Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-07-12

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New Castle Items.
fFrom our Special Correspondent
Endemic" Mollie Darling" The song
we mean.
why don't some one start hardware
Mr. GILES I.ambson has received large
raft Of lumber.
Mr.. Dobbins will manufacture the brick
for his houses here.
Tomatoes put in an appearance here
Thursday. 80 cents quart.
A decided improvement-thoseb bulk win
dows opposite the Court House.
n is costing our county forty cents day
IN hoard VIM. II. Virgins. Cui bono
The Mohocs were out again on SATURDAY
nigh, In force. Wanted, night police.
MIR. Albert Vining has been appointed
Waterman At the "raskcr Iron Works.
Thc-Ornhana Court adjourned THURSDAY
sine die. The Court Of ChancerY TO the @i'h'
II is understood work will soon commence
on laying gas pipes 10 the works NJ inc hli'
house.
They are building the outside crib work
Tor the first wharf at the rolling mills At
the Battery.
Mr.. Scbneidt. on Water street, makes
very handsome picture frames. lie ALSO
does upholstering in fine style. tive MIN
call.
Some very heavy castings for trip ham
mer Tor the steel works arrived At the lower |
depot some days since. The anvil "e'shs
nine tons.
Mr.. Robert II. Palmer has opened a gen
tleman's furnishing store on DeiAwrIe
street. Being incapaclateh Tor labor ne par
ttculArly deserves patronage.
Mr. VIM Holschumaker, one Of our most
Contemplating and accommodating merchants
! 10 having new cornice and other improve
menis added To his house on Marketsu eet'
The rolling mill already commenced ~
progressing rapidly, the side ana one enn
being high enough for scatiolding. eelln
for the wharf at this mill was eommeheeu
last week.
The Register Thursday admitted 10 pro,
hate the will Of Samuel O. Lodge, lAte OF
| Brandywine hundred, deceased, ana Eranleu
letters testamentary on the same unto Mary
Jape Lodge, widow Of deceased, ana eAecu-
trix named In the will.
A large raft of round timber arrived In
our harbOE last week to be used in the buill-
ing of the wharf at the Taaker works.
raft of lumber also arrived, sent here, IL %
said, by Mr.. Dobbins, to be used IN the
houses he will soon commence erecting.
The new woollen mill is not yet quite
rooted in, but 1t il expected TO be hnishe9
this week. This is a spacious building aul
viii employ about eighty or one hundred
operatives. They expect to be ready Tor
operation about the first or middle oil
/ August.
Mr.. Giles Lambson has had the fence and
, buildings Of his lumber yard all niraly
white washed, thereby contributing much
to its appearance, the health Of the neigh
; borhood and the preservation OF the mare
rial There Is a fence on Market street
which could be benefited by the same
meas.
The railroad track for the Messrs. Tasker
is laid nearly TO the avenue, and = sraycl
train is run ON il TO carry the art from me
Hga ~ Az =
ranidly filed up. Travel ia now cut OIL the
river road for some distance above and
below the site Of the new rolling mills.
3 Considerable machinery has arrived for
the umbrella factory, and IS being rapilly
placed in position, and 1t is expected they
) will he ready for operation in short time.
1 Mr.. Buell., the owner of the factory, also
4 contemplatea erecting number OF uWel
, lingH for his operatives at no distant day.
E At a meeting Of the stockholaeTs OF The
I New Castle Gas Company, held on SATURDAY
u last, the following directors were eleoteh
e for the ensuing year, viz; Thoa. 7. Tasker
l. ST. Elmer W. CLARK. James e. shaw, W ~
T. tinuper and Peter u. Nandever Thos. Il
I Tasker. Sr, was elected President ant
= Peter B. Nandever Secretary and Treasurer
= caThe Register, on Saturday, admitted t.
probate the will of Catharine Fox, late q
b. Wilmington, deceased, and granted letter
/. tcstamentary on the same unto EuWhl'
Il Farmer, OF The same city, executor nance
+ Letters OF administration II on the estat'
4 of Mary Ochcltree, late OF Wilmington ne
=. ceased were also granted on the same dAy
, To Archibald A. Capelle, of the same city.
