Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-05-23
OUR NEIGHBORS.


tingham Presbyterian Church, Chester county,
has accepted a unanimous call from the church
Of Chancetord, York county, made vacant by the |
death of Rev. John Farquhar.
Slate has been discovered on the farm of Isaac
D. Massey, in West Fallowfield township.
The Burgess and town Council OF Oxford have |
commenced to pass ordinances, and the streets of
| the new borough are being named.
| The severe gust which visited Oxford on Mon |
day evening last was accompanied with small
quantity of hail. The lightning was almost ill., |
cessnnt and thunder was heavy. In the neigh |
borhood of Lewisvllle the rain did great damage
| to the plowed fields and roads--washing them
seriously the hail was also destructive At Ris-
| ing Sun the hail was very heavy, doing damage
| to vegetation.
| The Oxford Press says ION Friday last our
/ town was disgnced by most shocking exliib-
ton of youthful depravity. A number Of boys,
| in age from IA TO IL, who came into town TO see
| the circus, obtained Intoxicating liquor from
some source and indulged until beastly drunk.
They presented a sorry spectacle, and their pro-
| family was shocking.
| Workmon are engaged in building a new
railroad bridge across the Brandywnc at Coates
| Vile.
| Two colorcd men had an alteration in Coates
vile on Sunday evening week. when one of them
| shot the other, wounding him In the arm.
Some enc writes s'locals flor the Coatcsyille
| Union once-in-a-while who is badly In need Of
mothers protecting care or straight jacket,
just according as to whether he is old or young.
| DELAWARE COUNTY.
The Schooner Westmorcland was launched on
| Tuesday morning from the yard OF Geo. Derby
shire, in Chester. She is owned in Philadelphia
and Bristol, and is intended for the use of the
Westmoreiand Coal Company OF Philadelphia
She Is quite eommodous, staunch schooner, be-
ing 10 feet long, 20 feet breadth, feet depth,
with capacity Of 400 tons built of the best Del
aware white oak, and thoroughly fastened with
| oak knees.
The Republican Convention of Somerset county
met at Princess Anne on the 9th inst, and sent
delegation consisting Of both white and colOrcd
men to the State Convention at Baltimore. Tue
| Herald says the Democrats went to the meeting
and watched the proceedings, behaving in very
respectful and quiet manner, the Herald thinks
taking lessons.
1t also says that DR.. knowles delegate from
Tyaskin district was mobbed the night before the
convention, and struck with brick, but says the
Democrats don't do such things in Princess Anne
where they are, to great extent, civilized"
The Herald editorially alludes to its former
scruples In opposition 10 the policy of Congress.
1t says it was not opposed to the end, but TO the
means, and add =
:" But all controversy as to this policy is now
ended-lhe Reconstruction Act settles Ii forever
No other policy is possible. President johnson
himself now pleads before the Supreme Court that
it is n fixed fact, and refuses to make or be
made to make further opposition. We are no
longer asked to choose his policy or heirs-thcirs
we have and can have no other. The present
posture of affairs has been made for u.s. not by u.s.
Would Il not be folly to continue to fight dead
issue? We think so and ever since there has been
but one possible policy Of Reconstruction we have
endorsed 1t heartily and with all our might"
DELAWARE COUNTY.
VIM. Beesley, n robber, escaped from the Della
, ware county Jail on Friday week.
, DIR. A. w. Mathues of Media has been appoint
ed Jail physician of Delaware County. lie re-
4. ceiyes the liberal salary of $40 per year.
The Delaware Co. American publishes an obitl,-
0 airy of tie late Pnsey Smith OF this city and
a | credits il to the COMMERCIAL in such manner
TO create the impression that appeared in our
editorial columns, while ii must have been evident
/ to any person that il was communication.
Speaking Of the Delaware fisheries the Ameri-
can says that of slad the quantity sailed this
IS year for the trade will be very small, while OF
n hcrrings the yield has scarcely been sufficient to
supply corner grocery. The best paying fish
j., ing just now is that which results in the capture
Il Of sturgeon This particular Interest Is grow
% ing one, for the fish are sent to New York every
~ evening, literally by the ton. They average tc
: catchcrs about $3.50, with dollar extra for fe
male fish, whose roe is converted into magniii
!. cent imitation of Russian caviare II is no un.
usual thing for single boat to bring in ton pei
!, day.
m MARYLAND.
