Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-30

| atuSpb plio appointments u uc NdihVt bct
the county COMPREHENSIVE,
House bill to amend the charter of Ken
ton. The inhabitants of that excitable
little village propose by thisto straightenn
the main street by taking little slice of
of piece of ground owned by John w.
Graham, and the end off an old brick
building owned by DR. Cooper. The Ken
tonites tried to get authority from previ-
Gus Legislature to do these things, but
failed.
Senate bill to authorize Joe Polk Morris,
recorder of deeds for Sussex county, to
make indices of deed records from 1880 to
1891 and Of mortgage records up to date,
Edward d, Hearn and Charles w, Cullen
are to pass upon the work.
House bill to amend the charter Of the
Artisans. Savings Bank, Wilmington.
authorizing it to increase its surplus fund
from 100000 to 100000.
House bill authorizing the appointment
of janitor for the State house; to be APP
pointed on the first Tuesday of May for a
term Of two years, at salary of $500 per
year For week past the contest between
Squire Young and Solomon, for this pros
pective appointment, has been a standing
comedy Of Dover. Any visitor to town
who escaped one of these applicants was
morally certain TO be overhauled by the
other, with an importantly to sign his
petition, but the fun would come in when
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same man and vociferated their respective
merits and each others dement's. Cover
nor Reynolds will hardly find another
man who will fill the place of the retiring
janitor, Billy Hunter. For ten years
Uncle Billy has been fixture about the
State house; opening up the building with
the rising of the sun, and lingering until
only the reporters were left at night. For
faithful and interchangeable service he could
not be excelled. During the current ses-
sion he has not only attended with his
innate diligence and care to the work
properly devolying on him, but has also
regularly looked after great deal of the
work that the sergeants OF the houses
should have attended to. 1t is not easy to
say how this Legislature could have gotten
along without "Uncle Billy
House bill to provide for the payment of
certain expenses incurred by order OF the
| cnurts-to wit the feeding of Jurors, On
the passage Of this bill Speaker Donahoe
explained that it was the outcome of "a
squabble between the levy court Of Kent
county and to speak plain, the chief
justice, over certain things they had or
dered for jurors or prisoners, | won't be
certain which, but which the levy court
considered it was not lawful for them to
pay. This makes it mandatory on the levy
court to pay these orders.n
House bill to appropriate $780, or so
luutil tnSTtul us might DE lIeueCl, TO conf
| plete the work of relocating the "tWelye-
mile circle and marking the same by en-
during monuments, The commissioners
! on the part of Delaware eX-Secretary
Bayard and ex-Speakers Lewis and Hof-
fecker have not yet expended one dollar
OF the original appropriation, of 1885, but
they wanted larger fund to draw on
should the necessity arise, and feared that,
| when the time came for the states of Della
ware and Pennsylvania to act in con-
| Junction in this matter. the former might
be hampered by inadequacy of available
money
House bill for the construction of a
| drawbridge over Brandywine river. The
/ bridge is to be located between Fourth and
Eighth streets, extended; to be built by
the Cherry Island Marsh Company, and to
be turned over to the county when COM
pleted, and the levy court is empowered,
| in its discretion, to make a small appro-
| priation towards the work.
THE SHORT TERM COMPANIES.
The time since January LIST has been
rather short for the purpose, but it has
been long enough to justify the Jones
bond investment" bill, now superseded
IN committee by the more comprehensive
| Fooks substitute. short time ago, when
Mr.. Jones talked of abandoning his bill
| for lack of support he consoled himself
| with the reflection that these short term
wildcat schemes would soon work out
their own destruction. The collapse since
then of no less than three of them-the
Universal Order Of Cooperation, the Bene-
fetal Order of Earnest Workers and the
benevolent Endowment Associatiun--has
| fully justified the prediction. The news
of the downfall of these organizations
in Philadelphia has excited the
liyeliest interest. here, where similar
schemes have been quite extensively
worked for so small community. 1t IS
not alone the direct dllpes who are in dam
ger Of suffering, but the evil has been suf-
ticiently widespread in this community to
| noticeably interfere with some branches of
retail trade; particularly with the retail
| grocers. Poor men have gone into these
things and have, in some instances, been
Obliged to stave off their creditors in order
to raise money to keep up their dues. In
one case a subscriber to one of these con
Germs was SO hard pushed that he had to
stand Off his washerwoman.
Three of these schemes have been rum
ming here; the Earnest Workers. the
Phoenix Mutual Order of Protection and
the United Order of Fraternal Co-opera-
ton, The supreme treasurer of the
Phoenix, Mr.. Thomas s. Clark, is a Dover
lite. MIR. Clark started branch of the
Phoenix here about January LIST, which by
January 2th had mounted mp to "a mem
bers, These members have paid in $780,
with the understanding that Sc. 10 of that
was to 60 into the expense fund, leaving
sI3 net. for which they were 10 receive
SIS. By system Of preferred claims
| given as a premium for bringing in new
members, about is Of these Subscribers
have srun oufu and have received their
SIS each, The Others are HANGING on in
none IF doing nearly as we'll In tie sweet
by-and-by. But one of the above mem
tioned concerns is evidently getting into
deem water and to-day called an liz mem.
hers for an extra assessment If 81 each as
a starter.