The sun., 1898-11-29
ROUNI, ABOUT TOWN

The French bark Heneric.ta cleared
from port this morning for Norfolk.
Miss Mabel Canning, formerly of this
city, but now OF Yonkers, is visiting Miss
Rebecca Smith.
James OBrien, aged II months, died
Of diphtheria yesterday morning At No.
9l5 Reed street. 'I..., Fl
Mccormick Bros. OF Front and Market
streets lost valuable mare by blood poi
son this morning. .lT,,o q, ..-
Miss Emma Sheldon, of Millville, N. j.,
is the guest OF Miss Addie Wiley, Of No.
9l4 Wet Eighth street.
Mrs. Mary Maull will give a coming
out" reception to her daughter, Miss
Manll, next Thnrsdsy afternoon.
The State Board Of Health will meet
at the Clayton House this morning at
10 o'clock to transact regular business.
Miss Mary Garland, who was i'll with
typhoid feve~ at the University Of Vir.
gina, is convaIescing at her home in
this city. .a nft M. ...,..
A G,ddess of Liberty ball will be given
on Tuesday evening, December =, at
Turn Hall by the ladies section OF the
w. T. q. .s sN
The members of Champion Lodge,
Knights Of Pythias will pay fraternal
visit to Upland Lodge on next Thursday
evening.
A quarterly meeting of the United Cir.
Gle Of Kings Daughters will be held at
tho 2ucnu1 Ru NJ iut Nhnrnh on Tk,r rod =,
December l. .a.'
Tadman and Hickman will commence
to rebuild the back building Of their fac.
tory TN West Fourth street which was re-
Gently destroyed by fire. aa..
The improvements to Brandywine M.
E. Church will be finished about De-
cember II, and it is expected to reopen
the church on the following day.
Miss L. Grant. OF West Chester, Pa,
and Miss Fl. Mclaughlin, of Baltimore,
Nd, have been visiting Mrs. M. f.
Keough, Of No. 604 French street.
John Jacoby has been awarded the
contract to build an extension of the
Columbian railway from Washington to
Deanwood, a distance Of four miles.
Sunday was the first Sunday of Ad-
vent, and in the Catholic, the Protestant
Episcopal and some other churches the
beginning of the ecclesiastical year.
The Columbian Carnival, which was
recently held at shelpot Part for the
benefit OF st. Patrick's Church, netted
81, ,0O3, and was success in every par
ticular.
A quarterly meeting Of the Wilmington
Auxiliaries of the Women's Foreign Mis-
siona"y Society will BE- held in St. Paul's
M. E. Church, Thursday, December /, at
. 80 pm s'.1os-' o ' ''--'5 ,--'-- r-'-
A new connci of the Junior Order of
American Mechanics will be organized at
Canterbury on Tuesday evening, De-
cember 6, with a charter membership of
thirty-nine.
Owners of bees in Delaware report
honey scarce this year, condition
which prevails all over the country and
which is likely to make the price higher
than last year.
The Phoenix Fire Company is con-
templating trip to Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, next Fall and already the members
are taking preliminary steps towards
making the affair a success.
Recently DR.. Draper, assisted by Drs.
McCooley and B;tstian, performed an
operation for appendicitis on William s.
Evans, the 10 years. old son of j. Otley
Evans, OF NJ. l09 Rodney street.
Rev. Father Hughes, of St. Anne's
Church, went to Baltimore yesterday
and will be a pail bearer at the funeral
OF Rev. Bernard A. Sweeney this morn
ing. Interment will be made at EN-
Md.
Mrs. Theresa Mcnamara, aged 20
years, was buried yesterday morning
from the residence of her sister, Mrs.
Annie Matthews, No. III Bird street.
lnterment was made in the New Cathe-
dral Cemetery.
Superintendent of Public Schools
Smith, of Delaware City, visited this
town yesterday. He is deaply interested
in educational matters, and hopes to
make the convention at Middletown
success.
John Hanson, who at one time CON
Quoted livery stable ON Fourth street
near French, died on Sunday at the resi-
dence OF his son-in-law, John r. Hart
man, No. Alb East Fourth street. He
was 70 years of age.
The Wilmington and Brandywine
Cemetery Company has planted the 800
cedar trees, which they secured from H.
G. Mahaffy's farm in Brandywine hun
dred, in the northwestern section of the
cemetery property.
A carrier pigeon almost frozen to death,
dropped in the yard of Charles Thomas,
No. 622 West Eighth street, on Sunday
afternoon. it was taken into the house
and is now ihawed out. On one leg was
4 band containing TX l0626."
The funeral of Mrs. Adel f. Elwell,
widow of John B. ElwelI, took place at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon from the
residence Of her daughter, Mrs. 4. H.
No. 40B West Fourteenth
;t'eet. Interment was made at River
view Cemetery.
Yesterday morning Cathedral Gene
cry received the body of Harry j. Horn. |
His relatives and friends met at the
nome of his aunt, Mrs. Herbert T.
smith, No. 9l5 Bennett street, ani pro.
.eeded to st. Mary's Church, where
lign mass was said.
A team belonging to Patrick j. Long,
he bottler, colllded with team belong