Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-07-14
our Neighbors.

Media wants market house.
"A Masons' Lodge has just been instituted at
Kernett Square.
The Norrstown iircmcn go to Cape May, on
the list of August.
Wheat harvest il about over i'll Chester
county. The crop IL light.
Delaware County jail contains 35 prisoners
a greater number than usual.
Pipes arc now being laid for the introduction
Of water into DowninStown IA.
IA large dog, suspected Of hydrophobia was
killed near West Chester, last week.
Delaware county farmers complain of tie
ravages of the weeyil III their wheat fields.
Tax Collectors in Chester county say that
the people are paying their taxes cleerfully
ZOctoraro Presbyterian Church recently cleared
$500 on a fair at Parkesburg. Smart church,
The Farmers Market Company, in West
Chester. las declared q seml-anniai three per
| cent. dividend
Charles p. Hewes, n six year old boy of West
| Chester, fell from Il ience the other uay anu
| broke his leg.
| Thomas Il. Jacobs has been appointed Dep
uty Marshal to gather social statistics in Chester
/ and Delaware counties.
-Rusiness was generally suspended in West
| Chester, on the 4th, but there was no other pub
| lie observance of the day.
NIordeca NJ Stephens, of Montgomery
phnnixville. for 5l7,059.
Numerous pic-nics were held in Delaware
/ county OH the Fourth, but there was no other
formal observance of the day.
Major William b. Darlington, Postmaster at
West Chester, and DIR. TIL omas p. Thompson,
Postmaster at Oxford, have been reappointed
On Tuesday, of last week. at Gallagherville
uuarries in Chester county, John Manly was Sc
riously injured by large stone falling on him.
Since the commencement of the proposed
change in the route of the Z. w. x .. II. r., real
estate prices in Darby have gone up like rocket.
--TredyT rintownship,iin Chester county wants
graded public schools. The children need good
education to know how to spell the name of the
township.
4 Que Of those much talked-of basement
4 rooms in the Court House, at West Chester, has
been fitted up for the County Superintendent OF
. public schools,
Some cnterprising thieves used mp several
4 dollars worth of powder and tools to blow open
: the safe of the Chester Valley Railroad depot
: and obtained 30.
:, "A young man named Stephen Beale, atid'
y William Wood, has been lodged i'll Delaware
q | county jail for passing a counterfeit check OIL
= Benjamin Pretty, of Upland.
II The Coatesye Union says that new pape
~ ia to be started in that borough, under the title
u Of tbe Coatcsville Times The same authorit,
4 states that ii is to be printed i'll Lancaster city
10 Thomas Il. Jacobs, who was appointed As
r. First District in Chester county, having declined
to serve George Il. Maxton has been appointed
"A in his place.
"a Harvest wages in Chester county range from
al Al 80 to $3.50 per day and board. In West Cali
70 II 80 was offered last week, in Tredyfrin TIN
II, farmers are paying - to s25o, in the vicinity
IN Oxford about 50, around West Chester ~ =
nd S275. ..,.,..., n,
M The annual examination Of the Soldiers oi
III phans' Schools at Chester Springs, Chester Go.
will be held on Wednesday, July 10th The eS
ed animation will be public. Some live hlndre
W bows and girls We're sent out from tho Saflou
ed schools during the past year.
na On Thursday, June 3Oth, the house OF Iatt
mt Jolson. near Lima, Delaware county, was struc
on by lightning and badly shaken and SCARE
~ throughout gentleman named Geo Mar
'h- and lis wife were the only inmates and thong
both were stunned neither was seriously lnlure'
on, The West Chester Republican say. III
Y y nic-nic Of the pupils Of Jonathan CAUSE, u
Iiho veteran teacher OF Chester county promises
h he be one of the grandest reunions OF the season
lhe sueh gathering of people as is seldom witnes
o, o. ed. me early pupils of Mr.. Cause are no
DC Srandfathers, and his younger ones mere boy,
es- 4 large number of them will doubtless
Ga. present, and join in the festivities OF the ga
got fThe place selected is Trimbles Grove, on q
a. az Brandywine, and the 18th Of August the TN
Wv appointed