Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-10-10
NUMBER Al
OUR NEioHBoRs.
CHESTER COUNTY.

DIR. ID. w. Hutchinson has sold Is to 20 acres
of land in Oxford to VIM. Hill Of West Chester
and J. Frank Keech, of Lower Oxford. at $50
per acre. Messrs Hill and Kcech intend imme-
diately to build green and hot houses, and start
nursery upon this land.
james Speakman, Franklin, has sold his farm,
l55 acres to E. j. Cook and Lewis G. Bailey, from
Londongrove and Penn townships, for s65 per
acre.
VIM. Montgomery, has sold his farm, in Up
per Uwchlan &C acres, to James G. Burlington,
Of West Vincent, tor 81 400.
james G. Burlington, West Vincent, has sold
his farm, % acres, to Richard Clark, Charlestown,
for %, 200.
"A log dwelling house, belonging to Rosalie E.
Hamili, near Hayesvile, in Upper Oxford, was
destroyed by Ere, Inst week. 1t was insured In
the Chester County Insurance Company Tor S3UO.
"A meeting is called to be held In West Ches-
ter, on Friday next the 4th inst, to adopt meas
ures to secure the location of the Eastern Expert
mental Farm, In Chester county.
Adam Grubb, of Londongrove in returning
from the Agricultural Exhibition at West Chester
on Friday week, was knocked down nndirobbed Of
his pocket book and several hundred dollars.
The Chester county papers are highly elated
over the success of their Agricultural Society, and
from all we can learn have good cause to be.
-Thayer g. Noyes' circus exhibits at Oxford
Tuesday next, 9Th inst
james Lindsey of Lower Oxford was kicked
by colt and severely injured Mt the late agrcul-
tural exhibition. He incautiously laid his hand
upon 1t without speaking lie Is getting better.
The recent hail storm did but little damage
| in the neghborhood Of Oxford.
The annual meeting of the Homeopathic
Medical Society of Chester and Delaware coun-
ties was held in West Chester lust Tuesday. Their
officers elected for the ensuing year were Pres
ident, DIR. /. d. johnson, Kennett Square; Vice
President, DR.. r. j. Mercer. Chester; Secretary,
Dr. j. r. Jones, West Chester Treasurer, DR..
R. Q. Smedley, West Chester.
VIM. Lewis son of Major Lewis of West
Chester, while on visit to the country, last
week, fell and broke his arm
| w. Hibbard, Jr., Real Estate Agent, West
Chester, has sold the property of Jona. b. Barnes,
of West Goshen township, to Caroline H. Dutton
\ of Delaware county, for $500. Also House on
Chestnut street, West Chester, belonging 70 Ste
phen G. Snare, to Mr.. Barnes, for $72OO.
| Mrs. Townsend Eachus of West Chester was
severely injured in Wednesday last by fall oc-
| casioned by treadiDg on peach skin.
| A horse valued at $500 was stolen from the
pasture field of Abraham Custer, in East Coventry
| township, on the 24th inst.
There will be an Odd Fellows parade In
Coatesyille, on the 18th inst
DELAWARE COUNTY.
Hon. John M. Broomall has purchased of Eli
jah Ballard 10 acres of ground North OF Media for
$4,000.
| II. Jones Brooke Of Media has sold his Wal
lingford farm containing So acres to Mordecai
Lewis for 81, 900.
The Media campaign club calls itself the Grant
Republican Club of Media.
Little Delaware county is fairly ablaze with
the excitement of the present campaign.
On Friday night last q 219 story house In
Aston, belonging to Isaac Morrison, and occupied
by Thomas Callen, was burned. All the contents
Of the house, including the clothing OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Callen were consumed goal IN an ao-
Joining shed was burned to death, and wagon
was burned. Mr.. Cullen was badly burned about
the face. He and his wife are an elderly couple
and lose all they owned. The owner OF the house
loses about $500 on which there is an insurance
of about $3.50.
Some william one night last week shot through
the heart COW belonging to Samuel johnson, of
Middletown.
"A large frame barn is being put up by a. G.
Roberts, at his country residence, near Cheyney,
on the Philadelphia and West Chester Railroad.
Base Ball is beginning to revive slightly in
Delaware county. The newspapers there are OPP
posed to 1t.
