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The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
Dailp Gdxette
THURSDAY. APRIL 10.
The water Commission.

By a rather close shave the Water Com
mission bill got through the Senate, yester
day, and in very short time the important
changes it provides for will be in practi-
cal operation in this city.
In reality this bill is the most important
measure affecting the interests of the city OF
Wilmington that has been passed at Dover
for years, and its operations will be watched
with eager interest by all our citizens. II
affects change of the most
sweeping character. 1t takes the sole
and entire charge of the Water Depart
ment from the City Council, where it has
rested for more than half a century, and
places this important branch of our muni-
cipal government in the hands of the three
gentlemen named as Commissioners, who
VIII operate it in whatever manner they
deem for the best interests of the public and
be potential in all matters pertaining to the
department for at least two years to come.
Nothing but the deep nd widespread dis
satisfaction at the extravaganza and inef-
ficiency almost continuously displayed by
our City Councils in the management OF
the water department would have
permitted, much less demanded, the
passage of an act of this character. But the
necessity for change was most painfully
apparent, and in the hope of system that
would give them much better results for the
money expended, the people of Wilmington
consented to allow their municipal ma
chinery to pass rom the control OF
their immediate representatives, and go
into the hands of three judicious citizens,
to be operated as the latter may see fit and
proper.
The success of the experiment, for such
1t is, depends entirely upon the Commits
sioners who are to assume these important
responsibilities, and if they discharge their
duties with the fidelity and good judgment
the people have every reason to
expect of them, the commission project
will be gratifying success and will
be continued for an indefinite time. If, on
the contrary, it proves a failure, it will be
an evil that the people will have to put up
with for at least two years. when the next
Legislature Will wipe it out of existence.
The sympathies and good wishes of the pub
lie, however, are with the Commissioners,
and they have no prejudice or violent oppo-
siton to contend with in assuming their
official functions. They ought to succeed,
and we believe they will
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
A GaIIants Foolish X las

A pretty young German girl recently pre-
sented herself at clinic in one ofthe Vienna
hospitals for examination, explaining that
she had suddenly and unaccountably be-
come deaf in one ear. One of the faculty
began to question her as to the circumstan-
ces Immediately attending the appear
ance of her deafness, After much hesita-
tion and with many olushes, the girl at last
confessed that when her lover returned after
long absence he took her in his arms, and,
pressing his mouth to Der ear, conferred
upon that organ a most intense and vigor-
Gus kiss. AT that instant she felt a sharp
pain, and had been deaf ever since. The
professor made an examination and found
that the drum of the ear had actually been
ruptured, and there is no reason to doubt
that the kiss did it.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19

II CHIEF HAWKINS was guilty Of swapping
an empty pistol at the head of liquor
crazed crank who walked into the police
station and requested to be shot, as is re-
ported in yesterdays EUeyy Evening,
he deserves prompt dismissal, and
If the report is untrue he should have 1t cor
rected at once, in justiceto his official repu-
tatIon. The ''didn' lznow-it-was-loaded"
idiot is no great strangerin amy part of the
country, but it remains for Wilmington, it
seems, to exhibit him in police station in
the uniform of a Chief OF Police.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
The LATEST Police OUTRAGE.

Sergeant Blackburn Indignantly denies
the GAzETTE's account Yesterday of the
arrest Of a drunken man by him and officer
Osborne, and takes our reporter severely to
task for publishing the affair, asserting that
the latter is no gentleman and a perverter
of facts. The impulsye sergeant makes
serious mistake il he imagines for one in
slant that he can bull-doze our representa-
tive and convince him that black is white
If an injustice had been done the plueky
sergeant, who bravely threatened to
kick woman, we would will
lingly make him amends. But
the boot is on the other foot. Black
burn not only treated his prisoner with un-
necessary violence, but deliberately stamped
upon the PROSTATE man, the latter act yes
terday being unintentionally accredited
to Osborne. There is not the
slightest doubt whatever that the
prisoner, Shields, was obstinate,
and unruly, and forcibly resisted arrest, but
there was no occasion whatever for the
cowardly and brutal action of the sergeant.
III two aole-bodied officers were unable to
manage man stupefied by drink the whole
force should have been summoned
to make tue arrest, rather than
to have the disgra scene, which
really occurred, enacted upon pub,
lie street. From appearances it would seem
to indicate that it is high time for physical
qualifications, common sense, and a little
cool Judgment to enter into the requisites
Tor a successful preseryer of the public
peace.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
senator Jones, Great Danger.

