The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-29


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COOP morning!
THE football head is crowdng out the bicycle face
WILMINGTON is the morocco mandatory OF the world
WILMINGTON supplies the world with paper machinery
CHERRY ISLAND marsh is far from deep water.
THE displayed along the last Tuesday scared
away the cyclone
MARRIAGE is lottery. Lotteries unlawful Thus is the
law violated daily.
THEY'RE threatening lynch Americans in Havana But then
threats not war;
SPAIN writing diplomatic with hand and trying big
naval guns with the other
THERE is hardly room to doubt that the New York fight will be
between Low and Van Wyck.
The warm weather yesterday made the winter uniforms of
the police rather cumbersome.
CHICAGO is to the front with the Of the
This enterprise and at enterprise the Prairie City beats the
world
MODERN methods young blood beginning tell in Will
mngton Old fashions were slow to 60 but they are rapidly
waning
THE fact that the Chsana did overflow its banks after the
why the bottom should be deepened
afford for enough float deepdraugh vessels
punch bowl for the Wilmington worries of the
donors You can't battles unless you have fighters and
all good fighters have been good drinkers Let the Whining
ton have punch bowl, by all means
CALIFORNIA Judge recently newspaper Jail for
contempt contempt consisting of the publication mat
which the judge had ordered not to be printed The
released abeas corpus Now the judge him
self Jail for ENLIGHTENMENT Contempt o that kind Of court
doesn't seem very serious oAense
THE remarkable and romantic features the killing of young
the railroad above Chester while she travelling
about mems ATTIRE thought the odd mental develop
ments Of modern days Here where did that
which few dorode freight trains bumpers'
slept and between visits tracks and theatres whed
the time by shaking dice smoking cigarettes and living
solitary life with singular methods Of enjoyment
THE hauling away Of the cargo of the foundeed
who would deem wrong take aueht else
not belonging tem shows how thoroughly the belief
that that which by the the property of womsoever
find it, Hundreds of barrels of oil have aoated ashore and
with teams with half dozen teams apiece busy
hauling away The spectacle is remarkable showing how
promptly avas himself of that which the cannot
does not, deem it worth while, to protect
lHE drawn-ou uetgert trial. of the most sensational
the annals American law, resulting it has disagreement
of the jury after sixyx hours deliberations during the greater
part of which majority stood ready verdict will direct
general attention to the weak point the American jury SYSTEM
In countries for instance Scotland the isles of Guernsey
and jersey majority of jury bring verdict and in
France majority of twoir In America chiefly through the
force Of custom and precedent still insist twelve being
unanimous before verdict be rendered. might also be
thought such is the devotion this arbitrary law
England and this country that there peculiar and mystic
or almost sacred character pertaining the number Once
twelve men have agreed verdict Of guilty be
hanged with good conscience though had the jury consisted of
thirteen fourteen might have disagreed In the uetge
for instance had the prisoner been tried before French
jury the nine who of opinion could have brought
verdict within very short time after the had been given
them In Scotland majority could have brought in