Smyrna times., 1889-01-23
and State Items.

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UNITY and State Items.
- 1ro Grubb iocularly denOminates
Jnaso Moore. Mr.. Smithers' little
i5slchet.
arises from his Senatorial kOck-
IIsS ",itha serene smile that speaks of
S %tare contests
-, have not examined the line of
Hywear HyUT and Furnishings kept by
SgiIuord gIuo,d G. Walls, do so when you are
IN need
Gorge C. Rothwell of Blackbird
,'unJred. will be a candidate for sheriff
nuIj. nt,bis county in 1890, and has COM
NJ %%enced an active canvas.
uonrv Burton's dwelling, near Draw
,-ij0e Sussex county, was burned
DuS3sy u,uS3, night with all his household
ouuf ounSs and about 500 in money.
n q Montgomery, Jr,, was married
l.ordav to Miss Deborah S. Worth,
!siS ',Se residence Of her father in Little
~ 49, 'at bv the Rev. T. E. Martindale of
salisbury
Tho morocco factory Of B. Lundy,
rant & Co.. and the lumber yards of
Font % & Weeks, at Front and JustisOn
i,soets were totally destroyed by fire
ssrIy Sunday morning.
1E Addicks, it is said positively,
:, to make Wilmington his future
home and a step in that direction was
bis ioining the Young Mems Republi-
can Cub, on Friday evening last.
The executive committee ofthis state
IN the interests of the colOred schools,
have decided to hold a State Conven-
ton on the Sth day of February, in
tbe town of Dover, and have issued a
call
Albert Constable, a well known Elk
ton lawyer, has decided to open an
office in Wilmington. James AckeI, a
we'll known Hartford county lawyer,
will remove there and open au Office in
week or two.
Sewell c. Biggs, Jr, son Of ex-
Register of Wills Biggs, died suddenly
af MS nOLuG uEdA 1uAuLllt DAAuEG OL
Friday of heart disease. He was
brother Of J. Frank Biggs, Esq, of Will
mingtou, and about p years of age.
The health of Rev. Z. l.. Hubbard, of
New Castle, being greatly impaired, he
has been given vacation and he has
sailed for Europe to recuperate. Dur.
ing his absence his pulpit at New Cas-
tie will be filled by Presiding Elder
Murray.
tits a shame that the most public
places" to be found in Wilmington are
saloons, and that respectable citizens
are compelled to visit bar-rooms to in
spect the assessment lists. This point is
respectfully referred to the General
Assembly.-Morning NelOs.
Mrs. Henrietta Barr Pennington,
mother of Congressman John B. Pen
nington, died at the residence of the lat
ter, in Dover, Wednesday night, from
the effects of fall sustained some time
ago. which dislOcated her thigh. She
was in the SD year of her age.
The DelGWarean and Inder are in ac-
cord with the Georgetown Democrat in
believing that the General Assembly
has no right to call a constitutional
convention upon tie basis of the vote
cast in Nov. 1887, and they thus stand
by the Democratic platform of last
year
Reports from Dover show that the
Delaware peach growers are shivering
over the early swelling of the peach
buds and their possible premature de-
velOpment before the balmy weather
of spring shall place them out of dan
ger of cold blast of winter or nipping
frOst.-BGLtimOre Sun.
party of Jones' Neck hunters went
to Bombay Hook ten days ago, and af
ter a three hours run captured the bob
tailed fox, known as "Old Bobby
They carried him home with them, and
last week turned him out at Magnolia
He did not run long before the dogs
caught and killed him.
Tie Middletown Transcript reports
the case of a sharp and enterprising
merchant in that place who has arrang
ed an electric call bell upon the railing
of the curb before his place of business
This for the convenience of country
purchasers who come to town IN car
riages. and can summon the clerk to the
door and save their alighting.
A meeting of Lewes business mer
was held recently to take steps to IN
duce Congress to proceed with the
work of connecting RehObOth and Del
aware bays. This is the first step to
wards the new Chesapeake and Della
ware canal from the Legislature OF hi
atate as Congress is appealed to help th'
project.
At a meeting of the policy-hOlders o
the Kent County Mutual Insurance
Company at Dover Oh Thursday an
lection Tor officers and directors wa
held, and resulted as follows Fres
ident, DR.. H. Ridgely; viee-president
J. ID. Burton; secretary and treasurer
William Denney; directors for thre'
years, J. w. Causey, G. B. Money an'
James J. Ross.
SAULsBU US STRANGE AMENDMENT
In the proceedings Of the Senate yes
terday, during the debate on the Iarll
amendments, occurs the following par
agraph: Mr.. Salisbury offered an a
mendment making it the duty OF pro
tected manufacturers ( whose annua
business shall exceed $4,000 to pa.
into the treasury all the profits abov
10 per cent. Rejected without division
The partiality ofDelaware for bachelo
Senator'S is not encouraging to matrl
monv in her public men Salisbury
an old bachelor and Higgins who IS
succeed him is a bachelor not 50 youn
as he used to be. Query: Is not I'eI
aware amenable to the general lay
forbidding obstacles TO the married
state? EtktOn Democrat. Mr.. Hlggln
owes it. to himself to set better exam
pie.
The difficulty in the Office of To
EUening Journal, whereby Mr.. 10
wards, one Of the company, secured
majority of the stock, and secured !
Stewart, of Louisville, TO supplant I
+. Bach, as editor, has been settled D
Mr. Bach, who originated the .pape
and is an editor of acknowledged aDi
ity, disposing Of his stock, but for ID
present holding a salaried position J
the Office. The paper is hereafter 70
under Democratic influence.
In discussing the new Senator.
was very natural on his election las
week, a gentleman about Mr.. Higgin
age expressed himself that the latte