Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-07-30
OUR NEIGHBORS.


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Gerry as assistant assessor.
--Messrs. Creswell ind Jones, Trustees and Re
ceivors, sold on SATURDAY last, the Providenc
Paper Mill property, on the Little Elk, consisting
OF one paper mill, six tenant houses for hands
one for manager, and OF acres OF land for $14 900
". IL. Flitcraft IL Co., of Philadelphia, purchase,
the property and propose fitting 1t up for tn
manufacture OF paper ON an extensive SCALE
The Wig says :-On Saturday last, o ilshin,
party, of about 80 or 40 young ladies' and gentle
men, from the vicinity " Newark, DEL, passei
through Elkton both going and returning from
Frenchtown. In the evening u number Of tn
party got up n little - sensation" by driving II
Creek, and "splurging" generally
The cellar wall next the street of the dwell
Ing. occupied by Abel Davis, on the south side o
Main street, and the next building east of th,
Bank, was forced In by the pressure of the water
during the heavy rain on Tuesday OF last week
The house Is owned by Amos Howard. The fam
lily narrowly escaped serious, if not fatal, injury
some of the members having left the basemcn
but few minutes before the wall gave way.
Lieut.. Phillip H. Ellis, U. s. A., who has beer
on duty on the Rocky Mountains is visiting hi.
father, I. A. Ellis. Esq, in Elktou.
TALBOT COUNTY.
Camp meeting commences at Royal Oak, OF
Thursday of this week.
Mr. j. Clayland Mullikn, of Trnppc. has beer
elected first Vice-Presdent OF the Maryland State
Teachers Association.
Among the graduates of Luthcrvllle Female
Seminary, Baltimore county,is Miss Minnie Lowe
OF Talbot county.
= The regular quarterly Conference for Talbot
Circuit, Nj. Il. Church, will be held at the Royal
Oak Camp Ground on Saturday. and that fol-
Irappe Circuit at the same place on Monday Of
the camp week.
Now that the EastOn Journal has got into It's
new Office, which il says is handsome one we
hope to see its own appearance improved. II
Is too black entirely especially as it SO enphati-
cally claims to be n "white mans" paper.
The salary of the Examiner of public schools
has been fixed at $1,000.
WIN. L. Benson, of the firm of N. Leonard e
Co., at Oxford, had one of his thigh bones acci-
dentally broken recently, while he was at work
in the ship yard.
Wheat did not turn out SO well us was ex-
pected.
CAROLINE COUNTY.
A colored peoples camp meeting will COM
mence on August 14th, III John Reil's woods,
near Purnell's shop.
The oats crop is light, having suffered from
the blight.
Corn looks promising. Much of it is already
IN tassel, and silk is beginning put forth. The
wheat crop has turned out poor.
Violet Stocks, a colored woman residing
near Hillsborough, died on Tuesday night, July
eth, aged 107 years.
As far below Ridgely as the eye can reach the
railroad is completed and ready for the cars.
WORCESTER COUNTY.
-Watermelons are plenty in Ncwtown ut %
cents each,
The public examination of candidates for
leadership took place in Newtown on Saturday
last.
An unsuccessful attempt was recently made
by come unknown rascal to rob the residence of
s. Stevens, in Newtown.
The dairy and poultry yard of John w. Pow
ell were recently robbed Of number of articles
and fowls by unknown thieves.
The ladies of Curtis Chapel will give festi-
val and dinner on August 18th, in aid Of their
church,
bishop Johns, of Virginia, preached in st.
Mary's church, ut Newtown, ON Tuesday, eth
inst, and confirmed seventeen persons III the
conclusion of his sermon.
=. On the 18th inst, as Mr.. and Mrs s. Rosen-
hal were returning to Baltimore on the steam
boat Cambridge, after visit to Newtown their
infant daughter, Jennie, was taken sick and died
before they reached the city.
