The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-01-05

must die without moments prepara
ton to render an account OF your steward
ship.
The Lord will como like thief In tn
night when least expected. ls 1t not
great risk not to reconcile ourselves Will
our judge while Wo have chance to DO SO
Nindictive man whose mouth is tull O
curses and blasphemies, You drunkard
you who are loaded down with these filthy
In such a condition. II during life yot
have tho wish to remain in mortal sir
then 1t would be presumption to thinl
that God would give you pardon at The
last moment.
II we wish to have perfect sorrow FOL
our sins at cur last moment we must prac-
tico that contrition during life. just IA
little child learns its letters i'll nu
hour just SO little will he our contritiol
ut the last moment. Let us consider the
dreadful stale of him who has not pre-
pared himself for death. There Is calm
death, sudden death and death after Il
die calm deaths. Why should God dis
turb the sinner. arouse him who refused
to servo him through life.
Thereis Is no more grace for him. why
should bis conscience arouse him now
when he refused to listen to its warnings.
Why should tho enemy OF souls disturb
that soul when he knows that If he held
the future before him tho sinner would
get frightened There is The cunningness
of Satan. OF the S3,C00 persons who die
daily thare are two-thirds Of them who
die sudden deaths Let us take warming
iu time. Let us live as we would die. If
we have been indifferent in the past let us
make Almonds.
.u,h- fikkIa txps, mt tna- sal, oo.,~-. Rubprr
tion to-day by the Ice boat.
The Morris left Philadelphia OH Satur-
day afternoon with load of coal for Lewes
Del. On Sunday afternoon she was
caught in n monster section Of floating Ice
off Resdy Island All day on Monday she
fluated down and up the river wedged by
the big bodies of ice Oh all sides. Monday
night was no better for tho schooner and
this morning the big foes Of Ice carried
her from point opposite Port Penn. up
the river as II she were only u log.
The schooner Is manned by It's ow ners,
Captain Jeremiah Holland. Mate Cornell
ius Pail aud Cook Curlsy Hargrove.
The men expected every moment to SEQ
her carried to tho Now Jersey shore aud DO
a total loss They wero unable to do a
thing to stay her course. The ice was
from two to four inches thick and the bod
that surrounded her was fully quarter
OF Il mile in length and thirty yards In
width.
The city ice boat fortunately came
along about the tiIno the Morris reached
opposite tho Pennsvlle piers. The cap
tain of the ice boat saw the dangerous con-
dition which the schooner was in, and nc.
cordingly won't to her assistance and
Castle. The Sides of the schooner ore bad
" cut by the floating ice. The crew are
jubilant thnJ tho leo boat came TO their
assistance even though the schooner may
b. obliged to remain here for weeks.
Tue Ice in tho river is beginning TO pile.
This will cause considerable anxiety to tho
owners of schuoners. Cake after cako
generally piles upon each other until after
tho ice is several feet in length.
Some Of the Ice beds are half milo In
length. From the Delaware Street wharf
this evening it looked as If there was ono
solid cuko of leo from the Wilmington
and northern pier to Delaware City.
As an instance Of the strength Of the
floating ice the Bas buoy at Goose Island
was carried of The city Ice Boat caught
1t abovc.Ponnsyille and towed IL to tho Ma
ior Reybo!d wharf where IL Is anchored
surrounded by one mouster sheet Of ice.
The heavy leo IN the Delaware and In
the Salem Creek has Causrl tho steamer
Major Rcy boyd to cease her trips between
Salem and Philadelphia II would be ut
terly impossible for her to come to her
wharf here.
The Warner sand drcdgo Phoenix WAS
obi Ged to quit operations owing to the
vast quantity of ice in the river.
Should tho next couple of nights AMI
days bc cold then the;e will DO several
ship, compelled to tie up in tho harbor to
obtain prutoction from the monster ico
piers
The wind blow all the iGo to the Western
side of the rivor and the eastern channel is
clear. Consequently there was big de-
mand for tugs to-day to hurry sChooners
ei her to Philadelphia or the Delaware
Breakwat4r More vessels passed by New
Castle to-day than on any day for several
months,
AT the meeting of City Council last ovo-
ming the following bills were passed upon
and ordered paid us far as tho nonay
George Brison S675, George Longacre,
e. 25; J. Y. and l. +. Eliason $33 80.
"A communication WAS received from G.
P. King treasurer OF tho Wilmington and
New Castle Electric railway asking for an
order on the City TreasuIer for tho rent
of elec,ric tights. 1t was ordered that the
bill of the electric light company take pre-
cedrnco. Mr.. White reported the foun-
tain covered over for the winlor.
Mr. Wolfe appeared before the council
and stated hat the prospectus was nearly
and asked for moro money. Iio
did not ask it at once but would ask for a
pledge In order to help finish the work.
President l.ambson stated that he would
be glad to voto for moro money but th,t
was something that he did not see that the
council was in a position to do this at
present.
Councilman Clewell statcd That the
council was in debt and would not be able
to get out Of it until July. lie woul like
to give another 500 but did not SEQ any
possible way Of doing 1t. There Is 5000
for 1877 taxes unpaid.
Mr.. Wolfe stated that ho would finish
tho book as he intended to do. Tho work
was for the benefit .of the city and ho was
short about }2OO and needed that amount
I" keep him from going Dohiud In the
work.
AIR Lambson S ated that under the pres.
ent circumstances he did not see where 1t
was possible to do anything toward the
payment of he sum asked He also stat
cd that the city taxes were eaten up by the
expenses of light ana salaries OF police
mon.
Clewcll stated that there would not be
any money for ensuing year. Further
than that tho citizens whom we represent
would not b. satisfied under the existing
The officers OF Industry Council Jr., ..
U. A. NJ. were installed last evening by