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Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
The Jerman Mission Building.

The aggressive spirit with which
Rev. W. w. w. Wilson entered upon
his pastoral work here prompted him
to reopen several weeks ago the
chapel at Smyrna Landing, which had
been closed for several years. The
Jerman Mission chapel at the lower
end of the town, has also been for a
long time in a state of disuse-since
the health of Mrs. n. T. Jerman, who
had instituted it twenty-five years ago
or more, had become too impaired to
conduct it. He saw in it n neglected
field that should be at once reclaimed
and made a vineyard to bear good
fruit for the Master, but from the
changed relations of the town since it
was built, the trend of population
being westward, it was deemed to be
in the wrong place. Application was
made to DIR. N. T. Jerman, of Holmes.
burg, Pa, who had heired it from his
father, and he at once consented to
transfer it TO the NJ. e. Church to be
transferred and used wherever it was
deemed best, only stipulating that it
should be used according to the pro-
viso Ofhis fathers villas a place of
religious instruction and worship.
The place desired to change it TO
was West Smyrna. At the regular
monthly meeting of the Board of
Trustees last evening it was deter
mined to purchase a lot of VIM. NJ
Bell at Commerce street extended.
corner of Upham--on the opposite
side of the street from the residence of
Charles B. Archer. The necessary ar
rangements will be made this week and
the building be moved to its proper
place next week. 1t is the design of
Rev. Mr.. Wilson to have thoroughly
organized Sunday School established
there in the course of the the next two
or three weeks.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
FOr the Smyrna Times
Walkers School House Items


A number of farmers have CHANGED
their homes during the past week in
this locality. David Staats moved his
family from the Collins farm at Bay
Head last week to the Keen homestead
at the school house, which he has pur-
chased.
The remains of Mrs. Keen, who lived
here for many years, were inferred at
Friendship, Thursday.
Walkers Literary Society has been
patroniZed by large crowds each meet.
ing night. The programmes have been
interesting aud the rooms filled to an
overhowing for several meetings past
We noticed in the audience visitors
from Bay Head, Severson's Neck
Blackbird and Odessa, The full corps
OF officers were reelected last Wednes.
day to serve the remaining season.
The Mite Society of Friendship gave
a sOclable at Miss India Deakyne's last
Tuesday evening. About forty were
present and enjoyed the evening in social
games until late. The society had pre-
pared refreshments for the occasion
which were served before the companv
departed.
Mrs. Wood gave dinner party to
few of her intimate friends and family
in honor of her son John and his bride
last Tuesday. The company was en-
tertalned In most pleasant manner
by the hostess. Those present besides
the family were Mr.. and Mrs. Thos
Cavender, Mr.. Theodore Cavender.
Miss Florence Cavender and E. Marvel,
Jr. =
The roll of honor of Walkers school
for the past month is Glass A-Mamie
Spear, Fred Short and Blanche Latta.
Class B-CliftOn Severson, Flovde
Short and Harold Spear; Glass C
Beulah Latta, Johnnie Holland and
Elsie Stats.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
The Ice Crop in Danger

The mildness of the past winter has
greatly affected the ice crop, and there
is some reason to fear that there will
be an ice famine in the United States
next summer, says the Philadelpbja
Record. None of the great lakes have
been frozen over this winter, and but
uttle or no ice has been taken from the
mountains of Pennsylvania or the
rivers of northern New Jersey. D. w.
Hunt, General Manager of the Kpiek-
erbocker Ice Company, admitted YES.
terday that there will be a scarcity of
ice this year, or, at least, barely suffi-
clent to supply a limited demand.
Hitherto the KnickeFhOeker Ice Com
pany has gotten a considerable portion
OF Its ice crop In Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, but this year it has been
compelled to send its whole available
force to the ice fields of Lake Georoe
and Lake Champlain Here tbey are
concentrating all their efforts. and If
the cold weather of that region con.
tlnue for few weeks longer their crop
VIII not be much less than during pre-
viOus years.
The cost of obtaining the Ice has.
however, been considerably increased
and the price will necessarily be in.
creased during the coming summer
How much it will be augmented will
depend altogether upon the climatic
condition of the next few weeks.
The Western ice men are practically
in the same position as their Faster1
brethren, and they have been com
PEELED to abandon their usual fields of
operations in Illinois and Indiana and
rely altogether upon the lakes and
rivers OF Upper Iowa and Wisconsin.
The greatest shortage in the East it
is expected, will be in the creameries
and daiFies in the interior of the State
OF pennsylvania, as the capacity of the
ice companies in the neighborhood Of
the ice fields is limited. One effect of
the shortness of the ice crop has been
TO induce vessels carrying petroleum
to Norway and Sweden. which have
hitherto generally come to this countrv
10 ballast, to bring cargoes of ice TO
America.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
What Has Been Dome.

