Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-01-31
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LOCAL BRaYfTIEs.
A brilliant rainbow was seen about o..

MinusOr LcuRe, oonB OF 81. george,
has received fine silk dig, q gift from
its feminine friends.
Six of the Union Palace cara built by
the Jackson 4 Sharp Company have been
transferred to the Pullman works.
Colonel Enoch Moore has Just com.
pleted two buoys OF O new design for the
United states Light house Board.
Joseph Campbsll of Mendham, N. j.,
has purchased the dwelling No. 804 West
Tenth street, occupied by A. y. Webster.
Elijah Towers, o prominent farmer and
real estate owner Of Caroline county, died
Saturday afternoon OF his home, near
Potter's Landing.
An unknown man walked overheard at
French street wharf late on Saturday
night when one OF the tug hands rescue d
him by throwing him q line.
James Permar, q woodworker nj the
Pullman car works living at No 500 West
Eighth street fell from q suRifold Mon
day bYuisiDg bis side and arm &C nsidersbly
Kappa Chapter, Phi Kappa Psi FrAter-
nifty WAS instituted at Swnrthmore Col
lese on Saturday last. The members
were initiated at boomers Hotel, Phila
delphis.
Meyer Meyers will vaoate the premises
corner Of Fifth mud Market streets Maroh
10Th aud remqYe 10 Philadelphia. He
will open clothing factory at No. 1924
Ridge avenue.
fnoch Moore has purchased OF Charles
Moore the property adjoining his ship
yard, including the bodybuilding estab-
lishment OF Banner d Mum and the coal
yard Of Wilson q Co.
james Boyd OF No. All King street had
o cash two inches long cut In his fore
head by tho slipping OF lever of Jack
Of the Jackson q Sharp Oompany's car
works Monday afternoon.
Harlow Il Onrtis has resigned HIS DO.
elton es Slate editor OF the M0rnin O
Netos and will sever his connection with
that journal in two weehs MIR. Curtis
will probably pass the summer ct his
home in Newark.
Charles Hickman of No. 5Oi Lombard
street bud q cash two incnes long ont in
bis head Wednesday week by a piece of
wood falling on it at the Jackson & Sharp
oompany's s6ip.yard. DR.. Cantweil
aeweJ the wornd
George Z. AUfey, Of No. $50 Poplar
street, foreman ai the Ejgs Moor Iron
Company's works, had cra tcs cut OF
and his foot otherwise badly bruised on
Ihursdey by piece of iron falling on it.
Dr.. Draper dressed the wound.
The property of the late Alexander
Dixon In Oentreville, Pa, consisting of q
house and barn aud three acres Of land
was sold at public sale few days, by Il.
Willis Taylor and Lewis agnew, the ex.
eoutors, to DR.. Joseph Chandler for
80 600.
County superintendent Of Schools
Herman Bessey has Just completed visit
OF all the schools Of the county. The
neZt teachers examination for second
and third grade certificates will be held
February 2]i, at No. / school, French
street between Fifth and Sixth.
At Squire Bertolettes Office on Tues
day, John y. Wallace of Ohristiana, Pa. -,
brought action against George Cochran,
team of this city for the recovery of
pronissory note for 800. The matter
was settled bv Referees William III.
Brady, Daniel Farra and W. +. Robinson
who gave Judgment in favor Of Wallace
fer amount OF bill.
The old light house tender Geranium
is undergoing slight overhaulin9 at the
Pusey * Jones Company's shipyard
preparatory to undertaking a voyage TO
Boston where abe will probably lay. Com
mander Heed OF Philadelphia, who has
charge OF this light house district. in.
spected her on Saturday. /. y
The new officers Of Nantiooke Lodge
a. +. A. M, are. w. M, James a.
J Douglass; 8. W., DR.. ]. O. CLARK; j. W.,
w. IL. Alburger; Treasurer, John n
Elliott; Secretary, E. E. Goslin; y, d.
=. Frank Wheatley j. D., Isaac N. viii.
loughby; Chaplain, the Rev. q. W.
Burke; Tyler, X, I. WiliouRhby.
!. dispatch from Trenton saya the
Order OF Financial Union has been doing
business in New Jersey contrary to the
state insurance lswe not being incorpor-
: ated and having no reserve fund. Score.
tary OF State Kelsey, who is also inaurance
commissioner, has, 1t 10 stated, decided
to begin suit against the order for Tue rs.
cayeFy o. the penalty, which ia fine of
800. $3.50 -
some real estate men Of this city are NJ
onts with Millionaire Addicks beclu.a
they could moi make hira sec the advan.
tage OF purchasing q residence here. lie
ives driven out to delaware avenue las,
week to see fiue property there, II IN
|, believed, however, that his past sena.
torial election impressions weighod too
] heavily on his mind and he decided not
, to buy
Bicyclers are revilipg tho low court
, for not oyster shelliug the New OaatIe
road or OF least half of it from, Wilmino.
ton out. The New Castle townsfolk nave
almost completed the % miles miles trom
their city. They consider II extremely
niRgardly Of the levy court that the vii.
mington half is not finished az there is
really only ! miles to be shelied on tLia
side, the causeway mile being already
completed.
Referees j. Parke Postles, A. 8. Reed
and Paris NJ. Mitchell settled the disputed
7 question in regard to the depth OF The
cellar OF No. 200 Market strest. between
j. BaTkley j Bro, and ]. b. Jobnson
: contractor, by deciding that line shonld
. be drawn from the lowest point Ia tbe
front OF the cellar to the lowest point in
the rear of the cellar and that the flooy
DO leysled to that line. The owners OF
the adjoining buildings had demonstrated
against greater depth 20 the excavation
! 80 IT might undermine their walls and do
.. considerable damage to their property.
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IN november last the attorneys OF the
i familiss Of the 20 miners wha were BURIED
: IN the No. slope, at Nsuticoke, Pa.
aoout three years ago, asked a mandanl us
to compel thu Sunquehanna Coal Com
pany to make further search for the
bodies. Monday the opinion OF Judst
Rice was handed down Diminishing the
petition for the maudamus. This is be
lleved to settle the case ss far as any fur
sas' search for ths bodies is concerned.