Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-03-24
FOURTH EDITION,
Dos.
Dos.
Join B. s. Clark's watch club.

April 81 is the date fixed for bar
nuns circus at this place.
The Court in Cbancery and Orphans
Court are in session to-day.
Charles Evans has been appointed
driver Of the Delaware Truck.
Twomen turn the new Market street
draw with considerable difficulty.
DO not forget the hop of the White
Rose, in the Herdman building to-
night. Cross and Reynolds, managers.
New chiefs of the Imp. o. r. NJ. will
be elected this week by the various
tribes.
The fourth annual reception OF the
Knights of St. Lawrence will take
place in Institute Hall on April %.
The Frolic base ball club defeated the
Boston Boys On Saturday by score OF
20 to II.
| A large number of persons were bap.
tlzed at the Delaware Avenue and Sc
cond Baptist churches last night.
On Wednesday evening, DR.. H. r.
Wilson will lecture on Noses" before
the Unity club.
A birds eye view of Wilmington will
shortly be published by Ambrose Little
of Philadelphia.
Letters of administration have been
granted by Register Biggs to Mary Nc
Catferty on the estate of the late Thomas
McCatferty of this city.
We tumble to the adver. but don't
shoot our customers. Join Willard f.
Davis new watch club, No. East
Second street.
Hugh Sweeney, J. j. Riley and A.
Whitcratt, of the Fame Hose Company,
will conduct the election for Chief
Engineer and AssIsrant, April I.
Candidates for qualified assistants
certificates will be examined III this
city on April II, by the Board OF Phar-
macy.
Street cars leave the middle depot on
Sunday mornings at $50 O'Clock and
connect with the steamer Wilmington
at the foot of Fourth street.
Deputy-Attorney General ABB. Coop
er has taken up quarters in the new
law building at Ninth and Market
streets.
The Rev. A. w. LightbOurn, pastor
of the EastOn NJ. +. church, was recent
ly presented with gold watch by the
congregation.
DR.. Read J. Mckay, member OF the Board
of Education from the Tenth Ward and J. II.
HO1iecker, Jr., Esq, from the Seventh Ward,
positively state that they will not be candi.
dates for reelection.
| The tug Meteor, having been over
hauled and repaired, is again engaged
in towing barges, etc, up and down the
creek and river.
The tug Martha, which recently
sank, was raise d on Saturday, and
placed on Pussy & Jones Company's
railway. No hole was found in her.
The schooner Ella l.. Slaymaker ran
aground on Saturday in the Christiana
opposite the works Of the Jackson &
Sharp Company. She was high and
dry in the mud yesterday.
A street parads will be made this
evening by the Wilmington Turner As.
ISOLATION, headed by the First Regiment
band Hereafter their headquarters will
be in the new German hall.
Md'e Rhea, the talent French actress,
will begin all engagement at the Chest.
nut street theatre, Philadelphia, this
(Monday )evening, when she will play
the " Terrible Woman" She will give
other plays through the week.
A pile of rags accidentally caught
fire from stove about $50 O'Clock this
morning in Warren Harper " Cos
warehouse, Front and Market streets
Its timely discovery prevented serious
fire.
The Western Union Telegram Com.
pany have re. leased for 20 years their
present quarters in the Telegraph
Building, northeast corner Of Third and
Market streets. 1t is stated that the Il.
& q. tried to lease it, and in conse-
quencc al advance in rent was paid.
The New Steamboat Line.
The steamer Mary Morgan, of the
Bridgeport Steamboat Company, which
is to ply between this city and pnila-
delphia, arrived ut her wharf foot of
Shlplcy street yesterday after Don, and
was welcomed by IL large crowd OF men
and boys who had assembled ON the
wharf to watch the craft steam up the
creek.
The staunch craft presented a fine ap-
pearance, she having been freshly
painted and uverhauleu in readiness for
busy season. The boat is an iron
hull side wheel steamer, and was built
by the Harlan a. HollingswOrth Com.
pany in 1873. She is 10 feet long, 30i
feet beam, y feet depth of hold, and is
300 4S.lOO tons weight; she has power.
full beam engine with table cut Oft, and
3S-inch cylinder with . feet stroke,
which drives her at the rate Of about Is
miles an hour. She is rOomy and is |
licensed to carry 800 passengers. She
is fitted up in good style with every
convenience for the comfort of her pas
seDgers and the interior arrangements
are somewh hat similar to the FELTON,.
This line has been started as business
venture, and not for the purpose of in.
augurafing ii steamboat war. They pro- |
pose to make a speciality Of carrying
freight between this city and Phiadel-
pha.
The boat is otiicered az follows Cap
tain, John f. Truitt engineer, Isaac |
Butler pilot, George Cooper mate,
David III k. She has seven efficient
deck hands. The first trip was made
his morning, the boat leaving Shipey
street " hart at 7 o'clock with goodly
number of passengers on board. Re
turning she will leave Arch street
wharf at 3, 80 O'Clock this afternoon.
Speaker Cooper Ill.
Mr.. S. Il. Cooper, Speaker of the
Senate during the last session of the
Legislature, is now lying i'll at his home
near Camden, Del, and his death may
be expected at any time. Mr.. Cooper
has ALWAYS eniOyed the heat Of health