Florida yesterday let her senior Senator
off for vacation, little suspecting the vicis-
situdes he may encounter when he arrives
on the British shores. The Senator is an
Irishman of Irishmen. The rich roll of his
brogue would darken the joys of the kings
OF Kerry in envy. His frame is robust, his
eyes are blue, his haxen hair tell the tale OF
the 'croppy" at glance. Now, no sooner
will the lynx eyes of the British police light
on this exile from Erin than he will be
taken as an emissary Of O'Rossa. He has
the characteristics that we vaguely associate
with the Fenian, and the restless nyrmi.
look for the returning son of the sod, will
make no doubt of his identity with "Num-
Der |" or whole brigade Of dynamite con
spirators.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
OUR CURIOUS CLIMATE.
Aa AnamOIy That Continued Gold
weather without March Freezing.

Aa AnamOIy That Continued Gold
weather without March Freezing.
tNew York Herald.l
The Journal Of Commerce calls attention to
the noteworthy fact that during the four
months ending the 1st inst. the temperature
in this city rose above the freezing point on
only IA nights. In the corresponding period
of IS80-Sl there were 81 days in which the
thermometer did not fall below 80 degrees
and % days in the same period of 1S76-77.
Both of these were exceptionally cold
winters, but In the moderate winters of
1s77-76 there were 81 days in which the
minimum was less than SO and in that Of
187o-S0 So days. The steady cold Of last
winter on the Middle aud Eastern Atlantic
coast 10 seen to be very phenomenal when IT
is noted that the minium thermometer In
some winters Gas in 1S77-7S at st. Paul,
Mimi, remains above the freezing point
twice the number of days on which 1t did
not get below that point between December
and April l at New York.
This long run of uniformly cold, thou III
not unprecedentedly severe, weather can
only be ascribed to an unusual predomi-
nance of high pressure in Eastern British
America, which gave us an almost con-
tinuous stream Of cold, dry air. 1t would
therefore seem probable that there has been
| for the last four months less than the
average snowfall In the trans Canadian
wilds around Hudson bay, the melting oi
which in spring and early summer makes
our northerly winds exceptionally cold for
the season. If this reasoning is sound, aud
the winter has been dry one around Hud-
son bay, we may expect, as the vernal sun
is felt in this high latitude, that the earth
will be rapidly warmed, and consequently
that our northern winds will be toss frosty
than they generally are at this period. Un-
less, therefore, we should have an abnor-
mally cold wave from the Northwest within
the next 10 days the fruit crops in this sec
ton will probably escape damaging frosts
and fulfill their present promise of being ex-
ceptionally fine.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
How Lord Lorne 1nsultod Boston.

We have seen it stated that Lord Lorne
has asked, through the British consul, police
protection for himself and his royal wife.
This is an insult to the citizens Of Boston,
Here is man who publicly proclaims his
belief that there are residents of Boston who
would violate the laws of hospitality by
assaulting him or his wife. This is mon
strous: What nonsense, what cowardee,
what baseness of insinuation, what con-
fesslon OF the rottenness of the system he
represents is contained in this demand for
special protectionl
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
BAL TIMoRE AND POTOMAC RAIL.
ROAD.
FROM CALVERT STATION.
"A KIAl LEnLsLan L. n s1.rnnEumI. a

