The daily gazette., 1879-09-22
THE ITY SOL1CIrORSnIP.

A PETITION TO ABOLISH THE OFFICE.
A p tilion is being quietly circulated
~ certain parties in town, looking t.
loing away with the Office of the CITY
solicitor. The thing is going on in a
very secret way aud although the petition
las been In crculat on tor nearly week
II Is still almost secret except with
hose who have original d the scheme.
The cause Of this course is desire to
emove Samuel A. Macalister, Esq, the
PRESENT incumbent from the Office, and,
'fter creating the Office again, to appoint
ONE one else to the pos ton.
SESSION OF THE SYNOD.
The Synod of Baltimore will meet il
he Hanover Presbyterian church, al
sixth and King streets, on Tuesda
evening, Oct. 2lst, aud will PROBABLY
'ontinue In session until THURSDAY,
Rev. s. A. Gayley, The retiring Modcra
or, will preach the opening sermon. Mr..
Gayley Is pastor of West Nottingham
Presbyterian church, Cecil county, Md.
The Stnodical sacrament will be ad-
min stored OH "Wednesday evening, and
Rev. Mr.. Myncoop will lecture on tie
Christian Work in India" He Is a
missionary who has just returned.
Anderson Gets Three Years.
The negro lad named Daniel B. An
derson, Jr.. who went from this city to
Chester last 4th of July and engaged in a
brawl at a negro picnic has Just been
sentenced at the Della ware County court
to three years Imprisonment in the per-
inteltar The fight was one in which
the negro used clubs and razors and An
,iefson shot officer Barber of Chester.
when he went to arrest him and Quill the
disturbance.
AUCTION OF FINE JEWELRY.
Commencing this evening, Mr.. r. NJ.
Ogle, No. COG Mai ket street, will offer nj
auction sale one of the finest lots of Jew
rlry ever opened in this CT v. 1t will
take place every afternoon at 2 O'Clock
and e,e cry evening at Z o'clock. During
The rest of the time the goods can be
bought at private sale.
MAYOR KALLOCH'S RECOVERY.
From the sacramento Post.
There is now unanimity of belief on
III" pat of Mr.. Kalloch's attending ply
sciaDs that he will recover, and that al
though the troublesome bullet may nev-
{" be dislodgcd from his body, his use
fulness in the world will not be materi-
ally reduced.
lie eats well, sleeps well and talks
cheeifully, and notwiths' anding that HE
corporal dimensions are not 50 large as
before Charles de Young undertook to
make gratutious expenditure of powder
Trough the barrel of an ugly looking
bulldog revolver, his vitality does not ap-
pear tc have seriously suffered.
TIE speed OF carrier pigeons appears
to depend as much on the clearness ol
their sight as on the strength of thejI
wings. In an experiment recent, made
with some Berlin pigeon, on a clear day
a distance of over 800 miles, from Co.
| gne to Berlin, was accomplished in FIVE
hours aid halt, or at the rate of nearly
sixty miles an hour; while the most ex-
pc 'itiouI of group let lose the nexl
day-a day not of the same kind-took
Twelve hours to reach Berlin. Hence II
would appear that, in the latter case, 6
good deal of the pigeons time was TAX
en- up in exploring the country for land
marks.
INJURED ON A WRECKING
SCHOONER.
Mr.. John Wingate, of this town, ar
( rived home from Cape May, where III
had been employed by Capt. Lubker, il
wrecking, on Monday, severely injured
Two or three of his ribs were broker
and he was otherwise injured, being bad
ly bruised about the brQast.-Lewe
! Light.