Smyrna times., 1896-09-16
County and State Items.


mage to the fields of millet about
Bridgeville.
The funeral of Mrs. Frances Tatman
wife of Cyrus Tatman of Middletown,
occurred Monday.
Contractor Patrick Neary has fin
ished the construction of the mile-long
road across Augustine marsh.
The ladies of Delaney's NJ. E. Church
will hold festival ON Thursday, Friday
and Saturday evenings of this week.
New Castle will ask the next Legis-
lature for permission to borrow $75, 900,
with which to obtain artesian wells.
Harry Handy, a cOlored boy who
lived near Leipsic, killed himself Sun
day week while examining a revolver.
The New Castle Convention for the
nomination of county Prohibition
ticket will be held i'll Wilmington next
Saturday.
Chairman Jones, of the Democratic
National Committee, has appointed r.
r. Kenney of Dover on the Executive
Committee.
DIR. Willard Springer, of Whining
ton, who for the past 18 years has been
port physician there has resigned his
Office and DR.. W. J. Hughes is appOin-
ted to fill the vacancy.
General Horace Porter, of New York
and Congressman Jonathan S. Willis
will address the Union Republican
meeting of Wilmington in the Grand
Opera House tomorrow night.
Ex-Judge George p. Fisher, of Mil
ford is suggested as a candidate for the
Constitutional Convention on the Ad-
dicks ticket, in Sussex county, in place
of George H. Hall, of Milford, re-
signed
A canvass of the town of Milford
made by Charles F. Stevenson shows
the number of inhabitants to be'3, ,446.
This places Milford ahead of Dover
and next to Wilmington in population.
An ear of corn grown on the ''hOme
farm" of Mr.. Jacob S. Cochran, Mid
dletown, measured 10 inches in circum-
ference, 1S inches long, weighed 2!
pounds and had 100 grains.
The veterans of the Fourth Regi-
ment, Delaware Volunteers, who now
number but 1870, out of an original en-
rollment of 97j, will hold reunion at
Shellpot Park, on September Il
On Thursday, at ElktOn Fair, W. B.
Biggs' Glenn Princess, of Middletown,
won first heat (2.26) and third money
in the ?. A. race. Mr.. Biggs' ''GrOver"
won second money in the $50 class on
Thursday.
The railroad station at Farnhurst
was broken into by thieves early We'd
nesday morning and robbed of about
So worth of goods beside an OvercOat
belonging to the ticket agent, Mr..
Cramer. No clue to the thieves has
been found.
Major c. W. Raymond, who has
charge of the works at the Delaware
Break water, awarded to John F. Don
Ovan, of New York, the contract for
furnishing and depositing stone in the
gap at the Break-water. The contract
price was $50, ,920.
Col. E. P Stacy, of Clayton, super
intendant of the New Jersey Central &c
Delaware Bay Railroad, and Miss
Viola Rowan, of Dover, were quietly
married at the home of the brides par
ents, Wednesday morning, by the Rev.
George NJ. Bond.
The Rev. James COnnor, aged about
60 years, a highly-esteemed member
of the Wilmington Conference, died at
his home, the NJ. E. parsonage at Sell
byville,- on Thursday afternoon, after
three weeks illness, of TYPHOID pneu-
mOnia. Rev. Conner served at Leipsic
some ten years ago.
The Republicans of East Dover Hun
dred have organized a campaign club
with Edwin T. Wood president; II.
Ridgely Harrington, vice-president
David NJ. PascO, secretary; Samuel l..
Shaw, treasurer. Messrs. Harrington
K. S. Downs and J. Henry Parker were
appointed a committee on entertain
ment. Meetings will be held every
Tuesday evening.
The Philadelphia Press says: ''WOrl
on the Queene Anne Railroad betweeI
Greenwood and Lewes, is delayed a
present on account of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad company not granting
the privilege of the road crossing tn
Philadelphia, Wilmington & BaltimOr
Railroad at Greenwood, and the Della
ware, Maryland & Virginia RailrOa,
at Glendale"
Three priests have been selected from
among the members of the Wilmington
X. G. Diocese, from whom to chose
successor to Bishop Curtis. They ar
Rev. John A. Lyons, Rev. NJ. X. Fal
Ion, of Wilmington and Rev. E. L
Brady of New Castle. Three other
will be selected from the Baltimor
Diocese, and then the six names fol
warded to Rome where the appoint
ment will be made.
eff you consider that am worth
OF your suffrage, shall appreciate i
and, if elected to the States highei
Office, will promise my level best
give you a clean administration. a
not candidate bound by any pledg
that l was required to give" II
above was what Mr.. John H. Hoffeck
said on Wednesday evening in IL
Opera House prefacing his speech.
Wilmington Paper.
BRYAN RECEPTION CoSIArIrTEE.-N
tlonal Committeeman Richard r. Ke
ney, John F. Salisbury, Ebe w. Tu
mel, Governor Watson, L. Irving Ha
dy, John d. Hawkins, A. H. Caha
John W. Fenimore, DIR. B. H. Lew