TAKING EFFECT DECEMBER "A, 1882.
For Washington, a. m. BIO and s.65 p. M,
daily, except Sunday, and 40 7.86, 9.45 and
n, ana II 20 a. M, and 500 and z. 10 p. M, daily.
F9T POPE ,s Geek Line 200 a. m. and T. 10 p. M,
FOR Annapolis, 100 a. IN, daily except Sunday
and 5. 90 r. M, daily.
FOR Rlchmond and the south at 4, 20 and 9.45 a,
n N uaIlyi ana b. p. M, daily except Sunday.
FT dhe SCUM yla Virginia Midland Railroad, at
~ a. M aslly, and !. SIS p.m., except Sunday
FOR white sulphur and G. and o. X. r., at 40
For Norfolk via Potomac River steamers, Mon
Gay, wednesday and Friday at II. 35 =. m.
FROM UNION STATION.
For Washington, 4.SO, $50, 7.O5, 74S $50, Ii. 40
=. M, z.bo, Sb 6.lO, 7.20, 9.05 p. m. On Sum
aaSS, 4.5o, $50 7.45, $50, 40 8. m.. $40 and
For Va. Midland Road, at4 30 a, M, daily, s.os
2. M, except Sunday. 10 p. M, on Sunday
except on sunday. "
FROM PENNsYLyANIA-AyE STATION
For washington, SIS 7.1O $50, o. IS and Il. As a.
m.5 5.So, 5:l5, rs and 9. 10 D, m. On Sunday,
az =. oS' 700, 9.55 and H. a. M, s. is and 7.2
S.i5 p. M, daily. e1NS0p'
LEAVE WASHINGTON FOR BALTIMORE
S49 SOO 80 and 10. 80 a. M, 1.30, 4.20, 40
o.10, AZ, $50 and 10. 20 o. M ON Sundays al
9,OO, s'So a. IN. 42O so, 7.SO, $50 and ID. 2D p
~. j. z. WOOD Gen. Pass. Agt.
SaAhh4s n. RU9H. General Manager.
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PEOPLE WHO KEAD'
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In the West. The rival Of any In America.
THE
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In It's columns, the news of the world If
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of this country and Europe, are the most
reliable news gatherers to be had, and the
history of each days events will be faith
fully recorded and presented TO the public
through the Enquirer, free from distortion
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The province of a newspaper Is to record
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we'll the Enquirer has succeeded In this
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its ability and thoroughness in presenting
all matters treated upon in their true light.
The people of this age require paper fully
abreast OF the times, coequal In enterprise,
Bnd material advancement IN all mercantile
and political interests, such will the
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The immediate future has In store matters
of grave interest to all, and the general
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influences of those who are fully conyerBant
with the facts occurring and TO occur. The
policy of the government but partially
developed by the New Administration, was
fast winning the confidence of the people,
when the hand of the assassin placed control
ofatfairs In charge of faction whose leaders
have not at all times received favorable criti-
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tration, aud presented to the public without
fear or favor, in the columns of the Enquirer.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
Startling waaIrnaas

general and nervous debility impaired memory,
lack OF selfconfidence, premature loss of manly
Ylgor ana powers are common resul 3 of exces-
siye indulgence or youthful indiscretions and
pernlc1ons solitary practices Victims whose
manhood has thus been wrecked by sef-abuse
should address with three letter stamps. for
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feet cure, WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL, AS
ISOLATION, Buffalo, N, X, m&t
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Fast of Arcade, second foo

At last the Waukenphast.
We suspect that weg have at
last the best Waukenphast
there is going; best model, best
make, best stuff all the way
through. Seven dollars is a
very close price tor such a
shoe; but we want to get some
advertising out of it; and we
had just as lief pay men a dol
lar apiece to tell one another
about it as to pay the news
papers. Fact is, we want
twice as many men to come
here for their shoes; and while
we're in this frame of mind is
a good time to come.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
Photographs Reduced,

