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fl GM lie I)] Entered at tho Post Offlce at Wilmington. matter Dn.AWAit» <n/,i:Tii, • »tlAWAIII F.NTARLINHEU 17H4 ATI; JOIJKW A I-, ENTABIJIMHLD 1881 WILMINGTON, DKL AWAKE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1891. C 0 N 801 . 1 I»AT£ 1 > 1 H 88 . NEW SERIES-VOL. XI-NO. 28 The ' Methods In Public Affairs. Resuft of Business THE DEPARTMENT'S FIGURES I Gratification Expressed by Business Men. o Present St is of the W «linen— ent-FIffiires Dp« [ml« New Work and Ji iml Efficient Olli» lo The recent announcement that the vnter commissioners rplus of more than ir to City Council as JL an excess over and above all expenses 6\. of tho commission for the past year has attracted a great deal of attention among I the citizens. The fact of the existence of the large Kift balance, reassurance of which is given BL by Mr. Grobe, Ims caused the liveliest ■BBT satisfaction in business circles in Wil $•?:. mington and also among the citizens w generally who look upon the aiinounce a gratifying proof of tho possi L bility of having the public departments a business footing with financial d altogether independent of political entanglements. This is the public comment on what the water commission has achieved this year and to the conditions referred to above is ascribed tho cause of its sue cess. Hll legist rar of the B Hffi Would have a $ 11,000 to hand ment When the water commissi into power, '83-'84, following the year' litigation, when Messrs. Willi: Porter, William G. Gibb« tian Febiger bee came T. and Chris ; commissioners they found "The Watering Department of the City of Wilmington," as its dignity and title was mirably financial nor The department's property had been al lowed tf> get out of repair. The city dam (third dam) was dilapidated—in fact everything was out of pump running to its ut most capacity in order to furnish tho ci tv with water. iji is true the water rents were mostly collected. But here existed (by almost general consent of public opinion) suspicion that the money collected w çm applied by C< for which the water tax /was the development of this opinion, /definitely placing the administrate r the water department by the ot City Council in disrepute, that c polled tho existence of the water mission which by legislative took those duties fr< icipal representatives. The first thing the commission did to order the collection of the delin quent water taxes. At the next meet ing of the commission the registrar re ported that the collect« irdered, but that tho delinquents had >aid no attention whatever to the col eotors' requests for the back rent fient *t very ad efficient, condition. ■pair. There r as but •il to the purposes laid. It to of mbers itment the hands of the a by of long over Then the commissioners ordered that other request, be made for the money and that tile delinquents be informed that if not attended to a fortnight from date of notice their water would be shut off. It worked like a charm, for next • up and paid his An amusing incident of this little 1- of tin the fact that three of the delin quents were members of City Co effective bit of work, for ever since to this date have the collec collccting water dîiy every on of to rent, first skirmish lies i • com m iss •il. It was tors had any trouble i rent. A glance on tho following tables v show with what exact success the vi •ill r rent collected anil the trifling i unents have bee •unts that have gone by default h year, and that through > laxity the commis sion hut by citizens' 1—1.880, $94,00 ■8.49, all »-oil« all collected; 1837 1388, $111,0(59.4: 1889, $113,108.5: niter shin lust $15 due, wi An important point above table i the amount of in»-* shut oil'. oticeable in the he gradual increase in o. It is probable □ the mts' figu rater s of the coming January double of that of 1880. This ah •ill sho this fairly looked upon as evide the efficiency of the present water of ?r ; fi Fr the adv: 'Q sheets seen at the offlee the total surplus since 1886 to 1889, with the estimated surplus of this r hich „ J reach the s $45,009, is $118,683. This is the earned outside of expenditures of all kinds. When the eommi effect, there being hand, it was emp« ture to b( sum of $35,000 is still outstanding. The commissioners immediately canceled $35,000 of the bunds by payment of that amount from the y<* •f mint Huit on first went into funds whatever in ered by the Legisla $120,600 on bonds. Tho > city, land ' . y realized 'hen tiie water bonds the market. Bo fn receipts the oommi sufficient to w grant of $120,000. The present indebtedness of the water department is $606,500, which, as stated, will be reduced by over $43,000 at the current January report. $606,500, tho amount of $521,500 w incurred previous to the establishment of the water c< In regard to what has be plished by the commission in and improvements of a permanent char acter, the following, extracted from tho • books, as some • >f the chief items, will afford interesting information to the public. its annual rplus has collected fipe out the legislative div !'«■ )f this s Ido • work has New mnin Fr -■li and Eleve .$15.1 9 Ne k. City Ulli Now Wei New boil Il p mi ity .Mill N I iy New Lit ItÙi I A'iditl *1» Water p oiih 8 prh ' Hod I St. Du in last Gulf of at & w -k id.