Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-06-09
LOCAL NEWS.

A four-egged turkey was hatched TINS spring
on the farm of Thomas J.Lynam, near this city
The coored folks of Milford are making great
preparations for an Amendment Celebration IL
July.
The annual election of Trustees of the Cam
den Union Camp Ground Company, takes place
July 7th.
Ex-Sheriff willin, Of Sussex county, has sold
his trotting horse, brigham Young, to dealer
in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Isaac NJ Denney, near Leipsic, has a
goose which is twenty-five years old. She has a
flock of goslings.
The young man who recently became insane
in our streets is a brother to Powell Clayton,
Governor of Arkansas.
Lewis Ashton, of Christiana Village, has taken
out letters of administration on the estate OF
Cynthia Ashton, late of this CITY,
Frank W. Lynch, son of Amos W. lynch, of
st. Georges Hd., IL editoring paper called The
Cotton Plant, at AUSTIN Mississippi.
David Chandler of Pencader hundred, in this
county, sheared twenty sheep, few days ago,
which turned of 1O7 pounds of saleable wool.
J.C. Hipple who advertised his booded Alder,
ney heifer Lilly" in the COMMERCIAL, has sold
her to d. Lammot, for 5146. She is seventeen
months old.
Mr.. W. J. Clarke has resigned his place as teller
in the Farmers Bank at Dover, on account of
failing health and Thomas s. Jones has been
promoted to the position.
We hear that Joshua Kames, Esq. of Down
ingtown Chester county will have his hotel there
ready for its guests, early next month, and that
he will invite some of his friends to assist at the
opening.
The partnership of J. W. Prettyman, and Will
liam Wilson, under the firm name OF Prettyman
& Co., at FELTON,, Kent Co., is dissolved, by mli-
tual consent J. W. Prettyman will continue the
baking busines.
The congregation of st Pauls NJ. i. Church, in
this city, have resolved to attend Brandywlne
Summit Camp Meeting, commencing on the Stll
of August There will be large tent erected
for their accommodation
Last Friday evening the bridge over Red Clay
Creek near Phillips mills, IA a wagon and
mules belonging to Mr.. West were passing over
it, The driver and two of the mules were hurt
and barely escaped their lives
The Methodist Church, of Odessa, will hold a
strawberry festival on the 9th and 10th of June,
in the Academy yard. for the benefit of the Sab
bath school. The Odessa brass band will be in
attendance.
A cog-wheel. weighing eleven thousand pounds,
was shipped from this city to the Westmawell
Iron Works of the Mccullough Iron Companyin
Cecil county. u few days ago. 1t took ten horses
to draw the wagon containing it, and the turn
out ' astonished the natives'
If you want to keep ice long, enclose it in a
double pocket of strong WOODEN cloth with two
inch space between the inner and outer pockets
this space tightly packed with feathers of any
kind by this method small piece can be kept
a week-1uite an item when ice is high.
The Independence Cornet Band, of Fair ITill
Cecil county, Maryland, will hold grand musical
entertainment and strawberry festival in James
Arinstrongs grove, half mile south of Kimble-
vile, Chester county, Pa, on Saturday, the 11th
instant. The Citizens Cornet Band, of Newark,
Delaware, will also be in attendance.
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1919 pupils. III in the first term and 1888 in the
second--all that could be accommodated. We
anticipate that the time is not far distant when
the present building, supposed by many to be far
too large, will prove entirely inadequate to
accomodate the students desiling to enter.
Worth's Chester county cheese, of which we
spoke day or two ago i'll approving TERMS il
making quite sensation. Some of it was ex-
hibited at the last meeting of the Philadelphia
Agricultural Society," and won high praise. 1t is
for sale at the Farmers market, at Eighth and
Orange streets, in this city.
The green. serpentine stone of which Grace
church, in this city, is built. is becoming more
and more popular. A church has been made of
it in Philadelphia, and We see that Mount Vernon
Place, in Baltimore, and the new Normal School
building, at West Chester, are to be built of the
same material. 1t is certainly beautiful stone,
and the only question is as to its durability
The ordinance passed by the City Council of
Baltimore, some time since, granting the aid of
the city by endorsing the bonds of the Maryland
Central Railroad to the amount of 560000O, upon
certain conditions, will be submitted to the vot
of that city OH Tuesday, the 14th day of June.
This road, If built we believe, connects with the
Z. & B. Central, the object being to make a new
continuous road from Philadelphia to Baltimore,