Smyrna times., 1896-09-30
County and State Items.

Levi G. Bird will address regular
Republican mass-meeting at Newark
on Friday evening, OctOber2.
Charles Deputy has been appointed
county Collector for Cedar Creek Hun
dred, in place of Samuel G. Fisher, re-
signed.
Two daughters of Samuel Grose, of
Christiana, have died of typhoid fever
within the past two weeks, and third
is seriously ill.
Mr.. Joshua Clayton and family
moved to Middletown from the
Manor" last week and are occupying
their home ON Green street
Rev. A. G. Jones has been appointed
by Presiding Elder Adams to fill the
vacancy at Houston, caused by the ill
ness of Rev. Mr.. TOmkinsOn.
Robert Arms, cOlored, of Whining
ton was held in $1,000 bail on a charge
of criminally assaulting a little daugh-
ter of Rev. H. R. Potts, of Silver
brook.
1t is announced that Senator Gray
will speak at the Sound Money Demo
cratic ratification meeting to be held
at the Auditorium on Oct. 1. Mr..
Gray will advocate the election of the
regular Democratic State ticket.
Albert r. Pennington, resident of
MiddletOwn some years since, and at
one time a prominent and extensive
manufacturer, died in Philadelphia, on
Tuesday night last week, aged IS
years.
Condemnation proceedings to secure
the right of way for the Queen Anne's
Railroad over the Philadelphia, Will
mington & Baltimore Railroad tracks
at Glendale and Greenwood have been
commenced in Sussex county.
Wheat continues to advance, in ac-
cordance with a foreign demand for
that staple. The price of silver bull
lion does not advance, however. And
yet the Populists insist that the price
of silver bullion regulates the price of
wheat.
The canning house of H. A. Reik,
located in Frederica, was closed by
Sheriff Shaw on Saturday last, at the
instance of a Baltimore firm, to whom
considerable sum was due for sup
plies. Farmers who furnished peaches
and tomatoes this year do not expect
to receive anything.
Arrangements are being made in
Sussex county for the nomination of a
bi-partizan Constitutional Convention
ticket next week The boiling Repub-
licans will name five of the ten mem
bers and the Democrats like number,
and both parties support the candidates.
Mr.. Handy sounds warning for the
Sound Money Democrats that here
after their voices will not be needed or
needed in Democratic Councils in Del
aware. The Democratic party like the
Republican party in Delaware is in a
hopeless snarl. Here's where the Sin
gle Takers, it is claimed, may come in
and capture all the Offices in Delaware.
The Sussex RcpU6LcaU in speaking
of the SenatOrship, says: 'Mr. Higgins
is not in the fight. He has entered
into some business enterprises that
require his undivided attention and
are proving very remunerative. If
reports are true. Mr.. Higgins is rapid
ly becoming a rich man, and, for the
present at least, has but little time to
devote to politics.
Clerk of the Peace FOard has given
notice that he will not print the Ma
tional Democratic ticket on the official
ballot unless compelled by the courts.
He so informed the leaders of the
Sound Money League and Clerks Dick
son and DOrman of Kent and Sussex.
He says it is not National Democratic
party nor was Mr.. Bayard nominated
by convention of delegates elected by
the people.
The Democratic County Executive
Committee after considering the Pyle
StaytOn contest for the Senatorial
nomination, decided to throw out the
vote of the Eleventh, Sixth, the lower
end Of the First, eastern end of the
Second and eastern end of the Fourth
wards on the ground of fraud, and
ordered q new election in those dis
tricts. The new primaries will be held
in the five places named on Saturday.
October 3D..
Justice, the official mouth piece Of
the Single Takers, has this to say of
their Democratic brethren. New
Castle county has suffered much at the
hands of Dickey. For fifteen years
she gave him an uninterrupted term Of
Office, she allowed himself and his
friend "Pat" to fatten at the public
trough and in return Dickey admins
tered the poll tax cure to the corrupt
and mOribund Democratic machine and
worked" rural Legislators for the pas
sage of laws depriving the county of
the right Of self-governmet.
The Pyle-Stayton fight, in Will
mington, for State Senator promises
to be an interesting one, and the Re-
publicans can look on and see them
selves as others see them. The nomi-
nation will cost as much in good round
dollars as the position is worth. On
Saturday it will be seen who is the best
Willard or Chief Dolan. Pyle will
have the backing of the police force.
while Willard hopes to have the in
spectors with him to do the counting.
Bad blood will be the result no matter
now the nomination results.
Mr.. L. Irving Handy, the Demo-
craIlc nominee for Congress, has
spoken, and says the action of their
convention (so-called) in Wilmington
On Thursday night gives us an OPP
portunity to see the spirit in which
they are fighting. He said it was no
convention hut s;upIx, n ,oao4;no, 20