Smyrna times., 1896-11-18
County and State Items.

are applicants for the position of State
Insurance Commissioner.
Rev. Charles I. Stengle, of Dover,
is candidate for the chapliancy of the
Constitutional Convention.
Andrew J. Lynch, ESQ.,, of George
town is a candidate for the clerkship
of the House of Representatives.
Rev. ]. NJ. T. Childrey, of Rich
mOnd, Va, will be called to the vacant
pastorate in DOver's Baptist Church.
The annual inspection of the Ma
tional Guard of Delaware will begin on
November % and continue until De-
cember 4.
The Delaware Board of Pilot Com
missioners has elected John 2. Virden
president, and John N. Carswell sec
retary and treasury.
Postmaster Moore's term will expire
in June, 1898. Alfred G. Cox, I. E.
Hurn and Joseph c. Jolls are appli
cants for the position at Middletown.
There are PA prisoners in the New
Castle Jail, 96 white, 100 colOred, IA
woman four of whom are white. The
Dover and Georgetown jails each have
five prisoners.
Mrs. Mary Mcbride Kegan, of
Odessa, was a relative of James Nc
Bride, who died in a cabin in the wilds
of North Dakota, leaving an estate val
ued at $G5. 900.
The men who put the Inspectors up
to the nefariOus work, should also by
some means be arrested and punished.
They, more than the Inspectors, should
be prosecuted.
The steamer Frederick, which has
been plying between Frederica and
Philadelphia, has paid off the entire
of the company, amounting to about
$1,000, since May 1, 1896.
L. Irving Handy it is said is opposed
to the counting in process INDUCED in
by his Democratic friends, although
he has never said anything in public
cOndemning the steal.
Mr.. George Deakyne, of Clayton
Del, and Miss Florence Hudson, of
Harrington, mere married at the home
of the brides parents, last Tuesday
evening. Rev. P. H. Rawlins officia-
ted.
Thomas Windsor, hotel proprietor at
Milford, was arrested Friday by De-
tective Nathan Hutchins on the charge
of shooting two patridges out of sea-
son. He was multced in the sum of
$1S.OS.
David S. Wilds, Clinton L. Will
hanson, Robert Y. Wailen, w. D.
HAZEL, W. G. Hardesty, T. D. Burton
and H. G. Collision are candidates for
the office of Clerk of the Peace for
Kent tcountv.
The election cost the State some
where in the neighborhood of ninety
thousand dollars. Is not this pretty
stiff price to pay for such bull doing
and counting out process as was indul-
ged in?
Mr.. Joseph E. Pugh, of Port Deposit
Md, well-knOwn in Seaford, was mar
ried to Miss Mary B. Janvier, daugh-
ter of R. P. Janvier, of Wilmington,
at the Central Presbyterian Church in
that city ON Wednesday evening.
In payment of an election wager
Fritz Roemer, of Wilmington, started
Sunday night for Canton 0. He will
journey by bicycle The wager was
made with Harry Shaw and hinged on
the result of the Presidential election.
The Levy Court of Kent county evi-
IDENTIFY does not concur in the action o.
the Board of Canvassers in throwing
out the returns of West Milford Hun
dred, as they have sworn in Aeror
Woodruff, the Republican assessor
from that hundred.
William Michael Byrne, of Whining
ion, wants to be appointed United
States District Attorney for Delaware
because he helped defeat Hoffecke
and Willis, and also the election of
Legislature which would have electe,
a Republican United States Senator.
Already the woods are full of appli
cants for office. President McKinle
will be besieged by the swarm fror
Delaware after the few federal appoint
ments to be made in our State. Tn
number of applicants are already mul
tiplying so fast that it is hard to te
when they will cease to spring up.
Mr.. Addicks called at the office {
Chancellor ad litem Johnson the Othe
day to inqnire about a case that ha
been in the Chancellor ad Items han
for more than two years, and becaus
Mr.. Addicks objected to having til
case go on forever, Mr.. Chancellor a
litem, ad infnitem, ordereded him ou
of his Office.
1t is said that the Regular Republ
cans have appointed a committee I
lock after all Federal appointment
and it will be their duty to see that n
plums fall into the Addicks cam
The Union Republicans have heard Ii
report, however, and expect to be abb
to control the appointments, on IL
ground that they polled larger vot
IN the State at the late election tha
the Regulars.
The motion for a new trial. in Il
case of Thomas Willis, colored, wi
was convicted of killing his small chi
has been refused Willis drowned b
child in a run and then buried its bod
1t was dug up by dogs, and Willis co
iessed the crime. He was sentenc
70 be hanged on FEBRUARY 10. I'll
makes two men now waiting the dea
sentence at the Jail, both of whom W
De executed by William r. Finn, Il
sheriff who has just been elected.