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\ s. \ ♦ IsT* i ** El I. k .t f i V * Entered at the offlc« at Wilmington, Del. iwcoBsi^ela«« matter. WILMINGhTOIST, DEL., WEDK nSDAY.OCTOBER 18, 1882. PRICK ONE CENT. pxiKa 146 . 4MI SEBENTS. ^ _ 'uSBMl'KI! ' HOU«^ tkmplk _T H E Grand Concert COMPANY. tilt provident Circlet y , OCTOBER 25th. marie 1-ITTA, asnik k. heehe. NOK ERNESTO HALDANZA, np.-rai I'rlinoTenur. rÄKKEGllY, jtta l.F I D Vi'-' 811 ^"oUä'llI.rMF.NßKRU, Sill« VlulliieollDt. Mit. JOSEPH HARRISON. i'lautst. MirpnUto gallery. Noextra ...ul), Ticket* for »ale two A Co.'« hook octl7,18, 25 iilm in ' il : I . F. Til» ■ ,.«llark £®ö»RA "<& turdav. Octolxr 21st, 1882. THE CELEBRATED 1C TEMPLE. KUOOLI) band, of Reading, Piece». „»t.-hU HN rimcerts,assisted by the n K ,,t 8 |,c<| elocutionist. *vftk [.JOHN M. STEPHEN. . Dm-t'» - M'lrctl» BSS.'j.wÄ I i. il. Hugh: «'««• . W. T. 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DEMOCRATIC Mass Meeting ! a —IN THE— RAND OPERA HOUSE, I cent So the will -ON— Wednesday Eve'g,Oct. 18, '82, AT 8 O'CLOCK. JOHN O'BYRNE, ESQ., AND :Ion. Benj. T. Biggs Will address the meeting. SEATS RESERVED FOR LADIES. OCtl4-tm-42 in and will tou that to on and and the the the a The the but be the cal a in it DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING ! -AT fourth and Market Sts., -ON Friday Eve'g, Oct. 20 . ATS P. M. The Issues by eofcfng will V addressed 8 Ute GEO. H. BATES, ESQ., HON. W.G. WHITELEY and GEO. GRAY, ESQ. Citizens of BOTH PARTIES are Invited. octlS-iin-12 XT OTICE.—A MEETING OF THE il STOCKHOLDER* «r Germanin Hulhlliig mul Loan A»»o«latlon will be li«M WEDNES DAY. Ill«' lath «K'tis-.ii m. i.. unm; !... tkilsTF.iN, Heeretary. I N otice.—new stock in the dia mond state loan ASSOCIATION, first out: n»r proper!v: lutere»! all «lay or evening at TKer'.'- ' 0 per cent : hi SUJ Mliri.KI oct14-151 xfoncE.. il ING lie GKoKGK C. MAIMS. Meere THE UNDERSIGNED HAV I' Weights y, Hinte appointed HegnlaU tl d Mr«» In lit that on «2, lie en Poplar » regulate any him of Delaware, her after MONDAY, d at hi» glv • 16th. No. IK r he will tol ■»hie Wilmington, Del., h ala weight». liieaMlire», »eal tghlng apparatn» that may he brought to r .JACOB DEARYNK. Regulator of Weight» .1 M. H'l»-d«t-w XJOTICE.—RENTING AND COLLECT . .1 I NO It R NTS a specialty, by GEORGE C. MA IMS, 601 Shipley HI., Real Estate A gent. 9,2H-lin i/ EL. I' WANT Eli. ANTED.—BOY OK SIXTEEN AS AP 1*RV.STICK. Must be strong and healthy «I have a fair education. FERRIS BROS.. Printer«, h*U 2, 14, 1«, IH Ne . 10 E. T hird street. ANTED—A FEMALE TEACHER FDR the German School to teach the English language, knowledge of the GcruiHii liiugiuigc A "" ,J "" h * n " Vift'kKl.. uct l7-3t Wilmington, Del. W w Primary (•nut red. ANTED.—A LAD AS AN APPREN TICE to the printliiK bUHliie»». about HI year» of us« . have tt lair e«lu<-atlo be well recoin me V. 1 led. Tbl» I» an opportunity »eblom offcrcil to learn the Dualiiesa In all of It» ehe». Apply In the baiidwritteiror the applh'uitt to TIIE JAME8 A NNr.ltB ocii3-tl' Printing ami Stationery Company. w Must l>.j HITVATIOSX WANTED. MAN ANTED.—BY A YOUN KUOM Hi. Aü.l w »it nut Ion; grocery preferred, oet17-211 GAZETTE OFFICE. FOB SALE. STORE FIXTURE»"! tiid drawers, u . Address G., Gazette Otllee. MALE _ _ EET long, with shelvi able for »hoe or dry goods »I« octl7-ltl IAOR r fi «ü it IN - SALE.—ONE TWO-HORSE U1NK AND vm'.'m I f'ï", i lie »old clieau. GlLLEHl I p. A « J••, ootl4,tf P No. IUÛ Slilpley »treet. NN 11., Del. jpOR SALE. 100 Acres of Standing Timber. <1 MAPLE, F*o Ch I, fly YELLOW l'lNK within one mile uf ratlrna.l anil three miles water, ami adjacent to other large and One ti n of timber land the growth of which 1« likewise For particulars a» to location, price drirc»*, the marke term», GAZETTE OFFICE. d, w**-lf •pt A NEW FIRST-CLASS 1» •r Sixth and Freu eh; hu« Ï 'OR SALE.— Roomed house, corn wliiilow» aud ull d all waste water rum easy, Also other houses, price from $1,250 is-uuo 't'hanee for good Investment. Apply, G. AC. TIN DAL, 701 French street. U,2»-lm provemeuts derdrallied to »ewer Ml« five bay Well r. pOR SALE —MY EXECUTORS, cl, eUUiKhoutt I»t.' of Ell WIUoll, il«» NO.IWH WASHINGTON STREET, Wlliiiluit. Apply to Tel easy. li. MELDS, Alt lev for Exccut. s : 2U Market sti aug24-codtf H S£0 fS TEE'S N O TIC ES. > EGISTEK'S ORDER. K RKCIISTKB'S. , , Del., Hcptemher29th, 1882. tii<< iinitllcatloii oi Ellen Kell), Adml x of Ahii.'Ih KeUy. Ot.' of ' * that the Admlnl KinutlMK ' ,l '» •»tut« ol'Aliened Castle C Ne Upon Ibtratri hundred, Iu »aid co and directed by the Realst tor aforesaid give notice uf Administration up • date of grantln# d d |»K •\y ltd lav» within tort In «lx of III of New , he. po od »uch ictlt f the co from the «lat« ol public place» < r«i|ulrliiK all p« the «state to pie of AsMcuihly In « period i w»paper published I «millinn il tli«r«ln ty il» against having «le abide by il provided ; nt ih Ml 'll Within G A/.KTTI tobe ins • III« D In tbe be d tob« Wilmington i'aiiii d. lofotll e Irr the I Winning * wjwss tb« lie • above wrltl day and ye HIGGS, Register. "»1 JIOTU'K. having elalintj iijrnlitN Ml he esta All per«« the «Ich to the D., 1883, «»r alibi lui it I ui I n l»t •h of A»»einblv In »«H ELLEN K ELIA, Administrator. d p de : Wilmington, Ad tires 1-3 w epW-ui' OOLDIERS NOW SUFFERING FROM Ö WOUNDH or disease ofiuiV G'jJ C p l f n8 | 0 u! w'bl*ow», in 1 n ^ l^jl" j * iv\Vm *Vli«! ,U e ß S* p *'! , !