Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-11-26
LOCAL M RS.

company WIS cOHhprlscu vi uDout SlAly peTSuil
members of the club and invited guests. A
eight o'clock, by unanimous vote, Jane
l.. Morrow took the head of the table, AM
William Penny the other extreme end TIL
neat and appropriate address stating the OBJ
ject of the Club, itsprescnt numbers and futur
prospects. Mr.. Penny also made clever an,
witty speech, in which he stated that he fel
himself very much out of place, not knowing
anything about the game of Cricket; the onll
Cricket that he knew anything about was {
childish recollection of the old homestead
hearth, where the voice of that insect made thu
evening cheerful but there was one thing thai
he did know something about, and that was the
good things before him, 1t would be needless
to say that justice was done the yiands, and
that Boldly fairly out-done himself on this oc-
casion.
After the banquet was over, toasts were drank
and responded to with spirit of good feeling
that rarely exists on such occasions. The eve
ming was enlivencd by songs from Messrs
Moore, Penny, Walraven, Buzby, Griffin, Fran
els, and others. Many good joke and With
cism made the room ring with peals of laugh
ter. aVillikens and his Dinah" was sung by
one of the party, in a manner that would have
done credit to the stage.
| We have been at many festivals in our time,
but we can say that we were never better pleased
with company and all the etcctcras connected
with it than we were with the banquet of the
Cricket Club of Wilmington. AT the winding
up of the merry-making, the health OF Mr.
Boldly, Mrs. Boldly, and all the little Bodies,
who had contributed to the festivities and So
ciability of the evening, were drank standing,
thus closing the evenings entertainment.
By the way, the Cricket Club of this city has
become permanent fixture; itnumbers about
fifty members, mostly merchants, clerks, and
persons who require exercise. The game is 4
healthy, innocent amusement that the most
fastidious may take part in without damaging
their morals or giving scandal the least room
to use her busy tongue.
Lectures-Dr. Boyton lectnred in the Odd iel-
lows Hall on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
evenings, on Geology and the history of crca-
ton, to large audiences. He has great com
mand of language, and is able to both interest
and instruct all who may hear him. lie showed
The harmony existing between the works OF Cog
and the Scriptures--that the Mosaic account OF
creation and the revelations ofgeology, were not
inconsistent with each other, and while speak
of the immensely of Gods works, OF which the
earth was u mere bulb compared with the sun
and some of the planets, grew exceedingly cio-
uuent. In referring to the earth he remarked
that at the depth of forty feet the temperature
was forty degrees, and as we descend it becomes
warmer and warmer, increasing degree to
every 40 feet and if he should penetrate deep
enough, water would boil. This was evidence
of internal fire. further proof of this fire
was found in volcanoes, and he gave startling
description of the adventures of gentleman
who came near being burnt TO death while
making explorations near one of these pyro-
technc works ofnaturc. To give an idea ofthe
immensely of the earth he remarked that to
form globe 666 feet in circumference, and then
place a man on it, reduced until his relative
proportions to it should be the same us that
which he bears to the earth, it would be
required to use microscope of great power in
order to see him at ALL and that if we should
Law down hair it would take him an indescri-
hable length of time to surmount it. His lee
lures abound in interesting facts and theories
Man Killed on the Delaware Rdiiroad.-The up
train on Friday morning last ran over man
about one mile below Bridgcville. He was "
ing in the center of the track and was not OBJ
served by the engineer, the morning beingmisty,
until the engine was Immediately upon him.
The body was much mangled, the head being
entirely crushed, one arm and the lower part of
the right leg being torn from the body. A
Young man named Thos. Cannon, living in or
near Bridgeville, was observed to get on the
down train on Thursday evening, and heard say
that he would jump off at Dillworths, about
one or two miles below. tits supposed that in
an attemp to get off the cars, while in rapid
motion, he was dashed between the rails and
so much injured about the head that he remain
ed lying on the track all night, and thus was
crushed to death by the morning train. The
remains were lett at Bridgeyile for the action
of the Coroner.
Become Insdne.-A Dutchman by the name OF
Lewis Miller, says the Commonwealth, was on
Tuesday last lodged in the insane department
of the Aims House, near this city, by Mr.. Ne
hcmah Burris, a farmer residing near Middle
town, with whom Miller had been living a short
time, as a hired man. He had for some time
previous exhibited symptoms of arrangement
and on Saturday week he became decidedly in
sane, but not violent, began to cry and contin-
ucd so all night. When asked what was the
matter with him, he replied that his trouble was
caused by piece of bread that he had eaten
Al other times he stated that he had done bac
things; had been bad all his life, and that hi
wishcda priest sent for, to whom, it would seem
he wanted to make confession. lie has beer
living in the neigborhood of Mr.. Burrs' for two
or three years, and has always been an indus
trious, quiet and peaceablc man.
Improuing.-It will be gratifying to the nu
merous friends of Mrs. Heaney, who recent.
met with a serious accident by having had
eompound fracture of both bones of her leg
above the ankle, as also to the profession gen
orally, to learn that she is rapidly recovering
and the use of the limb is measurably restore'
without the least deformity. Her physician
Doctor Draine, attributes this mainly to the us
of the starch Jandage generally known to tn