Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-05-09
OUR NEIGHBORS.

Cause property, In kennett Square, to Joseph IL.
Taylor. G
Jackson & Walters have sold their land on :
south Minor street, Kcnnett Square, to Caleb II.
jackson.
The annual Spring exhibition of horses by the a
Chester county Agricultural Society, will be held c
at the Fair Grounds, in West Chester, on Satur-
day, the LIST of June.
Ground was broken on Saturday last for the |
new building of the Delaware County Institute
Of Science the erection Of which is about to he :
commenced in Media
The Pennsylvania Legislature at It's last session /
passed an act raising the Standard weight Of n
hlishel of oats two pounds, making 1t 80 pounds.
The standard weight OF bushcl Of wheat is 60
lbs corn 56 MS; rye 56 fbs., and cloverseed {
ca MS
Since the severe hail storm which passed over !
Oxford, on the 22d, the weather has been quite {
cold. On Wednesday week considerable snow
fell, and on Sunday morning there was ice the | ,
eighth Of an inch in thickness. The Press says :
i Is thought however that the fruit has not been
.jured.
The Chester County Sabbath School Conven- |
ton will be held In the Oxford Presbyterian
Church, on Thursday and Friday, May 10Th and
18th, converting at 1913 A. NJ. on Thursday. A
large number of delegates from the different
schools of the county are expected to be present,
besides many scholars
The Citizens Association of Pennsylvania, for
the retaining of inebriates, Of which Dr. Par
IRISH is President, have leased for the present. and
until their means shall command more extensive
operations, the Gayley School property, in Media,
which they are having fitted up for the purpose
intended-thc treatment of inebriates.
A serious and probably fatal accident occurred
TO Samuel Plankenton, Of Kennett township, on
the 25th inst In Telling tree, ii lodged against
another, which he proceeded to cut down also.
While in the act of doing SO, the tree split from
the weight Of the other tree pressing upon it.
the splint striking Mr. p, knocking Him down,
m hptn bp ha ad |
| from this perilous position. His recovery is
doubtful.
They have stage driver in Chester county who
L. in the habit OF running over people and run
ming into teams with his stage purely for his own
amusement. A few days since he in this manner
knocked down and sovere~, jninrc. "a III Moses s,
Woodward, of Mars6alton fhe xmericon Re-
saoiioas says that If the propretors Of the stage
do not discharge the offending driver that legal
proceedings should be Instituted. most re-
3 freshingly mild remark.
. Kcnnett Lodge No. 80, /. o. G. T., held IN ex-
/, hibltion recently which was well attended, and
= was n very pleasant affair. Some lemonade was
l used during the evening which furnished by
II u store keeper who has heretofore been consider
ed decent man, but who on this occasion put
some brandy into the lemonade on account Of the
&c satisfaction it would give him to be able to bragg
o MS he now does, that the Good Tempars publicly
n drank brandy
81 The Press Oxford has n very incorrect nc-
count Of the recent tragedy in our city, and says
the greatest excitement was manifested and
o g threats Of lynchng the murderer were made
l. and il was with difficulty the prisoner was pro-
. tected from violence at the hands of the outraged
y citizens" Our neighbor has been greatly misin-
1t formed there was considerable excitement GER
&c talnly, but the sympathies OF the crowd seemed
TO be rather with the prisoner than against him
Not the slightest desire to injure the prisoner was
N shown by any one.
Z On Saturday afternoon last just after the hands
had quit work for the week, fire broke out in u
| rp
destruction of the mill.
y The building. belonged to Mr.. Ralph Buckley
l. and was valued at $4,000. 1t insured for
.r $500. 1t was occupied by Mr.. VIM. Alcutt to
!, whom the stock and fixtures belonged. They
~ are valued at sl4 Ooo., and the loss on them is
OF entirely covered by insurance. The fire Is sup
q posed to have been the work of an inccndiurv, us
II broke out in part of the building ia which
there has been no fire
y The Deiund,e County American says :-"Quite
he an excitement was created at Marcus Hook Cross
NJ Roads about ten days ago because of Mrs. Isabella
- Hatch being charged with poisoning Mrs NJ
y Guigan. The two ladies had been enjoying the
To pleasures of the bottle, habit that was not nm
confirmed in either, and from the effects of the
\, spree Mrs. Michigan suddenly dicd--the sudden
w ness occasioned suspicion, which was net cleared
rr ton was held"
:, We mentioned this affair in the COMMERCIAL
'N on Monday week but our information Of The
70 affair was that Mrs. Isabella Hatch was the wo-
t. inun who died
en- DELAWARE COUNTY.