ï5S , Jiïïi 1» " r BeJM«« 1 rlAt'"».»» " r ÎS'Jll mïdwltl. l.ullUtinnuroc vl.ience «D« of DELAWARE'S TAX LAWS HOW THEY HAVE BEEN MIS REPRESENTED. STATEMENT OT THEIR OBJECTS Made Necessary by K«»|»ubllcaii Unfair neon, and Pa*»ed to Prevent Thin and to Innure the Payment of Taxen. [Daily Gazette, May 1, 18*2.) The Republican keyuote of the local paign this fall will lie the constantly re peated and intemperate denunciation of assessment aud collection of taxes. The re cent attitude of the Republican press indi cates that they will be made the subject of a large ;«art of Republican campaign thunder. So reckless and untruthful have been the persistent charges against the laws within the past few months,that a full statement of their provisions will not be out of place and will tend to correct wildly erroueous impres sions which have been formed through these misrepresentations. tin THE ORIGIN OF THE LAWS. In the first place a few words as to the origination of the laws. They were passed in April, 1873, were directed by and founded upon Inherent Justice. Readers will remember how, under the United States election laws, the Levy Court commissioners were indicted aud Archibald Given, the col lector for the Northern district of Wilming tou hundred, was convicted upou the claim that the right of colored citizens to vote had been obstructed on account of race, hos tility aud color prejudice, through a neglect to assess aud collect taxes. This brought on a conflict beetween the United States and the State officers who have authority and discretionary action. The old law for the collection of taxes, etc., did not detl the duties of the Levy Court and the tax col lectors nor the offense charged as stated above. It left it broad and general and vague aud uncertain as to what would be a violation of their duty. Formed long before the Congressional laws It collect revenue and did not contemplate a registration law or one under which men could perform prerequisites to voting. It is a principal of law that a man cannot be charged with an offense unless it Is clearly defined. Unless a man knows his exact duty he does not know what he is to do. The law merely said the collector was ap pointed to collect taxes and did not say when or how ; It provided that the collector could return as delinquents to the Levy Court those who did not pay their taxes,and the Levy Court, being satisfied, could allow biin for this and discharge him from liability for the amount he could not collect, but names could not be dropped from the assessment lists unless the owners could not be found and were presumed to be dead longer in the State. So the law stood and the collector's duty be It under stood were in cretionary and the collector diligence. was become an open question. When politi cal zeul or malice caused a member of the Levy Court or collector to tie Indicted and tried by a Republican partisaa District At torney by a grand and petit jury selected by a partisan United States Marshal, the Re publican politicians had the absolute and dangerous power to convict at will when ever they chose to say in their biased opinion that such officers had not fairly and with reasonable diligence, according to their measure of such fairness or dlligance executed the laws of the 8tate of Delaware in regard to the assessment and collection ol No matter how Innocent the accused might be, no matter bow faithfully he had sought to execute the old law a Republican was able to secure his conviction. For in stance, the old law did not state when or how often a collector should call upon a taxable for Ills taxes. It became a question whether he should call once or a hundred times In order to discharge his duty in the eye of the United States election law aud so save himself from liability to indictment or punishment. This gross injustice and great wrong to the members ol the Levy Court and the tax collectors, who were liable to punishment for violation of duty when they could not know what the duty was nor when they had performed it, needed remedy. To allow such a state of circumstances to con tinue was a monstrous wrong. It was to put an eud to this state of affairs, made pos sible by the partisan election lawH of a Re publican Congress, that the Delaware Legis lature passed the present laws for the as sessment aud collection of taxes in 1873. THE OBJECT AND PROVISIONS. Their object was to define with precision the exact duties of the assessors, collectors and Levy Court Commissioners, and to say what act should be a full performance of their duties. They were passed because necessity demanded them aud