Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1875-02-18

the sale OF Pennlngtons, on next Saturday.
five dollar subscription was made at this Of
flee. this morning, for the benefit Of the Union
Aid Society.
How is it that Sheriff Lambson advertses his
sales every day in ECery Ecenin9. and only twice
week in his party paper the Gazette?
The Republican Club holds its regular meet
ing, this evening. Tho cheering news frsm
Pennsylvania should bring out large attend
ance.
Persons who came up from Lewes yesterday
report that persons were walking on the ice to
the shore from vessels which were lying mile
| out within the Breakwater.
PuBLIc TRAVEL IN SLEIGHs.-Up at Reading
the Penn Street Passenger hallway Co. have
withdrawn all their cars and substituted seighs
in their stead for the convenience of the public
They charge the regular car fare, five cents.
PoLYrEcuNIc COLLEGE The Polytechnic Col
lego at Philadelphia will celebrate the 22nd in
| an appropriate way. literary entertainment
has already been arranged, and from tho pro-
gramme before IFS we see that Il. II. Robinson,
of this city, will deliver oration.
TuE QuidLEY CoNTRAcr TUESDAY, Mayor
Stokley, Of Philadelphia, received duly exc
cuted contract Of the Board of Finance, with the
specifications annexed, with Philip Qugey, for
the erection of the Machinery Hail. AZ provided
for by ordinance of-Councs. The details of
| the plan, specifications, &c, we have already
published. The contract price is .5i2,3
CoRoNtR'a INQUEST. T.-Deputy-co Groves
held an inquest, yesterday, over colured child,
Estalena Augustus, which had died suddenly
during the night at the residence of its parents,
9th street below Walnut, and verdict of death
from catarrh on the breast was rendered On
the day previous an inquest held over the
body of Lewis Smith at $40 Pine street, and the
Jury rendered verdict Of death from disease of
the lurgs.
ORGANIZATION OF A FIRE COMPANY AT KEHNETT
SoUARE.-A public meeting was held at Kennett
Square on Saturday night, when vote wis
taken which authorized the Borough Council to
purchase fire engine, and at the same meet
ing forty persons enrolled themselves mem-
bers of fire company. 1t was proposed that
the colored people be permitted to join the
organization, but it was not allowed The fire
engine will be of the hand pattern.
The PoLIrIcaL SITUATION After consultation
with each other, the colored citizens of Will
mington, ut the suggestion of the more promi-
nent amongst them, lave determined to hold
at L. Zion church, Monday evening next,
beginning at 7 80 O'clock public meeting for
the discussion of the real political issues OF the
present day and the situation Of affairs in the
country. Addresses will be made by Rsys. j.
Il. Thomas, F., Chippey. j. Smith, l.. $. Will
lianls, and by A. Il. Henry and others. The
public generally are invited.
WALKING FEAr.-It is stated that there is in
this city n man-Mark Grason, of Richmond, Va.
who is training for a walk around the world
against wager $4,000. The time fixed for the
start is the 3rd of April; and the place the City
Hall, New York, the date of return to that place
being appointed for the 23rd of November, 1876.
Grason will cross the Atlantic.on steamer, max
ing good this distance by walking on shipboard.
His walking weight is not to exec ed l30 pounds,
and he liz to be allowed the benefit of any time
consumed by assault, unavoidable delay or ac-
cident.
OPPosTD To DELAWARE CiTY.-Tuesday Phil
adelphia Bulletin editorially says: The talk i'll
which some of the newspapers are indulging
concerning the present bad condition OF the
Delaware river, and the suggestions that have
been made that there may be a necessity for
making Delaware City the entrepot of Philadel-
phia, are simply absurd. Navigation is difficult
in the Delaware at the present moment but it is
not any worse than it is in tho harbor of New
York, and we doubt, indeed, If tho latter is not
in very much worse condition than our own
river"
TnAwIYd OUT PIpEs.--A letter in New York
paper says that when the connecting water pipe
running from the street main to the dwelling,
is frozen, it can easily be thawed out III few
hours by severing, below the srop-cock, the pipe
in the cellar of the house, and applying to the
frozen pipe a small stream of steam through
common tube. A four-gallon can may bs usel
as generator. with a cork loosely fitted to the
can, in which the tube s inserted. Tho steam
is thus made to pass into the leaden pipe, and
as soon as the ice is melted tho flow of water is
checked by reversing the stop-cock and again
connecting the pipe.
SALE OF REAL ESTATE AND STOCKS Il. W.
Stidham Il Son, auctioners, sold at public sale,
at their auction Rooms, on "Wednesday last, for
the Executors of Mark Pedrick, deceaSed, a
small farm of 10 acres, situated at HockeHsln,
Del, to j. Pennington, for S5,40O House No.
23l Shipley St., to Evans Pennington, Real Es-
tate Broker, for SO, 100 House No. 207 Monroe
St., to David Coyle, for Il, 400 ; 12 shares Will
mington Western r. R., stocks at 3d. per
share shares Wilmington and Reading II.
stock for S2.75 ; s shares Masonic Hall company
stock for $40 per share So shares Broad Noun
tam Mammoth Vein Coal Company at so cents
per share.
DEPLETION OF OYSTER BARs.-The dredgers it
is said have stripped the Kent Island bars of
oysters. A few years ago the whole we. tern
coast of this island was filled with these BIZ
valves; now there are comparatively none there.
The Three Sisters Island bars are extensive
grounds which are under the ban of the law to
dredgers, as shown by Capt. Mtchell's arrests,
are very inviting to them, as they contain large
quantity of oysters. very fine oyster rock
exists OFF the mouth of tile Potomac, but it Is
not worked by the largest vessels engaged i'll
the oyster business, because it ID SO far from
safe and familiar anchorage grounds that oys.
termen will not venture there to run the risk OF
being blown out to st. Micddels (Md)
Comet.
The JUBILEE SiNGERs-The hearty applause
which was given the Jubilee Singers i'll their
concert at the Opera House, last evening, indi-
Gated very fully the satisfaction and pleasure OF
the.audience. Each piece on the programme
was heartily applauded, and several encores
were given. The concert itself was one of those
rare musical excellencies to which we arc 30 sell
dom treated, and which we all thoroughly ad-
miro. The voices of the singers were rich, full
and melodious, capable of ascending to the
highest key without perceptible effort, or de-
scending to the lowest and dwelling upon it with
finely modulated voice and brilliant effect The