Smyrna times., 1896-02-12
County and State Items

proof DuuuluS.
Forty-tive persons have professed
conversion at the Avenue NJ. L. Church
revival meetings in Milford.
Georgetown, with 81 subscribers.
has arranged to come in on the circuit
of the Dover Telephone Company,
Rev. W. I. S. Murray and wife, of
] Dover celebrated the twentieth ami
.'c-@sIy of their wedding Saturday
night.
The storm of Thursday broke down
William Il. VOshells mill dam near
MacdOnOugh causing about 1000
damage.
EreyW ErcHiRg yesterday issued a
special eight-page bicycle edition, par
ticularly devoted to to the subject of
bicycling.
The directors of the Citizens Bank,
MiddletOwn, have elected J Joseph Biggs
president and reelected J. b. Cazier
vice-president.
Sheriff Shaw on Tuesday week sold
the farm of Il. Thomas, 100 acIes in
North Murderkill Hundred, to j. G.
Brown, Jr., for So, 050
Since the unfortunate fire which de-
stroyed the creamery at Townsend
quite number of its patrons have been
taking milk to Odessa.
J. Dallis Marvil will soon place a
baptismal font in the Laurel NJ. E.
Church as a memorial to his father,
Governor Joshua II. Marvil.
The danger signal on canal bridge,
near kirkwOOd, was blown down yester-
day, but was at once replaced by force
OF wOrkmen sent from Wilmington.
Fruit, nut and shade trees, vines. aspara-
gus roots, small fruit, vegetable plants,
Prices and stock safe and trustworthy. P.
Emerson nurseyman, Wyoming, Del. 4
James Morrow, q leading grocer of
Wilmington, is in a critical condition
from Il stroke of paralysis and is not
as qGpected to recover. He is - years
81 Peach growers are in the anticipation
of a crop this season. The winter
weather so far has been all that they
could ask and the prospects could
hardly be better, they say.
James Carmichael, of Wilmington,
has announced himself as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Sheriff of New Castle County. He was
the Democratic candidate III 1894.
Ex-Governor Cochran celebrated his
S1th birthday anniversary at Middle
town on Friday. He has three brothers
one of whom IS 81 years old and the
others past 20. All attended the cele-
bration.
The first session in the handsome
III II I
Wednesday the newly appointed Chief
Judge, George NJ. Russum, presiding.
All the apartments of the new building
were inspected by visitors
The report that Sheriff Truxton of
Sussex County has not served one war
rant of arrest during his term of office
is a remarkable testimony for the law
abiding character of the people whom
he serves good for old Sussex.
A Philadelphia lecture bureau has
employed Mr.. William T. Smithers. OF
Dover. Besides his humorous lecture
''On the Whirlgig," he has another
ready and will doubtless prepare others.
We wish him great success
We are glad to notice in some of our
Republican contemporaries virtuous
expressions III opposition to vOte-buy-
ing. We hope they will be of the same
opinion and display courage enough to
express it next fall. l.-Dei0iUdrcan.
One year ago ended the blizzard
which for three days stopped travel on
the Delaware railroad, and held trains
helpless at various points along the
line. In some places along the road
the snow was twenty feet high, where
1t had drifted.
On a charge of appropriating $500 O.
back pension money due Mrs Lois r
DericksOn and Florence +. Hudson
Beniah Raughley, of Harrington, wa.
held in $500 bail for trial at the Unite,
States Court by Commissioner Smith
in Wilmington Monday.
ARCHDEACoNRY OF DOVER. - Til,
archdeacOnry of Dover will hold it.
first meeting Thursday, February 18th
at Seaford Bishop Coleman and Arch
deacon Williams will be present. 4
varied programme of services and dis
cussiOns will be given.
Two boys were mysteriously shot il
a cigar store in Dover last week The
are between twelve and fifteen years o
age, and positively refuse to tell how
the shooting happened. James Reed
the elder Of the two, was shot in tn,
aeck, and George DOdd i'll the abdo
zen. The wounds are painful but no
necessarily dangerous.
George Mcintyre, of DUPONT
Banks, will be a candidate for tn
5 Democratic nomination for Receiver O
Taxes and County Treasurer this year
County Treasurer Dickey will not be
candidate fore denomination. Charlie
H. Tenweges, of Wilmington, will b
candidate for the Democratic nOmi
nation for County Comptroller.
DEATH OF DIR. G. G.. COMEGYs. DR.
Cornelius George COmegys, a Iromin
ent physician, died Monday in Cincin
natl aged 80 years. He originally cam
from Delaware, and his brother wa
Chief Justice Of the State for man
years Another brother is B. b
Comegys, president of the Philadel
Pima National Bank, of PHILADELPHIA
This Is the way the Scafinel puts it
When President Lincoln was impor
tuned by committee of visiting poli
tlcal pharlsees to remove General Gran
from the army, he said: sGentlemer
l can't spare him. He fights Tn
nghtlng Republican leader of Delawar,
is still In command-the Rernblica
party cant spare him He fights"
ACCIDENT. Rev. p. H. Rawlips.
the NJ, Z, Church, Harrington. wa
struck and run over by team drive
by q Mr.. Tharp on Friday evening Ia,
while crossing the street going to tb
Postotiice. He was picked up bv sew
eral bystanders and carried into tn
drug store of u. G. Fleming, where a
examination was made. He was foun
not to be badly injured, as was at FRI
supposed, but feels very sore from IL
effects Of the shaking-up he got.-Mi
ford Herald
1HE HEALD & Co. FAILURE.-T
failure of Heald & Co., real esta
brokers, of Wilmington. is aftribnte
70 losses sustained by the recent faiIui
oI l.. II: Taylor & Co. of PhiladeInb;
1tNo ne liabilities of the firm are abo,
SloV,OOO, and the assets abouf tba CO..,
amount, sH unit The firm comprises DAM,
W Taylor and Edwin III. GavlaT 'i,,,, hn,
q whom will continue In by2 bgs;Do me-
- separately. 0uSine
NEW foRKis DELAWARE Soc1prv
lie sixth annual banuuet of tba M
ware Society Of New York eitv will i
held at the Arena on Thursday az eve,
ing. The following will res49ond q
tOaStS. John r N;of..I lrf.-NA