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Evening journal., 1897-01-23
KEOTTY QUESTIONS TX SCRIPTURE.
REV. COLLINS HAD TO FIRE HOT
SHOT AT THREE OF HIS PUPILS.

An appreciative audience heard the
novel contest in Scriptural knowledge
at the NJ. e. Church last evening be-
tween fifteen advanced pupils OF the
Sunday school and fifteen scholars Of
Rev. V. S. Collins Bible Union. Hand
some prizes were offered, the three
contestants having the highest marks
in order
Any scholar selected for the contest
by Pastor Collins or superintendent
Wise had TO either participate or pay
cash forfeit. The cash paid for lunch
and ices which were afterward served
10 the thirty contestants.
Some of the contestants had spent all
their spare time OF the past
fortnight among commentaries and
teachers journals. But while
dozen of them had correct de-
scriptions on tongues end of every de-
riod mentioned in Holy Writ and could
repeat the names Of books frontward
and backward, they had neglected to
familiarize themselves with the topo-
graphy Of the countries and the rivers,
especially, proved a stumbling block
which the professor rolled around
them at a lively rate.
Thomas Frazer, Jr., came out the
ing alone until he was tired stopping
off the hot shot poured at him by Mr.
Collins He won the first prize-a
handsome oxford teachers Bible.
For the second prize there was a
neck-and-neck contest that made the
suspense almost painful. William Dea-
Syne, OF the Bible Union, and Harry II.
Hughes, of the Sunday school, stood to-
gether 1t was decided to give them
three questions that would trip any
ordinary man. Both failed on the last
one. Then five stunning questions were
| selected, and answers to the first four
came like flashes The fifth, however,
tIipped Mr.. Hughes, but Mr.. Deakyne
won. Mr. Deakyne received a fine copy
Of the New Testament and Psalms.
Mr. Hughes prize was New Testa-
ment
In the class contest Superintendent
Wise's party defeated Pastor Collins
team by "a to 80. There were several
women in the contest, but they did not
show to any advantage beside the
bright men.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
A Wonderful Avennc.

Magnolia avenue, which has been the
pride of Riverside from its founding,
and which has won national reputa-
tion as a boulevard, has had two de-
fects. The streets leading to it were
usually dusty and disagreeable, while
the darkness of the avenue, owing to tho
dense foliage of the overhanging pepper
trees, made it a rather dismal evening
drive. All that is at an end. 1t is now
possible to drive from the heart of town
over macadamized Ctrcets, perfectly free
from dust and mud, direct to the peer
less Magnolia avenue, and If the drive
be taken in the evening arc lights are
encountered every 800 feet, giving
splendid illumination. When the ave-
nue. is reached, there is presented such
sight as few, if any towns possess.
Tho electric poles are but 124 feet apart
and from these brackets project about
three feet From each bracket hangs a
cluster Of three incandescent lights COW
cred with a reflector, which throws the
light on to the driveway.
As one stands at one end of this row
Of lights but four or five of thom can be
distinguished as individual lights, tine
remainder forming a continuous chain
of fire which seemingly stretches away
for untold miles beneath the verdant
canopy Of tho arching pepper trees.
Modern as is the scene, it impresses the
beholder as an oriental fantasy worthy
of the Spanish Moors. The imagined
extent of the wondrous chain of fire,
/ however, is in degree an optical illu.
sion. Instead of being miles in length,
it is but a little over a mile. Instead Of
there being untold thousands of lights
one is amazed to learn that there art
but 15O, suspended from but 90 poles
| Los Angeles Times.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
OYER i6O NILES OUT OF HER WAY.
STEAMSHIP ARRIVES IN THE
DELAWARE ENTIRELY COVERED
WITH ICE AND STORM-TOSSED.

