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repeal the act providing for macada-
MIXING the streets of Dover.
The bill to abolish the $25 tax on
commercial drummers was reported
upon unfavorably and indefinitely
postponed Kirk and Wolcott's bills
for preparing and printing Volume 16,
Laws of Delaware, were allowed. A
resolution TO pay the Robbins Hose
Company 5000 was defeated.
The bill authorizing the Mayor and |
Council of Wilmington to borrow 800, |
600 to replace the Board of Education
deficit was passed by vote of Is to 2,
Messrs. Watson and Lowe voting in
the negative. The House bill author
izing Thomas w. Wilson to straighten,
through his land, the road leading
from Smyrna to Dover, was passed.
In the Senate DIR. Chandler, by re-
quest, gave notice that bill extending
the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace
to actions for damages for assault and
battery where the damages claimed do
not exceed 800. The bill is not likely
to pass. Mr.. Roe gave notice of an act
amending the act for the suppression of
intemperance, which allows property
owners to appear before the court Off
GERS by agent or attorney when apply
ing for license.
In the afternoon the Senate passed
the Pilot bill. The bill regulating
weights and measures was reported by
the Committee on Revised Statutes
with an amendment, which strikes out
all of section s. The amendment was
adopted and further consideration of
hn to of
IL O'Clock Mr.. Belts offered q Joint
resolution recommending the payment
of $410.40 to j. Parke POstles, Adjutant
General of the State of Delaware, that
being the amount expended by him
over and above the appropriation made
by the State for the centennial celebra-
tion of the battle of Yorktown, in con-
veying the State Militia to and from
that point. The resolution was re-
ferred to the Committee on Claims.
The State Temperance Alliance was
given an audience in the House Thurs
day night. The attendance was large.
Addresses were delivered by the Rev.
J. II. Caldwell, ID. d., of Dover and
others. He said the State Temperance
Alliance came before the General AS
| sembly, in the name OF the churches,
the Sunday schools and the noble
wives and daughters of Delaware, to
ask for some redress from the evils and
blighting influence of intemperance
and the traffic in ardent spirits. To
secure this relief the Alliance has pre-
pared three local option bills, one for
each county, to be voted upon by the
citizens of each county separately, if
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to do so. He dwelt at length upon the
cost of the liquor traffic in human life,
in public immortality, in the suffering
it entailed upon the wives and children
of its victims and it's cost, directly and
indirectly to the State, by filling its
jails and almsh0uses and in other WAYS.
He denounced rum as the enemy of
the human race in general and of the
State of Delaware in particular and
quoted statistics in prOfusion to support
his position and he pleaded earnestly
in the name of right and justice, that
the General Assembly shall give to the
people the right to say by their votes
whether the sale of liquor shall be per-
mitted or forbidden in each or any
counties of the State.
When Mr.. Caldwell had finished, a
vote of thanks was rendered to the
General Assembly for the use of the
hall and for the presence of the mem.
bers at the meeting.
, The Senate bill increasing the appro
priatiOn for the State Board of Health
!, from 800 to $3.50 was passed in the
House last Wednesday.
NEW FERTILIZER BILL.
Senator Cavendar has prepared {
new bill as a substitute for the existing
law for the appointment of a STATE
chemist" &c, which will be allowed tC
supplant the bill previously introduced
by Mr.. COoch on the same subject. anC
the latter bill will be allowed to die tC
make room for it.
The new bill cOatempiates that man
ufacturers and vendors of fertilizer
and the levy courts shall submit sam
pies for analysis twice per year, so a
! to cover both the Spring and Fall fer
tilizers, which may be radically differ
ent in their composition. Samples O
Spring fertilizers shall be submitted
! by the manufacturers or vendors Ol
: or before March 10th, and of Fall fer
tilizers by August 10th by the Lew
courts on or before May 1st for Sprin,
goods, and by October 1st for Fai
goods. The State Chemist shall repor
on the former by Jnly 1st, and on th
latter by November or December. Tn
bill also requires the State Chemist L
determine the proportion of ipsolubl
bone, with an intent of giving tn
: manufacturers who use bone as a basi
;. for their phOsphOric acid the benefit {
= the value of their insoluble bone. Th
u ratable value of the components of fel
, tilizers IL also slightly reduced, an
fixed as follows: Available phosphol
: . ic acid, II cents per pound insolubl
. bone, four cents per pound; ammoni,
y 2l cents per pound; potash, six cent
= per pound.
E THIS WEEK.
n Monday afternoon the Legislator
d entered upon the seventh week of TIL
e session, with nothing of particula
IS moment to show for its six week
II work, beyond the passage of lare
number of private Incorporation actf
II but this week, it is thought, will
5, attended with II large amount of bus
n ness of vital importance.
Of Local option will no doubt be brougl
1t up, together with the Wilmingto
d charter, the immigration bill, increase
s. representation, railroad bills, ETC., a
le of which will have tendency to max
Ie the week a lively one.
v. The defeated bill appropriating $2t
er to the Robbins Hose Company,
to Dover, was reconsidered and passed.
n Mr.. Cooper gave notice of bill
i'll establish the State Library and also
ID bill to prevent injury to burial grounC
and the removal of bodies therefor
lg Zone of the most reliable and ploo