Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-09-23
THIRD EDITION,
Dots.


Railroad ties are now being distri.
buted along the line of the new b. & p.
Railroad, and the work OF laying the
tracks will be begun 1t once.
The work Of remodeling Brandy wine
M. e. church is progressing, and 1t is
thought that the edifice will be reopen
ed on Sunday, October %.
Two handsome Woodruff parlor cars,
the "Chicago" and Evansville, :"
were shipped to Chicago yesterday by
the jackson s. Sharp Company.
Letters Of admin istration were grant
ed BY Register Eiggs yesterday to Jo-
seph j. Babcock on the estate of John
X. Babcock, late Of Wilmington.
Mr.. Edgar Chandler has placed q
new Marvin safe in his handsome new
jewelry establishment, No. 604 Market
street.
A widow named Gait Was gagged and
robbed In her house at Heath, Massa-
chusetts, on Friday night, the robbers
securing considerable sum.
The steamer Republic, having made
her last trip on Sunday, arrived at the
wharves of the Harlan & Hollings-
worth Company to lay up for the win
ter.
The lawn tennis tournament of the
Delaware field club will open to-day
on the grounds of the Association, at
Twenty.third and Tatnall streets, and
continue for three days.
Specht & SPAIN ad vertise the open.
ing of their new dancing hall this even.
ing, when their will be free bowling
for lot of geese and fine lunch will
also be served
Henry Medera, who resides with his
parents at No.l25 Logan street, and who
was badly injured on Saturday by beir g
run over by freight train, died
yesterday. His sufferings were terri
BILE.
Mrs. Kerrigan, residing in Townsend
street, between A and b streets, South
Wilmington, broke her arm on Satur-
day night by falling in front OF her
home. DR.. Patterson reduced the frac.
ture.
The special manifest office of the
Delaware Railroad in charge OF j. j.
Whitaker, which has been operated
during the peach season in the second
story Of the Grand Union Hotel, has
been closed.
The two scows recently seized by
Marshal McMullen were released yes.
tsrdsy, the owners having furnished
the required bail. They at once started
for Baltimore in tow of the tug Joseph
CummiLs.
BENJAMIN T. p. Hubbard, cashier OF
the First National Bank of Monmouth,
ILL.,, was arraigned On Saturday before
the United States Commissioner In
Chicago, on the charge of embezzlinp
$lO6, 900 of the banks funds.
The schooner Lille D., owned by
Charles Reynolds, of the Malta House.
arrived in port yesterday with 36, OO(
prime oysters and "a 900 cuttings from
Maurice River Cove. The oysters thii
ful.
Mrs. Catharine Morrison of this city
whose son was killed while serving AZ
a Federal soldier in the late war, has
received n pension from the Govern.
ment amounting to Sl,93747 Her
claim was strongly urged by the late
Francis Vincent.
Isaac L. Long, Grand Seer etary of the
Independent Order of Chosen Friends
in San Francisco, attempted suicide or
Saturday morning by swallowing
recover. He was 81, 900 " short" in hi
accounts.
Christian Ludwig. the young maj
who was arrested and charged with sew
eral thefts, had q final hearing befor
Judge Cummings, when one of the wa,
ches which the prisoner had pawned i
Philadelphia was identified by Fran
McGrAth of this city, as his property
and he was committed in default ,
$500 bail to answer at Court.