Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-12-01
LOCAL NEWS.
Hedgeyille ought to be torn down.
There was full market this morning.

Hedgeville ought to be torn down.
There was full market this morning.
This court will be an unusually busy one.
Passengers for Reading, will take the o'clock
train.
There are still too few farmers In the Eighth
street market.
The Philadelphia morning papers get to Will
mington too late.
There is but one student from Wilmington in
Harvard College.
Celery is more abundant in our markets and
gets somewhat cheaper
The buildings at Edgemoor are plainlyin sight
from Third Street BRIDGE
The foundation walls of the new school on
French street are about finished.
The II o'clock train on the Wilmington and
Reading Railroad is discontinued.
Peddling peanuts in the street is the last
enterprise" developed in this city.
The present effort for the removal of the
county buildings can hardly fail Of success.
The coming question is" In what part of the
city shall the county buildings be located?
Lieut. Commander Harrington Is ordered to
report for duty to the frigate California.
Seidel & Hastings are extending their wharf
line on the Brandywine 30 as to give them a
front Of $50 feet.
An intricate apparatus for hosting and lower
ing mail bags is being erected at the rear of the
post office.
The almanacs say winter begins tomorrow,
but the weather does not bear them out in the
assertion.
Petitions against the continuance Of street
markets are being circulated, and receive numer-
GUS signatures.
The alterations in the U. s. Court room are
completed, but the painting and vanishing are
not quite completed.
The railroad tracks in front of the depot have
recently been taken up and re-laid, and the
space between the platform is being re-planked.
It is expected that shortly after Congress
meets the Wilmington q Reading railroad will
be declared mail route. The sooner the better.
Joseph Rile, son of H. M. Rile, of this city,
will leave for the far West on Thursday. He
intends to take up his home there.
Capt. Chas. NJ. woolston and family who
moved to Des Moines Iowa. about two years
ago will shortly return to Delaware.
AS Abraham Cannon, of Christiana village,
was coming to our city, last Friday, his horse
run away and smashed up his carriage.
Lieut.. Col. Kurtz, of the u s. Engineer De-
partment advertises elsewhere for proposals for
the Improvement Of Wilmington Harbor.
J. Lowery, of Milford, raised 200 bushels of
turnips 400 bushels Of sugar beets, and 5000
heads Of cabbage from ~ acres Of ground.
The Republican, whose statements must be
taken with allowance, STATES that there ID talk
Of starting extensive locomotive works at "the
Rocks"
Letters OF Administration upon the estate of
Jacob O. Harris, deceased, late Of Appoquinimink
Hundred, have been granted John H. Paivis, Of
Blackbird.
II all the Cases last as long in proportion as
did that yesterday this court is likely to last till
the Spring term begins in Sussex. This will not
be the case, however.
The ladies Of West Presbyterian Church will
hold Christmas Fair and Festival at Institute
Hall, commencing on December 18th and con-
| tinuing until the seventeenth.
We have made diligent inquiry concerning the
Republicans locomotive works, and regret to say
the story has no foundation in fact. Our capital
lists apparently lack the pluck for such an enter
prise.
young man named Thomas Murphy who has
| long been in the employ of the Fennimore family
| near Odessa, went cunning on Thursday last,
| when his gun was accidentally discharged, and
the load passed through his body, producing in
slant DEATH
President Edward Parrish, and Prof. Edward
| II. Magill, both Of Swarthmore College, have
engaged to lecture before the Social Lyceum,
this winter. The time for the former is not fixed,
but the latter has appointed the evening Of De-
cember 18th.