Smyrna times., 1897-06-09
County and State Items

OlcklnsOn OOllege to-day at Carlisle
The annual meeting of the Delaware
State Medical Society Will be held in
RehObOth on Tuesday and Wednesday
next.
The property of the Joshua Clayton
estate, at MiddletOwn, on which is To-
Gated the Transcript building, has been
sold at trustees sale to Mrs. Fannie C.
Williams for $3.50.
Hon. L. Irving Handy will deliver
two addresses to the Chatauqua-by-the-
Sea, at Norfolk, Va, on June 16 and
Il. His subject will be "The Road to
Victory" and "Patrick Henry"
This time tomorrow the people of
Delaware will be living under a new
constitution. but not one person in a
thousand will know the difference so
far as it applies to them personally.
In most respects the new constitu-
tion is up-to-date, and the desirable
provisions of the Constitutions adopted
recently in various States have been
engrafted into this one.
One day last week Colonel j. J. Ross
of SeafOrd shipped 3O,O4O quarts of
strawberries which is the largest ship
ment made at time by one grower.
Last week over $4,000 were paid to
pickers in the vicinity of Seaford.
A lizard and a Georgetown lady had
quite a lively skirmish at Union
Cemetery Saturday afternoon. The
lizard got upon her back, between her
dress body and the lining, and the way
the lady got out of her dress would do
credit to a side show in a circus.
The last Legislature cost the State
well on to 100000 1t was money bad
ly spent. The Constitution will cost
$4,000. These are luxuries that one
wants only once in three generations.
May they never happen together again.
-SHssCr Journal.
The venal voter discovered on Satur-
day that his market was gone. That is
the report made by those in position
to know. That is the best feature con-
nected with the city election. Let the
venal voter in Delaware be made to
keep under the cover by being told
that his vote is not needed.
The new constitution has been pro-
claimed. Hail the initial day of Della
wares freedOm-Thursday, June 10,
1897! Twenty members of the COnven-
tion, voted for it.
There were four absentees when the
vote was taken, Messers, Bradford,
Harmon, Orr, and Pratt. Several of
the Democrats developed the politician
when the test came and voted to sub
nit the result to a vote and risk the
losing of the efforts of twenty years
for New Constitution. They should
be remembered. They are: DOnahoe,
Evans, Martin, Salisbury, johnson,
President Biggs. MddLetown Tran
script.
DELAWARE JUDICIAL SHAKE Up
There is a stir among Republicans over
the appointment of two judges for the
State bench, which must be made by
Governor Tunnel under the constitu-
ton The friends of Austin Harring-
ton decided to ask the Governor to ap.
point him to one of the places. Will
liam G. Spruance and HenryC. Conrad
are also mentioned. It is thought that
Charles F. Richards of Georgetown
will be named. By the new cOnstitu.
ton one of the present Democratic
Judges must retire to make room fOl
one Republican. The Democrats be
lieve that Chancellor Nicholson an6
Chief Justice Lore will be reappOinted
and the retiring Judge will be one o.
the Associates.
In the constitutional Convention
Thursday. Mr.. William G. Spruanc'
proposed the following as an additiOna
section of the schedule to the new Con
stitution:
''The Chancellor, Chief Justice anC
the associate judges first appointed
under this amended Constitution shal
be appointed by the Governor withOu
the consent of the Senate for the term
of twelve years; and the persons so ap-
pOin ed shall enter upon the discharge
Of the duties of their respective Officei
upon taking the oath of Office prescribed
by this amended Constitution.
The section was unanimously adopt
ed Such action is a high tribute t.
Governor Tunnel, as it shows that tn
convention places a proper estimate
upon his character, good judgemen
and sense and discernment.
NEW CONSTITUTION DECLARED. .-Th
Constitutional Convention in session a
Dover, says the PhiIadeLphia Led9e
of Friday, decided to declare the neV
Constitution, and, therefore, it viii
not be submitted to the voters OF Della
aware for ratification. 1t was know
a certain political party was layini
plans to defeat the new document
submitted to the people, and so, to pre-
vent such a thing, the delegate
thought best to declare 1t, as they ha
secured that power from the Leglsia
ture that passed the bill providing 10
Constitutional Convention. Th
only members of the Convention VIII
opposed the declaring of the new doc
ument were six Democrats, althoug
the majority Of the members OF thi
party voted in the affirmative, alon
with the Republicans.
WILMNaroS's ELECTION GOES Ri
PUBLIcAs--The Republicans, carrie
Wilmington Saturday by the followin
vote: H. G. McLear, for Mayor, ga
C.M. Leitch. president Of City Council
2i7; W. II. Curry, City Treasure, ,27'
Henry c. Conrad, City Solicitor 53
The City Council will be controlled b
the Democrats, although the Repubi
cans will make Il contest in the Fourt
ward, where they claim that Holt WI
elected by a small plurality. In u
Northern Assessor district the vote ws