The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-08-14
NEW CASTLE NEWS.
Correspondence Of the R3puBLIcAH.
NEW Castle, AIglst II.

When Constable Mote left Newark yes
| terilY with tls horse thief for New Gas
| tie il.l ,he farmers breashsl contentedl y
| thty tle Iang:r to their stock would be
| AVA ltpm tls ne. 5IborhoDI at le4s; for
| some time Waen i:iviug By the entrance
| gate to the residence of Tb Dmas Hy,2Omb
| tls Con l5.ab!ei k seu eyes d scoyerel d pea.
| knife on the road 1t would never do to
allow such an opportunity to pass by TO
take penknite from New Castle to New.
ark and 80 he jumped out to PICK itup
The horse thief picked up courage and
then picked up the rens and before the
constable was aware Of the movements Of
the horse thief the latter was speeding
along the road at u lively gait. Ai.e r
driving half mile the thief jumped ont
OF the carriage and started across McCoy5
corn field accompanied by pair Of hand
cuffs. The constable drove here and ac-
conipanled by officer Harrington wen in
search of the escaped prisoner. They fail.
ed to find any traces of the man. But the
constable has tho knife.
The following parody is especially dedi-
Gated to the city council committee on
Health and Nuisance, which is known as
the New Castle Board OF HEALTH
Big weeds, little weeds, growing to.
gether; rag weeds and jimsons crowding
each other; deadly and rank they grow, at
every turn they show somebody's careless.
ness, somehow or other.
Forward, o Board of Health boldly.
and not by stealth; clean up these pest.
breeders all through our borders; yours
not to make reply when the vile weeds are
high; save us from pestilence, save from
disorders
weeds to the right Of us, weeds to the
left of us, weeds all around u.s. and great
is tho wonder why they are left to grow,
why the Health Board is slow. Up men,
and cur the weeds! charge them like war
rior steod5, sever and sund4r
Pass the good word along, Act the kenn
scythe be swung, stay not TO parieylong,
slaughter and sever. Yours not to max
reply, SEQ that the weeds shall dia, clt';
them immediately, slaughter and sever
There was q lively time on Wednesday
evening, on South Fourth street a chsi1
wa; playing on the pavement as a c9loreI
girl came along pushing a baby coach aud
struck the white child Its mother became
angry and struck out from the shoulder
and the colored girl went down with q
thud She then grabbed brick anl was
about to let it fly at the white woman
when friends interfered,
The surveyors Of the New Castle elec-
trio railway yesterday, surveyed the lot
for the power house, car barn and Office on
tho Janyier property near the cut off
Gcorgo Williams yesterday found
gold badge in basket of peaches belong
ing to Fairfax Lodge, No. s. I. o. o. +,
John I Stoops has returned home from
Ocean Grove, greatly improved in heal!h.
He is busily engaged in selling oil cloth
this week at manufacturers prices,
The Democrats are in a quandary at |
present over the election for delegates to |
the State convention at Dover
John Biggs has Informed the Demo.
Gratis here that the Single Takers are Tot |
q party organization, but are Democrats, |
and as such are entitled 10 vote on Demo- |
cratic questions at Democratic meetings. |
The ticket of the Democrats will be as to!.
lows Tomorrow:
Delegates John Schuhardt, George Pns.
til, Lewis E Eliason, John |. Boyle, John |
Altcrnates, Edward Larkins, Wm. 3.
Mccoy, Jr., Edward Davidson, James |
Dcnning and George Whitfield, Sr.