Daily Republican., 1880-04-09

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Special osnsspondsnse Of ths Republican.
Hsw Castle, April 8, 1889.
u A visit 70 tbs Levy Court ysstsrds
BY representative Of the RKPuBLIsA
found the xAsnbsrs busy in . YER
Iqnist manner in looking ever the bill
| d coronsry, squlrss, oonstables, ros
Iccmmiasioners and all okhsr eounty On
ssrs, sdding up columns u Agurea
making appropriations, and attsndin
n gsasral 70 everything pertaining I
The county basiness. Entering Oh
court room door We were fsoogniss'
6fst BY Levy Ccurtnsn Silver, than =.
President Bright and Msssrs. TAylo,
Wells, Husbands, Weir, Lodge, Polk
Wilson and Morrison, and notwith
standing the fact that the RxPuBLIcAl
had net been spariug In criticisms Q
the action Of the Levy Court in maxim
the assessments which olesed the las
day Of March, we were warmly wei
coined 10 o seat inside the bar.
| Mr.. Silver loosely remarked as W
eutered that the lubricating oil ba,
been onoe more applied 10 the machine
and It was once more starting off rapid
ly as II did the last week of the assess
ment and addressing the president h
very gravsly moved that our name b
placed npon the asssssment for Viii
mington Hundred. Tue Joke was o
course appreciated by more than our
selves, and such pleasant introduc
tion was but the prelude 10 still p.or'
pleasant interview with the members
Mr.. Silver who Is chairman Of the com
mittee on Sunday schools which In 6
measure accounts for his pious inclina
tion to sing, 81 want to be an angel,
had Just finished roll of the Sunday
schools in the county that had applied
for a proportional share of the $500
which the county Is allowed to distrib'
ute amongst the Sunday schools to be
used In training up children in the way
which they should 60.
The late assessment OF course was
the subject which engrossed the minds
Of the Levy Court more than any thing
else, as the members claim that they
had been asssilsd hercely for not doing
their duty. This they said had been
performed faithfully and sonscientiously
though spon this subject there happens
to be very wide difference Of opinion.
President Bright still reiter ated the
oft told theory that the men who ap-
piled to the Levy Court during March
to be placed upon the assessment,
should have gone before the assessor in
October, November and December and
bad their names placed upon the
lists without troubling the Levy Court.
This theory was sill right enough pro-
vidsd there had bsen assessors in Will
mington and St. Georges Hundreds as
willing to do their duty as the assessor
Of Red Lion, Mr. Bright'S own Han
drsd.
We called Mr.. Bright's attention to
the fact that Democrats were all assess
ed with rare exceptions in Wilmington
while 1t was only Republicans that had
bsen left of, and we also reminded
him that 20 slosely were the Democrats
assessed that the whole dilinquent list
Of Democrats wss placed bodily on the
assessment BY the Wilmington assess.
DTS. '..
"We don't know anything abeut
hat, and even II 1t was true, yeu know
The Levy Court has no right to strike
II any name returned assessed by the
assessors, said Mr.. Bright.
We admitted to Mr.. Bright that i'll
vas never the Intention Of the law to
make the Lsvy Court the assessors to
10 the work incumbent apon the asses |
IerS, bat 1t was simply authsrized to
place upon the lists the names of those |
Who had been accidentally or uuin-
omitted, bat while this was
rae there was the glsriAg fact that
hsse large numbers Of Republicans
lad been emitted and the additional
act that they had been before the as.
essor 10 get assessed aad their names
till net appearing apon the lists shows
hat they had been intentionally omit
ed. Under these eirsu Astanoss we in
Draed Mr.. Bright that there was no
ther alternative left than 10 come be-
ore the Levy Court rs q last resort and
ct done What the assessors failed to do
hough 1t occupied the whole Of the
Month of March.
Wills the Levy Court was In session
esterday afternoon the news boy as
susl came In with the Wilmington dai-
: papers for sale Of which the Asmbers
applied themselves. From the unu-
ual sagerness manifested for once to
OF possession Of the "Rvery Evening""
was evident that the Court had been 9
isited by a representative Of that pa
sr the day previous and that some
'othiug syrup article was expected in
8 columns. In this expectation the +,
smbers' were not disappointed. 1t =
as evident that the article gave very y
-eat satisfaction as II the writer had .
anufaotured II precisely according 10 1
der. But while It has been 30 manu- :,
ctured, there are discrepancies and ,,
Representatives In II which the Levy =
,urt ooa!d net fail to sec. Some Of :
sss Misrepresentation are 90 Unfair :,
at we will refer to few Of them. :,