Evening journal., 1888-06-16
CITY New.in Rrief.

City News i'm Brief.
ST. Johns Sunday school win have a
picnic to-day in Tatnalps woods.
The gutter on Claymont ST.. between
18th and 18th Sts., needs attention.
The Historical Society will meet on
Monday evening next at their rooms.
Forty hours devotion begins in the
Catholic churches tomorrow morn
ing.
A party of young people went out to
Brandywine Springs at IL o'clock this
morning.
The vestibule parlor cars Amaryllis
and Olivia have been put into the yard
of the Pullman works.
The Bachelor Boat Club on June 90
propose to make their fourth annual
moonlight the event of the season.
Friends school at 4th and West Sta,
last year had 1856 pupils enrolled and
recorded an average attendance of
100.
J. M. Harvey, druggist, has put an
improved milk shake in his store. 1t
will make four shakes at the same
time.
George Stapleford of Blackbird bun
dred had his foot crushed in the
market this morning by the wheels of
a coal wagon.
Fifteen car loads Of berries were
shipped to Jersey City yesterday,
making a total to all points for the
season of 1868.
The directors of the City Market AS
sociation have decided to postpone the
laying of the wood flooring in the
market house until October.
Miss Hattie Newlin's sewing school
of the Delaware Avenue Baptist
Church had a picnic to-day in the
woods near the West Junction.
Commencing July 90 the w. & N.
r. r. viii run train from the foot Of
French st. at $40 a. m. to connect
with the Republic for Cape May.
Messrs. Tindall Brothers, the well
known contractors, have staked off
ground on the north side Of jackson
St., above sth, for four daily dwellings.
-Four hundred persons went on the
excursion to Harpers Ferry, Va, this
morning from the Delaware Ave. and
Market st. stations of the B. g. o.
r. r.
The S@ngerbund will take a large
crowd, from present indications, TO
Cape May tomorrow. The best OF
Of order will be preserved on the Re-
public.
Jackson & Sharp this morning
shipped the Woodruff sleeping car to
the B. & o. railroad. 1t will be on the
train which goes to Chicago to-mor-
row morning.
The brick house I'd autd Washing
ton Ste. is being partially torn down.
A new back building is to be erected
and the first story fronting on I'd st. is
to be changed into a store.
Some chicken thieves relieved
Judge" Frist's chicken coop at 18th
and King SITS. the other night Of four
very fine pullets. Several petty rob-
berries of the this kind have taken
place in that vicinity recently.
Rodney Street Presbyterian Church.
of which Rev. William L. McEwan is
pastor, will have two services to-
morrow. Rev. Henry ID. Lindsay of
First Presbyterian Church will preach
at 10 30 a. m. and the pastor at 7.45
p. m.
All of the visitors to Chicago from
this city will receive handsome white
silk badges with gold lace top and
bottom and the word Delaware
across them, eurmounted by an old
blue hen doing vigorous duty at
Growing.
The Heavenly Recruits will hold a
gospel temperance meeting this even
ing { s o'clock at 4th and Monroe.
Services will be held to morrow as
follows: Prayer, $50 a. M; preaching
10 30 a. M Sunday school, 2 M;
love feast 3 Is p. M. preaching 7.30 p.
N. Rev. Jonas Trumbower, pastor.
Tomorrow in st. Patrick's Reformed
Catholic Church the 40 hours devotion
will open and will continue until next
Tuesday evening. Sermons will be
delivered bY Very Rev. James A.
Lyons and Rev. George j. Kelley Of
this city and Rev. Joseph O'Keefe of
Philadelphia.
A day at Augustine Pier promises
to be favorite recreation for fisher
men this Summer. The Wilmington
will be put on the route about next
Thureday. It will leave4th st, wharf
at 8 and 2 O'Clock, arriving at the pier
between 9 and 10 o'clock on the first
trip, and in returning leave at II and
. O'Clock respectively.