Smyrna times., 1893-08-23

put up 80 new box stalls for trottini
horses.
What Delaware needs is steady
rainfall for forty-eight hours.-Norn
ing Ne,Os.
The Watkins Packing Co., and
Baker Bros, at Odessa are running on
full time now.
Brandywine Summit Camp meeting
was very successful. There was 101
con versions.
Twenty-nine Wilmingtonians started
for Chicago via the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad Monday.
The National Banks in the city of
Wilmington, have done a wise thing in
increasing their surplus.
The reed bird season will open on
Friday next. The birds are already to
be seen along the creek and river.
Abram Vandegrift late editor of the
Mlddletown Transcript, is now engaged
in the lumber business at Duluth, Min
nesOta.
The new water works pump at
MiddletOwn has been completed.
Water was forced into the stand-pipe
for distributiOn on Saturday.
Jesse Ward, a well known farmer of
Vernon, died of heart disease on the
steamer JOppa, on his way from Balti-
more to Denton Friday.
The largest catch of crOcus for three
years past was made at Cedar Beach
by Justus Lowery, Thursday-a thou
sand and eighty-fve fish.
The women taxpayers of Middletown
object to paying taxes in poll room,
in which Collector Dickey sat to
receive taxes when in that town.
Every farmer wishing to exhibit
anything III the way of horses, grain,
vegetables, etc, at the coming Fair
must have them in by Sept. 4, as then
all entries close.
Members of the Second Delaware
Regiment are somewhat exercised over
the fact that their monument at Gettys-
burg is One-fOurth of a mile to the rear
OF the spot they desired to mark.
Miss Anna NJ. Polk, daughter of the
late Ex-Governor Charles Polk, died at
the residence of her brother, William
A. Polk, in Georgetown on Friday
August 4th, aged GO years.
Tne veterans of the State are dis |
turbed by reason of the action of the !
administration upon the subject of pen
siOns, last week special meeting of |
the department of the G.. A. h. was |
held IN Wilmington.
Georgetown sends a good quota of
representatives to the Worlds Fair.
Mr.. Chas. L. Moore, J. Francis Bacon
and wife, exGOv. Stockley and wife.
Mrs. Hannah Paynter and son, Roland.
w. Scott Way is having a handsome
summer residence built at ROLAND
Park Baltimore, where he will make
his home during the summer months.
spending his winters in the salubrious
Cline of Florida.
Senator Gray is catching it from
some of the papers for finding positions
for two cOlOred men in Washington at
S72O. per year each, while there are
several thousand men of his CITY out of
employment.
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of Miss Mary H. BUYERS. of
Sellnsgrove, Pa, to Rev. William p.
Taylor, of Perryville, Md, on: August
81, at the residence of the brides par.
ents in Selinsgrove. Mr.. Taylor is a
son OF Severn Taylor of Dover.
10 BUILD AN ELECTRICE ROAD.
The New Castle City Council Thurs
day gave permission to the Wilmington
& New Castle Electric Railway Com
pany to lay tracks on Delaware,
Orange, Front and Union Streets, work
10 be begin at once. The charter of
the company lapses unless work is
begun before September 81.
Saturday was circus day in Whining
ton and the interest of thousands of
WIlmingtOnians and of many from |
other places was centered for time in
Barnum & Bailey's big show at Elliott
avenue and Washington street. The
parade in the morning was seen by a {
continual thrOng of people from the &
beginning to the end of the route.
One OF the premiums to be given at
the Delaware State Fair this wear ia a
lree trip 20 the Worlds Fair tn tn. =
most popular female school teacher in '
the State. A ballot box will be placed I
az the entrance TO the grounds and a 7
oiahK tlcket given to each person 90. '
ing IN. A thousand dollar life poiicv
lot one year and three Thousand dol. 9
lar accident policy good for the trim [
teacher.
because the Legislature would not
authorize the erection of new school
buildings out of the funds in hand In I
lhe coutry districts but passed a law
compelling the clerks to turn into the ;
treasury the surplus, there have been
many old school houses repaired. In
not few the only parts of the old 7.
houses that remained sitter the carpen.
lers we're through with their work were
the openings of the doors and windows.
AS an echo of the poor down-trodden ..
farmer of the West, the farmers of Del
aware are occasionally heard lament. !
lng their hard condition and seeking to
IIeneuy trouble that is chiefly psycho. ,
iTUslcSi' IKE the present money scare.
f me PENINSULA farmers live in a land
oI .I MIX and honey, and compared TO !
onelr s Western brethren, or even to =
o,Ilzens o.L ot their own state who follow :
U.neI v.ae industries. They are the most !
,phlosper0us, ,h the most independent and y
Suo wsalthiest class Of citizens in the
DInunlty And what is true of the1 !
famare farmsuaAre farmers is also true of the
ers oil the entire Peninsula .
WiIp;solOm WT,ri solomon Hersey, editor Of tbe 2
Onanl nall9gtOn lgn Republican who van. '1o ~ Z
ins,sod Teoesuperate, os has grown wsaIer We % !
10 'Ieau iea'io o. stronger, aud Is now nOah1a
70 leave his room. He tooi Lo" unable b
',N oaner day and when he SVn returns r,ae the
o was 50 exhausted that he dueu bSd J. no
carried carried from the cab in to Iu tba 70 oe
,olls MS sad news particularly as b;s s, noseL
IONS are such as to exclude tba I symp-
Ws any speedy change for improyeneIps nopo