The Town Hall or Opera House is
now free from encumbrance, the re-
manning indebtedness Of $4,000 having
been paid by the commissioners the
past year. The commissioners have
done a good deal towards reducing our
Indebtedness during the past two
years, not only paying the debt named
above, but the improvements that
added so much to II as a place for en-
tertainments, costing about $1,000.
That large municipal point gained.
In addition, the Landing road has been
shelled, and If II was a tribe slow, ex-
citing no little impatience, the passage
way through the "Slough Of DespondD
has been made firm and solid. In ad-
dition, they have money enough when
the collector can gather it IN, TO COM
mence the work on our streets, and In
the natural process Of appropriations
the places needing attention will be
remedied during the coming season.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
For tts Smyrna Times.
Echoes from Cbeswold

with the winter weather of Sunday
and Monday the peach is commanding
general sOlicitude with us and there
are about as many theories advanced
upon the situation as there are grow
ers; Inc trees are now pretty gem
orally in bloom with the usually blus-
terry, freezing, and sleeting month of
March yet to encounter. While the
peach is king, it is at the same time
the most uncertain of fruits. The
grower OF twenty five years experience
knows about as much or probably less
about its propagation than he did when
putting out the first tree. It battles
our wisest and most expert thinkers.
IL mas set many men upon their feet
financially while at the same time il
has decoyed some to financial ruin
No one at this writing can tell whether
we snail roll the luscious peach over
our tongues as a sweet mOrsel the pres
ent year or not. The forecast is indeed
most gloomy. A few days may give
US more positive knowledge.
Last Wednesday, the 26th, our
neighborhood was given coosiderabIe
life by a wedding at Bethel church.
Inc contracting parties were Miss
Mollle l.. Conaway and Horny T. Den
ney. Rev. r. K. Stephenson made the
happy couple one in the presence of a
full church of friends and spectators.
Three of the farmers in this vicinity
have moved to New Castle county to
try farming where it is said to be
abandoned because no longer profit
able.
We gladly correct our statement
made last week of burning and the
subsequent death of the twenty-vear-
Old son of Henry Moore. We since
learn the burning was not serious. He
ls about again, doing well, and no
doubt enjoys reading his obituary in
other papers as we'll as the TINES.
STELLA
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
M. MEGARY & SON,
FURNITURE,
AND
CARPETS.
WALNUT CHAMBER USITS.

We offer to-day our entire line
of $50 and $55 Walnut Chamber
Suits for $40; complete suit of s
pieces. This offer will last only
as long as we have this line of
suits, and is made to dispose of
the stock on hand; We are max
ing a change in our line of pat
terms for the Spring trade. The
suits we have must go in the
next week, before the new pat
terms are put on the floor. This
is indeed a chance to save a few
dOllars-the fact is known that
we only advertise what we are
doing.
These suits are solid walnut
with marble top, large bevel edge
bureau, a good hanging towel
rack with glass, and three fine
cane-seat chairs and rocker, max
ing in all s pieces for $40.
Any of these suits that are
selected now, and not needed for
a few weeks, will be stored away
subject to the order of the buyer.
We have Just received on
other carload of our solid anti
que Oak Chamber Suits which
we have been selling for S25 and
$50. These suits are the very
best for sale to-day and cannot
be bought elsewhere in Whining
ton. See the suits and Judge for
yourself. They are not of the
kind that pulls apart and falls
down, but they are well made
and smoothly finished suits that
we can guarantee.
Wen put our $50 Suits against
any in Wilmington that's sold
for $40. We have plenty of them
and more on the way.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05

elevated railroads suffered, and the
trains were obliged to run slow he.
cause OF the binding snow squalls.
About six inches of snow had fallen
up TO midnight.
At Boston heavy storm ragged Sun
Day. About seven inches of snow fell
Advices from points on Cape Cod re.
port the worst storm of the winter. ac.
companied with a severe northeast
gale. AT Newport, r. l., the storm
was said to be the heaviest that has
visited that city in years.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05

