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Smyrna times., 1897-03-10
Legislative Matters.

FARNHURsT MATTER. The trustees
of the Delaware State Hospital at
Farnhurst have asked for a hearing
to-day. In the meantime the House
will take no action on the Farnhurst in
vestigatiOn resolution until after this
hearing is given. 1t is likely that the
resolution will be passed.
representative Thompson has intro
duccd his bill to amend the charter of
the IIenlOpen Electric Light and Rail
way Company. The bill gives the
company the right to use steam or
compressed air if desired, instead of
electricity, extends its time for com
pleteing the road until 1900, and makes
some other minor changes.
-. The Senate non-concurred in the
House resolution appropriating $4,000
for, the State College for Colored
Students.
The Legislation has adopted a reso-
luton to place $4,000 insurance on the
State House and $4,000 on the shelving
in the library.
In the House Mr.. Cheairs gave no.
tice of bill which would abolish the
present method of distributing the
school fund, and instead $50, 900 would
be appropriated each year out of the
general fund for school purposes.
This to be divided on a basis of 81 a
day for each days service Of each teach
er. The bill also provides for an al
preparation of 100000 for State nor
NAL School. Notice of the Compul-
sorry l.ducatiOn bill was also given.
Mr.. Short gave notice of bill to re-
fund $4,000 of the State debt bear
ing per cent. interest and issue new 3
per cent. bonds.
Delaware militia bill provides for one
regiment of infantry of not more than
10 companies, with Gatling gun de-
tachment and field music The troop
of cavalry is abolished. The regiment
is not to exceed $50 men and officers.
The bill asks for an annual appropria-
tion of $40, 900, and the salary Of the ad-
jutant general is increased from 5000
to $1,000 year.
Representative Smith gave notice
to-day of a bill to amend the law gov
erning election inspectors which pro-
vides that at the new election they
shall be appointed by the Governor,
after which they are chosen by the
people.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has is
sued call for the assembling of
Congress in extra session on the
18th inst. The exigencies of the
nations finances has made this
necessary, especially as Congress
failed to provide revenue to meet
the current expenses. The def
cheney for the current fiscal year
will reach nearly S6O,0OO,OOO.
The government has been run
ming behind for the past four
years, and but for the proceeds
of the sale of bonds, ostensibly
to protect the gold reserve, it
must have long ago suspended
some of its payments. Inasmuch
as it is the determination of.
the administration to secure the
necessary revenue from the tar
iff ON imports, the sooner the
work is completed the better.
If the country is to regain its
prosperity, sufficient revenue
must be raised to pay expenses,
and a stop put to the selling of
bonds and the piling up of a
mountain of debt.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

CRETE has evidently stirred up
the worst kind of u horn cts nest
in Europe. The appeal of the
island of Greece for protection
to protect the population against
the cruelties that the Musselmen
visited on Armenia has stirred
up not only Greece, but Mace
dOnia, Bulgaria, Roumania, &c,
against their common enemy,
the ''unspeakable Turk" The
Great Powers are afraid to let
war once get started, for they
know not where it will end.
Hence they are trying to re-
strain the warlike spirit OF the
100000 Greeks ready to fight.
The reply of Greece to the
ultlmatum of the Powers-that
the Greek troops shall withdraw
from Crete and that the island
shall be given administrative
autonomy under Turkish suzer-
ainty-is to the effect that the
proposed autonomy would not
quiet the island; that the Gre
tans reject it; but that Greece
will accept the decision of the
Cretans upon the issue of au-
tOnOmOus administration or
union with Greece. AS fore.
shadOwed in recent dispatches.
Greece declines to recall her
troops from the island or her
fleet from Cretan waters, and
the action of Powers upon the
reply will be waited with interest
throughout the world. The
reply of Greece injects a new
proposition into the controversy.
that the Cretans shall decide for
themselves whether the island
shall remain under Turkish do
minion or become annexed to
Greece.
Europe is badly frightened.
The present war scare is the
worst she has experienced since
swords were last sheathed 25
years ago. Every European
country fears it is about to be
into a great conflict,
which will stain the z seas and
bathe the continent in blood.
Everywhere, except in Greece,
the prospect is looked upon with
dread, if not horror, and both
the public and official minds are
willing to make great sacrifices
in order 20 escape the threatened
calamity.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ADOPTS
TAXATION AND REVENUE SECTIONS
Sitting as a committee of the whole
the Constitutional Convention Monday
adopted three sections of the report of
the Committee on Taxation and Reve-
nue.. The sections provide that all
taxes shall be uniform upon the same
class of subjects within the territorial
limits of the authority levying the tax.
and shall be levied and collected under
general laws, but the General Assem-
bly, may, by general laws, exempt from
taxation such property as, in the opin-
ion of the General Assembly, will best
promote the public interests.
All bills for raising revenue shall
originate in the House of Represen-
tRtives, but the Senate may propose
alterations, and no bill from which
revenue is incidentally raised shall be
accounted a bill for raising revenue.
Provision is made against the insertion
of riders" to revenue bills.
Another section adopted provides that
no appropriation of the public money
shall be made nor the bonds of the
State be pledged otherwise than by
enactment of the Legislature, receiv-
ing the affirmative vote of three-fourths
of all the members elected to each
branch thereof.
For LOCAL OPTION. The Constitu
tional Convention Committee on the
Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating
Liquors has decided to recommend To-
cal option and the submission to the
people of the question of license every
four years. Should license win, a Pc
tition of one-fourth of the voters of the
district will prevent license being
granted.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

