Smyrna times., 1893-03-29


Presbytery will be held at ElktOn,
beginning April 18th.
Frank Temple has been appointed a
messenger in the U. S. Senate at S4.OO
per day, all the year around.
Georgetown Commissioners want to
raise $4,000 for a new water works.
electric lighting plant and fire engi ne.
w. P. Voshell, originally of Leipsic.
pensin agent in Wilmington, has gone
to Chicago, leaving a number creditors
of that city.
A meeting of philanthropists at
Dover decided to ask the Legislature
of Delaware to establish a State board
of charities.
ManlOve NJ. Beamer, of the State
College for COlored Students, Dover, is
an applicant for Recorder of Deeds of
the District of Columbia.
Houston Culbreth has beon an
pointed to fill the position in the gov
ernment printing Office which the Re-
publicans secured for Cove 5. Wilson.
Mrs. Amelia Hearn, relict of Daniel
Hearn, who was one of the largest real
estate owners of Sussex county, died
in Laurel on Friday, March Nth, aged
6S yeass.
AT q recent meeting the Delaware
Worlds Fair commissioners adopted
resolution appointing the Rev. S. n.
Pilchard as the oficiary at the dedica-
ton of the Delaware house at the
Worlds Fair.
Edward Phillips of Rehoboth and
Miss Amanda Kitchens of Lewes were
united in wedlock in Georgetown
Thursday afternoon p. m, at the
residence of Robert G. Houston, ESQ,
nephew of the bride.
James Muncy of Little Creek, was
struck by train in Chester Saturday,
and badly injured. A leg was broken
and he was otherwise badly bruised.
He was placed in a hospital there.
HORsEY-CROW.-Cards are out an
nOuncing the wedding of Miss Edith
Lysle Crow, No. 1907 Washington
street, and William P. Horsey of Sails
bury, Md, at Grace Church, Whining
ton, Wednesday evening April 9th.
J. ThOs. Lowe, county treasurer pro-
poses in the future to accept no county
orders in the hands of third parties,
except they are stamped as accepted
by him. The Farmers Bank in the
future will pay none of the orders un-
less as above.
At Milford yesterday, Sussex county
farmers were addressed by J. B. Gil
christ and Benjamin F. B. WOcdall,
the former speaking on High or In
tensiVe Farming" and the latter on the
uses and Abuses of the Common
Corn Plant"
The Pomona Grange of Kent county
will meet in Camden on Thursday
April 6. There will be addresses by
the officers, paper by Mrs. c. Gundy
Brown, and the discussion of the gift
berry crate, freight and express rates
and train service for berries, aud other
topics of interest.
The General Assembly on Wednes-
day passed bill repeating the cOllat-
eral Inheritance law Of Delaware.
Thus it goes, expenses increasing and
taxes being diminished, nOtwithstand-
ing the Legislature is borrowing
money to pay the running expenses oi
the State.-DeEGWGTeGn
President Cleveland on Monday last
appointed Thomas HolcOmb, OF New
Castle, Fifth Auditor of the Treasury.
Earnest P. Baldwin, of Maryland, was
appointed First Auditor of the Treas
ury, to succeed Hon. Geo. P. Fisher, O.
this State. The salary of these pOsit
ions is $500 per annum.
The Legislature has a plan before il
secure better country roads. The need
of better roads is now becoming recOg
nized, although people do not fully ap
preciate:the vast expense required tC
keep poor roads, even in the condition
in which they exist.
Minister Sperry from far away Per
"a, where the fruit originated writes
enfertaininRly of the Persian peach
md will endeavOr to have the luscious
fruit introduced in Peninsula orchards
The reach is doubtless a cOngenia
tonic to Minister Sperry, and a pleas
ent reminder of his old home in Della
ware.
Grand circle of The Brotherhood o
the Union paid to the widow ofThoma
smith Of Little Creek, $500 on Wed
nesdav- Mr.. Smith had been mem
Der of the organization one year, ant
had Maid about 10 cents a week to tn
society for membership.
John ]. Rosa, of Milford. will max
a public trial of the "Bemis Iranl
planting Machine" on the Farn
Slaymaker g. Son, near Dover Io-uaS
This machine plants tomatoes an
sweet notato plants as fast as q tear
will walk, watering them at tne San m
time, and is claimed to insure q POI
feet stand.
The Frapkford correspondent OF tn
Milford Chronicle writes A few week
AGO Nilbv Williams, cOlOred, shot an
Killed a hawk. He followed the pra'
Jice o. years hBoi "nN 4
in his hand aud visited all the neigi
bors. Each one gave him a hen, an
he went home with hawk and hitee
hens.
Now tho legislators at Dover are D.
OinniUo TO talk about q date for 10
anal sdiournment. This is encoural
inc az an indication that they at la
see the necessity of doing somethin
towards bridging the session 70 .
end. For awhile the dissolution q q
peared to be about as distant as u
Fourth of July.
The work of the Legislature 10 r
enacting the delinquent tax law, ha
disfranchised about 1000 KepuDilea
voters in Kent county. Very 10
negroes have paid any poll tax Tor ."
years, and therefore have been
turned delinquent by the collector
and will be unabls to get registered
time for the next election.
Harry Mitten of Frederick and z
Bailey of Dover want clerkships
Washington. r. r. Cochran is al
looking for something, and it is sa
that for every Delaware Republics
appointed at Washington there are 81
Delaware Democrats looking for place
senator Gray will make trip
EUROPE this summer and will relna
away about three months. That W