Smyrna times., 1896-10-21

Frankford Monday week, aged 81
years.
Rev. P. H. Rawlins has purchased
a property opposite the M. E. Church
at Seaford, and will remove to that
town at the beginning of the New Year.
VIM. Taylor, of Middletown, has re-
Gently bought another saw mill, located
at Milton and also tract of woodland
nearby, which he has given in charge of
his son, Grey Taylor.
John G. Gray, son of the late ex-
Sheriff William Gray, now of Wash
ingtOn, d. c., was admitted to the Bar
of Sussex county on Wednesday. Mr..
Gray intends practicing his profession
in Wilmington.
At the next meeting of the Great
Council of Delaware, Improved o. r.
NJ, which will be held at Harrington,
on Wednesday Oct. 2Sth, several
changes in the bylaws will be cOnsid-
cred.
Senator Frye, of Maine, spoke in the
Auditorium, in Wilmington, Saturday,
night, and Theodore Roosevelt, of New
York, will address a similar Republi-
can meeting next Saturday night.
Political meetings are being held
in some part of the city every night.
The several tickets have been filed
with the Clerks of the Peace in the
three counties and they must be prin-
ted as they now stand. The Republi-
cans effected no compromise and have
two tickets; the Democrats two, Pro-
hibitiOn one, Single Tax one, Non
Partisan Prohibition Alliance ono on
the convention delegates.
Now that the gales of last week have
spent their force and the sea is calming
down, shipping men are beginning to
count up the losser Of life and property
wrought by their terrible fury, and al
ready it has been estimated that over
100 sailors have perished and vessel
property exceeding 81, 500, 900 destroyed
Many sailing vessels are gone down
with all on board.
U. S. JURORs.-The following were
drawn from Kent county to serve at
the October term of the United States
Circuit Court which met, yesterday:
Kenton hundred, Thomas Attix, Sr.,
David S. Clark; West Dover, Perry
Williams; East Dover, John H. Jones,
John Dennis, George w. Baker; North
Murderkill, Jabez Jenkins; South
Murderkill, Willard S. Meredith; Mis-
pilliOn, William T. Anderson; Milford,
Joshua Bennett, Sr.
Says a Wilmington paper: "The at
tack upon the Bay State Gas Company
by one Buchanan, of New York, is
good thing for the lawyers, if they did
not take the case on a contingent fee.
But look at thepoOr devils whom the
fall in the stock robbed of thousand of
dollars! Such things are sometimes
gotten up for stock iobbing purposes,
but this instance it is for Addicks'
scalp. The qustion may we'll be asked
will they get it?
AN OLD MAN FOR GOVERNOR.
Wilmington Republican of Monday
says: "We can all see the mistake of
having nominated an old man for Gov
ernOr two years ago, but it must be
borne in mind that Senator Higgins
is partially if not wholly responsible
for that mistake. After Mr.. Marvil
had declined, he insisted on his NOM
inatiOn and it was through his inhu-
ence the old gentleman finally consen-
ted to become candidate. The truth
is, Mr.. Higgins thought that Marvil
would enable the Republicans to carry
Sussex county, thus insuring his cleo
to the U. S. Senate and that done it
did not matter if he did succumb to the
disease from which he had been suffer
ing for years. Had John H. HOfiecker
beeen nominated in 1894 he would
have been elected Governor, but Mr..
Higgins would not listen to this, and
hence the troubles which annoy the
party to-day. Some of Mr.. Higgins
friends promised Mr.. Hoffecker that
he should be nominated in.1898 if he
would give way to Marvil and he ex-
pected that promise would be carried
out in good faith, when the Republi-
cans were called on to nominate anoth-
er candidate. The gentlemen who con-
trolled the Georgetown convention,
however, wished to defeat the party
and hence nominated John G. Higgins.
He should have given way as Hoffeck-
er did i'll 1894, and then he could have
been a candidate in 1900, with fair
prospect of being elected. By playing
into the hands of the Democrats, he
has spoiled his chances, and his name
can be written down as Ichabod. He
is a younger man than Hoffecker and
unless the latter is elected this year
he will never be Governor. Mr.. Hig-
gins will poll the smaller number of
votes and being the younger, should
have waited until another nomination
came around.
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