Smyrna times., 1897-02-03
County and State Items.

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Edward o. Raymond has been cleo
ted enrolling clerk of the Senate at a
salary of $3.50.
The d. NJ. & V. Railroad earned in
1896 nearly SAC, 900 over and above op-
Grating expenses.
There is no better time than now to
pay your subscription. 1t takes money
to run a newspaper.
The 18th annual encampment of the
G.. A. R., of Delaware, will be held at
Harrington, February 10.
Dover has two councils of the Junior
Order United American Mechanics,
and both are in fourishing condition.
Sheriff Shaw sold on Saturday week
the personal property of. w. Carson's
canning establishment at Clayton for
s246.57.
Matt d. Clements, of British Col
umbia, is visiting his brother, DIR. T.
o. Clements after an absence of about
eighteen years.
E. Il. Cochran, Jr., Esq., of Middle
town, has been elected legal adviser
for the Delaware Legislature. The
salary is $11OO for the session.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Reedy tend
cred a reception to their Dover friends
last week and left for Philadelphia
where they will reside in the future.
Some of the Delaware Gamers are
making contracts with farmers at S5
per ton for tomatoes, and . cents per
pound for shelled peas.
The Rev. S. B. Overton, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, Milford, was
married to Miss Maggie Sawyer, of
Camden, n. c. They returned to Mil
ford Wednesday evening.
Grifenburg and Kirk, of the Sum
init Bridge Creamery, have been
awarded the contract to supply the
county almshouse with butter at 922cts
the pound for the ensuing quarter.
Fleming Holiday, father of Supt.
R. L. Holiday, Delaware Il. r., left
Dover last week to reside in St. Louis,
No, with his son, William D. Holli-
day, freight agent of the C. c. c. & st.
L. r. r.
While playing base ball last year Mr..
Simeon Pennewill was accidentally
struck violently by a ball, which, re-
suited in an indentation of the skull
just above the left ear. He will go to
Jefferson College to have his head
operated upon.
A feeling appears to be prevalent in
Delaware that compulsory education
should go into effect throughout the
State; and that an educational quail
cation for voters should be engrafted
into the new Constitution.
The retiring State Treasurer, Charles
H. Atkins, has turned his books over
to his successor, W. NJ. Ross. The
books show balance in the treasury
of S67, 1886. The expenses of con-
Quoting the State affairs during the
year aggregated 1926, 900.
E. L. Jones & Co. s Dover Machine
Works supplied last week a 25 horse
power boiler to S. H. .Messick, Bridge
vile, and this week will deliver a 40
horse power one to G. S. Pennewill,
which he has ordered for his sash and
blind works on Lockerman street.
Attorney General White and Deputy
Attorney General Cooper will try once
more to convict the twelve Democratic
Inspectors, who we're caught red
handed in their attempt to oust VIM.
r. Finn for sheriff of New Castle
County. The indictments will be
drawn and the cases presented before
the grand jury that meets on Monday.
The Milford Chronicle has this to
say: We are glad to see signs of re-
peutance on the part of the Transcriof
of Middletown. It's editor, McKend-
rec Downham, has awakened to the
fact, that his beloved Higgins faction
is in decided minority in Delaware;
but before he and his friends are per
mitted to return, a fitting penance
must be e1acted by the true Republi-
cans of the State.
II the Republicans of Pennsylvania
or New York State had to submit to
the same kind of treatment accorded to
the Republicans of Delaware on cleo
tiOn day their papers would create a
revolution. The Union Republicans
have called the attention of Congress
in an official way to the manner in
which the elections have beon con-
Quoted in our State and the methods
used in arriving at the result.
The cost of bringing the ballot boxes
10 Dover from New Castle has been
presented to the Legislature amount
ing to S2I5.O4, and has been ordered to
be paid to Sheriff Finn by the Levy
Court of that county. The Cbeairs-
Dickey contest will cost the conntv
over $1,000. But it was we'll worth the
money spent. 1t may result in the
conviction Of the twelve Democrat In
spectors, who were indicted at the last
term Of court, which indictments fell
through by some legal technicality.
Ihis time the officers of the court ex-
pect to be able to convict.
H1GeNs' GOLD MINE BUBBLE. The
Golden Sceptre Mining Company has
been the source of lots of trouble for
Delawareans, and it was engineered
by Anthony Higgins and others of Will
mington. A suit has been filed by
Chicago parties against the company.
The suit is for 500, 900, and notice that
suit has been brought was served on
tne directors Of the company in Will
mington last week. Besides the suit
being brought against the company II
was made against the individuals con.
nected with It. EX-SENATOR An+honv