent nj. W NGnn Moore, Mar. H.
John Booth, of Joseph, Ms. H.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
Public Sales.

On Thursday, February 9th.-Stock,
Farming Implements, &C., by B. w.
Jury, near KentOn. B. V. Weldon,
Auctioneer.
On Monday, February 13th.-Stock,
Farming Implements, &C., by G.. w.
Phillips, near KentOn, B. V. Weldon,
AuctiOneer.
On Wednesday, February 15th.-Stock,
Farming Implements, &c, by James
Hall, in Dutch Neck. B. V. Weldon,
AuctiOneer.
On Tuesday, February 21st.-Real
Estate, by Thomas Fennemore, at
Townsend.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
GBe Smgrua Jlmes.
SnzYr'W0, DEL,
Wednesday Afternoon, Feb. 8, 1883.

he TIMES" is published every Wednesday
afternoon by ROBT. D. HOFFEcKER, Editor and
Proprietor, at Smyrna, Del.
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ADVERIIsEMENTS will be inserted at the rate
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OBITUARY NOTICES will be charged Five Cents
per line.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08

The striking miners resumed their
rloting near Shenandoah, Pa, on Sat
urday afternoon; 1000 Poles partici-
pated in the fracas and three of their
number and two police officers were
shot good many men were hurt bv
flying bottles and stones.
May Wilson, IL years old, confessed
that she made five attempts to set fire
TO the New York Hospital for the
kuptured and Crippled, and that she
started the conlagration of Sunday
night, in which Mary Donnelly was
burned to death.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
Butcher Book Lost.

The subscriber, on the 18th inst, lost bis
Butcher Book on his route in Smyrna or
Clayton. A suitable reward will be given
any one returning said book or giving in
formation in relation to it.
F. GREEN WELL, JR.,
Jan Z5-3w Kenton Del.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
DEATHS.

10y EGRONE. Near Deakyneville. Februsrv6t
tnoila :, WOOD Lovegrove, son Of Thos. w. and
Annie Z. Lovegrove, aged years.
PYBUS.-Near Clayton. February 9Th Mr. FINN.
Pybus, wife of Ralph Pybus, aged So wears
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
NEW WHEAT.
MARRIAGES.

AQBlNsON-BICKLEY.-Att the residence of the
0rldeS parent. II. NJ. Buckley. ESQ Of Chester
"a January 3lst, by Rev W. c. Robinson fstb.
er OF me groom Rev. Henry Ridgeley Robin
son, OF Doylestown, Pa. Of the Phiiadelphia
annual Conference of the NJ +. Church ana
Miss Mary Abbott Buckley. anu
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
Two Fires on Saturday Night.
THE THIRD IN SMYRNA IN THE PAS
SIX WEEKS.

THE THIRD IN SMYRNA IN THE PAST
SIX WEEKS.
Our citizens were aroused by the
cry of fire on Sunday morning at d
O'Clock. The light was so bright that
persons one and two squares awav
with windows facing it, could see to
dress without lighting n lamp. The
hremen and every body else were
dressed and on their way to the scene
as soon as they could hastily throw on
their clothes. 1t proved to be the
tailor shop of Thomas Mccoy and the
stove and tin store of J. G. Brinton.
The two houses were built right up to
each other, and one could not burn to
any extent without firing the other.
Thomas Mccoy, Jr., who with his
father occupied the second story for
their private rooms, was awakened hy
a sense of suffOcation and heat to find
the communicating room in a light
blaze. He aroused his father and each
hastily getting into the nearest gar
ments they could pick up, run the
gauntlet of the flames in descending to
the lower floor, the elder Mccoy hav-
ing his head scOrched in doing so. The
son remembering he had left his gold
watch, braved the fire and smoke to
recover it but everything else was
burnt but what they had on their backs
Clothes, beds, furniture, &c. One or
two of the neighbors had in the mean
time been aroused, who Joined in the
alarm through the town.
AS speedily as the hose could be got
there and the attachments made. three
streams of water were PLAYING on diff
ferent parts of the burning building
and that of BrintOn's which had caught
ana was pretty thoroughly alire
throughout the second story. The
light inhamable material of the first
made it ready prey to the flames, and
the upper story was pretty well burned
when the well directed stream of the
fireman reached it, but the tin roof on
the BrintOn building was an obstacle.
as they always are, to a speedy wash
ing out of the fire. In half hour
after the alarm was given the flames
were virtually under sublection, a
longer time of course being required
for the tiremen to ferret out every
nook and corner where a treacherOus
spark might lurk. At last members of
the Hose Company and everybody else
thought their work most satisfactorily
done, and the last vestige of the
devOuring element wiped out. The
President and Chief of the Hose Com
pamy B. " Weldon and Samuel Tay-
Tor, together with John Winford who
lived in the adjoining house which
caught fire two or three times, ex-
amined it thoroughly from the roof
down and pronounced that there was
no more danger. Thus satisfied, the
firemen returned with their hose to
their rooms.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
ANOTHER FIRE.

