Smyrna times., 1899-02-22
STATE ITEMS.

""o electeu president OF Sussex County
Levy Court.
Miss Mabel Jones Taylor, daughte,
OF William Taylor, and Edgar CLARK
will be married on February % in Mid.
dletown.
A Sussex, Delaware, man saw fir,
escape advertised for one dollar. He
sent the dollar and got copy of the
New Testament.
The Dover hosiery factory is to be
sold this month. 1t gives employment
to hundreds of hands and covers five
acres of ground.
Delaware's Grand Army Encamp-
ment at Wilmington urged Congress-
to give ex-sOldiers the preference in
appointments to office.
Dover is to have complete electric
hight and power plant, to be secured at
an annual cost to the taxpayers of only
an additional three cents on the s1Oo
OF assessed real estate.
One astonishing feat has been nc.
complished by the bitter snap of frigid
weather-all the cases of grip remain
ing III Kent County have either been
cured entirely or greatly benefited.
Upon requisition from Maryland
Detective Hutchins, brought from
Denton William Pierce and took HIM
10 jail at Georgetown, charged with
destroying property of the Delaware
Railroad.
A farmer namdd Spence, living near
McClellandville, after returning from
his wife's funeral Thursday afternoon.
took a seat i'll chair, and when he at
tempted to rise he fell dead Heart
disease Is supposed to have caused his
| death.
The short-sighted policy of the mem
bers of the Legislature in not passing
liberal corporation act, is losing
thousands upon thousands of dollars
for the State. Look at the condition
OF the State Treasury and then con-
trast it with that of the Treasury of
New Jersey. There is one thing GER
tain and that is that this State
should by no means have liberal cor
poration act passed
BURNED TO A CRISP. Mrs. Mary
Sinister, 65 years old, of New Castle.
was burned to death at her home on
Saturday afternoon week. She was
alone i'll the house at the time. and it is
thought that she was raking the stove
when her clothes caught fire. When
she found she was ablaze she rushed
to the back door of the house and
called for help. When some of her
neighbOrs arrived Mrs. Sinister was
lying on the step burned to crisp.
and died while being carried into the
house
Kent county Thursday paid SO, 84O,-
q of bonded Indebtedness, thus re-
duclng the whole amount to about
S52, 900. The payment of this debt
took place at the occasion of the or
galizatiOn of the new Levy Court and
the inauguration into office of Pennell
Emerson, the new county treasurer.
The retiring county treasurer J. M.
Arthurs. surrendered his books to Mr..
Emerson, who at the same time au
thorized The Lexy Court te paw three
bonds amounting to S9,S4O.21 and
turned over to the new treasurer q sur
plus of $7,0S9.23. Mr.. Arthurs ad-
vised paying a further $5, 200. There
is between $500, 900 and $4OO, 900 yet
due from the county collectors on dup
licates of 1898, 1897, 1896 and 1896.
A VIEW OF POLITICs. Milford
Chronicle delivers itself thus: Gree
Silver Democrats in Kent and Sussex
are laying the foundation for fight to
the finish against the sound money
men of their own party and the Repub-
licans. To give wide scope to their
preaching the Herald of this town is
to be continued under the management
of G. W. Kenney-a free silver Demo-
crat of Laurel, and new paper is to
be established at Lewes, to neutralize
the sound money proclivities of the
Pilot. Our Democratic friends do
not intend that the Republicans of
Delaware shall monopolize the privil-
ege of political contentious and "cleav-
ing each other down the spinal col
umn." The Smyrna CAL boldly ad-
vOcates casting all sound money Dem
ocrats overheard, and from present in
dicatiOns they will have to walk the |
plank. Political conditions have ar
rived at the point when the better
class of the Democratic party will have |
to join with the Union Republicans,
the better class of Republicans-to |
work out reform in Delaware politics. "