The daily gazette., 1883-04-09

Pyle & Lichtenstein's opening on Satur-
day attracted much attention.
Adam Forepaughs' advertising car arrived
In Wilmington Saturday morning. The
crew at once billed the city.
The German Library Association has
agreed to donate $25 annually to the Ger
man-American school fund.
The contract for repairing the public
roads of Christiana hundred will be sold at
auction at Dougherty's Hotel, April 81.
Colonel Smiths private car, the Fredonia,
will leave for Jersey City to-day from the
works OF the jackson 81 Sharp Company.
William Churchman'S small son was
seriously gored by mad bull yesterday
afternoon on his fathers property on the
Newport pike.
st. Marks Sunday school was well
attended yesterday. An association of the
teachers has been organized and a guild is
to be established.
The fair of the Fame Hose Company will
open in Odd Fellows Hall April 16 and
close April %. A number of unusual at
fractions will be offered
The eighteenth anniversary Of the suri en-
der of Lees army will be appropriately eel
ebratcd this evening by Thomas A. Smith
Post No. /, g. A. r., at their rooms.
The wrecking train returned from Bush
river yesterday afternoon with the tender of
the locomotive which jumped through the
draw bridge at that place. The locomotive
is still at the bottom Of che stream.
A resident of Pleasant street, between
Adams and Monroe, complains bitterly OF
the unclean condition of that thoroughfare,
to which he calls the attention OF the Street
Commissioner aud the Board of Health.
Mayor Wales has appointed James Vim
cent to be special officer at the City Park,
and Charles w. Simmons and Thomas B.
Turner special officers along the Brandy
wine. The last two were on duty last sum
mer.
1t may be of interest to Wilmingtonians
to know that the Merritt base ball club, of
Camden, N. j., which expects to be the
champion nine this season, was ingloriously
defeated by scrub nine :" on score of
Is A.
While practising on the Quiekstep base
ball grounds Saturday, Andrew Cusick,
the catcher for Shallix. was seriously in
jured by a curved ball pitched by Dorr, and
as a result he will be unable tO appear upon
the field next week.
William Galloway, of South Wilmington,
who assaulted Constable Peter Springer
on Friday last, while the latter was en-
deavoring to serve landlords distress war
5000 bail to appear for further hearing
before Justice Cole this morning.
The statement OF the Trustees of New
Castle Commons for the year ending March
25, 1888, shows balance in hand of $576. 10.
The amount expended during the past year
was 81, ,703 ~, and the receipts during the
same time were S7,6S9 II. There was
balance on hand March 25, 1882, of S790.65.
Ministers, lawyers, teachers and all pro-
fessionals who are in want of dictionaries
should send postal or leave word at Malta
House, Wilmington, Del, and John c.
Bryant will call and show you sample of
Webster's Unabridged Dictionery-contai
ing 11S, 900 words, or 5000 more words than
any dictionery published. John c. Bryant
is the sole agent for Delaware.
On Saturday evening Star of Bethlehem
Lodge, No. 125, L. o. l., U. s. A, elected
and installed the following officers: W. NJ.
James H. Gray; w D., Samuel keenan,;
Secretary, John NJ. Frieslezbon; Financial
Secretary, Andrew Moore; Treasurer, l, +.
Mundorff; Chaplain, James McKelvey;
| Conductor, Joshua Foster; Inside Tyler,
Edward Bacon; Outside Tyler, James
| Abrams.