IT does not stand to the credit of our
Americanism that more than half of
our navy should be made up of for
eigners. In case of national difficulty
it is highly important that the men
who stand at the guns should be loyal
to the core, and to be so, a surer guar
antee is in having them of American
birth and growth. In the furtheranee
of this idea Mr.. McAdoo, of New Jer-
sey has presented a bill in Congress
to prevent the enlistment of aliens in
the navy. The Navy Department has
furnished statement upon this sub
ject showing that of the 7946 enlisted
men in the navy but 1868 are of
American birth. The table shows that
almost every nationality is represented
in the navy. Ireland heads the list of
foreign born seamen with 91O men :
Germany furnished 546; Sweden 429;
Norway, 421; and Great Britain. 872
There are seamen from India, Tasma.
mia, Iceland, Syria and Turkey.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
Dramatic End of the Leconey Murder
Trial and AcuuittaI

The LecOny murder case came to a
sudden end Monday morning. and was
given to the jury because of an attack
OF heart failure suffered by ex. Prosecu-
tor Jenkins as he was delivering his
hnal speech to the jury. He was max
ing a strong arraignment of Leconev at
the time, and was overcome by the
closeness of the crowded court. Judge
Garrison, who is a doctor attended Mr.
Jenkins professionally, and then resum-
ing his place on the bench delivered
his charge to the jury, which was an
emlnently fair presentation of the evil
dence, but seemed to indicate a strong
suspicion in the Judges mind of LIE.
coney's guilt. The Jury was out but a
short time and returned with a verdict
of mot guilty" This was expected.
for the popular verdict outside of
the jury room has been mot proven"
and that of course means mot guiltv'n
Judge Garrison charged that the
evidence would not warrant the find
ing of verdict of murder in the FIRST
degree. He said that, in case the
prisoner was found guilty, 1t must be
either murder in the first degree or
manslaughter.
When the jury fled into the court
room LecOney sat in his accustomed
place with the father and mother of
his murdered niece. For an instant
after the foreman of the Jury in res
ponse to the usual questions announ-
ced the verdict of mot guilty" there
was silence of surprise in the room.
Then came the roar of many voices
giving utterance to joy or disappoint-
ment at the result.
Laconey rose slowly to his feet and
then slowly dropped into his chair. He
was daZed at his escape. Annie's mother
laid her head on his shoulder and wept
aqdibly, while her husband wiped his
eyes with his handkerchief. Leconey
remained in the court room for nearly
an hour receiving the congratulations
OF hundreds who were permitted 10
enter after the adjournment of court.
1t was hoped that by this time the
crowds without would have decreased
sufficiently to permit him to return to
his home without provoking further
notice.
1t took dozen constables to fight
their way with him down the stair
ways to conveyance that waited for
him. His appearance upon the court
house porch was the signal for an out
burst Of cheering, and such rush to
shake hands and congratulate him that
when he and his escort reached the
pavement they were literally carried
of their feet. With great difficulty he
reached the carriage, in which his sis
ter, Mrs. Vance, and his brother,
James Leconey and wife were awaiting
him.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05

lected, and that, at the current price
for corn, it would require 100000
bushels of that grain to pay the county,
road, school and poor taxes. Yet, as a
county, it was running behind so that,
in spite of a statute framed expressly
to forbid the creation. of a floating debt,
the New Castle Levy Court has in four
years run up floating debt of $8S, 900.
In that county the farmers will prob
ably pledge themselves to vote for no
legislative candidate who will not sup
port the enactment of proper county
commission bill.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
The Weathar