-i n uml boil »1 I 1.60 three oi RermnKtou •iu Bl Bp Third Mark« 2 , 735.49 Among.the above perhaps the most valuable acquisition is that of the water power plant. Spring is 2,590,000 gall» ney street 1,600,000, and thero is no ex pense, except the cost of a little oil grease, attached to its uso. the race muat at some time or other be Jmator tion tion Its capacity to Cool and to Rod In mt i a thoroughly efficient condition, t must be walled and deepened. On the other side of the Brandywine oo, where the city is rapidly extending the citizens facilities simiiar to those side. is ; d. iding water the south Mr. Porter also recognizes the need of improving the drinking water. The rule is good. Freshets cause ; muddy but this trouble is readily met by shutting off ingress to the reservoir 'where there is always hand. What it to bee by several days' supply as referred to, howeve •as the i provement of the water as it averages through the year. Coatesville and other their refuse into the 13 dywine. Mr. Porter explained that that feature of the question is one that is in tho hands of sanitary engineers all the country. Engineering science has not yet evolved plans of a sufficiently pecuniarily feasible nature to allow of their adoption here. Mr. Porter is in clined to surmise, however, that the cit izens of Wilmington are not suffering iunt of bad water. places pi as of to MASONIC TEMPLE BURNED. The iltlm Mas h Loose Their HiiiiiIhoiii« Ktructiiec by Fire. —One of Baltimore's noted buildings—the magnificent murble front Masonic Temple, on Charles street, near Saratoga—is to-night a blackened in, the work of a few hours of devastat ing lire. Nearly all the records of the Grand Lodge since its organizatio than a century ago, the piirupliernalia,uni forms of individual lodges, costly banners, relics that cannot be replaced and which throw light upon the early history of the city, the line library of the Grund Lodge— all these have been lost. Bai. The fire broke out i theatre on the second and third floors, which is occupied by Forepaugh's. See after scene flared up until the curtain relied out like a balloon, and, unable to hold the heat any longer, flew up. In instant the the lodge r< the flies in the ss of pread to burning thore the flames s a up-stairs. The •as isolated by a paved yard from Ht. Paul's 1*. E. Church 1 from the the north d factory of iss Company on the south. •Iiic.li had cost $450,000, entirely gutted. The 1 •y. The crowds of people that, the the tiro had the P. 11am The building, holiday gave libe. _ ... ly one thought—how fortunate that the fire did later. Shortly after the part ment Charles S. Coal and John Kelly, firemen, had a narrow escape. The men >n the south-west corner of the front the Imild break out. and a half ival of the fire de cornice fighting tliei ..... _ ing when t liw (lames sliot frt dow. Captain Dunn, chief of the chemi cal department, with the uid of others, two ladders in an upright position the wi placed 1 the Dr. D. F. I'cnington, president of the Lodge Relief Association, had a narrow eseape while endeavoring to save some of the records of the order. He hud climbed to the third fl< side, where the n started back with papers. Becoming confused, he mistook the door to an ante-room for the main exit. Picking up a large hook, he knocked out the window of the small roo . midway of the orth »«I, and had armful of books and ful climbing to the the in exit, when he fell, of crushed in. Mr. Phili just Kell, past led h' a aster, was following him, ly before he was injured. The old St. 1'aul's P. E. Church, corner d Charles streets, which .separated' from the burning building by a smiWl alley, was in imminent danger at •eral times »luring the fire. Sparks showered on the roof, but wero quickly extinguished before any harm w The top of the building was used largely by th« 1 firemen in throwing streams »If water into the north side of the build of Saratoga the 158 ing. One of the stained-gloss on the south side was broken by falling timber. Thomas of No (» Engl Irnm the hose carriage to the lire and w the body. T. Sexton, assistant engineman finie' badly bruised about •us thrown the way HER Ii USB AND PROTESTS. Mu «'flag« a the to of Loi also Mrs. Durke-It« Hi-; list London, Dec. 24.—The following letter is published in to-day's Pull Mull îference to the Burke-Koche Gazette i div( Sir : I have s paragraph ii erring to mys quasi divorce proceedings in the of America, and 1 that such an action had id against me, whether be within your knowledge ely to-day for the first your issue of Friday IF. in connection witn lust >m which ight I □ ■ cesfitlly or t. It b this date myself and .. d in a similar manner, quite ; of the fact that, as it is wu. there are not the slightest grounds such proceedings against me in any il ?r ; fi fact is that when I unfortunately ied the lady in question 1 thereby ■d her a native of this Tii untry, mn try *f t hit alone that she c s a party Huit of this nature. he needless to Heitor: It idd that neither With tiss here, had row when down rille, fired his lie on rying tery sion A A for It is and Giffin. elf proceedings. Yo , faithfully, James Rociik. > Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 24.—Of the Burke-Roche divorce, after reading the husband's letter published in London Hportod by cable to-day, Henry Flanders, one of the best lawyers in the city, said: "A woman married in Eng land to a British citizen is herself a British subject, and a divorce grunted ' . Delaware, even after siie 1ms fully implied with tho requirements of the orco laws <jf Delaware div . .'ould _ ognized by the English courts, l think a divorce obtained under •os would be recognized any one of the United States except Delaware." ! !'«■ Ido RAILWAY MILEAGE OP IS 90 . Figures oftl Tc C lotion During the € I Ne Y'ork, Dec. 25.— F statistics published by tho Engineeriny News, it the total addition to the country's railway mileage during 1890, has been nearly 5800 miles, than was laid ii ot railway c» •y 1st, 1891, Mill be 167,1 amount, 36,912 miles appears th: 7(10 mi 1er m» 1889. The pleted Jnn 2. Of this 22 per constructed eluting the The Southern Atlantic, sippi states, with >tul ;ent., has bee last live yc Gulf and Miss of 2,158 mile total they have for three years past any other two groups oi states. siding last is has .ass Jmator ueit conference year. UJÇO tho N»*gro. 6.