Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-12-24
CITY s,0UHCIL.
the Regular Meetfng-A Bessiep
Snort bat Interesting.

l UDgEt D9t AmbOED8
i Al the meeting Of Council last might
the first business done was the ador-
tion Of the following reports Of tht
committees: Psvorably on the petition Of
TindaI 4 Bro, for permission to curb
aud pave ON Buens Vista street; favor
ally ON the petition Of George P. Tin
dali, asking that curbing be reset OIL
the east side Of Walnut street south o:
Eleventh.
The City Treasurer reported SIS
S38 23 in bank the Chief Engineer
reported "a men employed In the Water
Department, pay roll, $24l94; the
Street Commissioner reported IA men
and A teams under him, pay roll
| 57.S4.
A communication was read from tht
Friendship Fire Company, asking thai
1.-THE FIRE alarm telegraph be adopted,
provided the cost be- not deducted from
the appropriations OF tine fre companies
and stating that they were opposed to
the telephone alarm.
The following resolution was intro
dueed by NJ. Carmichael and adopted !:
WHEREAS, By the terms If the amend:
ed contract made by the city OF Will
mington with R. d. Wood & Co., Of
PhiladelphiA, the turbine and pumps
erected by them at City Mill must be
accepted or reiscted on or before Janu
ary 5, 1881 therefore, he 1t
Resolved, That the Water Committee
be authorized and empowered to reject
, said turbine and puups unless they
shall, after fair trial, Do sat sfaotory
to SAID COMMITTEES.
Bids for grading Van Buren street,
between Fifth and Sixth, we're opened
as follows:
Thomas Ford, 73 cts. per cubic yard
John c. Lsvery, $l.80 per cubic yard.
Hugh Patton, II cts. Per cubic yard.
P. Carberry, 50 cts. per cubic yard.
Orders.
Bills were ordered 10 be paid as fol-
lows:
John Flamer, $29.34; K. W. Hopes,
t47 96: John Hsnley, s65.37; James
McKsnna, 1882 rs; Samuel Bradford,
AR nn 'uT q A1r M.
90 oV w. Q! oailoca' S Lh.s
lasei' e. p H. n oi'"u' Vow husn
ra''o"' pioo'
Tina, S-mar1wr sqiwsster,s Family.
Some time ago an article went the
rounds Of the newspapers giving IN
detail remarkable chapter Of accidents
" hich we're said to have befallen ths
family of Rev. D, C. Ridgway, last year
stationed at New Castle bat now sta
toned at a town In Ohio, When the
Rev psn,leman's attention was called 10
the mater he seems to have been as
much surprised as auy BODY and TO cor
rect a wrong impression he writes thus
10 the Conferences Worker OF this city:
.Now as to tue particulars. Mr..
Ridsways sickness since mis- '.rs noyal
to she West" has amounted to An occa.
sional head ache and one nights suffer
ing from cholera norbus lin June last)
None of the :'boys'' have fallen from
wagons or elsewhere. but in July a
scythe fell fFaua-a wagon and the bI ade
striking one OF the numerour boys, in
ficted quite a wound in his mead: the
hanging was the out come not of "read.
ing dime novels" (the victim on hear
ing the account read iuuuired, ''mother
what is q dime noveli") since the four
year old didn't read much in Septem-
bsr, but arose from the excitement rife
in the town from the execution of a |
convicted criminal which took place in |
the iail-yard. Eugene had heard of i. |
aud tried it with the swing rope and
his high table Gu air ior a scaffold; and |
though very eGectually huug was let
doWu in less than one minute.
The drowned member OF the suffering
family was the three veal old daughter
who had run off TO ol!ow her brother
fishing; there has been no coal oil sx-
t;.L -. A. l. W. L
"