Our Maryland exchanges come to lis now al
| agow with the excitement Of the present politi
" cal contest in that State.
III The Cecil Wing, ardent and earnest in its nd
&c yocaey of equal rights for all men without dis
tinction of race or color says I'VE intend L
take care in due season" that the rebel part,
IN now in the ascendant shall be safely laid in ii
re grave and not by any rash and impracticabl'
y measures either, us the Democrat fondly hoped
NJ but by biding our time and organizing for thu
as day when Congress- In its sovereign might, shall
ne lny the ax to the root of the rebel Upas which
10 now nourshcs unmolestod In but three States o
70 this mighty empire.
IL The Cecil Democrat, on tho other hand wage
ne bitter, ceaseless unrelentng war on what it il
pleased TO term Radical " diabolism, 'abuse
lnent," "etfrontery," "slianelessness" &c.
as calls the colorcd race "that political elephant
at the nations special ward, the negr0." 1t say
r. No radical orator now opens his lips save t
sing pecan to the negro deiied." IL taunts Iii,
u Radicals with not establishing negro suffrage
% when they might, and says that though by law
r. negroes are debarred the right the italics are OH
own; notice the concession. OF suffrage; no Law
exists forbidding them to hold Office, " and urge
TX the Radicals to prove the sincerity OF their devo
al ton to their principles by giving the colored mel
~ -, fair share OF the nominations for the coming
III elections. The paper has 4 command of clioic,
so epithets and stock of billingsgutc which show
that its devotion 10 the rebel cause Is not as
sumed, but springs from thorough inoculatioI
p with true Southern principles. BY the way on
Maryland friends may find something to profit by
y In the Democrats dcrisiyc suggestion concornin.
D nominations.
a. The Bel Air .fggis and Iateuigcncer at one tim,
to a strongly partisan Democratic sheet seems from
Its last issue, to have withdrawn from the secth
Vi ing political cauldron and sought comfort in tn,
calm of neutrality 1t publishes fair and un
lie biased abstracts of the proceedings of the uncon
n, stitutional constitutional convention at Annapo
u lis, and Of the Radical Republican Convention
r. Baltimore, without comment on either.
Mt tribe of Gypses are now encamped near Elk
&C ton.
&c The Masonic Lodge of Elkton intend holding
o. strawberry festival TO aid the starving people o
the SOUTH
;, Rev Joseph Miller of Elkt0n was thrown from
81 his carriage on Saturday week and had his colla
Up bone broken. He was picked up in an insensbl,
lie condition and Is now doing well.
RI The recent storm did considerable damage OF
the Susquehanna. A large quantity of iimhe
broke loose and was washed down the river
,rt Some parts of the grade Of the Columbia rail
IN road were badly washed. AT Conowngo til,
vi island between the bridges was swept by III,
ny water, and communication between Hartford ant
to Cecil was suspended. Wistar Thompson. o
IT. Chester County, in trying to cross there nearl,
lost his life. The steamer Junata, in passing th
10 draw at llavre dc Grace, carried by the rush
he ing current against the north guard pier and ss
IL taincd damages estimated ut eighteen hundrc,
4. dollars.
~ force Of men commenced laying the rails o
Ut the Columbia railroad on Saturday week.
oil During the thunder storm on last Monday nigh
If. the mast Of tie schooner fOhn SpeddeR lying n
Havre de Gmce, was struck by tightening N,
,o one aboard was injured. During tic same storm
~ stone house near Bel Air was struck The holls
was occupied by the family of a Mr.. Magness
all The .Egis says 1t appears that the ligltnin.
n. struck the chimney, and followed itdown through
u the house, tearing the roof and chimney amos
IT. to pieces. Near or against the chimney was stu
IFS ated bed, in which two small children We're a
lis sleep. At this point the lightning passed to TIN
bed killing one of the children, little girl sever
ny years of age, and leaving the other unframed
ot A clock, which had been placed In or near tin
10 window, some distance from the chimney WA
!, also struck, while every other article between
ns and thr chimney escaped injury. Mr.. Magness
family with the exception Of the little daughte
above mentioned although greatly alarmed ant
Y much overcome by the snddenness and seyerit,
of the shock, escaped without injury.
y. The Denton Union denies the copper-head as
rd sertion that the Delegation which went from
49, Caroline county to the Baltimore Convention
VI comprised the whole Republican party Of tn
M county.