Smyrna times., 1894-10-24
Closing of Mails.
Opening of Mails.
County and State Items.

LIST.
Sweet potatoes and chickens by the
car load are daily shipped by rail to
the northern cities.
Patrick Neary, president of the Will
mington Department of Elections, Is
seriously i'll oftyphoid-pneumonia.
The 26th Annual session of the Grand
Lodge, K. of P. will be held in Middle
town to-day and promises to be great
event.
New Castle Presbytery met at Port
Penn, Monday, and installed Rev.
Oscar A. Gillingham pastor of the
church there.
The Second Baptist church Mission,
in Wilmington, is to be organized into
Sunday school SCHOLARS.
Blackfsh are being caught in great
quantities at the Delaware Breakwater
and Pilot William 5. Edwards caught
800 pounds in one day with hook and
line.
Partridges are said to be unusually
plentiful IN Delaware this year, and
sportsmen are making great prepara-
tiOns To begin shooting them on NOVem-
ber /. when the law is out.
An elm tree that was set out 10 front
of the Court House at Georgetown in
in 1888, shortly after the erection of
the building, was cut down last week,
it having been killed by insects.
Republican meetings are scheduled
most every town in New Castle and
Sussex counties between now and the
dav of election but such list has not
been announced yet for Kent county.
There will be "a grand Democratic OK
roast, oyster treat and horse back
parade in Georgetown, on Tuesday, the
Both inst. The Hon. Thomas +.
Bayard and Democratic speakers from
outside the State will be present and
address the meeting.
George w. Naudain, "a repected resi-
dent Of Odessa, died on Wednesday
night Of heart disease. Deceased was
a member of Col Andrews Post, G. A.
R., and served with distinction in the
war. He was 72 years of age.
Last evening Ambassador Bayard
addressed meeting at Dover. On
Friday evening at this week Mr..
Bayard will make an address in the
Opera House at Wilmington, and on
Tuesday, October 80, he will make an
address at Georgetown.
Rev. ]. Edwin Amos, of Delaware
City, gracefully announced from the
pulpit on Sunday evening the marriage
of his daughter, Lucy, to Mr.. Rice, OF
Baltimore, on Wednesday, October "a,
cordially inviting all to be present.
The Democrats have trotted out the
old chestnut-pictures of a public
school with colored children in it.
When the Democrats get badly scared
they bring out these pictures. If 1t
affords them amusement it hurts no
one MiddLetOIUn Transcript.
William S. Burnite, of Convention,
Cecil County Md, dropped dead from
heart disease Friday. At the time of
his death he was dressing for the pur
pose of attending the funeral of Joseph
S. Willis, of Newark. He was a cousin
of State Treasurer W. F. Burnile, of
Delaware.
DEATH BENEFIT PAID.-Mrs. Calvin
B. Rhoade has received from the I'm
proved Order of HeptasOphs the $4,000
death benefit due on the insurance
policy in that order. held by her hus-
band, the late ex-MayOr RhOades, of
Wilmington. The money was paid IN
a week of the burial of her husband.
The Prohibitonists are making an
active campaign. They have at pres
4 4 lro s,,f fIa
who are addressing good sized meet
ings. The PrObitiOnists claim that they
will poll at least l 900 votes, and some
of the leaders say that six-eighths of
these will come from the Republicans
Mr.. BAYARD SEES THE PRESIDENT.
The President was at home all Satur-
day with Ambassador Bayard, and it is
understood that the ex-Secretary came
on to Buzzard Bay to get the Presidents
idea as to future politics before enter
ing the campaign at Wilmington, Del.
The President drove Mr.. Bayard TO the
station, where he took the train for
BOston.-BaLtimOre Sun.
A MURDER AT HAMTOwN.-Ham-
town, a negro suburb of MiddletOwn,
there was a vicious fight between
number of negroes at a festival held
Tuesday night. During the melee
Peter Virgins seized a crOwbar and
struck Harry Buck, a young negro, a
violent blow across the jaw. From
the effects of the blow Buck died Thurs
day. Virgins and other partici-
. pants in the row fed.
Thomas w. Knox, the young man
who interrupted a Democratic meet
ing in Wilmington by calling the
speaker, J. Lindsay Gordon, liar, on
Saturday night, was fined $1,000 Mon-
day This was right, but the man who
interrupted a speaker at a Republican
meeting in the same city and the man
who called out to Senator Fry at
Dover that he was a d-n liar, went
unmOlested.
SECURED PART OF THE MONEY
DR.. G. Layton Grier, of Dover has Just
returned from Pittsburg, Pa, where he
secured the arrest of ]. A. Harris,
formerly of Milford, on the charge of
embezzling money from George S. .Grier
and others in 1882 The amount in
yolved was about $4,000 and of this
sum DR.. Grier recovered about 81 100
Harris is in business near Pittsburg
and people there knew nothing of his
record in Delaware previous to bis
coming there.
FUNERAL OF Miss MAssEY.-ThI
funeral of Annie Massey, daughter o
the Hon. George V. Massey, took place
Thursday noon at o'clock from the
Presbyterian Church in Dover. Tht
body was brought from Wilmington OF
q special train, accompanied by the
members of the family. Immediately
on the arrival of the special the bod!
was borne to the Presbyterian Church
where the funeral services we're held
after which it was laid to rest in salt
church yard. Services were conducted
by the Rev. Joseph B. Turner. paste
in charge.
COLONEL NORTON PLACATED.-Fron
present indications Colonel Norton ha
been placated. What the quid pr
quo is to be is not stated, but certain
is he is no longer a kicker, but a stal
wart worker. We have supposed tha
he and Colonel Donahoe were hand i
glove and would sink or swim, surviv
or perish, together. In this, however
we were mistaken, Colonel d. is defian
he has Joined the County Democracy
has accepted the nomination for Con
gress, and his name now appears i
the Democratic ticket ia lieu of Bar
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