Smyrna times., 1899-01-25

from the farmers near Harrington re-
Gently.
Miss Mary e. Robbins and VIM. H.
Creadlck are to be married at Magno-
liza on the 25th inst.
Mrs. Rebecca Jones, aged s. wears.
died at the Kent County Almshouse
Thursday. Her remains were inter
red at Smyrna Saturday.
The wedding of Miss Bertha Blizzard
TO Mr.. John G. Slaughter took place in
the Little Greek NJ. E. Church. We'd
nesday evening.
A State Bar Association is to he
formed, the lawyers of Kent and Sus-
sex having appointed committees TO
consult about the matter.
Walter Price Pratt, of Clayton, and
Miss Lille j. Reynolds, of New Cas-
tie county, were married in Philadel
phia on Wednesday last by Rev. Alex
ander NJ Wiggins.
L.. Q. Posey, a colored lawyer, who
formerly practiced in the Federal
Courts at Washington, d. c., will
shortly apply for admission to the
New Castle County Bar.
The Sussex County School Fund
has gotten into a snarl. Cheks given
to school teachers for salaries have
been refused and the school fund is
reported short by $4,000.
The Board of Trade Committee ap-
peared before Wilmington City Coun-
Gil and explained that the new charter
will reduce the expenses of the city
government nearly $2S,OOO
District Attorney Lewis C. Vande-
grlft has not received instructions
from the Department OF Justice as to
whether Senator Kenney will be given
another trial in Dover bank cases.
The directors of the Bay State Gas
Company have been summoned to ap-
pear in the United States Court Feb
ruary to answer the amended bill of
complaint in the case of Jacob Ed
wards, of Boston.
The Grand Chapter of Delaware
Royal Arch Masons has elected Harry
Galbraith Grand High Priest, and a
beautiful gold badge was presented to
DIR. L. W. Finn, the retiring High
Priest.
The postal business of Wilmington
IS of sufficient proportions to pay all
the expenses of operating the post
office and turn over handsome sur
plus to the POstoffice Department
each year.
Wilmingtons City Council will ask
the Legislature to pass law providing
that half the money received from
liquor licenses in the city be paid
into Wilmington instead of the State
Treasury.
The bill introduced in the Legisla-
ture by Mr.. Kitchen, fixing the legal
rate of interest for loans of money at
five per cent is one of doubtful ex-
pendiency unless the same rate shall
be made obligatory in the adjoining
States.
Skilled burglars struck Middletown
on Tuesday night of last week Their
point of attack was the post office,
where they secured $122 in stamps aud
$33 in cash, after which they stole a
team from Joseph Biggs and made
good their escape.
At a meeting of the Wilmington
Methodist Episcopal Preachers Asso-
citation, the matter of Representative
Roberts of Utah, was taken up, and it
was decided to call a meeting of the
Protestant ministers on January 30
for the purpose Of taking action.
The third week of the General AS
sembly has gone and no important
thing has been done except the intro
ductiOn of the general incorporation
act. In the dying days of the session
we may look for a jam of work that
will be disheartening to the members.
VIM. Burke died near Magnolia on
Monday week, in the 91st year of his
age. His funeral took place Wednes-
day morning. He was the father of
G. W., and Asbury Burke, two preach
ers of the Wilmington NJ. E. Confer
ence.
The Col Haslet chapter, d. A. r.,
of Dover, has elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: Regent,
Elizabeth X. Anderson; Vice-Regent,
Mrs. Richardson's; Registrar, Mrs.
Richard r. Kenney; Historian, Mrs.
May Draper Bailey; Secretary, Mrs.
Wharton; Treasurer, Mrs. NJ. Sy-
pherd, and Chaplain, Mrs. Miriam r.
Fisher.
UNION SERVICES. s.-The Rev. w. L.
S. Murray, d. D., in addressing the
prayermeeting in Central Presbyte-
rian Church, Wilmington, invited
those present to the prayermeeting in
st. Paul's M. Z. Church the next
evening. These union services are
preparatory to the evangelical services
to be held under the leadership of the
Rev. J. Wilbur Chaplain, d. D.. of
Philadelphia, beginning on January
Both, and continuing for 10 days.
AS far as Legislation goes both Houses
of the General Assembly are practically
idle. In a large measure this fact is
the fault of the people of the State. 1t
is due to the tardiness of prospective
applicants for legislstion that the two
Houses are in state of idleness. With
out bills for their consideration the
several Legislative committees and the
members on the floor cannot work.
And bills the Legislators have not.
Mrs. Blanche Casson, widow of the
late Cove S. Casson, died at the home
of her father, E. +. Wood, Wednesday
night. The circumstances surround
ing the deaths of Mr.. and Mrs. Casson
are peculiarly sad. Several months