Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-01-11
PHILADELPHIA NOTES.
THE uRW FIvE.UDA1 PIkCES-
DEATH or TWO AGED N MED.
OAANIR-TAE n MOAN.

The Mint In this city, tor sorne tins
past. has been coming daily about
| t5, 600 worth of thu new tive.cent nic.ie
pieces approved by tho Secretary Of tae
Treasury upon the recommendation oi
Colonel A. Loudon Snowden, The time
tor their issue has been postponed for q
few days.
william Newell, for seventy years
we'll know In mercantile circles, died
on Sunday evening in the 9lst year ol
his age.
The death Of Joseph l.. Houston was
announced yesterday at the Phiiadel'
ph, Stock Exchange, OF which le Wal
one OF the oldest members.
The snow storm has seriously imped
ed travel and business traffic. There
wore great number OF sleighs on
Broad street and in the Park during
the day and evening. Nearly all the
railway companies were compelled To
"dOuble up" teams.
The annual meeting of the contribu'
tors to tho House of Refuge was held
yesterday. 1t was reported that dur
ing the year there utro admitted 2ls
white boys and 81 white girls, G6 color
cd boys and 81 coLored girls The mum
Der In the Institution on January lst
1883, was Gl5 Officers were eleoted
The three tasted schooner ThDnss j.
Martin, owned in this city and New
Jersey, while on voyage from Charles
ton to New York with a cargo Of phoa-
phate rock, went ashore Oh tho 9tA III
slant on Kitty Hawk, and became Il
total loss. The crew were savei.
The Committee on SuDsr:ntendenCe
and Police ofthe Park Committee, at u
meeting yesterday, received repstt il
relation to the water supply, and then
adopted \ resolution authorizing the
Superintendent to have tho Ice cut or
the SchuylkiIl above Fairmont dam,
promptly ard without delay, pfoyidlnf
| that iJ will be no expense 10 the Park
| Commission. Permission 10 Cug ice
will now be- granted on application t.
the Superintendent
Councilman Stringfeliow propose
Offering AN amendments 10 the Munici
pol Reform bill, providing that mem
bers Of Councils give their entire time
and attention 70 the duties Of their po
s!tiou and receive therefore fair cal
ary, giving bond each in the sum o.
$40, 900 for the faithful performance ol
their duties during thei, terms OF ser
vice, with penalties by fine and i'm
prsonment for conviction of fraud Of
corrupt practices on their part.
| The body Of the man who died carly
on Tuesday morning, at the Sixth DIS
trict Station House, from an overlost
OF sulphate OF IL srphia, was YESTERDAY
RI cognizsd as that OF Dr.. Frank n
Scott, aged 26 years. He was grad
Mate of the University OF PennsylV
MIA.
Among the admissions to the Penn
sylvaDia Hospital, yesterday, wert
John White, residing in Wilmington
Del. :, left arm crushed, and Jno. Glenn
aged 80 years, also OF Wilmington, con
fusion Of shoulder.
William Henry Reed, who was ad
milted to the Pennsylvania Hospits
on Tuesday evening, suffering from
self inflicted wound in the throat, diet
at that institution at an early honr yes
terday morning.
| The Wood Carvers Association 0
the United States met last evening a
INo. 6O7 Walnut street, and, after dis
cussing the advihability OF forming
union, without arriving Mt any conclu
sion, adjourned TO meet this morpin
at y O'Clock.