justice to the citizens demanded them. They were passed to prevent the citizens of the State from evading the payment ot their taxes because it had become notorious that the Republican politicians would pay the taxes of their negroes and other delinquent taxables for the year of the election, when they were wanted to vote, but not for the "off year.'' So that two o! the prominent reasons which ueeesitated aud justititled the passage of these acts were to save officers embarrass ment and injustice, and to secure collection of State and county revenues. It never has been and cannot be success fully maintained tliat these acts are not wise and that their provisions and entire scojie not as just, fair and reasonable as would be possible to be formed to attain the ends Honed. By an examination of the law for _;_j assessment of taxes it will be seen that It provides for a fair assessment of all per sons who have a right to be assessed. It will lie seen that fixed and ample time is pro vided lor the sittings of the assessors, aud that the officers are to give wide notice of the time and place. Further, it fixes severe penalties for auy violation of the law, such ïfusing to assess any person legally en titled to be assessed ; lor assessing any per entitled, etc. Any citizen can se •e the enforcement of the law in ease of jesslty Intruded to it a great degree dis required merely that should use reasonable What "reasonable diligence" taxes. •i son not cure a violation. So it is with the collection law. It requires the collector to give public notice, stating the precise time aud places at which set for the purpose of receiving The time Is sufficient—1! eonsecu couvenient. d d lie will |»K taxes. tive months—and the place Thus, therefore, lull opportunity is given to every taxable to pay his tax and so qualify himself us a voter, and In this full justiee is given him. It also demands justice from l,im by requiring that lie shall be disquali fied lor 12 months if he fail to pay the taxes Of this no reasonable man can justly complain, as it is but just to the public, and necessary in view of the former plan ol the Republican politicians iu not paying taxe« for the "off" year. The act pro vides that the collectors' attendance stated places shall be u full discharge of their duty without further demand. Thus their dutv is plainly pre scribed. and they are guarded against ma licious trouble in the United States Court, which Is not the case under the old law. Provisions are also made far the law s honest enforcement, such as penalties lor violation, etc. ; e tb« Ml at the •h u! S* CRIST. REPUBLICAN HYP With reference to the enforcement and practical operation of the assessment and collection laws, it must be admitted that they are not only just, fair aud wisely adapted to the objecte sought but that they being such, are binding upon all parties— ally binding and equally obligatory, and either party having the enforcement of them Is equally liable to the penalties 1m for unfair or illegal conduct of them. But the Republicans have charged that they have been illegally administered tv the Democrats, and their voters, (chiefly of the colored class) disfranchised by being de prived of the opportunity ot assessment and payment of taxes. This is a hyp.writlcal assertion. It Is kuown to l*e such by the Republican press and leaders and has been proved to be insincere beyond refutation. What is the proof ? Here are the facts : When the laws were passed no serious objection was mads to them, and not a word of opposition w uttered by the Commercial , then the organ of the party in Delaware. The payment of taxes from year to year was a heavy tax upon the party purse and the politicians at length became negligent, and Anally failed to pay the taxes, auu when the negroes were dropped from the assessment lists, failed to get them on again. In W uimngton this was intentional. The Higgins-Jenkins faction paid the taxes and the Bird Gallagher wing got the negroes' votes, beating them in party contests every time. This led the Higgins men to neglect the taxes and to beat Gal lagher and his crowd ; this was intentionally done. The campaign default in 1878, no effort or desire shown to get the men assessed, and so it went on. Of course the assessors showed no great desire to get the negroes ou, and the col lectors no eagerness to see that their taxes were paid befoiethey were dropped off the list. But suddenly in the early part of 1880 a stir was made by the Republicans, und they raised a clamor about getting their men assessed. This clamor was set up just as the assessors were completing their work and were about to make their returns to the Levy Court. It had been neglected up to that time. The Higgins men were still smart ing and had takeu but little interest. The sudden activity is attributed to word sup posed to have beeu sent by the National Committee to make a tight, on senators. These men went before the Levy Court, ac companied by business men who had beeu du{>ed, made inability to get on the assess