XIV Mcssrs. Reaney, Son d Arclbold of Chester
in have bean awarded large contract for the man
uncture OF public hydrants 10 be introduced into
to the streets of New York.
Is On Saturday morning last the office in tn,
ut establishment of j. 9. u w. p. Beatty edge too
nv makers OF Springfield, was broken into, aud thu
large safe belonging to the firm was blown open
ny, and entirely destroyed. The thieves obtained
gh few pennies from the desk in the room for thei
en- trouble.
did MARYLAND.
N, The National Thanksgiving day of the l. o. O
din Q. f. was appropriately observed In Elkton an,
vi. IIayre dc Grace.
md Al tho mon who b,v. hoor wor,,;n,. 81 A.,
nc branch load from Perryvillc to Port Deposit hay
been payed oil and discharged.
cry A colored man named Joseph Sites was wall,
th. ing on the r. w. a. B. Railroad, near Elkton o.
'"' Monday of last week, when he was struck by tn
rral locomotive attached to the 1925 p. NJ. train an
cfs instantly killed.
mn Shanties are being erected at ROwlandsye
mn few miles above Port Deposit, for the accommt
W., dation of several hundred men, who will 500
ltii commence grading the bed of the new railroa
are down the Susquehanna. few men are alread
nv at work.
try For the week ending on the 27th April, thcr
y, were towed from the outlet lock ut Ilavrc d
'ihe Grace 10 boats follows. To Baltimore,
boats loaded with ice, lumber, &C. to Philade
lea pha, boats: loaded with with pig iron, lumbe
49,, grain lime, &C.
O., The Bel-Air .Fgis and Ipieiiigencer says I'll
ny large floats of timber which almost daily lea,
ter, Port Deposit, in charge of tug boats for Ches
less peake City and other points, pass without Il
n, least difficulty, as general thing under tho raj
o"' road bridge at IIavrc de Grace. Some days ag
however, one of these immense masses of til
Der struck one of the piers of the bridge abo
= the middle of the float and broke it into piece
' without affecting the pier In the slightest.
The same paper says we learn that large qua
titles of square timber are being brought dow
e Z,
/. ern markets. On Saturday last, five large noo
of this timber passed iIavre de Grace in the spa
of two or three hours on their way to Ches
,ek- pcake city, there to he made into lockages SUI
and able for passing through the Chesapeake al
= Delaware Canal, en- route for the Philadelpl
I'm, and New York markets.
'ioh The Cecil Wig opposes the informal elcci
the of Constitutional Convention to remodel /
sus. State Government Of Maryland, and then cali
on Congress TO decide between the Goycrnmt
use. thus modelled and that framed by the prO-rel
,uro Convention which meets at Annapolis on the 81
and proposes instead of such action, thorou
ext, | organization of the Radical party without d
ling tinctioln on account OF race or color and tn
ton INV congress
yin The susquehanna bridge seems to be destn
the TO be permanent institution notwithstandi
the many croakings representations made
o he doubtedy to have swept it away, and play
,eet smash with it generally, did not injure it at i
day resort for the fulfllment Of their evil prophs
, adj of its destruction, seems as Intellectual for
open seem to have impedcd the passage Of The n,
rum down the river.
-eate CAROLINE COUNTY.
avor The Orphans Court will sit on Tuesday,
9TH instant.
III VI The Denton Union seconds the nomination
lblic Ex-senator Cresswell for vice-President.
c in Walter Massey has sold his farm of 375 ac
,no, near the Boonsborough camp ground togetl
nno. with all its appurtenances, to gentleman fir,
until Pennsylvania, for $4,000.