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EVENING JOURNAL SIX PAGES. SIX PAGES, NINTH YEAR. WILMINGTON, DEL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 189G. ONE CENT. presbiieki ik sessioj.

mr. ADDICKS'S BLUFF. GREENFIELD IS HELD. ATL4WTIO CTfT HOTELS. AN 14AKC03 HOTEL, Faelfio and Massachusetts Avenuaa, ATLANTIC CITT.

N. OrEN ALL THE TEAR. Near tha Pch. Elerant and Modern. y'lt Elevator.

Bun rarlor. Hot and Cold Salt Hatha, Culstno and Bar. Vtoo Unaxoellea. A. GKUBU.

WANTED -A alogla wan rVniantgi a mat stora. plsoa for a lira man. Ho-eurlty rtqiilraa. Apply by lvitor oalr, llutchar. Jonri.al Offlrv B04KO ayi mium 1 FOR RfN'T Souoixi' story front rooroa.

No. iXi Markat alraat. BCUNEII OPrOKICNIIIKI. iUrit7'lluusTmyrZut t0 belleve tLftt the wbole wm Ptcl ded for a road-axooas. f'reo.

vm ll be advanced to the synod on the ground 'av on the marsh land, between Jack- Mrs. Davis Whom He Shot is Still in Danger. IAVANAUQH STILL IN SUSPENSE UKORGK SCH ROMAN AND HIS WIFE MARY ASSAULT A MAN vnn riiPATPn tiiitm WHO CHEATED THEM. OTHER MUNICIPAL COURT CASES TO- DAY. Benjamin Richards received his pen slon for carrying water In the army yesterday und celebrated the event by getting drunk.

It took eight men to as slst him In a coupe. Richards refused to pay the driver, and Instead of rid ing home he was taken to the court chateau. He Blgned for $3 and coets in Municipal Court this ucvibo ijiHUMimu nuu ma unt.nnij, irchascd a stove of Solomon Pinder. purt They were dissatisfied with their bar gain. George punched him and Mary kicked him.

After they got through with Solomon it took four yardB of court plaster to mend his face. The case was so complicated that Judge Ball dismissed it. Louls Greenfield, who assaulted Wil- llam Callahan ami shot his mother-In- law. Nancy Davis had hearing this morning. Dr.

Shortlldge says that Mrs. Davis Is not out of danger, and the case was postponed until Friday morning. William Kavanaugh, the young man who stabbed John Martin and Morris Brldgcman, was held in $1,000 bail until Monday morning. John Anger, a youth of 10 years, was arrested by Agent Stout for stealing. Ha was sent to the Ferris Industrial School.

FOR FEMININE FOLK. BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY OF HATS AND BONNETS AT MISS STEIN ICKEN'S. Never in the history of Miss Stelnl- Company, to lay Us conduits In the city Streets. Not only has the city of Wilmington, at your instance, thus unjustly interfered with a legitimate business enterprise, In which many thousands of dollars had been invested, but it has assumed to levy aud collect a large municipal tax upon the hind and buildings, and even upon the gas holder and machinery of the company, of which you have forbidden the use. 1 do not presume that the ltourd of Plrectora of the Street and Sewer De-partmeut.

or the mayor and Council of Wilmington, have permitted them-selves to be thus used In the bringing of this suit, us cat' paws by the Wilmington Coal Gas Company, without some legal advice. Passing by for the moment, the public qvu-stlou of your right to use the city go- ernment and the public treasury to jrotect the Interests of one business tjtabllshment in the city of Wilmington, or to oppress and prevent all operations of Us business rival, I would Invite your attention to the question of the liability of the city to a suit for damagoa for such unwarranted and Illegal interference with the business and chartered rights of tho Oxy-Hydrogen Company. Common sense and law unite In condemning such an Improper use of governmental power, either by a municipal corporation, or by any department thereof, and the law affords a full remedy to persons or corporations thus Injured. The longer this litigation protracted, the greater the injury to the company, and the greater the damages which It can recover. In the foregoing criticisms, your body aaoa board, not as Individuals, has only been In view.