THE Secretary of the Treasury,
Lyman J. Gage, presented to the
country, in January last, through
the newspaper press, his tariff
platform. 1t was formulated as
follows:
"Under the Constitution rev.
enue cannot be raised by direct
taxation. We are, therefore.
obliged to resort to indirect tax
alton, and no form of indirect
taxation is less burdensOme or
more practical than the imposi-
tiOn of duties on foreign imports.
This taxation should be so or
dered, however, as not to foster
mOnOpOlies, breed trusts or favor
the few at the expense of the
many.
81 do not know how | can ex-
press my ideas more clearly than
by saying that l believe in the
raising of revenues by customs
duties so levied as to promote
the general welfare by equaliz-
ing the difference between
American and foreign labor"
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10
THE MISSIONARY ANNIVERSARY OF
THE M. E. SUNDAY SCHOOL.

The M. e. Sunday School is in the
habit OF having missionary annivers-
ary just before the Annual Session of
the Conference. That for this wear
was held on Sunday evening. 1t met
the fullest expectation for an event got
ten up with so little preparation
hardly known until the announcement
at the morning service. The audience
room was we'll filled Cncluding the
school in the central seats) and a con-
siderable part of the gallery was oc-
cupled. There was no waiting for the
school below, because they had
marched up by classes and taken their
seats when the second bell rang. the
organlst playing during the time
spirited professional time. The fol-
lowing was the programme.
Chorus, by the School. "Sbip of Zionn
Prayer, by the Pastor.
responsive Reading, THE lesson for the
Chorus, (by schooD Bear the MESSAGE ,,
Opening Address, j. Allison Start
to-day" si'e
Recitation, What Penny Teaches
r, Recitation, Planting Corn" Mary
Song, Infant School, MY Shepherd"
11II9 1h9ecltanon' "A Penny a Day" Mildred
Solo, The Lord is Good" Edith Start
4, h1ecltatlon, Little Brown Penny" Myr-
Recitation, " Sowing and Growing, :" Nor
man Taylor, Lee Washington.
NJ SOLO DO Something kind to-day" Nina
Recitation, "Only PENNY" Eva ZONES
School @P'' VI
Wright --'
From From Greenland's Icy Mountains"
Treasurers Report w. B. Start.
ca 60 Welcome to the Children" Infant
:, Recitation ''Life's Weaving Hattie
Smithers.
Solo and Chorus, 'Raindrops," Infant
Duet, Some Sweet Song for Jesus bv
Agnes Carrow and Bertha Stenple
conversions of Aunt Pollys Pocket
Book" Bessie Curry.
Address by the Pastor, Collection
Jubilee Year (by schGl) 142,
Benediction
The Primary department, that took
prominent part in the evenings exer-
clses, were seated on the platform and
were noticeable for their good deport-
ment and ready response throughout
In fact the whole school, whatever NAV
be their condition when below. acted
with commendable regard to their pro-
prieties and duties when on exhibition
IN the upper room. Some of the
speaking and singing was worthy of
special notice and shows that there is
growing material to rely on.
The monthly and "Big Missionary
Day collections for the year amount
to S24O.OO This is $50. short of the
contribution of. the school last wear.
but under the circumstances. a good
collection.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

