The sun., 1897-12-07
LOCAL DOTS.

will leave this city tomorrow on gun
ming trip to Laurel.
There was Il slight fire Monday morn
ing at the home of Mrs. John Mulrooney,
No. 800 West street. destroying a lot OF
clothing.
The directors OF the Florence Crittcn-
don Mission will hold Il pound party III
sixteenth and Pine streets on Thursday
afternoon.
A Superintendent office has opened
at No. ! East Eighth street in the inter
est of the bench show to be held here
next month.
A rumor that Harry Botlam, former
manager OF the National Hotel WASH
ington, is to BE- the new manager OF the
Clayton House.
Y. Y. Moylan OF the Delaware Con
Struction Company, gave very ENJOY
able 'possum supper to his friends Oh
Saturday evening.
| The steam yacht Alccdu, built by the
/ II. x II. Co.. for George W. ChlId>
Drpxel, is reported arriving from soutI.-
crlv course for bunker coal.
Dances will open tomorrow evening
for the winter season at the Delaware
State Hospital for the Insane at Farm
hurst. for the benefit Of aticnts.
At the banquet OF the Princeton Club,
OF Trenton. last Thursday evening, Judge
f., q. Bradford, who is holding |. :.
Court at Trenton, was Il guest OF honor.
Mrs. Howard l.. Pyle, OF this city,
sang at the Academy OF music, in PhiIa-
delphia last Sunday afternoon at the
memorial services held ly the order of
Eks
Work has commenced on the grading
at the Pennsylvania avenue crossing OF
the b. 4. o. Railroad, and is expected to
be completed before the dead OF winter
sets in.
W. L. Smith Supervisor Of switches
and signals of p, W. Il b. Il. r., has 4
force of men engaged in putting in
switches east Of Lombard street
crossing.
The meeting Of the Methodist Com
mittee. OF the Anti-Saloon League, which
was to have been held yesterday after
noon, was postponed until 8 o'clock
Monday morning at Fletcher Hall
! Mrs. Eliza NJ. Davis, widow OF Ben
jamin Davis and mother of r. Davis
and Mrs. W. II. Blake, died last Sunday
afternoon in her 18th year. She was
wellknown in this city. Funeral SER
: vices will be held tomorrow afternoon.
\ retreat for members of societies waa
opened at st. Peters Pro-Cathedral lust
Sunday evening, and will continue for
four days. At j a. III. there will be mass
and at 7.30 p. m., devotional services
and sermon.
The gunboat Wilmington is at Norfolk,
Va, where she is undergoing some
altcration in the steering apparatus, after
which she will join the South Atlantic
Suuadron. 4 letter has been received
from one OF the officers, stating that the
officers and crew are in excellent health
and reflect back to the way they were
received here.
Three ,Iruuks were assessed total OF
-. and two were given Il months vaca-
ion at New Castle.
On next Sunday afternoon at 3.4I
o'clock Mrs. Eunicc Whitley, wife OF
Superintendent Whitley, OF the Sunday
Breakfast Associate ion, will deliver a
lecture on Encouragement in the y.
Vi. {. \. Hall.
DR.. Pierce will lecture i'll st. Johns
Parish House tonight. There will a!s,
be musical entertainment
Mrs. John Il. Nicholson. Of Dover and
Judge William II. Epyrr, Of Gcorgrtown
Yesterday registered at the Clayton
House.
The British steamship Bruadlnayn,
entered Yesterday She Is from Dun
kirk, France, in ballast and will ioaC
crude petroleum at Marcus Hook ion
iIav,c, France.
Market street Bridge j. turned uli OF
account oi repairs for Il week, and trayc
will he made by Third street in tho
ncantilnr.
4 slight fire occurred at the rc~idcnc,
Of john VI. Muroonry, No. 500 WcS
street. yesterday afternoon. II !. though
the IosS t. covered by insurance. Al
alarm ol fire was turned in irom box No
, ia. at Filth and Washington streets
, THE district companies with I'll" aid o
Washington Co.'s chemical soon cN
tingli-hrd tie blaze.
Miriam Jean Mason, Il Ecar, old
daughter Of Frank =. and Annie Hi
drcth formerly Of this city, di",I sud
denly OF mclnbranouS Group last Sunda,
morning in Brooklyn. Inlrrmcnt vii
be made this morning in Wilmington