The animus of the Records Item concerning
IN officer OF the Freedmen's Bureau surprises u.s.
when we consider that 1t, more than most of our
Eastern Shore exchanges, endeavors to discuss po-
itical matters with decency and calmness,
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Since the new town ordinances went into eff
Get there have been no pigs running ut large In
he town limits of Princess Anne.
The School Board of Somerset County owes
Is teachers S3360.28 and has on hand to meet the
lcbt $951.
DELAWARE COUNTY.
The Delegate Convention and County Meet
ng of the Republican party of Delaware county
Will assemble ut the Court House, in Media, ON
Thursday afternoon, the 9Th of Augustine dele
gate elections taking place OH the day previous.
u will be the duty OF the delegate convention to
nominate candidates for Congress, Assembly
Prothonotary, Register and Recorder, Commits
ioner, Auditor, Surveyor and Coroner.
The improvements at the Delaware County
Prison, which have been In progress for some time
,ast, are completed.
quite anumber of new houses are being butt
It Marcus Hook, and other Improvements arc in
progress. There is talk of renewing the boz
ough organization under the old charter, or O
lew one. aa,
William, one of the younger sons fDr Row
and, of Media, was thrown beneath horse while
iding him In Newtown township, on Friday last,
nd had both collar bones broken. He was ut the
line Of the accident in pursuit of the two horses
hought to be stolen n couple of weeks since,
which had again strayed away.
KEY III. +. Hurn, for three years pastor of the
L. E. Church, at Media, died suddenly at Lascas-
or, last week.
Samuel A. Grocer and wife, of Upland, left
Jew icy. York, last week, on q visit to Europe. They
vii pass the summer in Switzerland, and from
hence make a tour through portion OF the old
world, and return in the fall
John Evans, of Chester township, harvested
lst week, off an acre aud u quarter of land
inety dozen large sheavcs of rye.
CHESTER COUNTY
-Uriah Ward, of Lower Oxford, had his right
rm broken below the elbow on Friday, 18th inst.
The Oxford Fair for July takes place on
Wednesday the Goth.
j. T. d. A. b. Kimbe, of West Nottingham
wp, have fourteen-acrc field of corn that aver
ged about eight feet high and was in full tassel |
N Friday of last week.
On Thursday, the 9th inst, MS Mrs. John Ro-
lans OF bonneville, Upper Oxford township, |
'as endeavoring to adjust the pipe of n cook |
tovc she fell upon the stove and was severely |
urned before she could be released from the po- |
ition. She is convalcsccnt.
Tho wheat crop has not turned out so well as |
s appearance when growing led farmers to cx- |
ect. Oats will be somewhat short also. Corn |
growing finely.
oatesylle, some miscreant threw large stone |
car on the Pennsylvania Railroad, striking |
list between two windows at one of which sat |
vo young ladies, and at the other gentleman.
his scamp was doubtless of the Pomeroy school |
( politics.
James P. Darlington and John c. Heed of
vcsttown, were thrown from a carriage in West |
hester, recently, and considerably hurt.
-Abram V. Trimble, of West Whittland, lost
fine young horse on Saturday week. He was
brown down and had his leg broken by the other
orses with which he was geared running away.
lc had to be shot.
Tho barn on the premises occupied by Will
am Wctherell, in West Goshen was struck by
ghtnlng on Thursday afternoon of last week,
nd burnt down. The barn belonged to MrAsh-
On, and was insured. The contents consisting
10 acres OF wheat and sixty or seventy tons Of |
ay, with a threshing machine, were destroyed.
lost of the harness, vehicles and implements,
kept threshing machine, were saved but
one OF the contents were insured. The loss of |
Ii, Wetherell will be fifteen hundred or two
lousand dollars and it will fall heavily upon
i'm.
"A few days since Mrs. Peters, wife of Mr..
hares Peters, hotel keeper at Sprlngville Chester
nanty was on her way to Philadelphia in the
ars. she had her pocket picked, and lost thereby
or railroad ticket and about $50 in money.
A few days ago Mrs. Sarah Lloyd, wife of
cvi Lloyd, of Warwick township Chester coun-
f.n Load s.El.