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Meets every Monday night in McWhorter's
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MIDDLETOWN, DEL., MAR.lt, 1896
MIDDLETOWN MARKETS.
PRODUCE.
.27(3.28c
. 23@25c
Creamery Butter, lb . .
Country Butter, lb. . .
Eggs, doz.
Lard, lb.
White Potatoes, basket
Apples,basket . . . .
Chickens alive . . . .
" dressed.
Ducks, alive.
" dressed.
12c
9c
15c« 20
45#00c
Kc
10c
10c
12c
. . . . 12@15c
Turkeys,
GRAIN.
75c
Wheat, No. 1, bus
Wheat, No. 2, '
'Timothy Seed
Clover
Com, yellow, bus . ..
Corn, cob, bus. . . . .
Oats, bus.
bus. . . .
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Of Interest
To Farmers
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SELECTING SEED POTATOES.
Varieties of potatoes, to be profita
bly grown, must be of recent origin.
Even our newer varieties are not so
productive as when first introduced.
The life of any given vaiiety has been
shortened materially since the coming
of the potato bug and the poisonous
remedies applied for its destruction.
For these reasons potatoes do not ripen
perfectly.
Mark the strongest Iiills while grow
ing, and select the potatoes which are
best from these hills,
should easily be woith thrice a3 much
a bushel for planting as seed selected
at random from a bin. If a farmer
can once get started wi h seed of this
nature it will require much le33 labor
to fight the potato bug.
Most varieties of potatoes grown
from seed will yield much heavier
crops for two or three years after their
introduc 1 ion than they ever will again.
It pays, therefore to give an extra
price for seed in order to get the bene
fit from this vigor of the new variety
before it lias deteriorated.
Such seed
ABOUT SEED POTATOES.
A correspondent of the ''Country
Gentleman" gives the following advice
as lo seed potatoes:
Good seed potatoes are very essential
for a successful crop. What are the
points of a good seed potato? If we buy
them, we should procure au article that
has been well w intered, such as had
been kept at a temperature which re
tarded sprouting. A good seed potato
at planting time should have the buds
but slightly developed. It makes no
material difference how the potatoes
are wintered, such as had been kept
from sproutiDg.
The question is frequently asked, if
some in the pile, bin or barrel are
frozeD, whether the rest are good for
seed.Here springs up again that myster
ious thing in vegetable life, why a peck
of potato* s in a barrel will freeze and
the rest are apparently uninjured.
Whether the sound potatoes in such a
barrel are fit for seed depends upon cir
cumstances. Those that are sound
may endure several degrees more cold
than frozen ones. If it is merely cold
enough to freeze those that are frozen,
the others may not be injured; but if
it is several degrees colder than merely
to kill the sprouts on the frozen ones,
then there may ba danger that the
vitality of the others is injured.
We frequently see the advice given
that if some are frozen in a barrel, the
rest should not be used for seed.
A few years ago my at ention was di
rected to this question. A seedman
received a consignment of seed potatoes
from the north. Poring the transpor
tation they struck a cold wave. It be
hooved the seedsman lo open all the
barrels aud pick out the frozen tubers.
Wiiat were uninjured grew well and
made a fair yield.
Last year some of our own potatoes
got too cool . Some barrels were badly
frozen. Yet the sound ones produced
strong healthy plants.
At a fanneis' institute a potato
grower said tiiis about frozen potatoes:
If the juice from a frozen potato
touches the eye of a sound potato, it
will kill it." Many in the audience
doubted this uscertion, and inclined lo
tlie belief that this farmer's potatoes
were frozen dead before the juice from
the fri zen potatoes touched them. But
whether the juice from froz 11 potatoes
is ii'j'iious or not, tlie frozen ones
should be picked out soon as they
soften. If a paît of our seed is frozen
aud if we have any doubts about the
vitality of the res', place them in
warmer quarters for a few weeks be
fore planting. If they are sound, die
eyes will begin to swell. 8 eed pota
toes must not be kept too hue in the
spring in a daik room.
