Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-10-28
DAILY GAZETTE.
Special cOrrsspondehcsO of the Gazette.
LETTER FROM DOVER.
License Applications Before the Court

Down, Del, October %, 1873.
The court met at three o'clock, Judges Wooten
aHd Wales On the Bench. The Chief Justice absent.
Tho Grand Jury was called and sworn, and very
briefly charged BY Judge WOoten in regard to the
New Liquor Law. Tho Judge simply said that il
the members required any instructions in regArd
to their duty under the law, the Attorney General
or the Court would instruct them with pleasure.
After the calling OF the Petit Jury, Justices and
COnstables had been gone through with, the license
cases were taken up. Great interest was mani
tested. and the applicants and remonstrants were
thsrs In force. The latter Including some of the
ministers Of the gospel, among whom was Mr..
Wilson, who was so violently assaulted OF Leipaic
about = wocG ago. The small r00m in which the
court sits was % dcnsely packed that II was almost
impossible to get eveu standing room for some Of
the officers Of the Court and members Of the Bar.
The first case taken up was that OF William T..
Fountain, Of the Capitol Uotel, Dover Various
points were made against Mr.. Fopntain: FirSt.
some Of his sgneTs resided outside OF the district
this was a valid objection, but he had twelve ul,
ana it did not matter II the 18th one, ETC., lived
out, but one OF tho tsseIVe was a iooRlqn! Still
she was q ireeholder, and the court reserved its
decision, and are going to sleep on it and deliver
their Judgment tomorrow morning One Of Mr..
Fountains sgneFs tired to withdraw his signature
but the court seemed TO think that he should be
held to the scriptuTal rule that having set bis
hlnd to the - petition, he should never look
back.
Mr.. Justus Lowrey, of Milford, came next
Several objections were made to his application
also, the principal one seemed to be that one ol
two of his sgneTs did not own real estate in Kent
county, although they did in Sussex. This case
raises the district question whether or not the
freeholder must be in the county. The Chic
Justice, at Georgetown, so spoke of it, but the
question was not properly before him, and his re
marks thsre are regarded by many as what tht
lawyers call 0biter dtcta. The court slept on thi
case also; whether the portly landlord OF Low
rey's Hotel will do 30 too ls not so clear.
The third case was that Of Mr.. Amos Cole, ais,
OF Milford. The points in his case are much hk
those Of Mr.. LowTey's, and the one will likely de
eide ths other.
The Harrington cases came next aud OOcuple,
the remainder OF the session. The applicant
are Tobias b. Merritt and Edwin q. Shaw.
number Of objections ere made, most CT then
involving thS residence or freehold qualification
Of the signers but in the latter one, the appli
cant was accused OF getting drunk and keeping
rather dsOrderly house. Several witnesses prove
they had aeon him 'a little warm" but only tw
o3ald b positive that he was drunk. At thi
point the court adjourned till ten o'clock to-moI
row morning TO give the parties time to clear u
this donbk kV additional eVidenee The remain
ing cases, there are about twenty IN ALL will b
heard tomorrow.
The counsel c6neerned in the various cases, o
oao side or the other, included Mesars. COmesyi
Hldgely, Pennington and Massey tor the appl
e4mts, aud McsAs. Layton, Fulton and SmitheI
against them. FAIRPLAT.