The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17
Things in the Quaker City.


the lines of the Traction Company has
assumed a comical aspect, although
many persons are inconvenience by
this abrupt action. 1t would seem by
the animous of the change, that it is a
piece of revenge brought about by the
morning newspapers in their espousal of
the car drivers and conductors plea for
shorter hours, whereby the editors and
employees who are obliged to work late
are put to great discomfort. The COM
pany is poking fun at the papers by say
ing that the reason they stopped the cars
was on account of morality; that the
cars were nothing more than disreputa-
bic houses on wheels; that the inhabi-
tants were none other than bad women,
drunken men, and newspaper people
that it was worth mans life sometimes.
to collect the fare, and for long time
they didn't pay. Imagine the editors,
reporters and others of the newspaper
fraternity being coupled with the dem
mon and drunkards, of course these peo-
pie don't let this slight go by with
out some back talk, which to say the
least is not over polite.
The base ball season has commenced
in earnest, and the past week has seen
some phenomenal playing Philadelphia
can well boast of two of the best clubs
in the country, and they are expected to
do better than ever before. l saw the
game that was played last Saturday,
where no errors were made by one club
and only two by the other, and where
the score was SO small as to keep the in
terest up to the very end. The Athletics
had a pitcher that many thought was a
weak one, but he turned out very strong.
He belonged to the old Athletic club,
years ago, and has migrated from one
club to another for some time, the last one
being the Keystone of the defunct
Union Association. His name is Weaver,
and might pass for 80 years, but must be
much older. Ferguson of the Philadel-
phia Club is great favorite here, on
account of his clowned style beside the
splendid pitching and batting record he
has made. The latter club has won the
championship of the city, as far as the
games go this spring, which superstition
was greatly secuted by the admirers Of
the Athletic before the series COM
menced.
The amateur farmer will soon get out
his hoe and rake. 1t is strange what fas-
cination there is for city -bred person in
a small garden in the country, as soon as
the buds begin to shoot in the spring
time. Getting up at sunrise to dig up a
quarter of an acre before breakfast, and,
then going down to their business in the
city, returning in the evening to finish
up their work after the sun down meal,
is beautiful in theory, yet it has its draw
backs. If the lima beans don't come up
all right the failure is laid on the seeds
man, when if the truth were known the
amateur farmer has forgot to turn theil
eyes down, and the consequence was
that when they did sprout, they floun-
dered around in the ground trying tc
find the poles. Whole potatoes are put
in the rows like into the boiling pot, and
they have beautiful crop of blossoms
in due time, which are diligently attend
ed to Paris green. The eye issue was not
thought of in either case, so when sum
mer warns the feeling cools of, and with
it crop of weeds swallowing up their
garden farm, and they come to the con
clusion that agriculture is a delusion and
a snare. The best way for city man
to do is to live while in the midst O.
such work and grow used to it by de
grees.
They arc still talking about new and
better water supply for our city, but it il
all talk. No plan seems to suit, either il
is too long or too expensive, or the water
is not good. All this time the people arr
drinking in the impure liquid as it come
to them through the pipes, until they
have become quite disguised. In on,
section of our city where the pipes have
been disturbed, and the water has beer
muddy for months, a very temperate
man was taken to the hospital the Other
day suffering in a very bad way with O
pain in his stomach, from which he died
When he was opened it was found that
he had several pounds of mud in hin
and live catfish, about the size of those
which are caught by embrio fishermen
and which are too small to fry.