Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-01-20
PHILADELPHIA NOTES.
SCH WAFER AND Pack
IIQUOR-CLOsE or AN
rERa HrUSE.

The proposition Of l.. M. Fiibert &c
pay 81 900 for tue exclusive hight to GU
ice On the schuylkill river, from thu
dam to WissahickOn, was rejected by
the committee on Superintendence OF
the Park Com mission yesterday. Ii
was stated by the superintendent that
the opening Of the channel had improv.
cd the condition of the water, bpt the
Company that had used the tug in the
work had declined 10 proceed, Tho dam
age to the boat sustained in tho ice be-
ing too grea The offer Of the mana
tHers OF the House Of Correction to fur
nish .abor for the Park a. fifty cents a
head a day was declined, on account of
the expenses attending the erection of
the necessary buildings to no Sc the Ia
borers. a clause will hereafter be ad-
ded to the lease Of every mouse rented
by the commissioners prohibiting the
sale of liquors, but the committeeman
expires ssly stated that they did not cou-
slider ID their province to establish any
espionage 10 detect intractor4 Of the
rule. The guard had other duties to
attend 20.
The Arch Strest Opera House vag
closed las: evehing, after u season Of
twenty weeRs. The management gave
about five hundred newsDoys tres seats
TO w!jness the last performance.
IL 10 stated that the whUlesaI" .iq9ot
dealers Of this city are very srueraIty
resorting to the plan Of sending u LJL-
dou WHISTLES on which the Government
tax is now maturing, in order TO avola
the risk of pa.ihg for two or thrtr
years, or until the liquors are required.
I'll present law compels the pay men'
UPON whistles that have been tDrre
years in bond.
While Sorkmen were engaged in
raising two frame houses, in the Nire-
teeDth Ward, 10 the street s.ade a
height of seven feet, the blocking s.,p.
ped and they fell with crash. Tue
owner, William Rowson, wa. barred
in the debris, but not ipjuted. The
loss is 81, 900.
The funeral of Emmeline North, agnd
SO Years, who died on Wedncsday las
was 10 have taksn place to-day, but
ha, hGen postponed on account of the
death o. her brother, Major Edwin
North, yesterday, in his 73i year, and
bCtn viii be buried on Monday.
The funeral of Rev. DR.. William o.
Jahnstoue took place yesterday, aud
was Largely attended by friends and
relatives. The iEterment vas in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
The American Line steamship Ohio
sai led for Liverpool yesterday with a
large miscellaneous cargo.
The subscriptions vo the fund for the
reliGt Of the sufferers by the foods il
Germany aggregate $S,9l3 IS.
The police nave received special or
ders to kenpa watcnful eye for daH
light thieves, who 60 about in isolated
districts in the guis- Of peadlers Of vari-
Gus articles.
John Boyle, who knocked ont the
lett eye Of Hugh Boyle with a bottle at
22l7 Filbert, street week ago, was
6nally committed for trial by MaRis.
trate South yesterday.
William McSorieYy /. homeless wan
derer, ~ho was found at Broad street
and WASHINGTON avenue, with both feet
badly frozen, died of the effects OF ex-
posure, At the Pennsylvania Hospital,
lat night, about 10 o'clock.
During the year just closed the Me
chanic's Institute and Library, OF.
Southwark, expended $l,2cS.Sl. The
officers just elected are:
President, e. y. Cannon vice.presi-
dert. Robert 9. Floyd +; treasurer, VII
ham Harkuess, Jr. ; secretary. |. W.
McElwee.