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TOWN COUNCIL.
An UItimatum Concerning Bad Pavements
Superintendent Wrights Second
Statement.

Town Council met Friday evening
with President J. H. Hoffecker in the
chair and all present except J. G. Rob-
inson and A. Lee Cummins.
Following are the bills read and al
lowed:
Vallee Bros. & Co., $500; Haynes,
Jones & Cadbury, $12.OO; A. E. JAR
dine, Agt. for coal, $151.84; F. l..
Wright, per vouchers, $21.55; Chas
HI. Jones, for killing and burrying II
dogs, $12.75; Israel Meredith, extra
police, $1.5O; Robert Phillips, extra
police, $3.50; Jerry Prior, extra police,
81. 90; Charles Smith, extra rolice $3.50.
The secretary read the following as
statement No. 2 of the Light and Wa
ter Department for the month of
June.
Taxes for 1896, $6l.55; Water Rents,
$1417; Water Permits, $500; Light
Rents, $211.93; Sewer Rents, $1.10i
Sewer Permits, $1.OO; Sale of Lamps,
50. 20; Other sources $2.00.
"A communication from Col. George
II. Raymond was received, calling at
tention to the mudhole and pavement
In front of John r. Wilson's property
and the pavement in front of the store
house and dwelling of Samuel Cats
and many others.
On motion Of Councilman Moore all
property owners who have been noti-
fed to repair pavements and whose
time Of limit expires to-day, the 14th
inst, will be promptly attended to by
tho street committee, authorized by the
Council to have same fixed.
On motion the chairman of the
Street Committee was authorized tc
ascertain the damage done to the W.
G. 4. u. fountain and have same re-
paired at once.
Pavemeut-Inspector r. L. Cummins
submitted the following names to bs
acted upon by the Council, as having
bad pavements and etc.:
The Misses Sarah and Katherine Viii
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Officers Installed.

The following officers of Mizpah
Lodge, No. 10, A. o. U. W., were in
stalled Monday evening by Joseph T..
Hoffecker, Grand Trustee, and Prof.
J. E. Carroll, member of the Finance
Committee, both of Dover: Past
Workman, George H. Dick; Master
Workman, j. B. Counselman; Fore
man, Edgar Spruance; Overseer, w.
A. Fleming; Guide, John p. Patter-
son; Inside Watch, J. Fletcher Truax;
Outside Watch, w. L. Porter. The
Lodge presented Past Master Work
man, George H. Dick, with a hand
some gold badge.
Grand Chief G. N. Lloyd, assisted
by Grand Second Guard @. H. Jones
and members Of the order from Towns
end and Clayton, installed the follow
ing officers of Union Castle, No. II,
X. G. E., Monday evening: Past Chief,
VIM. Mcdowell; Noble Chief, Benz.
Turner; Vice Chief, Nathaniel b.
Pratt; Sir Herald, James V. Wrighti
Venerable Hermit, Charles P. Thorn
ley; High Priest, George H. Batsford;
Worthy Chamberlain, Harry Matti-
ford; Ensign, VIM. vansant; Esquire,
Charles Jones; First Guard. Joseph
Walraven; Second Guard, Samuel
Wells.
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Literary Notes.

DEMOCREsT's MAGAZINE for July is a
Victorian Diamond Jubilee number,
and besides numerous portraits of the
Queen, representing her at different
ages, contains an interesting biography
of her Majesty which is very valua-
BILE.
HARPER's WEEKLY during July will
contain the first instalments of the
timely serial of the Greek War of In
dependence, entitled "The Vintage, :"
by E. F. Benson, author of "Dodo;" a
description of the Queens Jubilee, IL
lustrated with elaborate drawings; and
illustrated articles on "rhe Restoration
of Independence Hail." on 'The
Christian Endeayor Convention in San
Francisco" ''The Botanical Gardens
of New York, " and on ''The Third Rail
Electric System"
THE COsMOPOLITAN.-With the ex-
ceptiOn of the noted Worlds Fair num-
ber of the cosmopolitan, which reached
a price of five dollars a copy after the
last edition had been exhausted, no
stronger number of this magazine has
ever been issued than that for July
1897. The report of Julian Hawthorne
the Special Commissioner sent by the
Cosmopolitan to India to investigate
the horrors of the plague and famine,
is of an extraordinary character, and
will open the eyes of the world to con-
ditions which were scarcely suspected.
The same number contains what is
probably the greatest poem of this
quarter of the nineteenth century.
This new rendering of Omar Khayyam's s
Rubaiyat, which departs entirely from
Fitzgerald's, occupies four pages.
Amelie Rives reappears as a story-tel-
Ter for the first time since her marriage
with the Prince Troubetsky. One OF
the cleverest stories yet written by the
pen of Robert w. Chambers is
given.
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the Baltimore & Ohio r. r.. and autI,,;z,,
the issuing of 1886, 900 worth Of certiec,,.
to pay for 10000 tons of new steeI rail-.
The attorneys for J. P. Morgan 4 Co b.ro
been trying to have foreclosure prorerdi,a.
instituted and then reorganize the road II,
putting it on a peying basis. Ii is ,,I.
another one Of this banking firms nl,,,. =.
make several million dollars at the rxn.,..
of the bond and stock holder. bv wi,.;,.,
out all their interests.
FATAL EXPLOSION. The boiler Of t,o
steam thrashing engine of Fitzgerald p....
exploded with terrific force SATURDAY In, H..
farm of Nicholas Julian. near Prince.
Anne, instantly killing William Ian. .or
ored' and severely bruising John Heath
the engineer, and John White. the fr..,o.,,
The force of the explosion was So urea,
that the engine was lifted bodily in the air
and thrown over the separator di.t,r... -
40 yards.
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The Sussex Superintendent.

