Smyrna times., 1892-04-27

ONOA ' 44dSSCy3 VI OON6E. Is CQdlr-
man Of the committee to arrange for
the Columbian Exhibition Celebration
to be held in New York city next Oc-
tober.
One of Dover's oldest residents,
Mrs. Eliza Deane, died Monday after
an illness of several months, aged 70
years.
George G. Carey has bought back
the Cecil Star North East, from T. B.
Williams, to whom he has sold it, and
is again its editor and proprietor.
The reward for the apprehension of
the murderer of Mrs. Jennie Richards.
Cecil, has been increased from 81, 900 to
So 900.
All Registrars and alternate Regis
trars are required to take the oath of
office before the Clerk of the Peace of
their respective counties within 10 days
after appointment.
The Postal Guide for March saws
there are 16l postal appointments in
Delaware, an increase of II over the
year 1889; there are 12 postmistresses
in the state, and the spelling of
Peterborough, New Castle county
postottice, is changed to Fieldsboro.
E. w. Dawson, residing at Newark.
has just received from a brother trav-
elling in Africa, an exceptionally large
and Handsomely marked pair Of horns
taken from wild steer captured in
the dark continent They measure
five feet and three inches from tin to
tip, the ends being of a deep black
shade.
One of the sturgeon fishermen on the
Delaware Bay off the Mispillion river
caught lobster on Wednesday last
that weighed over six pounds. This is
the largest lobster of which there is
any record, caught above the Break
water,
A sturgeon weighing 10 feet, inches
in length and weighing $40 pounds,
was caught in the Delaware bay on
Monday last by William Potter. This
is supposed to be the largest sturgeon
ever caught in Delaware waters.
Two colored men, Potts and Gibbs.
were drowned under very peculiar cir.
cumstances in Sassafras River. Mon
day three men borrowed q boat from
Mr.. stephen Boyer, to go fishing.
They, after fishing, went to Frederick
town, purchased some liquor and got
drunk. Staying away from home so
long, Mr.. Boyer went to his wharf
and saw the thaee men out in the
stream in his boat He called to them
to come ashore, and in their endeavor
to row, the boat upset, and two of
them drowned before Mr.. Bower could
reach them while the other was barely
saved.
DELAwARE's BACCALAUREATE SER
MON.-Rev. Otis A. Glazebrook, D. D..
rector of st. Johns Episcopal Church,
at Elizabeth, n. j., has accepted the
invitation from the faculty to deliver
the baccalaureate sermon in the Del
aware College OratOry, June u. DR..
GlaZebrook is a scholarly man, and
was few years ago very prominently
urged as a successor to DIR. William H.
Purnell, ex president of the college.
Next Friday evening Job H. jackson
OF Wilmington, will deliver his illus
trated lecture on "Paris, as Seen from
the Eifiel Tower" in the college ora
tory before the students and town
folk.
The Athenaean Society of Delaware
college, has accepted the challenge
recently issued to it by the Delta Phi |
Society, and Friday, April 30, has been
informally decided upon as the dav Of
the debate. Those who will compete |
in the OratOrical contest are Frank A |
COOch and Benjamin B. Smith, for the
Athenaean, and Joseph B. Handy and |
T. Blair Pie for the rival Society. The
question for the debate is That Free
Coinage of Silver Weuld be Beneficial
to the United States" The affirmative
will be taken by w. w. Knowles and
Q. w. Jones for the Delta Phi, and
Messrs. H. G. Easthorn and A. Lee
Ellis for the Athenaeau side of the
house.