Smyrna times., 1891-09-30

The WAY THE CAT JUMPED.-Sher-
if Simmons piled the lash in the New
Castle Jail Saturday before an audience
of 200. Burglar John Cummins was
given twenty lashes and an hour in
the pillOry. Charles Nugent and Will
liam Scanlon, white, and William
Lewis, James Boyer and William
Banks, cOlOred, each received five
lashes for larceny, and William Peach,
colOred, received five more lashes for
the same Otfense.
TASTED s WEEKs.-TwelVe months
ago, Miss Ida Layfield, of Parsonburg,
a small town Is miles south of Laurel,
took to her bed, as a hopeless con-
sumptive. She grew worse, until her
death was hourly expected two months
ago. At that time she refused to par
take of any kind of nOurishment, and
for eight weeks she lived in this mys-
terious manner. She died last Satur-
day after completing the longest fast
on neutrality-suspicious. Democrat.
In reference to the recent order of
Chief Justice COmegys, that detectives
not be allowed witness fees, the idea
occurs that if some equally strong
hand would exert itself for the abol-
ishment of the entire fee system, as it
exists under our state government, and
substitute the salary system, there
would be TIE Deum of thanks heard
from every citizen OF Delaware, from
the rocks of the BrandyWine to the
sands of Sussex. There is no more
Ubiquitous survival than the ancient
abuse referred to. 1t is stated on the
best authority, that among the most
thankful would be the ofice.holders
themselves.-EUe EUeRing.
WILMINGTON Politics. Two pOlit-
ical events will attract the attention of
the people of Wilmington this week.
One is of Republican origin, and con-
sists of an investigation of the tax mud
die between the two Wilmington tax
collectors and the Levy Court, and to
see if some way cannot be devised to
pay 81, 800 Is over to the county, where
it belongs, and which they have col
lected.
The other event relates to the same
thing, and is of Democratic origin. 1t
consists of an effort, by means of a
mandamus, to bring the Levy Court,
the Republican members especially,
before the Superior Court, and there
COMPEL them to satisfy the collectors
bonds, which will allow the collectors
to keep this $4,6OO16 in their pockets
instead of paying it to the county.
A DOVER DEMONSTRATING the
past two months, two dapper young
men arrived at the Richardson House,
Dover, Del, and registered as Albert
| w. Finn, and H. ID. w. Atwood, NJ.
| D., of Boston. They soon moved in
the best circles. Within a week they
were on intimate terms with two
bellies of that town. A jaunt at kits
stay at the Delaware Bay resort, two
engagements were made. All this
time the strangers had not paid any
board, and when they returned to the
hotel, Senator Richardson, the propri-
etor, who had Just returned from
! Europe, demanded a settlement
Finn referred him to Atwood, anC
after eating enthusiastically at the
home of his fancee, suddenly departed
ostensibly for seeing whats the mat
ter with that check"
He did not return, and shortly afte
Atwood departed on the same errand
and all that Proprietor Richardson
now has for seven weeks board il
two half-illed trunks. The girls still
wear their diamond engagement ring
but their betrOtheds' whereabouts and
correct identity are mysterious
PhiLd. Record.