The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-01-02
NEW CASTLE NEWS


NEW CASTLE, Jan. =.
Tho second grand ball Of the West End
Social Club was held last evening. Short
ly after ~ o'clock the grand march was led
by Mr., William Robbins and Miss Mary
MCCue. The lady, wore a becoming
ing dress Of cream Henrietta trimmed with
lace and ribbon. The affair was pleas
ant one and was largely attended by the
young people oI this city and several from
Wilmington.
On Thursday night Friendship Con-
clave No, 81 Moguilians held II bungle
and the jolly jacks are still laughing be-
cause they had such jolly time. Altar
three victims were kicked through the
bungle, all present walked up 10 the man
agcr and partook OF hay and oats, bran
ana crushed corn. George Il. IObin and
James Cannon delivered interesting ad-
dresses
Constable Daniel Cush yesterday after
noon brought a coiOred man named Wal
ter Mcbride to the jail He was commit
tod by Magistrate A. n. Sutton of st.
Georges in default of $500 bail to appear
at the next term OF Court, to answer tho
charge uf obtaining goods under false
pretonses. 1t is alleged that one day this
week Mcbride went to All son Cleaycr a
Port Penn farmer and purchased three
hogs, valued at Sl375 When they were
delivered on Wednesday Mcbride told
the lad he had better take himself home
as quickly as possible.
As he refused to pay for the hogs ho WAS
arrested and held as above stated.
Several of New Castles sporting t,oo,,,
attended the fox hunt yesterday Harp,e teVpte
Corner. The fox was a gooi d. rare $
the hounds and hun.zmer , Iivnj,t ,J utru ru s"Ho W
Christiana an. Red Idon, T6 T6ere w Lyers ps
seventy .r,,e horseplen and one lady, Ms
Net nrk, in the saddle, Tie fox gave tho
, slip below Red Lior
4ne funeral Of Mrs. Sarah A. Morgan
took place this morning aud was largely
attended. Services were held at tho house
and lnterment was made at the Presby.
terlun Cemetery. The pail bearers were
Is, Il. Blackburn, CharleG Meggiuson,
John blackburn, Edward Challenger,
Roberto, Gordon and James Morrison.
Chief Warden Gould aud Warden Bow
ers yesterday 'smelled" something wrong
about cell No. 25,and during the afternoon
decided to make an Investigation. Cell
20 is next to tho cell from which Eldridge
escaped some time ago. The eyes Of the
wardens failed to discern any signs of an
attempt to break Jail by the three prison.
erS now awaiting trial at the next term
Of court.
As seeing Is not always believing the
wardens tried the sounding process with
tHc ltSulU lHdt III Tue luT corner OIL Tue
cell they found that II largo hole had been
made in the ceiling and that the men had
neatly covered it with white muslin which
was atterWard whiteWashed and that it
had the appearance OF being the white
washed plAstering.
John Dawson, youth of Is years of
age, arrived at the Jail here last evening,
and stated that John Paradise, a Comrade
OF his, while on II Delaware Division train
~.
at the jail telephoned to Wilmington, and
then to Farnhurst, where it was learned
that the young man had applied ut the
alnishousc and that bis hand was SO bad
ly mashed that amputatiOn was neces-
sary.
Mrs. Charles H. Clcwell, is visiting in
Bethlehem, Pa.
Miss V. S. Cooper, master Alexander
Cooper and master Jack Cooper attended
n New Years dance in the New Century
Club building i'll Wilmington last even.
ing.
Thomas Donaldson and Miss Francis
Beck, Of Wilmington, were the guests of
New Castle friends yesterday.
Miss Nan Mahoney spent yesterday in
Wilmington with friends.
If tho bridge over the cut off was built
then the trolley cars would ding between
here and Wilmington.
Word has been received that Claude
Eberle, son of Professor William H.
Eberle, of tho Troy Opera House orches-
ira, ran away from home IN June and has
not been heard from since that time.
Claude was a bright lad Of fourteen and
from what can be CLEANED from letter
received it appears that he became in.
fatunted Of a bright little school girl. Let
tors passed between the young people and
finally one of the letters fell into the hands
of the girls mother. When Claude called
in the afternoon he was given good lee,
ture and til" lad became scared and has
not shown up since,
Il have tried Salvation Oil in my fam
lily, ON broken and dlsloCatod foot and
can recommend it to any one as II good
linimcnt Mrs. William Trolley, Jupltu,
Mo-,