Smyrna times., 1889-02-06

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"The Haymakers.
Frederick Douglass will lecture in
the Whatcoat NJ. E. Church Dover. on
Wednesday, the goth inst.
The last of the Pennsylvania Rail.
road Company's mid-winter pleasure
tours to Old Point Comfort will occur
tomorrow.
Isaac Goodwin, Sr., one of the oldest
citizens of lower Kent county, died at
his residence in Magnolia Sunday NOR
ming in his SD year.
Thomas Massey, the jeweler of Mid
dletown, died there Monday afternoon
after an illness of a week. He leaves
widow and four sons.
The Oystermen. of the Delaware bav
are catching large quantities of crabs.
They are large and fat. This is said to
be something unusual.
The Levy Court of Kent county met
on Monday. The county treasurer
and collectors will be appointed on
Thursday, FEBRUARY 7.
The Senate has passed an act giving
married women when conducting bust
ness in their own name the same ex-
emptiOn allowed to men.
The members of the Legislature have
decided to give ball about the 26th of
this month, at the Hotel Richardson.
Sl60 has been raised for the purpose.
The most prominent industry noticed
in the town of Leipsic is the bailing of
hay, of which large quantity was be-
ing prepared for shipment to the city.
Bishop Cyrus D. Foss preached at
Scott NJ. +. Church Wilmington Sun.
day morning, and in the Grace NJ. f.
Church in the evening. The church
was crowded to the doors.
William Denuey of Dover, agent for
the EWtI5le Life Insurance Company
of New York, has placed a policy of
100000 on the life of Harry A, son of
State Senator A. b. Richardson.
The disease known as pink eye is
prevalent among the horses in the cas-
tern part of West Dover hundred.
Elisha l.. Wright and Walter Massey
have both lost fine horses recently.
The Legislature visited the New
Castle County Insane Asylum Friday.
1t is not likely that the House will vote
tosaddle this Institution upon the State.
1t is said to require $4,000 annually to
run it.
The fruit growers will soon hold
public meeting at Dover, at which
Professor Smith, of Washington, who
has been investigating peach yellow"
will explain the Michigan law on the
subject.
Diphtheria is quite bad in Dover.
Several children are suffering from the
disease and two, Ollie, the IL year old
daughter of Mrs. Parker, music teach
er, and a son of John Thomas have
died with the malady.
James l. Jacobs, son of William H.
Jacobs, of Downs Chapel, died at the
home of his brother, in TacOny, Pa, on
Thursday last of typhoid fever. The
body was brought home and inferred
in the KentOn NJ. E. Cemetery.
The Laurel Gazette wants the Legis-
lature to enact a law making it mis-
demeanOr for any merchant to sell Gig
garettes to boys. 1t is a shocking sight
tOsee little boys hardly ten years old pa
rading our streets with cigarette in
his mouth.
The protracted meeting that has
been going on in the NJ. E. Church, of
Camden for several weeks is meeting
with great success. There has been
over twenty Conversions, and people are
hOcking to the stool of repentance
every evening.
The February term of the Court of
General Sessions and the Superior
Court of New Castle convened on Mon
day. The term of the Court of Gener-
al Sessions will not be long one, not
many criminals cases have accumulated
since the last terms.
Monday night the general dry goods
store of Bentz & Mckay, on the banks
Ofthe Chesapeake & Delaware canal at
st. Georges, was burned The total
loss is estimated at about $4,000, only
half cOverd by insurance. TIE origin
Of the fire is a mystery.
The contractor for the excavation of
the canal to connect the Delaware and
ChincOteague Bays has engaged 100
Italians and some laborers in Baltimore
Hundred to do the work. The Italians
will tramp from Wilmington to Balti-
more hundred, a distance of about
ninty-fve miles, each with a wheelbar-
row.
The legislative ball promises to be a
brilliant affair. 1t is the first one that
has been given by the legislature for
four years. There are a number of
members who take especial pleasure in
society events, and they are working
hard to make the present affair a sue
cess. Arrangements have been nearly
perfected. The Hotel Richardson has
been selected as q place for the hop,
and February 26 as the date
William T. johnson has been elected
director of the Delaware Electric
Light and Power Company, an incOr-
pOratiOn Of Wilmington owning the
plants in Salisbury and Middletown,
and will take immediate charge of the
station in the last named town. Mr..
Johnson will also have the exclusive
agency Of the Peninsula for the Edison
Company, and will look after their in
terests in general Milford Ne1Os.
ESTATE FINANCES. State Treasurer
herbert met the legislative committee
Thursday. His books show the follow
ing balances on December 3lst: To the
credit Of the general fund, S64, ,948.1S;
school fund, S14,76S q; sinking fund,
S8.2lG SO. Disbursements for the year
1888: General fund, 1921 .234 66; school
iund, 6.846.94; sinking fund .s4. .11428
Receipts for 1888: General fund, Sl69,
GIG 80; school fund, $50, ,926.93; sinking
fund, S5,8595O.
The Delaware Democrat, which Oppos-
ed a convention, discusses the question
OF calling a constitutional convention
ending thus:
The Democratic party throughout
the state is somewhat divided upon
The question, and the attempt to pass
what many Of them consider an illegal
act will have the effect to make wider
breach and bring disaster upon the
party. II would be well for the Demo
cratic members Of both houses to search
INTO this matter and consider thorough
before acting what is the right thing
to do.
!. Of the four Smyrnians who attended