The daily gazette., 1882-12-14
Datlus Gazette
wiLMINaToN. THURSDAY. DEC. ia.
Christmas nay in jail.

l
mates Of New Castle jail Is meeting with
favorable response, and that the benevolent
project is likely to be successfully carried
out. Several philanthropie people Of New
Castle have taken the matter in hand under
the lead Of Editor White Of the Star and |
Mayor Black, and all contributions Of |
money or provisions sent to the Office Of the |
New Castle Star will be thankfully received |
and promptly applied to the intended pur-
pose.
There is no telling what will be the good \
effect Of a treat like this TO the prisoners
confined in our county Jail. As simple
act Of charity 1t Is commendable In the ex-
treme, for the poor outcasts from society
who spend their time behind the barred
doors OF prison cell have but little to re-
lieve the irlIsome tedium of their obnoxious
restraint. While this is as II shoull be-for
the law would soon be rid Of its terrors If
imprisonment was made but pleasant
pastime--a little effort to give the prisoners
treat on Christmas day will do no harm,
and may tend to SOW the seeds OF repentance
and reformation in some hardened heart,
and thus reclaim life that would otherwise
coDuHue ~ V''N ..-t-i-- ,ath af vice and
crime.
We therefore hope all our friends win
take hand in this matter aud contribute
their mite to the good cause. The affair
can be successfully consummated for one
hundred or ono hundred and fifty dollars,
and in a community SO generous aud public
spirited as ours there should be no diff
Guilty in raising the desired amount. Money
or provisions viii be equally acceptable, and
all contributions sent to the GAZETTE or to
Joseph c. White, editor of the New Castle
star, will be promptly acknowledged. Let
the good work so on.
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DoUBrLEss the most damaging attacks
upon the prosperity of our State, and the
most effective in restraining a wholesome
Immigration sre those that suggest by mean
innuendo what the authors fear to charge
outright. Such an attack appears in the
the morning organ, and the natural impress
sion Of a stranger on reading 1t would be
that Delaware possessed no free
schools, and that our people lived
under government devoid of ell
decent principles and maintained by dis
honesty at the polls. The journal that gives
expression to such sentiments does gross
Injustice to the community from which it
draws It's support and strikes deadly blow
at the public prosperity 1t ought to strive to
maintain and promote. Delaware possesses
free school system that works effectively
and can readily be extended to meet future
exigeucies For years she has had a State
government unparalleled for the honesty
Of its administration and her public
officers have never brought the blush o.
shame TO the faces Of the people. Taxation
Is as low and living as cheap as In any othe
state in the Union. The soil is productive
aud our rivers abound with the choices
nsh. While our State is not large we hay
ample room for new corners, and no MAJ
need hesitate TO come here with his capita
aud enterprise for fear OF encountering th
disgraceful state of affairs this rccrean
Journal 50 falsely represents as prevailing i
Delaware.
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Tue hARKEr QUESTION will come up bt
fore City CouRcil this evening, in the shaI
of numereusly signed petition praying fo
Inc location of market along Madiso
street, but No immediate action will b
taken thereon. As far as this Madso
street market Is concerned, we do not Sc
that it amounts to much, though v
are not at all i'll favor Of sue
project. 1t can, at the most,
but simple authorization of any farme
who SO elect to locate their wagons on Mad
iscp street, and If the market so establlshe
,laaa IN a11 4.
rival on King street 1t VIII soon be aba
doned by BUYERS and sellers. If II does su
coed, Of which the chances are about one
thousand, II will be good thing for pc
for people living IN the western pa
"i ihe city. But the City Con
oil should resoiutely refuse TO mo
the street market from King To Fren
streets, as such change would benefit no
but few spectators In real estate while
would prove positive detrlment to I
market itsef and all who attend it,
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ThE West Chester Iiuagc Record pos
tan az the morning organ for "tryng
deceive itsel! into believing that there /,
Two kinds of Dem. Gratis In the Delaw.
Legislature, and that one kind will r
sAliFiehuf hp"t Inc party 10 accept 81
gestions from Republicans a. to put
policy" Tic editor or the Ches
county evening organ Of 1he machine, v
still continues to indulge in that malice
Delaware, which once drove him out of
State to stay, Is reminded Of the fact tia
is not the advice of The Republican pa
which the morning ergan wants the D,
ware Legislature I Q take. II is the ad;
OF the morning organ itself, which
offered, and the connsels OF its ed
arc not needed by the party and have
public weight whatever That paper r
offer suggestions for all time but they ,
be treated for what they are worth, and
Ia very little, In view of it's weak, changes
and idiotic course.
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THE LANGTRY mudde il assuming q
an interesting phase, and if half tina
printed In the newspapers is true
Jersey Lily had better follow the
vice Of her friend, Mrs Labourchere,
confne herself strictly to the duties of
assumed profession.
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GOVERNOR HALL gave heed to the