ment list a mere pretext and impudently asked that body to lay aside its regular duties and assess negroes who were off the lists by their own default and wilful neglect of duty. Because the Levy Court would not do that aud oblige men who would not oblige themselves a great hue and cry was raised. They succeeded, but their success put them in a position of shameless in sincerity. The truth of this whole matter is, and the history of all this establishes it, that the as sessors and collectors have done their whole duty, as the Republican has editorially ad mitted, and that so also did the Levy Court Commissioners as the Republican committee on assessments publicly avowed when It thanked that body at the dose of the session of 1880 for what It had done. Again, how out of all this misrepresentation a little fair ness will crop forth now aud then,is shown In an editorial lu the Republican of April 3d last. The concluding sentence of this article Is candor itself, to this effect : ' There is not a man who is now disfranchised, wlyo could not at some time since last June have paid his county taxes, if he had tried to/ do so, and we can only say to these disconsolate voters who are now disfranchised that we hope they will learn a lesson and not allow such a thing to occur again." THE DEFIANCE CKU8HK1). equ HE In first of Tlie not to the he the for allowed to go by being he »11 An Excellent Gam« Yesterday In tVliich Our Boys C Unmistakably one of the very best, if not the best, games of ball this season played on the Union street grounds yester day afternoou between the Our Boys and the Defiance second of the championship contest. batterie's, leaving but little work for the fielders. Baker and Oldfield, who, by the way, throws a splendid ball to second, work well together, the latter rarely muff ing a ball aud always stopping them. Can non of the Defiance bad not a siugle passed ball, but found some difficulty In holding Flynn's hot pitches. The game was full of interest from be ginning to end, and virtually came to a close at the conclusion of the eighth Inning, when it became too dark to piay satisfac torily. Our Boys, however, made two runs in the uiuth Inning, and alter one man on the Defiance had beeu put ont game was ealled. Upto the sixth inning not a run had beeu made on either side, and up to the fourth the Defiance bad only been able to hit two of Baker's balls. Shields, in the first inning, made a splendid running catch at right. Cross the Defiance to make a bag, having made the first aud ouly base hit of his nine during the game. He only got to first through an error of Stidham, but put out at Second by foolish his part and a magnificent throw by Higgins. Iu the sixth inuing Our Boys scored two ruus, Tatnull and Stidham being let in by a base hit by Old field, who was put out at third lor not run ning back on a loul. That decision of the umpire, D. J. Keegan, was the only mistake on his part, all his rulings being well made aud impartial. Higgins caught a fly in the seventh inning, and In the eighth Our Boys added three more to their score, mainly through errors ol their opponents. Neither side distinguished itself at the bat, aud twelve men of the Defiance were struck out, aud a number of the Our Boys. Following » for eight innings : ora boys. Out Ahead. Both sides furnished effective I the first man ol was ning Oldfield to is the sc H PC K Higgins, 2 b... Taliuill, It... Stidham, s s.. Oldfield, c.... Kelly, 3b. Pleree, ib. Clelsendorfer, Baker, p. Ucheltree, r f. Total.. 2 1 0 . 2 2 1 3 2 C f. u u Ü b : " ... b 3 24 14 IlKKIAl l Oonnel, 1 b — . 0 1 : ' Cross, r !.. McCall, 2 I Fly ,P 3 I Cl Shields, c f. Walton, 3 1» — Bridgman. « ». . McCloskey, 1 f. Totals. ♦Oldfield out for not running back on foul u 0 4 1 u s ... 0 1 *23 13 fl ball. I MINOS. nur Boy i u 0 2 0 3—6 0 0 Ü -0 Mr. Hunt lug's Literary Effort. [Morning organ, to-day.) The (i a zette of the 17th says : lugs evidently put his foot in it in his Newark speech, lie would not have dared to stand up before an audience of Wilming ton met hunt«» and utter the words he freely addressed to the merchants and farmers of White Clay Creek hundred." in reply to which 1 have to say that I not only would have dared to, but glad to do just that thing; and further more, I will embrace the very earliest op portunity which presents to rejteat ueforean audience of Wilmington mechanics and i iboriug men my Newark speech. I promise this because that speech was read from muuuscrlpt which I have preserved. W. Hastings. "Mr. IIu6t Ï would be Wilmlngtou, Oct. 17,1883. HASTY MR. HASTINGS. badly while ing while roof and fell pany the adds on boats some there it tained HE DENIES WHAT HE WAS NEVER CHARGED WITH. THE REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING Addren^en Mm t.loriticatt \> oodford and ltd a 8elf . Harrington, ttl^giiir, Speech hum Hasting«. A large Republican mass meeting was held In the Opera House last night. George W. Bush was made ehairmau and General Stewart L. Woodford of New York was the