Smyrna times., 1888-06-20

A co-partnership has been formed
Dy II: ID. Grier and Fred A. Grier
ol milford who will start a general
machine shop and foundry at Laurel
DIR. PANCoAsT RENEws HIS SEARCH
Before two months shall have
passed." said DIR. Seth Pancoast last
week, l propose to land in PbiladeI-
Phla S2,OOO,OOO worth of gold and sill
yer OaTs and precious stones now living
IN the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
the treasure of the sunken EnoIisb
slOop-ot-war De Brsak, which went
down in 1798." The main obstacle
heretofore to locating the wreck the
DOCTOR says, has been the variation of
the meridian, which has been aeon
rately y solved by Lieutenant Comman-
der Adams, Of the United States Navy.
A BRUTAL AssAULT.-Ex-Cbie
Engineer of the Fire Department. Hugh
r Swlnney, Wilmington, made a cow
ardly and brutal assault on Thomas
martin about II o'clock last Saturday
night, which will probably result in his
death. 1t seems the men were in Mrs.
Aluger's saloon, on Second street
between French and Walnut. when
they became engaged in a quarrel. and
sweeney, who is much the larger man.
struck Martin. They then clinched
and Martin bit Sweeney's ear, when
they were separated and the latter
taken away by his friends. Sweeney
had been drinking and was quite quar-
relsome, but Martin, it is said was per-
iiectly sober. After leaving there the
latter was struck with a heavy stone
by Swlnney, and knocked senseless.
DELAWARE CoLLEGE.-Commenca.
ment week at Delaware College began
Frluay, evening in the Oratory, when
several students contested for the
governors prize medal, in declaiming.
saturday evening the ThOmpsonian
GIee Club was in the Oratory under
the management of the Delta Phi Lit
erary Society.
Inc Baccalaureate sermon was de-
hyered in the Oratory by the Rev. G.
w. Alexander, of Middletown Presbv-
terian Church. The Board of Trus-
tees met yesterday. In the evening
the Alumni of the College held a ban.
quet at the Deer Park Hotel
To-day at II o'clock commencement
exercises began Hon. Chas. B. Lore
Will make an address. In the evening
the ifty-third anniversary of the Delta
Phi Literary Society will be held.
John 5. Boyd will deliver the society
address. Rev. Madison C. Peters IS
the orator for the occasion, and T.
Bayard Heisel will give the farewell
address.
DELAwARE's DELEGATES ORGANIZE.
The Delaware delegation met at
1880 o'clock at Chicago, Monday. in
room l81, Leland Hotel, and elected
Edward G. Bradford, of Wilmington.
permanent chairman Joseph R. Whit
taker, of Dover, vice-chairman
Charles II. Maull, of Lewes, secretary
ALVIN Is. Conner, of FELTON,, represen-
tatlve on the committee on permanent
organization H. c. McLear of Will
mlngtOn, on committee on credentials.
Charles H. Treat, of Georgetown. on
committee on resolutions; Charles H.
Maui, on committee OF rules and
order.
The delegation held caucus on the
question of Delaware's member on the
National Committee, but failing to
come to an agreement the matter was
postponed until next day.
The Wilmington delegation of 40
persons on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad excursion arrived there safely
Monday afternoon.
MILLION OF BAsKETs.-The Great
Business Expected to be done in Peaches.
"A. n. Brown, manager of the Fruit
and Produce Exchange of Baltimore
city, says that the prospects for a large
yield of peaches all over the country
have never been as favorable at this
time of the year. The Niagara and
st. Joe county districts in Michigan
will have enough fruit to supply the
late markets in Rochester, Buffalo,
Erie, Chicago, Cleveland and other
nearby cities, but as it does not ripen
before September 10, it will not ma
terially affect the demand for Eastern
peaches from these points. New Jer-
sey will have light crop. Southern
Ohio and Illinois peaches will ripen
about the same time and will come in
competition with the peaches from this
/ section. He estimates the cOnsign-
ments to the Baltimore Exchange from
all points on the Chesapeake bay and
its tributaries at about 100000 baskets
daily fOr period of fifty days.