After a stormy voyage OF twenty-nine
days, from Dantzic, Prussia, with A.
600 bags, or 1000 tons. of beet sugar,
the Danish steamer Nordhvalen, Cap
tain Brunnich, arrived in the Delaware
yesterday. The vessel sailed on De-
cember 81 from Newcastle, England,
where she stopped for bunker coal, and
up to the time she approached the Del
aware capes encountered gales and was
boarded by huge seas.
On the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of this
month the vessel, when she was at a
point north of Scotland, encountered
strong southerly gales. On the 4th the
chart-room door was burst in, and
large quantities of water got into the
captains cabin. The door was soon
repaired, but not long afterwards an
other sea came dashing on board and
broke il down again. Everything NOV
able on deck was swept overheard, and
the deck itself was somewhat damaged.
Large fields of foe ice were met with
on the 18th instant when the vessel was
in latitude AS, longitude 40, and she
had to be steered $50 miles out Of her
course to the southwark to get her
clear of it.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
AFFAIRS AT DELAWARE COLLEGE.
ATHENAEAN SOCIETY'S COM
MENCEMENT SPEAKERS-AP POW
ERFUL STEREOPTICON BOUGHT.
OTHER MATTERS.

Special Correspondence Evening Journal
NEWARK, Jan. 23.-The Athenaean
Literary Society has announced its
speakers for the anniversary exercises
at the next commencement of Delaware
College. They are William Ellis so
ciety address, and Lee o. Willis, fare
well address.
Professor Pratt, of the electrical de-
partment, has procured a Colts stere-
opticon, one of the best that is on the
market. Not only will it be used by
him in his lectures, but will also en-
able lecturers from other institutions,
who will be engaged, to illustrate their
Subjects The stereopticon is operated
by means Of an arc light Of l.SO0 can
dle-power. The lenses are Of such a
high grade and the light is so strong
that students will be enabled to take
notes by night in a lighted room, as
we'll as in the dark.
Charles e. Hibberd. instructor in the
shops, has recovered from an illness of
several weeks duration.
Three full course and five agrieul-
tural course students have entered the
college this month.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
THE CHECK SYSTEM.
An English Visitor Tells the People About
the Alnericah way.

the Aincricrn Way.
The American constitution has been
called a system of checks. So in Ameri-
can life When you want to travel, you
give your baggage to the porter Of your
hotel, and he gives you check in re-
turn At the station you reclaim 1t
with the check and pass it in at conn
ter and receive another check As you
approach your destination another func-
tionary comes along the train, takes
your check and gives you another check
in its place. He fishes ont your baggage
and conveys it to your hotel-for con-
sideration. You have left your third
and last check at the Office CT the hotel
when you enter 1t, and thence it is de-
livered up Oh receipt Of the baggage.
AT first you bless this arrangement as
the salvation Of the traveller. After
few weeks of it the tyranny Of the check
becomes so CALLING that you begin to
long for the fine old English method Of
dumping down your goods in front Of
porter and leaving them TO find the way
themselves. You would even hail it as
personal triumph if some Of your bag
gage would get lost. But it never docs.
Sometimes it arrives late, but it always
arrives.
Yet il seldom arrives in the shape in
which it started, if that is any consola-
ton. They who have to do with bag
gage see to that You very soon discover
why Americans carry their goods in
ironclad trunks, and why it is madness
for anybody TO do anything else. /
started out, like an idiot, with new
leather portmanteau. They ripped the
stout brass lock of the first week
not for plumber, apparently, but simply
because it is the tradition of the service.
They punched it and kicked and danced
on it, In softer hours. when literary
inspiration came, they wrote on it. My
portmnnteau today is an epitome Of the
political sentiment Of the United States
from New York to San Francisco. As
a historical document it is beyond
price, and 1 am contemplating the gift
of it to the library Of congress at Wash
ington. AS a portmanteau it has both
feet in the grave.
The system of checks is not confined
TO travellers luggage. Tho conductor of
the train passes carelessly to and fro
asking for your ticket and giving you q
check in return, or asking for youl
check and returning your ticket. If you
hand your stick to a boy in hote
/, while you write your name in the reg
lister, he dashes of TO stow it away il
some secret place and returns triumphant
> with a check In the very hotel bar
when you buy sevenpenoe ha'porth O
whisky yoa get check and walk two
yards across the bar to pay at desk.
But the apotheosis Of the check is a
: Niagara When you go down to th'
) Cave of the Winds you strip off al
your clothes and leave tham, rs we'll a
: your valuahes, in a tin box with th'
attendant Then you so down 20 BATH
with the cataract attircd only in a sui
, of pyjnmas, suit of oilskins and
check lashcd around your neck and ris
ing and falling with the heating O
your heart No wonder the American
speaks Of death as handing in hi
= checks. IL is only by death that he ca
rid himself Of them. London Mail.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
CITY COUNCILMEN VERY HAPPY.
THEY CAME INTO OFFICE UNDER
A DEBT AND LEAVE A BIG SUR
M

