The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-06-21
Things in the Quaker City.
PHILADELPHIA, June Il

PHILADELPHIA, June 10.
The dissertation of grave yards is going
on at rapid pace. was wandering over
the dismantled graves in Mechanics ceme-
terry only last Sunday, and the utter DESC
lation of the place is sad indeed. In a
year houses will stand on these vacant
graves. The silent householders were not
consulted, neither where their loving
friends consulted, but the Legislature
said the corpse must go, and they were
assisted up in lively way to other, new
made beds. Such things occur in the
march Of improvement, and this nine
teenth century cares very little for feel
ing or sacredness, Or hoary-headed time.
Even if you wish to keep your mother-in-
laws grave green, and her bones undis.
turbed this ruthless love of money forces
you to dig her up again and cause the
wound to break afresh.
The time is at hand for the overworked
parson to fly from his post, and the place
that knew him once, will know him not
for a few months. He will no doubt go
where the woodbine twineth, or hither to
the melodious notes of silver waves,or the
fall of the cataract. And perhaps it is
appropriate that he should recuperate his
shattered constitution, made weak by
by ardent wrestling with the prince of
darkness. He is wornout mentally from
intellectual sermons made so earnestly
from the pulpit, and his nervous system
needs to be built up on account of his
anxiety over the numerous feuds that he
encountered in his congregation. What
will the poor weak convert do without
him, this spiritual guide? Is he to fall
back into the bottomless pit, or is he to
be tossed about by every wind of doctrine
of some stated supply? No self-denial in
this our day and generation, for the frs
zepher from the fostering gutter causes
the man of God to get up and dust t.
some locality where he can keep his body
while the poor parishioner who is fasten
ed to one locality for life has to grope il
darkness, according to the Argument uset
by the devines, "for his soul has no lead
ership when the pastor is away and conse
quently there is danger"
What with laying telegraph and othe
wires relating to electric uses, the peopl
here are greatly pestered. 1t is an every
day occurrence TO find man on top you
house adjusting wire and rearing som
derrick like frame to attach the plant to
Some people consider it nuisance an
] cut them down, for they think the con
pany might just asked permission befor
they scale your house and knock you
chimney half down. These companiC
say, "never mind the wire or whert
FORE" as Pinafore has it. Chestnr
= street is torn up ON an average of ono
: every three months with the laying
some new patent.
The strawberry crop is either failul
: or the middlemen are keeping the pric,
u up aud bulling the market, for it is hai
d to get any berries just now for less tbs
IL 10 to 20 cents per box.
s. The police have their new uniforms,
u least that portion called the reserve.
g gives their heads more picturesque a
IL pearance, for the helmet-shaped ha
$ polishes them up to that extent that tn
+ may be considered to have little mo
n metal about this oft neglected spot
le SPHYNX.