first speaker. He was applauded when intro duced aud said be had addressed the people of Wilmlngtou In 1876 and again in 1880. He now came again to plead with them for that newer and better South which he believed would be better for them aa Delawareans. Tlie speaker then went on to speak aa though Delaware were a Southern State and all through his argument he so classed her. He declared that the ballot iu Delaware had not been free, full and untrammeled. Demo crats had not taken proper grounds for education. He spoke at length of protection to American labor, and said that under it the city of Wilmington was so prosperous. Near his conclusion the speaker said that he would now speak of a matter which lies very near to his heart, that was Civil Service Reform. He than two years ago, when Garfield [ap plause] was elected President. He was a man of great culture, aud he had profound conviction on public questions, but under the pressure from all the States he did ex actly what every President had done before him, and used the offices toward his friends for political services tions weut to the Senate, so high did this spoils feeling run, that distinguished Seua Presi day The Esq., of whom ing. every be one the on early. have that ould not go further back When the norniua resigned because the tors dent had used the offices to pay his debts instead of theirs, and next we see the President murdered by a disappointed office seeker. All this happened within six months. The speaker then with burning language, every period of which was ap plauded, denounced the spoils system in politics, and urged the people to right this terrible wrong, which has grown to such proportions. He would sooner trust the Re publicans than the Democrats to do this. General Woodford's speech was short, and he had not a word to say in support of the ticket in New York or Pennsylvania, aud he only in a general way urged Republicans to pport the cause in Delaware. Chairman Harrington was then called upon and made a few remarks, saying the Bourbon majority bad beeu broken down in Kent and Sussex and the Republicans would triumph. Anthony Higgins about train He the up and iu W. It in and road jury »11 followed and declared that the Republicans had a majority of the legal votes of Delaware. He was not in favor of the assessment laws if upheld by the Republican party, but Delaware stood the threshold of a brighter day. There would be improved schools, and not mixed schools either. Mr. Higgins said that even the Democrats had come to demand a new constitution. The prejudice agaiust the colored man bad ceased. He aaid the State debt showed the Democratic support, of the civil war. He concluded by asking his hearers E. Ü i to support the Republican ticket. . Bradford, Jr., Esq., was loudly cal led upon aud, alter saying that he hail come charged that the inequality tion and the unfairness of laws constituted a conspiracy against the principles of American liberty in this State. Democrats were not to be trusted in their promises ol increased representation. He pleaded with his hearers to defeat the Dem ocratic party which had been false to Its trust. real, next a listener and not as a speaker, he of represen ta the assessment MR. HASTINGS AND T1IE "GAZETTE." Calls were now made for Mr. Hastings, the candidate for Congress, aud he came forward amid applause. Mr. Hastings said: " I did not come pre pared to make a speech, aud, therefore, do not feel called upon to make any extended remarks. One of the Democratic papers of this city, commenting of mine last Saturday night at Newark, charges that 1 said that, as an employer of labor, I was ready to hire men at any rate I could get them, for 50 cents, 25 cents, any thing ; Chinese coolies, anybody. I don't believe it is necessary that I shall state before an audience in the community where I have lived, that this Is un untruth. Furthermore, the re jxirtcr who w as there, and took my remarks down, knew that I didn't. I know that the reporter is an intelligent man, and under stood English. The meauing of my speech that the competition of my business lulled me to hire labor as cheaply as other people did, and that I did not profess to pay any more than my competi tors were paying in the same busi ness. My point was this : That under the benign influence of the protective tariff the laboring man of this country is not subject to the cupidity or dependent the generosity of his employer. [Ap plause.] That employers are compelled to pay him fair wages; that there is a demand for his labor, aud is likely to be under a tariff. That is my answer to the charge made in the Gazette, about coolie labor aud all that nonsense. [Applause.] The meetiug then adjourned. to lust, ably per tails last day, to has upon some remarks the of FINED BY THE MAYOR. A Chronic Disturber of the Peace—Guilty of Forestalling. •Tames McCann, living street above Seventh, was before the Mayor this morning, charged with drunkenuess, disorderly conduct aud disturbing the peace generally. Several of his