n AfiAi' AANB itAAfA - "a 'A' hAAN-
PLUS.
City Councilmen William W. Cooper,
Francis Pagan and William Morrison,
composing Councils Finance Commit
tee. were at the mayors office last
night to so over the accounts of the
treasurer and tax collector.
They practically finished with the
collector. but have yet some auditing to
do on the treasurer's accounts The ii5-
cal year does not really end until
March, when statements of the years
finances are published and distributed
among the taxpayers. All three coun-
cilman were in a iubilant frame of
mind when seen by an Evening Jour
nal reporter.
You see we were not only handi-
capped by hard times said the chair
man. but when we were sworn in we
gaddled upon ourselves about $4,000 of
debt contracted by preceding Councils.
Then the streets were in bad shape and
we had to macadamize Delaware, Fifth
and South streets at a cost of nearly
80 900. Notwithstanding all this, and
the pinching economy which everybody
has mad to practice, we have wiped out
all debts. paid as we went, and now
at the close of this year, we have a
cash surplus in bank.
But that is not all. We have $4,000
of taxes coming in from 1895 and about
/ IS, 900 for 1896 Most of these are good
property taxes and the error list never
| exceeds 81 ,000."
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
THREE-DAY TOUR TO WASHING
TON

Washington at present is the cyno-
sure of all eyes; not only because It is
the nations capital and of the interest
which attaches to the deliberations of
Congress, but the brilliant presidential
reception on New Years day formally
opened the season of fashionable fes-
tivities, and It has now become thegreat
social centre of the country. Brilliant
minds. waving for the time the cares
of government, abandon themselves to
tho gay whirl of the social world. Re-
ceptiOns. dinners, balls follow each
other with bewildering rapidity.
The state of the Cuban question and
the possibilities of Congressional ac-
tion is also claiming attention, and the
never-dying interest which attaches to
the many departments of the govern
ment is attracting its usual number of
visitors.
The three-day personally conducted
tour Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, which leaves New York,
January 21, affords the best opportu-
nifty Of visiting the national capital at
this season. The party will be under
the care and guidance of an eXper-
fenced tourist agent. and the program
in Washington has been prepared with
an accurate knowledge of the location
and best time to visit each of the prin-
cipal points of interest
Round trip tickets, including rail-
road transportation in each direction
and accommodations at the best Wash
ington hotels. will be sold at the fol
lowing rates: From New York, S14.50,
Trenton, sl3.75; Atlantic City, s12.75i
Pottsville, Sl4.30; Philadelphia, Sl150
and at propOrtionate rates from othei
points.
Apply 10 ticket agents, tourist agent
1856 Broadway. New York, or Georg'
w. Boyd, assistant general passenge
agent, Broad Street Station, Philadel
phia.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
unNN,s TIIISI

We offer one Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
FtJ CHENEY q co, Props. Toledo. O.
We. tho Undersigned. have known r. J.
Cheney for the last ~ years, and believe
him perfectly honorable i'm all business
transactions and financially able to carry
ont any obligations made by their firm.
West a TruaN Wholesale Druggists. To-
ledo. o.. Walding. kinnan n Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces OF the system. Price l5c.
per bottle. Sold by al Druggists. Tes'
Gmonials free.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
CONSTABLE FLEMING'S CHASE.
RAN DOWN A FAST DRIVER WHO
BESMEARED THE STREETS
WITH CIRCULARS.