In a half or three quarters of an
hour afterwards, about a quarter be-
fore five o'clock, the alarm was again
sounded through the streets calling
flyer" In the meantime Mr.. Win
ford and his family who did not return
to bed heard a cracking and swapping,
something akin to falling hail within
the upper ceiling. There was no APP
pearance of fire, but he felt doubtful as
TO the cause, and went for his son
William, two squares away, to he on
hand in case of an emergency. When
they got back it was to find the fire
bursted out through the roof six or
eight feet where it had crept from
where it ignited, with the plaster and
fire falling from the ceiling into the
room.
About a dozen of the fremen were
at their headquarters engaged in wash
ing the mud from their hose when they
heard the call. The large carriage
fortunately had the hose on, and they
started with this, leaving the other
carriage for those who should come
afterwards. The fire being in the up
per stories of this building which was
brick 1.-THE two first being frame) gave
Mrs. Winford an opportunity with the
aid of the citizens to get her store
goods of trimmings, &c, as well as the
furniture out of the house with little
loss. The fremen found it more diff
ficult one to fight than the first, and
were well exhausted when they had
gotten entirely through, between six
and seven O'Clock. The upper part
was burnt out and the whole badly
damaged by water.
This house and the one occupied by
Mr.. Mccoy belonged to the Misses
Wilhelmina aud Edna Hurlock, on
which there was no insurance. The
loss will be about $500. j. G. Brin-
ton was the only one having insurance,
$500 on the building in the Kent C0unr
ty Mutual, and $4,000 on his stock in
the Farmers Mutual of Wilmington.
The loss on the building is $3.50 and
on his stock not adjusted. Where or
how the FIRE originated has not been
deteFmlned,
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
The Election of Town Commissioners.

At the last session of the Legislature
an effort was made to change our law
in reference to. our municipal officers
so that they should not all be elected
at the same time, but so that the larger
part of them should be new members.
The object of this was to always have a
part of the board familiar with the
duties of the office, and the routine
work that devOlved upon them.
Though a member of the Legislature
was from this town and a competent
lawyer employed to draft the supple
ment to the Act, it seems to be so in
definite as to 3Uhdt ii does sag, as to bear
a different construction from what was
intended. The editor of the Record
two weeks since gave the figures to
show that 1.-THE unique arrangement
which has now become a law will every
sixth year result in the election of an
entirely new board" A member oftbe
Board gives us the following figures
which vary but slightly from those of
our contemporary, cOrrObOrating its
statement:
1882 for l year, for 2 years, 3 for
3 years 1882 for l year; 1892
for year, for ? years; 1912 for l
year, 3 for years; 1892 3 for l year,
2 for 2 years; 1882 for l year; 1894
2 for year, 2 for 2 years, for 3
years ~ in six years.. 1852 for
year; 1862 for year, , for 2 years {:
1872 for l year, 3 for years 1898
2 for l year, 2 for years; 1892
for l year; 1902 for l year, 2 for ,
years, for 3 years - in six years.
The object of the law was to leave
the majority with the people every
year, and with the exception Of two
years 1893 and 1899 this law does it
This is the only view anyone can take
of the law.
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08

At the second are Mrs. J. w, Den.
ney, living opposite had large pot of
coffee made to which the firemen and
other helpers were invited, and greatly
refreshed thereby. One man drank
Smyrna times., 1888-02-08
FOR RENT.

Two Houses on Mount Vernon Street.
GOOD location; low rent. Apply to
E. H. BECK
REQ DOW Smyrna, Del