Smyrna times., 1891-12-02

of the fair which was submitted to
President Harrison by President Pal
mer of the Worlds Fair.
st. Johns College, of Annapolis,
Nd, defeated the Delaware Field Club
in the mud and rain at Riverview
Park Thursday afternoon by score OF
IStoO. Both teams were weakened
by the absence of regular players. st.
Johns played with three substitutes
and Delaware played with six ga its
team. About 700 persons watc' ed the
game.
"Aunt Dinah's Husking Bee" was
rendered in the lecture room of the
Presbyterian Church at Milford Thurs
day evening by the Young Peoples
Society of Christian EndeavOr, and was
largely attended. The room was fitted
up for the occasion, a stage having
been erected whose dimensions were
large enough to accommodate the par
Elephants in the play.
Judge Fisher, First Auditor of the
Treasury, while visiting his son i1
Chicago last week, suffered painful
accident. While coming down stairs
he made a mis-step and fell with his
right leg twisted under him. The
muscles of the leg were strained at the
knee. He will be confined to his home
for some time and may not recover
his usual buoyant step.
Proof of the fact that Nicholas Van
! dyke. first governor of Delaware, was
buried in an open field near Delaware
City, has resulted in the removal of
the remains to the cemetery of Imman-
uel Church at New Castle, where the
remains of the other members of the
Van Dyke family repose. The gentle
men who have taken an active part in
this movement are entitled to the
thanks of all DelaWareans.
William H. Brisbane, better known
as Harry Brisbane, and Frank De-
Mainville, both of Denver, Col, and
some years ago of Wilmington, are
visiting Wilmington for a few days.
Mr.. Brisbane held at one time the
Office of state treasurer of Colorado.
He is nephew of Ex-Governor Biggs.
His father, Rev. w. H. Brisbane, was
one of the most eloquent preachers who
ever occupied the Smyrna pulpit, and
Harry is remembered as the little boy
who used to frequently 20 up in the
pulpit with his father.
COLORED COLLEGE TO OPEN.-The
state college for colOred students will
| open at Dover on January LIST next.
A member of the board of trustees
stated that so far Is colOred students
had been entered, and the board hoped
to have several more entered before
the new year began. The trustees are
making strenuous efforts to have the
college fully equipped and ready to
begin with the studies mapped out by
the coming of the new year.
! HIS LEG TORN OFF.-JOseph, the 10
year-old son of James S. Stewart, living
near Shawnee, died at late hour on
Wednesday evening, from the effect of
having his leg torn off at the knee
while attempting to get into a farm
wagon. The boy caught his foot in
the wheel and could not extricate it,
so that in turning the wheel threw the
unfortunate one to the ground, tearing
his leg from the body at the knee.
! Drs. Nathan Pratt and William Mar
shall were summoned and amputated
the limb, hut the other wounds sustain
ed with this resulted fatally.
CORN HUsKING MATCH.--A "cOrn
husking match" between a well known
Smyrna man and a Queen Anne's
county resident, for S25 a side, was
the novelincident witnessed by a half
dozen farm hands in the field of far
mer near Middletown on Thursday
afternoon. The two gentlemen were
riding along the road when a discuss
| ion arose as to who was the fastest
corn husker. The result was the horse
was tied to the fence and both men
got out and went to work in field
! where some farm hands were already
employed. The would-be champions
were rugged out in their best attire and
the cOlOred men willingly gave them
a place to try their speed, and stood by
and looked on with amusement al
what they considered two of the great.
est freaks they had ever seen. Three
bushels were husked in twenty min.
utes, or at the rate of 200 bushels pei
day, and the Queen Anne's man was
the winner by an even half dozen ears
A DRUNKEN NEGRO SLAsHEs HIS
PASTOR WHO TRIES TO EJECT HIM
The Rev. Samuel Ambrose, of New
Castle, pastor of the U. A. NJ. E
churches of Delaware City and Sum-
NIT bridge, was murderOusly assaulted
on Thanksgiving night in the the
Delaware City Church by George
Shorter with razor. A wound five
inches long and two inches deep wa.
inflicted in his left side and it may
prove fatal. Ambrose is 60 years old
Both are cOlOred.
Shorter escaped, but warrant was
sworn out for his arrest and he wa
captured. Shorter was drunk and thu
preacher was trying to eject him wheI
the razor was used.
Constable Israel Rulings, acting or
information received from Delaware
City, went to Chester, Pa, Thursday
and arrested Shorter. He was brOugh
to New Castle and given a hearing
before Squire Janvier and held t.
await the result of AmbrOse's injuries
The latter is still in a critical condition
but the physicians have hopes of hi
recovery. Shorter. who is a notorious
character, is now languishing behind
the bars of New Castle Jail.
DEATH OF BARRETT SMTTHERs.-
Nathaniel B. Smithers, Jr., the onl,
son of the Hon. N. B. Smithers, die,
at his residence in Dover on the Oath
= The deceased was born in Dover
A March oath, 1861. He was a gradual
of Lafayette College, of the class q
'85. He studied law in the Office Q
= his father, and was admitted to praC
t tice April 25th, 1886. He was marie
h in 1886 to Miss Louisa Moore, of Lau
It rel, sister of ex-state senator Moore
J. and leaves one son. Mr.. Smithers ha
e been in bad health for several months
He was associated with ex-SecretaT
Bayard and Senator Gray as couns,
}, for the defendants in the cOnteste
d Cummins will case, and was take
3 sick during his argument in that cas-
o The funeral took place from his lat
l. residence on Monday at IL O'Clock, tn
|. Rev. T. e. Terry officiating at IL