Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-10-01

company. Fully 500 persons ate expected 10
be present among them some ofthePhiladeil y
| fashonables.
MARYLAND AVENUE PROPERTY. Y.--On sat
u.day, Oct 18th the Christiana River lin
proyement Company will sell at public sale,
twenty good lots on Maryland Avenue,
close TO the Wilmington X Western and Viii
miGgton 4 Reading Railroads. These lots
are as finely and eligbly located as any lots
in the city, and will increase in value as rapid
~ as lots in any other section. As invest
ments, they cannot be eXcelled. They Will
positively be sold on the day announced, and
those desiring to secure an excellent bargain
on easy and accommodating terms should he
sure to attend.
LECTURE.--Un Thursday evening, John
oByrne, ESD, VIII deliver lecture IN ihe
Masonic Temple, for the benefit OF the Catho-
lie Literary Association. Subject "The Cru
sades, and their Influence on Civilization.
The Crnsadcs extended in all over period
of about two hundred years. That they eX-
crcised beneficial influence on society there
can be no doubt, notwithstanding the sneers
of such nhdel writers as oltaire and Gibbon.
The various nations of Europe had been pre-
viously unknown to each other, but the CRU
sades United them together and taught them
to sympathle IN one comllon c2iise.
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following nominations for lnspectors,to he voted
for to-day:
First WatdJohn ii. Bennett
Second Ward-Wm. ii. Quinn
Third Ward-llarry Lape
Fourth Ward Bernard I,onoilue
Fifth Ward-Wm. Hanna
sixth Wa.d-tieo ". Hepburn.
seventh Ward-Alberi Thatcher
Eighth Ward-Joseph Seal
Ninth Waik-I'ark Mason.
Tenth Ward-Maris Taylor
PRErARlN" FOR THE HolIpAYs.-M Mesars
Adams n Bro, No. 4o6 Market street, are
making extensive preparations for the HOLIDAYS
and have ON hand the largest assortment o
children = toys ever brought to this city TO which
fresh accessions are daily being made. The
second story room OF Ferris x CARROTS building
~ used for their wholesale toy department, and
they are now brlsiy engaged in arranging theil
goods, and preparing for the season. The room
preSents the appearance Of 4 grand play house
and contains toys of every conceivable descrip.
hon from penny trumpet, 10 three stor,
house Their stock is immense and genial ioyia
old kriss kringe can here find ample maieria
i9r distribution among his juvenile frend
throughout the Peninsula
MASONIC The Richmond ERqaarfy of IN,
Goth nlt., contains the following, in referenc,
to the proposed visit Of some Of the masoni,
brethren of this city, to Richmond and othe
places
st. Johns Commandery, No. /, Knight
Templar, Of Wilmington, Del, will visit Tn,
Sir knights OF Richmond Commandcry on tn,
lhth of October. arriving at 1r.o'clock ol
that day. Accommodations have been So
cured for them at the Ballard House. tn,
Visiting knights will be met at the depot b,
the full s;reagth OF Commandery No. an1
escorted to the hotel, after which suitable en-,
tertainmtnt worthy OF the occasion and tn,
| visitors VIII he rendered them. Committee
We're appointed last evening at meeting O
the Commandery to carry out the above.
st. Johns Commandery will remain in th.
city until the evening Of the 10th, when the,
will leave for Washington and Baltimore,
stopping at Mount Vernon to visit the gray,
of Washington, and where they VIII be adj
dressed by the Grand Commander of Knight,
Iemplar and Grand Master of Masons OF
Delaware.