In prices. Fine retouched cabinets reduced
from S5 per dozen to 50 per dozen. Card
photographs finely retouched, reduced from
~. so per dozen to 81 so per dozen. T. g.
Holland, photographs, main gallery, S07
Market street; branch gallery, No. i East
third street, where they make speciality of
city.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
What Butler Knows,

tUIIta UbstFYtF, Dem.
Perry Belmont says the talk of nominating
Governor Butler for the Presidency is mere
newspaper pleasantly" And Ben Butler
is doubtless to shrewd a man to be undulv
excited about it. Nobody knows that But
Ter can never be the Demot ratio candidate
for President better than His Excellency the
Governor of Massachusetts.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
HENRY L. RAYMOND q co..
STOCK BROKERS

NOS. I AND a PINE STREET, N.
Buy and sell tor Investment, and carry a.
moderate margin all securities dealt 4! "u ou
the New York Stock Exchange M, ou
class privileges at favorable rates partta.
distantly located from Wall sttao,
wishing to invest sums ran,irs
from $50 to $1,000, are invited te
write for US for particulars. Comnles
Financial Report mailed free. Small ords,S
executed at current rates. Refer to Banker.
Members of N. Y. Stock Exchange, Official.
of New York Central Railroad Co.. and
prominent Manufacturing and Mercantile
Business Houses. References and terms
nAi'i.' an apniicettou
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nA1ERoADAIxEs
pHILADELPHIA, WILL Ca
BALTIMORE RAILR1AD
MARCH, I4th, lsss,


MARCH, l4th, 1883,
Trains Will leave wilmington as follows for
PhiladelphiR and intermediate statohsS. ~ 7,oO'
10 ~ =. m. 2. % 400 7.S0 s.5S, r. m. a
Philadelphia (expresal-2O0, 2.2A aa :: bat h.lA
800, 3. S. tI.5S. am. II. IS s b.lIss.ln s.i
T.26 p. m. E9st
New York--2.oo, 2.2s $50, .s5, "a li.bs q. m
~. %, l.sA, 2. 20 SIT SIS, 7.26, p. IN.
Baltimore And intermediate stations--l.O&
1000 a. M 500 p. m,
Baltimore and Bay Line-f.T p. m.
Baltimore and WashingtOn-l.42 a. 4.5i, SOS p.7
9. m. Loo +I.09, 500 6.H, il.04 p. m.
Baltimore enly-l.05, l0.0Oa. m. 12.8 and
Trains for Delaware Division leave for;
New Castle-e.0n, 9.i0a. m. los, 500, 8. p. m
and u. night.
Harrington and Intermediate stations-s. q. m
LOS, s.25 p. m.
Delmar and intermediate statisus--s.iO a, m.
LOS y. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Philadelphia aud intermediate stataons-8. 10 m.
E.W IN. 800 7.30, g.S5, p. m.
Philadelphia and New York-2.OO, 2.2s m. 6.i7
6.SS, I.28 p. m.
Balsimore and washinRton-i.42, 4.5l, 500. al7,
q. m. l.04 p. m.
Baltimore-l.06 u. m.
For further information passengers are
terred 10 the time tables posted at the depot,
M@-Trntns marked thus, (') are limited express
upon which extra fare Is charged. ~ aas
j. r.. WOOD, General Passenger Agt.
ChAe. NJ. PU9H. General Manager.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
Next outer-circle, southeast from center.

Those Partisan dress-stuff
novelties in the window OF
1903 Chestnut afford many a
new study in the art of weav-
ing.
One of them looks like a
light-blue nuns yelling nearly
covered with silk-and-wool
embroidery-like figures; but, if
you see the back of it, the
figures are the same only the
colors are reversed. 1t is two
cloths, woven half-together,
half-separate; the back-cloth
being added for the purpose OF
lending its colors to the front.
The figures are bowers OF
tropical plants with little girls
jumping the rope and trund-
ling wheelbarrows. There are
but three colors in each cloth;
but they are mixed" to pro-
duce surprising shading and
perspective effects. The figures
are not too distinct; but bear
study remarkably.
The feature of the cloths is
the novel alienation of per-
fectly plain ground with the
most elaborate combinations of
color, without the aid of en-
broidery. $3.50 a yard.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
DELAWARE WESTERN RAILROAD
CHANGE OF HoURs.

