Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-12-08
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Remember the poor.
The Mechanics Loan meets this evening
Sunday School Institute at West Presbyterian
church this evening
John M. Taylor, the City Accountant, has en-
tered upon the duties OF his Office
The curbing and paving of Lombard street,o
the East side is now in progress.
One "drunk" and 43 dodgers was the report at
police headquarters. this morning.
Every day Of weather like we are now having
shortens the winter, unless it stretches out at
the other end.
Rev. t. Z. Martindale, of the Union NJ. E.
Church, and the Rev. Charles Hill, of Port De-
posit, will exchange pulpits next Sunday.
There are said to be more persons on this Pc
uinsula between the age of 30 and 80 years
than in any other part of the United States.
The Union NJ. f. people talk of having din
ner and supper in the church ON Christmas.
II not at that time it will take place soon after
wards.
Elm street Baptist Sunday School celebrates
ts second anniversary on Thursday evening.
rhe Wednesday evening lecture will be dis
persed with.
woMEs's TEMPERANCE UNIoN-1'he weekly
meetings of this organization will be held, here
after at the Friends Lyeeum room, on West
street, between 4th and 9TH. The meeting, to-
morrow, at o'clock will be held there.
full inquiry, could easily ascertain the names of
the two police officers who got intoxicated and
fought each other at a saloon in the vicinity OF
Fifth street and Railroad Avenue, one day last
week.
| A NOVEL MANNER OF BEGGING. This morning.
| a large man with but one leg, neatly dressed i'll
| a sailors garb perambulated the middle of the
streets singing songs in some foreign tongue,
| He attracted considerable attention. and his
| wife and three children who accompanied him
reaped considerable harvest in pennies
SUNDAY School ENTERTAINMENT. - Prepara-
tions are being made for grand Sunday
school celebration in Claymont p. E. church the
Wednesday after Christmas There will be a
| grand programme of addresses, singing, gifts
and everything else calculated to give joy and
happiness. Professor Clemmer is training the
school in music
ROLLING MILL IMPRovEMENT-The Whining
ton Rolling Mill Company, over on the South
Side, are about enlarging their already large
mills for the reception of new double rollers and
other improved machinery for the manufacture
of larger bar iron than they have heretofore been
making. The Wilmington " Western Railroad
Company, yesterday, commenced excavating and
laying track across Christana Avenue to the
rolling mill, 30 that that coal and other matera
can be delivered convenient to the works. Every
preparation ie now being made for large in
crease of business as soon as spring opens up.
| A MAN IN EITB.-On saturday nlPnt, as WI
liam Dunlap was returning to his home in Wes
Wilmington, beyond the city line, he found {
man lying along side of the Avenue, near the
culvert apparently in dying condition, stiff ane
unable to say single word. Mr.. ID. got somt
assistance and carried him to the gas house and
made him bed before the fire, where aftel
considerable chatting and rubbing he came to
He was one of the many unfortunates out ot
employment, and was going from Philadelphia
towards Baltimore in search of work. MIR. Dun
!, lap was highly indignant at the refusal Of th'
keeper of grocery and liquor store to allow hin
to bring the unfortunate man into the store Il
warm him into life
Ice PONDS AND SKATING RrNK.-Conroy Il Co
have about completed their extensive ice houses
ice ponds and skating rink on the South Side
5 and they are now waiting for the ice to come
The street leading to the houses and the groun,
around them has been macadamized, and mad
ready for the passage of heavily laden teams
The Company intends to deal largely in eastern
ice, but in addition to this, they want to get
large supply of shell, or soft ice, fron
either the pond or the creek, which ID in demand
and more suitable for packing fish than solid ice
d | Between five and six acres are enclosed in tn
pond, which, filled with water and frozen over
: viii make an admirable skating park.
Pusey 4 Rice have erected very large ic
house on the Christiana, near the new Rolhn
Mill, which is also calculated for tho storage O
: Boston ice. They also have large pond Ell
: closed, but which is not intended for skatin
y park.
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