Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-22

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line between Delaware and Pcnnsvi-
vania, which was to have been set up
IN White Clay Creek hundred, near
Ihompson's station, on tine Newark e
Pnmeroy railroad, has not been set up.
This is simply so because the people
there are opposed to any such action as
that stone is said to intend.
THEY WON'T re EXPATRIATED.
The Delaware residents Mt that locality
firmly and persistently object to any
such monument being placed in their
neighborhood. The point where it is
proposed to place il is on the land of
Joel Thompson. Wednesday, December
Wh, in entire accord with his
neighbors, Mr.. Thompson formally set
up on his land the following significant
notice:
TREsrAssERs WARNED OFF.
i'll, All persons are forbidden trespassing on
these premises with man or beast, for any
cause whatsoever, under full penalty Of
the law.
l lSigned JoEt TnoMpsov.
BY this Mr.. Thompson means to keep
out anyone, no matter whomsoever he
: may be, from setting up that alleged
boundary stone until everything in
regard to this boundary question is
thoroughly settled. And the way the
neighbors, that is to say, those whose
citizenship in the State of Delaware is
lmperiled, want the matter settled, is by
recognition of the statement that they
are Delawarcans.
Mr.. Thompson owns the property
where ii is proposed to place the stone.
Although he does not reside there his
action vindicates and represents the
sympathics Of the Delawareans who are
now protesting, against being annexed to
Pennsylvania.
These people assert they are against
raising trouble in connection with the
boundary commission. But they insist
that they have certain inalienablG rights
as citizens of the State of Delaware,
which rights they propose to assert.
Ihey desire to ask who this is that
dares to take these rights from them,
and they propose also to know the full
reasons why they should be disturbed.
They mean to stay in the State of
Delaware, They concede the right to
no one to declare they must leave Della
ware. They and their people have lived
here for 200 years. All their associa-
tlohs, memories, family ties, property
rights, are in and of this State, They
don't want to go to live under new laws
and strange legislative customs, different
to what they and their forefathcrs have
been brought up to. They have an aiTec-
ton Tor Delaware that Is ingrained hy
two centuries of citizenship. Theirs is
State Pride, they say, that cannot be
thrown aside and reconstructed at the
beck and call Of any set Of commits
sioners or of anyone.
THERE LIES THE STONE.
The result of all this is that the bir
granite stone with "p' and "Dn en-
graved on it, and with the names of all
the commission and of the surveyors.
lies prone, untouched, on joel Th6mp-
sons land. The Delawaraans there be.
llere that they will have the sympathy
ol every patriotic citizen of the Dia-
mond state in the assertion of their
rights. At least this is the way those
who are threatened with cXpairiation
BY the proposed new boundary line talk
about the matter.
WHY SCHOOL TAXPAYERS OBJECT.
neutrality-suspicious. GAZETTE and journal
NEWARK, Dec. 17.--lt seems that
there is to be something of hitch in
tue planting or setting Of the new Penn
sylvania and Delaware corner stone
which now lies PROSTATE on its side in Il
flrrow of mud, near the corner of Il
small field owned by Joel Thompson
and situate along the difficult road lead
ing from Mcchanlcsvllle, eastward to the
creek road, which II intcrCepts about
two-thirls Of u mile above rweed's mill,
This stone which has been described
In The GAZETTE was taken to this
spot about week ago and deposited ut
the place where it is later TO be planted.
where, IN fact, it would now be planted
were 1t not that 0minous signs of dis
content were discovered among u few of
the surrounding soil-tilers who fear
Punishment from the state of their an
cestOrs through the uncomfortable pro
pinqnlty to their homes of the new
boundary line which w. Q. lludgkins
of the United States Coast and Geodetc
Survey has run for the Delaware and
Pennsylvania boundary commissions
and which at this end, ut least, will de-
prive Delaware of about 20 residents
all told-slx of them good-szed tax
payers. There's the rub.
Now this particular part Of north
western Delaware believes heartily in
education and about three years ago the
farmers in the vicinity of Thompson
station believing their position in the
hundred to be ali isolated and incon-
yenient one with regard to public cduca-
tional facilities set about movement
looking to the establishment of new
school district in their midst. The
matter was ventilated for some time and
finally new district, No. 100 was
ordered by the county to be mapped
out and surveyed. This new district
was thinly populated there being not
more than Is or 20 taxpayers. A neat
new brick school house was then built
on the banks Of the White Clay Creek
at cost Of about $4,000 towards which
David Chambers of Camden, n. j.,
whose country seat and ties OF klnslip
are i'll the vicinity, generously rave $500
in cash. AS it stands to-day there Is It
debt OF $500 on the school property,
and as u matter of course the bonds
outstanding arc a claim upon all the
property in the school district At best
this school, with its single teacher, is u
burden for the taY payers OF the district
to keep up because of the scGnt popula-
ton hereabout and the small territory
included in it.
When the district taxpayers learned
that there was a strong likelihood that
the new line would result in taking u
half dozen large Taxpayers from their
school list and putting them over in