Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1897-06-23
County and State Items.

NOOi' LOU hoiAetG OF Milford was
graduated from Princeton University.
with a degree of Bachelor of Arts. on
Wednesday.
VIM. Daniels, of Milford. from II
acres OF strawberries has cleared $40.
90 this season; the picking of one
day sold for S19.S4.
Miss Frances Dean Pie and Herman
Tyson were married at the brides
mothers home, near Newark on Thurs
day evening by the Rev. Father Ott
The couple are on a trip south.
The Dover post-Ofice has been adj
vanced to the second class, salary $4,000,
due to the visitors in Dover this win
ter. John CassOns and D. NJ. Wilson
are applicants for the office when Mr..
GOOden's term expires.
Miss Miriam Sheppard, daughter
of the Rev. G. F. Sheppard of Camden,
has accepted an invitation to sing at
the National School of Methods, which
will assemble at Mountain Lake Park,
W. Va, on July oath and continue in
session four days.
NEEsE.-AIrs. Neese, wife of Rev.
q. Il. Neese, recently of Nassau, died
in GumbOro 9th inst after an illness of
several months. Mrs. Neese was a
prominent worker in the revival SER
vices at the Church last winter.
Many people of Houston and vicinity
will learn of her death with sincere re-
greet.
MILFORD Del, BONDS FOR $40, 900.
The Equitable Guarantee & Trust
Company, of Wilmington vereceived
the 81, 900 loan made by the town of
Milford for the purpose of refunding
its debt. The bonds are for 30 years
at 1 per cent. The company bid pre-
MUM of $500. 40.
Fair notice upon President Mckinley
is thus served by the Dover Sentinel:
If the President expects to be a
Democratic candidate for reelection in
1900, the appointment of George E.
Smith to the pOstoffice at Laurel is all
right 1t might get him few Demo
cratic votes. 1t would not make any
Republicans votes.
The turning down of both ex-Judges
Cullen and Marvel, of Sussex county,
has given rise to considerable feeling
against Governor Tunnel for their re-
mOval, especially Judge Marvel, who is
IN the prime of life and had gived up
paying practice to assume the duty of
Judge when he received his appoint
ment from Governor Reynolds. The
position, when he assumed it, was for
life
Taken as a whole the peach shippers
regard the prospects as favorable for
making something on the small crop
left. They say that times are better
than they were last year, and this will
have tendency to make better prices.
The season for strawberries has
proved that the fruit markets are bet
ter than they were last season, and
there is no reason to doubt that the
same will be true of the peach crop
when it is shipped.
The new Constitution provides for |
tifty-twO members of the General As |
sembly instead of thirty, and to pro-
vide seating room for the House and |
Senate the State House interior will !
have to be re-arranged. The partition |
now dividing the chambers will be re-
moved, and both turned into large
room for the House. The Senate Cham
Der will be where the constitutional |
Convention sat-Over the new library.
HALL-CoLLINs.- Miss Bessie Col
Inns, and John G. Hall well know in
Smyrna, brother to VIM. E. Hall were
married Monday evening 14th inst at
the residence of Mrs. Mary johnson.
on Lakeview Avenue in South Mil
ford. Rev. T. E. Martindale tied the
knot the presence of only relatives and
immediate friends. The bride is a
member of the best society of Milford,
and Mr. Hall is a retired merchant of
the town.
JUDGE PENNEwILL.-Th Dover
Inter says: The Honorable James
Pennewill, who has just been ap-
pointed associate Judge for Kent
county, is too we'll known in and re-
,spected to require an eulogy at our
hands. For he has stood as one of the
leaders at the Kent bar. He has been
well known in public life. In politics
he has always taken a manly, upright
stand, following the dictates of con-
Science more than ambition. There is
not the slightest doubt but that he will
I'LL his new position with credit and
ability.
JErTY TO BE BUnT.-Bids were
opened last Tuesday in Wilmington for
the Job Of building a brush and stone
Ietty at the mouth of the Mispillion;
TO commence where the present line of
piles stop and continue in a southerly
direction on past the ''green banks"
the work cOmtemplates shutting Offall
the sand from the north and leaving
stone Oreakwater beyond it even at low
tide, and the dredging of the channel
between the new ietty and the shore.
Only SlSOO.OO is available for the work.
b. I. Collins of Milford was awarded
to contract
ALMOST ANOTHER MURDER.
came near being another murder took
place near Hollands Mills, near the
Drawbridge in Sussex county last
Wednesday. A number of people from
New Jersey are engaged in the manu-
iaeture Of charcoal at this point and
Jonathan Mason, the man who made
the assault, is reported to be insanely
Jealous of a Mrs. Headly, and on We'd
Aesday he struck her a fearful blow
over the head with the butt of a gun,
shocking her senseless and causing
blood to flow from the mouth and ears.