The sun., 1898-12-22

ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Grace Church Christmas music will be
repeated on Sunday, January l.
Drifted snow is still lying along the
Faulk road in Brandywine hundred.
On January 8 Miss Annie E. Watts
and Leon B. Heacock will be married.
The Wilmington Bicycle Club will
distribute provisions among the poor.
Repairs are being made to the large
pumping engine at Cool Spring reser'
voir.
The Jackson 4 Sharp Company is re.
pairing one of Hughes Brothers q Bangs
barRes.
The Rev. James Timmins, of Chester,
Pa, preached at st. Mary's Church last
evening.
The British steamship Beacon Light
entered Tuesday from Christlana, Nor
way, to load oil.
The Rev. w. s. Baer will take charge
of the services at St. Andrews Church
on Christmas Day.
DR., Loring w. Batten will preach at
St. Andrews Church tomorrow after
noon at 2 o'clock.
New planking is being laid along the
p, w. & B. tracks under the shed OF the
French street station.
The schooner Venus is at the wharf OF
the Diamond State Iron Company with
a cargo of scrap iron.
Marris Cerberry was buried yesterday
morning, services being held at st.
patrick1a r. q. Church.
Levy Court Commissioner Lynn is re-
building a county bridge on the Faulk
road near Bethel Church.
Two Pullman cars were shipped from
the local shops yesterday to Jersey City,
where they will be put in use.
The work of repairing the cause way
oyer Market street bridge will be COM
menced when the robins nest again.
A purse containing money, which
was found on the street by Officer
Tucker, awaits an owner at the police
station.
The Mercy and Help Department OF
Grace Epworth League, is sending out
candy, games and dolls to poor children
in this city.
Yesterday afternoon.the body Of Eva l..
Huhn, of No. 800 Bennett street, was
buried at the Wilmington and Brandy
wine Cemetery.
Mrs. Hannah w. Weldin, Of No. lila
Pine street, who died of consumption,
was buried in Riverview Cemetery yes.
terday afternoon.
Owing to the thick and foggy weather
the Charles Warner tug Meteor was all
night in making trip from Philadsl-
phia to Wilmington.
Employees Of the Harlan & Hollings.
worth Coo Tuesday removed tow line
which had become entangled in the pro-
peller wheel of the tug Arctic.
The Jackson & Sharp Company is
building several combination passenger
and baggage coaches for use on the
Brandywine Springs Railway.
Owing to the illness Of Presiding Elder
Watt, the quarterly conference, which
was to have been held at Wesley M. E.
Church on Tuesday night, was:postponed.
After unloading about 100000 feet Of
lumber at the Jackson 4 Sharp wharf
the schooner John Tinque is now un.
loading ties for the Wilmington and
Northern Railroad.
John S. Rossell, Joseph L. Carpenter,
Jr., and M. P. Satterthwaite have been
appointed by President .Lawton of the
Board of Trade committee to investi'
gate municipal taxation.
After the business OF the members
meeting at the Y. M. @. A., on Tuesday
evening had been disposed of,a fine musi.
cal and literary program was given and
gramophone selections were rendered.
Chief of Police Dolan has asked the
Philadelphia authoritses to detain james
McCrea, who is wanted here to answer
the charge Of robbing w. H. Clark's
wagon at Kentmere on November 18th
Resolutions of regret were passed re-
Gently by Pocahontas Council, No. l.
Imp'd o. R. NJ, on the death of member
John Moore, who was killed in tht
recent explosion at the du Pont Powder
Mills.
Mary E. Hanna, widow of jacob
Hanna, died on Monday in Philadel
phia, in the 10th year Of her age. The re-
mains will be brought to this city anG
interment will be made at Riverviev
Cemetery.
Rev. William Frederic Lewis, pastol
of the Rodney Street Presbyterian
| Church, will deliver special Christina
address before the members Of the Y
M. G. A. at their rooms next Sunday
afternoon.
In behalf of William s. Hilles, Henry
r. Bringhurst yesterday morning aekec
Judge Spruance for charter for the
James K. Knowles Woolen Company
Owing to defect in the papers the mat
ter was left open.
| Trapped Himself:
I! A colored man named Leon Roy ap
piled Tuesday night for lodging at the