Smyrna times., 1896-11-11
Closing OF Mails.
Onening of Mails.
County and State Items.

Southern returning boards can come
to Delaware and get pointers.
The contract for supplying the Della
ware State Hospital for the Insane
with butter has been awared to the
Odessa Creamery.
Kent County Teachers Institute
will be held st Dover, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, November 18th,
10Th and Goth.
1t is given out that Ebe W. Tunnel
Is will not acknowledge any of the sound
money Democrats in Delaware in max
ing his appointments.
Rev. G. F. Thomas, rector of the
Catholic Cathedral in Baltimore, has
been appointed Bishop of the Diocese
of Wilmington, to succeed Rt. Rev.
Alfred A. Curtis, resigned.
The Knowles Wooden Mills, at New
II Castle, which have been closed for six
months, resumed operations Thursday
employing $50 persons. The Delaware
Iron Works, also at New Castle, have
resumed operations in several depart
ments.
Mr.. W. H. Biggs lost last week the
fine young track horse "Billy NJ"
which he bought of Mr. Maxwell. The
horse had throat trouble. He had
gone half mile in 1 O7, and was valued
at a thousand dollars.
George L. Townsend and Walter Be-
SAINT, of Odessa, and David P. Hutcbin-
son and Benjamin G.. Lockerman. of
Townsend, are applicants for the post
of Deputy Sheriff for the lower part of
New Castle comfy.
LOCAL PREACHERS AND ExHoRrERs.
The thirty-eight annual meeting of
the Local Preachers and Exhorters'
Association of the Wilmington Con-
ference will be held in Cheswold, be-
ginning on Friday, November goth.
Mary A. Hudson, widow of Isaac
Hudson. residing in Smyrna, Del, has
been allowed a pension of eight dol
lars month, commencing March 25th
1896. Isaac Hudson served in Com
pany c., 45 Regiment, U. S. Colored
Infantry, and the pension was secured
through Col. John Wainwright of Will
mingtOn, Delaware.
The canvassing board of Sussex |
county appears to be the only one in |
this State to acquit itself with credit.
1t canvassed the votes as they were
cast, and announced the result in ac-
cOrdance Herewith. The lawyers and
Judge Cullen said their only business
was to count and tabulate the votes.
The Single Takers claim three mem |
bers of the next General Assembly.
They are Senator John Pyle and Rep
resentatives William B. McCov and !
James T. Taylor, who were on both |
the Democratic and Single Tax tickets.
The Single Takers say they will con-
tinue their campaign in Delaware.
Says the Milford Chronicle: can
thOny Higgins carried out his contract
with the Democrats of Kent and Sus-
sex to the letter. He with the aid of
Richards, Maull, Gum, Dan Burton
and few others in Sussex county de-
teated the election of a Republican
Senator, the representatives and all of
the county ticket but three.
KILLED WHILE GUNN1NG.-Thomas
Mellock, aged sixteen years, was acci
dentally killed Friday, while cunning
near Blackbird station. He was ac-
cOmpanied by several companions. one
OF whom passed him his gun, muzzle
first, across a ditch, when the trigger
caught in a bush and the weapon was
discharged, the contents entering his
side. He died six hours afterwards.
A JAIL-BREAKING STOPPED. War
den Lindsay Wilson prevented Jail
delivery, Friday. He caught "ROtten"
Wilson, John Burke and Luke Burns,
serving time for housebreaking, in the
act of cutting their way out of prison.
The discovery was made when they
were trying to remove a bar from a
cellar window overlooking the stone
pile yard. They had gotten to the Gel
lar by saving through the heater hole
communicating to the cell.
Norman Hayman, a well known
young farmer near Laurel, traded
horses last Tuesday evening and drove
off with his new animal, fractions
colt. 1t became frightened and dash
ed at headlOng speed toward Laurel
river The bridge was turned off and
1t plunged into the stream, carrying
the carriage with it. Hayman jumped
Just IN time to save his life. The horse
drowned.
The much Boosted strength of the
single Takers in Delaware only A.
mounted to some thousand votes
After all the money that had been
spent IN Delaware by the Single Tax-
ers 1t has cost them nearly one hun
dred dollars vote. At this rate tbov
VIII nave to spend nearly a million
dollars to capture Delaware. Evident
ly their work has just begun. Wbers
mas all their big vote melted to?
CHANGE THE system. lawlass-
ness and outrage that marked the ses-
slons OF the boards of canvass in New
castle and Kent counties, Thursdav
ahord ample argument for change IN
'ne present antiquated, cumbersome
and unsatisfactory system of officially
ascertaining the result of elections in
tnis State. When the system was es-
ssaohshed, the voting districts in the
o'A'e were few in number, and the can
ts@sslng boards, therefore, very small
,ro oSles' In those days, also, elections
a., honestly conducted and the YER
TLS tn u voters absolutely respected
a. aue canVassing boards were merely {
sne means Of computing the returns IL
ana aseertaining the result. How nm.
SA'iSiactory' and even Dangerous the
system now is, can readily be .oon