The Morning herald., 1875-10-20
JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN.

This is market day.
Al days of Fall weather yet.
Wilmington has SO churches.
Wilmington has good library.
All our industries are busy now.
Sweet potatoes are now in season.
Plenty of fish in our markets now.
The cold nights are nice for sleeping.
VIII the Quickstcps be beaten to dayl
The chestnut crops will be a large one.
Many cotton mills on the Brandywine.
The coal trade is now brisk in our city.
The city town clock Is not yet in order.
Will Wilmington have new fire alarm
1t did not rain yesterday. What ails old
Probe
Willow tree leaves yet look fresh and
green.
Wilmington horses are fast becoming
hackers.
The Women's Temperance Society met
yesterday.
Alarge pile of old tar in front of the
City Hall.
| Wheat-sowing among the farmers is now
about over.
The population of New Castle county is
about $4,000.
The Trustees of the Poor meet to-day at
the Almshouse.
The Rugby Literary Society will meet to-
morrow afternoon.
The Redpath Opera Company will spend
two nights in our city.
October winds and frost are bringing the
"sccr and yellow leaf"
The streets are in dirty condition in
many places about town.
Wilmingtonians are storing away their
coal for the coming winter.
A patent gas generator is now on exhibit
tion at the Clayton House.
There seems to be very little Centennial
excitement in Wilmington.
There is secret club in the city known as
the "K. o. r. c." 1t can't be very heavy
| one.
Says 4 Chester paper A Wilmington
dame wanted her daughters chrome eta
KEN"
Capt. E. j. Dougherty has been appoint
ed to clerkship in the Philadelphia Navy
Yard.
The P, W. & B. r. R. Co., will erect
Lombard street.
Country fowls before going to roost at this
season of the year, commend themselves to
divine protection.
schooners Alaska of this city and the
Olivia For of Odessa, DEL, arrived in Phila-
lelphia yesterday.
elbow sweet, but how bald for one so
young ~ is what nice young lady remark
ed about an infant.
Catechism Bees are coming in vogue.
There will be one held in the Sunday School
room of West Church, the 26th inst
The Wesleyan girls call out "muchee
kip to one of the HERALD's editors, he
would much rather they wouldn't "I' at
him any more.
COL Thomas Wentworth Higgirson will
deliver the second lecture of "The Chann-
ing Course" in the Unitarian Church on
West street, Thursday evening next.
The Centennial Board of Finance have
awarded to Philip Quigley, OF this city, a
contract for the construction of bridge,
500 feet long by 60 feet wide, across Bel
mont Ravine, Fairnount Park, northeast of
Horticultural Hall.
The following balls are already announc-
ed Friday evening, Nov. 5th, at Institute
Hall, Shields Library; Wednesday evening,
Nov, oath, at Institute Hall, Quickstep B.
B. Association; Wednesday evening, Dec.
22d, at the Opera House, Friendship Fire
Go.
"What are you about 2" inquired luna
;ic of cook, at the Clayton House, who ,
was industriously picking the feathers from
l fowl. "Dressing = chicken" answered
he cook. 81 should call that undressing" c
'eplied the crazy fellow. The cook looked 9
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Sunday School Teacher.-"You all re- q
member the passage in the Bible where the
hi dren got torn to pieces by hears, for say
ng to Elisha, go up, thou baldhead, gog"
fore than usually promising boy-"Ah,
knows; and if Elisha had worn a hat, '
hey wouldn't have know'd he was BALD 8
eaded." He is said to he the smartest boy :,
l Wilmington -g.u r'e
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