Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-06
Our Nciglibors.

The order of knights of Pytliias ilourishes
in Gainesville.
Trenches are being dug for laying water
pipes in Coatesville.
-Swarthmore College now has $50 students
GO more than last year.
--Coatesve has had severe cheese poison
ing case which did not however result fatally.
Rev. VIM. T. Moore had been pastor of tho
Presbyterian Church, at West Chester, twenty
years. on Sunday week.
Tho newly organized "Farmols' Institute of
Eastern Pennsylvania" will meet in Coatesyille
on Thursday, 1ith inst
While adjusting belt at Jackson. Cause &
Co.'S, Kennett Square, Michael Fakey fell upon
a circular saw, and severely cut his arm.
"A dog supposed to be mad passed through
Warwick and Wallace townships, in Chester
county, last week. lie did no damage so far as
known.
Club appointed to award a prize for the best
acres of corn awarded it to ID. ii. Branson of
West Brandywine. The prize for the best acre
was awarded to Charles l.. Cook, of Coatesville.
Rev. Q. A N1cFadden, priest of the Roman
Catholic congregation at Coatesyille, has opened
newspaper controversy with the editor of
the Coatesyille Union, as to whether or not the
reading of the Bible is encouraged by the Roman
Catholic Church.
Fleming Price, of Gainesville, in attempting
to butcher sheep came near being butchered.
The animal in its struggles knocked the knife
intended Tor Its throat into Mr.. p.'s left arm,
seyering the main artery and inilicting wound
from which he had nearly bled to death before
the hemorrhaSe was checked.
The West Chester fair grounds have been
enlarged.
in purchasing the fair grounds for the Ok
ford Agricultural Society, it was necessary to
secure an eight acre lot lying between the seven
tna f,f
street. For these eight acres the managers paid
five Thousand dollars. As only about three acres
of this lot were required to complete the fair
grounds the remaining five acres were cut up
into town lots and exposed to public sale, few
days since, and actually sold for over tortyeiglt
hundred dollars the Society reserving the front
corner lot adjoining their grounds getting
three acres of valuable land for about nodthJ.--
Village Record.
VIM. Howard Day, of this city, delivered an
eloquent address at the recent amendment cele-
bration in salisbury township, Chester county,
The experimental farm will exhibit one hun
d,ed and sirtu seuei varieties of potatoes at the
coming exhibition of the Oxford Agricultural
Society.
Tho river Scliuylkill is remarkably low. In
some places below the city it can be almost
crossed dry shod.
Tho Harrisburg Patriot gays that the Slis-
uuehanna il gradually becoming more shallow.
1t will soon be as low in 1908 the lowest point
ever recorded.
The Schuylkill Navigation Company have
purchased tract of meadow land containing
about forty-iive acres, fronting on the Delaware
river and Crum creek, in Ridley twp, Delaware
county, twenty acres of which are to DO inunda-
ted and used as basin for the reception of their
boats during the winter season. Workmen are
now busily engaged in the erection of banks and
floodgates, in order to make the harbor secure
for the purpose for which it is intended
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| Delaware county, divided II will be decided by
| popular vote on Oct 18th,
The yigorous effort 10 establish an omnibus
line in Chester has resulted in a speedy success,
and the stages commence running Oct l.
Quarantine at the Lazaretto, which usually
ends on the last day in September, has been
continued by order OF the Philadelphia Board OF
Health, in consequence Of the prevalence of
yellow fever in New Orleans Havana and else
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