Smyrna times., 1894-07-18
County and State Items.

7. Irving Handy and family are sum
rering at the Bell cottage RehOboth.
Leipsc Race Track was formally opened
Fridav. and the attendace was large.
The Prohibitionists of New Castle County
will nominate county ticket on the Dist
inst.
The Laurel Public Library has been
abandoned and the books will be sold at
auction
Democratic politicians in Wilmington,
find their passes no longer of account when
going to Philadelphia.
The hotel Henlopen at Rehoboth has
been leased by Messrs. Jefferson and Lof-
land and will be opened for the season.
Mrs. NJ. E. Chatham died at her home
in Dover Monday, aged 73 years She was
a sister of the late Chief Justice COmegys.
The recent city census gives Salisbury
noDulation of 3, 32S. The volume of busi-
ness for 1898 amounted to about $2,5OO,OOO
Ex-State Senator Richardson is still lyiny
dangerously i'll at Dover. He is suffering
from cancer and, it is thought cannot
recover.
There is an apparent failure in the crop
ofinsects this season. The mosquito is u
little late At this time last year there |
were clouds of them.
Ambassador Bayard at London declared |
that he was not thinking of resigning his |
post but that he would probably visit |
America in October
The Presbyterian Church. of Dover, has
extended "A unanimoes call to Rev. Joseph
B. Turner, of Altoona, Pa, at II salary OF
81, 600 and parsonage.
L bo
amusing this fall to hear the Democratic
orators when they begin to sing their old
songs of mixed schools"
Thomas Cochran, Jr., who was a candi
date for the Middletown pOstmastership,
has been appointed to position in the
government printing office at Washington.
Two unknown negroes were found dead
on the railroad tracks at Middletown, Sun
day morning. 1t is supposed they were
asleep on the platform and were struck oy
passing train
The wife of ex-Representative Miles
Messick died Friday near Bridgeville
after a short illness. She was rs years of
age and the mother Os eX-Representatlve
S. Harrington Messick.
Lena Carey, the colored girl of Bridge
willie who became seriously ill from eating
a quantity of cabbage and then trying to
eat five plates of ice cream on II wager,
died after u week, of great pain.
w. j. Eliason has received his commits
lion as postmaster at Mt. Pleasant. j.
Frank Ellison, a relative OF the new ap-
pOintee has been postmaster at that place
for many years. The office pays about
$500 year.
OPPOSING SUNDAY FUNERALS. - The
ministers of Wilmington are doing their
best to discourage Sunday funerals. The
preachers are doing earnest work IN this
direction and a Sunday funeral will soon
be a rarity.
A delegation of IL persons, representing
the Baptist Young Peoples Union and
societies OF the State left the Delaware
avenue station, B. & D. r. Il. at 1896 A. NJ.
yesterday, to be present at the Toronto,
Can, convention.
Gault & Palmers large saw and planning
mill. three miles east of Bridgeville, was
DESTROYED by fire early Saturday morning.
The loss on the mill will exceed S2,OO0
while $500 worth of lumber was destroyed.
There was no insurOnce on either.
No SHAD FOR THE HATCHERY.-Mayor
Shortledge, of Wilmington, says there is
no prospect of receiving shad eggs this
season for the usual distribution IN Della
ware waters. The Federal government
mas DeEn uudDlC " OObtsAA oAAJ SNPPAAN@
from its sources.
The following pensioners in this county
have been dropped from the pay roll ',ior
the reason that they were not ratably dis
abled for earning support by manual LABOR
WIN. H. Knox, Harrington; Nehemiah
Sbarp. Milford; VIM. II. Thompson and
John Zenz, Smyrna.
DELAWARE HoNoKED. - AT the big
Christian Endeavor convention going on In
Cleveland the Delaware contingent was
awarded the banner for making the largest
proportionate gain in junior societies fol
the past year. The delegates will bring
the banner home to WILMINGTON.
John HUM, Sr., died at the residence o.
his son, in Wyoming, on Friday, aged Il
years. Mr. HUM was qnite a promlnen
man in this section during the late war
but has been engaged in Business IN tn'
south for several years. Interment at th'
Friends meeting house, Camden.
The American Fibre Co., has completed
the rebuilding of the ruines OF part o
the Dean wooien mills at Newark for tn
use of the new manufacturing com
many. which Messrs. 5. l.. &H. Denney ar
to Establish there. The building is 25Ox5
feet and two stories in height. 1t is built Q
stone and brick and iron exclusively.
An old musket which did yeomen servic
in the Revolutionary war of 1872 has jus
been presented to the Delaware Histories
Society by Jacob CashO of Newark, say
the Ledger. The gun was brought troL
France by an ancestor of Mr.. Casinos wh
came over with General Lafayette, actin
as his German and English interpreter.
DELAWARE PosTMAsTERs. - Fourth
class pOstmasters were appointed IN Dela
ware: Samuel Graham, Brownsville, VIC
7. B. Brown, resigned j. BVandever, Fol
est. vice w. P Reynolds. resigned; q
Vanderson. Little Crack, vice w. s. Her
erickson. removed Alfred Taylor, Mo
Cellandsville, vice w. b. Mackey, r'
moved.
NATIoNAL GUARD APPoRT1ONMENT.-
The Secretary of War; appOrtioned anon
the several States the 500, 900 appropriate
by the government for the militia. Del
wares appOrtiOnment is S2,5o1. The al
pertinnments of Delaware, Idaha, MOntan
Nevada DakOto and Wyoming are alik
The only. smaller apportlonment Is tn
Of Arizona, which IS S2OOO
OPPOSED TO BANcROFT.-The Newal
LeIyer is opposed 10 the nomination by u
Democratic party of Samuel Bancroft +
Congress. In its issue of the l4th inst,
an editorial: "Will he pay for it if he &c
it9' The story of Esau selling his birth rig
is then told with considerable mlnutene'
ana the party Is WhtilCu e5"it''s '-'
ing man for Office merely because ne
wealthy.
DELAWARE LAW ON STRIKERs.-T
law enacted by the Legislature OF Il
State, March s, 1876, provides that a.
engineer who leaves his train at other pia
than its destination, because OF any strlF
shall nav fine of not less than 500, Il
more than $500, and be Imprisoned
months at the discretion of the Court.
similar penalty is also provided for persc
who NAV interfere with any employees
the Railroad Companies to induce them
strike or leave their trains at any OIL
than their usual places ofdestination.
TUNNEL HAS ONE COMPETITOR.-l
though all the other aspirants to the Den
cratic nomination for Governor retll
frOm the field when il was announced q
Ebe w. Tunnel, of Lewes, would acc
the nomination, William i. Sirman. f.
Dslmar, ex-Speaker of the House OF
presentatives, declines to give way: !
eirman's newspaper organ 1.-THE La
Sfsser COuntiGH) announces this fact IN
issue Of Saturday, and, while having no
lrg but words Of praise TO say with resp
~ Mr.. Tunnel, insists upon the nomli
Ion Of Mr.. Sirman as the right OF the Del
Gratis Of the western hundreds, where
Democratic majorities Of the county CO
from.