Smyrna times., 1898-10-05
DELAWARE ITEMS.


acre farm of Robert J. Raughley, stu
ated on the State Road near Dover, to !
Robert Sipple for 81, 900.
A. G.. Massey, farmer, near Dover,
last week hauled a double decker
wagon drawn by two mules and con-
tanned 21,095 pounds, over ten and
half tons of tomatoes.
Wilmington merchants are talking
of a project to build wharf so that
steamers plying between Delaware
towns and Philadelphia may stop at
that city.
Chairman Walter Morris, of the COM
mittee, says that the project to remodel
the Dover Court house hall into a mod
ern opera house has been abandoned,
owing to lack of interest.
The Hon. Anthony Higgins will de-
fend VIM. E. Cotter in the U. S. Court
He is charged with aiding and abet-
ting VIM. n. Boggs in misapplying the
funds of the First National Bank at
Dover.
The building boom and every other
kind of boom of enterprise has evil
IDENTIFY struck Milton. Contractor
Isaac w. Nailor has now thirty-six me-
chanics in his employ and they were
all busy.
Because of impairment of his sight,
Rev. Charles E. Murray, for the last
10 years rector of st. Andrews Epis-
cOpal Church, Wilmington, has re-
signed and has been made rector
emeritus at a salary of $1,000 per
year.
Major Townsend, of the first Della
ware Regiment was in Dover on Thurs
day and said that the soldiers at Camp
Meade got plenty to eat and it was only
a few sports who wanted to get home
that started a canard about improper
food.
Mr.. w. F. Buchanan, who was en-
plOyed last winter at the Milford Her.
aid office, and who is every summer
employed as soliciting agent of the P.
d. Armour Co., has returned to Mil
ford and can again be found at the
Herald Office as of yore.
On Monday morning a rural free
mail delivery was begun from the Har-
rington post Office in this county. Jo-
seph S. Peckham has been appointed
carrier at a salary of $500 per annum.
His daily route covers about sixteen
and one-half miles in all the surround
ing country. The farmers must put
up boxes for mail within reach of the
carriers carriage.
ADVANCE IN PRICE OF TOMATOES
Tomatoes have been in great demand
at Wyoming. Prices have been rang
ing from 16 to II cents basket, but
Friday they went to 22!. George NJ
Fisher and G. G. Brown are the heav.
lest buyers. They ship two to three
carloads to Baltimore daily.
New CHURCH AT KIRKwooD.-An new
Methodist congregation has been
formed at Kirkwood, with a member
ship of 81, and arrangements are being
made to have a church built. S. r.
Gibbons, a local preacher, has beer
placed in charge by Presiding Elder
Watt and he will probably be retained
in that position for some time.
Owing to the illness of ex-cashie
Bateman, an important witness in tn
trial of William E. Cotter, of Philadel
phia, accused of completely with Viii
liam N. Boggs in the embezzlement o
funds from the First National Bank o
Dover, which was to begin in Fedora
Court, Thursday, was postponed unit
October 25. Cotter appeared for trial
ex-senator Higgins representing him
COLONEL Ross SILVER WEDDING. =
Colonel and Mrs. James Jefferson Ros
celebrated the twenty-ifth anniver
sary of their marriage at their home
/ "The Elms," near Seaford Thursda
night. The affair waa the the creates
} social event recently held in lowe
} Delaware. Guests were there froI
Philadelphia, Lancaster, Ridley Park
: New York, Baltimore, Washington an
| every part of the State.
Many of the farmers near Bowers
Beach, have realized a fair yield of to
matoes, on an average of from to
tons per acre. 1t is so stated that MI
Job Coverdale has averaged 13 ton
per acre, while few others have ha
an average of much less. Those VIII
did not con tract with the canneries n
allied 1S cents per basket the pal
! week, delivered at Wyoming, an ave.
age of $40 per ton. 1t is stated thi
!, the acreage in tomatoes will be muc
larger this coming year than the pre-
ent one, as they claim they realiz
more cash from an acre of tomato'
than from an acre of corn or wheat.
d GENERAL HAWKINS APPOINTED
v REGULAR. = Major General Hamilto
@ S. Hawkins, United States Volunteer
r who commanded the division whiC
II captured San Juan Hill in the secor
s days fight at Santiago, has been a
a pointed brigadier- general in the re
# ular army to fill the vacancy caused
o the retirement of Gen. William \
a Graham. The general is a brother-i
W law of Senator Gray.
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The Havana press is agitated on ii
subject of the remains of Columbu
e. which, it is contended, should not
n included in the terms of surrende
There will be no trouble in the Pea
Conference about that. It would
:. folly to quarrel over handful
e. dust while working out the destiny
~ a hemisphere.
10 Am Uncertain Disease.
There is no disease more uncertain in
% nature than dyspepsia. Physicians say tn
the symptoms of no two cases agree. 1t
g. therefore most difficult to make O CORE
diagnosis. No matter how severe, or und
n what disguise dyspepsia attacks you, Brown
I'd Iron Bitters will cure 1t. Invaluable in q
ca diseases of the stomach, blood and nerve