Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-12-02
THE PENINSULA.


The religious revival ut Elkton continues
with increased interest, and extra services are
being held in both the NJ. L. and Presbyterian
Churches
Olive Logan's lecture on 'Girls," at Elkton.
was grand success, and seems to have produced
decided sensation. The Democrat says:-
''She came, we saw,-shc conquered. Shall
we ever be prcjudiced against female lecturers
again But we don want either to see or hear
olive Logan again. We don't want TO sit under
ber siivery tones TO be convinced against our rca-
son,-that our mothers aud grnnd-mothers have
suffered grlevous wrong all these generations
past. That our noble old fathers and grand-iath-
ers kept them out of their rights, aud that We
their children, are wicked enough, even in the
light OF the year eighteen and sixty nine. to wish
to Keep them In chains and slavery still"
QUEEN AsNE's COUNTY.
Michael Casey has been held TO bail in the
sum of 5000, to answer charge of assaultng a
woman, named Laura Smith, The alleged assault
grew out OF an alteration about wages which The
woman claimed to be due her rs housc-keepcr
for the assailant.
There is great compliant concerning the
condition of the Court House OF Centreve.
BENZ seibley, clerk in hardware store at
Centrevllle, was seriously but not fatally injured
by the bursting OF gun in his hands on Thanks
giving day.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
REV. Mr. Burton, of the Episcopal Church.
in Princess Anne, who was nearly killed by an
accident some time ago has sufficiently recovered
to attend church, but not TO oilielatc.
The Washington House, the leading hotel in
Princess Anne, is offered for sale.
TALBOT COUNTY.
The freight house ut urbana wharf was re-
Gently robbed ofa number Of packages.
Wood is Gper cord IN st. Mlchaels
The Grand Jury reports the County Jail ''nnt
Dlucp Gf confinement fnr mig ~
This is u common fault in our peninsular jails.
The steamboat Highland LigM now leaves
Easton Point at So O'Clock, Instead Of at Sus
heretofore. and on Wednesdays, Fridays, aud
Sundays leave the point OF BIS a. IN. These
changes are made 10 enable her To connect with
the new Dorchester and Delaware r. r.
Rev. Dr. Kinney, pastor of the NJ. e. Church
acEaston, recently seriously III, is rapidly recov-
ering.
The Easton Gazette says that notwithstanding
all the croakng predictions the crops have turned
out pretty well after II.
The mail service between Easton and Fcder-
alsburg is to be reduced from six times week to
three times week. fredericksburg now gets the
bulk OF It's mail by the new Dorchester and Della
ware Rnilroad.
Captain James Stewart has been appointed
post muster at Oxford, vice T.. s Harrison.
CAROLINE COUNTY.
Thanksgiving day was well observed in Dem
A Farmers club is to be organized in Denton
District.
An old barn on the farm of James Bryan,
near Denton. was blown down during recent
wind.
The Denton Union intimates that our cor
respondent who "wrote up the u. and ID. II. r.
over estimated the population Of fredericksburg.
DoRcrEsETR COUNTY.
Barton Il Co., well-known Cambridge firm,
have made an assignment.
A stone larger than goose egg and weigh
ing II ounces was recently taken from the blad-
der of hog killed near Cambridge.
Cambridge has frightened up since the adj
vent of the locomotive and business Is improv-
ing.
wICoMIco COUNTY.
The Easton .Shoremda in an cuogy on Sails
bury, claims that 1t is not only the first town of
the Peninsula in business point of view, but
that there is no town of $500 Inhabitants In the
| country that can boast more industrious and
virtunus population.
The new Board of County Commissioners
hos organized by choosing James Duncan as
| President, and Thomas d. Taylor us Secretary.
--Twenty-elght marriage licenses were issued
| by the Clerk of the Wicomico County Court dur
| ing the month of September.