Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-06-16
The Peninsula.

Bad roads is the complaint of tho county
papers.
Corn and other crops are injured by the wet
weather.
Tho Worcester County Railroad Company will
soon either put their road under contract or
commence grading it themselves.
Some malicious scamp killed several hogs be-
longing to wheatley ID. Barncs,of Snow Hill, last
week.
The Snow Hill Messenger has rumor that the
fellow who has been peddlng some trash lie calls
q X1OUSOR," down the Peninsula, has killed
himself with his own drugs.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Fourteen citizens of this county were taken to
Drummondtown, Va, recently and imprisoned
for taking oysters in Virginia. IL OF them COM
promised and one intends to fight it out.
Princess Annes town ordinances to secure
cleanliness arc not well enforced, it il said
The strawberry season is over and though the
yield was much injured by the rain, the crop has
been pretty good one.
CAROLINE COUNTY
The Post Master General has designated Dem
ton Post Office AZ money order ofice.
The lowlands are flooded and great damage
has been done to crops by the heavy rains.
The schools will close on the 18th instant, on
account Of want of funds.
| The wet weather has delayed hay harvest and
| injured wheat.
| Those colorcd people who still adhere to the
white NJ. L. Church held picnic near Denton,
| recently.
| The dogs recently stolen from Sheriff Richard-
SON of Caroline county, were recovered near
Milford, Del, whittier they had been carried by
the thief to assist in Sunday rabbit hunts.
| TALBOT COUNTY.
lot of shoulders and bacon was stolen from
| DIR. J. c. Earles meat house, near Easton, re-
| Gently.
| A petition by Summers Bros, to have James
| H. Hartt of Easton, declared a bankrupt, was
dismissed.
The recent strawberry festival, in st. Michael's,
for the benefit of the Masonic Hall there, was q
success, and realized 5000
Officer Dillon arrested a drunken colored wo.
man, in Easton tho other day, who had just
third when arrested She ought not to BIO dc,
barred from voting on the plea that women can
fight.
The rain has injured the wheat.
Easton was filed with drunken men on Tues'
day of last week.
Faston has ten soda-water fountains, and be
gins to feel metropolitan.
Peaches are falling off so az to alarm growers
The Huckleberly crop will be slow.
The roads are very bad.
The wet weather has interferred with the OK
! tension of the Maryland & Delaware Railroad.
Cherries are abundant, so are peas.
, The public schools will not close on July Is
but will continue until August 1t isl pity TO
: the children's sake that the money did not rul
0 out here as in other counties.
Wheat shows signs of the rust.
Bishop Lay, of Easton will administer the rit
Y of confirmation at st. Michaes on the 26th inst
0 QUEEN ANNE's COUNTY.
r ,,,,, tl,a Capfrovilla DI,sp,rp,. charge
Q Judge Bond with drunkenness (which il too al
y surdly false to be talked about
:, Zenas Dawson stabbed Kearsey Sparks, in
u drunken frolic at Church Hill, recently infiictin
4 a painful but not dangerous wound.
l. CECIL COUNTY.
y Two tramps stole gold watch from the res
u dence OF John L. Alexander, OF Elkton, la
week.
The Amendment Celebration at ChestertoN
il was success.
a The town officers have at last commenced
n clean the streets of Elkton.
" The Elkton and Massey's Railroad people ha'
had another pleasant meeting. As promot
ig Of social intercourse the subject is success.
he Elkton Academy in consideration of receivil
$500 from the State is required to educate fl
free pupils.
DORCHESTER COUNTY.
The corner stone of Masonic Hall Of Chopta
- Lodge, ht EuSt NOW niuihcti Nhi 10 i"iN o' y
of 18th inst.
on II, W. Anderson & Co. are to erect pea
Ill canning establishment on Cambridge creek.
=, ,Ss The people of Vienna want bridge over
ID Nanticoke.
cal d. G. Keene, Of Cambridge, has agreed to
nate land for Catholic Church, and the peoj
Of that faith in Baltimore, Wilmington and Pl
adelphia, it is hoped will aid in building it.
di- wIcoMIco COUNTY.
% If q correspondent of the Eastern Shoren,
IN who abuses the COMMERCIAL tells the truth,
pn Shorrindn did not tell the truth when it said
s,,, simple colored boy had been wantonly poison
CIV az in that town. II was a crow and not boy.
on' may say further that in mentioning the jest
a.. we referred to the Salisbury Advertiser and
' is the Lyceum; and the letter Of this irate IL
~ vidual was the first intimation we had that it
w. anh been printed 'Lyceum." The Eastern, Shc
vi ~ man should be ashamed to start such fal
a. ~, hoods about its own community.
mr. Summer fair or Whitsuntide filled Salsb
re- with mixed throng of people on Monday we
of Everything passud of quietly.
There will be a festival on the 4th of Jul,
olu- the grove surrounding Rockawalking Chul
iels near Salisbury.
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