Weekly Delaware State journal and statesman. (Wilmington, Del.) 18??-18??, 1869-02-05
GENERAL MATTERS.

John Finn advertises the store No. 106
Market Street, with dwelling attached Tor
rent. They will be rented separately or to-
getheT, and immediate possession given.
This stand is in one of the busiest portions
of our city, and has always been considered
q desirable location Tor business.
Notice is given 10 contractors and build
ers that proposals will be received until 7
P. M. Of the eth inst, for building school
house on the lot al the corner OF Eighth and
Washington Streets. Plans and speclfica-
tons can be seen at the Office OF DR.. Maui,
500 Market Street, where inquiries will be
answered and information given.
A lecture will be delivered in the Will
mington Institute, on Thursday evening,
February 18Th, by Joseph L. Topham, Esq :,
oil Baltimore, on Life Insurance.
People with thin heads oil hair should use
Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair Remover 10
make the hair grow out thick.
Sheriff Richardson will sell at public sale,
on Friday, February 18th, at 10 A. NJ, at
the Amos Harris wharf in this city, the boat
General Wool.
DR.. Boynton is advertised to deliver a lee
ture this evening at the Wilmington Insu-
tate on "The Earth and the Moon"
A contemporary states that reports in regard
TO the scarlet fever in this city have been
greatly exaggerated.
The Board of Public Education has adopt
ed a resolution that all accounts for bills
shall be signed by one or more members OF
the Board, and must be presented TO the
Board within six months from the time OF
order.
Thomas NJ. Ogle, auclioneer, will sell at
public sale, for c. II. b. Cleaver, at the Del.
aware House, in New Castle, on Friday,
February 10Th, at O'Clock P. NJ, a yalua-
Bile farm in Red Lion Hundred, containing
about 240 acres. He will also sell at public
sale, on Tuesday, February 18th, at 10
O'Clock A. NJ, at the hotel OF A. A. Laws,
in the village Of Newport, cottage resi-.
dence, containing nine rooms, belonging 10
G. b. Thompson.
August Snyder has sold his house and six
acres of land on Union ST., near Fourth, 10
George E. Weldin, for SO, $50.
David lrelan, of this city has purchased
the farm OF John Wiley, in Dover HID, CON
tanning 500 acres; so oil which are in peach
es, with good improvements, for $21 500.
Joseph Teas has retired from business,
and the bolt and nut mandatory will here.
alter be carried on by Thos. W. Bowers and
Mahlon Sloisenburg.
Thos. Mahaify has sold his farm IN Bran
DIVINE Hd., containing fifty acres, TO Major
Candy, for $4,000.
Dr. Mark G.. Lofland has been elected
President of the Milford Hook and Ladder
Company. About twenty members signed
the constitution.
The citizens OF Smyrna are engaged in
their biennial town charter war.
II is said by the Newtown Gazette that The
whale on The beach near Berlin was first dis
covered by solitary oysterman, who sold i
10 a second party Tor ~, that It subse
| quently changed hands Tor 5000, and tina
tue latter purchaser will realize 50, 900 fron
the oil alone.
The Democratic Messenger is the name o
q new paper published at Snow Hill, Nor
cester county, Nd, by ]. II. d w. q. Han
day. AS its name indicates 1t is 'democrat
ic' in politics making the fourth paper o
that faith published in the county.
The revival at the Dover M. E. Church il
still attended with unusual interest," Fifty O
sixty have proiessed conversion. A revival o
considerable interest is also going on at Eel
ton church, Revs. DIR. Quigley and VIM. M
Warner, Pastors.
b. ]. Walmsley sold 10 Jos. Biggs truc
OF land in Cecil CO., containing one hundrel
and forty-two acres, with the improvements
Price, $1S,30O
The Meihodists Of Camden have purchas
ed a parsonage Tor their minister, and an oil
gan for the church, which has been paints
ard improved ana will be reiurnished in tn
Spring The most OF this work was due I
the ladies'.
On Fridaynigbt some thieves broke in III
clothing and furnishing store of II. Levy, O
Main ST., Dover, and look about one hun
bred dollars worth of clothing and two 7,
volyers.
The Junction & Breakwater Railroad wi
charge AZ cents per quart for shipping straw
berries 10 PHILADELPHIA. The fruit grower
around Georgetown are complaining terribl
at the high rate.
A remonsirance against the propose
change in the legal rate Of interest in hi
State has been numerously signed in Mid
dletown the past week.
A protraeted meeting and revival are l