Smyrna times., 1886-04-14

AFRAID OF LABOR TRoUBLEs.-Th
Harlan & Hollingsworth Company Fri.
day refused to give an estimate for
work amounting to about 100000.
The work is the construction oftwenty-
seven first-class passenger coaches for
the New York, Lake Erie & Western
Railroad Company. The firm has re-
fused this Spring over 100000 worth
of work, being afraid of the labor trou-
bles.
The changes in the plan for the re-
lief department of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company have been agreed
upon by the directors. The changes
have been numerous and radical, and
it is thought will fully meet any obiec-
tiOns that the employees have offered,
the most important of them being the
adoption of voluntary instead of com
pulsOry membership. The plan will be
in readiness for submission to the men
this week, and will at once become
operative.
That was home strike" upon the
part of one of the attorneys in compar-
ing the cost Of a case with the fee bill.
marking the overcharges in red ink
and handing up the whole case to the
Chancellor The public are the gamers
by these little love-feasts between the
officials and their-friends. The people
will some day have some say in elect
ing their county officers, and can have
an opportunity to be heard where there
IS the least suspicion of being over
charged. Under the present One-man
system the people of the counties have
no voice in selecting their county
oilicials.-SentiReL.
Young HANBY UNDER BAIL
Joseph l.. Handy, about 10 years of
age, brother of J. Wesley Handy, was
given a hearing before Squire Vande-
grift, on Saturday, and held in $500
bail to keep the peace toward
Isaac S. Talley, recently acquit-
ted of killing defendants brother.
Talley, who seems to have
fully recovered from the beating
he received during the fatal quarrel of
January 18th last, bears an ugly scar
upon his head. He testified that on
the 3lst of March young Handy, while
driving past his barn, assailed him with
a string of vile epithets, called him
murderer, asked him how ne liked
| New Castle, etc. When Talley asked
him what was the matter he continued
his TRADE and added "I'll fix YOU"
Talley further declared that he was in
fear of his life.
A Young MAN SHOOTS HIS SISTERS
| BETRAYER.-A dispatch from Dover,
says that Harry i. Hopkins, a young
man living at Seaford, was shot on Fri
day night by William F. Smith, travel
ing salesman for Messrs. William J. c..
Dulany & Co., of Baltimore, and son of
the late William f. Smith of Whining
ton. 1t is charged that Hopkins had
betrayed Smiths halfsster, Miss
Estella Muse, who is under IL years of
| age. 1t is said that Smith asked Hop
kins to make reparation by marriage,
but he refused, whereupOn Smith drew
a pistol and shot him twice, but not
seriouly, it is thought. The shooting
took place at Hopkins home, in Sea-
ford, in the presence of his father.
Smith gave himself up to the authOri-
ties, and was released upon $1,000 bail.
William J. G. Dulany says Smith is
about % years old, has been with the
firm four or five years, and is a young
man of excellent character. His mother
and his half-sister, Miss Estella, are in
Baltimore at present, having gone there
from this State, where they live, to at
tend the Methodist Protestant Confer.
ence. Mrs. Muse is a widow.