Smyrna times., 1877-12-12

| appears that Cook was indebted Ia Caleb G..
Hood to the amount al $g334 fnr rent.
Cook was in the employ of the +. w. IL B.
h. IL. Co. Hood, in order to recover his
| money, had an attachment issued against
! the Company to secure the payment of the
debt. The writ Was served upon john W.
Lawson, the pnyma>ter of the ComI,aIv
The latter Immediately acknowledged tie
writ. and the money was paid To Hood
hy the general laymastpr, Mr.. Elliott, of
Baltimore. without his knowing what it was
for. The amount that the Company owed
Cook was SS3.34, leaving the company
debtor to Hood for over $40. The Com
pany appealed from the decision of the
magistrate, claiming that he had no right
to garnashee the Company. George c.
Gordon, the Company's lawyer, made a
motion for non suit, upon the ground that
| 1t was mere assumption of authority on
the part Of the Magistrate, that he had no
jurisdiction over this incorporation which
has It's existence in three States of the
Union; that Mr. Lawson had not the right
| to pay money demanded under these cir
cumstances. The court denied Mr.. Gordon's
motion, and the jury, after about ten min
utes deliberation, returned a verdict for
Hood for $95.27, principal and interest.
A PLEA FOR THE WHIPPING PosT.-The
New Castle Grand Jury think the whipping
post is lovely. In their report to the Court,
last week, the Jury said: "That much
ridiculed and not very we'll understood in
stitution, the whipping post, continues to
be a "terror to evil dOers." Although it has
been stgmatized as a ''relic of barbalism,'
the principle upon which it is maintained
III Delaware, has long been recognized
everywhere in the governmnt of families
No parent would think of incarcerating a
dlSobedlent child in a damp, cold dungeon,
to impair his health i'll atonement for his
mislecds, but would subject the offender
to the rightful authority of the household,
by a few stripes of the lash mercfully an.
piled, and at once restore him a.ain 10 the
influences OF pure air and native activity.
just SO does justice deal with her Offenders
here. She claims unconditional lealty To
her laws. and humauely enlorccs her penal-
ties upon those who violate them, not hy
inviting slow disease to waste the body in
dreary cell, but by method at once
natural and effective.
d" No culprit cares to pay tribute to our
violated laws second time through the
medium OF our whipping post; and, as a
consequence, the great bulk OF offenders
having been once fogged here, lose no time
IN seeking safety in more cOngenial locali-
ties where crime is fostered by the uncer.
tam tenure OF the punishment attached.
We, therefore, feel it to be our duty
to say this much in justification Of our
system OF cOrpOreal punishment, and cs-
pecially as it has, within recent period.
entered into the minds of human people in
other cities and States to establish it for
the better protection of society within their
own borders"
New CASTLE COUNTY TEACHERS INSTITUTE
-Ihe annual institute for the New Castle
county public school teachers, under the
direction OF State superintendent Groves,
was opened in Odessa last Thursday This
was the third Of these institutes held in
that county, pursuant to the new school
law, which was passed in 1873.
The institute was opened in the pleasant
and beautiful little Town Hall of the place,
by the election OF the following officers
President-Proiessor J. II. Groves.
Vice Presidents-J. F. stephens. Sr.. A.
S. Wright, J. r. Mclaughlin.
Secretares-Melvin Stephens, Bessie F.
Briscoe.
Superintendent Groves then in neat
and appropriate address welcomed the
teachers to Odessa, on behalf Of the citizens
of the place.
The session during the afternoon was oc.
cupled in discussing the subject of +" Pen.
manship," Professor Collins, of Elkton, ex-
planning his system with the aid of the
blackboard, and afterwards running
debate upon the subject was INDUCED in by
the teachers present.
The hall was filled to oyerAowing in the
evening, to hear the promised lecture by
Hon. j. J. Stewart, of Baltimore, and the
cnlnpt pan,liO,ys l,,- d.
Delaware College. After IA most delightful
selection of music from the Odessa social
orchestra, who very kindly volunteered
their services, President Purnell gave a
most delightful entertainment in the shane
OF recitations and readings. The applause
was so rapturous that he was compelled to
prolong the treat for some time Hon. j.
j. Stewart, q member of the Baltimore bar,
held the undivided attention of the
audience for nearly two hours, his theme
being the Russo Turkish War"
FTsddy.-After music by the local choir
and prayer by Rev. Crozier, Miss Sara NJ.
Fell, read an essay on Spelling bringing
out the well-known points of interest in
this subject. Criticisms were INDUCED in
by Messrs. Groves, Purnell, Harlan, Wright, |
Stephens, Whitlock and others. DIR. Pur
nell spoke forcibly against the phonetic
system. =" 1t would efiace all the legends
of language spoken by U.S." said he. Prof |
Harlan, of Wilmington, gave talk to the |
teachers on school classification, passing |
formula of plan around the room at the |
same time.
Mr.. +. j. Stephens gave short account |
of his method of map drawing.
Mr.. w. Horace Loper, agent for Appleton |
q Co., explained to the institute how the |
circular boundary line of the north of the |
State came about. He spoke of the grant, |
the litigations and the final result. "Cape |
Henlopen,8 he says, was formerly at the
point where the southern boundary line of |
Delaware approaches the bay. That line
was bisected and on the section a perpen.
dicular raised which constitutes the western
boundary of our State. II also said, that,
as an argument in favor of map drawing,
Maryland lost tract of land Is miles wide
and 300 long because Capt. Smith failed to
place the 10th parallel Of ltitude where it
ought to be.
The afternoon session opened by the
reading Of a poem by its author f. Coates
Moat, on Life and Immortality. TO this
followed a class exercise in Mental Arith.
metic, conducted by j. T, Stephens of
Of Odessa.
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