Smyrna times., 1897-07-21
County and State Items.


vile, has lost five cows from being hi
ten by a mad dog.
Samuel H. Baynard. of Wilminotor
will erect afineresidence on Eighteeut
street, near Washington.
Sixty dollars in silver was stole,
from James E. BOstic, proprietor of tb
Laurel House, Sunday morning.
The artesian we'll for Newark ba.
reached a depth, of 13O feet and fur
nlshes forty gallons of water a min
ute.
SUIT has been entered in Wilmington
Court by Mrs. Martha Grant Bushnell
for divorce from her husband. Nelson
q. Bushnell.
James H. LOwber, of Frederick has
been granted an original pension and
James Dugan, of Wilmington. has
been granted reissue.
The Democratic members of Will
mingtOn City Council have been at
war for several weeks and the leaders
want to get together.
The Milford Herald, under the
management Of Col. E. T. Cooper if
is said will be a Wolcott paper. viz.
for his Senatorial claims.
A farmer recently sold J. J. Scanlon.
of Dover, peach basket full of eggs.
and on the following day a live chick
popped out of one of the eggs.
Forty Sunday schools of New Castle
County has applied to Levy Court
Commissioner White for share of the
$1,000 appropriation by the county.
So Mr.. DUPONT is the god before
whom the Republicans of Kent and
Sussex counties must bow down-so
says the NctOS and .AdCertiser That
Is, If they want a post office.
From present appearances neither
John I. Dickey or Johnnie Callahan
have much of pull with the powers
that now control the appointments in
the gift of Governor Tunnel
Clerk of the Peace FOard, of New
Castle County, has already bought 40
600 bushels of new wheat, and he saws
the wheat crop of the county will aver
age twenty bushels to the acre.
A fakir almost caused a riot among a
party OfcolOred women at the Whining
ton Railroad station on Thursday
night, by singing "All Coons Look
Alike to Me-" several of the damsels
attacking him with umbrellas.
George w. Roberts will retire as
editor of the Dover Sentinel, the lead
ing Addieks organ of the State. and
will be succeeded by John H. Bate
man, recently cashier of the First
National Bank of Dover. It is stated
that Mr.. Bateman has purchased the
Sentinel.
1t Is no violation of confidence to State
that recent efforts to secure harmony in
the ranks of the Republican party of Della
ware proved fiat failure The Regulars
refused to harmOnize unless Addicks is
natly repudiated, and the Union, knowing t
that without Addicks they would have no {
pirty at all. will not listen to such a sug- f
gestion And so the merry war goes
on.-Eeery Ecsning. July 1871.
Arrangements for the excursion of f
the Peninsula Press Association to the
Tennessee Centennial Exposition are t
nearly completed. A large attendance
Is expected. The excursionists will Il
travel by the Great Southern route, r
and will make the trip late in Septem- \
Der or early in October. Il
Should Governor Tunnel, who has
been i'll, die while filling his Office. his ?
successor, in accord with the new con- !,
stltution, would be Mr.. James H. W
hughes, his Secretary of State. He N
would act until the next general elect IL
Ion; but it is hoped that the governor CO
Will be spared to fill out his term.
Delaware farmers are much pleased ~
over the large yeild of wheat reported al
III all parts Of the State. The growers
ABOUT MlddletOwn say that the yield "
70 the acre exceeds the crop of 1882, F.
winch was memorable one. Sussex, CI
wheat yield there is very large and the n
farmers hope to make up some of the
loss caused by the failure of the peach di
crop. ad
The federal appointments will be an
next In order and President Mckinley DC
Will make them as soon as possible sh
si'er the tariff bill has been disposed of co
~ Congress. 1t remains to be seen wa
now much he will strengthen the Re- OF
Pu"iican party in Delaware by the ap- an
pOin'ments made. The future of the as t'
party Is In his hands in the State of Del
aware.
DorTAGERs ELECT Town OFFICERS. -.
he election held Saturday at Re- vi
IUOO'h' ~ resulted in the selection of VI
y, mayor James E. Hooper, of Baltimore. HI
rnomas B. Smith, of w ilrnington. and WI
= e. >. Morris, of Lewes, Commissioners vi
,Di 'hree years; Fred Kunsman' Col al
y ,ec'or, and William H. Bell, of SMYRNA. tn'
- H. X. Burton and Clarance Beebe. wv
VI Ae"es, Auditors for one year. W.
n be-
ne marsh land of nothern New Jer- ON
~ -. | TO be reclaimed, with view of II
i..' iIs''ing rid of the mosquitoes. The col
,s.e 'e Chief Justice Comegys of Della for
!" aa's e believed that the mosquito pest bat
a.. a. 'ne lower part of the State could be sal
Az 'eu Vi Dy reclaiming the marshes De
10 10 long as there are marshes lust that
'ong III will there be mosquitoes. That is
'nA's the matter now. ne,
oI suf
Dsroosa prief time in the past every ;ll VA
De,noeratic paper in Delaware dam PIa. Pll.
asa asC Anthony Higgins and his follow W.
lit;oo1 uptlonists, and AnthOny'spo- -"
N.Y.. ,',Va' methods particularly, as all the
lor ~ 'nat dishonest principles stood
H. w" the same papers are landing