Last Wednesday the weather WAS
nneomtortably warm, the mercury ris-
ing to 7O'-on Monday morning Il Was
down to 1S0, difference of 55o The
winter Kept up It's reputation of mild.
ness ana evenness of temperature to
the end, but March came in like n
roaring lion. Saturday ended a three
days rain with high wind, the rain
day. O''o
The decided fall of temperature dill
not occur, however, until after mid.
nlgnt, the mercury standing at break
fast time Sunday morning at 24o re.
naming at that figure until near noon
when It rose four degrees. falIing
again at night. The mercury was &
degrees below the freezing noint oil
day, and apparently colder from the
blustery, cloudy weather. t. was de-
clue1Iy more wintery than any
The cold dip extended to the tronics
and did a great deal of damage to the
crops in the South. The followino
paragraphs will give some idea of the
cold snap elsewhere; D0
At Savannah, the frst hard freeze of
the winter occurred. Ice formed san
day morning and vegetation was
killed. The damage to truck crons
was immense. Light snow fell in tbe
forenoon, the first for many wears.
At st. Augustine, Fla. the thermon,.
eter went down to 25. Great dams.o
mas oeen done to truck farms. Owing
20 tue forward condition of orange
'rees, they may suffer greatly.
reports nom Northern Texas sav
tnat hundreds of range cattle have
0eeu frozen TO death during the nras
ent cold spell, and the loss Of stock
viii be very severe.
AT Charleston, s. c., IL snowed f,r
three hours Sunday morninq Tha
snow melted as it fell, however and
the sun shone at 8 p. NJ
At Fort Monroe, Va. IL snowaa
heavily all day, the first of the season
Ihe thermometer registered 25 above
zero. "oo'o
At New York the storm snndav
evening reminds New Yorkers of the
famous blizzard two years ago. A
oilnding snow storm set in about
o'clock, accompanied by a brisk south
WIND, and the city was soon covered
with mantle Of white. Manv acc;.
dents due to falls on the slipperv sida.
walks were recorded by the variars
Y ssineie numbers I'd hospitals before
Money Order OF Dralf
!, Newspapers are not Is Ell gradually to
o1t he cypress order - Tod at Is above.
Address. HARPER ed the street car
Even the
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05

The Middletown Transcript in dis
cussing the growing expenses of State
and county and the spirit of the people
as cropping out in the farmers meet
ings says:
What the people of Delaware now
want is government which shall be
conducted with the same degree of
economy and honesty as the most
upright and successful man among
them would conduct his own business.
To these facts the Democratic party is
not oblivious, and its more thoughtful
members are therefore considering
with much more care what reforms
shall be advocated in the next party
platform than they are the rivalry of
the various candidates for guberna.
tOrial honors.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05

We give'in another column the spirit
OF the Farmers meeting ueld in Kent
and New Castle counties. It will be
seen they are decidedly for retrench-
ment and reform, especially under such
exigences as the farmers are placed
now. Jacob G.. Brown advised his
brother farmers to vote for no candidate
who will not pledge himself to advo-
cate a reduetiOn Of taxation, end a
resolution was unanimously adopted
piedging to support no candidate not
guaranteeing to work for the reforms
The report read by Mr.. Fulton stated
that they were satisfied that the county
affairs of Kent could be conducted for
$4,000 less per annum than they now
were, and better service obtained. The
committee stated that a responsible
man had offered to feed the prisoners
for 25 cents per diem a head and pay
the county $500 a year rent for the Jail
TO keep them in.
HA-Sehatof SALISBURY and Rev. j. $.
Willis both expressed themselves in
favor Of tax on mortgages-that it
was not a fair division of taxes that
forced man who owned ostensIblv a
5000 farm to pay all the taxes on that
farm, while a capitalist who held a
$500 mortgage and really owned half
the farm paid nothing.
New Castle county is equally alive
and moving in the work Of retreneh.
ment and reform. The New Castle
county farmers, without taking into
account some items that appear In the
Kent exhibit. estimated, ia urging the
county commission bill upon the last
General Assembly, that the adoption
Of that reform would save that county
$4,000 per year Nathaniel Williams.
ia his paper read before the farmers
mesting at.Middletown, showed that it
now costs tSA 900 to collect and dis
bavse the taxes Of New Castle county,
beosR Ia1 per cent on the amount coll
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
Looking After the Leaks.

The report presented to the Farmers
meeting in Dover last week signed by
lawyer Fulton, DR.. Ridgeley and A.
N. Brown gave some instances Of the
Levy Courts careless use Of money.
An instance was given where road
Overseer was given 500 10 perform a
specified work; but he neither per-
formed the work nor returned the
money Another road oyerseer actually
walked, at his allowance and never
did a days work. Eighty dollars was
paid for a little bridge that could have
been built for $25.
They also had something to say on
taxes: The percentage on collecting
the taxes was held to be too high at 8
per cent, aud 5 per cent, it was ar
gued would be a fair compensation.
- vas stated that $1,000 could be
saved annually. Other estinated saw
ings the committee contend would re-
dpce the expenses Of the county oyer
$4,000.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
News ItannS