Chester has ladies' restaurant
The telegraph office in Chester has been
changed to the depot.
Blind Tom goes to Chester after his engage
ment here. Blitz and Wyman will soon perform
there.
Richard Miller and wife, of Chester, who
have been on q visit to England, arrived at home
on Tuesday last, after q soourn OF nearly four
months abroad.
CAROLINE COUNTY.
The Republican votes of Caroline County will
meet at Denton next Tuesday, 8th inst, TO elect
| delegates to the State Convention which meet at
Baltimore on the 10th inst.
| The Denton Union has pretty good Will
mington correspondent.
John Richardson will go regularly into the
: business Of ship building at Denton, soon. He
, has already built one boat.
The Circuit Court of Caroline County has
been postponed to the 14th inst, Judge Colds.
borough being detained north by the sickness of
| his wife with whom he has been making tour,
Tho Denton Union advocates the opening of
n new road from that town to Ridgely on the
Md. X Del. r. r.
> MARYLAND.
, The Comet, by the way, is warm friend
!, Improvement 1t says 1--WE desire to see this
! section of the country improve. Wewant to see
, 1t more thickly settled the farms In a higher
G state of cultivation; old tenements pulled down
and cottages and farm houses erected on their
sites, new barns, new stables and new fences;
$ improved roads, and bridges, etc., etc. We also
/. desile to see new, larger and more convenient
II school houses, academies and churches we want
to see all our children at the day and Sunday
:. School-wc want to see our people becoming
!. daily more sober thrifty, Intelligent, moral and
!. religious"
II We want to see the local papers throughout
e the whole peninsula eyincc spirit like that
which animates the above paragraph, and we do
9 not doubt that the people will soon want these
" things too, and wanting, get them.
! The St. Michaels Literary Society is one of
y the oldest the peninsula, and has recommended
- operations for the winter
A fatal disease amongst the chickens pre-
n walls in the negnborhood Of Salisbury and the
n lower parts of Delaware
1t Mr. William Parker died suddenly Mt his res
1t idcnee, near Rock Hail. Kent county, Maryland,
on Wednesday night Of last week, supposed rom
i, the effects of congestive chill. He was ont on
,f Wednesday attending to business as usual
If SOMERSET COUNTY.
m Tha pr;nooos Ammo Herald nleads earneRty
for street lamps in that town.
he Washington Academy at Princess Anne
~ opens the fall and winter session under laterine
= | auspices. The Institute is for boys.
" " Salisbury Academy, for girls, opens on tho
- second Wednesday in this month.
The county roads are in excellent condition
e. the Herald says better Than for number OF years
Id A screw pile light house has been erected at
a. Janes' Island mouth of the Annamessic river, y
G. take the place of the light-vessc now stationed
there. The light will be exhibited LOT Inc hrs'
time on the evening of October IL
- - CECIL COUNTY.
as An effort is being made to organize hish
,r school at Elkton
- IN Thursday last Sheriff Janney of Cecil co
IL tool, from the Jail at Dover, Dell to the Jail il
Elkton. Henry Wilmer, charged with the larcen,
st Of goods from William Dupp OF Cecil county
t. Owing to the continued illness of Judge Price
20 the Cecil County Court has been again adjourned
IN two weeks i. e. 10 the 14th inst.
Is. Thaycr g. Noyes' circus will exhibit at Elk
ton next Wednesday. 1t has with it large liol
which walks in the procession uncaged and I'm
IN chained
d" A fair and festival in aid of the new Odd Eel
lows Hall in Elkton will commence In that towl
ne on Dec. 23d.
an A Lodge of Good Templars was organized q
d. Risinq Sun. on September 25th 1t starts wit
o, twenty five members
7 On Saturday night last, at Chesapeake City
nj, was set upon BY two. white boys and some hig
~ IN words ensued During the alteration a ma
ie. named John s. Whitefcld, the father of one Q
the white boys came upon the ground, and sei2
he ing laurel club broke the colored boys scnll
IF is almost needless to say that Mhteheld is vic
Nv lent copperhead.
~ ~ mentioned assault, says Chesapeake Cit,
ln by all we ran learn, appears to be the headqua
90 tiers of negro persecution and unprovoked abus,
i and the canal bridge the favore spot for me GUY