The state journal., 1884-01-12
NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
Gathered by Journal Report
ers About Town.

Burnlte takes good photographs
Callender's MINISTRIES Monday night.
Who is to be the Alderman of the
Eighth?
Do fire plugs freeze? We should
smile if they didn't.
Try Quigley's pain exterminator.
1t beats the world.
The STATE JOURNAL is growing too
rapidly for the Afro American.
The political pot is commencing to
boil in the Eighth ward.
There is a leap year party in con-
temptation. Look out boys.
Where, oh where, will the boys
spend the cold winter evenings?
When you want reliable insurance
give W. X. Verbeke, jr., a trial.
The City Controllers aud the City
Solicitors salary should be increased.
There will hardly be standing room.
Mozart at the Opera House Tues
day night.
A number of ladies and gentlemen
will indulge in sleghing p .rty to
Middletown next week.
Has John Mike a tenure OF life
hold on the county commissioners for
the position of lookup keeper!
A larger appropriation should be
made by Councils to the several fire
companies. The present appropri.-
ton is beggarIy one.
Frederick Abel will open the Ma
tional Hotel, corner Of Fourth and
State streets. Fred is well known
in the hotel business.
Our old friend John Able, better
known as Doc, has taken unto him
self wife Johnnie, we wish you
much happiness.
The literary exercises of the WEES
ley Union Sabbath school, on last
Sunday, was quite interesting. Those
present were highly entertained.
There has been several weddings
in this city which were kept very
quiet. Although the JOURNAL re
porter knows their names he will not
disclose them until next issue.
1t don't look as though 7. Morris
Chester takes much stock in An.
drews. 1t is owing to the indefatl-
gable efforts of Mr.. Elias Hollinger
thst he has been granted new trial.
The proposition to submit the cree
| ton of new market houses in the
square to the people at the coming
spring election will certainly result in
the removal of the unsightly sheds
from the square.
1t seems from the interest the edi-
tor of the Sunday Telegram takes in
Eighth ward politics that he would
like to be on the numerous list of
candidates for office this spring. We
will see that he is named.
The Red Lion, a noted frame
structure, situated at the corner of
South and Cowden, which has stood
the storms of many winters, and mid
night brawls, we hear is to be RACED
to the ground in the spring.
IT'S pity, but It's pity true, that
our collector finds many persons who
read the JOURNAL but don't like to
pay for it, and when asked to pay get
angry and stop the paper. If it amt
worth payig for it amt worth having.
Several of our best colored base
ball players have gone into training
and will be open for professional en-
gagements, owing to fact that
white clubs with one or two colored
players in them is a novelty which
never fails to draw well.
On Friday evening, January 18th,
the police raidcd the house of Henry
Washington, at the corner of Cow
den and Walnut streets, and the in
mates, Henry Washington and Philip
Tolivar, were arrested on the charge
of keeping a gambling house, but at
the hearing the evidence being in
sufficient they were discharged.
l P. Taylor. head waiter at the
Washington House, Philadelphia,
passed through this city on a visit to
his home at Carlisle last week, but
many of his Old friends who were
anxious to get glimpse of his cheer
full and familiar cOunteDance were
disappointed, IS he failed to stop over
on his return to the Quaker city.
William Offered, one of the men
held by Mayor Wilson to answer the
charge of being an accessory to the
murder committed by Henry Boston,
has been discharged from custody, as
Judge Simonton has decided that he
was illegally held, and it seems as if
these mistakes have been so often of
late when they relate to colored men
and the rest of the poor wretches
who were 50 unfortunate as to have
been in that vicinity when the crime
was committed should be discharged
also.
The time draws near for the aver
age politicians to gather and spout