Smyrna times., 1888-03-21

Jos. Roberts of the levy court ex.
Plalned that about $4,000 of the S27. :
|o2 errors for the years 1885 and 1886
reported by Collector Perry of Appo-
qulnlmlnk hundred, were for the tax
on on the Queen Anne and Kent railroad.
Inc collector carried these amounts in
the nope that the Legislature would
pass law authorizing them to assess
the road bed. This was not done
Besides the property was assessed
Wrongtully in the first place as the
townsend branch of the Delaware
railroad. This has now been changed
and the road is properly assessed for
this year. The amounts were allowed
as errors.
A correspondent writing from FELTON,.
Del, gives the following account of a
virile and worthy citizen of that COM
munlty: notice an extract in to-
days issue of your paper about Thom-
as cannon of CTumptOn, Md. South
Murderklll can beat that all hollow.
Jonathan Longfellow, who resides in
Wmteleysburg, is the father of twenty
seven children, seventeen by his first
wife, ten by his second, and now has q
young bride. He is well-tO-do farmer.
They say that he buys a farm everv
year. He now owns a dozen or more.
lie has two wives and seventeen chill
dren buried in one graveyard, about
six miles east of FELTON,. Who can
beat the record ?"-Morning NeaOs.
CHAMPION KENT COUNTY Snow
WALKERs.-The Levy Court was
about the only county organization
that the blizzard struck, and it knocked
that institution all to pieces. William
I. Fisher, of East Dover, of course was
on time, and Peter Meredith showed
up on Tuesday afternoon. But these
two had to go it alone, and of course
couldn't go at all until Wednesday af-
ternOon, when William Virdin, of Wesl
Dover, and John Farrell, of Duck
Creek, came plodding into town. Mr..
Virdin had footed it ten miles and Mr.
Farrell six.
Mr.. Farrell takes little account of a
snow storm. Some two winters ago he
was caught at Dover with q snow so
deep that his carriage could not reach
him there or at Smyrna, and he footed
1t, plowing through the deep snow
banks all the way from Dover to his
nome IN RaymOnd's Neck. r. O. p.
wilson, clerk of the orphans court,
had to walk from his home in Leipsic
to Dover, on Tuesday. Clerk of the
Peace, Cahall, started from his home in
MarshyhOpe to Greenwood on Monday
to take the cars for Dover, but was
compelled to abandon the carriage a
short distance from his house and walk
to Greenwood.
ASSESSING VOTERs.-The lew court
of New Castle County has actually ac.
cOmplished the wonderful seat of plac-
ing III names on the assessment lists
IN the remarkable short time of six
days. This is an average of 281 per
day, and, while it does not beat the
record, it is a remarkable showing.
when it is taken into consideration
that at least $50 of those assessed were
Republicans. That, we presume, is
the real cause why the machine worked
so provoking slow and had so manv
bitches. Had there been 5000 Democrats
left off the assessors books, the ma
chine would have run at lightning
speed and the names added at the rate
OF 500 day. Every member of the
Levy Court receieves So for each day
he sits, and this fOots up S2l6 for plac-
ing the names of III legal voters on
the lists and giving them their rights
The tax which these men will pay will
not average over 81 each, and this fact
of itself shows how the Levy Court i:
discharging the trust reposed in it by
the people. In addition to this, there
are fully 5000 more Republicans il
this city who are willing and anxious
to pay their tax, which this Levy
Court, through its tax collectors, re-
fuses to accept. Thus the county il
deprived of at least $1,000 this year BY
these men, for the sole purpose of per
petuating the power of their party
How long do the respectable portion 0
the Democratic party intend to con
tinue, by their votes, these outragesP P
Wilmington Republican.