—The Wnshing ivc Association, c»>inpose»l «»f colored citizens of this Strife, has been organized here. The object of the associa tion is stated to be to encourage immi tion of colord people to this state Tv Pro nating away with by t < i 11 « town M E. Church has in Fosnocht to return GRACE'S PA8TOR-ELECT. iv. Dr. Spellmayor evv. paper«. In a letter to William M. Field, dent of the board of trustees of M. E. Church, the Rev. Dr. Henry Spellmeyer of East Orange, N. J., who recently*was invited to become pastor of Grace Church, thus refers to the Rev. Dr. John Y. Dobbins of Trenton, who has accepted a pastoral call from the church: "I believe that Dr. Dobbins will have a very successful pastorate. He has always been popular with the young, highly evangelical and a pro ved success wherever 1 have heard of his work. 1 congratulate you all." Trenton Daily IStutc Gazette says : "Very many of our citizens will learn with regret that the Rev. Dr. Dobbins of State Street M. E. Church will leave Trenton next spring, at the close of the conference year. He has accepted a call to Grace Church, Wilmington, Del., at a salary of $3,000, with a parsonage Just completed at a cost of $25,000. This of the finest appointments in the Methodist church and Dr. Dobbins will fill it ably and successfully. He has been one of the most eloquent and ef ficient pastors in Trenton for several years, and his people will miss him greatly." Trenton Daily True American says: "The Rev. Dr. John Y. Dobbins, the popular pastor of State Street M. E. Church, has accepted a call to Grace Church. Wilmington, Del. The official board of State Street Church was noti fied at the meeting held on Tuesday night and a committee was appointed to express the feeling of the board relative to the departing pastor to the quarterly ce, which meets next Monday night. The church to which Dr. Dobbins goes is one of the best ap pointments in the gift, of the church. Dr. Dobbins is one of the most popular and successful ministers in the Now Jersey Conference. He ha? occu pied all the leading pulpits in the con ference and is greatly beloved by the congregations whom he has served, is now serving his second te Street Church, 'l'lie first te here for three years. He has three years of his all probability he Kind Words of d Treu I o firace is to of He at State served and in •ould have served longer had he not received this flattering call. Dr. Dobbins is a finished speaker, always expressing his thoughts in th« 1 most elegant language, und in his pastoral work he has always been popular. His departure from tho city will bo greatly regretted." two ye CITY COUNCIL. Pr« d! f a Uriel and Cheerio »Id Frill \<i J Evening;. The Council chamber was decidedly cold, Friday evening, and City Council's adjourned session w President Farra presided, and Messrs. Beale, Colton, Curren and Sharkey were absent. The electric lights \\— also unusually dim at times, and alto gether the sessio rather brief. not a very cheer ful The police committee reported in favor of awarding the contract for 2,000 dog tags to W. E. Lindsey, at $19 per thousand. Adopted. The city treasurer reported : Balance bank to the credit of current ex penses, $87,680.98; special deposit,, $12,8,19.62; total, $100,480.70. Receipts during the week : Board of Water Com missioners, interest cn water bonds, $5,790. Physician M. J. Hughes Of the North-western district reported : Primary vaccinations, 18, of which 13 cssful; Vaccine Physician W. Miller, North-eastern district : Vaccinations, 160, all primary, of which 158 were white and three colored. Tho miscellaneous monthly pay-roll, $1,847.17, and the police pay-roll, $3.828.35, were allowed. A communicatic T. at read from tlin Board of Water Commissioners, asking the co-operation of Council in presenting to the Legislature an act to regulate the time and manner for employes of ( to recover damages for in juries sustained while at work. It w referred to the law committee with i structions to confer with the Water Commissi A communication from the Star Pub lishing Company,claiming that its action printing tho delinquent tax list was regular, and in accordance with estab lished usage—the order of the chairman of the prin ting committee—was read and referred t< » the law committee. The interest list duo January 1st, $8,487, was allowed. Bills for the removal of garbage w asset! as follows: Thomas Fag*,.., 407.81; Fred Winchester, $104.77; Loi ion Collins, $134.10. The bill of Frank Barrett, $95, for laying graph cable across the Christiana, w also allowed. porati. tele MISSISSIPPI POSTMASTER S1IOT. With Gun in H Wrong Druggist. Carrot/ton, Miss., Dec. 20.—John Pren tiss Matthews, Republic: here, was killed y McBride, a wealth had quarreled at nesduv nigl row there ; when Matthews w down the street t< McBride .fc Co., rille, McBride stepped toward him and fired the fatal shot while Matthews had his preparing to shoot Matthews had rendered himself very odious'to the people of the community by his offensive conduct as the carpet-bug postmaster of the present administration, lie 1ms been arrested almost every week on charges of drunkenness, profanity, car rying concealed weapons, assault and bat tery and other offenses. He took posses sion of a passenger train on the Georgia Pacific railroad while drunk, and was only con»|uered by the porter and conductor beating him down and disarming him. A Now Desk for the Deputy Sheri IT. A new desk, handsome, modern and convenient, has been put in by Sheriff Simmons,at hisoffloein the court house, for the use of Deputy Thomas Giffin. It is a change that has been long needed and is highly appreciated bv Deputy Giffin. II« Goes After the m postmaster day noon by \V. S. îy young druggist. They the post-office on Wed e McBride had raised a alunit his mail. Consequently, yesterday coming •ward the drug store of nied with a winchester SS1Ä ject of of ' the two in other The the qui » other New Mother of Six Children ithinTwo Ye Marlboro, Dec. 25.—M Boswell, wife of Mordecai Boswell, re siding near tiiis town, Saturday night last gave birth to three children. This is the second time iu two years that she has given birth to triplets. Mordecai mus the runs Flro. VinoQUA, Wis., Dec. 26.—The fire origi nating in Linderaann's building swept away the entire block except the Tremont . involving a loss of fullv with but $10,U<)0 insurance. It w by great exertio ward street, street. 