Smyrna times., 1899-01-04


{ State Senator elect Farlow of Snsse,
{ county has removed his residence from
: Whitesville to Laurel.
Miss Alice L. Eliason, daughter Of
! andrew l.. Eliason, and Thoma,
Eugar Clayton, were married in the
middleton Presbyterian Church. Wed.
nesday.
Martin E. Smith and other Demo.
Gratis are considering a plan to reoroa-
nlze the Democratic party of New Cas-
Tie county, by dividing the votes into
district legions.
IL is estimated by physicians that
out OF Wilmington's population of 70.
OoO' about $500 are suffering with the
grip. Some Physicians have 100 cases
under their care.
Douglass Kersey. of Dover and
Miss Emma Nuncy, of Little Creek
were married at the residence of Can.
TAIN Muncy, Little Greek, yesterday.
The commissioners of Rebobotb
nave decided to give the Government
the right of way for the Assawaman
Canal, which will go through the prom
erty of the Rehoboth Association.
John ii. Elliott, of Laurel, has been
elected cashier, and A. F. Beller, teller
OF the Sussex Title, Trust and Safe
Deposit Company, at Laurel. This
company began business January
the 1st.
1t is said that the friends of Col r
T.Cooper, who was sentenced last April
10 eighteen months in the penitentiary.
Will ask Senator Gray tointercede with
President Mckinley to secure a pardon
for him.
Detective Hutchins of Dover. has
lodged in Jail Robert Bailey, colored.
and is shadOwing several others on
suspicion of being implicated in the
the burglaries of the Capitol Hotel and
Miss Fannie Pennewill, of a we'll
known Dover family. and sister-in-law
OF United States Senator r. r. Ken
ney, died in Philadelphia, Wednesday.
whittier she had gone to undergo treat
ment
Mrs. Jacob Deakyne, of BROOKLYN.
formerly OF ThOroughfare Neck, who
was stricken with apoplexy while visit
ing IN MlddletOwn, has recovered suf
ticlently to go to Wilmington, where
she is visiting Mrs. Wilhelmina War
rel.
The champion buckwheat eater of
the State is said to live at Lewes. If
all reports are true, man of that town
put away 72 last Thursday morning.
We would like to hear who has the
heaviest hog in the little town on the
Breakwater.
MIR. H. A. Richardson on Saturday
week cleaned the Philadelphia market
up by buying 100000 pounds of
turkeys at nine and ten cents Der
pound. This large quantity of poultry
kept the celebrated Richardson & Rob
bins factory working four days.
Nor IN THE SENATORIAL FIGHT.-
In Philadelphia, last week, George V.
Massey announced that he is not in the
Delaware Senatorial fight ''I am a
resident of Pennsylvania, he said.
land for me, as such, to run for an
office IN another State is preposter-
ous."
10 CONSOLIDATE RAILROADS. A
to consolidate the Della
ware and Chesapeake railway, the
Cambridge and Seaford railroad and
the Queen Anne's and Kent railroad.
will be submitted at the meeting
Of the stockholders of the |
Delaware railroad company to be held
at Dover on January 18th.
HOME FOR CoLoRED GIRLs.-Chief 7
Of Police DOlan and Agent Stout of the ;
). I. Z. q. have been informed that a
nome for incorrigible colored girls q
lnder 1S years of age has been opened
IL Germantown, Pa, and colored girls q
lrrested in Wilmington can be COM n
nltted to the institution and will be 4
cared for. Already there are +
y inmates from Delaware in the in =
FAREWELL DINNER. Retiring Sher- "
II S. Luther Shaw of Kent county. e
rave farewell dinner at the Jail resi- d
Ience to fOrty-eight personal friends n
md served turkey and its palatable ac- n
to each of the twenty s.
i've convicts. Sheriff-elect John B. Il
Wharton, who has moved from st. a
ones Neck to the official residence at il
Dover, was rendered a fine farewell )
upper by James T. Taylor last week. u
BUSINESS IN WILMINGTON. The in :.
lcations in the various industrial es- =
Adjustments along the Christiana river !,
re for a prosperous new year in the l.
arlous plants. While the conditions =
uring the year just ending were very y
ratifying, the officials of many firms "
ave hopes that the coming year will
ring with it a greater tide of pros
Gritty than has been had for six years !
least "
STATE PENITENTIARY 1t is possible
nat at the coming session of the Leg m
stature an effort will be made to se
nre the passage of bill to provide a ii
tate penitentiary, but those interested %
the matter have not fully decided
neither to make the attempt. Efforts al
ere twice made to secure the passage
such a bill but failed because the ~ ~,
lembers of the Legislature declared ia
lat it would be too expensive a way OF
keep prisoners. Since the last bill sel
as defeated there has been consid- os
rable change of opinion on the matter. its
ONE of the newspapers in the lower ad
art of the State have declared in favor ~
such movement, and some of the -
rand iuriaa IN 4ha Gkoko -. l.