As a matter of fact, I believe ihe membership of the board has been nearly, If not wholly, changed since the suit was brought. I now submit to your board a formal demand that the action above referred to be at once withdrawn. The public benefits would be many. In the first place, the public alliancs of the municipal corporation of the city of Wilmington with the Wilmington Coal Gas Company would be ended; secondly, the right of business rivalry In this community would not be denied by your public acts; thirdly, the public would reap the benefit of competition between tho old monopolistic gas company and the new company; and, fourthly, the labor of this city would. In the laying of gas mains and In the other necessary preparations of the company to do business, have one more source of employment.

It cannot injure a community to have money spent in It for the public benefit The coming Winter Is likely to be full of hardships enough for the people of this locality without any further interference by you with a legitimate enterprise, ken's millinery establishment has there lo hoUtte canva89 ma(ieibutthe va-been a more fashionable and elaborate udu8trlal establishments have display of trimmed hats and bonnets Worked successfully by the can-than this season. Miss Stelnlcken has yassers, and it is astonishing how one of the largest establishments of the many Republican worklngmen have kind in the city, and her styles are al- more or i(B ovmy declared that they A NEW MODERATOR WILL BE ELECTED AT THE MEETING TO- DAY. The regular Autumn meeting of the Now Castle Presbytery convened at Zlon. yesterday afternoon at 4 clock. It at tola meeting mat lie committee appointed by the presbytery at Its last session to Investigate the Olivet Church trouble will make It report.

Moat of the members of Olivet Church are of the opinion that the trouble, after causing much dissension for over a year, will be satisfactorily settled. Some of them, however, are inclined that the appointment or tue committee was contrary to the rule of the church. Each church in Wilmington will be reDresented at the meeting this after- noon by its minister and two lay dele- gates. The representatives of Olivet Church are Rev. T.

E. Montgomery, S. S. Johnson and Charles Crozler. The presbytery met with Moderator Luther A.

Oates presiding; Rev. N. H. Miller, of Newark, stated clerk. and Rev.

W. J. Fltzslmmons. of Zlon, and Rev. W.

F. Lewis, of Wilmington, temporary cierks. ine election or a new moderator will take place to-day and to-night. Revs. Thomaa A.

Me Curdy, D. and W. F. Lewis will ad- dress a public meeting. OBLITERATE THE CHANNEL.

PROFESSOR HAUPT SAYS THE MUD WILL DO IT. DECLARES THAT MAJOR RAYMOND MADE AN ERROR OF JUDG MENT AND IS ENnRAVOmvn Til nrtTii io mo i i FAILED TO DO. Professor Lewis T. Haupt, a director and the consulting engineer of the Trades League, of Philadelphia, comments as follows regarding the dumping of mud at Pea Patch island: "It will entirely obliterate the western channel. The reasons that are given for dumping the mud in this place are that the scows need eleven feet of water in which to dump and cannot dump in less depth, and the work Is being carried on the supposition that the material will stay just where it is placed." "What is the object In dumping the mud here?" "There would probably be two objects given, one that the scows go down at ebb tide and dump at low tide and require from nine to eleven feet of in which to dump, and so must necessarily dump in a depth over six feet and near to or in the channel, and the other is to stop the flow of the tide in the western channel and throw It Into the eastern.1 "Ia there any other place where the mud could be dumped instead of in the western channel?" i es, aiong me snore or on tne pea Patch island, as recommended by the of 1879.