CHANGE OF HOURS.
follows:
Leave Wilmington 7.O5, lO.Sn, a. m; $50 p. IN.
Arrlye Al Landenberg, $50 a. nj; l2.0O noon,
B. 70 y. m.
Leave bandenberg g. 80 a. m; IL. 80 p. m.
Arrive at Wilmington 500 q. m; 2.l5 .. m.
ID. COkNELL. superintendent.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
The Weekly Edition

of the Enquirer ought to be in the hands OF
every farmer, every mechanic and every
teiler in the land. AS an agricultural paper
full OF fresh, valuable and reliable informa-
tion, it will be without rival A corps of
contributors has been retained whose
practical and theoretical knowledge In all
branches of good farming is unsurpassed
We thank our readers for that liberal
support that has enabled us to print the best
newspaper in the West, and ask a con-
tinuanee of the same and your assistance In
making known the merits of the paper, and
in ereasing its field of usefulness.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19

The PRACTICE of taking the horses and
wagons of the fire department out to the
base ball grounds at every game, SO that
crowds at men can stand upon the vehicles
to look over the fence and view the PLAYING
should be stopped summarily by Chief
murphy. Such procedure is not only a
fraud upon the owners of the ball grounds
but 1t is extremely dangerous to the pre-
perty interests of the city, as it renders the
fire apparatus almost imperative for the time
being, aud might work sad havoc
II a fire should occur while the horses were
thus employed. The erection of a higher
fence along the Front street side of The
grounds would materially aid Chief Murphy
in suppressing this nuisance.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
Thursday: Fair and slight
change in temperature.

Summer silks are particularly
abundant in the higher ranges,
the styles that are more than
new, that belong to new orders
of decoration. There are also
plenty of such as have been
worn every year, probably, since
they were first invented.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19

OFFICER osBoRNE's request that the
GAZETTE reporter should be called as wit
ness in the case of Hugh Shields, heard in
the police court last night, was quietly
ignored by the Mayor, who is evidently salts
fed with the infallibility of his force.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19

ALL THE Quieksteps now need is little
more nerve and discipline, so as to keen
themselves steady in critical situations
Ihey had Yesterdays game with the
Athletics in their own hands, until fright
and careless playing in the eighth inning
lost them the lead they had so ably earned
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
RA1EB0AD LIVES
RALTIMoRE AND ONO RAILROAD.

