Smyrna times., 1894-11-07
County and State Items.


Ambassador Bayard will be given
dinner on November by Secretary
of State Gresham, to which the men
bers of the Cabinet and other disti
guished guests have been invited.
EPISCOPAL CONvOCATIoN.-The al
nual session of the cOnvOcation of th
Diocese of Delaware will be held MOI
day and Tuesday, November 10Th an
Goth, in st. Johns Church, Whining
ton.
Clarence Bennett, aged 10 years,
Bridgevllle, Del, was instantly kille
Saturday by the accidental discharg
of gun in the hands of his friend
John Hansel. The latter tried to shoe
himself, but the other boys in the part
wrested the gun from him.
Last Wednesday evening at O'clocl
the NJ. 2. Church of Frederica wa
filed to overlooking to witness tht
marriage ceremony of Mr.. Thomas
HutsOn to Miss Maizie Meredith. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev
F. L. Lewis, of Baltimore, Md.
TURN ON THE LIGHT.-The Dahl
Republican says: Wilmington needs
Doctor Parkhurst or big back at
tOrney to expose the corruption in
Wilmington and State amongst our
officials. Who will be the men OF
nerve to tackle the "lion" in his den
The Superior Court has granted the
following liquor licenses: ". w
WhitlOck, Clayton; w. P. Armstrong.
KentOn: W +. Williamson. Frederica.
George A. Millington, Dover; Robert
H. Freeston; Leipsic Joseph Poore,
Hartley Clarke & Mcdaniel, druggists
Dover.
Mrs. SUSAN FOARD.-Mrs. Susan
Foard, relict of the late Richard H
toard, prominent citizen of Bohemia
Manor, died at the home of her son
Samuel B. FOard, of Middletown Del,
on Wednesday. Her remains We're
buried at st. Augustine. Mrs. Foard
was the daughter of Elihu Jefferson, of
New Castle, Del.
The tickets for New Castle County
were printed by c. F. Thomas & CO..
and the work required ten days. The
total number was about 129 600
Stamps and pads accompany the tickets
for each district, and 48 dozen of each
were used in the tickets and if placed
end to end they would reach distance
ofover 80 miles.
The marriage of Miss Hattie Marvel
of rear Georgetown, and Thomas #
Wilson, of near Milton, is announced
to take place on Wednesday afternoon
November 81, in st. PauPs P. E
Church, Georgetown. Miss Marvel il
the youngest daughter of Prothono-
tary and Mrs. Josiah p Marvel. and a
sister OF Judge David T. Marvel.
An exchange says: IF men are the
salt Of the earth, women are undonh.
tedly the sugar.a luxury. Vicious men
are satpetre, indifferent men the rock
SAT-, ana nice men the table salt. Old |
maids are the brown sugar, good nat
ured matrOns the loaf sugar. and pretty |
gIrls The fine, pulverized, white. clari. |
ned sugar. Pass the pulverized sugar.
please.
1t is reported that Charles R. McFee,
Esq, private secretary Ex-senator Grav
has sent list of the pensioners of /
Kent and Sussex counties to the Pen
sion Office in Washington. and that
they will receive notice from the Com.
missioner OF Pensions to show cause
why their names should not be dropped
from the pension roll after the exuira-
ton OF 80 days.-MilfOrd NetCs.
LoFLAND-WAPLEs. = James Penn
0erton LOdand, of Milford. and Miss
Delema NAPLES. daughter of DR.. JoseDh
Waples, OF Georgetown, were mar.
RED at 4 30 P. M, on Thursday last
Nov. l, 1894, at st. Stephens Episcopal
Church, Tenth street above Cbestnnf
Philadelphia. Rev. J. C. Kerr. Chan
a'n In the United States Army, per-
ormed the ceremony. The wedding
was a very quiet one, and only dozen
people witnessed it. {
PROTECTION TO New CASTLE
firm of Ernest & Ken
ledy OF Sassafras, Kent County, Md.
vas awarded the contract to furnish
utter to the Delaware State Hospital
t 81 cents per pound this winter.
ientlemen we believe in protection to ,
ne New New Castle County butter
makes. This butter should have been
urchased at home for this price
nat Is the way it strikes us. What
ay you New Castle County farmers?
Wilmington Republican.
The Milford Ne,Cs of Saturday saws. !
here are in Delaware several hundred :
'emOcrats who qualified for voting on 7
lst such tax receipts as those persons l
eld who were striken from the as a
lists. Many of them registered r
elore Republican boards and no one >
oJected They will vote. while the r
OO stricken off in Kent have really the !
ime moral and legal right to vote. q
ut are disfranchised through Demo. r
ratlc trlckery, upheld by the Court a
The decision of the court Friday in {
le registrars case does not prevent Il
ie men whose names were on the lists ;
ON entering suit in the Superior :
ourt against the registrars. They
10 also, It they so desire, bring a
'lminal action against the registrars
al nave them punished ifprOven that !
icy were illegally stricken from the
SIS The decision of the cOurtdoes not
lter INTO the merits of the case. 1t
IMPLY decides that the mandsmus
Ould be nugatOry because the regis
Board of Registration.
The meeting of the Local Preachers
ssoclatiOn of Wilmington conference.
III be held in the Methodist Church
MiddletOwn, beginning the last Sat.
day of November.
Chief Justice Lore says the action of
e registrars in KeLt aud Sussex is in
nous, but that the Court was helm.
IS. 1t is ever thus with Charles b.
ore. "Oh these wicked men: what
q do?". A new Constitution will
How the victory on Tuesday, and
en the judges of the courts will have
pass through the fiery furnace of an
's1S;elon. 4; The verdict of last Friday
~ make hundreds of votes for the
.oAs party.-COr. Sunday Star.
ASD M;Ifo sALEs.-On Saturday week. fr,
IA dI'nlOsd, moro, Wm. H. Boyce, as trustee
I,u under partition nroceedinas 49,
Sur.on Farm" located A. ,ha so.S s La
res of is"S iSsflca' and containing 2s4 w'
ooo M ~ inS9o, to Vim. B. TomIinson for sa
,;OOO. 49, vi tne total acreage onIv 1S1 OF 70
'res are tillable. At the LILY Oty ~ no
10 place, and under the sane. tune biz
'edings, the "TOmlin Farm - AL Pro pro tui
'rtn OF Milford, was sold 10 tba ~niles ~ ha
irchaser for $1,000. This farm "1re oon ur
lns 100 acres of good land and Iso
res OF it is in tillage. An amns;no IL
cldent OF the sale was that the tu,o L;5 I'll