Smyrna times., 1888-06-13


T.nsctor Maxwell is examining the
Ln9fii dffiiees on the Peninsula.
Tho military encampment will be
~ inI II at Brandywine Springs.
IN Rothwell has the finest field of
" u, ~ the vicinity of MiddletOwn.
nIN Slaughter has located at
F+ederica, and will practice his pro-
fsssiOn.
There will be but two graduates at
- iDelaware College commencement
this month";
s,oo Is the charge that berry growers
" 70 nav for a carload of berries
f-om FELTON, to Boston.
n.loware College will hold its fifty
..n.,b annual commencement at New
ayF on Wednesday, June 20.
Roseby J. Boulden, hotel keeper at
Elton was stricken with paralysis last
sunday week and is very low.
The President has signed the act for
40 rsmoval of Instructions to the nav
ieation of Broad Creek, Delaware.
lanes Friedel shipped 10 crates of
.+rawberries from FELTON, to Boston on
T-;Jav which netted him about 800.
The Rev. Jehu Dewitt Miller lee
.oreJ in Dover Saturday evening for
,be benefit of Prof Tarr. $40 net was
realized.
HEveryone," says the Laurel Gazette
atbat had strawberries this year are
banpy. They have paid better than
for many seasons past.
The wife of Moses S. VanBurkalow
If Magnolia, died suddenly Of heart
disease on Friday night. Deceased
was about SO years of age.
The crop of green peas around Mil
ford this season is immense and the
cannerv of D. Refs will be in full Ope-
ration on the same in few days.
The farmers about Magnolia have a
new enemy OF the tomato plant-a
worm like the army worm, that plays
bo-peep with the person looking for it.
LlurL is u great shipping point for
small fruits, and on Saturday week it
broke its own record by sending north
ward nineteen carloads Ofstrawberries.
The Court of Oyer and Terminer in
in Wilmington, Thursday, denied an
application for a new trial in the case
Of Charles H. Riedel, convicted of wife
murder.
Wednesday afternoon, Miss Virginia,
daughter of Captain Thomas Draper,
Of Dover, was married to Mr.. VIM.
Fem, of Harrisburg, Pa, by Rev. J. o.
Sypherd, of Laurel.
The Little Greek oyster boats are
tying up for the Summer, the oyster
planting season being about over. The
season has been a good one for those
engaged in the business.
George w. Ingram has sold for J.
Howard McHenry, of Baltimore, the
George Cleaver farm near Delaware
City, 300 acres, price $4,000, to F. H.
HendricksOn of Oceanic, N. ].
Delaware Democrats are delighted
with the ticket and platform of the St.
Louis Convention. Thurman has been
afavOrite in Delaware for years, and
has warm feeling for Delaware Dem
Oerats.
J.P.R. Polk, Esq, of Wilmington,
and Charles II. Treat, of Georgetown,
addressed a large meeting of fruit
growers at Bridgeville on Saturday, in
the interest of the Polk distribution
bureau plan of marketing peaches.
NJ L. Lichtenstein, of Wilmington
Ex-secretary of the Perpetual Build
ing and Loan association has been
found short in his accounts over 33,
OO0,00O He has confessed judgment
to the association to the amount Oi
$4,000.
The Peninsula Farm and Garden q
monthly agricultural paper published
by Caleb BOggs at MoOrtOn, has sus-
pended. 1t is expected that the Farm
and Home will absorb the advertising
and subscription patronage of the de
funct paper.
William A. Hukill will be a candi-
date for the Republican sherihalty
nomination of New Castle County anC
it is said that Frank G. Stidham, who
was defeated by Sheriff Ford in 1884
proposes to try it again. Dr. J. Pau
Lukens is also suggested.
Following Saturdays nOminatioi
election for Sheriff and Coroner, ther
will be lull in Democratic primar
politics until the Legislature and Lev.
Court nominations in September, bro
ken only by the election of delegate
to the State Convention in July Q
August.
Heavy freight trains are passin
nOrthward over the Delaware railrOar
and the bulk of their contents al
strawberries and vegetables. Th
prospective peach crop has induced th
railroad people to look ahead an
make some arrangements to haul it o
the peninsula.
The TROTTING CIRcUIT.--The De
aware and Maryland Trotting Circu
was reOrganized for 1888 in ElktOn o
Saturday with the following members
Delaware State Fair, September %
2o, at Dover; Cecil County Fair, Oct
Der ? TO 5, at ElktOn Talbot Count
Fair, September 18 to 81, at EastO
Nd.
The young men of Dover wish
erect a monument to the memory
Cesar Rodney and ask the aid of Il
citizens of Delaware in so doing. Al
one wishing to contribute to the ful
can do so by sending their names wi
lhe amount to this Office or to W.
kerbin, President of the " "ROdn
Club" Dover, Del. 1t is a praisew'
thy object.
The Democratic nomination
oherifin New Castle county on S
lrday resulted in the choice of Alv
Allen, Of Wilmington, formerly
smyrna. The vote for the four big
est candidates was, Allen, 1894 Lyni
1888; Ford, 1888; Toner, 1l21. +.
lens plurality over Lynch, S6.
There were four candidates for G
oner, N. G. Gamble winning.
Edmund Mitchell. Jr., member
tne Executive Committee, and Jose
X. Whitaker, of Dover, the vice-pl
ident for Delaware, have issued a
ior State convention Of Republic
clubs, for the purpose of organizini
state league which is to be a part
the Republican League Of the Uni
states. The convention will be b
~ Wilmington, on June %, or a