Evening journal., 1895-02-09

down with such force that he shook
board fence on the other side Of the high
way. He stood up TO write bis copy for
several days.
Electric Linemen snowbound.
A party of lineman sent out by the
City Electric Company to run the line
from here to Farnhurst, became snow
bound between here and that place and
for time 1t looked pretty scaly for them.
A party was ready to sstart from here to
rescue them, and q start was to have
been made this afternoon when the cast.
Rways turned up, cold and disgruntled
and by no means pleased with the cyclone
aud Its workings
Marine Wrecks Brought In.
Yesterday number OF marine wrecks
we're brought up by the ice boat and are
now In the hospitals at the various yards
along the Christiana. The Lena B. was
brouget into the Pusey and Jones's.ysrd
about o'clock with hole In her side.
The Taurus was brought to the same
yard about o'clock with her rudder
post gone She was taken under the
shears and lifted out for repairs
The Frank Janson went to Harlan and
Hollingsworths yard with her rudder
stripped and otherwise Injured
The Amanda Powell also reached the
same yard last night with hole in her
bow. She was run under the shears and
now lies with her nose we'll out OF water.
while men are busy on her.
The River soIld Mass Office.
A telephone message from Pigeon
i Point states that there has not hesn q
single boat up to day, excepting ioe.
/ boat No 3, conveying q large steamer,
name unknown. The river Is one mass
OF solid Ice from bank to bank, and
when the iceboat passed the river
frozs again ia her wake. The light
house keeper reports that while sxlled
| from the outside world, he has plenty ia
eat and is making himself as comfortable
as possible There Is absolutely no chance
to communicate with this city excepting
by telephone. ano the prospect Is not
assuring.
No street Market To-day.
For the first time In the history Of tbs
oldest ctzsns there was no market, aud
only one team was seen from Second Il
Tenth streets. The man came from Just
outside tho city in Brandywine hundred
and sold out within an hour or two.
Even Intsrfsred with Church work.
Presiding Elder l.. e. Barrett, Of thl
Wilmington district, NJ. e Church, WA
TO have gone out to day to conduo
quarterly conference at Hopewell, Noun
Pleasant, Md, and Rising Sun. Md, to
day and tomorrow. The snow drift
and high winds completely prevente'
him from leaving the city up to lat
hour this afternoon.
A Poem THAT Rivals "BeRutiful snow.
The Philadelphia Record hes this t,
say of the great storm:
There was young man from Bordeaux,
l Who never had seen any aneauI,
In the storm OF last night,
He displayed much delight,
! When the wind through his whiskers di
bleaux.
storm Notes.
An unknown horse and sleigh dashe
out Rlverview at breaknsck speed and
as nobody could be found ia pursul
thereof, two Brandywine citizens atarte
out on horseback after the outfit.
The register ia chancery's ofacs At th
Court Houae Is closed because Cler
Ferguson is still storm bound st hI
Blackbird home.
William Mansley aud w. ]. Hoffman,
agents for local tea company, starte
to New Castle, became snow-bound, an
had to dig themselves out and see
refuge Ia Farmer Blackburn's house [
l anaa "a fraayluu