Smyrna times., 1877-01-17

II. C. CONRAD, one of Wilmingtons youn.
lAwyaEs. and one Of the officers Of the
" Delaware Society for the Moral Improve
ment OF the Colored People" was in this
town yesterday looking after the interests
Of the cOiorcd schools in this section.
There are six or eight now in operation in
the county, incluiIng tho one in this town,
one at Mt. Friendship, near town. and one
in kcnton. Mr.. Cuurad'S business is to
look after the school tax levied and colicc-
ted from TIE colOred people, by authority
OF an act passed 10y the Legislature two
years ago, for tine support OF tree schools
among themselves. In this county land
Sussex ALSO no part Of th, tax has been
handed over by the County Treasures.
although the color"d people have been re-
'quircd to pay it. We are informed by Mr..
Conrad that County Treasurer Dornan,
who lives at Harrington, and whose duty II
Is to hand over the tax thus collected to
ths Society above named, declines to do 50,
and treats all official correspondence about
the matter with absolute silence and seem
ing contempt Eight letters have been
addressed to him. not one of which has
drawn reply. Why such official discour-
trsy should hc persisted in is for Mr. Dor
man to divulgr. In New Castle county
Mr.. Herbert, the County Treasurer, has
handed over the funds 10 this Delaware
Soricty, as required hy law, and made an
official statement showing the amount col
lected in each Hundred, but there the
matter ends In the balance of the State
the law has not been complied with by the
County Treasures, nor official courtesy
either, so far as Kent is concerned.
THE JAN DELIVERY at Dover (see notice
in another column last week was an un-
fortunate affair, and some of our citizens
look upon it with few grains of allowance.
And some think the effort at recapture has
been quite defective also. The prisoners
got out on Thursday night All day Friday
some of them were housed in an unOccu-
pied tenement house on John X. Wilson's
tarm, in the "Alley,' a few miles west of
this town. On Friday Mr. Wilson saw
| smoke issuing from the chimney of the
unoccupied house, and on going to it in
the afternoon he found eight men within.
| He recognized Josh, Start, of this town, tone
of the escaped prisoners,) as one of the
| party, hut not knowing that there had
been a Jail delivery he did not suspect the
party of being "jailhirds." The party told
him they had been hunting and had mere.
! ly stopped in the house to warm up. Mr..
Wilson ordered them out and they left.
But that night friday the house was
destroyed 10y fire.
And now for some additional facts about
some recent turglaries in this town. After
the robbery Of Edward II. Beck's store
here, three weeks ago, the search of Benj
Manning house at the Landing resulted
IN the finding of lot of cutlery. J. b.
CoOpers store was robbed the same night,
and Mr.. Cooper at once concluded, from
the description, that the cutlery belonged
to him. He secured the arrest of Start,
one of Mannrg's family (married his
daughter) and had him locked up Start
whilst in the lookup, become very penitent,
and made full confession to Squire Budd
He stated that he merely piloted the
men who did the stealing. Four men, from
Baltimore, were Implicated. They have a
vessel in which they cruise around. Theil
names and the name of the vessel were
given by Start. and they were minutely
described. These four men were evidently
in the house on the Wilson farm, on Fri
day, as Mr.. WIS description of some OF
them corresponded with Starts confession
And there is a universal belief that they let
the prisoners from the Jail. They could
not afford to let Start stay there. He is a
young man, raised here, and seems per.
fectly satisfied with having character oI
had repute; but his first experience in the
lookup greatly frightened him. lie says
the burglars, while here, asked about our
banks, and especially about parties who
had fireproof safes in the town He was