Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-03-31
STATE CAPITAL LETTER.
Another Comprehensive Gas Charter
"A New Ship Canal BiIl-Frogs and

MuSRrAt6.
Special Correspondence Of state journal.
DOVER, March 24.-John A. Cleaver of
st. Georges sat in the Senate lobby this
Afternoon and took from Senator
McWhorter about the toughest hauling
over the Goals that Delawarean ever
was treated to from five feet four of Red Lion
hundred humanity. The bill to cut down
st. Georges road tax receipts was under
consideration, and Cleaver had been most
active in booming the bill. And, in
reality, the petitioners far outnumbered
the remonstrants, but Mr.. McWhorter
charged that many of the petitioners were
irresponsible and that Cleaver was
scoundrel, man not to be believed on
his oath, "a man whose heart is as full
of evil as his brain is devoid of intelli-
gence," and much more to the same
effect. He spoke for about an hour, and,
when he finished, the bill was defeated,
and Mr.. Cleaver shook off the dust of
Dover and started for home.
BOMBAY HOOK ISLAND.
Mr.. Register, in advocating his Bombay
Hook Road bill to-day, related this little
scrap of history: In revolutionary days
Duck creek emptied into the Delaware
through the tortuous channel laid down
on the present maps as sold Duck
Creek" and what is now Bombay Hook
island was then peninsula and belonged
to New Castle county. A British fleet
was lying land-locked in this creek and,
to get out, the English were forced to cut
canal across this peninsula. This canal
soon broadened and deepened and became
the chief outlet of Duck Creek, and Bonn
how Hnn1y off Nat- L.. hnn
a part of Kent county.
Some 30 to 35 years ago the steamer
ZEPHYR was running between Philadelphia
and Dona Landing, stopping both ways
at landing on the new outlet of Duck
creek to deliver and receive Smyrna pas
sengers and freight. This necessitated
the making of road across Bombay
Hook island, something that had not pre-
viously existed. The people interested
built this road, at cost of $4,000,
and the Levy Court partially re-
paid them by approprating $2460.
Whenever the stopping" whatever that
may be, is taken out of the creek, this
road is rendered worthless and the said
stopping has been out for some time.
Mr.. Registers bill conteinplates the Levy
Courts paying one third of the cost of
renewing and keeping up this stopping,
as the cheapest method of keeping the
road in repair.
MOTIFS.
The Eleventh Ward bill is not likely
to pass the House, at least in its present
shape.
Mr.. NanBurkalow new oyster bill
prohibits the taking of oysters in the
rivers and creeks of the State in Septem-
Der, thus extending the close season one
month, and restricts the quantity any one
may haul away in one day to II bushels,
instead of 20. These provisions do not
| apply to the Delaware river and bay.
The bill to divorce James A. Conner
from his wife, Clara V. Conner, nee Row
bOtham, was defeated in the House by a
vote of . to :.
| Dover, March 2s.-Another comprehen-
sivr gas bill was introduced in the House
this afternoon. Mr.. John =. salisbury,
| one of the cOrporators named i'll it, assures
me that the bill is offered in good faith
and that the parties behind it are all
perfectly responsible to fulfill their
implied promises; that the measure i,
perfectly Independent and has no cOnnec.
ton whatever with either the Diamond
state Gas Company or the Wilmington
| Coal Gas Company. The cOrporators
named are j. Is. Holster Smith, Charlie,
Maxwell, A. l.. Murphy and James II
Shakespeare, of Philadelphia, A. i. Robin
son, of Georgetown, and Edward Ridgcly
and John p. salisbury, of Dover. I'll,
corporators ask for authority t.
manufacture gas, erect works, lay pipes
! kf. N ana ,.itt u. in n..la ..
raise capital stock of $500, 900, in share.
of $50 each, with privilege to increas
the same to $1,000, 900 and to borrow
money and execute mortgages to thi
amount. The gas contemplated is to b'
coal gas.
FROGS VERSUS MuSKRATs.
When Mr., Registers muskrat bill cam
up in the House this afternoon, Mr.
Cahall offered a burlesque supplementary
section extending the same protection t
the bulllrogs of Bombay Hook. Thi
rather nettled Mr.. Register, who said hi
constituents We're not taking any stock il
frogs and not asking any legislation q
this character but, as far as the musk
rats We're concerned, the trade in tina
game is remunerative, one man havin
killed 900 of them in q single season
After having some fun out of the amend
lnent, Mr.. Cahall withdrew it.
THE ELEVENTH WARD BILL.
: The Eleventh Ward bill was given
second reading this afternoon and referee
10 q special committee composed c
Me>srs. Cahall, Swayne and Stayton
Mr.. Bradford objected to this reference
and urged that it should go to the stand