Smyrna times., 1897-08-04

Oahh aI DOVER mas maze IL necessary to
increase the clerical force, by employ.
ing Frank NJ. Casson a young Dover
man.
Ninety tents at the Camden camp
meeting are occupied, % less than were
occupied last season. A choir directed
by Mr.. Gardner is providing excellent
music.
The Jackson Il Sharp Company, of
Wilmington, have received au order
for % closed electric cars for the Water
loo Underground Railroad of London,
England.
John Kurtz, of Wilmington, who
has a record of shaving two men in one
minute and AZ seconds, wants shaving
contest with any barber in the State
for $50 a side.
Calvin L. Grumm, of Northumber-
land county Pa, has been elected prin
cipal of the MiddletOwn Academy. He
was elected on the second ballot out of
10 applicants.
Colonel Curtis S. WastOn, a we'll
known citizen of Milford and the old
est Free-masOn in the State, died YES
terday after a long illness, aged SO
years. His estate is valued at S35, 900.
The contract for the last section of
the Queen Anne's railroad, that will,
when completed, extend from Queens
town to RehObOth, has been awarded
to Wade, Burns & Co. of Baltimore.
The Board of Education of Millsboro
has elected Professor Morgan T. Gum,
principal; Miss Nettie White, first as
sistant, both of Frankford, and Miss
Carrie Lingo. MillsbOrO, second as
sistant.
John G. Higgins will be banqueted
at Delaware City, on Friday. He will
sail for Dundee, Scotland, on the 10th,
where he was appointed consul for de-
feating the Republican party in the
State last fall.
This has been one of the best seasons
for early white potatoes that Delaware
every saw, and the crop is moving at
good figures for spot cash by buyers
at our depot. Prices average % cents
per peach basket with buyers anxious.
Campmeeting under the auspices of
the African NJ. Z. Church, will be held
in Darbe's woods, two miles and half
from Frederick, on the road leading to
Canterbury, commencing on August
9TH and continuing over two Sundays.
The excursion to Ocean City and Re-
hObOth over the Delaware Railroad,
Thursday was largely patronized.
When the train passed here five coaches
were nearly filed with passengers,
among whom were quite a num-
Der from this vicinity.
There is great doubt and uncertainty
as to how the Adams law for the taxa
tiOn of investments shall be put into
practical operation. Like all such
of doubtful prOpriety and
doubtful cOnstitutionality, it is full of
difficulties on it's face.
The summer school of methods closed
its sessions at Dover last Friday. On
AS candidates for teachers
certificates presented themselves for
Prof. Tindal says that
this has been the most successful
school ever held there.
The "HERALD" SOLD. The Milford
Herald has been sold to Col. E. T.
Cooper and it will be moved into the
APPEL building in North Milford.
From a neutral paper it will be made
Democratic and favorable
to gold as a basis for currency
Chronicle
''Black Thursday" will be celebrated
at Slaughter Beach on August 5. On
this day the beach is always surrend-
cred over to the colored people, who
gather from all parts of the peninsula,
sing, dance and make merry. The
festivities usually end with a shooting
scrape or cutting affray.
To DRIVE OUT THE PESTS. s.-Grov.
Tunnel has appointed E. H. Brancroft,
Of Camden, State Agriculture Inspec-
tor, to fill place created by therecent
Legislature. The salary is $500 year
and the inspector must try to prevent
the spread of San Jose scale, curculio
and other insects that are doing so
much damage to the Delaware fruit.
We are not requested by interested
parties to advise our readers that it is
against the law to kill rabbits at this
season of the year and they say the
law will be enforced, if not observed;
Do not kill the young rabbits, or you
will be prosecuted, and Justly so, for
in so doing you are transgressing the
law of this State.
Senator Gray sailed from New York
last week for southampton, but will
be absent only a short time, the trip
being taken only to invigorate his
system, which had become consider
ably run down by his arduous duties
in the Senate. During the recent
special session Senator Gray has been
the main reliance of the Democrats in
Congress.
DOG-CATcHER RAMPANT. - Joseph
Cook official dog-catcher of Dover,
Monday paraded the streets with his
dog catching net in one hand and a
revolver in the other, fercely threat
ening to shoot pedestrians on sight.
Cook was intoxicated. He was ar
rested before he succeeded in doing
any mischief and locked up in Jail.
A team which John ID. Hawkins left
unhitched in front of w. r. Nock's
drug store, in Camden, on Sunday