The Morning herald., 1875-10-28
JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN.

City Council meets tonight
The races at the park to-day.
The revival meetings still continue.
The sun arose this morning at 6.27.
The coal dealers are now very busy.
Chestnuts are now plenty and cheap.
Plenty of poultry in market yesterday.
Sunday will be the last day of October.
Yesterday was cloudy and disagreeable.
The Vokes family are coming to Whining
ton.
What church will give the next Catechil m
Beef
Read the advertisements in to-day's HxR-
AID.
Secure your seats for the Redpath Opera
tonight.
Indian Summer is giving place to Amer-
can Fall.
The ministers are hard at work getting
converts.
Boys will soon be stealing corn for Sum-
day night.
Turkeys have begun to count the days till
Christmas.
The Rokeby Cornet Band Fair is being
well attended.
Our streets are literally covered with dir
ty wet leaves.
The HERALD office has been newly paint
ed and papered.
The City Halls new cells look very neat
and comfortable.
Old Prob. made q good guess at the
weather yesterday.
The West Church Sunday school 10 to
have an anniversary. ,.
The Redpath Opera Company will play
Martha this evening. ...
Sausage suppers will soon be the rage, 50
will buckwheat cakes.
It is thought the recent fine weather drove
away the horse disease. M,
Winter is fast approaching-get in your
sour kraut and be ready.
The foundation of the HEKALD's new
press room is nearly laid.
The market folks keep our stores busy on
Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The wind, yesterday, was a good one to
blow chestnuts from the burrs.
Tuesday evening at the Wilmington Loan
Association So 200 sold at $40.
Last night was a little too cold to hang
over the gate for very long while.
Eggs will soon be advancing in price, as
the hens will be killed off for market.
A meeting of the Grand Division, Sons Of
Temperance, will be held in their room to-
day.
Schooners Bonner and Towsse,sd, from
Indian river, arrived in Philadelphia on
Monday.
Wilmington boys now ask the price Of
cakbage-Hallowe Fen being so near ex-
plains why.
Workmen are now engaged in making al
terations in the U. s. Building, 9th and
King streets. ...'....
Next month is said to be the best time to
trim grape vines. This month is the time
to eat the grapes.
Rev. I. NJ. Haldeman will give Bible
reading in the Delaware Avenue Baptist
Church tbisafternoon.
schooners Z. 3. rna,.a7er, Hopkins and
Hattie Hall Kelley, both from Milton, Del,
arrived in Philadelphia on Monday last.
Mr.. Chandler sent to the HERALD office
yesterday some very fine oysters, it didn't
take long to ascertain that they were the
best in the city.
"You appear in a new role, don't you, old
fellowV was what the impertinent young
man remarked as he dug cockroach out Of
his fresh bread at the breakfast table.
Now is the time for weather prophets to
feel the bark on their dogs. If it is the
thickest on the north side of the dog, it will
be cold winter and the dog will howl much
1t nights. 'rf.'
Now we miss the gay muskeeter,
And his cheerful song at night,
The cruel frost did make him peter
Out, and weaken in the flight,
I Gone to meet the Kansas grasshopper.
The Jersey City Herald says: mo
man bat horse car conductor has the right |
of patting . lady on the back without an
The Wilmington ladies then
can ride in our city cars with impunity.
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