I have letters in my poBHwsBiun wmcn wm provwe aumping nnnrt fnr nnn nfift varrta if ueuettijr. It not be better policy to put the mud ashore instead of digging it out in one place and dumping it back into tne river? "Most assuredly. It would create fast land, which could be reclaimed for agricultural pursuits or for a commer clal frontage at an enormous increase in value." "Has the eastern channel been, im- proved or not at Finn's Point by build- ing the jetty at that point?" "It is claimed by the engineers in charge that the depth i3 maintained over the Bulkhead shoal by the jetty, which is built north of the shoals, but there is more ebb current in the western channel, It being deepened several feet It is now propoBd to reverse the action of the current by dumping this mud in the western channel so as to throw more water into the eastern channel." "Is not the object In dumping the mud in the western channel between Delaware City and Fort Delaware to stop the flow in the western channel and turn it into the eastern?" "There is a dual purpose. The first is to make the ebb tide discharge into wnya eiciumve uu wntvu lora were thronged ex presslons of admiration were beard relative to the rich and fashionable creations displayed. The large show-window Is an ideal Autumn scene, with the rich, warm tints and foliage of this season and set off by hats which would arouse an envious thrill in the least; clerical Brotherhood yesterday covetous of feminine bosoms.

Thesis-. pa88ed resolutions of regret at the de-play ot mourning hats and bonnets is parture o( H. Bartlett and the worthy of special mention. Nimiim danortn r.t now' tur n.k NOIIOBS 2 ATTENTION coart the Indruoudtnt Order of Forresters Amar caU bow betas organised inihltclty, Any walia man between theavesof IS and ou ia eug-ioia to mr raurronio. me uruer or Forresters is on of tha oidwt oraatsatinna In America, wlln a mamherebluor UOO.

A ak aud acl4e beutflt of per week. Free ineulcol attendance, also a funeral benefit of oa ton death of ibe wlfa of a minb-r. on nit-roW fr UX) to S3.CO0. Tha cWior la now oyon at greatly rtuued rarea. Apply to CUAKLHl-t Ha WARD, K-jom Na 3 McVey Building.

Or at realdano, No. 06 eat Fourth street. Wilmington, Owl. A PROCLAMATION: State of Delaware, mcnt. Executive Depart- I.

William T. Watson. Governor of the 8tat of Delaware, do hereby proclaim and make known, in accordance with tha provisions of an Act of tha General Assembly of thla atate that on the THIRD DAT OF NOVEMBER. In tho year of our Lord ona thousand eight hundred and nlnety-slx, belnic tha Tuesday, next after the tlret Monday in said month, an election will be held in the several cuuntiea of this atate, at the places In the hundreds respectively, at which the general election in the aaid year is held for. tha purpose of choosing-by ballot three electora for the election of a president and vice-president of tha United States.

In testimony whereof. I have hereunto sat my hand and caused the great seal of tha atate to be affixed at Dover, SEAL thla fifth day of October, In tba year of our Lord, ona thousand eight hundred and ntnety-alx, and of tba Independence of the United lutes tha na hundred and twenty-first. By tha Governor, WILLIAM T. WATSON. J.

HARVEY WHITEMAN. Secretary of State. COUNTY TAX-PAT-BRS. Tha reciever of taxes. John T.

Dickey, will alt at the staces durlnjr tha months of August, September and Oetober. at datea as atatad, for tha collection of county, poor, road and dog October Blackbird. October I Blackbird. October Delaware City. October 1-Delaware City.

October 14 Middletown. October 11 Odessa. October 16-Marahalltou for Mill Creak Hundred. Oetober 17 Stanton. October Sfl Newport.

Oetober Centrevilla. October SS Klrkwaod. Octaber E4 Kirkwood. October Newark. Practical Farmer.

October 30-Newark. October 81 Practical Farmer. LADIES! ChicheMefe English Pansy- "'piamona Brand i are yio Bafav reliable. Take no other. Send 4c, aiamps for particulars.

"Relief for Ladle." In letter by return mall. At rug-flats. Chichester Chemical Philadelphia. RKVTARD TTJWirT A tlfl AD -111 paid for iaf'ormation of -each and every i v-ivr-i penaee, intimidation, oriDery or otner ua- lawful means Draranta or hladers or at- tempss by such meana to prevent or hinder any parson, haviag a lawful right to have his name entered on the regiatara la any hundred or election district in this State, from duly exercising such right. The parson sought to be Influenced is a competent wltnesa to prove the faet.

