Smyrna times., 1898-04-20

During the last quarter there were
80 deaths, 81 births and 1O6 marriages
in Kent county.
Much wheat is going to market.
Middletown is shipping as much as
five car loads day.
If war should be the inevitable, trust
to the ''Blue Hens Chickens" to
scratch to get into the game.
A party of young ladies of Camden,
have organized a sewing club, and will
make clothing to send to Cuba.
DIR. Henry Ridgely talked ON his re-
cent trip to the Island of Cuba before
the ladies of the Dover Century Club.
In response to the Governors call, a
number of Georgetown young men
have enrolled themselves in the Volun-
teer Reserves.
The members of the General As
sembly had their pictures taken on
Thursday last-and the camera didn't
break. .-Inder.
A fire took place in the forest near
Millville, Del, on Wednesday, which
destroyed several thousand dollars
worth of timber.
Miss Bernice Matten has been ap-
pointed postmistress at Fieldsboro,
vice Mrs. Virginia Hayden, removed
to Warwick, Nd.
Congressman Handy can well afford
to howl for war. He is not likely to
do any of the fighting in the event of
hOstilities. .-EUery EUening.
Mrs. Margaret DUPONT, widow of
Alfred DUPONT. founder of the great
power works, died at her home, near
Wilmington Thursday, aged 81.
Many a man who rejects the story
of Jonah and the whale, swallows a
newspaper tale without question, then
swears to its accuracy, these days.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of David H. Russell, of the NeaOS
and AdVertiser, and Miss Sallie Brown,
both of Milford, to take place on the
9th inst.
Shad fishing is about as remuenra-
tive as any other calling. One fisher
man one day last week caught $75
worth and shad are only selling at a
fair price.
MARRIED. Franklin W. Fisher, Of
New Castle county, and Miss Lillian
M. Fouraker, of Kent county, were
married Wednesday at the M. E. Par
sonage by Rev. Alfred Smith.
Rev. Vaughan S. Collins will give
an address ON "Our Country's Needs"
before the State Sunday School Con-
vention, which meets in Wesley
Church, Dover, on the 2Sth and Goth
insts.
There is a man down about Dover,
who, in order to keep from walking
half mile, rides horse this distance
almost every day and keeps the animal
standing from morning until evening
for the return trip.
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of Miss May Candy, daughter
of the late Major Samuel Candy, to
George R. Hoffecker, in st. Andrews S
Church, Wilmington, on the evening
of Wednesday, April Goth.
An exchange claim that April is the
war month of the United States. The
Revolutionary war began at Licking
ton on April 10; the Mexican war was
begun in April; and the war of the
great rebellion was begun April IA, by
firing on Fort Sumter.
Rev. Vaughn Collins, who was ap-
pointed principal of Dover Academy at
the session of the Wilmington Confer
ence from July 1st next, has debt of
$4,000 on the institution, which he
will endeavor to reduce before his
more active duties begin.
DIPHTHERIA LAYS A FAMILY Low
Diptheria is again prevalent in Dover.
The whole family of Samuel Smith, on
North Street, are now lying low and
it is said they are in destitute circum-
stances. They buried one child last
week.
The Delaware National Guard is
composed of nine companies of fifty
men each, but on war footing would
have one hundred each. The battery
and gatling gun would add two hun
dred to this number.
The General Assembly has passed
two acts for the relief of the assessors
and collectors of Wilmington. They
are not so designated, but that is what
they are. The county is to be mulcted
two or three thousands dollars without
any visible returns.
An eel measuring four feet in length
became caught in the large wheel at
Harman's mill, Townsend, Friday,
and caused it to cease turning. The
fish could not be dislodged from the
wheel until several hours had elapsed,
making a costly delay for the miller.
J. Presley Dunning, a Middletown
boy, son of ex-Postmaster d. L. Dun
ming, formerly of Middletown, now of
Philadelphia, was the correspondent of
the NeO York Commercial advertiser
in Cuba, and was among those who
left the Island at the same time Con-
sui Lee did.
There is used in Holy Communion,
in st. Peters Episcopal Church,
Smyrna, iagon made of gold and sill
yer iewelry contributed by members of
the congregation, on the fagon being
the words, "ro the beloved dead of st.
Peters Church, Smyrna, Delaware,
Easter Day, 1S9S."
From the Dover Sentinel: A short
time ago we notice by the papers that
Frank Reiman had been appointed
postmaster at Florence, Kent county.
This place is unknown to the writer