THE MODEl FAST LINE AND THE ONLY
Line BETWEEN
THE EAST AND.IHE WEST, VIA WASHING
TON.
DOUBLE TRACK JANNY CouPLERi
sCHEnuIF TO TAKE EFFECT
tnAvEs EsdusNMmIbsr, VA sMIshS, N2g SRgETr h lssR sTarIoN
4, N. tChicago, Cinsinnati, 81, ,.oHis Fact Ex.
olncinnat, 81. Louisiana Chicago
40 tWnshingt0n and way stations,l IVA,
MiIH.AND) Southwest, Richmond, tvia
$40 Washington and way stations.
77.iiSS ANNMP6tIInsr iN't1on Is sPhuNToN AND WASH
INGTON EX. and stationso on Metropoli-
7.5O fPiedmont, strasbtkg, winchester, Hag-
erstown, FredericE and way stations, Via
Main Stem. ION Sunday 10 Ellicot City
800 fPITTsBURG, CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS,
WAsHINgToN AND COLUMBUS EX-
PREss daily and CHICAGO daily except
saturday. llflchmond and the South, Via
Quantice). Sleeping cars, Baltimore TO Cin-
elnnati, Louisyilie and Chicago junction.
Sleeping Cars, Grafton to Indianapolis,
daily except saturday.
1880 3%s2safSSTSoSlN " H fHSesSSl AND LAUREL Ex-
PRESS.
T. Is washington, Annapolis and way.
lao ton Sunday only, for Washington and
l,o EiIeott city and way stations.
z'@ a Wseaangson and way STATIONS. .an,,, Micn-
meet at Washington with L. a 3. o. Co., on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and with
2 Potomac Steam boat Co. on Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday for Old Point Comfort
400 WASHINGTON EXPRESS. stops at
yessup's Annapolis junction, Laurel and
40 Winchester, Hagerstown. Frederick and
way.
500. Washington, Annapolis and way.
$40 Frederick and way stations.
go Martinsburg and way stations.
0.25 washington and way stations.
7.3 tPittsbgrg, Cleveland and Detroit Express,
s.B tCHICAGO,- CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS.
WASHINGTON AND COLUMBUS EN-
PRESS. b. a o. Palace Sleeping Cars To
Cincinnati, st. Louie and Chicago, Lynch
burg and the South, via Va. Midland.
9.l6 ton Sunday only, for Mt. Airy and way.
Ills Mt. Airy and way stations.
ll.30 Washington and way stations.
Leave for Metropolitan Branch, Z. IS a. IN, 81.
and 2. 50 p. m. For Rockville, 10 90 a. m.
All trains stop at Relay except 3. 90 q. IN.
LEAVE WASH SGTON FOR BALTIMORE;
500, t6. 1850, t745, sI0 1890, 1000 r. IN. I
r. TO- tl.2h 40, ,35. 90, 330 40 "A. t5 As
t7.m, 730 70. 10 and II. 30 y. IN.
tDaly. fSunday only. Other trains daily,
Baggage called for and checked at hotels and
residences on orders left at Ticket 0fices 1h2
WEST BALTIMORE STREET, N. W. Cor, Cal
vert; CAMDEN STATION and 81 SOUTH
W. NJ. CLEMENTS, @. X. LORD,
Master Of Transportation. Gen. Pass. Agent.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19

The FAIR of the Fame Hose Steam Fire
Engine Company, now in progress in Odd
Fellows Hall, deserves the liberal patron
age OF the public. The men who SO freely
work to save the property of the people
from destruction by fire ought to be encour-
aged in their efforts to better the financial
condition of their organizations.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
GREAT PENNSYLVANIA RoITTR

OhEA hNN i Il v ANA hOO1E.
DOUBLE TRAGK-sTEEL RAILS,
SPLENDID seen ERY, MAGNIFICENT
EQUIPMENT, NORTHERN CENTRAL RAIL-
WAY.
TAKING EFFECT OCTOBER /, 1882
Trains leave Baltimore city time, as follows
Mail Train, daily except Sunday, fer
the North and Mest. .....,.,.,,,,,,..., T. 20 a. m
Chicago and Limited Express, daily
Fast Line daily, West. ...............I TO- Is n m
Lock haven ana Watkins Express, ex-
,cept ShHudS TO- 45 a. m,
harrisburg Passenger, daily except
,,2unuhy b3O p
MeslSfh Express, daily ........,...... 8. IS D. m.
mai TX press, West daily IL. Is D. m
Erie Mail and Buffalo Express except
SATURDAY. n m
fafktOwn Accommodation, 3. 20 and $50 D. M
aally, except sunday. sunday only $50 a, M
C0ckeyspille Accommodation, $50, II. 30 a. M.
I'D, 4.50, 500, 1000, li.3O p. m. On Sunday
3 ~ a. M, l.S ana 10 p. m.
For Hanover and Gettysburg, 7.30 q. m.
FOR Cumberland Valley Railroad, T.30 q. m. i;
HagerstOwn, 10. 45 "A. M.
For Green Spring Branch, $50 "a. M, and 6. 30
p. m.
Trains arrive from the West T. 40 A. M, sos and
7.l5 p. M, daily. From the North, 4. 40 u. M.
daily daily except Monday, sos and 7.16 p. M, ex-
For tickets to all points East, North and West
apply at Calvert Station, at Northeast corner
Station. -.
Baggage called for and checked at hotels and
residences ON orders LEFT at office, northeast cor
her Baltimore and Calvert streets.
The daily gazette., 1883-04-19
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