Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22

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NEWARK, Oct. 15.-The Etna hose and
ladder company made parade through
town yesterday morning shortly before
eembarking for Wilmington on the 1908
Newark Centre train. In the parade were
about % Of the so members Of the COM
pany preceded by the North East Cornet
Band of 10 pieces. The chief Of the com
pany, II. d. Wright, in full fireman's
attire, was at the head of the line, and the
new silk banner of the company was
carried for the first time. The hose car
riage was driven in to Wilmington earlier
in the morning. The iiremen who have
returned home report having had a
thoroughly pleasant time and a most
nnospltable reception from their host, the
Weccacoe company.
:. Meetings of the stockholders of the
knauf Company and the Casho Machine
were held on Tuesday afternoon iii this
town. The former was n meeting merely
OF the resident stockholders and rs there
was not majority of stock represented it
adjourned to meet on Tuesday, October
nth, at p. m. The Casho meeting also
adjourned to meet again next week, the
president of the company, Thomas Beilah,
being unable by reason of sickness to pre-.
pare the annual report,
NEWARK. Oct. 1.-THE work of the
local branch of the Society for the Extern
sion of University Teaching opens again
on Tuesday evening. November Sd iii The
Delaware College oratory with course of
six lectures on the modern novelists by
Professor Felix Il. Schelling Of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. The dates and
subjects of the separate lectures are AS fol-
lows November Sd, THE Evolution Of
the Novel" November 10th, Sir Walter
Scott and the Historic al Novel; November
18th, Charles Dickens and the Novel With
n Purpose November 9th, civilian
Shakespeare Thackeray and Social Satre;''
December list, George Eliot and the True
and False Fiction December Sth
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the ldealstic
X omance.h These lectures after the first
will all fall on successive Tuesday even
ings and the price for the course tickets
will remain at the low price of last year,
that Is, 81, the aim being merely to clear
the expenses Of the lecturer. The sylabi
containing an epitome of the lectures has
been placed IN sale by the local COM
mittee at the store of William Wilson
and these are indispensable to those who
intend to attend the lectures and desire the
full benefit therefrom. The lecturer adj
yises the reading of MS many of the fol
lowing novels as possible and in the order
named; Vicar of Wakefield" "lvanhoe,n
" ..PI,i s {, Papers" Vanity Fair"
AthlAti lNANtA4t llNhil vi
Midlothian, ""David Copperfeld, ""Henry
Esmond," ''Silas WARREN enable
Fawn," Monastery "Tale Of Two
Cities, i"The Newcomes, (" "Middlemarch"
and House of Seven Cables
j. Frank Wilds, direct tax commissioner,
was here on Thursday by appointment re
ceiving applications for the direct tax from
claimants in this vicinity A large num-
Der appeared before and made formal APP
plication for the tax.
James Gilmore, an old sport of this
town, was up before Squire Smith on
Thursday on the usual charge of wife
beating, preferred by his better half"
The Entertainment complained of occurred
on the night before while Gilmore was
drunk, and on account Of the growing fire.
quency Of these assaults the accused was
put under $500 bond for his appearance at
the November term of court.
During the peach season recently closed
65s car loads or about 100000 baskets of
peaches were shipped to Canadian and
Western New York points over the New
ark ~ Delaware City railroad. This traffic
left the Delaware railroad at Porleris,
came across to Newark by the n. Il d. G.
railroad, and here took the main line for
Perryyille, from which point it went
north by the Port Deposit & Columbia
and Northern Central railroads.