Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-16

sin which event." says Mr.. Tunnel, ''it
wouldn't be worth $50" But, on the
other hand, if the Pennsylvania railroad
wanted to do this, it could have done so
any time within the past five years, and
there is no security that it may not do
so, entirely irrespective of the con-
tingency of its becoming the purchaser
of the junction Il Breakwater. That
purchase would not affect its interests
in the Breakwater & frankfort, which
it already controls, and would continue
to control.
DELAWARE COLLEGE TRUSTEES.
The members of the agricultural COM
mittee of Delaware College, in charge
of the agricultural experiment station,
held meeting here to-day to discuss
the management of prospective sites for
such work, and particularly the availa-
bility of a tiye.acre site near Dover.
The members present were DIR. Hugh
Martin and Charles @. Stockley of Sus-
sex; Manlove Hayes and J. Alexander
Fulton of Kent, and Benjamin f. Biggs,
DIR. A. n. Raub and James Hossinger of
New Castle county. John f. Salisbury
and w. F. Causey were also present as
trustees interested in the movement.
The idea is to have one such lot of
ground in each county. The New Cas-
tie county lot, at Newark, has been To-
Gated, the others are to be near Dover
and Georgetown. The object is to test
the cultivation adoptability of soil and
climate to the growing of fruits, grasses
and forage plants, especially new yarie-
ties thereof, and the efficacy of various
brands of fertilizers. The meeting ap.
pointed DIR. Raub, Manlove Hayes and
j. Alexander Fulton to consider the
matter and report on Thursday Of next
week. There is already, under the direc-
ton of the trustees, an experimental
orchard near Seaford, containing 200
varieties of peach trees, and another
experimental peach orchard of nearly
100 varieties located midway between
Bridgeyille and Georgetown. These
orchards are south of the peach yellows
belt.
THE NEW TEXT BOOKS BILL.
The Higgins bill TO provide free text
books and furnish misrepresentation Of
school funds, designed as substitute
for the Ross and Cooper bills, reads as
follows:
Section i That on and after July LIST,
1881, the commissioners of each School
district or districts Of the State of Delaware
are hereby directed and required to supply
the pupils in attendance on the schools of
the respective districts with the text books
needed in the said schools and cause the
same To be paid for out Of the funds raised
for school purposes which come into the
hands of the commissioners from year to
year.
Sec 2. Text books to he used shall he
those which have been adopted by the
state Board of Education; said books to be
bought by the said commissioners at the
Lowest wholesale rates and to be furnished
free for. the use of pupils, who are to
handle them with proper care and return
them at the close of the annual school
year to the clerk Of the district
Sec 3. The school commissioners shall
provide for the safe keeping and care Of
the text books, and the clerk of the dis
trict or districts shall have charge Of the
same, which shall be accounted for an
nually, together with the amount of
money expended for said books, by the
clerks of the district when settlement is
made with the State auditor, and every
said clerk shall at the expiration Of his
term Of office turn over to his successor
all books on hand or a correct account
thereof, taking receipt for the same
which shall be his voucher for settlement.
Sec. s. If any school commissioner or
clerk of any district in this State shall
wrongfully take, embezzle or appropriate
to his own use any money or goods be-
longing TO any School district, he shall be
deemed guilty Of misdeamor and. upon
conviction thereof by indictment, shall he
fined not less than 300 and imprisoned
for term Of not less than six months
MORTON GETS THE FARM.
The House passed the George c. Nor
ton bill on Friday, by a vote of IL to
3, after it had been amended so as to re-
quire Morton to pay Mary Casperson
500 and to allow her to retain posses
sion of the little Hampshire farm until
March 25th, 1892. 1t was stated that
this harassed woman, who could not
afford to keep up fight of this kind
before one Legislature afternoon, had
agreed to a compromise for $500 and
one years possession Of the premises.
The whole property, something over 30
acres Of land and the building thereon,
is valued at barely $500. The bill was
acted on in the absence of Mr.. Walton,
so that there was no one to state
the woman's side of the case.
Messrs Eisenbrey, Il. j. Morris and
Richards, however, spoke against and
voted against the grab; Mr.. Eisenbrey
saying very pertinently that the effect Of
the bill was simply ito dispossess one
person who has no right 70 the property
and give it to another who has no right
TO it" Mr.. Morris held that if Mary
Casperson was to be ousted, the State
should take the property. Mr.. Higgins
made a speech in favor of the bill in
which, while claiming to state the case
fairly, he showed that his information
had been drawn from sources friendly
to Morton and hostile to the woman.
He omitted to mention, perhaps from
lack of information, several points on
her side, and further stated that public
feeling in the neighborhood was with
Norton Had Mr.. Walton been in his
seat he would probably have read the
following letter in reply to this:
In my own opinion Mary NJ. Casperson
should either be allowed to retain the place
left by George G. Morton, or she should be
reimbursed for the care and long service Ia
Morton. of my own knowledge can ties
tity that she faithfully cared for Morton
for many years before his death She has
the sympathy Of all her neighbors, who
think that she should be left in undIs-
tHrped possession. WILLIAM C. WlER.
March 10Th, 1891.
1t may be said again that this Morton
bill, after being exclusively discussed
two years ago, was knocked out in the
House by a vote Of II to 3; a vote which
would almost certainly have been Is To
5 had all the members been in their
seats when the roll was called.
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DOVER, April l3.--As usual on Monday
afternoons Of late, neither house had a
quorum to-day and no business was trans
acted. Only three senators, Donahoe
Houston and Richardson, and five repre-
sentatives, Eiscnbrey, Richards, Ridgely,
smith and Sirman answered to their namcs
at roll call