Smyrna times., 1898-10-26

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Died at Wilmington, Thursday, Mrs.
Ann Ridgely DUPONT, aged SO, widow
OF the late H. NJ. Ridgely, United
State Senator from Delaware.
William S. Hilles and Miss Florance
Bayard, daughter of the late Thomas
F. Bayard, will be married at Della
more place, Wilmington, ON October
goth.
10 STUDY Law. week William
Hirons and Reynolds Clough took the
preliminary examination and have reg
istered as law students with H. r.
johnson, Esq,
Robert Lewis, of Milford, was com
mitteed to Jail to await trial at court for
making a threat to burn Calls
Hotel and committing assault on
Charles Robinson.
The oysters in the Delaware Bay are
fatter and more abundant than any
year IN the recollection of the oldest
oystermen. They are principally ship
ped to Philadelphia.
At its adjourned meeting last week
the State Board of Education resolved
to endeavor to introduce drawing and
the elements of zoology and botany
into the public schools of all the coun-
ties.
Collins & Cohee of Dover, were
awarded the contract to build the new
parish house and chapel of Christ
Church, Dover, which will be 5Ox22
feet and contain library and two lee
ture rooms.
The Lewes National Bank has been
opened for business, with Walter
Sparklin, cashier; James Lank, teller;
John F. Sipple, president; D. W.
Burbage, vice president, and Elmer
Outten, treasurer.
The Lewes Ice Company has ac-
cepted the bid of the Remin gton Ma
chine Works of Wilmington, to furnish
and put in position an artificial ice
plant capable of producing tons per
day. 1t will be in operation by the
10Th of December.
Lieutenant Pennewill of Dover, for
merly the second lieutenant, Company
E, First Delaware Volunteers, and
who resigned while stationed at Mid
dletown, Del, has enlisted as private
in the United States infantry.
Publisher Clement H. Condgon, of
the Wilmington .Snu, who is ready for
the trial of Senator Kenney's libel suit
against him, at Dover this week, will
have among other lawyers to defend
him.. George S. Graham of Philadel-
phia, and Delaney Nicoll of New
York.
William 7. Smithers, Esq, has
been invited to read biographical
sketch of the late Hon. N. B. Smith
ers, at the next meeting of the Della
ware Historical Society, and Manlove
Hayes is to read paper on William
Penn at the same meeting.
Col. A. d. Chaytor, the registration
officer for the Delaware Regiment, is
said to have registered only one man,
Captain E. E. Rogers of New Castle,
on his trip to Camp Meade. Previous
to that the colonel had registered 81
men at Camp Tunnel.
There are no politics in the Kenney
case but the trial has been postponed
until after the election because it is
feared the election might have bad in
huences. Senator Kenney is anxious
for a speedy trial, but the prosecuting
attorney and the Judge seem disposed
to delay the matter.
Wallace Irwin has been appointed
Sergeant Major of the First Delaware
Regiment, which is now home to be
mustered out. He will succeed Ser
geant Major William R. Wier, who
died few days ago of typhoid fever,
contracted at Camp Meade, Pa.
Senator R. R. Kenney, who has re-
Trained from any public part in the
present campaign because of the
charges against him, yielded to the
petitions of a Camden delegation.
headed by the senator's personal
friend, James Lord, and the senator
spoke to them on Friday.
The ninth annual convention of the
Epworth League of the Easton District
was held last week at Middletown.
Over 100 delegates were present. The
reports of the district officers were
read and showed that four Leagues
have been organized during the year.
and the League has total membership
of 2431.
White potatoes are scarce and high.
Throughout the country not more than
half crop was harvested, although
the acreage in some instances was in
creased owing to the good prices OBJ
tanned last year. Seventy-five to
ninety cents a bushel are asked, ac-
cording to quality, with the certainty
that prices will go considerably higher.
The New York correspondent of the |
Philadelphia Ledger writes: 'Consel-
lor William Michael Byrne of Whining
ton, who came on here last year to
speak for the Republican candidates,
made such an excellent impression
that at the special instance of Lieuten-
ant-dovernor Woodruff he has been
invited to take part in the present
campaign also. He is to speak in
Brooklyn October 31st."
A BIG SPRINKLER B. Slaymaker
is hxing up an ingenious contrivance on
his farm near Dover, by which he can
sprinkle an acre of plants, any time he
desires, in few minutes. The sprink-
Ter is his own idea and consists of a
rotary pump operated by an engine
which pumps water from the st. Jones'
creek into an arrangement similar to A
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