11 « $150,000 a« only the part of the fire anil citizens that the remainder of the town was saved. LEG I SLA Tl VE A LLi VANCES. of the the : the a the has ef the E. to A PI«« for Betr «•!i Along the Editor Gazette: 1 desire to call the attention of the members of moral Assembly to some of the abuses at have crept into the item of allowances. clerks of the House and (•< The pay of .Senate has i $700 to $2.500 'each. 1 which î of the State's that these offices e a few years fr< money, as all know be as acceptably and ithirdthe whatever the c« immends completely tilled fa omit. mitte jeounts mmittce always adv ver that of its* p isen bi the sum a I doe •r, thus it has ntioned. Think of it. tho clerk of the 1 louse the whole nine here of the three clerks amt paid the mite. The salaries of tho omit to « 3-half the :mhers of both ho combined, less their mileage. Now this is both absurd and ridiculou: a safe asse ,s I think it is of the appli de during the for three ml always a lidates jorlty of the defeated cants for the position ing clerk, thereby admitting that if they ot get $2,500, they about the : ' »PP» - sistant «»r read er 3 willing of work for $400, d usually the assistant clerk 1ms been more competent of the two. The abuse can be c <lo the orreeted by fixing wo chief clerks to ; not over $1,000 for clerking, id publishing their jo it will he sought ufteratthese figures bv thoroughly competent and acceptable their pay by law, the t g, enroll )s, ami I ing know The reading or assistant clerk of the House should be selected i nor as the chief clerk,and his salary should als«» ho fixed by law. It seems proper that the members who desire the above reform should so declare, before the selection of the clerks, other wise the latter would think themselves eiving the ad badly ated by ie by the journals of the legislative committee of the $4,5 th: there w disbursed ate office who nl ready had their than i le. The first two items are $500 e clerks for indexing and .super intending the printing of their journals, while the combined work of both should not require more than one week if the journals are properly kept, yet the State ' 1 $1,000 for it. Next, the State tre: received $015 for signing and printing 750 bonds ; then the secretary of State received $700 for superintending the printing of laws and bonds ; the insurance commissioner received $1,500 for preparing and superintending the printing of his report, which is only a . " ' uual statements pub lished by the companies doing busi this State. Then the State auditor is al lowed $000 for superintending the printing of his report, and to give a suitable wind up, the clerk of their committee, after securing $0(i for three days work, i thorized to draw on the State treasurer for $50 for superintending the printing of his : a j Q f p aRe8| t j lc cost 0 f printing be g not over $10. But the precedent has been set by former committees, and these gentlemen only fol lowed in their footsteps. The expenditure the last four years I should think, be a matter ot iiivestiga s to whether the results justified the Another favorite raid He in a f the ■1° over $75,000 during militia, would, tion in at the State treas ury is the expenses of serving requisitions other states for persons crimes in this State, and the passing of laws for indexing the county records, whereby we usually pay $500 for each $100 worth of work performed. All the above will he before you, so keep an eve « them, as it is expected that you gcntlem will make good the before-eloction pr< ises of reform, and not smilingly inf» that the platform and promises, hustings were only intended fur the gulli ble voter and never to be kept. More than usual is expected of y ' • thew ■cused of I : : ming ses . of needed retrenchments , and it is to be Imped that you ill not disappoint the people. und ref< OllHRRVER. Dover, December 23d, 1890. PRESIDING ELDER'S VISITS. Dr. Murray's Last It meats Tills Conf. Presiding Elder Murray's official gage.ments during the remainder of the conference year arc as follows : Preaching—January 4th, at Hart's and North East; January 11th, Rising Sun, Mt. Pleasant and Port Deposit; January 17th, Zion; January 18th, Hopewell and Principio; January 20th, Cherry Iiill; January 25th, Elkton and Christiana; February 1st, Red Lion, New Castle and Kirkwood; February 8th, Delaware City, and St. Georges; February 15th, Madeley, Kingswood and Swedish Mission; February 17th, Cookman; Feb ruary 22d, Asbury, Union and Marshall ton; March 1st, St. Paul's and Grace; March 8th, Newport and Hockessin. Quarterly conference—January 3d, at Hart's; January 5th, North East; January 9th, Port Deposit; January 19th, Rising Sun and Mt. Pleasant; January 17th, Hopewell and Zion; January 19th, Principio; January 20th, Cherry Hill; January 24th, Christiana; January 26th, Elkton and Newark; January 31st, Red Lion; February 3d, New Castle; February 3d, Brandywine; February 7th, Delaware City and St. Georges; February 9th, Mndoley;Fobru ary 16th, Kingswood; February 17th, Cookman; February 18th, Scott; Febru ary 19th, Union; February 21st, Asbury; February 23d, Marshallton; February 25th, Claymont; February 20th, St. Paul's; March 6th, Grace; March 9th, Newport. i»l of Engage Port P of BRUTTED P. R. R. MOVEMENTS. Its Line Or»lor to Meet. «. & O. Improve Propositi») to .Straighten Rumor: railroad authorities have in view the pro ject of a comprehensive straightening out of the lino bet ween Washington and New Y'orlc. The move • • - of shortening tho ' ' line in order A Ohio lmsae the time between •tropolis. Along the Maryland division the Pc railroad civil engineers have afloat (hat the Pennsvlvani is for the purpose ihedule time along the •et what the Balti plishcd in reducing the capital and tho in tra de ,eys since July. The sec ...__ included admeasurements of propcrtic. lands ami furm buildings along the more direct lines where the e shortened. At points Newark there exist e >ut of which two s North 1 s the •ould throw ing ofi time. This is true of straightening « in a large suvi other pn The farmers and property the points roferred to and Maryland. already the qui vive. The movement of the B. ä O. people i piercing u tunnel under the Pataiwo s railway terry and • haul through the city of » >. which will save that line* an other 20 minutes between Washington and New York, is one of the features that is arousing the Pennsylvania railroad author Fire of for the tedio mus saving the long, si« Rahim» There were four deaths here on Christ day. They include Catharine A. Qarrity, No. 1880 Tntuall atreot; Ed ward O'Donnell, No. 424 Tatnall street; Bridget Luwlor, No. 425 East Ninth street, and Fred Ott, No. 203 Tatnall street. OBSERVANCES the the and How the Festal Day was Cele brated in Wilmington. A DAY OF QUIET ENJOYMENT and