R. C. WHITE, Attoraey-General. Georgetown, Sept. 11th, ISM.

BUSINESS CARD. 1 1 tr MINCE MEAT, Manufactured by W. A. COXE, THIRD and VAN BURIN STS. PHONE, 'PBINGER, THE HATTER, NO 5 WEST FOURTH STREET.

SEWING MACHINES. Wheeler Wilson, $25.00 The Singer, S5.00. Domestic, $25.00. Standard. 126.00.

ousehold, $26.00. Other makes at $16, $18, $20. Oak or walnut. Ten years' guarantee. fold at $1.00 per week, econd-hand machines at $5.00 up.

Repairing, 60 cents. J. H. O'DONALD, No. 12 E.

Seventh Wilmington, Del. EXKccroR'a aXK. EXECUTOR'S SALE OP REAL ESTATE. By an order of the Orphans' Court, will be exposed to sale at public vendue, ON WEDNESDAY, TE 14th DAY OP OCTOBER, 1896, At iu clock, a. my, otartoltSStoU real estate5, late of Isaac Solomon, deceased, to wit: Demands Withdrawal of a Street and Sewer Action RELATIVE TO HIS GAS PLANT HERE HE ASKS FOR A CONFERENCE, AND INTIMATES THAT HE WILL URINQ SUIT FOR DAMAGES AGAINST THE CITY.

At the Street and Sewer Department meeting last night Alvln H. Morrison, president of the Delaware Construction aon and Sharp Company's property and Seventh street through the properties stiJnam Son. Thomas J. Jordan. ana maae proposition that If the woum ask for a commission of -uuiiuuu ior a seventy-iooi wiue roatlay through the Cleland estate th company would pay the cost condemnation proceedings, provided xno Pul aaliel on tne plot and make a good roadway.

The board decided to ask the mayor for a commission. David Lemon appeared before the board in the interest of some residents who presented a petition a week ago, ioT the placing of street signs on the street corners. He pictured the city as a place where its own cltiiens could not tell where they were. Ho thought these signs would be more serviceable than a niter, a sewer, or the Brandywlne Park. The board assured him that the petition would receive the proper attention, but at present it did not see how this could be done with the present appropriations.

Patrick Neary Informed the board that almost every team that turns the southwest corner of Ninth and Shipley 8trefu Koes across the pavement, due Xo the raising of the street bed The secretary's collections amounted to 1146.22. The city treasurer's balance was reported to be The weekly pay-roll of $008.17 was ordered paid. Other collections were as follows: Clerk of the market, 14S.G3; city engineer, $9. John A. Lengel asked that a sewer be constructed on Fifth street, between Clayton and DuPont streets.

Since the board does not own the street bed no action was taken. When deeds for tne property are secured the sewer will probably be built. Mr. Lengel contemplates improvements to his brewery to the extent of about $30,000. Chief of Police Dolan called attention to the necessity of an arc light at Seventh and Lombard streets, and some kind of a light at Thirteenth and Lincoln strets.

Engineer In charge of sewers was or -tiered to commence the construction of the archway over Lea's race, at Mar ket street, at once. This arch will be seventeen feet wide, and will cost about $1,800. The old arch is in a bad condition, part of it having already fallen down. Mr. Hatton submitted estimates for the building of a sewer on Vandever avenue, from Lamotte to Carter streets.

The eoRt will nrnhahiv with a probable revenue of $960. He gave an- other estimate for a sewer on the same uu ieet longer, to cost $1,950, ana a probable revenue of $1,450. Bids were received for paving and grading West Fourth street, between Grant and Bayard avenues, as folows: Davis 68 cents per square yard; A. S. Reed Bro.

