Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-03-26
OUR NEIaHBoRs.



.-Elkton sidewalks are very poor, and people
ak: What becomes of the town taxes ~
Mr.. s. Drew Thomas and his hrothcr-in.law
Mr:Finly, have commenced the banking business
in Elkton.
Tho Trustees Of the Eiton M. Il. Church
have purchased for a parsonage the property on
Main street, formerly owned by VIM. Torbcrt ESD.
Mrs. Dr.. Wallace, Of Elktou, icll recently
and fractured her collar bone.
The Elkton Post Office is to be moved into
the new Odd Fellows Hall.
The IYh,g says the warm spring days of last
week have brought out the loaiers It asserts that
"Ekton has every variety of the loaler species. :"
The Elkton Building Society is now in full
WORKING order and so popular that another will
probably be organized.
Tho Wallace Dramatic Troupe perform in
Elkton this week.
TALBOT COUNTY.
AT tho town election in Easton, on Monday
18th inst, Samuel Patehett and XII. T. Council
were elected Commissioners.
The boats belonging to the Individual Enter
prise Line have resumed their trips.
"A Talbot county sclooncr,-the Jyare-of
Wye River, was recently robbed while lying in
McClurc's Dock, ut Baltimore. The property was
recovered, but the thieves escaped.
The Easton people want Market House and
Town Hall, which il is proposed to build two
thirds at the expense of that town, and one third
at the expense Of the county. The county
objects.
A new Circuit, to be known us St. Michacl's
Circuit, has been divided from Talbot Circuit by
the last Conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The "True Mnrynnder'' savagely pitches in
to those impudent humbugs-due-billa advertising
agents We are glad to sec 1t, for those fellows
have lived by prcying ON the necessities of coun-
try newspapers long enough Legitimate advcr-
tising agents arc useful to both advertisers and
publishers; these are of no use TO anybody but
themselves
"A fox chase recently took place at Princess
Anne.
The "somersct Herald" since IL changed
hands and became neutral" is as bitterly DEM
ocratic as the recognized Democratic paper-the
"True Marylander," ard us this latter is u better
paper In other respects than the other, we do not
sec where there will be found field Tor both in
that county.
quite number of small thcfts, mostly by
colored men, have been committed in the county
Of late, and in several cases the perpetrators have
been arrested.
"A colored man named Geo. B. Gaines has
been arrested and put in Princess Anne Jail on
suspicion of having been engaged In the recent
bold highway robbery of the railroad agent at
Salisbury.
Capt. John E. Fontaine, of Princess Anne,
lost n valuable horse from over feeding, on last
Sunday.
--Jeptha Pusey was arrested and sent to Balti
more. recently, for a violation OF the Internal
Revenue laws utafterwards released.
The mail route from Princess Anne to New
town has been let to John II. Allen, proprietor
of the union Hotel, at the latter place. for the
sum of $3.50 yearly. And the route to Deals
Island, to George 4. McClemmy, the present CON
tractor, for $3.50 per annun.
wIooMIoo COUNTY.
Tho New Era has again come to hand.
The March term of the Circuit Court for Wi
comico county, commenced in Salisbury, Mon
day.
--Wicomico Is agitnted over new county build
ngs. Salisbury promised to build them, and now
some of the people there are trying to back out.
Two colored men, who recently robbed
gentleman ON Smiths Island, in making of with
their booty, In boat, were upset and drowned.
I'm speaking of the recent decision on taxing
the kem Fra says -" 1t is To be hoped
that those controlling the Delaware Railroad will
now disregard this unjust and lingcncrous law,
md relieve us from paying the debt of another
State that ought never to have been contracted,
md, If contracted, ought to have been paid hy
The people ofDelaware."
WORCESTER. COUNTY.
"A new ferry is to be established at Rehoboth.
John Allen, keeper of the Union Hotel"
1t Ncwtown, while attempting to manage n re-
fractory horse recently was thrown down and
mad three ribs broken.