The Inauguration of President
Mckinley on Thursday, in both
the brightness of the day and
attendant circumstances of great
p popular demonstration, was ev-
erything that he could ask. 1t is
a noteworthy fact that the pa
pers without regard to party are
speaking of him in a respectful
and complimentary way, and he
thus starts out unhampered and
everyone hopes, the advance
agent of prosperity" His cab
met advisers make a picture of
distinguished looking men, and
are believed to be wisely chosen.
They are as follows: Secretary
of State, John Sherman, of Ohio:
Secretary of the Treasury, Ly-
man J. Gage, of Illinois; Secre-
tary Of War, Russell A. Alger, of
Michigan; Secretary of the
Navy, John D. Long, of. Massa-
chusetts; Attorney General.
Joseph McKenna, of California:
Postmaster General, James A.
Gary, Of Maryland; Secretary of
the Interior Cornelius n. Bliss.
OF N Seen etary of Ag-
rlculture, James Wilson, of Iowa.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

THE result of the three days
investigation or recount of the
ballots in Sussex county is va.
riously viewed by the papers OF
the State, the Republicans claim
ing by the ballots contained in
the boxes, that they had a ma
jority in the county of several
hundred and it would have been
so returned on election day but
for the part played by the Hig-
gins voters assistant. The re-
count shows a y, discrepancy
averaging 35 votes in the returns
from ten voting places, all of
which were in the control of the
Democrats and Higgins Repub-
licans.
In the three Republican hun
dreds of the county, and where
the Union Republicans were
in control, the returns are all
right; no discrepancy between
the votes cast and the votes re-
turned as found. 8
The total vSte east in the
county was S672Hthestotal num.
Der of ballots found in the boxes
1920; the total number of miss
ing ballots was 967, more than
enough to destroy the Demo
cratic plurality of 276.
The Delaaoarean suggests that
the count Immediately after the
election, was made by sworn
officers in the presence of the
two political parties and more
likely to contain the ballots than
as found at the investigation.
This would seem plausible, but
if the voters assistant was in a
conspiracy to change the result,
that was the place where one
sided deals could be executed.
The same plea that a change
might have been made in the
ballots after election dav was not
needed in the Dickey-Cheaires
contest. for by Legislative au-
thOrity the ballot boxes were
hauled down to Dover two
months after, and Dickey
counted out.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

The mori express train now
leaves at 7.14Rg2stead Of = 10 and the
afternoon north bound express at 2 AZ
instead Of 3.52.
The new Steamer, G. T. Brady, was
successfully launched at the Hillman
shipyard on Saturday, Miss Helen
Brady, daughter of the owner, chris
tening the steamer. She is 115 feet
long.
VIM. W. Jones, residing in the ''Al-
ley had calf dropped last week. that
weighed just 100 lbs. This was about
double the weight usually, of calves
when first born. The father when
butchered several weeks since dressed
1O4O lbs.
When we had more timber land than
at present and plenty of wood, fences
OF the latter product was the thing. but
now it is different. Wire fences have
of a necessity substituted wood, and
Pages Woven Wire Fence is offered
as the cheapest and best material for
fencing. Frank E. POstles is agent
for and placing these fences. Read
his advertisement, and consult or
write him about the new fence.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10
Debate on the Liquor Question.

They have in Harrington what
should be IN every town, and School
District as for that, in the country, a
Literary Club which debates public
questions. The Record of that town
notes debate there last week on the
question ''Resolved that Local Option
is the best way to deal with the Liquor
Traffic % Rev. t. E. Terry champ
ioned the affirmative side and Mr.. w.
H. BOoz the negative. Rev. Terry
made a powerful address in favor of
Local Option which he stated meant
that the system Of referendum should
be in vogue so that the people could
vote directly on all important subjects,
the liquor question among others. He
cited several cases which had come
under his observation where good
prohibitOry laws had greatly decreased
drunkenness in Queen Anne's and Dor
chester counties Maryland. He also
stated that as prohibitory laws are
sometimes framed, they are like a
sieve and do not accomplish what THEN
advocates hoped for.
He claimed that the punishment
should be sc great that no one would
dare attempt to evade the law. He
also stated that whereas the licensed
bar room could sell openly where bows
could easily get liquor by getting an
older person to buy it for them, in a
prohibition district it was hard to get
and could be procured only by stealth
and from bad characters. He said that
If the fathers of boys wished to have
liquor sold that he could live under
such state of things but should al
ways lift up his voice against it. One
reason for favOring Local Option, Il
as opposed to the prohibition party was,.d
that if the local sentiment was Co
Danish the open sale of liquor it would
tend to prevent the sale as well. , -
The negative speaker, Mr.. Booz,
claimed that restriction was unnatural
but that freedom was natural. He adj
mltted however, that if there were no
restriction the condition of things
would be worse. He claimed that
under Local Option drunkenness in
creased and cited as his proof, what he
witnessed in dry town in Pennsv-
lvanla where he saw so much Sunday
drunkness, the liquor being brought
from neighboring county. He
further said that communities had tried
Local Option and had afterwards had
the question re-submitted thus show
ing dissatisfaction with the law. He
thought that he would prefer the. con-
dltlons of things as they exist now in
Harrington than under Local Ontion
as 1t had come under his observation
and said that such law would bring
INTO existence a spy system such as
better befitted Russia than America
At the conclusion of Mr.. Booz's argu-
ment, Rev. Terry spent a few minutes
III rebutting the points made bv the
speaker. He said that as his opponent
had spoken of seeing SO much
drunkenness on the Sunday he spent in
the dry town perhaps in the "wet"
district the whole seven days were
thus spent. In answer to the oft re-
Peated statement that prohibition
doesn't prohibit he cited q case at
Centreville where the thirsty man had
TO follow some negro up a dark allev
and drink from his bottle.
No expression of opinion Of the
audience was taken at the close of the
speeches but Squire Van Gesel an
nounced the subject for next Tuesday.
Iha dehata Was aninrnhln 80 :
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

