The sun., 1898-10-19
ROUND ABOUT THE TOWN.

David H. Coyle has recovered from a
serious illness.
Miss George Russell is visiting Mrs. j.
T. Conwell, of Milton.
William S. Prickett has been the guest
of relatives in New Jersey.
An obstinate man does not hold op-
pinions, but they hold him.
Charles H. Maul, of Lewis, was a
Wilmington visitor yesterday.
Next Thursday is donation day at the
Y. w. G. A., Ne. sos King street.
Mrs. James F. Flynn, OF this city, is
the guest of friends at Phoenixville, Pa.
The members of the police force will
be inspected in their winter uniforms to-
day.
Mrs. Charles Edwards and daughter
have been visiting friends in New
Castle.
St. Paul's r. C. Church residence, at
Third and Jackson streets, is being re-
painted.
Mrs. Thomas Mcbride and Mrs Joseph
Mcbride have left for visit to friends
in Jersey City Heights.
A. Victor Hughes, formerly of Wana-
makers, has taken charge OF the silk de-
partment at Crosby & Hills.
The Brandywlne Club will hold its
seventh annual women's reception, at
the club house, on October q.
The Rev. D. J. Flynn has LETT for St..
Mary's College, Emmttsburg, Nd, to
attend the Alumni banquet there.
David H. Coyle, member of the Board
of Education from the Third Ward, who
has bcen seriously i'll, has recovered.
There is no hope, the doctors say, for
the recovery OF Albert B. Vernon, Jr.,
who fell from tree and broke his
spine.
William Fl. Jones will erect row of
three-storv houses on West street, be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets.
A special car containing about sixty
Huns and Poles, who have been working
in the canneries in lower Delaware,
passed through Wilmington yesterday.
Miss Naomi Mayne and Thomas R.
Hendrickson, both of this city, will be
married this evening at No. llO7 DUPONT
street by the Rev. W. L. S. Murray,
d. d.
The members of Calvary P. E. Church
will, tomorrow evening, tender a recep-
ton to Rev. Henry Ward Cunningham,
the new rector. A special program has
been arranged.
The Jackson & Sharp Company have
completed six handsome closed trolley
cars for the Port Jervis Traction Com
pany, OF New York, which were sent
away yesterday.
ThI speciaI services at st. FauPs, Sew
enth and Market, are increasing in inter-
est. Miss Jennie Smith, who held a
great meeting in Baltimore last Sunday,
spoke at ST. Paups last night.
Mary Butcher, colored, was found dead
in bed at her residence, on the cause
way, on Monday. She was drenched by
rain on Friday night and contracted
pneumonia, which caused her death.
Sergeant Kelleher was commended by
the Police Commissioners at their meet,
ing, Monday evening for arresting one OF
the participants in the free fight at the
Delaware House last Friday morning.
Two Straw ricks on Johns farm, at
State Road. were destroyed by fire on
Tuesday night. They contained about
forty tons OF straw, worth about $2O0
The fire was probably of incendlary orr
gin.
Superintendent Edwin Kershaw, oI
the shipbuilding department of the Jack
son & Sharp Company, is away on ten
days vacation. During his absence Cap
tain A. II. Burton has charge OF the
yard.
Miss Georgiana Sweetman, formerly a
nurse in the Homeopathic Hospital, is
now ill at that place, with typhoid fever.
Miss Sweetman went to Chlckanauga to
nurse sick soldiers, where she contracted
the disease.
Lieut.. L. Calvin Bartolette, who has
been detached from the gunboat Will
mington and assigned to the Alonitor
Amphitrite, expects to visit his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Bertolette, in this
city next week.
DAME! Ross, junior vice-commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
made an official visit to Post No. s, OF
Philadelphia, last evening. He will be
accompanied by Past Junior Vice-Com-
mander Peter B. Ayars.
The NJ. E. Preachers Association on
Monday appointed Revs. Robert Watt,
W. L. Murray, James Grove, Henry
Baker and J. D. G. Hanna, a committee
to consider the advisability Of forming a
church extension society here.
New bylaws were adopted by the
Wilmington Bicycle Club at it's meeting
Monday night. Two new offices were
created. W. r. Spencer was made sec.
ond e-president, and Hoyt P. Jones
assistant recording secretary.
Captain Thomas Benson, representing
the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company,
was in Philadelphia Monday viewing the
burned steamship Weehawken, with a
view of bidding on the repair work if it
is decided to have the boat repaired.
Past Assistant Engineer w. Fl. Nc
Cram, U. s. N, now on the cruiser
Minneapolis, has been detailed to super
wise the construction of the machinery
for the torpedoboats Hopkins and Hull,
to be built by the Harlan u Holiings'
worth Company.
j. B. King & Company, of New York,
Il, AZ, ,urohnco1 the, ,,lo pt cf tho MorcdaD n