Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-04-11
OUR NEIGHBORS.

The Chester County farmers are busy blowing.
Various improvements are being made at Elk
ton.
The Port Deposit people coinplaln--or other
wise-of great revival in business.
"A wolf is reported among the rocky hills in
Elk township, Chester Co.
change of time on the West Chester and
Philadelphia railroad took place on Monday.
Samuel Augee of West Chester has returned
from his European trip.
The tenant house on Jonathan Thomas farm
in Newtown Delaware Co., was partially burned
on Saturday morning the Both ult.
Judge Baily of Chester county proposes to 20
to Europe in the Great Eastern and will be alb
sent long enough to see the Great Exposition.
Mr. Honan has discovered a valuable quarry of
sandstone on his promises near WestdaIe, Della
ware county
P. Taylor Brown, Of New London, Chester Co.,
has been appointed Z. 5. Assistant Assessor in
place Of Samuel Lews.
A number Of families in Elk and Franklin
| townships, Chester Co.. will cmigratc To Fulton
| County, Pa, this Spring.
| Rachel Knsev wife Of Samuel Kiliscy. of Lon
| don Grove. died suddenly, Of heart disease. on
the 18th ult in her slsi year.
Prof. Cunning will lecture ON Geology, nj
Sh0rtdgc'- Academy, Kennel Square. next Mon
| day.
ht-l lltfLtT llllt libllSt
ing order over two thousand dollars 4 year.
Tile debt Of the borough il S19.jn0.la.
A history of the 9th Regiment. Pclna. Vols,
composed Of men from Chester county is in
course Of preparation.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. will erect u new
depot. 10 bt one Of the finest on their road, al
Coatcsville
The Chester county Union Meeting 10 chos,
delegates To the State Convention. is called Il
| at West Chester an Tuesday the 1Gtl inst
Fifty-two shares Of the National Bank Of Chcs
ter Valley were sold at public sale recently al
prices ranging from ss2 To ss3.50 per share.
The vote in Maryland on the question Of hold
ing Constitutional Convention will take plac
next Wednesday,
The late Bourbon Legislature Of Maryland, cx
pended three and hall millions Of dollars of I'll,
peoples money.
A number OF deaths from typhoid fever hay
occurred recently at the Chester County Aims
house.
, Col W. Cooper Talley, late [. S. Revenue Col
lector of Chester and Delaware counties hi,
e opened Real Estate Office in Media.
Miss E. A. Stctson, assisted by Prof. Hoffman
will give literary and Musical Entertainment i
the Baptist Church in Newtown, Delaware Co
Pa on Thursday evening" April 18th.
The Caroline County Conservatives have nom
nate K. L. Harding, Dr. Charles L. Tarr, Tilgl
| man Hubbard and W. II. Watkins, for Delegat,
to the proposed Constitutional Convention.
AT the city election in Chester on the 4st inst
the Republicans carried the North and Soul
wards and the Democrats elected the majority
: their ticket in the middle ward
!, The machinery for the new mill OF Gen Pate
|, SON the railroad, in Chester is being rapid
), placed in position. II is Of the most improv,
make and combines all the latest inventions.
The growing wheat in the lower end of Chest
, and Lancaster counties, Pa. and the northe
d part of Cecil county, Md, makes fine appct
i, ance now, and never gave promise of q bcti
10 crop
10 AT the close of the winter term of Concordvi
Seminary, delaware Coz, ON the 18th ult pri7
70 were awarded TO Miss Sue NJ Jones' of Kenn
il Square, and Samuel s. Green, of Media, for SUI
rior excellence in spelling
:, Cecil County Court met on Monday T
u Grand Jury found only four presentments n
PHI one indictment. Only two cases were tried. a
co in one the accused plead guilty, so that his Ct
did not 90 To the jury.
The hotel Of Mr. William Y. Stackhouse,
llaverfOrd, Del, CO., vas entered last week
IL burglars, and robbed of large quantity Of clio
'us ing and other articles. The thieves got into
8 house through the cellar door and cleared
~ cellar Of its contents
,ro All the persuns arrested on suspicion of hav
committed the Tnrr murder, in Caroline {
'ed have been released or will be, there being no
|
Ii, the Tarr murderers are still al large, and
ms whole affair is embodied inprofound mystery
~, The susquehanna fisherman. at Port Dep
wei ere preparing boats and seines for their trade
few bouts have been drifting, hut no shad /
;n,o been caught. One of the floating fisheries
'"ie been brought up from Havre de Grace, and al
light ored on IL proper ground.
G is A serious row occurred at Mcndcnhall's ii
ma Chadd's Ford, last Friday. party of nt
twenty-five roughs set upon some three or
one, unofcnding Union men, hut after severe
, in were beaten off the field. Some arrests have
made.
Wickersham ~ Lang, of Kennctt Square.
very extensively engaged in the lumber bus
Club near Charleston, South Carolina, an are shin
.,, a large amount of the best quality of y,
each pine to Philadelphia and other northern /
Their saw mill is AT Georgetown and they la
an theis employ large number OF freedmen
we're George Hughes, of the neghborhood OF
than, Chester county, in February, sold in
was delphia several quarts of strawberries nj :
,wth quart. His plants yielded about fonr quarts
a, i, during the time in bearing. lie now has 9
az III almost ripe. These early fruits are the pro
that Of a well regulated hot-housc