Smyrna times., 1896-05-20
County and State Items.

Rev. Cyrus Cort has resigned the pastor
ate OF st. Johns Reformed Church, of
Wyoming.
Frank Dickerson, of North Milford. is
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for Sheriff of Kent County
Governor Watson has appointed James
NJ. Cassidy, of Camden, n j., a Commits
sioner of Deeds for Delaware.
The term of J. J. Morris as Recorder of
Deeds for Sussex county expired Monday,
and eX-Representative Joseph b. Hearne,
OF GumborO, succeeded him.
Harry Bigger, town bailitf of Seaford
and Solomon Deen have been held for trial
on charge of assaulting Urey l.. Waller,
who claims that they Knocked him senseless
with club,
Wilmington is likely soon to have another
morning newspaper, OF which j. Edward
Addicks will be the owner. The price will
be one cent.
The annual meeting of the State Council
of Delaware, Jr. o. U. A. NJ, will be held
in the hall of Georgetown Council, Thurs
day and Friday, the 2Sth and 29th inst.
Superintendent Knowles will open a sum-
mer school at RehObOth Julys6th. He will
be assisted by Prof Yocum, OF Millville, n.
j., and Presiding Elder Adams, of Dover,
and other educators of the day,
The Dover people say that if the conven-
tiOns bring such terrific storms as the one
that visited the Capitol on Tuesday of
last week, they hope the next convention
will stop at New Castle and give the people
of that ancient town the benefit of a thun-
der storm.
Pork is about as cheap as it is ever likely
to get. The price for July delivery is
nelrly 81 per barrel below the highest
p;ice for July pork in 1893. Even the low
prices of 1892 do not compare with the pres
ent quotations.
Peninsula basket makers are now getting
ready for the peach crop. One man in
Georgetown expects to make 100000 bas-
kets curing the season and his factory is by
no means one of the largest on the PENN
sula.
AllllsbOrO Is to have a new NJ E. Church
Inc old church Is too small to CaccOmmCdate
It's membership and It is now beingmOved to
lot IN the rear OF the MethOdists lot
The new building is to be completed and
ready Tor dedication by the first of Septem-
b4r.
At a meeting of the New Castle County
Higgins Republican Committee Saturday,
State Senator Robert J. Handy the Addick
lieutenant from Brandywine hundred was
expelled from membership in the commit
tee. Resolutions We're also adopted scoring
Addicks, and clearly showing that they in
tend to run a little side ticket AZ the elec-
ton in November.
Peninsula peach growers say that if one
fourth of the peaches now on the trees
rlpen the result will be one of the largest
crops Of peaches ever seen on the Peninsula
Prices are also expected to be good, for the
reason that III most other States the peach
crop Is more or less failure. The growers
VIII make money If the plan of selling di-
rectly to the buyers Is followed the same as
last year.
For sometime the people of Seaford nave
been talking Of purchasing fire apparatus
Tor the protection of the town, but have put
the matter of from time to time. Now thev
have lost $4,000 by fire in two of their large
establlshm ants, and in addition to this 400
people are said to have been thrown out of
employment by the fire. Those in favor of
purchasing fire apparatus now have good
argument to use on their side of the cues
ton.
Th0m4s E. POstles, colored. member of
the AfrO-American Equal Rights League,
was elected a delegate to the Republican
Safe Convention on both the Addicks aud
Higgins tickets. Postles however, voted
With Addicks. and was chosen an alternate
to the St. Louis Convention. The League,
meanwhile, had lndOrsed Higgins, and at a
meeting held POstles was censured for his
attitude and dropped from membership in
the organization.
Meetings of voters in each of the hun
dreds of Sussex county have been called for
Saturday, July IL. At these meetings four
deleglteS-twO Republicans and two Demo-
crats-will be elected, from each hundred
to a county convention to be held in George
town on Tuesday. July II. This convention
will nominate a constitutional convention
delegates ticket for Sussex county, COM
posed of five Democrats and five Repubh-
cans, and submit it to the county cOnYen-
fIons pf thn tvr-C, arti for
1t is likely that the next General Assem-
bly, Will be asked to appropriate sufficient
money to make a number of improvements
to Delaware College. The institution is ex-
pected to increase the number of students
Ia attendance there in the near future and
more room will be needed. The room will
be needed whether there is any increase in
them or not, ,as the rooms in the present dor
mltOry building are not numerous enough to
accomadate all who attend there. There
has been tllk for sometime to asking the
General Assembly to erect "A new dOrmitory
building.
FIRST CASE UNDER THE New AGE OF
CONSENT LAWN the General Sessions
Court in Wilmington last week Ella Boone
colored, pleaded guilty to using two boys,
Under Is years of age, for immoral pur-
poses. While Chief Justice Lore was pass
lng sentence upon her the woman stood in
the dock and cried bitterly. 1t was the first
case under the law passed by the Legislature
raising the age of consent to IS years and
applying it to both sexes. Mrs. Boone was
sentenced to pay fine of $1,000 and costs
and be imprisoned for three years.
The prospect to-day is for tremendous
peach crop on the Maryland and Delaware
Peninsula. The trees have partly shed
their blossoms and the young fruit IS the
size of IA large pea. Trees generally are
loaded with young fruit, and if one-fOurth
of the young fruit ripens the yield will be
very great. The crop now seems assured
Tor while frOsts in May may give much
needed thinning, 1t Is not probable that de-
structlon will be general. The trees are
now leaved out; and the foliage is a great
protection against frOsts.
A BRUrE's HEAVY SENTENCE. - In the
Court OF General Sessions at Wilmington
Thursday, the jury returned a verdict OF
guilty IN the case of HeZekiah Batson, big
negro, who was charged with attempted
assault upon Miss Mary May Osborne, a
pretty, white school teacher, in Mill Creek
hundred, near Harmony. Judge Cullen inn
- posed very heavy sentence upon BatsOn.
II belng the most severe that has been for
years. The Court said that it intended to
make an example of BatsOn, and sentenced
MN 10 pay hne of $500, to stand one hour
IN the pllory and be whipped with 80 lashes
on Saturday, after which he will remain in
jan Tor a period of ten years.
DAMAGE BY THE SToRM-Re Renorts of tl,s
damage done by the big wind and hail stcr,' W.
on tuesday, are coming in from an narte
IL Was the most severe storm that has ever
VISITED Kent and Sussex counties for veare
ina wind and hail did many thousand dol
lars worth of damage The hail stone
broke the heavy frosted glass in the clocl
on the Dover Courthouse. The worksbo,
ana large iron smOkestack at the State col
lege for ColOred Students. near Dover
Mere wrecked, and two buildings wer,
gloWn down. Six large panes of glass il
Tue state House We're DESTROYED In IN,
1Ouse OF d. G. Cowgirl. Great damape wa,
u9he on the farm of L. S. Roe, near Dover
ae "aere lu0 panes of glass We're broken an,
a aAIty-aere held of wheat entirely bestowed
Al Milford one man lost his life, and Their
ele Tears that several have become victim
", - the storm. All the men were connected
W ~iln n the sturgeon fishing feet at the lnoutl
the AlspilhOn river At least a score q
5Io@ls was wrecked, and an unknown mai
Pe Ppeared under the waters of Delawar
sn LAY. There were a number of thrilling re
& Sss' es' seven men being hauled out of IN
Il 81 Ut IN dying condition
81 esS ue OF $50 boats in the storm onlv on
# m INTO the river under sail. This wa
q era, Ooat OF Captain George Daisy, the vet
II" surgeon fisherman of GlolcesTer n
M All the other boofu xsroro