Smyrna times., 1897-08-04
County and State Items.

In q game of base ball, last Thurs
day, Odessa defeated Middletown b,
the score of 3 to 2.
Farmers say that the recent rain
did not affect the wheat near as much
as we supposed, only the top bein.
injured to any extent.
The failure of the Delaware peach
crop may find partial recompense il
the more remunerative returns for the
Delaware wheat crop.
Isaac j. Giles, of Seaford hundred
boasts of an enormous yield of wheat.
He harvest from thirteen acres 611
bushels, an average of forty-seven
bushels to the acre.
William 1. Simpson, whose health
is failing, will sail for Europe to-day,
accompanied by his physician, DIR. J.
o. Jones. Both of Milford.
Our State House is to be altered and
enlarged at a cost of about $1,000. 1t
will not be many years before it will
have to be improved by the erection of
complete new structure.
The gloom of the silverites at the
steady decline in value of silver and
the encouraging advance in the price
of wheat is one of those things ''better
imagined than described"
The attendance at Camden camp
Sunday was not unusually large. Ex-
Congressman Jonathan S. Willis
preached in the morning, and the Rev.
P H. Rawlins preached in the after
noon.
Mosquitoes are the worst this Sum-
mer for many seasons. A farmer
down in ST. Jones Neck on last Satur-
day had to stop plowing, the varmints
being so bad that the mules would lie
down and roll to rid themselves of the
pests.
To Go TO ALASKA About fifty
employees of the Pullman Palace Car
Company Works, at Wilmington, have
dubbed together and will send one of
their number to Alaska to prospect for
gold. Each one of the fifty men is to
pay $50 into the club. The one who will
make the trip has not yet been selec-
ted.
The Milford Ne'Cs says: eff you are
so unfortunate as to get one of the two
dollars bills which fOrgers have changed
to resemble fve-dOllars bills do not
throw it away. You can get twO-dol-
lars at the Sub-Treasury. Two such
bills were redeemed the other day.
The raised two dollar bill has vignettes
of Fulton and Morse, while the five
dollar bills has vignettes of Grant and
Sheridan.
While sitting ON the porch of his
residence near Frederick, Anthony
COhee. a well-knOwn farmer, heard the
sudden report of a revolver, and 81
multaneous with the report he felt
sting in the breast. Upon the exami-
nation he found that pistol ball had
struck him, but the force of the ball
had been spent before it reached his
body, otherwise he might have been
killed. He is trying to discover the
reckless marksman's S indentity.
The famous Oxy-Hydrogen Com
pany case is to be reopened. Chancel-
lOr Nicholson to-day granted an order
upon the Mayor and Council and upon
Chancellor ad litim Harry Johnson to
show cause why the case should not be
removed from Mr.. Johnson's hands
and reinstated upon the regular docket
OF the Court of Chancery to be heard
by the Chancellor. The rule was made
returnable at the September term.
REGULARS FOR HARMONY. Chair
man Hugh G. Browne, of the Regular
Republican State Committee, stated
that he was in favor of a committee
being appointed from the Regular
committee to confer with the Addicks
or Union Republican with reference
to harmony in the Republican party in
Delaware Mr.. Browne stated that
the Regular committee will meet some
time during August and consider the
proposition made by the Union men.
1t Is believed that the entire question
oi harmony in the party will depend
upon this meeting of the Regular
State Committee.
ADDICKs IS BROTHER.-HOw to
eliminate Addicks is a troublesome
question. The Sentinel, the Union
paper, says that all this talk about
eliminating any one man is ''rot and
nonsense" Even the Advisory Com
mlttee does not see clearly how Adj
aieks can be fOrci6ly eliminated unless
ne stays in Alaska. They do think,
however, as was brought out at their
conference, that the new Constitution
mas routed Addicks. The elections
hereafter for members of the Legis-
iature will be by districts and there
can be no clean sweep of a county.
Inc Regulars say that the strength of
Aaaleks Is principally in the Demo
cratic districts. Correspondent Record.
The winding-up of the affairs of the
mlmlngtOn Dental Company, at one
uiae very prosperous concern, is a
rejection upon the men who had the
management Of it. There was no need
u TINS company being thrown into the
HAnds OF the receivers, but certain
parties were determined to bring it
ABOUT, and the courts sustained them
u their claims: A Wilmington paper
ays' Apparently that is not what
'ae courts have been created for. God
pny the man who falls into the hands
VI the law. His determination finan-
'Alis Is nearly as certain as death.
oEVERR ELECTRICAL AND HAIL
'loRN AT WILMINGToN.- heaviest
s'ectrical and hail storm that has pas
'ea over Wilmington for a number of
seafs occurred Saturday evening about
o'clock. Wilmington and New Cas-
ue seemed the centres for the storm