Smyrna times., 1898-09-21
DELAWARE ITEMS.

canned by thousands OF cans.
The password of the burglars who
broke into Kent county Jail was prob
ably "Pshaw. "-MOrning NetOS.
Colonel and Mrs. J. J. Ross of Sea-
ford, will celebrate their silver we'd
ding anniversary on September 2S.
Mr.. J. Colby Smith of Willow Grove,
has forty acres in buckwheat. 1t will
average three feet high and he expects
a thousand bushels.
In New Castle county, graduates
from Princeton, Harvard and Yale are
the only persons who can register as
students of law without examination.
William Sturgis, colored, has been
committed to Dover Jail in default of
$40 and costs for hurling a stone
through the passenger station at Clay
ton.
MOVED AWAY. - The household
goods of George V. Massey, ESQ.,, are
being packed and will be sent to
Philadelphia. The handsome home
of Mr.. Massey on King street will be
closed altogether and the family will
open house in the Quaker city which
will be their permanent home .-Inder.
1t is not often that you hear of men
breaking into Jail, it is generally out
of the Jail they break. But some bad
bold thief broke into the Dover jail on
Wednesday night and stole some $50
worth of clothing from the sheriff.
The thief who ever he may be is GER
tainly a bold one and evidently does
not fear the minions of the law.
Busy CANNING TOMATOES. Canning
tomatoes has grown to enormous pro-
portions in Frederica. So overcrOwded
have the factories become that they
are compelled to run day and night.
Five hundred operatives are employed
in the three factories of j. L. Postles
& Sons, John S. Reynolds & Co., and
the Gibbs Preserving Company. The
latter firm is the successor of H. A.
Reik.
SENATORS GRAY's Coon FORTUNE
Judging from local political reasons
the appointment of the Hon. George
Gray on the peace commission IS
timely. Mr.. Gray will thus be re-
moved from the turmoil of the ST ate
political strife. A large element of the
party desires Mr. Gray's return to the
Senate. Another element is not kindly
towards him because of the really hum
BILE part he played in the Palmer and
Buckner campaign.
PORTRAITS OF GOVERNORS. The con-
tracts for printing full report of the
exercises incident to the presentation
of protraits of Governors to the State,
, which took place at the State House
on May Goth last, has been awarded to
5 publisher of the Delawarean. The re-
port, which will include the full text
+. of the addresses of the orators, will be
printed in phamphlet form and will be
ready for distribution very soon.
PENNEwILL's DELAWARE REPORTS.
Advance sheets No. 2 of Pennewill's
Delaware Reports, Vol. /, covering
e the February, April and May terms
:. 1898, have been delivered to the cour'
i and members of the bar. This marks
,r an epoch in the issuance of State re
I. ports, in that it is the first time in th'
;. history of the State courts that til,
4 decisions rendered at the previous
e terms have been reported, printed anC
o ready for use at the succeeding tern
ID of court.
l. A BIG CROP OF PEAs.-W. F. Nc
D. KEGS farm about four miles from
y Dover, in the Direction of DuPon
e. Station, has 900 trees bearing an,
v expects to market over 1000 baskets
Picking pears will begin about th
first of October and some of the tree
will yield ten or twelve baskets. MI
Mckee has been offered % cents bas
ket for the crop but expects 25 cent
which will realize a handsome sum
THAT PLATFoRM.-Says the Morn
ing NeUS: We have been anxiousl
waiting for some Democratic interprt
tations of the remarkable hodge podg
that was adopted as platform at th
recent convention in Dover. TIL
DeLdaUdreGn and the IlldeC help us OF
somewhat. The DelaWarean says:
An effort seems to have been mad
to frame a platform which could /
accepted by every Democrat, no ma
. ter what might be his views on an
disputed question.
3. The DelGWGrean appears to hay
reached the correct conclusion. {
course platform which says nothir
about disputed question can be a
~ cepted by persons who have no pa
ticular views about a disputed matte
It is doubtful, however, if the Dem,
vn. cratic platform will please those men
m Ion bers of the party who were expectil
yer some en- the money question or teri
I'D torial expansion.
ne ne Down ON DoNAHoE. The EUe
Evening appears to have a grud
against John P. Donahoe, who W
nominated by the Democrats of t
Fourth District, ar a candidate for t
Legislature. 1t says:
"With a single exception, the De
&c ocrats of New Castle county made 9
:, mirable nominations for the Genel
- - Assembly at their primaries on Su
" day."
IU, "The single exception, as everybo
will know, is John p. Donahoe, W
was nominated in the Fourth distr
rry. of Wilmington. His record while
member of previous Legislature is
I'M itself ample evidence of his unfitne
to say nothing of other delinquenc
- He should be defeated, and it becon
the duty of the Republicans of
IN Fourth district to nominate can
date of the highest attainments to
pose him."
The Republican says of the d,
ocratic State Convention: But {
n IDENTIFY John L. Salisbury had sol