Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-01-06

day, olear overhead; 'Long Branch" at tia
Opers House Che Board of Education favd3
two new school houses, one on each side 81
town annual eleotion Of the Rivervisw
Tuesday Dec. "A, tsnperaturs "a, 48, 47o;
clear In the morning, clouding up befors
noon, beginning to rain between 3 and I
O'Clock p. M, cleared of about nldnighti
meeting of the State Board OF Health at the
Clayton House the court house accepted by
the Levy Court Committee; Rial and Diapers
"Uncle Toms CABIN at the Opera House /;
E. T. Walton robbed of his watch the Pro-
hibitory League formed project on foot
to have State fish commissioner.
Wednesday Dec 10, temperature 35, AT, 46o ;
pleasant most of the day with some cloud
mess lecture by ]. Eugene Reed on
Berlin" at the Second Baptist church 'sThe
Masque OF the Poets;" entertainment at the
Opera House for the benefit of the Academy
Of the Visitation through Detective Taggert
Mr.. Walton's watch is found.
Thursday Dec. 10, temperature 80, a., Ago; a
very pleasant day telegraph rates to New
York reduced to 10 cents the body of dead
infant found at Twelfth and Monroe streets ;
William Heidelberger makes felonious
assault on Mrs. Rosanna Miller the Washing
| ington Fire Company revokes its signature
to the fire alarm telegraph petition Clarence
Blaekwood narrowly escapes drowning in the
| Christiana. amid the ice; Philharmonic
Society's second concert (seventh season. at
the Opera House.
Friday Dec. II, temperature A, Ss, 47o;
weather fresh and pleasant; William Leech
severely injured by the falling OF roof at
the old p, W. & b. boiler shops announce
ment Of the establishment Of new honorary
degree by the American Rifles for the benefit
| of members of five years standing the
Postles Legion organized William Heidel-
berger bailed the DUPONT Guards invited to
attend General Garfield's Inauguration pro-
| ject put on foot to decrease the membership
Of the Board OF Health the turbine wheel
| given another trial. but still unsatisfactory.
Saturday Dec. IL, temperature 80, 81, $40
| weather mild and thawing William Smith
| surrenders himself to the police the Reliance
and Fame invited to Salisbury the new pilot
boat Pilot leaves for the Chesapeake; Ii
1924, 900 fire at smyrna Tschudy Il Cats lose
| $4,000 5. NanFossen 81, 5O0 and George
Vanwinkle about $3.50; man named
Murphy, of this city, severely hurt at Elkton
| by jumping of train.
Sunday Dec. ~, temperature SO, 49, 3So
clear and pleasant all day one .hundredth
anniversary of the Methodist Church at
Dover the Narragdnsea, Wilmington
vessel, put In to Norfolk, Va, with broken
| rudder
Monday Dec. 20, temperature 49, SO, 35o
cloudy all morning, commenced showing at
| o'clock and showed heavily all night the
case against George b. Wingate deputy
United States marshal, dismissed by Judge
Bradford Judge Houston withdraws from
the contest for Congressman Martins reat ;
all the libel suits against EVERY EVENING and
its editor withdrawn, the d. s. +. d NJ. |, Co.
paying costs William Smith held in $500
| for court U. b. Bishop at the Opera House
| as widow Bedott business men petition
Congress to have the Brandywine surveyed :
new e. A. II. post instituted at New Castle
80 dozen quail received from Virginia for dis
| tribution IN New Castle county.
Tuesday Dec. 81, temperature 81, 80, So i,
showed and stormed all day this was the
heaviest snow sIorm since the winter of 1872
~ trains delayed Oh all the railroads the
Middletown Commissioners deny smallpox
rumors the boiler OF the tug boat Martha
explodes. killing Theordore j. Miller John
f. Hooper frozen to death near Edge Moor,
and Dominick McDermott, his companion
severely though not fatally frozen.
Wednesday Dec. ~, temperature "a, 80, 81,
clear, even day Sarah Bernhardt's engage
ment to plsy Camille" on the 2Sth instant
cancelled; agitation for revision of the
marriage laws started William Smith sent to
New Castle; District Attorney Patterson
orders transcripts from the county court
docket to examine into deputy marshal cases
Alpha Beta Society entertainment ut the
Opera House; Anthony Higgins, Esq,
declares he had nothing to do with the
Houston contest the tug boat Meteor sold by
the Pussy d Jones Co., to the government
of the United States OF Columbia.
Thursday, Dec. %, temperature %, so, 81,
clear and pleasant slelghing still good F.; D. l.
