Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1856-08-21

The Ice Cream and Lenonadp at the He'd Lion
ken Of. 1t is furnished by Mr.. VIM. Il. Kemp.
An excellent opportunity is offered to q person |
wishing to engage In the bakery and grocery at !
New Ark. Mr.. John NJ. Ferguson intending TO
relinqush business will sell bargain. The stand
Ia an excellent one.
Thos G. Plumley, corner of Sixth and Orange ST.,
adyertises 100 sacks Of ground salt;
d, Ships, corner Of Fourth and Orange streets,
adyortises good horse for sale.
A young woman, at No. 9 East Fourth street al
yertises for a situation in dry goods or trimming
store.
The Buchananites of Delaware, will hold their
State Convention at Dover, on Thursday, the zlst
inst, when they will nominate candidate for Con
gres> and electors for President and Vice President
The Americans of Kent will hold their County Con-
vention at Dover on Tuesday the 18th inst for the
purpose Of selecting delegates to attendthe SateCon
vention,
bone above the elbow, with moving soythe, on
Monday last
A coiored woman, wife of Francis Gibbs, of Odessa
was SO badly burned last Saturday week, by the ex
plosion of can of fluid, with which she was filling
a lighted lamp that she died on Tuesday night.
Susannah Hamilton, No. 80 Poplar street, offers
reward of 50 FOR the return Of lap dog which stray
ed away about the 18th of July.
party OF Gipsies encamped on the road to Hnre's
Corner about thee miles from this city, on Thurs
day evening
John w aIker of Mill Creek Hundred formerly a
Democrat, addressed Fremont meeting at New
Garden, Chester county, Pa, on the Tth inst. He
cOn.ended that every real Democrat was bound to
vote fol Fremont.
Edward Edwards is having erected on bis farm oc-
cupied by Mr. Jason Davis, in New Castle Hundred,
an addition of is by 26feet to tho dwelling house.
John Burnett is doing the brick and stone work,
Jasob Jetferis the carpentering, and Geo. W, Houe
man the plasterng.
Arrangements are being made to erect m Acad-
emy at Delaware City fifty feet front by forty deep,
and Two stories high. Proposals for the work as may
be seen by reference to advertisement in another
column will be received until the 9Th of September
Mr.. 3roomal of Chester, Pa, delivered n inter-
esng address before the Fremont club in this city,
on Thursday evening.
writer in the Dover Reporter objects to the pro.
position to exclude Samuel Townsend from seat Ia
the State Convention. He says :-'In strict con
Ormity to the rules of the party has been the action
OF the Democrats of Appoquinimink, and the Dem o.
cratic porty have no just right to go behind their
oDn = cord and rule out AR Townsend without ru
ling out he Democrats who sent him a delegate
| MicIah Churchman, who has been residing 10 the
West for few years back, came TO this city SON
two or three weeks ago. and died at the house of his
sister, Pheoe Painter, on Thursday last. He was
! aged aUou Sc years. His remains wore inferred on
| BIiday morning in the Friend Burial ground
The Delaware County Republican states that
Hon John Wales, ofDelaware, delivered n stirring
and afecti We address ut a Fremont meeting in Ches.
ter on Friday evening the sth inst.
| CAPTAIN A. A. RIrcHIE. Francisco papers
received by the last mail steamer, bring accounts
OF the accidental death, in California; of Captain
A Richie, formerly OF this county. He was long
y
cumuated large fortune which was invested in
various pats of Cali iornia On Wednesday morn
| ing, July 9th, he was driving along the road from
Sonora to Napa, within three miles of the latter
place. when in turning an angle of the road he was
thrown out of the carriage, and his skull fractured
so that he died before assistance could reach him
An inquest was held by the and those facts
ELECTED Tho body was taken in charge by his re-
| lative, Mr.. John Hamilton, and conveyed to San
| Francisco where his funeral took place on Friday
the llth ult, His death created quite sensation
| in the city, where he very highly esteemed by
large numbers The Herald speaks of him as man
of eminent prebiy and sterling worth, and says that
he possessed IN extensive influence, which he always
| welded for the most meritorious ends.
CoME Quick John McI.ear at the corner of Third
and King Streets Odd Fellows Hall, has just receiv
cd and offers for sale Two thousand dollars IF viii
mingtOn city six per cent Loan. Twill be diyid
ed, in lots TO suit purchasers, if required. Also,
Del aware State Loan, Delaware Rail Road Looms.
Wilmington and Brandy wine Bank Stock, Union
Bank Stock, Farmers Bank Stock, Mechanics Bank
stock, Delaware Fire lnsu nnce Stock, Franklin
Manufacturing Co Stock, Kennett and Great Val.
ley Turnpike stock. Also wanted mortgage
$4,000 90 on property worth Eve times that amount
hrSten; also nun Der of smaller sums, from 5000 81
up hTst i ems! ,Se6Shs ~ Bfokers in Philadelphia
, can have them att tended 10, byoalling as above.
CAMP MEETING Tho camp meeting at the Red
Lion, commenced on Wednesday last, but we believe
that the first sermon was not preached until Thurs.
day morning. the attendance has been large, but
quite equal to that Of last year Very good order
has preveiled, though little trouble has been
experienced by several persons selling articles in vic
lation of the law, although they had taken out Ii,
censes. Esq Poulson had an office on the ground
and some two or three persons were arrested and
held to answer at the next term of Court. There
some throa hundred tents and the camp may be
ranked as the largest held in any OF the Atlantic or
Southern States
TINS U. s. CouRTs.-The Court room in the Custom
house in this city, have been furnished, and is now
ready to be occupied 1t is large and airy and will
prove highly comfortable. A session of the District
Court will be held on the GIN Of September. The
Circuit will meet on tho 2lst of October.