WITH CIRCULARS.
A circular distributor from a Mar
ket street clothing house in Whining
ton drove into town yesterday and
started to cover the streets with large
and msightly dodgers advertising their
wares instead Of quietly stuffing the
papers in door-cracks, as is the custom
about a dozen times a day.
After he had Uttered up South, Fifth
and Delaware streets, Constable Flem-
ing shouted to him to stop, but the
"enterprising' distributor only drove
faster This irritated the constable,
who has not forgotten how to gambol
across the green and he took a sprint
across the school green and brought
the Wilmington team up with a sharp
turn at Harmony and Front streets.
The constable was about to prefer
two charges against the stranger, who
gave the name of Samuel Lewis, but he
was persuaded to let him off after he
had driven back and had boys pick up
every zone of the scattered circulars.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
DR- LFsLIE EsTATE NoT sold.

Trc- aurer Otho Nowland. of the
Equitable Guarantee and Trust Com
pany. was seen at his Wilmington Of
fee this morning and stated positively
that the Leslie estate-o OF the cost
liest homesteads in Delaware, situated
In the heart of New Casle-has not
ben sold Tenant Joseph II. Dough-
erty's notice to leave on March 20 was
simply nothing more nor less than the
formal notice which their new real es-
tate department now sends to ali ten
ants
Evening journal., 1897-01-23

Schedule i'm effect January "A, 1897.
All trains Illuminated with Pintscs
sExpress trains.
TRAINS LEAVE WILMINGTON, della
WARE AVENUE, EAST-BOUND.
M NEW ig a9RK; %eek days ga 'los7 =
III p. m. Sundays, 's.1S si1.25 a. m, 'S.2s
t5.32. t739. IL p IN.
PHILADELPHIA, week days. 1913. 5.5s
a. M. Fi2a. 1910. '229, 'S2S. $50, s5.Ss
5.s6, $50, -ll,25 a: m, 1920, 1928, $50, '5.S.
&c CHESrER. ;sSi SHs week % days. 1913. s55. sac
F7.20 7.36, tS.25. 915 1901, f1025, 11.20 a. m
l2.40 +2.29, $50. +532. $50, fl39. 9l5, III 4
m. Sundays 1913. 1886, $50, 'll.25 a. m.
l22O, 'J28, $50, '5.SS' 60 'HS9' 3D. =
= ATLANTIC CITY, week days, .z2O {
m, '1221, t2.29 D. m. Sundays. 80 a. m.
CAPE MAY, week days, 'S25 a. m
BARTIMoRE IN AND WASHINGTON
week days, ALB, 40, fS.49, IL a. m, 'lz.5
'2O7, asa '4.oS, '4.57 '616, 's.1s p; m. SUI Sss
days, Alb, 72O, 'S49 a. m, 'l2'5o' 20
BALTIMORE AND WAY STATION;
daily, 40 a. m, 2.5i p. m. 20, :.
III a. a M. a. si5.55 S.S4 sl.oS. .i57, '6i6 ~
1918 D. m. Sundays, s413, 40 'S.49 a. n
'l2.55 2.54, s4.57, 7.35 1913 p. m.
PITTSBURG, week days, SIC p.
SUNDAYS, s457 p. m.
CHICAGO. daily, 4.57 D. IN.
CHICAGO, via Cincinnati ana lnuldI
apOlis, sS.f9 a. M, daily.
CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS oail
f12.55 and 1913 d. IN. -
NEW ORLEANS and MEMPHIS, wi
Bristol and Chattanooga, week days, '6i
p. m. Sundays. s457 p. m. Ihroua
sleepers to Memphis and New Orleans
SINGERLY ACCOMMODATION, dai
7.20 a. m, 254 and 7.35 p. m.
LANDENBERG ACCOMMODATION
week DAYS, 1927 a. m, ? 81, 4.5l p. m. Su
DAYS, 10 a. m, 4.57 p. m.
LEAVE MARKET STREET. STATION
PHILADELPHIA, week days, $3.50 p.
BALTIMORE, week days, 2.50 p. m.
LANDENBERG and WAY STATION
week days. Gas. 1920 a: m, 2.50, $50 D.
Sundays 955 "A. m, $40 p. m.
LEAVE PHILADELPHIA CHESTNU.
ST. STATION, FOR WILMINGTON
week DAYS, 1880. 6.15. TO. 'S.15. $50, 10.
ii.SO a. m. 1920 .1.ss, 1.5o; $3.50; .4.2o. 4.
ISIS. s5.41, 500, 6.30 s7.40, S.45, 'u.35 p. Il
SUNDAYS, $3.50, ISIS, 800, 11.S0 a. m. s12
1885. 1.5O. -4.20 4S0. $50, '740, 1890 D. m
Telephone. No. 193
Rates TO Western pints lower than
any other line.
9. q. ECULL. General Passenger Age
W. NJ. GREENE. General Manager.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23

