Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-08-11
LOCAL NEWS.
Milford is to have colored band.

The Pavilion at Loves is completed
The continued drought is injuring the corn il
Sussex.
The population of Georgetown is ITO, of Mil
ford 1874.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harbeson Hickman, Of Sussex
have returned from visit to the Pacific Coast
The project Of an avenue to the Delaware
near Edgemoor, is to be revived.
Money is selling in the Smyrna Loan Associa
ton at from II to 10 per cent. premium.
Cheap John has sold out his branch store a
Milford and will be home in a few days.
A new and handsome lamp is to be put up ii
front of the City Hall, near the fountain.
Pennsgrove seems to DO popular place of re
sort for Excursion parties.
There is now well Of good water at Elysiai
Fields.
E. Larty, of Smyrna, recently had valuabl,
| COW killed on the railroad.
Samuel Sharp is building carriage factory il
Milford.
This rain is worth millions of dollars to on
Peninsula corn growers.
The Democrats will elect delegates to the
State Convention next Saturday. .
The telegraph line along the Wilmington a
Heading X. II. is now in working order.
James Eaton of the Philadelphia Press has
been visiting in the neighborhood of Milford.
The colored people of Seaford intend celebra-
| ting the Fifteenth Amendment on the 18th inst
The Cape May Ware, of Saturday, reports
| sixty Wilmingtonians at the Ocean House.
That young Elephant with the circus hat
grown since it was here last
Many Wilmingtonians are at the Brandywine
| Summit Camp.
The Wilmington 4 Reading Railroad Company
| is having some new passenger cars built
Some malicious scoundrel cut the harness of a
number of horses at Lincoln Camp on Sunday
| week.
The Turkish bath is an excellent remedy for
the colds people are likely to contract such
weather as this
Some person or persons in Seaford have COM
'menced an indiscriminate slaughter of dogs by
strychnine.
Mount Zion camp meeting, on the public road
between Seaford and LAUREL commences on the
goth instant.
David Chandler, of Pencader Hundred, thresh-
ed his crop of oats few days ago, amounting to
627 bushels, from ten acres of land.
There is revival of interest in croquet, at
Milford. Good 1t il one Of the pleasantest
outdoor games ever invented.
vandenbraak Il Carswell are building quite an
addition to their axle works at Second and
Orange streets.
Base Ball grows more popular down the State,
Dut IL seems hDbOlutely Impossible TO get UP any
revival of interest in IL here
Does any one know why there are no fish in the
Brandywine above the dams within this city.
Further up the stream they are abundant,
VIM Lyman, living at or near Townsend drove
a horse to death Sunday in going to or from the
Smyrna Camp.
David Murray of Lewes, it said, has four
winged duck, which has Matched out brood of
four-winged ducklings.
City council ia disposed to give heed to the
Injunction let there be light Judging from
their lberality in ordering lamps to be erected.
The Government schooner Spray is putting
down a buoy at Winter Quarters shoal, down
the bay
A fire Company from Burlington N. j., made
an excursion to this city yesterday, on the steam
boat Edcin Forrest.
There is mercantile house in Cincinnati who
expend $4,000 week in advertising. They do
not break up at it either.
The Junction and Brealwater Railroad Com
pany il making arrangements for a grand
excursion to New York via the Lewes line of
steamers.
Lieutenant Commander p. +. Harrington | as
been ordered to torpedo duty at Newport, Rhode
Island, until the Frigate California goes into
commission.
solomon Smith, town constable at Smyrna,
who is employed in q peach basket factory in
tlihl IONll, ndu lWO VI Dutlly
by circular saw, last week.
"The groves were Gods first temples" and
the people of this peninsula think them still the
best, il we may Judge from the number of camp
meetings they are holding.
The roads southwark through this State, are
lined with tramps going down to pick peaches.
Their personal condition il frequently such that
they find picking something else necessary.
The New York Post says advertising is the
IN tua
ed by few; but these few are the merchant prin-
Co.'S of to-day.
The New Castle water works will be in working
orler, and their operation will commence with
suitable celebration some day in the latter part
OF this month.
and New Castle has reason to congratulate him
self that there il no society for the prevention
Of cruelty TO animals in this city.
Seven pairs of chickens were stolen from Maj.
Bailey, who occupies the gate-house of the Bid
crman property, i'll Christiana Hundred, on Fri
day night week.
Thomas WORT pile driver, of this city, has just
completed the driving of piles for bridge 400
feet in length, over Scodman's Creek, Cecil Co.,
Nd The bridge will cost $1,000 and will be
ready for travel next week.
A mare belonging to Lewis Negendank. of
Christiana Hundred, escaped from the pasture
last Thursday night, when she got upon the
track OF the heuulllp anu wan hiiitu W
being struck by the locomotive
The combined populations of Broadkn and
Georgetown hundreds, in Sussex county, are
one hundred less than was the population of
Broadkiln (Which then embraced both) in 1860.
This looks bad.
II. F. Dure is building the new church editice
for the colored congregation at 9TH and French
streets and also finishing the Delaware Avenue
Baptist church, and rapid progresses being made
on both.
Two carriages were wrecked. hack much
damaged, and several people more or less hurt
by runaway, the result of horse racing by
parties recently returning from Lincoln camp
meeting.
AT Institute Hall on Friday evening, the Mount
Vernon Cornet Band presented by the
Abraham Literary Association, with a complete
outfit of caps and epaulets. Prof Day made
the presentation speech.
Samuel Fennmore, Of st. Georges Hundred,
lost ten fine hogs few days ago, by poison from
red lead which had been allowed to run into the
through, where they were usually fed. Thomas
Lavender also lost three pigs from the extreme
heat.
As Alonzo Newlin of Mill Creek Hundred, in
COMPANY with young lady was returning home
from Red Lion camp meeting last Friday even
| ing, the horses ran away. throwing them both
ont. They both received severe though not
| serious injuries.
Ine ActlNts, VI s'aihochi o'ii
| Dover, played social game of base ball on the
| lat instant resulting in victory for the former
| by n score of 80 to s. The Actves are fast i'm
proving. and will soon be one of the first clubs
| of the State.
In noticing fight between white and coored
woman of smyrna Circuit Camp Meeting, the
Smyrna Times of Wednesday saws " drunkenness
and Righteousness on Sunday il said to have beef
shamefully prevalent, beyond the circle of the
| tents. "
| new fire company has been organized in
| New Castle, DIR. John j. Black being President
| Francis Kerr, Vice President, John II. Rodney
Secretary, and L. Challenger, Treasurer, Il il