The sun., 1898-12-29
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

A new bar has been added to the Mer
ritt House with entrance on Front street
Tom, the Phoenix carriage horse, who
was hurt last week, is again ready fol-
service.
The sailing vessl j. +. Armstrong
brought load of oysters from the bay
yesterday.
The annual meeting of Milford Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry, will be held next
Saturday.
Mrs. Harriet B. Niven and Miss Flor.
ence Butler, of Georgetown, are visiting
in the city.
A scum of ice commenced forming on
/ the Christiana creek towards evening
yesterday.
Miss Blakeley of New York is spending
the holidays as the guest of the Misses
Patzowskv.
Ground has been broken for two
houses at Fifth and Harrison streets fol-
Lewis s. Fell.
Archie Campbell, of this city, will
probably play basket ball on the Ger
mantown team.
Misses Matte and Emma Davis, of Still
Pond, Md, are guests of Misses Dora and
Jessie Culbertson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward McIntire and
Children, of Fairton, N. j., are spending
the holidays in this city.
William T. Brown aud wife, of No.
l402 West Third street, are spending the
holidays at Port Deposit, Md.
Miss May James, who has been the
guest Of Mrs. Henry Patterson, has re-
turned to her home in Germantown.
Mr.. and Mrs. William S. Prickett and
children, who were spending the holidays
with out-of-town relatives, have returned
home.
James L. DeVou, who was recently
stricken with paralysis, is somewhat
improved, but has not yet recovered his
speech.
The catamount presented to DR.. Nor
gan is still on exhibition at tie Phoenix
Engine House for the benefit of Delaware
Hospital.
The Standard Oil Company's tug In
perator towed barge No. 2 of the Atlantic
Refining Company to Pusey q Jones'
yesterday.
P, W. 4 B. passenger cars Nos. 1906,
2,9l2, 1922, 4,547, 1854 and baggage car
No. 6, ,124 have been repainted at the
local shops.
Mr.. and Mrs. Artemas Smith and
child, of Bear Station, are spending a
few days with Mrs. Warren, at No. 604
King street.
Miss Addie Lingo, who has been
spending the holidays with Miss Hare OF
this city, has returned to her home in
Philadelphia.
The Water Departments surplus for
this year is $50, ,S33.62, an increase of
$l7, 1854 over that OF last year, which
was 500. 700.14.
An interesting program has been pre-
pared for the Christmas cantata to be
given at lower BrandyWine Presbyterian
Church this evening.
James F. Dorsey, foreman of the Erie
Basin Drydock Company, and family, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, are visiting relatives
and friends in this city.
William Steele found the body of an
infant floating in the dock at Delaware
City yesterday. 1t was buried nearby.
There is no clue to the parentage.
In the future churches using water
motors for organ power will be charged
for just what they use, meters having
been connected with the motor pipes.
Harry Braden, a fireman employed at
the du Pont powder works, fell recently
while going to work and fractured three
ribs. He was taken to the Delaware
Hospital.
A sunrise prayer meeting under the
auspices of the Christian Endeavor
Union will be held next Sunday morn
ing at 7 o'clock at St. PauPs M. Z.
Church.
Rev. w. F. Lewis has decided not to
accept the call to the pastorate Of Pres
byterian Church in New York State. He
will remain in charge of Rodney Street
Presbyterian Church.
John Daylsine, of No. 5l3 East Tenth
street, who lost daughter last week
with diphtheria, has another one who
has been i'll with the same disease but
she is now recovering.
The wedding of Miss Mollie, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L. Robbins. and
Randall M. Lynch took place at the resi-
dence of the bride, near Robbins, Del,
this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock.
The work of laying the keel for the
first of the two hulls which are to be
built for the floating elevators for New
York parties was commenced yesterday
at the Jackson & Sharp shipyards.
The young Peoples Society Of the Ger
man Lutheran Church will give Christ
mas entertainment this evening. A
literary and musical program will be
including the play "A Pro-
posal Under Difficulties"
Stenographer Charles s. Guyer, spe-
cially employed by the Federal Gov
ernment to report the trial of Senator
Richard r. Kenney yesterday morning
received check for $76S, that being
the amount due him for his two weeks
work.
At the annual meeting OF the Delaware
Saengerbund and the German Library
Association these officers were elected:
President, Charles Yetter; vice president,
Ludwig Melchoir; secretary, Frederick
w. Heiss; financial secretary, DR.. E.
M. Hertel; treasurer, Daniel Dohl.
building committee, Frederick Heiss,
IOuis kOerner and Charles Yetter, |