Smyrna times., 1900-08-01
PENINSULA NEWS.
Items Cleaned From All Parts of Delaware
and Maryland.

and Maryland.
Potatoes are going to market in large
quantities from Seaford.
The salt hay harveters are much disap- |
ointed in the crop, being the shortest for |
years.
William NJ. Stuckert, a well-known |
citizen of st. Georges, died on Thurs
day, aged 70 years.
President William H. Bosley has de- |
cided to run the steamboat Endeavor |
on the line from Lewes to Cape May. |
A large acreage of sweet corn is being |
grown throughout Sussex this season, and |
canneries will consequently experience a
heavy run.
The body of Thomas BlacksOn, of Marcus |
Hook, who was knocked into the Delaware |
river and drowned on Friday morning, was
found on Sunday morning.
j. Edward Addicks and family will soon
leave Claymont for Newport, r. l., where
they haye secured fine summer home
The family has many friends at Newport
and has spent several seasons there
Two men on the Camden camp ground
are attracting unusual attention. They are
Peter L. G. Gooden of Marvville Mo. and
Thomas Hirons of Honeywell. Mo. Both
are Delawareans, were poor boys, went
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have returned after many years to see the
people now living about their old homes.
The Delaware Summer Institute, tn e
school of methods for Delaware teach
ers, will close next Saturday after a
most successful course. The teachers
were entertained by Sheriff and Mrs
j. B. Wharton at an evening tea one
evening last week.
Jonathan Smith, who resides near Will
Evansville was instantly killed Monday at
the residence of his sOn-in-law. James Mar
vel, near Harrington, by being crushed by
an angry bull. Mr. Smith was trying to get
the bull in the stable when the animal turned
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bic. crushing him before help could arrive
Mr. Smith was rs years old.
| The other morning when Charles Collins
at Townsend, was examining a revolver
which he intended to purchase from Edward
Ross, he accidentally discharged the weapon
while he had it pointed directly at Ross
head. Between Ross and Collins happened
to be watch suspended on a chain. The
bullet, 3S calibre, struck the watch, knock
ing it into Ross face and slightly injuring
him. then buried itself in the ceiling.
Delaware Bay sturgeon have been so
eagerly sought of late owing to their re-
markable high price, that they have become
well-nigh extinct. This years catch has
proved a severe Disappointment to the many
hundreds who spread their nets up and
down the bay and from all indications it
will soon be as difficult to hook sturgeon
in those waters as it is to shoot moose in
the Maine woods or bison ON the prairies
of the West.
While the MethOdists were holding SER
vices at Camden camp meeting grounds on
Sunday the Catholics We're holding special
services on the farm of Daniel Scanlan six
teen miles below Dover. The service of
Communion and mass was celebrated at
11.20 a. m. by the Rev. T. F. Waldron, of
Holy Cross Church at Dover who had Off
ciated at a previous service in the church.
The service ended with Il strong sermon on
the gospel of the day. People from Mil
ford, FELTON,, Magnolia, Frederica and
Dover We're in attendance, many of whom
were n-Catholics.
The DelGWGreGn is aggrieved be-
extra session of Congress tc consider
the China trouble; it thinks his re-
fusual to do so is an evidence of rank
Imperialism. Had an extra session
been called, our Dover contemporary
would have been the first to clamor
about the unnecessary trouble and ex-
pense. Milford Ne,Os.
The Wilmington Republican in ad-
vocating one ticket says: "The party
was not benefited by the defeat four
, years ago, how then can it be benefited
by II defeat in November? Will the
, party be better able to come together
after the Democrats have filled all the
: offices and Goebelized our laws? If
the party is not to be benefited by de-
feat, why prepare the way for it? If
one man stands in the way of success,
is that any reason another man should
follow his example? The men who COM
bine to defeat the party at this time will
repent of their mistakes, as it may be
compared to the act of Samson in pull
ing down the pillars of the temple, kill