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AT 8 O'CLOCK.
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AND
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eofcfng will V addressed
8 Ute
GEO. H. BATES, ESQ.,
HON. W.G. WHITELEY
and GEO. GRAY, ESQ.
Citizens of BOTH PARTIES are Invited.
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FDR the German
School to teach the English language,
knowledge of the GcruiHii liiugiuigc
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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
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Roomed house, corn
wliiilow» aud ull
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rum easy, Also other houses, price from $1,250
is-uuo 't'hanee for good Investment. Apply,
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Del., Hcptemher29th, 1882.
tii<< iinitllcatloii oi Ellen Kell), Adml
x of Ahii.'Ih KeUy. Ot.' of
' * that the Admlnl
KinutlMK ' ,l '»
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and directed by the Realst
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public place» <
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the «state to pie
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HIGGS, Register.
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of A»»einblv In »«H
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: Wilmington,
Ad tires
1-3 w
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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
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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.
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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).
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In
first
of
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not
to
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allowed to
go by
being
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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
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Higgins, 2 b...
Taliuill, It...
Stidham, s s..
Oldfield, c....
Kelly, 3b.
Pleree, ib.
Clelsendorfer,
Baker, p.
Ucheltree, r f.
Total..
2
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2
1
3
2
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1
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McCall, 2 I
Fly
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Shields, c f.
Walton, 3 1» —
Bridgman. « ». .
McCloskey, 1 f.
Totals.
♦Oldfield out for not running back on foul
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0
4
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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.
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Wilmlngtou, Oct. 17,1883.
HASTY MR. HASTINGS.
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HE DENIES WHAT HE WAS
NEVER CHARGED WITH.
THE REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING
Addren^en
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. 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
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jury
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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
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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,
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upon some remarks
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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.
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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
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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.
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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'"
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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.
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