Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-05-26
our NeIghbors.

The West Chester Republicas, laughs at the
Delaware white men. fE ~
-Diplomas will be conferred ON the graduating
class Of the West Chester High School,, on the
10th of June. Ex-Governor Pollock Will make
the opening address.
Mrs. Reilly native OF Ireland now Tvins
at Media, gave party at her residence on tues
day, the 10th instant, in honor Of her looth birth
day.
The Brandywine Farmers Club, Of which
Abner Marshall is President and Mrs. Doctor
Darlington, Secretary, consists of farmers and
their wives, who meet around at each others
houses
And now West Chester has procured stock
of English sparrows. a
The Oxford Chester county, Agricultural
Society has taken the initiatory steps toward
incorporation.
Petroleum v. Nasty delivered his lecture
entitled 1.-THE Lords of Creation, on the evening
of the 18th inst, at Salem, N. ..
On Tuesday 10th inst.,. Salem was visited by
destructive hail storm which broke glass anu
beat down fruit and crops badly. The stones
were as large az hickory nuts.
Salem is troubled with burglars and mo-
squitoes.
The New Bridge Works at Chester are said
| to be doing a large business
| South Chester, the new borough, which in
cludes Lamokin and Thurlow, bids fair to be-
come thriving town.
The building committee Of the Academy OF
Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, have condiud-
/ ed to erect their splendid new building OF SER
| pentine marble, from the Kilmarnock quarries,
in Middletown, Delaware county.
| AT the last meeting of the Susquehanna
Building Association, in Havre de Grace, money
sold at 49, per cent. premium.
The choir Of the NJ. E. Church, at Port De-
post, is making an effort to procure an organ
I 1.oa tail had
mail route from West Chester to White Horse,
via Goshenville and Sugartown, twice week-
| Tuesday and Saturday. Mr.. Abram Hall has
been rendered the appointment Of Postmaster at
White Horse, but has not accepted.
Says the Village Record, of the 18th: THE
woods on the farms Of Robert IRWIN, Matthew
Stanley and George Fleming, deceased, in Brandy
wine and Honeybrook, took fire from the engine
on the Wilmington and Reading Railroad, fort
night or so ago. 1t spread with great rapidity'
and notwithstanding all the efforts OF the neigii,
bors. il continued to burn for three hours, and
spread over hundred acres. The timber was
young and mostly destroyed. tenant mouse
and stable were saved by the efforts OF those
present. Mr.. Irwin lost several cords OF wood.
Who pays damagess"
About twenty-five months since, the wife OF
Frank Bishop, of Upper Providence, delaware
Co., presented her husband with twins, and only
few DAYS ago she added two more to the house,
hold,
The colored citizens of Philadelphia, Ches-
ter. Montgomery and Delaware counties purpose
giving grand Barbecue at Everetts Grove, III
Media, on Monday. June 9th, and preparations
are now being made.
The Iycoming -county Agricultural Society
will hold its annual fair at Williamsport on the
14tl 18TH and 10th of September
The M. L. Church at Coatesville has been
thoroughly repaired, and will be occupied AGAIN
on Sunday, Goth inst, and at which time the
Quarterly Conference meets there.
The Chester County Horse Exhibition vii
, be held on Saturday, the 28th inst. !,
Several unsuccessful attempts at horse steal
ing have recently been made in Chester County
The Chester County Court has chartered
Company to make a cemetery at CoatesViiie.
And now the Reading Times sneers at /, IVES
Chester as t..mere village" whereat the kttd9
Record is wroth. If the town is not village, a
: it is not, why does the last named paper aoiiei
: | to its present name!
A Montgomery County juror recently took
| nap, and the luxury cost him 50, imposed as
| fine for failing to answer to his name
The Chester bridge works have received q
:. | order for an iron bridge to span the Schuylkii
in Berks county-the bridge to be 3OO feet
length. The company seems to De promising.
The Cation Comic Opera Company perfori
: at Horticultural Hall, West Chester, on Monda
d evening next
Il The Lancaster Examiner" states that o
a Sunday the 9Th inst, as Miss Leah Sweigart al
/ a companion were passing along the road mel
n Hinbletown, in that county, they were met Dy
Is man, known as Dutch John, the dog-peter
a who was accompanied by four or five dogs, o.
10 Of which being vicious seized MISS swelBaTt
IN the arm. iniurng her to such an extent that 81
died on the following Thursday. The deceas,
was 60 years OF age, and well KNOWN III v
neighborhood.