Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-11-03
LOCAL NEWS.

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Milford Is lively now.
The days are quite short now.
Coal sells for $3.50 a ton In Dover.
The revival at Asbury church continues.
About this time Of year look out for almanacs.
Philadelphia ladies' buy bonnets In Wilmington.
"Novembers chill and wintry blast" Is in order
now.
New Castle County Court commences on the
2lst Inst.
Sweet potatoes are much cheaper than white
| ones now.
Sausage and sorapple are getting abundant in
/ market
Celery has appeared In market, but is very
| scarce and dear.
The new telegraph Office at the depot will
probably be ready for occupation on Monday.
Boughman, Thomas & Co. g Literary Bulletin
for November is out. It is quite readable.
| The W. & r. r. r. is arranging new sched-
ule for through trains to Reading.
Sanfords troupe had good house in Dover
on Thursday of last week.
| Nos. and 10 of vincent's History of Della
ware will shortly be issued.
Gather autumn leaves for ornament. They
will never have brighter hues.
A new draw will shortly be built for the bridge
/ cfoi buo ohiictiduh ~ Siiliotiaiiu.
George William Curtis ought to deliver his
lecture on Dickens, here this Winter.
Stocket Matthews will have a crowded house at
Institute Hall next Saturday evening.
The Smyrna Times thinks Sam Townsend las
| good as a show"
| A lawyer threatens to take up his residence in
| now peaceful Smyrna.
The ladies of Smyrna M. Z. Church will hold
a church fair on the 22d, 23d and 2ith of De-
cember.
Among the victims of the late terrible flood in
the Shenandoah Valley was Mr.. Lewis son-in-
law of Rev. DR.. Kennedy, of Smyrna.
Senator Bayard could not fill the hall at Smyrna
the last time he spoke there. The people re-
membered the French book and did not go.
On November 18th, Rosendal will be sold at
public sale, and the city ought to be the pur-
chaser.
They deal sharply with gamblers in sKent
county. They are not much interfered wi n
this city.
The Republican intimates that highway rob-
berry is frequent on the road between here and
Edgemoor
Mr.. VIM. McMenamin is building II twostory
brtck dwellings on Bennett street, between Sth
and 18th streets.
A correspondent Of the Republican complains
of the neglect of the Directors of the Agricultu-
raj Society to sell the fair grounds.
The Dela,carean says Senator Bayard was
listened to with ,Brdpt attention in that town.
We're the people wrapt in slumber?
A Sunday School picnic was held at Milford
this week. We have not learned whether any
one was frozen.
The Wilmington and Reading II. r. will proba-
bly, receive three new locomotives this month";
1t needs them badly.
Fletcher & Nolen, machine cigar manufacturers
have dissolved partnership. Mr.. Fletcher will
continue the business.
The Reading Times .'reproduces' Mr. Shaw's
translation of Bayard Taylors poem from our
paper without proper credit.
The TRIBUNE readers will please read the adj
| vertisement of the Chester County Live Stock
Insurance Company, on another page.
| The market has changed over to its winter
quarters, on the west side of Market street. The
shady side of the street is at a discount now.
The final finish is being put to the walls inside
to replaced and the furniture put back 1t ought
| to be finished in week.
night freight train now runs on the W. Il
| r. II. r., making two freight trains and three
passenger trains per day. Pretty well for a
young road.
The iron steamboat the Harlan & Holdings
worth Company is building for the Old Bay Line
of Baltimore appears nearly ready to launch She
has been built with great rapidity.
Two young men named Wright, in Kent county,
| who signed the call for the boilers convention,
make the most pitiful back out we remember to
have seen.
Mrs. Mary Dixon is having two-storya half
story brick dwelling. in cottage style, built at
Delaware Avenue and Franklin street. 1t is 40
by 60 feet.
Mr.. ]. A. Harris is preparing to build six two
story brick dwellings,, each IA by 2S feet, on the
north side of Front street, between Harrison
and Van Buren, streets.
Mr.. James H. Hoffecker is building three
story brick dwelling at West street and Delaware
Avenue, the main building ID 20 by AZ feet, with
a 16 feet airy, and an office separate.
Concord Quarterly Meeting of Friends meets
| at Darby tomorrow. This is the quarter to
which Wilmington belongs. and quite number
of our Wilmington Friends will be in attendance.
To the Deldrdredn's charge that the "bolters
| have engaged the Smyrna Times to lie for them,
the latter retorts that if its stories were lies they
would not stir up the family bile 80.
Olive Logan had fine audience and made a
profound impression at Smyrna. She almost
persuaded them that Woman Suffrage would not
send everything to the eternal bad, after all.
The W. & r. H. r. Co., is matchmaking the
way for the Newport road to their coal bins. This
il necessary. A cart which diverged slightly from
the regular track this morning sank to its hubs
in mud
The Directors of the National Bank of Della
ware have declared regular dividend OF FL
per share Cor six per cent. for last six months,
and also an extra dividend OF 50 per snare,
payable on demand.
The Levy Court has done one respectable
thing for Market street bridge at last. 1t has
built substantial stone wall on the west side Of
the southern abutment and surmountcd it Will
good looking iron fence.
! VIM II. Smalley has erected a fine cider mil
adjoining his grist mill, in White Clay Creel
Hundred, which will crush about eighty busheli
| of apples an hour. He has made seven or eight
Thousand gallons OF cider this fall.
Jane G. Austin, in her Highly Explosive,
but somewhat Hat article in the November Allan
tic refers to the explosion of three powder wa
CONS in the streets of Baltimore some year ago
She should, of course, have said Wilmington.
The Republican says that it is informed thai
Sylvester Rianhard has just Inherited S20
900, and that he is willing to invest thu
whole amount in first-class hotel in THU
city. Would that he had inherited 800, 600, ant
, the thing would be practicable.
Ills seldom that with one accord,
Our people all can thank the Lord
For the self-same thing,
But man of wealth and NANCY hummer
III Unite to praise this Indian Summer.
And its praises sing. U. ID.
The Old School Baptist Association, whic
recently held its ninetieth annual meeting o
!. | Salisbury, Maryland, embraces within its juris
u diction the lower section of Sussex county, Del
Somerset, Worcester and Wicomico counties, Md
and Accomac county, va. Inc attendance wa
quite large. Rev. George W. Station, of Berlir
is the only ordained minister in the Association
T. An exchange says the way to make grape. cal
= sup is to take five pounds of grapes boiled an
j. cullendered, two and a half pounds of sugar,on
8, pint of vinegar, one tablespoonful each of Glove
/. allspice and pepper, and half Tablespoonful G
salt. Boil until the catsup is a little thick
Whether the catsup is good or not, we do nj
know but if any of our lady readers ever II
10 tho experiment, we hope they will let us kno
= the result,
W FoRaERY.-In March last, a man with sever
4 aliases but last called Charles II. Thurmu
y obtained from Messrs. r. X. Robinson & &c
NJ Bankers 4th and Market streets, $110 in curren
- for U. S. 1910 certificate. The paper prov,
!" y, to be forgery. The fellow was arrested sho
al time since and confined in the Trenton, N ]
prison, from whence he was brought on Frid
last, BY Sheriff Richardson, on a requistion
L 90. Ga,,lal,t,rxt on tha Govarnnr of Nav Ierse