Bright Music and Fitting Ser mons in the Churches. omit. Merry Dane «1 Festive Makers has I Ively Few A ■I» to May« Cheer I« lef and ! •li -Uonc! Hospital Path tho the Christmas Day was ushered in with the usual accompaniment on tin lu which began bef< Christmas eve, and eo occasional lull until midnight. About daybreak the discordant salute began again and broke out at intervals through out the day. This was the sign of the coming of the day that was heard on the streets. Indoors peopl ticipatif to obse is : dark is the •ss fell rltb for they - read $400, been <lo juietly, with happy i and thankful hearts, prepared r e the great Christmas holiday. " ' ?day vded ho thronged search of appropriate gifts or friends. The express offices were deluged with packages for all parts of the country and Europe, and the extra force of clerks worked late shipping and delivering the Christ to The businc Wed streets afternoon and ev I ith Christmas shoppers, the st» for relath the who ad Nearly all of the public schools held ppropriatc exercises on Wednesday fternoon. At No. •arded to wi in a compel i * in study. Contribu eeived at the schools for the Associated Charities. Many packages of provisions and clothing were brought diolurs. They were sent to the Associated Charities, where the agefs distributed them to the needy and deserving poor. tion for excelle tio nl $500 the 750 the ; the a al for his be fol the in by the CHRISTMAS DAY was quietly oqserved. Every had a fireside of their own took advan tage of the opportunity and spent the holiday at home. Many stores we open during the morning, and for a few hours the streets were lively with be lated buyers. The stores closed up toward noon and from that hour the city had a quiet, Sunday-like appear ance. There was some drunkenness and early in the afte flro attracted a crowd to the lower part of Market street. An unusually large number of Christ mas trees were sold in the market, and on every street, shades were raised in the houses to give passers-by a glimpse of tho beautiful Christmas fruit they bore. ho f ah IN THE CHURCHES. Asbury and Scott M. E. Churches held the usual Christmas morning services at 5 a. m., the Rev. Vaughan 8. Collins and the Rev. J. D. C. Hanna, pastors of the churches, led the services. At St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral, the Church of the Sacred Heart. St. Paul's and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Churches, early mass was celebrated at 5 o'clock In the morning, and also at 10.30 o'clock. Vespers o'clock in the evening. Mass for people was celebrated at St. Joseph's Church at 5, 8 and 9 a. m. At 7 p. m., the children of the school gave taimnent. At St. John's Episcopal Church vices, including beautiful selectI Christmas music, were held at 6.30 and 10.30 a. m. At Trinity Church Holy Eucharist was celebrated at 7.30 a. m. Services were also held at 10.30 a. m., the Rev. H. Ashton Henry preaching the sermon. In the evening the Sunday school festival was held and Bishop Coleman delivered an address. Services at Old Swedes and Calvary churches wore held at the usual hours. The Christmas entertainment of the New Jerusalem Church was held in the evening. Rodney Street Presbyterian Churcli held Christmas services in the morning. The reformed Episcopal Churches of the Covenant and Redeemer, held a ' ;e in the latter churcli in the morning. The Rev. Charles Hen dricks of the Church of the Covenant preached tho sermon. of of •as said at 7.30 lured enter of union se POLICE NOTES. Good order was preserved throughout the city by tho police. Twenty-eight made during the day, mostly for drunkenness. The patrol wagon answered 98 calls. Samuel Hawkins, Dr. 13. G. Shortlidge and Samuel H. Baynard presented boxes of cigars to the force. On Wednesday evening Mayor Har rington was caned by Dr. Shortlidge, at the police station. The cane is of oak, handsomely silver mounted. The same evening Chief of Police Swiggett was presented with a pair of handsome gold cuff buttons, a gift from his class in St. Paul's M. E. Sunday-school. aru ste GENERAL NOTES. An entertainment was held at the Homoeopathic Hospital in the morning. Each patient and nurse . Thero w & •eivctl a pres Christmas tree i also a largo tree at the Delaware Hospital. Every patient and nurse received priatc present. An entertainment, followed by re freshment« was given in the W. C. T. U. reading room at Eighth and Market streets in the evening. Both theatres gave matinees and ev ing performances. Tho attendance was ent of the wnrds. Thero appro and the Ne the not as good as last year. Prof. A. B. Webster gave his usual Christmas matinee dance at, his dancing the afternoon. It academy attended by about 100 pers< German Bakers' Union gave a ball in the evening in German Hull. About 50 couples participated in the promenade. Gottlieb Ihle was master of ceremonies, August Papendiech first president, George »Single secretary and Fritz Schmidt treas 1T . tra furnished Street-car travel 1. The cars of all lines r:; Sp< log Humboldt's orches by with who mates weel time ras heavier than ell filled. Several members of the Fame Hose Fire Company, serenaded their fellow firemen with blasts from horns. They were entertained at all uf the engine houses. Numbers of little folks happy Thursday in being the recipients of tho pretty Delaware dolls wht dainty attire brought them first pre miums at the recent National Doll Exhibition iu New Y'ork city. The greater share of them among the littlo inmates of the Homo for Friendless Children, the Cheerful Home, the Homuiopathic and Delaware •re made distributed soon Hospitals and another share to the Asso ciated Charities. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., gave to each of their employes for a Christ mas gift, a box of fine confectionery. In accordance with their custom the Harlan «& Hollingsworth Company on Wednesday afternoon presented each of the 38 boys employed as rivet heaters in the company's works with fortuble overcoat as a Christmas present. Captain Thomas Johnson made a speech of presentation. The Hilles «& Jones Company pre sented cacli man in its employ with a turkey. The Uni Veteran Legion, the Sons of Veterans, the Grand Army of the Republic, and the women's branches of ization, spent the «lay in distributink^lfts among disabled veter ans and soldiers' widows and orphans. Friday the task was continued. At the Christmas meeting of the Wa waset Gun Club there were five s In the first G the last with of ceps. •go Miller was the win 1 W. Buckmaster; Third Miller and Buckmaster equal; Fourth Buckmnster; Fifth C. M. Buckmaster first. At the Healdmoor rille range there was a whole day's thorough enjoyment. The rifle and pistol shooting was very good, some fine records being made. Lieuten ant Howard Simps« beginners who seemed to take eve more interest i veteran rifle ?r; in the se for took care of the the sports than the FRONT .S i KET RAILWAY. It Changes II ils, the Co trol Passing te to Local the 3lrC.mil» Ks Man a Control of the Front and Union streets railway lias changed hands through the purchase fi McComb's estate by Franklin B. Colton, representing a syndicate, of 2,201 shares of the 3,135 shares of stock of the com tin; administratrix of the i the to and The City Passenger Railway Com pany had the option for s* making the purchase, but for s nsummnted. As it organization i , although, fr : Jof those in r purchase it is not beyond possibilities, but that the pas senger railways of the city may yet be all merged into time of it was not c< stands independent conce chat terested in the till! the few be up the and in ho Friday with system. With the new control will follow the long-needed railway improvement Front street. The purchase covers only the Front and Union railway. No syndicate of railways to be established anew and branching all over the city is contemplated by the purchasers. The necessary improvements will be made in the spring and this will include the abolishing of horse and mule motor power and the substitution of electricity. It looks at present as if the new owners would expect to obtain their electric motive power from the City Electric Lightning Company. Otherwise it would be necessary to establish an expensive electric plant costing some $50,000 at the ;. proposed Silverbrook terminus. The past and present condition of the Union railway is ascribed to the fact of the controlling power being in the hands of an administratrix which condi tion works in the direction of with holding expansion or enterprise. This avoided as the control will be under the direction of a live directorate which will give immediate local atten tion to all needs and improvements. Nothing whatever definite has be formulated ns to extensions of the line ill those interested state anything exactly as to the transformation of the road from a horse railway to an electric \ There is the general statement that work will commence in the spring. f at of the at at m. of a poor and Front of At tho regular quarterly meeting of the vestry of Immanuel Church, High lands, held on Friday evening, Der ber 19th, the following was adopted: Called to mourn the loss of one of their number, taken in the prime of mutnhnod and Christian usefulness to his heavenly •cor'd ho . tho vestry desire to place thoir sense of the loss this j. taiued in the death of Willi. As a member of the vestry and of the choir also, he has faithfully served in this parish since its organization a few years g cheerfully of his time, thought , i voice, in promoting its welfare, u a due share of its success must ago, giv means ;i and to hi be attributed. Broad in judgment, and lie undertook, lie exercised quite.beyond its bounds. lie was a warm sted and faithful his business and devoted, kind tionate in his ho The vestry desire to offer their sincere sympathy to his sorrowing family in their bereavement, and to assure them' that the great loss they sustained is shared by them, and his manly and Christian life will be affectionately remembered. They also Smolved, That a copy of this bo sent to the family of the deceased, that it be pub lished in the Wilmington napers, and ered upon the minutes of the vestry. Kensey J. Hammond, rector. n Ainsworth, Junior Warden, for the vestry. his sympathies, discreet in ' earnest and faithful in what influence ) friend, id affec Ki Have Nat the Contract. The Philadelphia Record says that "a contract for the construction of one of the largest passenger steamboats i world has been awarded to the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company of Wilming ton, Del. The new vessel will be 50 feet longer than the celebrated steamboat Grand Republic, the r plying between d Rockawny, and will be . Tho el will be 332 feet long, registering • 2,000 tons. She will be a floating palace in all respects." This announc e ment has been made in other papers, and denied by the Harlan & Hollings worth Company. A representative of the company said Friday morning that nothing was known of a contract for building such a steamboat. Ne York the property of the s: but was hose The Yule L iTospondeni-» in Sussex. Sp< d Journal ïKTOWn, Dec. 25. —The yule lighted i log has be and the Buss •ill remain kindled for a Sussex hospitality requires that xehange of social courtesies. »Sania Claus paid a visit to the almshouse early this generous old follow was impersonated by Dr. Richards, whose annual visits •no of tho delights of the county's wards. With a half dozen friends the inmates were visited, and each presented with a box »>f candy, cakes, apples, oranges, bananas, nuts, and to those who smoked, pipes, tobacco and cigars. Christmas cards, pictures and reading matter in abundance were left the in mates who were deeply gratified for the offerings. weel time •ning. The genial and for fire were The Episcopal Church at Seaford will soon buy a $1,300 pipe organ. gave the on each pre a A TRIBUTE )M EMPLOYES. H. H. Carter, Retiring Superintend« Ii Kullroud, Presented u Handsome Silver Service. of Hi-' 1-. Wi The sincere regret among the em ployes of the Maryland division of the Pennsylvania railroad oceasioned by the retirement of H. II. Carter as super intendent of the division, found fitting expression on Wednesday afternoon in the presentation of a magnificent silver :e to Mr. Carter. The handsome •as also an earnest of the high held by his subordinates, and thus combining the sincere motives of the presentation and superb offering