Smyrna times., 1893-05-17

County and State Items.
The first Saturday in June is the
date OF the election in Wilmington.
Inc public schools of Laural will
Close 1or the summer on Friday next.
Strawberry plants are being affected
Oy tne strawberry weavel in Sussex
county. ''oA
Inc Farmers Institute of Kent
county will meet at FELTON, May Oath.
at o'clock P. NJ.
Mr.; BAYARD's DEpARrURE.-Au.
Dassador Bayard will leave this coun-
Try on Saturday, June 3rd, for his post
D. W. Corbit, of Odessa, has been
appointed a member of the Advisory
council on Farm Culture and Cereal
Industry Worlds Fair.
Measles and chicken-pox are enid.
emic at Bridgeville, Del, and at Fed
erals6urg, eight miles west, scarlet
leVer In malignant form RACES.
a party of about fifty from Whining
Ton Will leave tomorrow morning over
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for
INA worlds Fair, to be gone two week. |
Inc Rev. George Gassner of Kansas |
City has accepted an invitation to be- |
come rector of Christ Church. Della
ware City, and will enter upon his du-
ties there June 1st.
The Legislature made an appropria.
n fru .
colored college at Dover fer two Years.
and in consequence the college has
been compelled to close.
The will of the late Nathaniel Will
Hams makes his wife executrix of the
estate, assisted by Nathaniel J. Viii.
hams and Nathaniel w. Davis, his at
torneys. The estate is quite large.
The steam dredge which has been at
work at Odessa for nine weeks has |
completed its work This makes the /
creek much wider, also strengthening 8
IL and will be great help to naviga.
ton. |
1t is long time ahead, but the Sua. j
sec COuntdin says, the friends of Hon t
W. n. Ross are enthusiastic over his '
consent to allow the use of his name in [
connection with the State Treasurer. a
ship.
The number of pupils registered in a
Che puoHc schools of Dover for the "
year ending May, 1898. list contains Y
OH names, against 4S7 last wear. The a.
state school dividend is based uDon p
this report a
H. Il: Kenney, Inspector General of it
the Delaware National Guard. has re- a,
signed and other designations are ex. n,
pected to follow. This is caused bv a,
tne refusal of the Legislature TO grant q,
an adequate appropriation for the sol. AZ
diers. SUI q
1t Is understood that an effort is he. l.
Ing made to privately raise sufficient
means to keep the Delaware BUILDING
curing the six months of the Worlds in
Fair. The proposition is. it is undrr- th
stood, to obtain the signatures of 10 NJ
prominent citizens to a note for 81 700 vi
A DIVORCED COUPLE REMARKED a
Charles ID. Brown and Luetta b. /. to
Brown, who were divorced by the Leg. tel
islature at its session in 1891. were an
remarked on Monday at the residence be
9t y the latter, in Wilmington. The in
Rev. J. B. Quigg Oficiated. ch
Prof. J. G. Gray will retire from tho pr
superlntendency of public schools of wa
sussex county, at the end of the present F..
Term and take up the practice of law mt
Wm' Anowles, Esq, who will graduate pei
with honors at the commencement of ret
Delaware College, is an applicant for COT
the position. ''' we
me editor of the DeLGwarean. takes an
Mr.. Bayard's remarks on the silver
question as the text for a column arti
Gle TO discuss finance. The editor FiC
Doldly upholds the free silver doctrine OF
ana Dluntly asserts that all of the Dy
knowledge appertaining to finance is tne
not monopolized by Mr.. Bayard. FRA
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DELAWARE STATE Fair.-Tbe ont. Loi
look for the coming fair is much knt
Drlghter than Tor several years The Pllc I
interest manifested last wear in the Not
special premiums has taken a firm boIJ Rev
on the people, land in that particnIaT whC
feature of the fair) will be very mncb rIsO
greater than last year The manage. Oro'
ment thls year will try by everv Dossi eye
OIe means TO excel that of last wear MT:
Ill In the West Presbyterian Church theS
" wilmington, Thursday night. the Rev cane
Dewitt Talmage preached To 15OO ca
people and ordained to the ministrv war
Aloert Il. Keigwin, and Chandler tlon
Oaks; his assistant ar tbo PuH Iei a. Carr
aDernacle, to the ministry. Previous RUrc Do, |.
= Vhe Ordlnatlon sermon, DR.. Talmage ;ln III
(reacned to 1000 people in front of the IngC
he greatest sermon 90. 9oyI ~ was Della
P'0"O"oU III disa
FAILURE OF A BANKING FIRM IN slnc'
firm of R. r. Rob. NOV
nsOn q Co., bankers and brokers sIatl
fourth and Market street. WilminOton pure
allied Thursday for $3.50, 900. with esti' Is sa
mated assets of 100000. The nrin. hder
ipal cause of the faiInre is .Ln PIln, De
Unlimited Endorsement of ,sUao1 'lluosU ntE G. r
y h. q. Robinson, the surviving mem 'ne
er of the firm. These notes aggre-
ate an amount exceeding 100000
nd the company had to take them up. w
Idded to that was the collapse in warC
leading stock last February bv which not
lr. Robinson lost heavily. His loses
D these stocks alone is put at $4,000. w,
J. Cl
An organization styled the Improved belle
rider HeptasOphs was effected in busiI
'dessa, last Wednesday evening, under able
ne direction of Organizer J. H. Prim- by Il
ose. The following officers were cleo WI
"a Fast ArchOn, ]. w. Watkins: gists,
,rcnon, l.: v. Aspril, Jr; Provost, w. M
VoshelIi Prelate, Joseph H. Enos ledo,
ecretary, J. F. Deakyne; FinancierI Ha
@. Armstrong; Treasurer, w. A. nally
hodes, Jr; Inspector, Samuel Peachy and
'arden, Albert Kumple Sentinel Testi
mos s. Busby; Medical Examiner. bottle
r. w. V. Woods; Trustees, Joseph e.
rowD, F. B. Watkins and Captain
dWard Brooks.
A GOOD SHowING.-The minutes OF vvho.
q twenty-ffth annual session of the
lions Growth of the denomination ~ wher
cry department of church work. whsr
q gather from these tables the fol-
wing figure: Total membership 33,
g; Sunday school scholars 1886;
Hue of church and parsonage pro-
rty, 81 ,755, 900; contributed to church