The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-05-15
Things in the Quaker City.



sions, and the doctors, dentists and liter
AIRY people are being turned out to the
tune of nearly a thousand year from
the different institutions conferred here
What on earth becomes of all this new
material is a question the general public
will soon know, for it is known that the
number of candidates of professional
taste Ear exceed the demand fully fifty
per cent. was talking to receiver of
one of our city railway lines recently,
and he informed me that the number of
men who applied for positions as con-
ductors who were once professionally en-
gagged was remarkable. There were
some who could speak seven languages,
doctors who had never set limb, and
lawyers who had never pleaded a case.
1t may be that these men were not sue
cesses in their line of study, but the inn
preston is that they had not struck the
groove that success always attends, for
we all have witnessed the raising of in
dividuals where merit is of no moment
whatever. After all, life is an enigma to
many of us.
The most important religious news of
the week, was the election. of the Rev.
Philip Brooks, of Boston, to be assistant
Bishop by the Episcopal convention.
Very few outside the attendants of this
particular church gathering knew of the
forces at work between the High and
Low Episcopalians, as nothing of an out
rageous character was attempted, yet the
main ideas of these extreme parties was
to enchore the other by some means or
other. The Low Church party has had
the ascendancy for many years, but as
they have been very lienent with their
ritualistic brethren, many converts to
this advanced school have been made,
so that now they have very narrow
margin, when question of election of
Bishop is concerned. Bishop Stevens is
a man of peace, and has never exercised
the high perogatives of his office for the
crushing out the ritualists, although he
is Low Churchman. The election of
Mr.. Brooks will be a great addition to
the Diocese and the city, for he is the
greatest preacher of his denomination,
and the best thinker among any of the
many big guns of the other churches.
His acceptance think is doubtful.
We are now in the midst of strikes,
and what the outcome will be no man
can tell. 1t may be that they will fizzle
out by reason of their enormous weight,
or they may precipitate a very ugly
feeling between capital and labor. That
in some instances the demands of the
men will be acceeded to is apparent, but
there are many employers that are as
ugly in their dispositions as the strikers,
and will not reason the case. Although
the general public arc opposed to strikes
where men try the intimidating game,
it is apparent on every hand that organ
lied labor is becoming a factor both
socially and politically, and men who
have heretofore thought lightly of the
movement in labor circles are now try
ing to keep on that side of subject in all
matters. 1t is now said the Mayor of
this city has been drilling his police with
rifles, and has also secured two gatling
guns for use on mobs. 1t is hoped that
the prudence of our workmen will not
cause their use, and that the employers
will have hearts large enough to grant
any reasonable demand that may be
made upon them.
The drowning of three boys in the
Wissahickon is one of those accidents
which follows in the wake of Spring.
Going up this creek one would suppose
that such things were impossible on
Sunday afternoon when the banks are
crowded with pedestrians and vehicles,
yet these boys shot over the breast of
the dam and were swallowed up in the
eddying whirl-pools. In ordinary times
you could wade across the breast, but on
last Sunday the waters were swollen, and
the boys did not see their danger till too
late. The road sides were crowded, yet
only one man had the nerve to dash
into the waters to save them, and was
successful only in one instance. Now
the spot will be pointed out as the local
ity where three bad boys who didn't go
to Sunday School, lost their lives, and
where a hundred people looked on and
saw them drown.
A train was run almost into our city
to-day on the B. and o. r. r., and by
the first of June the road will be almost
ready for traffic. In order to popularize
the Pennsylvania route before the new
road is completed, excursion tickets will
be sold as far as Washington at reduced
rates. suppose Newark comes in for
share of this beneficence, which long
ago should have been inaugurated.
The days will soon be as long as they
can get, and flies will be up with the sun
trying to blow your nose. How time
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