Some one suggests Pocomoke City AS the
name for Ncwtown. II will be time enough to
,nll il n city after 1t is a city. The beautiful In
iian names Of the rivers on the Peninsula suggest
The hest answer TO the Rec0ids proposal for q
new name for that old town, though those OPP
posed to any change will probably insist that tho
present name is ever new
The Record suggests night police in Newtown.
Chickens, geese, turkeys and ducks are dying
al over the county.
CAROLINE COUNTY.
The Denton Union complains that the pro-
srcss of that county Is retarded, and much need
cd immigration to 1t checked by the high prices
At which the land is generally held.
--Trains on the Maryland aud Delaware Rail-
road now run to Rdglcy. The train coming
north connects with the Express train on the Del
aware rond, passengers leaving Ridgley at $50 a.
M, arriving here 1920. The train going south
connects with the morning train which leaves
Wilmington AT 1910 Il. NJ. and passengers arrive
at Rdglcy at 2:O5 in the afternoon.
Capt. Il. L. +. Iiardcastlc visited Caroline
county last week and received subscriptions
raising the sum necessary to complete the Rail-
road To Hillsborough. The subscribers TO this
amount We're VIM. b. Massey, VIM. A. Ford, JAS.
ii. Holmes and Robt. j. Jump. This leaves
81, 600 yet to be subscribed To insure the compile
tion of this road to Hillsborough, when the Tai
hot people will speedily complete it to Eiston.
The recent fair and festival for the benefit Of
n church IN Denton, realized over s51D.
"A Building and Loan Association has been
Organized ut GrpcushOrouWIl.
AT the recent session of the Circuit Court the
following ease was disposed off,
Dorchester and Delaware Railroad Company
Us. Alfred Davis. Appeal from jury of in
QUESTION to award damages. Inquisition set
aside, Railroad Company To pay costs, and new
inquisition ordered.
CHESTER COUNTY.
The roads in Chester county are very bad,
made so by frost coming out Of the ground.
Two men named Devinc and Burns were
nearly killed while blasting rock, recently, on the
new Wilmington ~ Reading X. r.
The Village Record publishes portion of our
abstract OF the annual report of the w. " RR X.
and prctends that it Is an extract from the report
itself.
William Green, recently of Oxford, has es-
tablished II new marble yard ut Waynesburg.
Among the articles TO be sold to the highest
bidder, announced in II recent Public Sale bill, by
u citizen OF nix township, Is New Empl1t
Sewing Machine and gal to use it,
The "Modcl and Experimental Fam al
West Grove, Chester county, has been complete
ly organized, and will be ready to commence OPP
erations upon the first opening of spring. Thus
VI. Harvey has been appointed superintendent Of
the farm.
Thomas Wood has sold one of his West Fall
lowlied farms, containing 1872 acres, to John
Power, OF the same township, for 800 per acre.
The Oxford Farmers Club continues to be q
success, but there was complaint of undcrbid
ding at some OF its public sales. Steps have
been taken to put stop to this.
Jefferson Smith sold his farm of 3D. acres, il
Lower Oxford township, to Edwin G.. Peters, Of
Niagara Falls, for $3.50. X. r. Peters of Ok
ford, removes to the farm on the LIST of April.
The Chester county roads are in terribly
bad condition, and the storm to-day is not calcu
lated to improve them much
Another workman on the w. u Il. X. has
been severely Injured in blasting rocks. All the
accidents of this kind that have occurred have
been caused by workmen tinkering at charger
which at first Jailed to explode. Their iIjurie'
are the result Of thtir own temerity.
An otter was shot on the Brandywine, nea
Chadds' Ford, by Jesse Seal, Jr., on the Stl inst
IL was driven out of his hole by the flood, ant
sought concealment in the bushes where il wa
found. These animals are rare in that vicinity
but two or three have been shot on the stream
within the last three or four wears