D. our citizens are beginning to discuss III,
q question as to Low much longer W M. Il
\ Virgins 10 TO be kept in prison a. the cN
u pcusc Of the county, TO gratlly ctrlal
narties in Wilmington. II Is undeIHtou
If Inc Sheriff looks to She county for his board
"A aud, as he is not convicted OF any offence
a. and undergoing no sentence, the impresaiO
A discharged his board should be paid b
a those keeping him there. How Ia TINS thus
as One of those peramhulating humhugs VIII
id occasionally make our town the scene {
their operations to dispose Of some quac
II medicine or soap, or something else. estal
u nshed himself ia his wagon, In front of tn
Pr town hall on the evening Of the Fourth,
IL and began to.viciimise our people, when b
met with such n lire from crackers, Roma
r. candles. 40, that he was glad 10 neat y "
al treat. lie will.giye New CASTLE wlde bert
re- hereafter.
~ The grand officers of the Grand Lodge {
~ Delaware, |. o. u. f., visited our tow
a. Monday evening to install the oiiieers-eleet
"a Warrington Lodge. After the installation
III ceremonies the lodge, upon the inViiatiu
We Of the new officers. adjourned TO the sNlro
~ oi John Burk, on Water street where tht
Ell were RECALLED with cakes aud cream, the III
-" euasiOu Of which was interlulcd by e.
BAL, weli-timcd remarks by thet Il. NJ, and sallr
~. rcpartec By others. The uuoasion WAS OF
~, long to be remembered.
me- The match game of base ball which vi
BOD played here ON Saturday last between u
iOO Eureka club, Of Wilmington, and the Iai
lnl many of this town, resulted in favor Of u
Inn latter much to every ones surprise inA
1Uo much IN the Tammanys have not played
had game before this since last season, aud HI
I5 also to play with four OF their best playe
100 absent. Another game Will be played
0Ol SATURDAY next, the contestiug eluha bell
ono the Quicksteps. of Wilmington, aud q
900 Tammanvs. OF this town.
UO0 Our city Fathers are showing to our pc
Ouo pic that they are alive to their lnteres
OUO and are Determined to do all in their pow
OuO to put our town In strictly sanitary cont
900 ton. The Street Committee have set I
400 scAyengeTs to work and the unhealthy %
900 lections Of years lin some cAsesl Of q
streets are hfing rapidly removed Tn
900 have also commenced grazing Vine sire
uOO east OF Delaware and haVenotihed proper
uup owners thereon 10 have the same gutter'
UuO If private individuals will now pay {
900 same attentions to their premises we "
iuc no doubt be spared visit OF that dreadl
ing scourge, the cholera.
nts The celebration Of the glorious Fourth
our town commenced on Thursday, cont
ime ued Thursday night, Friday, Friday mig
$ At and II this writing, Saturday morning,
ely. still in progress. Whether IL e intended
ion, suspend operations over sunday or not
mains to he seen, but II is highly proba
Dad that there will be some Of the same soel
Few enacted on that day. Captain ' aok, Bun
lulu hill, Scar-taceu thAfley, Shhck-hastS u
less ef. al ushered the Fourth IN on Thurs'
aims night with = regular war scene, and
lies, some hours made Rome howl with tn
hall war whoops Business was genera
and suspended, and all with one aca
seemed intent on seeing the iFourt
lich Few Of our people, comparatively,
town for other places, but there '
to an unusual number OF strangers h
'ork Several accidents happened during
ival early part OF the day a thing unusual
he'd, our town. Thamas MeNaInee. ct
ton mason IN the employ OF A. NJ. Hizar, '
lish- run over by the half-past one a. m. tn
and miraeulously escaped being instSl
Mr. killed. He WAS lying on the track aud
COW catcher struck him about the shou
New and knocked him oft, but the wheels cav
pow and passed oyer one arm, aevering the h
ar and wrist David King had one hand
that verely injured by the premature eNplo
fruit of a small cannon. young man hY
name of Kitchens, fireman on the llel ~
y, In Railroad while oyer ~ fepnaville on
last excursion, was stunned and severely bu
new about the face by the explosion OF a !
each lire cracker which some one discharge
. aud close proximity to his head, A mAn also
y the overheard from yacht, while retur
aging from visit W Penuhgrove, but was res
and hy others In the boat. TakiHg II Altoge
many Of our people will have cause /