There is much i'll feeling among the
Democrats of Sussex county, over the
appointment of Roman Tammany sup
erintendent of the public schools in
place of Mr.. Knowles. A Delmar cor
respondent TO the Seaford Ne,Os says:
This is only another instance in Gov.
Tunnel's administration where "truth
is on the scaffold and wrong is on the
throne" "This is the most unkindest
cut of all" Why Mr.. Tunnel would
not reappoint Mr.. Knowles who has
only held the Office for three years, can
only be explained in that, it is said,
Mr.. Knowles father-in-law, Senator
w. T. Moore, would not fall on his
knees and worship at the shrine of
few political bosses, who were blindly
anxious to have a certain Wilmington
ian to displace Senator Gray in the
next United States Senatorship.
The editor of the Seaford NeaOs, a
strong Democratic paper, has the fol-
lowing on the action of the Cover
nor.
The Governor has announced thath
will reappoint w. 7. Smith and G. G.
Tindal, superintendents of free schools
in New Castle and Kent counties; and
in Sussex he will appoint Roman Tam
many to succeed the present superin-
tendent, w. w. Knowles. The reap
pointment of the two superintendents
in New Castle and Kent will be gener-
ally approved; his refusal to reappoint
Mr.. Knowles in Sussex will be aa gen.
orally condemned. His Excellency
Ebe w. Tunnel will live to appreciate
the fact that the will Of the people can
not be ignored with impunity. This
appointment will prove a boomerang.
We may touch on this subject again.
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THE division of parties on finance
and tariff matters, making calculations
on former rules very uncertain, is only
an addition to the perils inaugurated
by the ''bOsses." All are familiar with
the subversive boss rule of David Ben
nett Hill in New York. German in
Maryland, Wurtz in New Jersey and
the deadly Higgins-Addieks party
strife in Delaware. Now the news
comes that John R. Mclean who has
been trying to capture the party ma
chinery in Ohio, to get the Senatorial
seat of Mark Hanna, has been beaten
by Tom johnson. Boss Wellington
never lets go the string by which he
hopes to control the Federal patronage
of Maryland, boss Quay does now and
then let on he is going to quit politics
and get ready to die, only to get time
for a tighter grip on the machine.
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KENTON.
An lnfHriated H0rse Causes Excitement
The KentOn Bicyle Club-LOcaI and
Personal Mention.

