Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-03-08
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

EPiToME OF BUSINESS AND PERSONAL lnTEL-
LIdENcE.-Protracted meeting is now being held
in the Nj. E. Church, at Centreville, Del. A
large number have professed conversion.
meeting Of the Agricultural Society of New
Castle County, will be held at Dr. McCabe $
office, on Saturday, the 18th inst
The following named gentlemen have been
appointed officers of Company ?, I'd Battalion,
lot Delaware Cavalry ;-Captain, 4. b. Day !;
ist Lieutenant, II. B. Days ID Lieutenant, Theo-
dore Burton.
The Chester County papers complain that tbeir
County is flooded with lying, cheating, swindling
lottery circulars.
Robert A. Cochran, is about erecting a stone
house at MiddletoWn. Del. =. c. Strickland, Of
Elkton. Md, is the contractor.
A step-son of Mr.. Sanderson, news agent at
Havre-de- Grace, named Edwin Brooks, had his
foot badly crushed by the cars at that place, on
Monday week last.
Bernard Mitchell, Of Port Deposit, Md, has
entered a suit against the Phiadelphia, Whining
ton, aud Baltimore Railroad Company, for
senger.
} I. Head, has sold to VIM. Wharton, Jr., an
entire square on Delaware Avenue west Of Brown
street,-a part Of the Lowering property-for
$1,000; to Wm. Tatnall the remainder Of the
Lowering property west Of the Riddle Turnpike
road for $l6, 1000; 10 Jacob Head one hundred
teet on Delaware Avenue, running through TO
Gilpin Avenue, for $3, 900.
Mejor Judd has mustered into the United
States service during January and February,
466 volunteers.
At the last meeting Of the City Council. held
on Thnreday evening, Mr. Bellah, Chairman of
the Finance Committee reported that they had
redeemed Sll6, l43 80 of the city drafts, leaving
$l6,4ll.lS still in circulation.
AT the last meeting of the City Council the
watering committee reported that the cost of
erecting the new basin, laying main. erecting
pump house, &c TO be $25, ,61O.l0, and that the
laying Of pipes along Delaware avenue, fencing
new basin, &C., would cost SIS, 30l &c. and they
asked that the bonds of the city TO the amount
OF Sl6, 600 be sold to raise said sum.
The steamer Ariel has been hauled out on the
railway Of Messrs. Il. & G. Moore & Co, and is
undergoing repairs. She has been greatly i'm.
proved in appearance by a new and handsome
saloon on the upper deck, the workmanship of
Messrs. jackson Sharp, and is undergoing a
thorough repainting and refittiug.
The steamer Union, Captain Heacock, is also
being rspAinted and having her machinery over.
hanled, and il is expected that she will RECON-
menee running regularly on Tuesday, the 9th
instant.
The large iron stern wheel steamer Tamau-
lipas, built by Messrs. Pusey, Jones & Co., for
Captain Brown, and intended for Mexican waters.
is lying At French street wharf, and nearly
finished We are informed that she has been
purchased by the Government, and will be sent
to Galveston, Texas
The large propeller Rebecca Clyde, owned by
Thomas Clyde Of Claymont, has been hauled out
on the railway of Messrs. W. s. A. Thatcher.-
She has received a new wheel and coat Of paint
and is expected to leave to-day.
The propeller Sarah has been repaired and
on the railway at the shipyard of
Messra. ]. & J. A. Harris, and looks like a new
boat
The prize steamer Ceres was sold at auction at
be Washington Navy Yard on Friday, by the
United States Marshal for seventeen thousand
hree hundred dollars. Thomas Clyde, of Brandy
Vine Hundred, was the purchaser.
Thomas A. Robinson, special signal tender on
he BrandyWine Railroad Bridge, has resigned,
oseph McCuen, Watebmsn Of said bridge has
oW full charge Of the draw and signals.
George Jones and Samuel McClary, Jr., have
lken out letters testamentary upon the. estate
the late TheOphilus Jones.