Smyrna times., 1880-03-10

"A powder
sXn! 'sien occurred at Dupont's Mills, near
WILMINGTON on Friday night, blowing the
root across the creek and shatterng the
walls, but hurting no one.
The safe of the Now Castle County Trus.
tees of the Poor has been taMpered with
and some legal papers removed and the
minute book mutilated. 1t looks as if
some covering up was to be done.
Messrs. w. d. Roberts & Sons. ef Easton
put IN the lowest bid to erect large hotel
at Rehobeth Beach, and if some other
matters can be amicab!y arranged, they will
commence Immediately the erection of the
building. 1t will cost about $4,000.
Last week sessions of the Sussex County
Levy Court resulted in the reception of All
applicants OF persons applying to be asses.
sed, and the appointment OF number of
minor officials. OF the applicants for
assessment, 80 were white, and Of colored.
The term Of A. J. Wilson, the present
Recorder of Deeds for Kent county. expired
yesterday. The applicants for the position
are John Gooden. of Willow Grove; Pres.
ley Spruance, Of this town; Henry Ander.
son, OF WOOdside, and William Virden Of
Hazetville.
As some apprehension has existed in the
minds of some persons in regard to the
strength of the NJ. +. Church, ia Dsycr the
trustees are having a large girder run tho
whole loEgth Of the lecture ROOM from wall
to wall, with strong supports under it, and
1t Is hardly to be supposed that weight
enough can be put upon it to make it un-
safe.
LEVY Court MISUNDERSTANDING the
Bridge tenders appointed by the Levy
Court last week in the New Castle CO., were
William II. Hudson, Fieming's Landing;
Isaac Moody, Fsnnemore's Landing. and
Joseph Fairbanks Odessa. Constable, Black.
bird Hd, VIM. G.. Warner; Appoouni.
mink HID, Henry A. Wilson; St Georges
Hid, Wm. J. Eliason and William Il. Roth.
we'll
correspondent writing from Odessa re.
ports the burning, on Friday morning, Of
the outbuildings and their contents on the
farm of w. b. Corbit, near that town.
The tenant, Aaron Reynolds, loses consid.
erable property, his loss not being covered
by insurance. The landlords property was
insured in the Farmers Mutual Fire In.
surance Company, of st. Georges and Ap,
poquinimink hundreds for about 81 POO.
The fire is supposed to have originated from
the pipe Of some one smoking.
Time Is a great leveler. The Gazette,
which during the existence Of the Wing
party exhausted the vocabulary in the hard
names to apply to it, now speaks Of it as a
respectable, honorable, high minded party
| Should there be another turn in the politi.
: cal wheel and It's present opponent be
thrown od into space and u new orgSniza.
ton confront it, we sh0uld very naturally
expect the former to become white and
respectable, and the latter the contemned.
Such is politics and such the normal state
Of the partisan.
New CASTLE AssESsMENT.--Th Levy
Court Of New Castle co. by its fillibuster-
ing and diIly-dallying is worrying and ex.
asperating the applicants for assessment
who are waiting on them by hundreds.
They run from If to sc a dav thereby
causing the people who were left off bv the
Assessors considerable loss Of time and ex.
pease to get on the list, if they do at ali.
The complaint is that the Court delays as
much time as possible in its routine busi-
ness SO as the least possible time can bo
given to correcting tho assqssmeat list.
and about the same number in the rest OF
the county who claim their right to be as.
sessed and vote, and they feel that the
Levy Court desires to cheat as MANY of
them as possible of the right Of franchise.
/ A Dover SCANDAL.-A special dispatch to
/ the EtcIy Eccna19 announces Il social pXplO-
SION at Dover, growing out ofa scandel that
has long been the town talk at the State
capital. For some time past bitter feeling
has existed between Joseph Wharton, =
farmer of the Dover neighborhood, and
William II. Dyer, Of the firm Of DYER &
! CaSon the cause being a prepossessing
/ married woman who formerly lived on :.
! farm of Dyers, but has lately moved to farm
! of WhartoA's. On Friday afternoon the two
men met, and although Mr. Dyer wore his
arm in sling, it having been lately broken,
! Mr. Wharton attacked him and gave him =
severe tiogglng with a whip stack DYER,
| it is said, will bring suit for $1,000 damages,
and it is believed, the trial will lay bare Il
vast amount Of scandal. James Walcstt is
counsel for Mr.. Wharton and Geo. ?. Mas
sey for Mr.. Dyer.
DIFFICULTIES OF observation-disclosures are
not working as smoothly in New Castle as
in Kent. The disposition in Kent seemed
70 be 10 act fairly and impose no unneces
sary delays, but the following extract from
large article of grievances narrated in the
/ H,paGAc.u. shows quite a different state Of
affairs at New Castle: Mr.. Higgins ask ed
the Court, ia order to scOnQmize its time
and save expense to the citizens IN waiting
TO name a certain day whom these persons
could come before the Court and be asses
sed. lie represented that there would be
probably thousand or more who would
apply to be assessed if this plan was adep.
ted. He also respectfully represented to
the Court that there were already upon the
assessment lists the names of four hundred
persons who had been returned as celin.
quents at the March term of the Levy
Court Of 1878, and consequently they could
not be legally assessed uAtil one wear there.
after. OF course, though Mr.. Higgins did
not state that fact, it was well khown that
the four hundred persons illegally assessed
wore Democrats. 1t is matter Of record
and fact that no Democrat was refused as.
sessmcht, the assessment lists themselves
being proof, while there were from a
thousand to twelve hundred Republicans
left off the lists. 1t is we'll known that
long lists of names of Democrats were
gathered up at cigar stores and liquor
saloons and sent to the Assessors, all Of
which were placed upon the assessment
lists, while the Republicans were donisd
assessment unless they appeared in person,
and even thon, though in every respect
qualified, they were refused, or at least
their names did not appear upon the assess.
ment lists when published.
BUILDING By THE ELECTRIC LIGHT-Two
years ago there were three hands in this