Special correspondence to the Times
KENToN, July, 13:-Farmers in this
section commenced hauling in their
new wheat last week. Quite a num-
Der sold their crops for 66 and 81 cents
per bushel.
Mr.. John Johnson, of Downs Chap
ell, met with quite a loss Saturday
night. While driving through town
the carriage shafts fell down on his
horses heels, causing it to run and
kick Mr.. johnson. After getting his
horse somewhat under control,
he threw it to keep from kicking his
carriage to pieces. In the meanwhile
the horse turned the carriage on it's
side and began to kick viciously. In
this frenzy the horse severed one of it's
leaders just above the knee
Mr.. Johnson went at once to Dover
after a veterinary surgeon, Cole. The
examination proved that the best way
to end the horse of its suffering was to
kill it. This Mr.. Johnson did Monday
morning. Mr.. johnson valued his
horse at 5000.
The Kenton Bicycle club took a run
out to Claymore Driving park last Fri
day evening where they spent very en-
jOyable evening racing and coasting.
The most exciting event of the even
ing's sport was foot race. Some of the
young ladies thought that they could
not make fast fast time on their wheels
so they threw them aside and foot
racing in which the pace maker was
victorious.
Personal: Mr.. F. A. Johns was in
Philadelphia last Week.-Mrs. Kate
Graham made flying trip to Philadel-
phia last Friday y.-E. w. Noble of Den
ton, Md, is visiting friends in town. -
Miss Jennie Purse, of Brooklyn, is Wis
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Purse.
Miss Bessie Johns, who has been
spending the past week with relations
in Camden, N. j., returned home to-
day-Miss Lizzie Cooper and brother
of Wilmington, are visiting their grand
mother, Mrs. Wilds. w. F. Donovan
was out of town Sunday.
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Hon. c. B. Bush, president of the
Gilmer Bounty CIV. Va Court, saws
that he has had three cases of fux in
his family, during the past summer,
which he cured in less than a week with
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Di-
arrhOea Remedy. Mr.. Bush also states
that in some instances there were
twenty hemOrrhages day.-Glenville.
W. Va. PGthfnder. This remedy has
been used in nine epidernics of flux and
one of cholera, with perfect success.
1t can always be depended on for bowel
complaint, even in its most severe
forms. Every family should keep it at
hand. The 25 and so cent bottles for
sale by Clifton & Raymond, Smyrna,
Della.
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in London has been instructed to CO.
operate with the American Embassy in
such conferences and negotiations as
may be conducted with the British
Government.
It has been known that NJ. Meline
and the French Ministry were out
spoken in expressing their sympathy
for the objects of their mission and in
promising that their concurrence would
not be wanting for the triumph of the
cause of rational bimetallism on inter
national lines, but it has not been sus-
pected that the French Government
would be prepared to lend diplomatic
as we'll as moral support to this move
ment of the Mckinley Administration
in favor of bimetallism. 1t is, never
theless, true that these ENJOYS in their
negotiations with the Foreign Office
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
will have the hearty cooperation of
the French and American Embassies,
Messrs. Wolcott, Stevenson and
Paine are not on an errand of political
adventure, devised for the sake of dup
ing western and southern voters and
playinga game of impossible cOmprom-
Use for moral effect in America. They
are successful negotiators, who have
carried their main point in Paris, and
have enlisted not only the goodwill,
but also the the active cooperation
and diplomatic support of the French
Government in their London campaign
Ambassador Hay has been arduously at
work on the same lines ever since his
arrival in London, and hisprestige and
influence are now of the greatest pos
sible service in facilitating the work of
the ENJOYS, who are likely to remain
here several weeks before returning to
Paris.
France is the natural ally of the Uni
ted States in this movement, because
she has greater interest than any other
European State in bimetallism. The
Bank of France contains in its vaults
over $255, 900, 900 in silver which has
been drawn from circulation. Both
Governments have a common interest
in obtaining the adjustment of this
monetary question which has caused (
disturbance throughout the CONNER
cial world, and they are naturally sup
porting each other in the negotiations
now opening in London.
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THE Lewes Pilot which defends the
wholesale steal of the offices by the
power of party machinery, admits that
the State is indebted to Mr.. Addicks
for the new constitution, assigning the
following as the reason, rather than
the fear, that the same machine might
be used:
''The State was about to be swal-
lowed up by the great Anaconda of
corruption, and the present COnstitu-
ton did not seem to possess the neces-
sary provisions to restrain its voracious
appetite, so as means of preserving
the Statehood and political morality,
a new charter was prepared containing
sufficient safeguards to protect the
good people from the despoiler."
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DEATHS.

