Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1875-02-19
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From the Stale Capital.

rnE TEMPERANCE QUESTIONABLE FOR DELAWARE
CoLLEdE-LAw OF ASSAULT AND BATTERY ICON
rRIBuToRY NEdLIdENcE'-THE LYMAN CASE
WILMINGTON CHESAPEAKE CHARTER.
Specid! Correspondence Of the Commercial.
DOVER DEL, Feb. IL.
Az IL counter action to the demonstration of
the ladies'. Mr.. Pyle yesterday morning pre-
scented petitions with $50 signatures from the
city of Wilmington asking repeal of the pre-
sent
LIQUOR LICENSE LAW
and the substitution of one of more liberal
form giving license to all by the payment of a
State tax. Mr.. Uanby, ut the same time, pro-
scented one of the other side OF the question,
when all were sent together to the Committee on
Moral reform.
STATE AID FOR DELAWARE COLLEGE.
For some time past, Senator Ray has had
bill pending before the Senate granting to Del
aware College $4,000 annually for two years,
upon condition that ten pupils from each county
shall be educated free, and these pupils when
educated were obligated to teach at least one
year IN the public schools of the State. Some
opposition has been manifested against the bill,
but yesterday it passed, only AIcssrs. Fiddeman
and Moore voting against it. The bill gives each
member of the Legislature the privilege of se-
ectlng one of the pupils who arc to be educated
free The bill now goes to the House whore it
will probably meet with some opposition.
ASSAULTS AND BATTERIES.
Senator Riddles excellent bill defining the
duties of Justices of the Peace in cases of at
sault and battery passed the Senate yesterday.
This bill is to meet the habit of II friend of
person making the assault, making complaint
and having the accused fined an unusual sum,
while a transcript from the Justices docket Will
prevent his trial elsewhere. The bill provides
that when complaint is made, the person MS
saulted must be summoned as witness, and If
said witness is not satisfied the case can be
moved to another Justice, the prosecutor paying
the costs
ooNTRiBUToRY NEGLIGENCE,
This term is defined in bill of Senator Rid
die which passed the Senate yesterday. In
suit for damages from an accident like that
which occurred oh the Il. w. Il Il. Il. H. more
than year ago near Newport, when the Lyman
family were wounded, tho case was dismissed
from the Courts because it was held that both
parties in the suit contributed to the negligence.
The bill which has passed prevents such contrib
ntory negligence from being bar to claiming
damages and allows all the evidence to so to the
jury for whatever it is worth.
THE WILMINGTON AND CHESAPEAKE
bill met with Il defeat in tho House yesterday,
but was promptly reconsdered by Mr.. Nowlaud.
There seems to be no particular remonstrance
against the bill, and it will most probably pass
when it is again brought up. The bill provides
for bridge across the Christiana with draw of
10 feet, but when tho Senate refused to allow
the w. ~ w. II. Rto build similar bridge across
the same river, it is hard to see why this com
pany should be given preference.
MIR. wIIITELEY's LECTURE.
w. q. Whitcley, ESD, last evening delivered
his lecture on the Delaware Soldiers III the Rev
oution in the Hall of the House. The lecture
was listened to by all tho members, and large
number of others.
This evening Rev. @. W. Huntington, will, by
request of the Legislature, preach sermon for
their benefit in the Presbyterian church.
s. H.