Daily Republican., 1885-09-28
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CONGRATULATED

J6urprise Tor their late comrade, Rober
L. Smith, who now resides on the Ole
Kent farm near Hockessin, 30 OF
Saturday evening arrangements having
been perfected the boys went out, and o
their going out and doings propose tc
tell you.
First scout Risby sailed forth in tn,
Iearly morning over the hill with hi
. face towards Smiths, which place b,
3 reached In due time. and succeeded IL
3 keeping" Bob homo until We arri we'd
As scout Joo is . success.
About Z O'Clock on Saturday evening
, last. with their magnificent band II
full uniform, they left the front Of the
Post' ofiice In Stidham's big hack with
four big horses, As jolly . crowd ol
, eighteen as ever left this city. Besides
Nts present employees there were two
old comrades, Isaiah II. Thomas and
James Agnew.
!, Everything went merry as Frank
Stout's big dinner bell. Out the avenue,
down Union street, and out In the
} country, first on one road and then
down another, piloted by Tom Bile, the
worst pilot ever saw, who don't know
country road from the turnpike on "
by the telegraph poles. II his papers
are not rescinded ~ pilot he will ram
some crowd in hedge fence on the lee
side OF the road, and bust the spanker
boom of the whole eaboodle. We were
lucky when Tom Was voted "nix good''
i and Jim Agnew ran the mach inc. Jim,
by the way, used to shoe all the horses
In that section of the country, and he
knew their tracks In the dust by the
roadside. Well, we jolted along in the
moonlight, over the hills, and of course
through the valleys, and wherever an
illumination occurred In the houses by
the roadside We gave them q burst OF
music from our magnificent band, and,
by the way, IL you know Of any parties
who want to employ good music, Just
Il drop me card the band is open for
Iengagements, under the leadership of
Marshal Stevenson.
AS we neared Smiths, courier
mounted and caparisoned in the style
OF the nrst century, met US and begged
us In piteous tones to stop the music OF
the band, but the machine was in full
bla,t, and there seemed no way { f stop.
ping 1t until the thing exhausted itself,
ana this hardly seemed probable, for
george Lewis, the veteran blower, was
leading on the b fat, and this being
his night out, he was doing his best, but
sudden jolt of the hack rammed the
thing down his neck up to the II rst key
and of course George was choked off,
3 but lie declared after erwards that il thai
accident had not happened he would
have blown tho Bee clean OF OF that
horn. Cnder the lead of this courier,
r the third pilot OF tne evening, and the
D best, Corporal O'Connor, M. A., for
3 Western Hockessin, we arrived at Boh's.
Down the broad avenue and under
the afatalu 4 w thu fnrr. in, In,
with its precious load, whilst amids,
the crack and blaze of the fire works,
r and the crash and thunder of the suien
= did band, we surprised him. Words
fail us in description nf the scene
THAT followed. Your Mr.. Hersey, we
understand, iS .oing out there this
week, and he'll find ous all about it.
= The following is the proerannme,
wh'ch was faithfully carried cut
Address, by Jno. p. Ruth, ESQ, A.
P. NJ. This was intended to be the best
effort of his life, but, unfortunately.
comrade Ruth was detained at home,
and was substituted by Isaiah Ii.
Thomas, ex. A. p. M.
Music by the whole band.
Address, by Bob. This being an ad-
dress OF welcome, it was to be very
cordial, and it was
Solo, by Ben Ashbridge, I" The Ferry
Across the Stream" as experienced by
Ben at Third street bridge, was excel
lent.
Lecture, by George Lewis, How to
Raise Chickens by Steam" the old
fashioned way as practiced by him las.
spring having been a failure. Immense.
More music by the beautiful band.
Fish horn cantatta by Joseph Duffy
and John II. Mason. Their old time
practice stood them In good service on
this occasion. Elegant.
Song by substitute Bolen the Change
OF Routes. Plenty of practice lately
has made him perfect, and he il light.
ming on change. Old Dan Tucker as
L" Whistled by Dick Griffith" with
plenty of variations. Richard being
absent he was substituted by Mr.. o.
Connor, who did him (Dick) up to per-
fection. A grand fusilade by the
magnificent band Duett by Schrack
and Garrett, When my Hair is a
Little Longer" Then two comrades
sang this song very p,thetically, and
as they are both bald headed we hope
the prayer of the song may be soon
granted.
A rare old song by Captain G. H.
Gallagher, called Irish Mary OF the
Wild Moor. Poer Mary! how she must
have suffered in the wild winter winds
of that sad night when her father
turned her out, and with the pathos
with which the Captain sang it It was
very affecting. Encore. He sang the old
| familiar song Down Upon the
Swannee River" Captain Is immense.
A prosy selection was to have been
rendered by our old comrade Mr..
Culbert, former NJ. D., but now of the
Water Department, entitled there is An
Eel In the Hydrant, my dear Tom being
| absent Comrade Dave Stevenson, for
| merly the chairman Of the Water Com
mittee of Council, rendered the piece
handsomely as he only could and from
Iexperience.
Then next came our little fis herman.
Johnnie Roberts, with an exigesis on
porpoise fishing, when in the middle
of the subject he caught too big o fish,
got stuck, and wound up on a Jews
harp solo, very low.
The programme was finished by a
duet on DINNER bells by Ashbridge and
Stout. In this piece the only accident of
the evening occurred, bell tha. S,out
was 30 dexterously swinging struck
musical director Ayars on the side of
the head, and raised lump so large that
in the yellow moonlight IL looked like
swelled walnut.
After this came refreshmeR ts, cake,
ice cream, apples, cider and butter
house bouquets. The boys Sould hardly
wait for the rendering of the program,
because we took the cake and ice cream
out with us, consequently they knew
there was something to eat in it. Indeed
Schrack and Garrett wanted to eas the
cream on the way out.
After which we bade Bob and his