neighbors testified to the effect that he had been drunk off and on for three mouths, and that they were lu bodily fear, almost afraid to go to bed, as lie had several times nearly set tire to his house, lie was in the habit of breaking up hi« furniture, beating his wife, aud cursing and swearing loud and long, to the great an noyance of those living in the vicinity. McCann, who does not at all look the man he was pictured, was fined $10 and costs. Lorenzo Mustante, an Italian fruit dealer at Third and Market streets, was fined $1 and costs for forestalling. Clerk of fl Market Hickey testified that he had com plaints made to him that the defendant was in the habit ef buying chestnuts wholesale from the market people contrary to law. He therefore watched Mustante this inoruing and saw him buy a bushel of chestnuts ami take them to his 6taud, and afterwards had him arrested. The Mayor read the law to the prisouer, who was ignorant of all intent of wrong doing. The jieualty for the offence is not less than $10 nor more than $50—buying fruit, vegetables or meats before 6 o'clock, with the intention of selliug again. Patrick Hasson, for being stubbornly drunk, and Mrs. Mary Collins,a gray-haired woman, found wandering drunk streets last night, were each flued $1 and eosts. K Buttonwood 0 Ü : 1 I 1 10 io fl oi Ç " -0 his of op I be ». HaltimorcF>-* Athletic This afternoon the Athletic and Baltimore the Union 6treet base ball clubs will meet grounds. An excellent game is expected and the place will be crowded with specta tors, It being the first time this season that professional nines have played In this city. DELAWARE CITY. Accidents— Duck Shooting—Port Penn's B1-Centennial. Delaware City, Oct. 18.—[Special Cor respondence. ]— «James Thomas badly kicked in the side yesterday while driving it up from pasture, wound is not considered dangerous. William D. Mullen, Sr., came near meet ing with a very serious accident yesterday, while fixing the roof on his house, roof was very slippery from the late rain, and while walking over it he slipped and fell to the grouud, a distance of 12 feet, hurting his hip. The Chesapeake At Delaware Canal Com pany has given its wharf aud wharf logs iu the canal a new coat of white paint which adds much to their general appearance. Thomas Price is repainting ills residence on Jefferson street. Duck shootiug is ail the rage boats bagging as many as seventy-five a day. Port Penn should have a bi-centennlal, in some shape, as It is said that Penn landed there before he landed at Chester, and gave it the name of Port Penn, which it has re tained ever since. was very by a cow The The The was tion but he will him, ing his not time. , some George N. Bright fell from a rool yester day while engaged in trimming it. He miraculously escaped without any Injury. MIDDLETOWN, The Bayard Club—Thieves Commencing Winter Work Early. Middletown. Oct. 18.—[Special Cor respondence.]—The Bayard club was ad dressed last evening by Harry Emmons, Esq., of Wilmington, and John Biggs, Esq., of thi9 town. The club room was filled to overflowing by men of decent character of whom any political party might be proud. The speeches of both gen tlemen was well received and there much enthusiasm throughout the meet ing. There is a meeting of the club on every Tuesday evening. Arrangements will be made so that two rooms can be used, one room the size of the club room will not accommodate the masses that come to hear the truths as put forth by able men. Richard Harrington of Dover on Mouday. Burglars are commencing their work early. They thieved all last winter aud have made a good start this fall. It is hoped that they may be arrested. The the city. she Close City line boat. boat. land the was 8.30 able side her the the ing At the by At the tell size She 600 two in town Cut to Pieces by the Cara. Yesterday afternoon Harry R. Trieker, about 24 years of age,brakeman on a freight train of the P. W. & B. Railroad, was by a bridge knocked from the top of a crossing the track near Delaware Junction. He fell between the cars and the wheels of the train passed over him. He was picked up by pieces aud placed in a box. His head severed, his body cut iu half, and his arms and legs cut in iu pieces. The remains were takeu to L. W. Palmer's morgue, and will be taken to Philadelphia, where the unfortunate lived. It was his first day on the railroad. An inquest was held this morning and the tes timony of the train hands taken, a verdict in accordance with the facts being rendered, and the recommendation made to the rail road company that the bridge at Moody's crossing, which is too low, be removed. The jury was composed of William H. Grady, William J. Maxwell, A. W. Jones, N. •Joseph, John Nichols and W. R. Long. MORNING SUMMARY. John Waldron has been arrested in New York city for selling counterfeit coin. Judge Reynolds, First Auditor of the Treasury, left Washington yesterday for Alabama, to take part in the political canvass. A. & C. J. Hope, iron importers of Mont real, failed yesterday. Their