Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-11-10
The Peninsula.
TALBOT COUNTY.

The two military companies recently formed
In Easton are Democratic political organizations
and the excuse given for their organization was
the pretence that they believed the two colored
military companies in the county would appear
at the polls armed.
Inconsiderate persons" is the severe title
applied to the scoundrels who rotten-egged the
speakers at Republican meeting in Trappe, by
the Easton Star. The paper is as bad as the
men.
The Star finding all its ISLANDERS on the colored
Republicans refuted by their orderly conduct at
the large Republican meeting at Easton, does
them Justice after the following mean fashion :
:" The negroes at the Radical meeting here, on
Wednesday, behaved much better than we had
right to expect of them, considering the influ-
enees by which they are controlled"
Tho Maryland and Delaware r. R., is being
rapidly pushed toward Oxford.
The cid cemetery at White Marsh Episcopal
Church, having become over crowded, several
members OF the Society OF Friends owning the
enlargement.
Two military companies have just been orga-
nized in Easton.
An effort is making to reorganize the Easton
Brass Band. FfS tfl
In an ARRAY between some drunken oyster
dredgers at Wittmans store In Bay Hundred,
recently, man named John Goshen was struck
on the head by an axe and severely wounded by
Noah Vincent. The latter has been committed
to jail to await the result Of Cashiers injuries.
The store Of Mr.. Stichberry, at Skipton was
broken open on Sunday night, 3Oth ult., and
robbed OF about 1900 worth Of dry goods No
clue to the perpetrator of the robbery has been
discovered. +i0-
QUEEN ANNEs COUNTY. as lH4 81
A lighthouse is wanted badly at Bloody Point
II we had the ordering Of it, Bloody Point should
want, until it took unto itself civilized name.
new Episcopal church is to be built at
Stevensville, Kent Island, next year. f.
The Freeman's Journal advises the colored
people not to attend zone horse Democratic
circus" which is travelling up and down the Pc
ninsula.
The last Journal is entirely filed with politics.
Now that election is over We hope to have within
lts handsome pages an abundance of local news.
Nothing else will make paper pay.
wIcoauco COUNTY.
Hon. Lemuel Malone has been elected Presi-
dent Of the Salisbury Lyceum.
DORCHESTER COUNTY. e~
Professional sportsmen from abroad are
the birds and sending them to
market.
The htelRgenoer stated before the election
that the Democrats were raising money to bride
voters.
All the election officers were Democrats, not
throughout the county.
The Democrat romances in its local columns
Seventeen stacks Of fodder, belonging to Mr..
Clayton Lord, Of Indiantown, were destroyed
recently by a fire supposed to have been Of in
cendiary origin.
The steamer Kent will discontinue her trips to
Oxford, Cambridge and Denton after October
2lst, 1870, On and after Tuesday, November
LIST, 1870, the steamer Highland Light will leave
Baltimore on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays
at $50, PM, Easton, Oxford, Cambridge Denton
and intermediate landings. Returning
Denton at 1890, P. NJ, Cambridge 5, P. NJ and
Easton at $3.50, P. M, on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays.
1t is estimated that Cambridge harbor can be
put in good condition at an expense Of $25, 900.
CAROLINE COUNTY.
The County Farmers Club is now fairly organ
lied and makes an admirable start It will meet
regularly on the last Tuesday in every month.
Wheat looks we'll.
The corn is gathered, and the fears of short
crop are realized.
The store house lately occupied by Capt
Gardner. at American Corner, was destroyed by
fire believed to have been Of incendiary origin
on Sunday, 30th ult.
On Friday, 2Sth ult., disguised man went to
believed to rob it. No one was home but small
boy, son Of Mr. KS. The man asked the
boy who was home, and finding he was alone
suddenly aimed savage blow at his head with
an ax-helve. The blow did not strike him with
full force and the boy ran giving an alarm, and
the would be thief and murderer escaped before
any one arrived.
CECIL COUNTY.
Harris M. e. Church in Elk Neck will be
dedicated on Sunday next, Nov. 13d.
The Wing says there ia public school house,
in Cecil county, with desks for about twenty
scholars, but which was made to hold forty, that
has glass broken in every sash, some panes being
all out, leaving openings through which the
wind has circulated freely for year or more
except whom it is kept out by closing the shutters
A new and handsome parsonage is being built
for the NJ. E. Church at Zion.
Mr.. Whitlock, living near Port Deposit, had
one foot crushed on the railroad, recently, SO
badly as the render amputation necessary.
Elkton is trying to get up 'Star" Course of
Lectures.
Blind Tom had a big house in Elkton.
WORCESTER COUNTY,
The Circuit Court has filed its opinion In the
county vs. School Commissioners of Worcester
county for a division of school funds. The de-
murrer intefposed by defendants was sustained
and the bill dismissed.
The inquisition as to the lunacy Of VIM. s
Fitchett resulted in a verdict of ''saiie."
II. Sydney Dymock, ESQ, Of Snow Hill, has
been admitted to the bar.
Dr. Chas Fassit, who has spent the summer
and autumn at Berlin, has returned to his home
in Louisiana. 6.4fsl
Some unknown villain fired pistol shot into
Mrs. Adkins millinery store, in Berlin one night
recently. Fortunately no one vas in the store.
Superstitious people are getting frightened at
the frequent auroral displays : M
The Governor of Tennessee has issued a pree-
lamaticn sfferlnE q reward fof the ssfdst Of
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