Smyrna times., 1900-08-08
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and MARYLAND.

to be frugally festive with the pioneer fruit.
The distillers in Sussex who expect to
make brandy are beginning to bound for
the work.
The basket factories through the State
are busy making baskets in anticipation of
the enormous peach and pear crop.
George S. Grer of Milford will celebrate
the 80 anniversary of his birthday next Sat
nrday. In honor of the event, there will
be a reunion of his children, grandchildren
and at-grandchildren.
! Richardson and Robbins, the well-known
| cannery firm here, expect to can more goods
this year than ever in one year before. Al
ready the can makers have started to work
and are turning out cans as rapidly as pos
sihle.
Right in the teeth of the Democratic and
Populist outcry against trusts. word comes
from the West that the farmers are to make
such a business combination. 1t is terrible
to think of Populists accepting approved
methods of business.
Thieves Monday morning broke into the
home of Mrs. .Rosanna Graef, sister-n-law
of j. Edward Addicks, at Claymont. The
burglars confined their work to the lower
part of the house, and secured about $500
worth of silverware and other articles.
Mrs. Sadie Gray, of ROxanna, was fined $50
and cost by Magistrate Purnell, OF George
town, for cruelty treating her stepsOn, who
is IA years of age. The evidence showed
the woman poured scalding water over the
lad.
The puddlers at the Diamond State
Steel Company's works in Wilmington are
expected to go on "a strike owing to the re-
duction in wages which will go into effect
on August 13. The men have been paid 81
a ton, and the company has announced that
the future scale will be So.
The catch of menhaden oil fish by the
steamers of the Fisheries Company. is not
so successful this season as last, and the
fish they catch are of an inferior quality
and poor oil producers. Part of the large
works at Lewes have been closed for time
or until the fish get more plentiful
sad accident occurred in Angola last
Saturday, William Tingal, farm hand.
was on load of hay and in getting off
threw his fork first and then jumped. The
prongs stuck in the ground and Tingal fell
on the handle fourteen inches of which
penetrated his lower body. He fingered
until Monday when he died.
The assertion that Roosevelt means
''field of roses" is meeting with skep-
ticism, the general impression being
that the Governor is daisy with the
Rough Riders.
There are three Democratic candi-
dates for Attorney General, all three
being from Wilmington. They are
Peter L. Cooper, Jr., Thomas Davis
and Robert n. Harman.
The State appropriation from the
Government for the National Guard
of Delaware will be $5, 1886, which
can be drawn in clothing, arms, camp
and garrison equipage. This is twice
the amount usually drown by our
State.
Sheriff Taylor will sell the Middle :
town Transcript nsxt Monday, August
13. Martin B. Burris has a mortgage
against the plant for 81, 200. John H.
Sehl and other employees have claims
for wages, while rent and supplies have
not been paid The paper was obliged
to suspend publication owing to the
sickness of Editor Downham.
Richard T: Pilling has been brought
, out as a candidate for the Legislature
from Mill Greek Hundred. He is be-
ing forced upon the people of Mill
Creek Hundred, it is said, by the
most radical and uncompromising fac
tionists as represented by the EVening
JournOL and DUPONT element of the
Republican party.
, In speaking of Wilmington and the
q election the Daily Republican says
4 ''If the Republicans carry this State
it would bring thousands of dollars o
: outside capital to Wilmington. II
4 would be the means of at least dozer
J. new business enterprises locating il
v our city. This is what Wilmington
d wants to make the city grow as il
q should, the next five years and increas,
= our population to at least 100, 900 in
s habitants.
= The Morning Ners calls the ticket nom
! mated at Dover a one mans ticket, though
;. willing to endorse one made by Col. Dl
4 Pont and says: THE ticket named by tn,
Dover caucus cannot stand as the ticket I,
be voted for by the Republicans of Della
ware. In the first place it was ratified il
g part by number of men who were not lie
8 gal delegates; in the second place it con
g tains the names of two gentlemen said to b.
l. disqualified from being candidates for Presi
n dental electors, even though they should b
r used in the manner proposed; in the thir
place there were other men named as candi
!. dates who could not receive the support O
the Republicans of Delaware, and in tn
% fourth place it was ticket made for tn