JOHNSON.-Near Blanco, July 6, 1897.
Edna Ray, daughter of Willard and Agnes
johnson, aged year, l month and days.
GARDEN.-In Philadelphia, No. 1886 Pop
lar street, July 7th, cf meningitis. Wm.
Donald, infant son of VIM. and Elva
Garden, aged months and Is days. Bur
led at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Smyrna
July 9Th, Rev. A. Stengle officiating.
REYNOLDS.-Near Smyrna, July II, 1897.
OF cholera infantum, Warren, infant son
of Aaron and Ella j. Reynolds. aged
months and % days. Interment at
Union cemetery, July 18th, Rev Adam
Stengle officiating.
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The Annual Conventions of the Chris
tian Endeavor Society are proving to
be mighty factors in human affairs.
There are loyal hearts that never stop
at distance and each year they go in
throngs to the seat of their convention
and awaken the world with thir mighty
force and impulse. There has been no
gathering more notable than that which
has been meeting in San Francisco the
past week. The railroad service in the
west has been given an admirable test,
for it is reported that in seven days
24,OO0 people were carried a distance of
eight hundred miles from Utah to San
Francisco, on single track-74 trains,
- cars with about 300 passengers to a
train. The most pleasing feature was
that this mighty army was handled by
the railroad men without an accident.
Then again what a tremendous
amount of money is expended by these
Endeavorers.
Calculating that each one of the
twenty-four thousand railroad passen-
gers spends an average of one hundred
dollars for the trip, it means that at
least 50, 400, 900 have been spent by the
delegates and their friends.
These Christian EndeavOr pilgrims
are for the most part men and women
of small incomes.
When twenty-four thousand plain
people, so called, can afford to devote
two or three weeks to pleasure and to
spend, upon an average, one hundred d
dollars for each person, the general
condition Of the individual must be
improving.
The money spent by these travellers
was well spent. They were given lib
eral rates by the railroad companies,
and they have been given a rare oppor-
tunity to see and study their own coun-
try. Each one Of the Pacific coast Wis
tiers will return home with fund OF
information that will be of value in the
future. Such journeys are in the ma
ture of an education, and no one who
went to San Francisco need ever regret
the time and the mony it cost.
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THOSE more holy than thou Regular Re
publicans kicked vigorously against bring
ing politics into town and school elections;
but they never were consistent, for last
week they by combining with Democrats,
turned down Hon. John Henry HOfecker
Tor school commissioner in Smyrna after
twenty years continuous service. Like all
r0gues they cry stop thief flOudest-Milf ford
CAr0niele cfJuly End.
Without any definite information on
the subject we venture the assertion
that not Regular Republican voted
against Mr.. HOffecker. We refer the
matter to the SMYRNA TINES for a de-
cision. Such assertions, without fOun-
datiOn Of truth, have been persisted in
by certain parties merely for the sake
Of prejudice. It has had it fleet and
to-day the Republican Della
ware is divided almost hOpelessly. If
nothing but truth has been told-if the
Republicans of Delaware could disa-
buse their minds of all political false
hoods relating to the party in the State
then might the party be united.
Will the TINES speak of its know
ledge on the matter raised by the
Chronicle. We are willing TO abide its
decision. - AiddJetOsOH Transcript.
This is a matter that hardly calls
for a referee, but we can safely
say there was no"Regular" or'' U Union"
Republicans as such that entered into
the election. When the editor of the
TEEs went to the school election that
day, as had been his custom, it
was with no idea of q contest on party
lines, but when he got there he saw a
number of men there who had never
been in the habit Of attending school
elections, but who voted as partizans,
some Of them not in accordance with
the law regulating school elections.
One Of the men who voted against the
old tickets, it is freely stated and not
denied, is the slated candidate of the
Higgins men of Wilmington (not
Smyrna) for the Postmastership.
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OHERIFF'S SALE
- By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias to me
alrec'ed, VIII be exposed TO Public Sale in
front of the Smyrna House. i'm the town OF
smyrna, Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County and
State Of Delaware,
On Saturday, the sist day of July. A. D. 1897,
at o'clock ?. NJ, the following described Real
Estate, 10 wit:
All that certain lot or parcel of land and ten.
ementS situated on Main street in the town Of
Smyrna, Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County
and State of Delaware, adjoining lands of PreSSly
Spruance, lands of Charles c. BOehmler lands Of
Rachel Hohecker and lands of others, on which
Is erected three-stOry store building, dwelling
house and outbuildings. And being the same
lands and premises conveyed to the said Lydia
A. Cotton by William +. Brown and wife by deed
bearing date January 6, 1886.
Seized and taken in execution as the properly
of LYDIA A. COTTON, and will be sold by
SAMUEL L. SHAW, Sheriff.
sherin's Office, Dover, Del, July 9, 1897. 14S
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son; Mrs. Mary A. Deakyne, Samuel
Cats, E. 9. FAIRIES, B. V. Weldon,
Mrs. Hannah James, W. w. Tschudy,
Cheirs) Titus 1 Hobbs, James Waters,
(heirs,) A. L. Hudson, Sr., Mrs. S. J.
Reynolds.
Councilman Moore gave notice of
an amendment to the Moore Bicycle
ordinance.
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THE question Of silver in its cur-
rency relation, is agitating not only
this country, bnt some Of the leading
countries Of Europe. A London letter
writer Of New York paper says:
The three Special ENJOYS, empow-
cred by the United States to negotiate
with European Powers for settlement
of the silver question on international
lines, were introduced to Lord Sails
bury at the Foreign Office and were
cordially received. An important
point not yet understood outside of the
Foreign Office, is that these Enjoys
viii have two Embassies behind thenn
IN place Of one. The produced so good
an impression upon the French Gov
ernment during their stay in the
city Of Paris that the French Embassy
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THE TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL.

