The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-02-27
Things in the Quaker City.

Things in the Quaker City.
PHILADELPHIA, Fen. 24th, 1886.
st. Patrick's Day will soon be here
but there will be no outward show in
celebration of that event. Up to a very
short time ago many dollars were spent
in a huge street parade, that carried no
weight with it other than showing how
many Irish are willing to tramp around
in the mud in honor of their patron
saint Now they are beginning to see
how foolish all this show is, and will put
what money they spend in this direction
in some fund for the amelioration of
lreland's wrongs, This Irish question
seems to occupy Il considerable of the
public attention just now, and whether
those parties who are heading subscrip-
ton and arguing the point of Ireland's
misfortunes are really their friends at
heart, is a subject of conjecture. 1t is
one thing certain that politics makes
strange bed-fellows, and it is my opinion
that if the Irish had no votes there
would be a conspicuous absence of some
of the most ardent of our fellow citizens
who are now voicing the all absorbing
question of what is England going to do
with the Irish, with the hope that they
may be free at some not far distant day.
The death of John b. Cough leaves a
large vacancy IN the temperance rostrum.
lie was not what you would call tenn
perance man IN the sense OF worker,
Tor he made as much, and more out of
ms powers oi ora.ory useu IN otner
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9,ip u saying Soiie'nins lor 'ne CAUSE
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anu suppose 'lieie is iio a,'erii,s Puoiic
p'"ion III 'na' iespeo'' "i'lousn 1 nave
Ie,,iu !. s"iu 'iia' ne "ah'eu twenty-five
uoiiais " open " preaAias' "ssociatioh
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d puoiio man iiAe "ous.i oiioo gives way
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Even temperance mas lost by death l's
sol"I ilsnt' pu' lneIe are many lesser
ilsiits tnau t"lhAie All over cur iahu'
was looking at the beginning Of the
work that is to bring the Baltimore road
into our city, at Paramount, and was
amazed at the great undertaking. Houses
are being knocked down by the squares
great pipes are being excavated from
their former positions, streets are bloc
AIDED, and the general appearance of tn,
place looks as if the cyclone and earth
quake had been there. Within a few
squares, over the other side of tn,
Schuylkill lies the conveying hacks Of
the great corporation that so hamper til,
moneyed men here. so that it is hard t,
get a really enthusiastic public utteranc
from prominent men. 1t is really a grea
plant and in a few minutes one stems I,
look over the bridge to the moving PIANO
rama below, there passes by YOU rollin
stock that amounts to millions of dollars
saw one dozen locomotives cobline III
for freight traffic that was to 90 out tina
night, and countless engines that wer
shooting hither and thither in thei
round of duty. Passenger after passenge
train moved by with their living freigb