Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1871-12-19
THINGS GENERALLY.

A restaurant is one of the features OF the
Grand Army Fair.
They have a blown meat question in the
courts of Washington.
The woman suTragans are jealous OF
Faber's talking machine.
The last glass before going 10 bedtime
looking-glass, for women.
At an Iowa church wedding the choir
sang 1.-THE Ham Fat Mau."
Senator Bayard appeared in his seat In
the United States last Wednesday.
An eel stopped the flow of water into Two
morocco factories on Third street.
The ornamental stone work OF the new
hotel is being done by Robert Scott.
Last week, two farmers had produce
stolen from their wagons In this city.
The undsposed articles OF Mlniqua Fair
were sold al auction on Thuraday night
Captain lie Maistre travelled from jack
son, Mise, TO COalesyille, Pa, in p days
Cris-Kingle is to peep out of 'chmney"
on King street, near Fourth, next Monday
The philadelphia Barge Lines will resume
, trips as soon as the ice in the river permits
About four hundred laborers are at work
opening the Wilmington q Western hail-
road.
To some women a novel Is as necessary
stlmulant as cigar or drink IS TO a
man.
A clerk in the Custom House, aged about
seventeen years, gets $75 month II Is
said.
The railroad company is fencing In the
| LOT south east corner OF Water and french
streets.
Snow, six Inches deep, fell along the rail.
road ON Friday night, between Milford ana
Morton.
A "mariiaee in meeting" came of ON
Thursday, In the Orthodox Friends Meet
ing House.
The stage or platform OF Institute Hall is
used as an ice cream garden by the drand
Army Fair.
An tight-inch water pipe is being laid on
Washington street, between Eighth ana
Eleventh streets.
/ The skating link, out Delaware Avenue,
is open in the evening on Tuesday, Thurs
| day and Saturday.
Eighth street market was abundanuy
supplied with good meats, fish and vege-
tables on Saturday.
The Grand Army Fair at Institute Build
Jog, has a cloak room to the right OF the en-
trance OF the saloon.
Market street, over Brandywine, looks as
| il couple OF weeks will be required to
finish the grading.
Hon. NJ. Springer, of the Canadian Parlla
ment, ia claimant Tor the ground on which
Wilmington is built.
Some heavy mill iron wheels were &c
ceived for the st. Augustine Paper Mill, last
week, by Warmers Line.
Dec. 2lst, the Philadelphia Literary lnsli-
tute northumberland performance
of "1h he Idiot Witness
Talnall's Floral Green. house, at Delaware
Avenue and Jefferson street, Is filed with
fine plants and flowers.
II is somewhat strange that man who
can neither read nor write is the only one
who is bound TO make his mark
Joseph Brown, a conductor Of the vii
mington & Reading Railroad, Tell of The
cars near the depot and badly hurt las
week.
The Delaware liver, above the Christine
Light, is almost covered with ice so that two
tugs generally unite In towing vessels altel
them.
On the ceiling OF the new Opera House are
pictures representing History andAstronomy,
Tragedy aud Comedy, Oratory and Victory
and Music.
MT. w. IL Nhntfou Has utNh aPpNiuts
manager OF the Providence (Rhode Island
Branch of r. G. Dun q Company's mercan
tile agency.
Numerous dray loads OF corn meal, aud
big wagon loads of slllpelre made wld
contrast on our streets during several day
Of last week.
A young lady writes 10 liiend: mis-
Smith is shaving with us. We went on
sailing Yesterday. didn't know there wa
so much In her"
A white man, charged with the THEFT
two hides, was acquitted al hearing Deior
the Mayor on Saturday, on the strength Of
. negro boys testimony.
! Chief Of Police Dougheriy, offers slOO 10
. ths arrest and conviction OF the party WI
attempted to iape Mrs Reynolds about lie
Gays ago, near Ninth aud Pine streets.
: Marriage is come to be looked npon @
; | sucb a Temporary arrangement III Indian
e TINT Justices fees tor the ceremony hav
q | been reduced TO twenty-five cents Tor stead
d customers.
Captain lie Maistre, agent ofthe Whining
e ton & Reading Railroad Company. arrive
in town on Friday from Mississippi VI
' Coatesvile, Pa, and resumed the dutes
his office on Monday.
e Among the building stones used at Scott
it stone yard, may be found green ana oil
I, from Pennsylvania, red from New Jers'
ID and Connecticut and white from Nermo
i and Massachusetts.
Brypzion Baptist Church, on Duck Cree
Hundred. about FIVE miles southwest
ID svmrna. which was built in III, has be-
" torn down this year and new ore costi
he about 81, 500 erected
"a Two schooners, one with 1928 tons
" nitrate of soda and birthstone, and one wi
Ter 066 bags Of potash and $50 bags OF nitrate
res soda, arrived at Browns wharf on Thu
Ia day for the Messrs. du Pont'
The franklin Telegraph Company ha
= direct telegraph communication with all I
an principal offices in the coal regions
Pennsylvania; also with the various off
ms of the different colleries.
G. Above the entrance to The Grand Ar
on Fair, at Institute Building Ia dazzling S
~ | OF peculiar construction, loaued by
patentees, BIessrs. McLewee Putnam,
5Gl Broadway, New York
%, The ice in the Horseshoe Bend OF
and Delaware, last week, was so heavy tina
,eIe large hawser and some timber on the sic
Nh ing Mulford we're broken In while tow
one OF Warmers barges through the mass
90 The dramatic entertainment by the
ers. monte Society in So Vile Building,
evening, represents characters coslumed
the tbe fashions OF the fourteenth century, VIII
nc n shoemaker had his wish to be phi
an gratifed for one day.
Ing T.
nge An American gentleman asked an Il
asst | o,,,tar,ar IN gtve him the real version
ON. the story about the Kilkenny cats. In
'oal Div he received the following lines;
There wenst was two cat5 AT Kilkenny
b, Zach thought there was one cat too MANY,
IT, ~ they quarellCd aud ut,
They scratched and they Bit
my Tli-eIeepling their nalls