Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-09-15
LOCAL NEWS.


Smyrna schools arc all open again.
Oysters are becoming more plentiful.
Milford wants new and enlarged post office.
Hportsmen down the bay shore are after the
ducks.
Squirrels are plentiful in the Kent and Sussex
woods.
Bombay Hook farmers are engaging In cattle
raising.
Jacob Y. Foulk Is improving his residence in
Milford.
A fair ground and race course near Milford are
talked Of.
The restaurants have added reed birds to their
bill Of fare.
Mford's base ball club has changed its name
to "White Stockings"
Workmen are now cutting Jackson street
through from 7th to 9Th.
The Democratic County Convention met, on
Saturday, ut New Castle.
The Milford Mutual Friend considers this a
wonderfully quiet campaign.
The postoiiice at Newark, Worcester county,
Maryland, has been discontinued.
Subscription books for the proposed George
town and Gumboro Railroad are out.
Eighteen children died within a week in and
around Camden recently.
A Young colored man named White has been
arrested for bigamy in Milford.
Collins, Geddis 4 Co., near Camden, put up
10000 cans of peaches per day.
Stetson & Ellison, near Camden, are putting
up 5000 cans of peaches per day.
Robert Sutton, of New CASTLE has secured q
patent for a propeller for steam vessels.
VIM. Sharp of Smyrna Mills is now putting
new gates and foodgates in his dam.
The drought has almost destroyed vegetation
c.. Nnr fba.,,
The Lewes pier il favorite resort of fishing
parties from other points beside Lewes.
The annual reunion at Drawers Presbyterian
Church, near Middletown, took place Sunday.
Wilmingtonians will have an opportunity this
evening of hearing the celebrated Ringgold
Band.
Two Milford pugsts INDUCED in fight re-
Gently in the edge of a camp meeting ground,
near the town.
Some one has invented an improvement in
"return balls" and now every other boy Ill
Wilmington has one.
The tomatoes brought to market since Septem-
Der came in, are much better in quality than
those picked during August.
The White Stockings, of Milford, beat the
White Caps, of Lincoln, in n game OF base ball
last week, by score Of 40 to ID.
Boyd & Co. who have been canvassing for n
State Directory for Delaware have abandoned the
| project, believing it will not pay
| Work on the new tressle work near the W. 4
| II. II. II. depot has been resumed and it will
| probably be ready for the track this week.
NJ. M. and J. @. Cleaver, under the name and
style of Cleaver Brothers, have bought out the
| coal business of George Janyier at New Castle.
| L. G. TAYLOR, of this city, attended Friends
Meeting in Odessa First day morning, and held
| religious meeting in Middletown in the evening.
Builders are encroaching on the Brandywine
valley too much. The whole valley along the
Brandywine near the city, must be park some
day.
Work was commenced on the Columbia pa
| and Port Deposit (NId) Railroad on Wednesday.
| The road is being built by the Pennsylvania
| Central
| The Rppublican says n man residing neaI
Kunds Court is in the habit of beating his wife
and very properly demands that the brute be
| arrested.
The Smyth Zouayes have elected Alderman
/ Vincent member of their company, and pre-
scented him with uniform. lie goes to Heading
| with them.
Some scamps entered the stable Of Mr.. Ian
dauer of Milford one night last week. took out hlt
horse and drove him nearly all night and thei
turned him loose in the street.
The Milford Mutual Friend thinks that when
corn il SO cents bushel in New York, and mea
is 81 rs bushel in Milford, that milling in thu
last named place must be profitable business
The two new houses Mr. James Bradford il
building on the south side of Delaware avenue
lust above the intersection with 18th street ar,
entirely different in style from any others in thu
city and promise to be quite handsome.
The ater-cure establishment being erected b.
tho Doctors Head, at the corner of Van Bnrel
street and Shallcross Avenue, is n handsome am
commodious brick building, which will be yer
decided improvement to that part of the city.
Nathaniel r. Jacobs, prominent citizen. o
Sussex, recently went to Saratoga for his health
but got no better and had to return. During hi
!, absence lie became afflicted with alteration o
mind, permanently it is feared.
!, Henry W. Morrow, now resident of Virginia
. and formerly of this city, is in town on ilyin
visit. He comes, We understand, to represei
the interests of the old Colonial Protestant Epif
copal Church, belonging to the Parish in wlic
he is located
''whcn the skies fall we shall catch larks,"
il said but we do not know what follow whe
= the stars fall. They are doing it now quite fire.
9 quently,as any ono may sec by observation som
T evening, but we are happy to assure any timi
o people that there good many still left III I'll
: heavens.
Is There is tradition that the hill on either sid
. | of Twelfth street. between Tatnall and Orang'
was once the site Of an Indian village, and thu
somewhere in it is the bnrying ground OF
tribe. As it is being rapidly cut away now Il
i truth of the last statement will speedily !
:, verified.
n We are requested by the President of u
Y Horticultural Society to say that all persons vi
&c feel interested in the Home for Friendless Chi
lren are cordially invited 10 assist in preparll
the hall and tables for the exhibition. Worke
n as well as contributors are wanted, and Will
!" warmly welcomed by the officers and committe
2 of the Society.