Smyrna times., 1898-04-13
THE SMYRNA TIMES.
.SnzVI.nn. DEL.
DELAWARE ITEMS.

Wednesday Afternoon, April IL, 10. (
DELAWARE ITEMS.
Isaac Jester of Milford Neck, re-
,ently caught shad which weighed II
pounds.
Former Ambassador Thomas F Bay
ard has gone to the Hot Springs, Va,
ior the benefit of his health.
w. d. HAZEL, of Smyrna, has an
nounced himself as a candidate for
Clerk of the Peace of Kent County.
A flag will be raised over the Odd
Fellows Hall at Grubb's Corner, j.
Edward Addicks having presented a
fine pole.
DIR. james L. France was commits
stoned surgeon of the First Delaware
in place of DIR. J. Paul
resigned.
Wilmington is looking up and bust
ness is on the increase among the in
dustrial establishment. The prospects
are good for big years business.
Perhaps the great change in the
is due to the fact that
spring has kindly decided to wait until
there is some prospect of an adjourn
ment of the General Assembly.
Edward Voshell will erect fine
hotel at Persimmon Grove Beach, 10
miles from Milford A tramway will
be built to Scott's Corner, where it
will connect with the Frederica and |
Milford stages.
Attorney General White has sent for
NAL notice to Chancellor Nicholson
that he proposes to file a bill in the
Court of Chancery against the Com
merical Fire Insurance Company
of Wilmington, to have its affairs
closed.
The craze for trading stamps has
again struck Wilmington and nearly
every customer, on making a purchase
from our merchants ask for the trading
stamps and get mad when they are
told that they are not used by that par
ticular merchant.
The marriage of Rev. Harry Taylor
and Miss Della Timely Draper, of
Dover, will take place in ArmOry NJ.
E. Church, Thursday, April 14th, at 2
o'clock P. NJ. Mr.. Taylor was pastor
of Little Creek Church last year, but
is stationed at Vienna, Md, now.
SUBMARINE MINES FOR DELAWARE
BAY.-The services of the Philadel-
phia Electrical Division, composed of
practical electricians, organized to
serve the government if needed, were
accepted by Major Raymond, U. S. A.,
and the electricians are on waiting
orders, to assist in lying submarine
mines in Delaware Bay.
SHERIFF LEs.-Sheriff S. L. Shaw
sold the 80 acre farm of John l.. Don
ophon, situated in Mispillion hundred,
to Louder L. Sapp for $1,000. Also at
the same time and place, the 299 acre
farm of Ezekiel T. Cooper, situated
in Mispillion hundred, with three two
story dwellings, out buildings and
fruit orchards, to Stephen X. Belts for
SO, sos.
The Republicans of Dover are en-
gagged in an interesting contest for the
position of postmaster. The term OF
Postmaster Gooden will expire next
August. Among the candidates are
D. Mifflin Wilson, Captain Thomas
Draper, John w. Casson and Captain
William Blocksom. The contest ap
pears to be principally between
Wilson and CassOn.
The funeral of Lawrence Davis, fol
many years the leading merchant OF
Odessa, and we'll known throughout
the State, occurred Wednesday a
Middletown. There was much sym
pathy shown by the entire community
Mr.. Davis being we'll known and gen
orally liked. He leaves a widow an(
several sons, one of them Eugene
Davis, of Smyrna.
GETS Ten YERRs FOR ATTEMPTED AS
sAULT OF MRS. MARY CAREY.-In tn
Superior Court of Sussex count,
Thursday, Joseph Dorsey, colored
was found guilty of attempting to com
init rape upon Mrs. Mary W. Carey o
near Delmar. He was sentenced t.
ten years Imprisonment, one hour il
the pillory, thirty lashes and to pa,
$500 fine. Samuel Burton Boyce
colored, was convicted of larceny an,
sentenced to three months imprison
ment and ten lashes.
The people of the North were di
vided during the early days of tn
4 civil war on the question of the eman
cipation of the slaves. The Presiden
held that the time to issue his proc
lqmation of emancipation had nc
. come, and he bided his time. Whe
the time did come the slaves were dc
J. clared free and the people discovere
: that Abraham Lincoln had been right
The people in 1898 will discover tha
William Mckinley has been right.
. DENoUNCE THE SPANISH. Senate
Kenney and Representative Hand
spoke at the opening of the Democrat
League room in Wilmington on Thurs
! day night. Mr.. Handy gave a revie,
of the whole. Cuban question, tellin
how the war broke out in the islam
three years ago and how each of tb
national parties in its platform ha
made declarations in behalf of Cuba
independence. He told of the recor
centrado policy of Spain. He de
Z scribed the trocha, faltering on til
pronunciation of the word, and sale
81 don't know how to pronounc
Spanish. D-n Spanish, anyhow.
This remark was greeted with cheer