Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-03-14
OUR NEIGHBORS.

Cattle, bring high prices at public sales in
Chester county.
Twenty nine applicants are reported for
the Post Office at Elkton.
Samuel Augee, of West Chester, has ar
rived safely in Paris.
Brew. Col. VIM. Painter, of West Chester,
has been made Brevet Brigadier General.
The Pennsylvania Township Elections
take place March 18th.
Coatesvile wants to be incorporated a
borough.
The Maryland Agricultural College will
reopen on the 18th inst.
Port Deposit complains of mud and bad
mail arrangements
VIM Ross, of Oxford, is going to Elkton
to commence bookkeeping, In connection
with his brother.
James 7. Strong, of Kennett Square, has
sold his blacksmithing establishment to VIM.
Weldon, of New Garden, for $1,000.
WIN. SrINsos has sold his store property
at Avondale, to Henry Pratt, of Delaware
CO., for $s,G0i.
Col. Samuel B. Thomas, deputy Secretary
of State under Governor Curtin, has resuni-
ed the practice of law at Media.
"The Loyal Legion of Veterans of Chcs-
ter and Delaware counties will meet at West
Chester ON the 18th instant.
The Unionvillc, Chester county, Literary
Society will have an exhibition on Friday
evening.
W. Marshall Swayne has been confirmed
Collector of the eth Penna. District, (Ches-
ter and Delaware counties.)
The nomin ,tion of w. Marshall Swayne
to be U. S. Collector of Chester and Della
ware counties is said to be acceptable to the
Republicans, and that he will be confirmed.
Three men employed Mt st ,elc North's
rolling mill at Coit,sville, ''for fun, "wheele1
the turtle" down and threw IL into the
creek. Tley secured a dismissal.
Among the bill, presented in the M,ryland
lie yisl ,tur,, last week WAS one TO incOrpro
ate the Head OF Sassafras, Warwick, aud
Delaware line Railroad Company,
Crispin Taylor was committed to prison
on Sunday last, by Esquire Fulton, of Ok
ford Borough, on the charge of stealing a
pistol, the property of Amos X. Hanna.
ISAIAH WoRRALL has sold his farm in Up
per Providence, containing thirty-eight acres,
to Thomas Mcclure, of the same township,
for $4,000.
The Borough Commissioners of Rising
Sun, Cecil CO., have decided to lay pave.
ments, the cost to be raised by subscription
and taxation.
Mrs. Martha +. Gordon, the former in
cumbent, has been nominated by the Presi-
dent, p0stmistress at Coatesvile. She has
been, or promptly will be, confirmed.
The Baltimore Annual conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopa
(col red) and Episcopal Methodist (Souih,
churches are now In session at Baltimore.
West Chester is agitated over the purchase
Of Steam Fire Engine. johnson, of Port
land, with whom u contract had been M de
failed to come to time, and one has been or.
dered of the Amoskcag Company of Man
chester, N. ii.
The salary of the Postmistress at Coates
vile has been raised to $1,000, making the
appointment subject to President Mrs. Il.
Humphrey, nominated, has been rejected
and il is supposed Mrs. NJ. T. Gordon will
be re-appointed
The lot on Market street in Chester be-
longing to and adjoining the store of Richard
Miller, has been purchased by ]. Z. Black 6
Bro, for S., 900, being at the rate of about
$250 per foot The Mcssrs. Black will erect
thereon handsome brick St ore and dwelling.
At the sale of A. B. johnson, at the West
Chester Intersections on Tuesday, March 9Th,
one COW sold for $40. She was bought by
X. Young, of Delaware county. This COW
certainly is very remarkabl animal-hav-
Ing made in one year 365 pounds of butter
The highest made in one weekwas l9pounds