Smyrna times., 1897-02-17

and plllOry.- Times.
By the will of Judge Wales, L. E.
Wales, Jr, is made executor. and prop
erty is left to his brother, DIR. J. P.
Wales and his sister, Mrs. Josephine
Bissell.
Mr.. Lyman J. Gage, the coming
secretary of the Treasury, denies the
story of Mr.. Suddell that he is Sin
gle Taxer and contributed to the Sin
gle Tax-Bryan campaign fund last
year. He need not have taken the
trouble to make the denial, as nobody
of any account took any stock in the
foolish charge.
Henry G. Conrad, Esq, read his
paper on THE Three Signers of the
Declaration from Delaware" at the
meeting of the Historical Society on
Monday evening This is the same
paper which Mr.. Conrad recently read
before the Sons of Delaware in Phila-
delphia and which attracted much at
tention.
According to the list of appointments
made by Governor Reynolds during
his term of four years, was 754. The
government of the State has too long
been that OF One-man power. Now
that the Governor is possibly to be
made eligible to reelection he should
not be given the power to build up a
personal machine by selecting several
hundred men to fill public offices.
Solomon Smith, who has been ar
rested by his wife in Wilmington Mon
day for non support, is a grave digger
by occupation. His excuse is that bust
ness has been so bad, nobody having
died, that he has been unable to keep
his wife as she should be kept. But,
said Solomon, if the dying business
would brisk up, why there would be
no trouble to support himself as well
as his wife.
The same paper on Monday has the
following item in it's locals: The case
of Homer Barry VS.. J. Edward Addicks
to recover money fer work and ser
vices rendered in the printing of sam
pie ballots, during the last campaign,
came off before Magistrate Prickett
this morning, and after the examina-
ton of several witnesses, was dismissed
and Mr.. Barry ordered to pay the
costs"
There is said to be some visciOus po-
litical legislation brewing, by creating
commissions for Kent and Sussx coun-
ties to replace the Levy Court because
they are Republican, and even desire
on the part of certain politicians to pre-
vent the adoption of a new constitu
ton. It has developed that the New
Castle Levy Court is $50, 900 in debt,
with credit at the bank shut off, hence
the bill authorizing tho borrowing
$780, Kent is in debt between $780,
600 and 100000.
The ravages of pneumonia in Will
mington are unprecedented. The doc
tors agree that they have never known
time when so many persons were i'll
from throat and lung diseases. The
deaths are numerous and the majority
of them occur about one week after
the patient has been stricken. As
high as three and four persons in one
house are down with pneumonia, and
as many as two deaths in one family in
two days have occurred.
GRAND LODGE OF HEPTAsoPHs.- The
annual session of the Grand Conclave
of Heptasophs was held in Wilmington
Friday. The report of the secretary
showed a membership of 99S in the
State, a gain of POS. These grand Off
GERS were chosen: Archon, G. NJ.
WhItelock; chancellor, George W.
Neill; provost, Joseph Sturtx; prelate,
G. 1. Muston; inspector general, w.
H. Fisher; recording scribe, William
Winthrupt: treasurer. A. B. Cross
grove; warden, G.. H Rue; sentinel,
H. A. Spoerl; trustees, G. S. Boynton,
W. H. Fisher, Thomas Connor, G. P.
Rue.
The Daily Republican of Whining
ton admits retrograde of business in
that city. 1t says: partisan legisla-
tion has tendency to keep enterprises
from locating in our city, thus working
an injury to the community. Viii.
mington needs all the fresh business
enterprises it can capture at the present
time. 1t is time our city fathers and
Board of trade were awakening to this
fact. Wilmington is not the city oi
ten years ago. 1t is retrograding and
this should not be. Our city is Just at
favOrably located having every facility
to transact business, with dispatch and
for workmanship our products canno+
be excelled anywher
A MISTAKEN POLICY.-The refusal O.
j. Edward Addicks to pay the bills
contracted by his lieutenanants in
Wilmington during the last po
litical campaign, seems to indi.
cate an inteution on his part to re-
linquish the desire to control the Re
publican party in New Castle county
1t now looks as if the prediction mad,
by his opponents months ago, that a
soon as he found that his election t,
the Senate was hopeless he would
cease to expend his money 80 literally
was about to be realized. If these pre-
dictions are not to be verified he mus
change his tactics and pay the bill
contracted by the men who were re
garded as acting for him.-DGily Re
publican.
THE LEGISLATURE.