liabilities are stated at $350,000, their assets at about $300,000. General Sherman will leave Washington next Saturday for Leavenworth, Kansas, the 25th to atteud the army rifle contests lust, and two succeeding days. The Secretary of the Treasury will prob ably Issue another call for continued five per cent, bonds. The amount and other de tails have not been decided upon. Up to October 1 there was paid into the State Treasury at Albauy for taxes on cor porations the sum of $1,538,439, against $988,174 for the corresponding period of last year. Messrs. Merrick, Kerr and Wells held a secret consultation in Washington, yester day, regarding Star Route matters, from which "important proceedings" are expected to result in a few days. An address passed by the Grand Lodge of Masons of Canada congratulating the Queen upon her escape from the assassin McLean, has been forwarded to her Majesty, " the Patrouess of the Order'" a 15 to to B. its The President is expected back In Wash ington at the close of this week. The pro motions in the army, consequent upon General McDowell's retirement, will not be announced until after the President's return. The American Public Health Association began Us tenth annual session yesterday morniug In Indianapolis, with an attend ance of about 200 delegates. R. C. Kedzl of Lansing, Michigan, the president, occupied the chair. Mayor Debevoise of Long Island City ap peared yesterday in court and was ar raigned on indictments charging him with embezzlement aud malfeasance iu office. He was given until Thursday to plead aud fur nished bail in $15,000. The Federation of Labor Unions, at a meeting in Washington last night, in structed its President to invite Mr. Henry George to visit Washington at his earliest convenience aud deliver an address to the working meu of the District of Columbia. A Mormon named Hlntze was arrested in Salt Lake City, on complaint of his neigh bore, on Monday night, for violation of the Edmunds law, it being alleged that he was cohabiting with more than one "wife." He was about to sturt on a missiou wheu ar rested. Yesterday was the ninth day of the trial of Colonel lloughtou, Collector at Perth Amboy, on the charge of makiug false re turns. The Government rested its case and Houghton was called to the stand by the defense. After several other witnesses had beeu examined the c sides. Arguments by counsel will begin to day. was closed on botii The Grand Jury at Freehold, New Jersey, has indicted Johu H. Cook, editor of the Red Bank Register, aüd Henry Clay aud William J. Keilett, reporters, for libel aud conspiracy, in sending to New York news papers the false statements about the typhoid fever epidemic, which, they claimed, was ging in Red Bank. These reports greatly jured business iu thé town, and nearly ruined several of the summer boarding house proprietors. At a meeting of the Common Council of Newark, New Jersey, last night, the report oi the expert who examined the finances of the Police Department was received. It shows "a known deficit, of $1,136 in the Ç dice courts during the past twelve years." he report was referred by Council to t.he grand jury, which is now in session. The Finance Committee submitted a report upon the statement of the former experts showing " additional stealings by ex-Auditor Palmer and ex-Clerk Hall amounting to $11,000, those officials I ■ the total .tealiugs of lu&kiug t $300,000. HALLETT RAYING MAD CONTINUING TO TAKE ON L.IKI A LUNATIC. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. The Convicted Murderer Hattet* Refc Drink, aud Kotin to Put Ho Weak lie Cauuot Stand. the Fluor Georgetown, Del., Oct. 18. — [Special Dispatch.]—The apparent complete flight of re-asou from Coilingswood P. Hallett, who was convicted for the murder of J. B. Deputy, as telegraphed to the Gazette, yesterday, has caused as much of a sensa tion as his trial. A few people think Hallett is shamming, but nearly every one are of the opinion that he lias been completely deranged. Court will meet again in November to sentence him, or take some action in his case, and meantime his sanity will be passed upon by doctors and a commission in lunacy. ^Hallett continues to rave and is fast ing weaker. He no longer walks raving, but rolls over tbc floor, so weak that his cries are scarcely audible. He has eaten nothing since Monday mornimr and baa not drank a drop of anything. He was put under the influence of morphia and chloral yesterday afternoon, and was quiet a short time. grow in his CITY OF WOKCESTKU AGROUND. The Wilmington-Built Steamer Damaged at New York Yesterday. Nenw York dispatches detail a serious accident which took place in Eest River to the city of Worcester the immense and elegant sound steamer built last year by the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company of this city. With 100 passengers and a light cargo she ran on the ledge of rocks called the "Governor's Table," five or six -times the boat's length from Thirty-fourth street. Close behind the City of Worcester was the City