10 ots Cures Constipation aud Liver
1 Is - DR.. Agnew's Liver Pills are In
most perfect made, and cure like magic
Sick Headache, Constipation, Bilious
ness, Indigestion and all Liver Ills. L
cents a yial-40 doses.
Sold by Miller Drug Company, 4O2
Market street.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
COURT ISSUES ALTERNATIVE
WRIT.

DOVER, Jan. 28.-The Superior
Court. in special session yesterday, is
sued an alternative writ Of mandamua
TO compel tho election officers of West
Dover hundred to meet in the Court
House, at Dover. on Wednesday next
at 10 o'clock. and count the vote east
in the hundred aL the recent election
and make out the certificates. The fol-
lowing day was fixed for argument in
the case. Senator-elect Kenney, counsel
for T. II Baxter. the Democratic in
spector. made no objection to the issu-
ing Of the writ
Evening journal., 1897-01-23

REDUCED RATES TO WASHINGTON
ON ACCOUNT OF THE lNAUGu
RATION VIA PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD.
For the benefit OF those who desire 20
attend the ceremonies incident TO tn
inauguration of President-elect McKin
ley, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany will sell excursion tickets to
Washington March 1, 2, 3. and A, valid
20 return from March 4 to s, at the toll
lowing rates:
From Philadelphia, S5.4O; Harris
burg, $500; Wilmington, S4.35; Balti-
more, SLIGO, and from all other stations
on the Pennsylvania system at reduced
rates.
This Inauguration viii be a most in
teresting event, and will undoubtedly
attract a large number of people from
every section of the country.
The magnificent facilities of the
Pennsylvania railroad make this line
the fayorite route to the national capi
tai at all times. and its enormou
equipment and splendid terminal ad
vantages at Washington make IL es
pccialiy popular on such occasions.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
PRISONER ANDREWS VERY Ill

young man, formerly engaged at the
Kirkwood kite track, but now serving
a seven years sentence for trouble with
a young girl is very in in his cell, and
has not been able to raise his head for
two days. Andrews is one of those few
prisoners I'm whose case there arc grave
doubts as to his guilt Even the grand
jurors in his case admit that they
would not have indicted the man had
they known anything CT the mitigating
circumstances.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
EnR THE SOUTH.