$1.05 per square yard for machine made bricks; $1.13 for hand-made bricks. The con- tract was awarded to Davis Bro. Bids were also received for paving the south side of Sixth street, between Harrison and Broome streeU, as follows: A. S. Reed Bro.

64V4 cents per square yard for machine; 73 cents per square yard; Davis 79 cents per square yard; A. S. Reed Bro. Co. were awarded the contract.

A communication was received from J. Edward Addlcks, which is as follows: Wilmington, October 5, 1896. To the Board of Directors of the Street and Sewer Department for the City of Wilmington. Gentlemen: In April, 1891, the Oxy-Hydrogen Company, of the State of Delaware, had constructed at a very large expense, gas works In the city of Wilmington.and was engaged in laying gas mains for the supply of the public. 1893, the defendants niea a demurrer to your bill, based upon the ground that the company had not been made a de- UTT iTl 0oT 1893.

overruled. In March, 1894, the defendants filed their plea and supporting answer, and testimony was taken thereunder. On September 14, 1894. argument was had before i Hon. Henry u.

jwhiwhi, cuau- cellor ad litem, upon a single point in- volving the construction of a statute. For causes wholly unknown to the de- fendants. the chancellor ad litem has not handed down his decision although the point was argued before him over lwo year8 One of theprinclpa 1 cbjtrn yemr um mat mo pany had never been organized, ana so had no right to act tinder Its charter. The proof upon this point. was taken in the cause, and showed that the company was fully nnd perfectly organized, and that the statements In your bill on this point were wholly false.

Another of the charges in your bill was that the health of the citizens would bo imperilled by excavations In THE ATLAS MADE A VERY SATISFACTORY SHOWINO YESTER. DAY. The tug Atlas, built by the Harlan and Holltngsworth Company for the Standard Oil Company, was given her initial trip yesterday on the Delaware river, and it proved entirely satisfactory. She was in charge of Captain Wood and Captain Chase, who will commandeer. Among those who were ftb(wrd wa Jt rop.

resenting the Harlan and wortn company. Shortly after the Atlas loft the tug Laura U. followed, carrying a number of visitors, members of the Standard Oil Company. They boarded the Atlaa when the trial was comnleted and lunch was served aboard her. The Atlas la one of the largest and best constructed sea-going steel tugs anoat She will be used for towing be tween New York and Portland.

anti intermediate ports, she was built vrv mnbii company was in need of her services almost Immediately. She Is 130 feet long, feet breadth of beam and 144 feet deep. Her engines are of the triple expan- llon iype wlth cyUndirg 23H and au in di.mii wiikSi xbe Mlen whlch are of th ot type, will withstand a working pressure 165 nounda frc.u. The Atlas was built for heavy work. but has been handsomely fitted up and is lighted by electricity.

A similar tug to the Atlas, the Gwy-nedd, of the Philadelphia and Rending 1liUrVillri tam nlun nlrie -I the Delaware yesterday, MAN SILVER REPUBLICANS. THEIR VOTES WILL DOUBLE THE LOSS INCIDENT TO THE DESER-, TION OF GOLD MEN. A canvass of the several wards of Wilmington shows that there are not fewer than 1.G00, and possibly 1,800, Repiib.ican8 who will vote for Bryan and Sewall this Fall.Notonly hasahouse Wiii vote ror the Chicago nominees. The Democratic managers estimate that they will, on the national ticket, lose about 700 Democratic voters, but gain, the state over, from 2,000 to Republican votes to offest this loss. CLERICAL BROTHERHOOD MEET.

nev. li. u. Vincent read a nin.r on "Christ's Teaching as to These were present: Bishop Coleman, Archdeacon George C. Hall, Revs.

Charles Murray, D. F. M. Mun-son, D. A.

R. Walker, E. K. Miller. H.

Ashton Henry, Martin B. Dunlap, Kenaov.i Hammnnri vinn William Schouler, Davidson. Wil- llam Beach. J. H.

ChesBley. E. M. Skagen and H. J.

