Smyrna times., 1889-06-05
County and State Items.

County and State Items.
Grand Army Post has been organ
iztd at Middletown.
Wilmington street cars carry about
5000 passengers per day.
The assessment Of Bovers school
tax has fallen off $4,000 since last
year.
ThOs. w Saville has been appointed
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue
at Wilmington.
Governor Bggs has appointed FL
bert Dill as Constable for South Muir
derklll Hundred.
Wilmington's tax rate for the com
ing fiscal year will he $l.40, Il reduc-
tiOn of 10 cents from that OF last year.
Thomas F. Bayard. Jr., who leaves
Yale this summer, will in the fall be-
studying law in the office of his father.
In Dover aud vicinity about 3,OO0,-
O0u cat~ at fruits. vegetables and pro-
visions are annually put up by the can
neries.
DR.. J. G. Dawson, who has for several
months been under medical treatment
at Wilmington, Is very much improved
in health
The State Board of Health will pros
ecute physicians, clergymen and under
takers who neglect to properly report
deaths and births.
The marriage of ex-Secretary Bay
and to Miss Mary Willing Clymer is
announced to take place next Wednes-
day, in ST. Johns Episcopal Church,
IN Washington.
Thomas Tillman, Robert Jones and
James Miles. Wilmington negroes, who
tried to register on illegal tax receipts,
have been held in $500 bail each for the
Superior Court.
A politician from Delaware, stopping
at the Continental, in chatting on par
ty matters at home, said that char
mony was in the air, but it would take
balloon to reach it."
Decoration day was generally obser-
we'd throughout Delaware and in Viii
mingtOn. The graves Of Admiral Du-
pont and General Thomas 3. Smith re-
ceved especial attention.
Thomas Baston, colored, has been
held in $1,000 bail in Wilmington for
the Superior Court for alleged perjury
in the cases of Benjamin Knox and
Thomas Rice, who are charged with
gambling.
Laurel is to have an industrial pa
rade on the Fourth of July, including
the militia and secret societies Of the
town. The Laurel Military Band, as
sisted by fife and drum corps of Will
mingtOn, will furnish music.
The American line steamship, Ohio
arrived at Queenstown from Philadel.
phia on Thursday, having made the
voyage in eight days and six hours.
Among those on board were George V.
Massey and family of Dover.
The fact that not 5000 votes polled
in Wilmington out of 1900 assessed
voters shows to what a miserable
farce elections have been reduced by
legalizing fraud in the assessments, il
the collection of taxes and " holesale
debaauchery by illegal tax receipts.
The new laws OF the State will not b,
published for several months yet. In the
meantime not only the public in gen
eral but state and county Offices in par
ticular, are ignorant of the new stat
utes. and are consequently working il
the dark.
The following are the delegates 0
the State Capital Republican club tt
to the Delaware Republican Leagu
which meets in Dover on June %: G
W. Whitaker, H. w. Cannon, ]. +
Mowbray, James Pennewill, J. i
Wharton.
MILITIA ENCAMPMENT.-The Ma
tional Guard of Delaware will hold it
annual encampment this year a
Brandywine Springs, beginning Satur
day, July Is and ending July 30. Tn
date has been sent to the officers of th
companies.
CHRUsHED BEYOND RECOGNITION
Minos Tull, aged about 2l years, G
Laurel, was Instantly killed in the bas
ket factory Of Patton & Co., at Bridge
vile Monday. He was working in tn
machine room His clothes caught j
a shaft. which soon crushed his bod.
almost beyond recognition.
Asbury Rochester, a colored maj
while working on the railroad, ne;
MiddletOwn, on Thursday morning
met with an accident which will veT
likely prove fatal A spike hammt
flew of the handle and struck him b.
tween the eyes, penetrating about tw
inches. DR.. Mckee dressed the wOun
but has fears for the mans recovery.
Mr. James H. Dilworth, editor Of Il
Delaware City Ne10s, was an applica
s-.-. $50 . f.r n ffam
Of court. This is strange combin
ton for Delaware newspaper man
the first, we think, that has occure
T. We fancy that the judgement OF q
Delaware press would be that the mi
who cannot publish a newspaper in tt
state without a saloon or bar-roo
attachment would better go out of bu
Morning NeCs.
He FoRGoT TO REGIsTER.-T
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, who failed
register as required by law, appear
at the Eleventh ward polls, Wilmin
ton. on Saturday afternoon last al
presented his tax receipt aad tick
with the intention Of voting, but "
informed that having failed TO regisi
he was not a voter at the city eiecuo
Of the Registry law. Asking to
the law ia the case copy Of it "
handed him. and after examining It
thanked the election officers for tn
courtesy, and entering his carria
drove away.
WILMINGTON ELECTION SATURDl
The city election on Satur day AT
noon passed of more quietly than y
expected. The vote was light, iaiii
over GOO below the the reglstraLl'
Mitchell was elected assessor ana col
tor Of the Northern district, and Me
ey reelected in the Southern distf
by almost equal majorities. The
Dublicans gained a councilman 10
Eighth and Twelfth wards, but the =
Council IS safely Democratic ;or
next two years. The Republics
n,odo stronry onorfe Ia carrV the IN