Bishop Walden is giving the PENN
sula new Episcopal experience, viz:
spending some two weeks with them
(this being his first official visit to the
Conference) before opening the session
at CheStertown this day week. In this
he is accomplishing two things, he is
investigating the work as far as possi-
BILE before hand aud getting acquainted
with the preachers, and they and the
people are making his acquaintance
With this object in view he will be in
smyrna to morrow evening and will
deliver a free lecture in the Methodist
Church, having for his subject.
Africa and its Evangelization. At
the close Of the lecture an informal re-
ception will be held in she Lecture
room below. The community will
doubtless give him a cordial ureetsng
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10
DEATHS.

PETERSON Smyrna Landing on the
Goth ult, Mrs. Kate Peterson, age, "a
years.
JOHNSON.--On the 1st inst, in Middle
town, Mathew Johnson, of parysis, aged
% years; Inferred on the 2nd inst, in the
Odd Fellows cemetery, this town.
March 9Th, near Prices
Corner, Mrs. Martha Raycraft. wife of
Thomas Raycraft, aged rs years, Inter
yesterday.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

The failure of the Senate to
confirm the appointment of Jas.
l.. WolcOtt by President Cleve-
lamb to fiji the vacancy caused
by the death of Judge Wales in
Wilmington, leaves the us
Court for the District of Della
ware to be filled by President
Mckinley. There is important
business suffering, and the ne
cessities of the case will require
early action on the part of the
President. Who will be the sue
cessor to L. E. Wales is now a
subject that is agitating the law
yers and Republican party
throughout the State. The
choice of the party in Smyrna,
1t is found, is decidedly for
Henry c. Conrad, ESQ.,, of VIII
mington; in fact it is virtlIallv
unanimous. A Wilmington law
yer thus refers to Mr.. Conrad:
Whom shall it be? Common
sense would say: "Names count
Tor nothing; let it be a man who
Is pure, fair, liberal, courteous.
honest, broad-1ninded, in tonch
with Delaware people and Dela-
ware thought; a man who is a
good lawyer, having practiced
long enough to have acquired
-ehe learning that comes onIv
from experience, and who is vet
IN the full vigor of manhood: a
man who has been clean in his
pontlcs, and not blind to the
rgn's OF his opponents; a man
VINO mas the calm judicial tenn
permanent which ever sees the
very truth at issue; a man who
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10
From Cripple Creek.

After the big fire in Cripple Greek.
/ took a very severe cold and tried
many remedies without help, the cold
only becoming moro settled. After
using three small bottles of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, both the cough
and cold left me, and in this high alti-
tude it takes a meritorious cough
remedy to do any good.-G. B. HEN
DERsoN, editor Daiieg Advertiser.
For sale by Clifton & Raymond.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

The patriotic as well as the
business sentiment of the coun-
try will respond heartily to Pres
ident McKinley's appeal for the
restoration of the American mer-
chant marine. Various causes
have been assigned for the deca-
dence of a branch of business
which was once one of our
proudest boasts as a nation.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

is rather the plain citizen than
the autocratic leader. n
"Of the men spoken Of for the
position, Henry lC. Conrad, ESQ.,,
possesses in my oPinionsall these
qualifications N 4fs
In Wilmington, outside of H.
H. Ward, they are talking about
ex-senator Higgins and his
friends = Spruance, Bradford,
Nields, &c.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