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Whether cutting seed p ititoes has
a tendency towards deterioration, I am
uot ready to state. Bui 1 am satisfied
that whole (>otaUifis are preferable for
a very early crop, especially with the
Early Ohio. Not the largest potatoes
should be plant« d, but those of the size
of a hen's egg. We usqd to cut our
potatoes to one eye, but the result was
very unsatisfactory. The one-eye theoi y
may da for later planting Jti * well pre
pared, fertile soiC
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The reasons for using whole potatoes
for earlj plantings are: The whole po
tato furnishes more nouiishment to
the young piant. The whole potato
is less liable to rot if cold, wet weather
occurs. It will endure considerable
harder freezing of the ground before
its vitality is injured. It will produce
the first mai ketable tubers. It gener
ally produces the-largest crop. One
year the variation with us between
whole potatoes and those cut to one
eye was 100 bushels per acre. The
whole potatoes that year produced at
the rate of 300 bushels per acre, while
those cut to one eye produced 200
bushels.
THE FARM HOTBED
There Are Two Plans For Making It.
Hints Concerning Its Management.
It costs so little to make and manage
a hotbed largo enough to raise all the
plants needed that it will be found good
economy to have one. Ouo of the im
portant items in a really good garden is
to have a good supply of . vegetables
larly. One of tho easiest and best ways
of doing this is to grow them in a hot
bed. One good advantage in growing
them over purchasing is that with a lit
tle care there is certain to be a fall sup
ply on hand when the farmer can find
it most convenient to sot them out.
In making a hotbed the place selected
should be one that can bo readily drain
ed. There are two plans that can be fol
lowed. One is to dig a pit and pnt the
whole bed on a level with the ground.
The other is to pnt the bed nearly or
quite above the ground. If made early,
especially if the selection is one that
admits of good drainage, digging a pit
is rather the best, as more even temper
ature can be secured, and as the t r
ature is usually very changeable in I ho
spring this is often quite an item.
Dig the pit 4 to 0 feet wide and as
long as may be necessary. It should be
80 inches deep ; then put a good layer of
straw in the bottom aud up the sides
about two feet. Then pnt in the manure.
This should be fresh from the horse sta
bles. It will be better if there is a good
deal of litter like straw or leaves mixed
with the manure. Spread it evenly and
tramp it down well so that in settling
the whole bed will 'settle ovenly. Put
in about 2 feet of the manure, and
over the top of this put « layer of about
4 inches of rich, loamy soil This,
with tho straw, ought to bring the bed
little above the surface. Bank up
around the bed with soil or set boards
on edge, driv ing s takes to hold them in
place. Ono side should Be made higher
than the other, so that when covered
with boards the water will be kept out.
Cover the bed. over carefully when
completed and let it stand three or four
days before sowiDg the seed. Be sure to
have the soil fine. Mark it out in drills,
for even in tho hotbed it is more eco
nomical of space to sow the seed in
drills, pressing the soil down upon the
Seed after covering. Whenever the sun
shines out warm, open the bed, but
cover closely at night and on rainy or
cold, cloudy days. If it is necessary to
water the plants, use water that is milk
warm, and remember that one thorough
wetting of the soil is more beneficial
than half a dozen sprinklings. If the
season is late aud the bed gets cold, take
a sharpened broom handle and make
holes down as deep as yon can, 0 to 10
inches apart, all over the hod, and fill
them with scalded bran, pouring it
while warm, and cover tho top of each
with a little earth.
If a surface bed is made, take off 4 or
C inches of the soil, put down a layer of
straw around this, set up' good, wide
planks, drive down stout stakes to hold
the planks in place. Then put in the
manure and over this a layer of soil and
cover the rame as before. It will be a
little better if the bed is banked up
some on the outside.
A bed 6 feet wide and 8 feet long will
supply all the plants ordinarily needed,
says the author of the foregoing, which
was originally written for the St. Louis
Republic.