The Ohio River at Cincinatti. remain.
eu stationary on Saturday.
One seine fishery at Roanoke Island
on thursday caught over 600 shad and
0O,OOO herring at one haul.
New England's snow. storm stonned
at about seven iches on Mondav oIter1
ted. -0 - las
Inc farmers Alliance, of Georpia
intends To put u candidate in The feId
III each Congress district at the ne1t
election. "oN'
The stone dam Of the Roberdell
Wills, at Rockingham, North Carolina
was destroyed on Friday night bv The
nigh water. The dam cost SOC, 900.
One hundred and sixty four per,ons
perlshed with the sinking of tbp r.
llSn steamship Quetta, wrecked on a
voyage from Queensland To London.
Inc International American Confer-
ence mas nearly completed its work
anu aiCer adjournment the dele0ate,,
WIN De taken On tour through the
Southern States.
Inc work Of burying the victims of
the uam disaster Ia Arizona is uearIv
completed. ThiIty-nine bodies ,r4rs
recovered and identified, and 10 more
are known To have been lost.
Vice President Morton and nor,v mr.
rlVeu at Charleston, 5. e., and sDenL a
quiet sunday, beIug welcomed bv The
mayor ana a committee OF the C,lv
Council and the Vanderbilt Bepev9-
lent Association.
The river at Evansville. Indiana
very high oa Saturday, aud the inbahl
ltants OF Enterprise and Scuf,a1nw,
nelgnDolhg villages, were driven to
tue nilIs. Thousands OF bushels of
corn have been ruined.
Secretary WIudOm has issued orders
ior the establishment Of an immigrant
iahulhg depot on Bedloe's Island. New
1ork harbOr, and arrangements will he
made at once for the construction of
the necessary buildings.
Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Friday made thr
hrst payment Oi $4,000 for the tract
Vi ~ acres Of land near washington
~ u, TO be used as the site of the pro-
posed new Methodist University.
A masked man robbed Hicks and
Gelhurts bank, in Valley Fall, Kansas
OF S3,OOO on Saturday afternoon, after
TlShtenlhg the Cashier with revolver.
he fed TO Meriden, aud was there
recognized hy a telegraph operator
from description sent over the wires
The operator Informed two policemen.
who went 10 the hotel, and. Dojntin1
Winchester rifles at the man ordered
MIN to surrender, Tho stranger
reached for his revolver, but was shot
dead before be could draw it. The
stolen money was found upon his per.
son.
The Alaska Commercial ComDanv
loses It's valuable exclusive privilege of
taking fur seals upon the islands of St
Faul ana st. George because of the
competition excited by its large profits.
Inc North American Commercial Com
Pany, of New York, which is to have
the lease, Is to pay more than three
times as much per annum as was Maid
by the Alaska Company. On the hasis
of 100000 seals per annum the govern
hehV VIII receive about 81 100000 per
ahnum, as against 100000 required
under the old lease. The exclusive
privilege Is to run for twenty years.
The purchase of Alaska was a pretty
good business speculation, as these fig-
ures show. The United States paid
only 81 100000 for the country, and
It has immense undeveloped resources
besides these seal fisheries.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05

a LEADING daily paper in speaking
of the working of the new rules in the
House at Washington and the unmis-
taxable evidence of progress in legis-
lation, says:
In these two weeks it has made
progress on many bills, debated and
voted on the Worlds Fair site, settled
a contested election case, considered
at length the Oklahoma bill and the
urgent deficiency bill, agreed to create
the Office Of Assistant Secretary of
War, passed the home and mortgage
census bill, passed a bill amending the
coinage act-and generally the House
has kept strictly to business, wasted
no time and made steady progress with
the real work before it.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05
The CrAameru

The annual election of officers of the
creamery company yesterday resulted
in the election of the following direc.
tors A. l.. Hudson, w. r. Davis, w.
A. Stevens, Isaac Truax, Jas. Robin
son, John W. Roberts and Thomas
Kirby. The directors then elected A.
L. Hudson, President; J. c. Robinson.
Secretary and Treasurer. Auditing
Committee, W. Geo. Truax, James Fl.
Roberts and James Robinson.
The Association received during
February, SO, ,4S3 quarts of milk, max.
ing S40S pounds of butter.
Smyrna times., 1890-03-05

THE farmers from one end of the
state to the other seem aroused on the
subject Oftaxation, which the Auditors
Report shows to be continually on the
increase. These bills that are accu-
mulating every year in larger piles have
not only aroused their antagonism but
brought to their aid such lawyers as
Chief Justice COmegys, ex-senator
Salisbury and J. Alex. Fulton, to ably
second any effort that may lead to a
reform in our county and State
finances.