Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-08-04
LOCAL NEWS.


Police business is lively ct Milford,
Tho Smyrna Times complains of mail irregu-
| larities.
Smyrna Circuit Camp Meeting commenced on
| Thursday
Miss Mcdowell, of the Philadelphia iyt.ntiay
Dispatch, is visiting Dover.
The " Brotherhood Of the Union" of Milford
| makes an excursion to Lewes on the 9th inst.
| Catalogues are getting to be abundant and
cheap.
| The Wilmington Rolling Mill, south side of the
ChIistiana, is now running double time.
The stations at Modeville and Mortonvile on
the W. & r. Railroad are being enlarged.
j. McGonigal has erected fine dwelling sd-
Joining his store at Little Creek Landing, Kent
County.
Henry G. Metz, of this city, graduated at
Clayersack College, Now York. on the Both of
June.
Frank Collins, of Collins Beach, recently lost
horse valued at $780, from over heating it is
supposed.
George W. Bush has taken out letters testa-
mentary on the estate of Jane J. Danforth, of
| New Castle.
| The name of Samuel Jefferson is again men,
toned in connection with the Democratic nomi-
nation for Governor.
| The Milford Mutual Friend says that an old
colored woman in Sussex county has fallen heir
to twenty-five thousand dollars.
| 1t is stated that L. l. du Pont, DeNemours Il
Co. have harvested from their farm, near this
city, from 800 to 1000 tons Of hay.
| The Pioneer base ball club, Of smyrna, beat
| the Active club, of Camden, last Friday, by
score of 10 to IS, in seven innings.
J. D. Foard, near Smyrna, had splendid crop
Of wheat this year. 1t was of the red Mediter-
| ranean variety, and sown very early
| Large, luscious peaches in Philadelphia at
moderate prices small green, bitter ones for
Wilmington at high prices. Why SOP
| An excursion from Unonville, Chester Co, lao
companed by their band of music, went to Read
ing, over the W. d II. line, on Thursday.
On Thursday evening, Of last week, the tele-
| graphic instruments in the Wyoming office were
injured by lightning.
John Hickman, member of the House, is
talked of as the Democratic nominee for the
| State Senate in Sussex.
| Will not some friend of the Milford Mutual
Friend tell it's editor how vulgar it is to be con-
| tinually talking about "Sports"
A rough shed for the protection Of fruit and
| vegetables has been erected at the Market Wharf
corner Front and Church streets.
Rev. John Mccoy of the Newark Presbyterian
Church, in this State, has accepted call to the
Broadway Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.
The W. & r. Railroad Co. have purchased land
| at Birdsboro'. from the Messrs. Brooke, and are
| about to commence at once the building of
| depot
i
65, 600 baskets of peaches this year. His orchard
| seems to be planted with trees Of the never fail
variety.
We see it announced that the Democratic Assoc
citation Of White Clay creek will hold weekly
meetings throughout the campaign. Whskey
will be dear, then.
The public buildings fences, &C., at the Lag
arctic, which are In dilapidated condition, are to
| be repaired, $4,000 having been appropriated by
Congress for the improvements
]. X Taylor, of Loudoun Co., Va, well-known
to many of our readers, delivered an address on
" yirginia-Past, Present, and Future, in Read
ing, on Thursday evening.
Geo. Frazier, roofer in the employ Of H. r.
Pickles a. Bro, fell and hurt himself quite &C.
verely few days ago while working on roof at
Edge Moor.
If the milk stations on the p. W. & u. II. H..
continue to increase passengers from this city
to Philadelphia will conclude that the route is
pid the milky way.
W. w. Woodruff, A. NJ, formerly Superinten-
dent Of Public Schools, in Chester county, is
now Associate Principal with Professor Seal, at
Bellevue Institute, Bucks county.
The steamer Alto, of IA TONS visited Milford
from Philadelphia, last Thursday. steamboat
on the Misspillion is a novelty.
Stephen Hazard, landlord of the Atlantic
Hotel, at Lewes, destroyed by fire some time
ago, has opened new house under the same
name.
The Wilmington a Reading Railroad Company
will sell excursion tickets at reduced rates to
those attending the picnic Of Jonathan Causes
scholars, at Elysian fields on the 18th inst.
The hay shed of Mr. James Buckson, in
Thoroughfare Neck, was struck by lightning, on
Monday night last, and set on fire, but pump
being convenient, the fire was extinguished-
Transcript.
John II. Nicholson, son of Hon J. A. Nichol-
son, of Dover, is one of party of Yale College
students and graduates, who is accompanying
Prof. Marsh on a scientific exploring expedition
to the Rocky Mountains.
Col Joshua Clayton of st. Georges Hundred,
has raised this season, on five acres of land,
1881 tons of timothy hay, being "a tons per
acre. Bombay Hook is ahead-3I tons per
acre, on 80 acres.-Sny,na Times.
The return match game Of base ball between
the Relay Club, of Stanton and the North East
Club, was played on the grounds of the former
on the 23d instant, which resulted in victory
for the latter, by score of 43 to AZ.
Parties from Philadelphia and New York have
G recently built scow, and located it out III the
catching sturgeon They have all the necessary
facilities for canning the meat and converting
the fat into oil.
The telegraph line along the Wilmington AVID
, Reading Railroad is now completed, and nwork-
4, ing order 1t connects at Coatesville, with the
i wires Of the Western Union Co. The Pacific and
y Atlantic Telegraph, which runs through that
, | town, has no office there.
q William Passmore who is one of the most sue
" cessful farmers of Christana Hundred, is paying
= considerable attention to the rearing of Alderney
stock for his own dairy. He has now some hall
dozen two year old hefers which are really
handsome and appear unusually promising.
Republican,.
y The Friends (IIicksite branch OF Philadelphia,
D have purchased lot at the North West corner
to of Girard Avenue, and Seventeenth street on
which they will build Westinghouse. The lo'
fronts 10 feet on Seventeenth street, and AZ Oh
Girard Avenue Its erection will provide entire
~ ~ new and seperate meeting, and Is designed
s. to accommodate the members of the Society II
n the North Western section of the city.
q Real Estate.
~ On Thursday. 2lst inst, Sheriff Wids sold thu
farm of Geo. West, three miles from Smyrna
containing 240l6 acres, to II. b. Garman, 10
$4,000 Garman was the original owner, ant
~ about three years ago sold it to Mr.. West TO
a. 522,00
IT. On tile same day Sheriff Wilds sold the farm
IT, of Samuel NJ. Jones, near Blackestons Cros
Ia. Roads, containing about 200 acres, to David
n, Murphy, of Newark, for 81, 300
Tlios b. Lockwood has sold his farm IN tn
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