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jJroppings were broadcasted.
Laying Tile.
Tile can be drawn when teams are
idle, and the work can be done by the
owner of the farm or his regular help.
If there is any doubt about the grade
and outlet, Farm and Fireside advises
the employment of a surveyor. He will
establish tho grade, putting pegs every
100 feet, and then there is no doubt
about the matter. With a breaking plow,
make a furrow whoro the drain should
be, grading the bottom of furrow as
well os possible. After the first rain
run the plow in tho same furrow, cut
ting out the high places. This work
saves throwing out that much earth with
6hovel. The earth in the bottom of fur
row will not freeze hard in tho winter,
and not at all if snowfalls, and as other
Work gives time the trenches can be
dug and the tile laid.
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Poultry Manure.
Mix the hen droppings as soon as pro
duced with gypsnm, laud plaster or dry
earth to prevent the escape of ammonia.
As a rule, it dries oat quickly and be
comes a very active, soluble nitroge
nous fertilizer. All this means that if it
is used in liberal quantities in the hill
nnmixed with earth it may be so strong
in nitrogen us to injure the young roots
when first starting. Therefore it is al
ways safest to drop it in the hill and
tuix it slightly with the earth. While it
requires some considerable labor to dis
tribato this valuable fertilizer in the
hill directly where the plant is to grow
very mach better results will be secured
by this method than woul.d be if the
Saving Moisture In the Soil.
American fcultivator " says : Tho best
way to save moistura iu tho soil }s tq
thoroughly underdrain it. This increases
the porosity of the soil, as the drained
Jand freezes more deeply than that
which is filled with water to its surface,
As it freezes the soil expands, and this
enables it to hold more moisture. If thq
soil has been drained, subsoiling, which
loosens tho soil below the fnrrow, also
increases its ability to retain moistnre.
up
is
fit
Turning Cider to Vinegar.
According to American Agriculturist,
the best and easiest way to turn cider
into vinegar is to pnt about one-fourth
gt its quantity of good sharp vinegar iq
if. . Put it in a warm place and thor.
pughly stir the liquid once a week or
oftener. The barrel should not bo more
than three fourths full, anfi the bung
hole should bo left open.
prcliard Gross With Clover.
Orchard grass goes with clover much
better than timothy, though most farm*
ers have got in tho habit of seeding tim*
othy and clover together. The orchard
grass will not make a perfect sod il
sown alone, as its habit is to grow in
bunches and spread gfter the first year.
When sown with clover, the latter as it
out leaves not only room, but plant
food, which {lie orchard grass avails it
self of Oichard grass and clover are
both ready to out together, and If cut
early, ns loth should be, two and even
three crops may be grown cn rich land
ju a season, says American Cultivator.
for
Our Woman's
Column
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ECONOMY OF TIIE HOUSEHOLD.
ET not^this idea
of expeuf.e dtt«*r
any man from
getting mai l ied,
said a few days
ago a proud
bridegroom who
took bis happy
bride from Mid
dletown ;
least not if I •
draws such a prize as I have won. My
wife," and with what pride be spoke
the words! "is a perfect poem of do
mestic economy, and we live better
and on less money than any of our
neighbors. It only costs us
dollars a month for all expeuses, &c,
but the Transcript cannot give
away the secrets of its young friends
and in continuance of the idea of
household economy gives the following
clipping:
A woman who looks well to the
ways of her household should know
how long, under ordinary circumstan
ces certain supplies, such as tea, coffee,
butter, sugar and coal, should last. It
is by no means a proof of a niggardly
housewife to do so, but it is her duty
to herself and family to know what
use Is made of those articles which she
provides. This duty may be done so
tactfully that no maid could dream of
taking offense, or in a way to antago
nize. When accounts are kept—that
is, when the mistress writes down in
her order book the exact quantity she
wishes, with the date of the order—
the matter is easily managed. The
housewife will do well also to keep a
price list, and she can then enter the
prices with the order. The practice of
some marketmen of sending from, one
to three pounds more than the quantity
ordered should be vigorously discour
aged. It is a practice in some house
holds where the marketing is done by
order to detain the man who delivers
fruits, vegetables and meats until it is
seen if they are of good quality and in
proper condition. If it is possible to
do this, aud supplies not up the mark
are immediately returned, it is far
more effective in securing good service
than many protests made after accept
ting and disposing of tough meat or
stale vegetables.