itself, the gift will most vividly recall the willing co-opera ever lent to the retiring superintend entd uring his administration of this portant line of iron The presentation toko esteem in which Mr. Carter w Sons the of in Wa tion highway. entire sur prise to Mr. Carter who, after returning from luncheon on Wednesday afternoon, was requested to stop into the large office of the station building, and com plying with the invitation found him self surrounded by railroad attaches and employes, the head of every de partment from Philadelphia toQuantico being represented. Confronting him was a superb service, a veritable triumph of the silver smith's art. It consisted of 27 pieces of massive repousse work all resting in a large chorry case and half buried in drab plush. The several articles of tho set were lined with gold except the coffee and tea urns, the in e of the finest white win was The the the terior of which metal. Station Master Gookin, oldest and most valued attaches of tho road, made the presentation. He took in the presentation to say a in behalf of the employes of the road to the retiring superintendent. He said : ! of the the occas farewell the It is with univesal feeling of regret that we learn of your leaving this division. We have worked for you now about eight years, we understand what you wanted done and have tried to the'best of on ability, feeling sure that liowevei effectual our efforts are appreciated by 1 speak for the men generally when" that they desire to offer you a* slight token of their regard so that in future years y may have occasionally brought to mind the pleasant associations they 1 you. We trust that you will testimonial of our good will, and that you will find in. your now station content and fortune. Mr. Carter was quite affected by this sincere expression of regret at his de parture, conveying as it did the hearty ood will and good wishes of the liun reds of employes of the division. He extended thanks to the men and paid a compliment to their willingness to exe cute at all times and under all circum stances all orders, and to this fact much of whatever success he had attained as superintendent was due. After a gen eral handshaking farewells were said and the exchanges of good wishes for the future made. The presentation was attended by a number of employes of the division and Mr. Carter'3 personal staff of officers stationed here. There were beside trainmaster and assistants, with station masters, supervisors and assistants and yard masters from Philadelphia, Balti more and Washington; in fact, the heads of all departments of the P., W. & B. railroad, Baltimore & Potomac railroad, and Washington Southern railroad. it in not pas be of i r e had for •cept this the No is in the at of the be »1 in a CcHKpool. Joseph Newell, aged 20 years, an employe of the Wilmington Coal Gas Company, was found dead i :osspool at the gas works Friday morning. He w one of the night workmen, and lived at 1112 Chestnut street. Thursday evening he complained of feeling lie went to o'clock went out to the rell, when d shortly after 6 . water closet, rhich is over the cesspool. As ho did >t return, it was thought that he had gone home. Friday morning he w missed and a search was begun. His spool. Newell d although Tl'.. of body was found in thee had been subject to fits, has had none lately, it is supposed that he was taken with the water closet, and falling into the cesspool, was drowned. • after entered , A Family Tangle. Quitman Prose. Marshall Hopper, youngest son of Mr. J. H. Hopper,and Miss Mary Alder , daughter of Mr. Thomas Alder •ied Thursday, the Rev. Wilson Johnson officiating. Mr. Thomas Alderman is Mr. J. II. Hopper's law, Mr. Alderman's second wife being a Miss Ilopper. Miss Mary, the hand some bride, is his first wife's child. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Hopper's son is son-in-law of his father's son-in-law, and is also son-in-law of his own brother-in-law, »fee. A Sudden Death. Elzie R. Shaw, aged 37 years, a painter in the employ of the Jackson & Sharp Company, was taken with a chill yesterday morning week, while at work, and went home and to bed. lie grew worse rapidly, and Thursday Dr. Springor was called in. He gave all the aid possible, but congestion of the lungs had developed and death ensued at 1 o'clock Friday morning. Mr. Shaw was a member of numerous societies. He leaves a wife and three children. Mr. Shaw's residence Fifth street. No. 431 East A Lively Christ Laurel, Dec. 25.— Bad whisky caused much lawlessness to-day. Captain Jef ferson Rickets was beaten to a pulp, John Davis is minus a finger which was fiiilo ho is bruised severely; •pli Waller, a powerful man, was knocked insensible with bricks and clubs. On regaining consciousness he drew a revolver and endeavored to shoot his assailants, but was prevented. Laurel. oi off, to i: niuze in a < lolhing Store. A slight tire broke out about 2 o'clock Thursday after Harris'clothing store, No. 114 Market street. An alarm of fire was sent out from box No. 41, at \V but the fire was extinguished by a plug stream. The loss is about $100. A large d collected about the store, which was roped off. The crowd ropes until a couple of streams from the hose warned them to keep back. ,, of 's wharf, the the ing Fi A meeting will be held in tho Wash ington engine house un January 13th for the purpose of organizing :i »State fire association. be Henry Robinson, Isaac Shields, John Raison, Lewis Blake and Jesse Bostic, teamsters for George W. Bush «& Sons, were will fact, will warded prizes at the inspection uf the stables of the firm, yesterday week. The judges were Charles Jester, Samuel A. McDaniel and Geurge White. i. annual GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY of An Advance of 20 per cent In Plate Class. em the by in high by will NATIONAL ALLIANCE MEETING Sawtelle Convicted of Mur dering His Brother. Pennsylvania Miners Present a Demand for More AVages-A Santa Claus Ar rested for Thoft— Business Faillira. Over 100 consumptives ment by the Koch method i hospitals. The piano and organ store of Peck A Curtis, at Red Rank, New Jersey, waa dam aged to the extent of $13,000 by lire on last night week. Frank E. Dickinson and Minnie Bruud