Smyrna times., 1890-10-15
..mvrna Branoh Trains.
CIosing of Mails.

Closing of Mails.
o,.,,, North. $50, $50 A. NJ, $50, 7.2OP.M.
INC South, $50 A. NJ, 7.2O Pm.
Opening of Mails.
r.,r, the North 11OO A. NJ, 900, 1A5P.N.
rom the south 7.S5, ll.SO A. N.
County and State Items.
The second crop of Irish potatoes in
sussex county is larger than usual.
The Republicans held seven mass
,oeetings in seven different parts of
Sussex Saturday.
Gumboro has become noted for its
sorghum mills which are doing -four
ishing business.
Hon Charles B. Lore will speak in
the Opera House at Dover, Thursday
evening, October %.
The arrival of a vessel from the chol-
ors.infected district of Spain, has un-
dnIv alarmed the people of Chester.
Luther Reynolds, brother of the
Democratic candidate for governor,
was registered at the Hotel Richard
son. Dover, last week.
Minister'S wives are looking for
ward to the rush of marriages with
complacency. 1t means new dresses
and bonnets for them.
Cards are out foT the wedding of
Miss Elizabeth s. Boyd of Port Penn,
to Mr.. William Clever, of Ovieda, Flor
ida on Thursday, October l6.
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky,
opened the Kent county Democratic
campaign Thursday night by address
ing a large meeting in Dover.
An original pension certificate has
been issued to Matthew Hinsley of
Slaughter, and an increase of pension
allowed to Lewes c. Cummings of Will
mington.
United States Senator John J. In
gals of Kansas, the Republican cham
pion of the United States Senate, will
speak at the Opera House Wilmington,
on Thursday evening, Oct. %.
The Republicans held big mass
meeting at Georgetown yesterday.
Hon. Anthony Higgins, Geo. V. Mas
se,. E-q.. and G. H. Treat, Esq, ad-
dressed the people on the issues.
c. w. Kenney, editor Of the Sussex
Couatian, refuses to discontinue his pa
per to any delinquent subscriber until
his arrears are paid up. There is II
law which justihes such action on the
part of the editor or publisher.
The editor of the New Castle Star
wishes to have the name of the young
man who borrowed $50 of the father of
d certain lady to go to housekeeping on
and the daughter failing to comply
with her part of the agreement, the
young man declined to return the
money.
A special train bearing A. J. Cassatt,
who was recently appointed interna-
tOnal road commissioner, by President
Harrison, and a party of friends, made
the run from Delmar to CheswOld on
Wednesday, a distance of 56 miles in
60 minutes, including a stop for water.
This is considered remarkably good
time.
The negro tax receipt market down
in Kent county rules high. Frem ten
to $l5 are offered for the receipts with
out any sellers. IF the market starts
in so lively over three weeks before
the election, what will it be two or
three days before ?-RepubLican.
An interesting exhibit at the State
Fair was that of moss roses embrOid-
cred on black silk, the work of a lady
who has arrived at the age of "a years,
Mrs. Belinda B. Stewart, a resident of
West Leyden, Massachusetts. The
work was done last year and is Won
derful for one of her advanced age.
The campaign in Delaware is now
opened in real earnest, and the way in
which the voters 90 out to the public
meetings in New Castle and Sussex
counties, and the interest with which
they listen TO the questions under dis
cusslOn, is an evidence that the masses
are thinking. It's campaign of is
sues, not men, and the voters of Del
aware are now thoroughly alive to the
issue.
Eyes examined tree by Prof. We'll,
scientific optican, 305 Market street
Wilmington. The only exclusive Op-
tical establishment in this State. A
celebrated Oculist in attendance daily,
who advises upon all diseases of the
eyes, free of charge. Prof. Wells o,
+. P. spectacle is guaranteed to be the
best in the world, made only by him
self. Will correct any defect of the
vision and cure headache.
To BECOME UNIONS PAsTOR.-Rev.
+. l.. Hubbard, of New Castle, Ph. D.,
has accepted a call to become the pas
tor of Union NJ. f. Church, Whining
ton, at the next session of the Whining
ton conference. DIR. Hubbard is an
able preacher and Jealous pastor and
will leave the church at New Castle in
financial and spiritual condition sec
ond to none in the conference. He has
refused several calls to the pastOrate of
churches in the Northern and Western
States, and at handsome sala ries, be-
cause he did not desire to leave his
native state.
The corning mill connected with the
large DuPontPOwder Works, at Wap-
wallOpen, seven miles below Shickshin
ny, LuZerne county, Pa, exploded
with terrific force Saturday morning
about seven o'clock. Only three mer
were injured, few of the employees hav
ing assembled for work. Six buckets
full of human fragments, all that cOulC
be found of the bodies of six mer
killed by the explosion at DupOnt's
Powder Mill near Wilmington las
Tuesday, were buried Saturday. On'
OF the pieces was a hand which fell al
the feet of a farmer at work in the
field two miles from the exploded mill
MARsHAL's APPOINTMENTS .-Depu
y CulICu CtulcS AdtSuhiS WOtC dppOih
ted to serve at the coming elections
Marshal Mahaffy said that great care
would be exercised in the selection o
men and only the most competent mel
would be appointed.
The movement was made" Mar
shal Mahaffy continued, "at the ear
nest request of citizens, who petitiOne'
that the appointments be made"