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A HEART PARTY.
Among the ways of entertaining a
party of children, a ' Heart Party" is
a little novelty. This is how to ar
range it. First, a largo sheet is ar
ranged on a door, or—if the game is to
be played out of doors—on-a screen on
the lawn. 'A large heart is then cut
out of red flannel and pinned on to the
sheet. In the centre of the heait a
small circle of white is next sewn on.
Every guest is then provided with an
arrow, made out of white cloth, with a
pin placed in it, Eacu arrow bears a
number corresponding to a listwbereon
the names and numbers of the guesls
have been written. The point of the
game is to see which person, when
blind folded, will pin the arrow near
est to the centre spot of white. Four
prizes are given—one for each girl or
boy who is nearest to the centre, and
one each to those getting the faitbest
from the bull's-eye. The prizes are
generally a heart-shaped v> ncus l lluu
and a heart-shaped photograph frame,
or a heart-shaped silver pin, or a heart
shaped bonbon case. The booby prizes
are a fairy holding a tiny heart with
an arrow inscribed, "try, try again,
and a pin cushion made of red satin,
shaped like a beet.
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Miss Sara Marshall,of Georgetown,
Delaware, writes of the "up-to-date
housewife" in "Ladies' Eveiy Satur
day," of Feb. 29th, interestingly as
follows:
"How little the average young wo
man thinks of the responsibilities
which the household duties will bring
upon her when she plights her troth to
the young man of her clioice. Per
haps she has qever kept house for a
whole week even, and knows nothing
of the hygiene of cooking, nor the
thousand and one tilings that are nec
essary for the successful housekeeper
to know.
She may think alt such things can be
left to the cook, but bow often is the
old adage proved, when food comes on
the table iu an unpalatable condition,
that "God sends the food and the de
vil sends the cook." First, then
young girls should learn to cook and
keep the kitchen, with all its u'.ensils
clean and bright. <She will have
plenty of opportunities to display her
good taste in tlie dinging room with
pietty china, dainty linen und exqui
s te doylies, to say i.nthing of the
drawing-room the arranging of that
and the library, will come naturally,
as^wUl the attention to the sleeping de
apartments. I>t every window be
kept bright w it ii fresh dainjy hangings,
here and there a living plant, aud her
home will be ai tractive from the out
side as well as tlie iu. Should tin re
be a scarcity of this woild's goods, let
w hat there is Le clean, bright aud neat,
witli a clieeiftil countenance to ac
company it, ior ''Cleanliness is next
to' Godliness,''
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An Ode to Columbns.
The praises to Colu mbus,
We often do rehears,
Sometimes in prose so stately,
Sometimes in ringing verse.
Ma 11 y a once mournful melhcholy, morbid,
miserable man sings the praise of even a
greater ijiscpvery than that of Columbus.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery opens
up a new world of hope and health to the
sick. It cures tubercular consumptiqn which
is sin)ply lung scroful—the active and danger
ous development qfa taiqt (a the blood. It,
blood cleansing botanic principles specially
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SOUTHWARD.
up.
Philadelphia 111J6
Baltimore.. 6.4Ô
Wilmington. 12 01
Farnhuret .
New <. astle.
State Road .
Bear . .
Porter.. .
Kirkwood .
Mt. Pleasant.
Armstrong..
Middletown 12.44
Townsend .
Blackbird. .
Gr'n Spring.
Clayton. . . 102
Smyrna. .LV
Brenford . .