TWO DAILY TRAINS TO NASHVILLE VIA
THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY. CHEAP
EXCURSION RATES.
The Tennessee Centennial and In
ternatiOnal Exposition, which opened
at Nashville May 1st, is a national
event Of international Importance, and
the whole world is cordially invited to
come, and to come via the Southern
Railway, through Asheville and ''Tbe
Land OF the Sky" Through Pullman
gIeepers sic are operated, daily, from
Philadelphia to Nashville through
this, the most interesting and pict1r
essque region in America. The excur-
sion rates authorized are low enough
to tempt you. Write to Jno. NJ. Bea1I,
District Passenger Agent, 82S Chest
nut street, Philadelphia, for all infor-
nation and beautifully illustrated
pamphlet descriptive of the Exposition
and "The Land of the Sky"
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THE SMYRNA TIMES.
Smyrna, DeI.,
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY I4th, 1897.

THE SMYRNA TIMES is published at Smyrna
Del, every Wednesday afternoon, at 2 O'Clock
THE TIMES is an independent paper devoted to
the welfare Of the. town it represents and the
State of which it is a part. II also gives the
items of importance of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland.
ROBT. D. HOFFECKER,
Editor and Proprietor.
ROBT. d. HOFFECKER, JR.,
Associate Editor.
TERMs-SUBscRIPTIoN- per annum. II
paid. strictly in advance S1.OO. No paper is
discontinued until all arrears are paid up
except at the option Of the publishers.
ADVERTISEMENTS-THE SMYRNA TIMES is the
business medium not only for the town it rep
resents but for the outlying district of which it
is the centre, embracing the towns of Clayton,
Kenton, Cheswold, Leipsic, &c. A rate Of so
cents an inch per month will be charged for
transient advertising. A special reduction on
all semi-annual and yearly advertisements.
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41st Dividend.

The FRUIT Growers NATIONAL BANK,
SMYRNA, DEL, July 13, 1897.
The Board of Directors have this day de-
elared dividend ST 81 per cent for the last
six months, payable on demand.
N. F. WILDS, Cashier.
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If you want some extra choice Scar
let Glover Seed, apply to the Office of
the Philadelphia & Smyrna Transpor-
tation Co. 2f
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FOUND.

A LADY'S HAND BAG, contain
ing an embroidered Linen Handker-
chief. Owner can obtain same by
calling at the TINES Office.
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Don't nauseate your stomach with teas
and bitter herbs; but regulate your liver and
sick headache by using those famous little
pills known as De Wits Little Early
Risers. Clifton & Raymond, Smyrna, Del.
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.'They don't make men fuss about il. y
We are speaking of DeWitt's Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for constipa-
ton, billiousness and all stomach and liver
troubles. They never grippe. Clifton q
Raymond, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1897-07-14

Tomorrow our Town Council will
take action upon the first list of names
submitted by Pavement Inspector
Cummins, they having received the
legal 3O-day notice to have such pave
ments in front of their property re-
paired. The Town Council will order
the work done Immediately, and col
lect same out of the property owners.
In cases where refusal is made the
Council will resort to law and if neces-
sary will order a sale of property to
cover claim.
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Il was chosen out Of five applicants for
position IN Philadelphia, because was
graduate of Goldey (AWil. Del.) CONNER
cial and Shorthand College," See adv.
in this paper and send for catalogue.
Smyrna times., 1897-07-14

1t heals everything except broken heart
may be said of De Wits Witch HAZEL
Salve. Piles and Rectal diseases, cuts,
burns, bruises, letter, eczema and all skin
troubles may be cured by it quickly and
permantly.
Smyrna times., 1897-07-14

During the summer Jas. w. Latto-
mus, attorney-at-law, of Wilmington,
will be at the Office of Cosgriff & Beck
ON Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Smyrna times., 1897-07-14

Last week with its east winds, foggy
or damp mornings and hot suns, was
particularly hard on grapes, causing
them to rot.
Smyrna times., 1897-07-14

VIM. NJ. Lewis has sold six tons
of binder twine for this harvest, tying
up many hundreds of acres of grain.