Wllkle. GRAND LODGE MEETING. T)ifl ItinATAnnrh 1 Mnat tJ" a cent and Accepted Maatm8f coa. vened the MAHOn, H' nf 12 0.clock. The lodge was canedJ to order by joseph Cahall, grand maa- ter.

There are about seventy delegates pre8entf Among them are: H. F. Smlth Anthony, J. B. Booth and C.

Mahoney of Clayton; G. Baynum. of Mllford. and H. Hlckey, of Delmar.

PRIMARY TEACHERS ELECT. The Primary Teachers Association, nf thin rltv hna doctori ttiaan Mary Williams; vice-preeident, Miss Fanny Butler. 8ecretary, Miss Mary Wheler; treasurer, Miss Grade Sayers. LOCAL HEWS KOTES. All of the principal millinery stores on King and Market street Are going to close at 6 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings during October, November and December.

An agreement to that effect was entered into early in the week. The steamship Elbuze.from Barrie, England, Captain S. Brown, will load oil at Marcus Hook. A special service will be held at First M. P.

Church, Seventh street, below Walnut to-morrow evening, at which the pastor, Rev. George L. Wolf, will give an illustrated lecture on the subject, "The Meek Mrs. Emma Haffner, who fell down stairs yesterday, died of hemorrhages from the effects of the fall. Henry C.

Conrad is chairman of the committee which has charge of the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the Knights of Pythias, to be held in Wilmington, on January 13. The works of the Delaware Hard Fibre Company are closed for repairs. At Association Hall to-morrow evening a non-denominational evangelical meeting will be held. Well-attended noon-day prayer meetings are now being held by the association. The nollce wlll don Winter uni forms on Sunday.

New curbing will be set on. the east side of Market street, between utn ana MXtn streets. Miss Ella Sayler, while out cycling yesterday, fell from her wheel at Front and Union streets and sustained slight bruises. Charles E. Maiser and wife have sold to Mra Rosie Lieberman a two-story brick house on Tatnall street between Elliott avenue and Twenty third street for $1,800.

This morning a small boy found a pair of gold eye-glasses near the Auditorium. They were probably lost by someone who attended the Stlllwell meeting. Collector of Port Townsend went to New York yesterday and gave testimony in the case of General Roloff, who is on trial for alleged filibustering. John Valletl, accused John Rosa of assaulting him, Magistrate Keiley dismissed the case on payment of costs. which, if permitted, would in the coming months spend thousands of dollars In wages in this city, i I would be glad to appear before you by counsel at any early, date to suit yonr convenience, to further consider the questions proposed in this letter, or to have the counsel of the Oxy-Hydrogen Company confer with your counsel on the same matter.

I remain, Very respectfully yours, J. EDWARD ADDICKS, President Oxy-Hydrogen Company. It was referred to the city solicitor on motion of Mr. I'-ratt. FALL OPESING AT MBS.

HAYES'. PRETTY LINE OF AUTUMN AND WINTER HATS DISPLAYED AT HER PARLORS. One of the most attractive millinery parlors in the city is that of Mrs. Alice W. Hayes, No.

206 King street, and many were the expressions of admiration that fell from the lips of the pleased visitors to the prettily decorated place to-day. The long room was profusely decorated with laurels and palms, and with the white drapery, no one would have imagined that the "melancholy days have come." The display of Mra Hayes includes everything that is dainty, pretty, stylish and becoming. The high crowned hat and tne low, hats large and small and most every other mode of hat is to be seen in the fashionable shades and combinations, of which green, blue and purple seem, predominant. A noticeable creation at Mrs. Hayes is a theatre bonnet in royal purple and cream velvet.

The crown Is of the royal shade, over which is a gold covering. The frilled is of white velvet, and at the left side are silk roses of the two shades of velvet, and a cluster of small white ostrich tips. A pretty street hat is almost the shape of a short back sailor. The crown is green and the brim black. Around the brim are natural looking violets and pink moss rosebuds, and the poular wide effect is produced by double black mercury wings in the crown in front.

