Smyrna times., 1894-12-19

right of Justice of the peace to issue
execution against any citizen for debt on
legal holiday, provided the property of the
defendant is seized by county constable
armed with a forthwith summOns.-EUery
EUening.
He WILL Nor REsIGN.-Clerk of the
Peace w. Pierce Biggs makes the
following statement in regard to certain
rumOrs which he states have come to him
about state officers resigning and being re-
appointed To Ny Democratic Friends;
l desire to state emphatically that don't
propose to resign my positiOn-no, not for
anyone. There is no man in America can
influence me to resign my position under
any circumstances. L was appointed by a
Democratic Governor and that Governor
was my brother. l don't propose to dis
grace my position or his good name for any
cause whatsoever. / think more Of my
good name and reputatation than all the
money ever coined, and l ask that no
hOnOrbe Democrat approach me on the
subject.
w. PIERCE BIGGs
DELAWARE SHIP CANAL.-The citizens
of Baltimore are bitterl y opposed to the
report of the Commission appointed by
President Cleveland in favor of construct
ing a shipcanal on the Back Creek and
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal route,
and hence it is very probable that the pro-
spective advantages over which some of
our citizens were so greatly rejOlced will
never he realized. This route it is esti-
mated will cost 81 coo, 900, while the routes
favored by the Baltimorean would cost
from Sl5,000,0O0 to $4,000, 600 Between
the two propositions we think it probable
that both will fall, and we shall have to
wait for the prevalence of wise cOunsels.
In the report to Congress the commission
reported that the route through the Della
ware and Chesapeake canal would be the
best adapted for national defence and
would give the greatest facility to com
merce.
The WILMINGTON INSPECTOR CASE
| The election inspectors of the Second As
| sessment district of Wilmington Monday
| filed their answers to the petition of Charles
| II. Hudson, who received majority OF
| votes for assessor in that district, asking
| that they be directed by the Superior
Court to reassemble at the City Hall and
canvass the returns for the office of assessor
of that district and give certificate of
election to the candidate having received
| the highest number of votes at the election.
| The answer of the Democratic election
| officers, prepared by Willard salisbury,
| is very long one. That they have not
any means of obtaining the ceretifcates or
| Oh Tc-dSCeTIdlHlilB Iu6 NOLc anu JIdI Iut
certificate given to Farley is conclusive,
and the board of Canvass is functus Officio;
| that no demand to recanvass has ever been
made upon them by the petitioner; that
| the petitioner has other methods of obtain
ing his rights than by writ of mandamus
that the court has no jurisdiction over the
matter.
Charles NJ Curtis and George A, Elliott
attorneys, for thirty-one defendants in the
case, filed ten answers representing all the
Republican inspectors in the Second As
sessment district Ten of these inspector:
say that they did not attend the Board o
Canvass on November Z. They expressed
their willingness to make canvass ac-
cording to the law Eleven moro of the
inspectors say they did not sign the GER
tifcate Of Earley's election because the
returns of the two districts were not can
vassed or considered The remaining ter
are these who signed the certificate
of Farley election. Some were ignoran
and misinformed, and others did not know
that they were signing the final certificate
of election The case will come up 70
argument on January 3.