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Show I Delawaru New Whipping Tost Tried. I The new pillory and whipping post in : the jail yard at New Castle, Del., was christened May 16 for the first time since its erection, the old one having become be-come rotten. Sheriff Simmons applied the lash and pillory to those convicted of thevariousinfracLionsof the law. Abont 200 spectators in the jail yard watched the flogging liopes had to be stretched across the yard to keep back the crowd. Alexander Wortenbury aud William H. Bradshaw, both colored, stood in the pillory from 10 to 11 o'clock, and Samuel Swell and Andrew Jtickaon, also colored, occupied it from 11 until 12 o'clock. Each of these prisonors received twenty lashes from the cat-o'-nine-tails, which were veil laid on. The othwr victims of the lash were iJonjamin Caulk and James Williams, both color-id, ten lashes: George Cummins Cum-mins and Frank Groome, colored, dnd Andrew Reed, white, fivo lashes; George Harman, colored, four lashes. Cor. Baltimore Bal-timore American. |