Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18
LOCAL NEWS.

Next Sunday, the Sunday preceding Easter, is
Palm Sunday.
The Republican looks with increasing favor on
the idea OF peninsuar union.
The new bank at Parkesburg, Chester county,
bcEina operations on the first OF April.
Eggs and Easter Sunday come IN on the 2sth
OF March this year.
The streets of Smyrna are now lighted by oil
lamps instead of gas.
X. Fl. Hastings of Smyrna is building u largc
three must schooner.
John E. Craddock and John Clark have left
Smyrna for the West.
1t. Gen Sheridan passed through this city on
Saturday, on his way to Washington, from the
West.
Our lively contemporary, the Republican,, is
calculating and expounding Alderman Vinccnt's
philosophy.
A large cigar mandatory will be started in
this city in few days. The cigars are TO be made
by machinery.
The work of filling up and grading the foot of
Eleventh street, at the approaches TO the bridge,
is progressing.
Mr.. o. s. Senter, formerly well known In VIII
mington, is canvassing for Directory of Della
ware county.
The Media people let fox loose in their streets,
and had q fine race after him with pack of
hounds, last week.
The Levy Court has appointed James Fletcher
stables fol this city.
The trees in the City Hall yard have had their
heads chopped of. They arc in full view from
the Post Office and must be full Of painful sug-
gestions.
Rev. James H. Lightbourn, Of Dover, has re-
Gently received one hundred and eighteen proba-
TONERS into the Methodist Episcopal Church of
that place.
The Middletown Transcript says the revere
weather OF Saturday and Sunday week, destroyed
many of the Peach Buds, but the prospect 10 still
good for an abundant crop.
young man from Smyrna of the name of
Primrose recently attempted to rob the shop OF
David Thompson in Clayton, was caught In the
act, and las been sent to Dover Jail.
We recently stated that Mr.. E. G. Stotsenburg
was about to quit farming, This Is Incorrect, he
simply changes his operations roma dairy 10
grazing.
lion. Benjamin T. Biggs Representative in
Congress from this State, has been appointed on
the Committee ON Mines and Mining, and expcn-
diturc OF the Treasury Department.
gentleman of this city recently attending to
his business affairs In Caroline county, Maryland,
reports that the feeling there Is almost unani-
mously in favor of Pcninsular Union, and moth
ing else Is so much talked OF.
carpenter living at lIcdgcvillc has deserted
his wife and family, and gone to Baltimore. she
has seven or eight helpless little children, and
daily expects another. The woman Is out o. htr
mind with grief. He makes s25 Il week, 1t is sad.
The Odessa Building and Loan fund sold money
at their first meeting, on Thursday evening last,
at thirty-five per cent. premium. AT inc iast
monthly meeting of the Middlctown Building
and Loan Association, funds sold at thirty-one
per cent.
The Dehtmarean is more dcvout than confident.
1t ssys:-" All We can say about peaches at pres
ent il, that as an immense number OF trees come
into bearing this year. God willing, we will have
an immense crop. Peach buds, 10 this vicinity,
have not been injured to any extent by the recent
cold weather."
Tho town meeting called to amend the charter
Of Middletown,on Friday and Saturday evenings
the 9th and 9th instant ended In squabble ee'
tweer property holders and non-property hold
ers. On Saturday night the property holders
Withdrew from the meeting Both parties arc
making an appeal to the Legislature.
The protracted religious services at the Presby'
terrain and Methodist churches, In hliddletown
were brought to n close on Sunday, the eth Inst
Forty new members, II large proportion OF whom
were heads Of families, were. the fruits of thu
meeting in the latter church. The holy com
munion closed the protracted services IN TIT
Presbyterian church,
L. W. Stldham Il Son, auctionecrs, sold at pub
lie sale in Christiana hundred on Tuesday Mnrcl
9th, 1869, for George M. Bramblc, cows from
$50 to 1921 per head, IL of them averaged 973.2'
per head; bull years old sGi; bull yea
old $33: horses one at $780, one at SAB, one n
s1S5; shoat pigs 16l5, 17la and 1874 cents pc
pound live weight.
The Smyrna Times says Asa L. Worden, ha
contracted to saw up the timber Of about 90
acres of the celebrated Cedar Swamp in Thor
uughfare Neck lie has started his circular say
with portable engines, In the woods. There ar
about 1900 acres in this tract, containing some q
the finest cedar timber in the State, and Is onl
cqualed by the Cypress Swamp In Sussex, VIC be
licvc. II is about 10 miles from town.