of Norwich of the same line, bound for Norwich. This vessel, the tug Wiley and the Stiaaex County of the Thirtytfourth Street Ferry line came as promptly as the fog would permit to the rescue of the stranded ferry boat. There was no occasion for the ferry boat. As many of the passengers as desired to land were seut ashore on the tug beat, but the ladles preferred to remain on the City of Worcester when they discovered that there was no danger of her sinking. The port sides of the boat, a short distance from the bow, struck the rock. Without delay the pumps were put in motion, and at 8.30 p. in. the rising tide carried the vessel gently from her dangerous and uncomfort able position. Without assistance she steamed to the dock of the Department of Public Works, at the foot of Twenty-fourth street. The City of Norwich drew along side and the deck hands began removing to her the cargo of the City of Worcester. The officers of the line were informed by telegraph of the accident, and Superinten - dent 8. A. Gardner, Jr., was soon on board the injured steamer. When he first heard the news, he U legraphed to the Merritt Wreckiug Company of Staten Island, ask ing them to come aud get the City of Wor cester off the Governor's inhospitable table. At that time the damage was believed to be more serious than eventually proved to be the case. No provision was made by the steamboat company for the passengers who were lauded by the tug. No one was lost or Injured. At a late hour last night there were 12 inches of water in the hold and the pumps were working vigorously. The steam from the engine room enveloped the boat. Mr. Gardner said that it w as then impossible to tell the exact amount of the damage or the size of the hole made by the vessel's contact with the rock, but he thought the injury to boat and The City of Worcester is a new iron boat, having been finished in September, 1881. She cost $600,000, and was licensed to carry 600 passengers. Captain D. A. Ward has beeu a captain for eight years. He 8umed command of the City of Worcester two weeks ago. She is one of the largest boat* owned by the company. POLITICS AND POLITICIANS. was very slight. Official returns of the Twelfth Congres sioual district of Ohio give Neal, Democrat, a majority of 3 votes. Epenetus Howe has written a letter ac cepting the Greenback-Labor nomination for Governor of New York. The Republicans and Democrats of San Francisco united yesterday in nominating 15 Freeholders, who will be voted for at the municipal election to compose a convention to frame a new city charter. The Citizens' Committee, which was or ganized to nominate city officers for New York, met yesterday afternoon. It was stated after its adjournment that Allan Campbell had positively declined the nomi nation for Mayor,and on this it was resolved to disband the organization. The Prohibition State Convention of New Hampshire met yesterday in Concord, and nominated a State ticket headed by Josiah W. Fletcher of Nashua, for Governor. A. B. Carter was nominated for Congressman from the First district and S. C. Baker from the Second. A telegram from Chicago alleges that the siguiflcauce of the passage by tnfe Common Council of that city of a bill to fine minors for drinkiug iu saloons, " lies in the fact that it is the saloon keepers' measure, and its effect is to shut off all testimony agrinat saloon keepers which would punish them for selling to minors." Orlando Ilubbs, the sitting member from the Second Congressional district of North Carolina,who claimed to have been regularly reuoniiuated by the Republican Convention, has withdrawn from the coutest in favor of bis colored oppoueut, Ohara. Mr. Hubbs says, iu a published card : "Nothing but a firm belief that a continued struggle will give the district and the State to the enemy could cause my withdrawal." The Irving Hall County Convention met in New York last evening and ratified the nomination of Franklin Edson for Mayor, Keeuau for County Clerk, aud Davidson for Sheriff. At the Tammany Hall Convention which also met last evening, the above nominations were ratified ; also those of Richard O'Gorman aud George L. Ingraham of Tammany, lor Judges of the Superior Court, and Aldermen B. F. Martin, Ferdinand S. Levy and William H. Kennedy, all of Tammany, for Cor oners. mously adopted, accusin although a member of the Committee, of being "in league with the Republicans to bargaiu away votes, and calling upon the Chairman of that body to call them together and expel him as a traitor and a spy." The Conference ticket ratified by Taminauy was also adopted by the County Democracy. A resolution was unanl Mayor Grace, mocratic State Fly Poison Taken for Preawnre*. Oxford, Oct. 17. —Mias A. E. Murdagh, Lower Oxford, accidently dipped a piece bread in a cup of liquid fly poison, which she mistook for prcser.e juice, and ate it. She was taken ill aud is in a critical con dition. Mark Davis has been arrested in Denver for passing a counterfeit $100 note on the Pittsburg National Bank of Commerce. of Of