Cheswold. .
Dupont..
Dover.. .
Wyoming... ja L27
Woodside.. .
Viola... .
Felton . . . a 1.40
Harrington.. 1.50
Farmington.
Greenwood .
Bridgeville... a 2 14
Cannons.. .
Seaford . . 2.26
Laurel . . . a 2 38
Delmar . . -. 2.50
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8 50
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4 27
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Harrington..
Felton . . .
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Woodside.. .
Wyoming.. .
Dover.. . .
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Clayton. . .
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Townsend .
Middletown
Armstrong..
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7:51
a m. a m. am. pm. pm. pm.
I Daily, g Daily except Sunday.
"a" Stops to leave passengers from Wilming
ton and points north, or take passengers for
points south of Delmar.
'T' Stops only on notice to conductor or agent,
or on signal. „
"i" Stops to leave passengers from Middle
town and points south.
*'t" Stops to let off passengers from points
Harrington.
New Castle Accommodation Trains.—L eave
Wilmington 12.10 a. m. and 9.51 p m., dailv
8.13,11.lo, a. m , 2 50, 4.30 615, 6 53, p. m., week
days. Leave New Castle 6 30 a. ni. and 10 19 p
daiiy, 8.31, 0.45, 11.07 a. m., 1.18,5 36, 6 4<
7.22 p. m., week-days.
Express trains leaving Harrington 8.05 a. m..
and arriving at 6.24 p. m., week-days, run
through solid to and from Baltimore, via Porter
and Newark.
south of
BRANCH ROADS.
Delaware, Maryland & Virginia R. R.—^
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and
stations lu.37 a m. week days, 6.28 p m Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays only. Returning
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only.
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leave Chincoteague 4.42 a. m., week-stays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and I.ewes
at 10.37 a. m ,6.28 p. in , week-days Returning,
leave Lewes6 45 a. m., 3 20 p. m„ week-days.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 10.37 a. m. week
days and 6.28 p. m.. Tuesdays, Thursdays and
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5.45 p. m., week days Returning, leave Oxford
6.55 a. m., and 1 40 p. m., week-days.
Cambridge & Seaford R. k.— Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations ll.l5,a.
m., week days, and on Tuesdays. Thursdays and
Saturdays 7.05 p. m. Returning, leave Cambridge
6.20 a. m. weeK-days and 2.47 ip. m. Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays
Connection.— At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. At Clayton,
with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore & Delaware Bay liuilroad At Har
rington, with Delaware Maryland & Virginia
Railroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge & Seaford
Railroad. At Delmar, with New York, Phila
delphia A Norfolk, Wicomico & Pocomoke. and
Peninsula Railroads.
8. M. PREVOST, General Manager.
J. K. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
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Schedule in effect Dec. 1, 1895.
TRAINS LEAVE DELAWARE AVENUE,
WILMINGTON DEPOT EAST BOUND,
t or « Express trains.
Ail trains illuminated with Plntsch light.
New York,week-days, 13.08, 17.30, J8.30, 19.40,
10 35 a. m. 112.21, tl.59, 13.06, J5.32 17 32, flip m.
New York Sundays, J3.08,, 19.40, 11135
a. m., 1306, 15.32,17.32, J11.0Ü, p. m.
Philadelphia, Twenty-Fourth and Chestnut
Streets, week-days, 13.08. 5.55, 6.40, {7.30, 7.45,
{8.30, (9.15, {9.40, (10.35, 11.10, a. m.,
12.21,12.40, (1.59, (2.20,3.06,3 25, 4.55, (5.32, 6.30,
; 7.32, 820,10.00, (11.00 p. m.
Sundays, (3.08, 7.45, 8.50, (9.40. (11.35
a. 111., 12.10, 2.20, (3.06, 4.55, (5.32, 6.30, (7.32;
8 20,10.00, (11.00, p. m.
Philadelphia, Twelfth and Market Streets,
week-days, (3.06. (7.30, (8.30, (10.35, a. m., (7.82,
(11.00, p. m.