Friday and Saturday here were
drippy days rather than rainy days,
and were in this respect verp different
from the weather out west where the
rain came down in torrents, causing
great damage in Southern and Western
towns from inundation. In Cincinvate
Eve inches of rain fell Friday in eight
hours bat the rain lasted for ten hours.
Somewhat the same conditions pre-
vailed throughout Ohio, Indiana.
Kentucky and adjoining states, from
the Missouri valley to the Alleghanies
There were consequently many rail-
road washouts, low lands inundated
and towns swept by the floods incurr-
ing great losses.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

GEoReETown's ELEoTIoN.-A spiri-
ted town election was held in George
town on Saturday. The outgoing
board stood for reelection, and an OPP
position ticket was strongly fought for.
The old board was successful by ma
jority Of 30 votes. The ticket was as
follows: For Alderman, Isaac 1. Smith;
for Town Commissioners, William. II.
Boyce, DIR. o. d. Robinson, William
d. Adams, Robert G. Houston and
Joseph s. Wilson; for Treasurer, VIII
liam j. McNatt About 14O votes we're
cast being the heaviest vote at a town
election for many years.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
4N Notice Is hereby given that I. John G.. Biz.
zard, being the tenant of the house known
as the Delaware House" in the Town of SMYRNA
Kent county and State of Delaware intend 10 ma Ike
application TO the Court of General Sessions of the
feace and Jail Delivery of the state of Delaware,
IN ana Tor Kent County, at its next session whith
VIII commence and be held at Dover in Kent
county Aforesaid, on Monday, the nineteenth
uay OF April in the year Of our Lord one thOus
anu elght hundred and ninety-seven for license
ior the Keeping of an inn or tavern and aulhOriz-
ing the sale of intOxi icating liquors In less quan
Ties than one quart 20 be drunk on the premises
IN the said, Delaware House." The said Della
ware House," wherein an inn or tavern is prOpOS-
ed 70 be kept with the privilege of selling therein
intoxicating liquors in less quantities than one
quart. 70 be drunk on the premises is located in
united School District, Nos. 3 and "a and and lOl
IN Kent county aforesaid, and forming one United
School District by the name Of kbe Smyrna Pub
nc schools, and at thes South east cor
ner OF Main Street and Mount Vernon, formerly
MetnOdist Street, in the said Town of Smyr-
ma IN Kent county Aforesaid. The names
on the respectable citizens recommending my
su @ appileatlon, land at least one.half OF whom
are freeholders) are
samuel Wilds Wilson 7 Cavender,
y. = Fisner. Frede rick Lang.
y~sSoo ~ LeinDerger, John NJ. Wick,
I. E. Jefferson. ID 4 fs,mmitis
Jas. A. Perry, NJ p Scorf
]. X. Gummins WIN M TevVis
VIM. L. Collins
JOHN C. BLIZZARD
smyrna, Del. March Q, 1897.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

L you have ever seeen child in the
agony of Group, you can appreciate the
gratitude of the mothers who know that
One Minute Cough Cure relieves their lit
tie ones as quickly as it is administered.
Mlny homes in this city are never without
it. Clifton & Raymond.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10

Mother Gray's Sweet Worm
.ca $ Powders,
Successfully used by Mother Gray, for years a
nurse in. the children's Home i'm New York, cure
Sckly children. At ell druggists 25c Sample
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10
THE SMYRNA TIMES.
,SmzYz'nU, DeI.,
MARCH lOth, 1897

THE SMYRNA TIMES is published at Smyrna
Del, every Wednesday afternoon, at 2 O'Clock
THE TINES is an independent paper devoted to
the welfare of the town it represents and the
State of which it is a part. 1t also gives the
items Of importance of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland.
ROBT. d. HOFFECKER,
Editor and Proprietor.
ROBT. D. HoFFECKER, JR.,
Associate Editor.
s-sUBscRIPTIoN-s1.5 per annum. If
paid strictly in advance s1OO. No paper is
discontinued until all arrears are paid up
except at the option of the publishers.
ADVERTISEMENTS-THE SMYRNA TINES is the
business medium not only for the town it rep
Tesents, but for the outlying district of which it
is the centre, embracing the towns of Clayton,
KentGn, Cheswold, Leipsic, &c. rate of so
cents an inch per month will be charged for
transient advertising. A special reduction on
all semi-annual and yearly advertisements.
Smyrna times., 1897-03-10
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

Radam5s Microbe Killer. J. B.
Cooper. T