The daily gazette., 1879-02-03
Spirit Of the Peninsula Press.

Milford Neps The Legislature ought
TO be careful about the bill re elati ng to the
election of trustees of church corpora
tons now before that body. Ii may take
the whole question out of the hands of
the congregation and place it in those of
as required by the Delaware statute must
be unobjectionable, unless to persons
who wish to take step in the direction
of exalting the church above the State,
or at least to position of Independence
Of the State. Who but an ambitious ec-
clesiastic can object to the present meth
cd of electing trustees?
Kent Ne,cs A clergyman OF this town
some time ago hired horse and carriage
and rode seven miles TO unite couple,
and got-nothing! The groom promised
to "remit by mail" but failed to do SO.
Loves Light As Governor Hall has
said, the duty of the Legislature is TO leg
islate, and as that body seems to have
exhausted all necessary business of that
kind, we trust IL will profit by the Gov
ernor's advice and adjourn sine die.
Salisbury Adrertiser.-Thee end of Hon.
John p. Cochran's term of Office as Gov
ernor Of Del, presents a fitting oppor-
tunity for free and hearty recognition
by the press and people of Delaware of
his liberal, dignified and independen ut
administration of the office he has filled
with credit to himself and honor TO the
State.
State Sentinei.-WILL. some member
OF either house of the Legislature intro
duce resolution enquiring of the State
Treasurer if either ofthe counties are in-
debted to the State, and how much. And,
further, resolution calling upon the
several County Treasurers TO report the
total amount of the Indebtedness of the
county of which he is the Treasurer.
The people would like the information,
and it cost nothing TO get it.
Cecil Democrat:-The s.alwarts would
persist in tampering with the matter OF
the cipher dispatches, and would not or
could not recognize the paws of Bruin.
With the dispatches from Republican
sources all securely burned and the ci-
piers that irresponsible adherents of Til
den had elected, tossing like spools be-
| tween the kitteny claws of Chandler, But
Ter and Reid, it was just The incest thing
to keep on twitting 7 ilden and throwing
mud at the disconsolate Democrats. II
they had taken the council of the sulky
Roscoe and stopped; all might have been
well. But they didn't stop, and now Tyn-
er and Brady and nearly all Grants Cab.
met, not forgetting Zack Chandler, are
begging somebody to come and help them
to let go of that bear.
| The Government paid over 5000 9
mile for the construction of the Central
Pacific railroad, and yet it is now all
owned by less than one hundred men,
1t is about 900 miles long and the money
paid by the government will build every
foot of it. This is the way in which the
masses of the people have been still are
being swindled by the demagogues whom
they trust TO rule them.-Peninsuid
| Ners.
The Breakwater Light thus speaks O
the public welfare of that locality TIL,
people OF this town, we fear, are yer,
wicked people, for we know that full 50l
of them have been praying for the las
three months for wrecks to come on tn,
beach-not those that are loaded will
coal or railroad iron, but they that ar,
laden with coffee, sugar, tea, fruit, gene
raj merchandise, &c. Nothing, however
Of the kind desired has turned up yet.