Southern Railway.-3.19 p. m. weekdays,
''Florida Limited" sleepers to Augusta,
Jacksonville and ST. Augustine; l4l p. m,
daily. slecpers to New Orleans Memphis,
Port Tampa. Asheville and Hot Springs.
Atlantic Coast Line.-l2.l9 p. m, daily,
sleepers to Jacksonville. Port Tampa and
Macon; 100 p. m, weekdays Florida
Special sleepers TO Jacksonville and 81.
Augustine: 1888 night, daily, sleepers TO
Richmond and Jacksonville.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and Gin
cinnati, sleepers and dining-car s.22 p. m.
daily.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
SUED FOR A MANGLED FOOT.

John McNally's suit against the Della
ware Iron Company is listed for trial
at the February term. The plaintiffs
foot was crushed by the iron company's
shifting train. Walter H. Hayes has
been retained by McNally. Levi c. Bird
will represent the New Castle firm.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
CouNsEL wHITEMAN sEEs wILLIs

Attorney Harry Whiteman, of coun-
sci for Thomas Willis. sentenced TO be
put to death on February 10 for the
murder of his little daughter. called on
the prisoner in his cell in New Castle
jail yesterday and had a long inter
view Mr.. Whiteman has filed a plea
with Governor Tunnel for a commuta-
tion Of sentence.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
ANOTHER BUOY At ELBOW LEDal

ANOTHER BUOY AT ELBOW LEDGE
The following notice to mariners has
been issued:
Notice is hereby given that gas
lighted buoy No. IA. marking the FL
bow of Ledge, Delaware Bay has been
rciilled, replaced on its station and re
lighted. An iron ice buoy, painted red
and numbered IA, has been placed 10
mark the position of the gas buoy in
case of its disappearance.
&C. J. TRAIN, Com. u. S. n,
Inspector Fourth Lighthouse Dis"
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
Drr.AWART DIVISION.

For New Castle, SIS, 11.l5 a. m; 80,
43O 615 6.53, 9.51 p. m, and 1910 night.
For Lewes, S.13 a. m; 4.27 p. m.
mar. S.13. 11.O4 a. m; 4.27 and 1156 p. m.
For Harrington and way stations only,
$50 p. m.
Express for Cape Charles. Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk, 11.0i a. m, and l1.bS
D. m.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
BANKINa AND FINANoIAL.
Particulars Free on Application.
SAM. KELLER ~ CO.,
g BROK ER

BANkEkS 3. BkOk ERS,
Al Broadway and 45-47 New Street, n. Y.
Agencies in all large cities of the United
States.
Nearly seventy per cent. profit on our
Holiday Combination covering only
twcnty-seven days transactions; OVER
EIGHT PER ECNT. weekly on the in
vestment for the past six years. No losses
ever recorded. The safest and most profit
able system Of investment known.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
Am MUAE-
w ater Rents

Are due and payable in advance at the
office of the Water Department, south
west corner of King and Sixth streets. If
paid in January 10 per cent. win be de-
Quoted from the face of the bill; II paid
If paid in March, the face of the bill will
be demanded.
April 1st per cent. will be added to the
face of the bill and the ferruleS of de-
linquents may be drawn.
Office open a. m. to 4 p. m.
JOHN S. GRoHE. Registrar.
Evening journal., 1897-01-23
RAILKOADS.
ksNN NSYLVANIA RAILROAlD

The Standard Railway OF America.
PROTECTED THROUGHOUT BY THH
INTERLOCKlNG SWITCH AND
BLOCK SIGNAL SYSTEM
Evening journal., 1897-01-23

90 Congressional Limited Express trains.
composed entirely of Pullman Vestibula
Parlor and Dining Cars. No extra fare
other than the usual Pullman charge.
(t) Limited express trains, composed OF
Pullman Vestibule Parlor Cars, Nestibule
Passenger Coaches, and Dining Car. No
extra fare.
For further information, passengers are
referred to the ticket agent at the sta
tiOn.
S. NJ PROVOST, ]. r. WOOD.
Gen. Manager Gen. Pass. Agent.