Smyrna times., 1892-05-04
WHOLE NO. 1896.
Delaware and Maryland Items.

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Men, women and children are catch
ing CLANS on the bay flats. some Mol
Ing up as many as POO to 300 on a tide
me clans are sold to the proprietors
at the bayshOre hotels for 35 cents ,
hundred. ~ 0o"'S
Among the graduates at the com.
mencement Of the Philadelpbia CoIIa1e
qi fiharmacy were the following from
DelaWare Wharton L. Cornell Jobr
r. Gradwohl, William H. Hobson
Howard NJ. Wilkinson. 0"'O"
Governor Reynolds has made tbe
following appointments DR. Hirar,
~ ~ burton, OF Lewes, trustee of the
9tate Hospital at Farnhurst William
- stewart, trustee of the same institn-
ION, vice Eli R. Sharp, resigned: Jobn
l.. Poor, registrar for Kenton hundred
wee FRANKLIN Temple, declined; Jesse
W. hoblnsOn Justice of the Peace for
Seatord hundred; Peter Marvel. regis
Lrar, and Henry A. Houston alternate
lOr DagsborO hundred, Sussex countv
The special market train that bas
Deen run over the Delaware road for
SIX months past, has received absolute.
~ no patronage from the farmers
nehce the railroad authorities ordered
iIs discrimination on the 9TH u4,
Inc facilities for marketing tmloIT
themselves IS not what our farn;6gs
want Lower freight rates and rnoTIo
ProihpI train service in berry season
on trains already scheduled. is ali thew
ask or require OF the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad Company. - 10
Presiding Elders Alfred Smith and
Il. II Adams, ex-Presiding Elder w
= T. ,. Murray, Joseph Pyle and DIR. A.
T.. T. 9udler, delegates from Wilmington
NJ. T.. Conference to the General CON
ference, left Thursday for Omaha. Ne
braska, where the quadrennial session
OF the General Conference will be held
during the greater part of this month
IIr. Pyle was accompanied bv Mrs
lyle and their daughter, Mrs. Josenb
W. Coley. ="
INCREASED REwARD.-The National
Board OF Fire Underwriters. thronrb
thelr Secretary, II. r. Miller Now
! orH, have offered a reward Of S05O
Tor the detection, conviction and nm
OF the party or parties who
may on trial be found guilty bv the
court OF the crime of incendiarism or
arson in firing the house and barn nf
Mrs. Ella }. Tally, near Elkton, April
"a. Inc reward expires by limitation
)ne year from date. This reward
with 5000 offered by the County Com.
nlssloners and $3.50 offered by Wm. nj
olngerly, of the Record, makes the
mount $1,000.
DELAWARE SENATORS VoTE.-The
senate substitute for the House bin to
xclude Chinese, was agreed to on
,,1onday by vote of 43 to IS. and
hereupon passed without a division
t extends for ten years more the ex-
sting anti-Chinese legislation, which
Sherman showed from census
tatistlcs, has prove effective enough
Dr. all practical purposes. ACCORDING
Mr.. Sherman's figures the Chinese
opulatiOn of California has aotuaIlv
ecreased ;aaG 43 per cent, being 3,451 less
lo9O than 1t was in 1880, so that
mere Is no excuse whatever for the
ancorous legislation favored by the
louise. Senators Gray and Higgins
9th voted for the passage of the SEN
te substitute.
CAPE HENLoPEN COMMISSIONERS
ne town commissioners of Cape Hem
'pen City (RehOboth) met in VIII
llngton Thursday. Those present
'ere President Ebe W. Tunnel of
ewes; Secretary, Harry P. Cannon.
Brldgeville ; Hon. Elihu Morris. of
ewes, snd DR.. Jefferis, of Wilmington.
he position left vacant by the resig-
alton of VIM. Bright at the last
leeting, was filled by the election of
A. Hooper, of Baltimore. Arrange
tents were made for two lots for
1urehes in Cape HenlOpen CITY.
mere was no important business
ansacted. Bishop Coleman has been
iterested in the granting of the lots.
he has plans for an Episcopal
hurch to be erected upon one of
lem.
In March last bill passed the Uni
q states Senate, which authorized
Ie building of postoflice to cost no
ore than ten thousand dollars. at
'ery postotjce where the revenues
lceeded three thousand dollars Der
'ar' rms was in pursuance to the
commendation of Postmaster Cen
al Wanamaker-but this really ex-
Ilent measure is likely to fail to be-
me a law because of opposition in
e Democratic House. Our Congress-
an, Hon. John w. Cansey, has ex-
essed himself as opposed to this bill
lIch would give to Milford, Smyrna,
lddletown, Laurel and possibly sew
al other towns an ornament in the
ape of a public building.
The estate of Reynear Williams was
'rth upwards of $50, 900 according to
e estimate given when the will was
owed last week. He left the interest
SS4, ,OO0-ivested in stocks and bonds
also the stOrehOuse occupied by John
Adkins and the Office building Oe-
pied by w. l. Simpson, to his wife
+ lifetime. To his brother, Robert
Williams, he devised three farms
fee, and one farm to his namesake
pLew, ReyneaF Williams, Jr., which
to be held in trust. To his half
other William Williams, he left a
nd he held of his and double house
North Milford now in tenure of Jos.
niels and VIM. Richardson. To the
sses Sallie and Eliza Adkins he left
brick house on North Front street,
own as the Fisher property" At
} death of his wife all of the estate
II NNu NN,sN 4 L
prevails revert to his brother Robert
Williams. Mrs. Williams has ample
ans outside of her husbands estate,
she is perfectly satisfied with the
! as made.-MiLfOrd Chronicle.
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