Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-01-02
NEKARk.

Special Correspondence Gazette and journal
NzwABk. Dec. 20. -ynrIslmas passed
of very pleasantly in this town yester-
dat. There @ers many happy family
reunions during the day and the town
was quite alive with visitors. During
ing the afternoon the Citizens Band and
the Il nA Hose Hook and Ladder Com.
pany with its apparatus paraded the
streets and in the evening q dance was
given in Caskey Hall by an Organization
calling itself +. Y, NJ The affair was
we'll attended aud very pleasant Other
wise the town maintained its usual
quietude.
Ga Tuesday afternoon the sunday
school of st. Thomas Episcopal Church
held its Christmas festival. The service
WAS a very pretty choral one, the scholars
with bright banners and happy faces
coming in with the professional and
Offering their contributions TO the parish
building fund. A well-ladened Christ
mas tree formed no ineonsidersble feature
of the festival.
Services were held yesterday in the
Episcopal aud Roman Catholic churches.
Il I'll mass WAS said at the latter church
al 8 4. M, by the Rev. Father Carey.
At st. Thomas Episcopal Church service
was held by the Rev. Mr.. Bond at 1880
O'Clock followed by celebration of holy
communion. The music was ry attrsc.
tive ard spiri.ed through the aid given by
several out Of town singers. The church
and chancel were very tAstefully adorned
| with flowers, greens and holly, the chan.
Gel being divided from the choir by
''rooe screen" made OF greens and Of
Of very pretty designs.
! NEWARK, Dec. 2S-Another Christmas
| Sunday school entertainment was given
last evening: this time by the scholars
and teachers Of the Christian Church
\ school in Caskoy Hall. There were read
ings, vocal efforts and tSbleauI during
tbs evening and then came the distriou-
ton OF little gifts By hosry headed and
picturesque Old Santa Claus who made
his way down chimney constructed on
the stage. TIE nez: sad last entertain
ment Of this kind for sunday school
scholars will be given in the Presby terrain
church Oh Monday.
William K. Epperson Of this town and
Miss Lydia Maxwell of Cowsntown, were
quietly married on Cnristmss day by the
Rev. William Kershaw. On Thursday
night they were serensded at their home
near Cssho's mills by the Citizens Band.
Invitations have been issued for the
wedding OF Miss Emma Johnston OF
Singerly TO Thomas Robertson of Phila.
delpEia, at singerly, on January b.
William Mahle, living near Porter's
station, died on Thursday. in his SD
year, from an attack Of paralysis. His
funeral will be held on Sunday morning
from his residence.
Drawings of the new house Of the .E:na
Hose, Hook and Ladder Company to be
erected on Academy street, have been re-
ceiyed from the architect, B. Frank Cars
we'll of Wilmington. They contemplate
q very neat and ornamental building.
NEWARK Dec. Yesterday afternoon
young coiored girl was noticed walking
up Main street st rapid pace, wildly
Sesticulsting with her head and hands
and accompanying her qQeer gestures
with weird and plainti7e sort OF ljtsuy,
saying, 20, Lord save me- This was
Essin and sgsin repeated in q very
melodious strain until she become the
centre of q large and interested crowd of
listeners who soon discovered her de-
mented state and kindly assisted her 20 e
nsighboring house, where she was taken
core OF and from which she wai subse-
qlently taken TO her home near Christina,
i've miles east OF here. She had walked all
the way from her home in this sad condi.
ticn and is said to have become demented
through grieving Tor her sister who re-
Gently died.
great many Newark people are just
: now decidedly "a la mode in possessing
, fully developed cases OF ia grippe, - thA
lie, II violent and boisterous sneezing il
any symptom of this peau lar and fash
ionsble mAlady. It is generally accom-
; panied heresbout with extreme neuset
and dull pains through the body, but ii
victims suffer nothing more serious thai
; bodily discomfort and an entorced ''in
! vAlidisn" Of several days in their homes
One, however, who suffered from q par
ticulLiy irritating case, declared that
is not sickness ito be sneezed at b.
any means
The supreme question which is jus
now exciting the residents OF Academ
J street is Where is Moses Moses
the name Of a lad who was sent into Wi
mtngton or Saturday by his mother
I OBTAIN il possible some pecuIisry al
from rich relative whom she claims I
nave there. Thinking that person.
;, ard pathetic Appsal from her son wouJ
be more efeotuhl than an epistolator
i efuNion she sent her son. The miesio
y has so far brought no result and til
d mother Is minus the son Who has not r,
- turned nor sent hry word. The motht
te is almost frantic and has aroused all be
L neighbors by her fear that the boy hs
- obtained the money and has atterwsrt
!. beep most "fodlly murdered" by thieye
EEvARK, Dec. 3l.-Work is goir
steadily on at the ruins OF the Des
y woolen mill and the property will soc
u u be almost transformed by the chang
y which Henry w. Morrow ia maxim
~ WHIST decay and disintegration have n
81 effected in the old walls since tine fir
- has since been accomplished by for
sc Of men under Messrs. Willis and Kir
te The high and tolleting walls of the nor
- mill have been rszsd by the aid OF
~ improyised battering ram patterned eft
lD the encients. This will be rebuilt OF
~ ~ story in height to Berve as the pape
'h machine room, Tho old dye HOUSE Ell
~ Other buildit q which we're not Destroy
'9s oy FIRE will be used in the manufacture
II DR. M9rrow's ibre proGuct, the mar
~ for which has net vet been decided L
l's old tenement houses on the south hs
~ hacn repaired md rooted by Contract
Nc Kirk will be used as stables by the u,
NJ firm, The old weaving room sbo
- !4Gx60 feet will probably be repaired al
u covered with a roof for the preset
a. NEGOTIATIONS are nov pending betwe
~ an Eastern Shore manufacturing firm a
an the Newark Board of Trade. which,
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