drowned at Ann Arbor, Michi gan. on last night week, while skating a mill pond. Maggie Murphy, aged 15 years, had a quarrel with Edward McDermott at a party, in Jersey City, Thursday and crushed his skull with an axe. Sawtelle was found guiltv of murder in the first degree in Dover, N. H., Thursday, and was sentenced to be hanged on the first Tuesday in January, 1802. It is reported that the five negroes who were arrested in Mecklenburg county, Va. Saturday night, for the murder of Dr. E. H. Reggan, were taken from jail and lynched, J. E. Brady shot and killed J. C. Colcutt, a private watchman, in Norfolk, Va., early Thursday morning, because he refused to arrest a man who had been offensive to Rrady. A syndicate of New York capitalists has, within the last, few days, purchased for $000,000, gold, the sugar plantation and factory known i largest in Cuba. The coasting schooner Katie arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, Thursday, hav ing on board the captain and crew of the wrecked bark Atlanta, which went «town during the recent gales. The large dry goods firm of Henry Eise rnen & Company, in Council Blurts, la., failed Thursday morning. The liabilities * reported at $200,000, the assets at $300, >. The lirm expects to resume business. under treat New York sur large com him de him and gold in age w tho took a of the that We eight on you and this de He a as said for a and and B. .anion, of the for this rhe Varwig Manufacturing Company's building, in Cincinnatti, was damaged bv tire Thursday morning. The plant was destroyed, but the building is believed to be intact. Loss $40,000 covered by insur ance. t , « proprietor o'f a livery stable in New York, shot and killed James Bummings 27 years old, Thursday, and also shot Edward Hurley in the left cheek. Gallwan claims that he'did the allotting in self defence. The Spanish bark Felo, at Brunswick, Ga., from Havana Thursday, had on board the captain, his wife and the crew of the bark Fred E. Richards, from Philadel phia for Havana. They were picked up from an open boat. The supreme court of Michigan has »le- • cided as unconstitutional the law passed by the last, legislature providing f»>r cumula tive voting for representatives to the state legislatives in districts where more than member was to elected. All the western switchmen have agreed to accent the compromise offered by the railroads, under which they will bedivided into two classes according to the point at winch they work, the first class to receive the Chicago scale of wages, class to receive $5 per.' Michael Galhv «1 the second ass to reeeive $5 per month less. Tim railroad law of Michigan, which n ' Michigan whoso $8,000 per mile and $3,000, 21 cents, and all others 3 cents has been affirmed by the state supreme court. William Strong, aged 22 years, while taking part in a Santa Claus entertainment in the Bingl Methodist Episcopal Church in Pittsburg on last evening week, was arrested on ting robbed his f. an provides that all roads n gross passenger earnings limited to 2 at tho, annum i whose earnings betw 6 and Thirteenth Street on last evening x\ the charge of havi employers, Schnette «t Co., of$l,ÖÖ0. Th e oxecutive council of the Farmers' Alliance has perfected the insurance plan* of the order. Circulars will be sent, out after the holidays. Only persons eligible to membership in the Alliance can insure in the Alliance. The executive council is opposed to calling a convention on January The miners of the Central Pennsvlvanlft coal regions have served notice operators, demanding a change in ' e of mining from 50 cents gross to cants not ton, and a new working scale of prices, which they want to go into effect on tho 1st of January. If the demands ? not granted, the men, to the number 15,0(i0, will, it is said, quit work of the year. A meeting of plate-glass manufacturers and jobbers will At th cided of is the coal the to the til be held i Pittsburg. Y'ork meeting it was de es 20 per cent, but made a standi . . J. "The avowed in tention of the fraternal combine is to keep plate-glass ut tho highest figures possible, and at the same time keep it low enough to shut out all importation." The Kansas board of sionera have rendered a decision in the case of J. K. Mayberry of Emporia, against the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis, holding that the company must furnish ears to transport coal, even tin.ugh tho haul over its line to the connecting line is sufficient to pay the expenses. It is the first decision of the board on this point, as bitterly fought by the railroad ■ent N advance prie ; then western me for 25 p dv a lroad eoinmis d company. The proposed combinat!» bacco wnrehous of the , isville and Cin cinnati will, it is stated, probably prove a failure. The articles of incorporation ! time ago •ore filed s. organ iza tion effected, but it does not seem possiblo to carry the plan through. The deeds by hich the various warehouses were con veyed to the combination have been nulli fied by deeds which recuuvev the same properties to the original owners. The bureau of American republics has received information of the organization oi a corporation in Brazil with a capital of fJO.Ooo.OGi;, a largo purl of which has been furnished by bankers - -- er chan to of pc and the remainder by local in vestors. The object of this eor'p .. to establish 2 » agricultural settlements upon the public I/imis of Brazil, which are given free of cost by the government to the enterprise. The house of Samuel Mai i: is ,, . , . ., in Holden, Mo., was burned rhursdav morning, the firemen arrived on the scene one side of the house fell out. and bv the light of • Mr. Malone and John ling to the fire they s Hicks, hi brother-in-law, their bed-roo escape. Then •fc •■•f fell in. ing 1 the sight. hidden fn. Their eha id bodi is in the bel it It i 1 Malone and Hicks were drugged, the ho robbed ami then The legislative eommittenof the National Alliance will meet in Washington in r.»b ruary. Thirty- . sented ami the Third sti ill I il be II« Kansas Alii:.....,, will eventually embr organizati.ins in ' fact, about 11 of them except the graneo grangers Alliance, will be organized, but proper time." The all the I •«1 : '«• t •f «4 « I ■ •ill I dem