Jackson withdraws from the firm Of Finn 4
jackson; the store of d. II. Kent x Co.,
robbed of $500 worth of cutlery Joseph
Emmett sustains severe injuries from fall
from the second story window of No. IL
Market street; Christmas entertainment al
Unitarian Church also at Union NJ. E. Church
concert by the Davis family at Asbury
Church; James Duncan arrested and hell
in 500 bail for illegal voting the new Della
ware State Mutual Fire Insurance Compan,
organized by the officers of the defuucl
Delaware State Fire and Marine.
Friday Dec. "a, temperature, 80, 50, 81;
weather clear in the morning, but murlky
: during the rest Of the day; grand and petit
, Jurors drawn in the United States courts; tn,
Leavitt Specially Company at the Operi
House; James Hopkins knocked down ant
/ robbed near the Logan House; opening Of
Catholic fair at Institute Hail.
Saturday Dec 20, merry Christmas dav
, temperature, 81, 80, 30; weather heav,
and murky all day, a brisk blow
services in many of the churches, Sunda
, school celebrations likewise: dancing festiyi
E ties in the Masonic Temple and the Hertmal
building the street car drivers given Christ
mas dinner; DUPONT Post G. A. r., throw
It's new room open to the public; Charlott
: thompson as THE Planters Wife at tn
+. opera House both afternoon and evening.
Y Sunday Dec, 20, temperature So, 81, 40
murky morning, preceded by storm
Q night; snow began to fall as daylight an
. preached and continued heavily until
O'Clock, when It ceased meanwhile it ha
: deposited ~ inches OF snow on Il level tn
It day was so stormy that the regular services d
a FpI aEa MON N.F. al. "a. ID
u Christmas preparations were dispensed with:
= few Sunday school celebrations took place
the weather, though stormy was not cold.
Z, Monday Dec. "a, temperature 80, 80, 80
If bright and pleasant, the sun thawing ii
d show somewhat; cases of United Stat,
e deputy marshals removed from the county
h the United states courts on wrlts of hajet
n corpus the Normal Committee If the sta
Teachers Association meets in WESLEYAN "a
:, lege. for the purpose of memorializing ii
1t Legislature TO add a normal department
it Delaware College, in order to prepal
lie teachers for efficient service in the publ
schools, 1t resolves to ask for an apprupri
1t ton of $4,000, and an annual endowment
$4,000 to $500 Michael Benson report,
missing at Rising sun; Theodore j. Mill
buried at Rivervlew.
Tuesday Dec. 49, temperature 10, 201 9
ttngling cold the trial of the United Stat
deputy marsaals fixed in the United Stat
a Court for JUNE 1881 Sara Bernhard pass,
through the city ON her way from Springfield
Mass, to Baltimore Sunday school Chris
y mas entertainments ut Grace St Johns an
y First Presbyterian churches George Crum
~ ston nearly frozen to death in the snow ne
Rising Sun.
+, "Wednesday Dec. 20, temperature u, 20, q
le fine, blustry snow from morning to nigh
IS tire III the old Stotsenburg foundry 10
y estimated all the way from 80, 900 to -, OO
i insurance $500; death of l.. Theodo
EHling, editor OF the Newark Led3e,- slig
y fire in the new Masonic Temple at Ne
Castle announcement of the acceptance
: the position Of Professor of Practical Agi
ne culture in the University Of Minnesota
Prof, +. ID. Porter, of Delaware College Ka
ID Ihayer and the Spanish students at ii
d. Opera House Rev. L. d. Valiant, Preside
-, OF the Methodist Protestant Conferenc
le breaches in the NJ. r. church childret
g. Christmas festival at Ezion church.
y Thursday Dec. 80, temperature 50 belle
: zero at 6 a. M, s. below at a. m, g. belC
T. at 9 a. IN, zero at l0.l5, So abo
IN at noon and II above at p. m; coolest d
u on record in this city at the p, w. &
u depot the Thermometer was 49, below zero
$40 a. M: in the Harlan Il Hollingswor
u Companys boatyard it WAS lac below at g.
" Sunday school Christmas celebrations
al Asbury, Old Swedes, Central, Oliyet and Del
ware Avenue churches.
{. -A'Nf 49, ~ at Z u III. Zti
a. m. - above noon 14o above 4 ..
ei 49, above clear and crisp all day, sleighi
le excellent warrant issued for the arrest
III John Thompson OH the charge OF cruelty
his children the agreement for settlement
the EVERY EVENING and Delaware State Fl
Y and Marine Insurance company libel su
OF annulled.
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