Philadelphia, Sundays, (3.08, (11.35,
m., (7.32, (11.00, p. m.
Chester, week-days, (3.08, 6.55, 6.40, (7.30,
7.45,(8210,19.15,(10.35, 11.10 a.m., 12.40, (1.69,
(2.29,3.25, 4,55, (5.32, 6.30, (7.32, 8 20,10, (11 p. in.
Chester, Sundays, (3.08, (7.45, 8 60.
11.35 a. m., 12 10, 2.29, 4 5», (5 32, 6 30, (7 32, 8 20.
10.00, (11.00, p. m. ^
Atlantic City, week-days, (7.80, a. m., (12 21
1.59, (3 06 p. m. t Sundays, *7 45 a. m., (3 06
p. m.
Cape May, week-days, (6 40, a. m., (1:59, p m
Sundays, (7:45 a. m.
h. m..
WEST BOUND.
Baltimore and Washington, week-days, (4.20
7.02 (8.48, *11 05 a. m., (12.55, (2.07,3.03, (4.03,15.25,
(6.13, (8 20 J8.58, p. m. Sundays, (4.20,7.02, (8.48,
a m., (12.55, 12.07, 3,03, {5.25, (8.20, *858 p. m.
Baltimore and way stations, 7.02, a. m., 3.03, p.
m., dally.
Newark, Del., week-days, (4.20, 7.02, (8.48,
*11 05 a.m., (12.55, 3.03, (4 03, (5.25, 7.35, («.'^0, (8.5*4,
11.10 p. m. Sundays, (4.20. 7.02, J8.48 a. m„
(12.55, 3.03, (5.25, 7.35, 18.20, (8.58, p. m.
Pittsburg, week-days, 18.48, a,
Sundays *8 48 a m., *5 25 p m.
Chicago, (8.48, a. m., (5.26, p. m., daily.
Cincinnati and St. Louis, (12.55, p. in., (8.58,
p. m. dail
New
m., *613 pm
uiy
Orleans and Memphis via Bristol and
Chattanooga, *6,13 p. m. weed days; *5.25 p.m.
Sundays. Through sleepers Washington to
Memphis and New Orleans.
Singeriy accommodation, 7.02. a. m., 3.03,7.35,
and 11.10, p. m., daily, except Sunday.
Landenhurg accommodation, week-days,
7.02.10.27 a. m., 1.55 and 5.25, p. m. Sunday»,
10 00, a. m., 6.25, p. m.
Trains leave Market Street Station
For New York, week-days, *515 pm.
S undavs. *515 p m.
phla, week-days, *7 25.
a m., 12 20,2 05, 8. *5 15, 9 45 p in. Sundays,
*725am.,2 05, *5 15,9 45pm. '
For Pittsburg and Chicago, daily, *515
pm.
For Baltimore, week-days, 6.50, a.
00, (5.15 p. m. Sunday, (5.15, p. m.
For Landenhurg and way stations, week
days, 6.50, 10 20, a. m„ 2 05, 6.15, p. m. Sundays,
9.55, a. m.^5.15, p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, Twenty-Fourth and
Chestnut streets for W ilmington. week-days.
?•$ 18 - 15 > 9 - 80 > l 10 SB. 11.30. a. m.. (12:20,
1.10, (1.88, 2.00, *8.30,8.80, *4.15, (4.fe, 15 li (5.41,
00, 6.80, (7.43. (8.23, io.10and li.35, p. m. '
»"Ddays, (3.40, 6. (8,18, 9.00,- 11.80, a.
—, 112.20, 11.36, 2.00, *4.15, *4 49, 6 t0,
(7-48,(8.28,10.10 and lliö, p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, Twelfth and Market
Streets, week-days, (8.20, 17.S6, 110.16, a. m„
(7.27, p. m. Sundays, (3.20, (7.S5, a. m„ (7.27,
p. m*
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