The little ones have not been forgotten, and one is shown in particular that is a model adornment for a sweet, youthful face. It is a fine flat of a soft pearl shade. A double frill of shirred pearl-colored ribbon adorned the top of the crown, while a narrow band of velvet of the same shade was around the base of the crown, The left side was finished with a large bow of wide ribbons, and under the brim was a ruche of white net. The whole is completed by strings of the broad pearl-colored ribbon. DIED AT IRON HILL.

Albert Simpers, 24 years old, died at his home, at Iron Hill, on Monday. He was a member of Elkton Council, Jr. O. U. A.

and a delegation from that organization will attend his funeral, which will be held from his residence to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. STILL WATCHING THE LAURADA. The revenue cutter Hamilton still watches the Atlantic coast for filibusters. The Hamilton followed closely in the wake of the Laurada, when she cleared here Saturday, and saw that she passed out of the jurisdiction of the United States. The Laurada will probably reach her destination to-day.

DELAWARE PENSIONS. These Delawareans have been granted pensions: Original, Robert E. Johnson, Cannon, Sussex; Pennell Stetson, Wilmington; original Catherine Dougherty, Henry Clay, New Castlo. DO YOU SMOKE? Then do not forget to ask for "City Market" manufactured by H. F.

Bourdon 2nd an dShlpIey. For sale by dealers. first color of the season, while combina tions of green and blue are a close second. Coque feathers and birds, especially parrots, are Immensely popular, no doubt to the extreme discom fiture of the Audubon society. One of the typical hats of the season.

is a large black felt affair wlia a high' crown and a broad, softly rolling brim. It Is turned up in the back, and fasten ed with a bunch of green rose leaves, apparently held in place by a band of green velvet. It is trimmed from the back with long, graceful coque feathers and paradise plumes. Around the tall crown are five or six narrow bands of black satin. Another model Is a green walking hat of rough felt, with a roll oi uiuih.

Tcirei auum LUO ui bunch of black and green tinted coque feathers tailing back from the left side. One of the swellest and most strlk- ing combinations Is a big pale gray picture hat the high crown is out- lined with a plaited frill of wide gray ribbon, covered with black net, and caught with green jeweled ornaments, At the side is a band of green coque feathers and green and blue shaded tips and under the brim in the back a cluster of impossible but stylish green and blue shaded roses. HIS DECISION RESERYED. NORMAN R. REED CLAIMS PARTNERSHIP AND WANTS A.

RECEIVER APPOINTED. This morning Chancellor Nicholson heard argument and reserved his decision in the case of Norman R. Reed vs. Albert Buehler, it being a claim of partnership and application for a receiver, William S. Hilles represented the complainant and William F.

Kurtz the respondent. The case of Dr. John J. Dougherty vs. Cornelius J.

Moriarity was continued until the early part of November. THE CELEBRATION AT SHELLPOT. William Grant, an expert barbecuer, at the Shellpot celebration next Saturday, will barbecute the ox, and the Are will be lighted about 10 o'clock Saturday morning, bo that the roast may be served about 1 o'clock. The equipment for a barbecue is quite elaborate, and it is safe to say that the sight will be a novel one for most people. The public speaking will begin at 3 o'clock.

It Is likely that at least 5,000 people will attend this celebration, the first of its kind ever held in the city. BARGE OVERHAULED. The barge Alice, plying between Wilmington and Philadelphia, was discharged from the marine railway at the Pusey and Jones Company's shipyard yesterday afternoon, after having been thoroughly overhauled. MEETING OF WATER COMMISSION The Water Commission held its regular meeting yesterday afternoon and transacted routine business. The balance In bank was reported to be MARTIN MADE HIS ESCAPE.

John Martin, who was stabbed in a street fight by William Kavanaugh, escaped from the Delaware Hospital yesterday alternoon as he was going to dinner. Father Matthews' birthday will be celebrated by the temperance men Wilmington, Hockeesin and Ashland at t. Patrick's Church, Fourteenth and King streets, this city, Sunday afternoon, October 11, at 3 o'clock. Lecture by Rev. D.

