The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-05-29

Rev. I. ii. Haynes and Mrs. Kenney
will spend first Sunday in June in our
town and conduct service at the NJ. e..
Church
The Sundny School at the jackson
Hall near Cowantown, will reopen on
next Sunday, tomorrow afternoon at
half past two o'clock. Rev j. l.. Vallan-
digham, will be present and preach n
short sermon. All are invited.
We were informed that the Amateur
Dramatic Association of Elkton, will not
render the comedy Engaged" until Miss
Annie Smith RECEIVERS. She is now quite
i'll with erysipelas. We hope that
Miss Smith will speedily recover
Walter ]. Booth is not to be downed.
He is always on top, and in this issue
you will notice that he will sell large
number of cattle on Monday, May 31st,
near New London, at 1.3O p. m. Mr..
Booth informed us that stock has been
selling we'll
"A petrified cat was found in an old
building that workmen were tearing
down. 1t is perfect cat, with the ex-
ception of the hair. The tail is as sharp
as briar on the point. The building
belonged to County Treasurer Herbert,
who will, no doubt, present it to some
museum. The house was at New Castle.
Quite large freight train, loaded
with lumber, passed north on the Balti-
more and Ohio on Tuesday. The engine
was of rather peculiar description. The
engineers cab was over the boiler, while
the fireman was several feet lower, and
several feet in the rear. Tho engine was
somewhat like what was known as the
"camel-back"
All our business men should encour-
age and support the proposed Electric
Light Company. A meeting will be held
tonight in Grange Hall, TO hear what
progress the committee, which was APP
pointed on Tuesday night to canvass the
town and get subscribers-had made
We hope to see good attendance of
men who are anxious to see the town
improve.
An exchange gives the following very
simple way ofavoiding the disagreeable
smoke and gas which always pours into
the room when a fire is lighted in a
stove, heater or fireplace ON damp day.
Put in the wood and coal as usual, but
before lighting them, ignite handful of
paper or shayings placed on top of the
coal. This produces current of hot air
in the chimney, which draws up the
smoke and gas at once.
The subjoined item has lots of solid
truth in it. A number of ball-players
will note the fact: This is the time of
the year when the voice of the average
boy experiences strange mutations. In
school, when he is called to declaim
"piece," it is often impossible to hear
him ten feet away. But in the very
same afternoon his voice can be heard all
over the baseball grounds and clear over
the fence, as he yells; "Go now; you've
got to CO." u
The thunder storm that swept over
our town on Monday was attended with
considerable electrical disturbances.
Several objects were struck, and tele-
graph pole at the northwest corner of
the Deer Park Hotel was badly shattered.
Persons in the hotel were more or less
stunned. Delbert Aiken, while in the
act of grounding the telephone wire in
the bar room, was considerably burned
on the wrist by the electric current. Sew
eral pigs in pen near the barn and
close to the hotel, were stunned, and re-
NAMED so some time, but none were
killed.