J. Flynn. The public ia Invited, i the eastern instead of into the western On April 2, 1891, the Mayor and Coun-channel, and me second is to provide cil of Wilmington, at the Instance of a dumping ground for this mud, and your body, filed a bill in Chancery, while Major Raymond kills two birds praying for an injunction, against with one stone he does so at the ex- John Edward Addicks, John G. Baker, pense of the domestic commerce of the Frederick P. Addlcks, Simon B.

Conde river." and Samuel Austin, alleged officers and "Is it not possible for the government employes of the Oxy-Hydrogen Com-to improve the channel for the benefit pany, to restrain the further laying of of Philadelphia without being detri- gas mains. The injunction was obtaln-mental to the tributary rivers and ed and further operations of the com-Bmall towns on the Delaware river?" pany were thereby prevented. In June, au that certain tract of land with the deposit the mud he has dredned from fendant in the" suit. For technical rea-manslon. tenant house, ham and other "uu "tt0 a i v.

"Very possible. The first project was to build a second dyke, but instead of a dyke Major Raymond has decided to scnooner and Cherry Island nats in the western channel. If the mud will stay where he puts it it be a in-Hflnhln i.h,t i i i justifiable Change, but it will be a serious experiment if it should turn out to ha a miRtalr Tt will Ko at louat a year and a half before an appropriation could be secured from Congress to dig the dirt up and dump it somewhere else lf the maJor should flnd out he has made an error. The report of the board of 1879 Major Raymond characterizes "ancient and the subject is one upon which he is not anxious that the people shall be enlightened. The maintenance ui our commerce is essen- tial to the success of our manufactur- ing plants and there can be no excuse for the general Indifference to the actual situation.

The people may be forced to realize that even tho government can make a mistake when it en- ust? the, 1 11 f8 t0 what the Unlt4ed State3 0fficer lD CharSe deemS -OSt jU- diclous and practicable." outbuildings thereon erected; situate in the hundred and county of New castle, aB, Buttonwood." recently tho property of Isaac Solomon, deceased, sit- uate on the east side of the road leading from Wilmington to New Castle; fronting on the Delaware river, and in the suburbs tracu and containlna- about acres TwmrmaSSownWay1 For further particulars, apply to Attest COLEN MMffir'' tN FRausoN' lerk MISSIONARY SOCIETY OFFICERS rf X'lim r.i i The Women's Home Missionary ety, of Central PbySnTurfh. ciety at us meeting yesterdav aftpmonn. vuifarii.u elected these officers: President, Mrs. W. K.

Crosby; vice-presidents, Mrs. C. S. Howland and Mrs. Thomas A.

Mc-Curdy; secretary, Mrs. George W. Bush; treasurer, Miss Lillie Taylor. MrH. C.

HnrJnnr1 Urn a tnnnlnlcil ilnls. gate to the Synodlcal Home Missionary Society. A box of household necessities Was Bent to Rev. AWnndor TlnlUnann. of Saratoga, Wyo.

FALL STYLES READY. Fall styles Derby Hats now In stock in all the fashionable shapes at Ross's, No. 210 Market street. will find the largest stock and best assortment, in the city, selling at prices guaranteed the lowest New Fall Neckwear 'and Furnishings. eumDTOMifiuTun'mr tne streets, to lay gas mains.

That bHiffii-D machinery. thlg wa8 a mere pretext, is shown by The Hllles and Jones Company has your own acts in excavating the streets shipped a carload of machinery to the whenever the public convenience re-Standard Steel Company, of Burnham, quires it, by your frequent permissions Mifflin county, Pa. to the old gas company and others to. do the same thing whenever their in- I. W.

GIBNEY terests demand It, and to your recent Has raoved to No. 419 Market street permission to the Delmarvia Telephone.