Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-06-23
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEW ..
Deyied crabs are in season.
Cherries are plentiful but poor.
fIur brick yards are pretty busy.
Nav potatoes grow more abundant.
rroouet is not played out everywhere.
fattnce appears .'flat stale, and Improbable.
Tho new apples in market are mighty mean.
saving machine agencies are on the increase
Policemen complain that their uniforms are
warm. @.Ss4 . n...
bermuda potatoes don't take well in thi'
market. -,
I,aspberries have come, but they are scarce
and dear.
Paw your Income Tax, this month, and save
percentage.
sion parties.
Elysian Fields are not as heavenly as theil
name implies.
The peach prospect is not so good as it wal
two weeks ago.
Dover was vexed last week by an uhpreceoehb
ed swarm of mosquitoes.
: n Lowery, of Milford, claims the fines
,ruck-patcl in the State.
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road depot at Middletown.
The pier at Lewes is sixteen hundred Zee
hang, and has three tracks.
M nreparations have been made to celebrate
the Fourth of July, in Sussex.
Tho Peninsular peach estimate il l,322,00t
baskets for Railroad shipment.
There is something in the talk about fixing VI
Rehobotl as watering place.
The Republica,t thinks the panacea for all the
M nf state is low salaries to officers.
Georgetown Episcopal Sunday Schools made
at, cxrursion to Lewes on the 23d instant.
rbe next meeting of the farmers Club, Of
Kant county will be held in Dover, on July 2.
mo Temperance Societies and Sunday Schools
pronose having Harvest Home in September
we call attention to the advertisement by. d
n Terry Of window fastening, in another
column.
pr. yallandigham, of IT. Georges, has been
oIecicd president of the Delaware State Medical
Society.
-rbe Junction and Brealswater Railroad propose
uniting M a building for excursion parties on
Lcwes Beach.
non't bother us with anonymous communica'
tions !: if YOU won't trust us with your name, we
won't trust you.
Tho Magnolia club beat the Camden club in q
game Of base ball, on the grounds OF the latter
On the 18th instant
A lank colored man from Maryland, Blk feet
dix inches high recently visited Smyrna, and
created sensation.
The Miiua, Friend learns that the steamers
beiween Lewes and New York will commence
running the 2lst inst
saturdays Reading Times says Heading
nn,lt Ia get M an excursion to Wilmington,
Who will move in the matterI
Twenty thousand quarts of strawberries were
shjppcd from Lincoln station, on the Junction
and Breakwater Railroad, this year.
Henry p. Cannon, son of the late Governor
Cannon. and Edwin w. Wilson, late of Smyana
graduated recently at Dickinson College.
The Eighth of July will be the rwenty-iiftf
Anniversary of the organization OF the American
Mechanics and not the 2lst, as before inadver
family stated.
President Hinckey and other railroad men nave
Leen examining Rehoboth Bay and beach, with {
yicw il il said. to ascertaining its fitness for
summer resort
One Of Our Maryland exchanges calls our can
a,ante for Governor "Thomas u. Causrey," an
other speaks Of Joshua 4. Wealn," rs our can
tlate for Congress.
camp meeting for Christiana NJ, Il. Circui
will commence in Aloore's woods, near the Della
ware Hailroad. IN Wednesday, August Sd, ant
close the following Thursday.
Al the recent dedication of Trinity Nj. j.. church
nj Chester, "A. 900 were subscribed, which was
large sum considering the size of the congrega
ton This leaves debt of about SIC, 900 OH tn,
church.
Tile order of United American Mechanics o
this city are making preparations to visit Head
ing over the Wilmington and Reading II. II. OIL
tile sth of July, the 21st Anniversary of the or
sauizaon of tile order.
The Grand Army will give their fourth annua
moonlight excursion during the fore part o
July on which occasion every effort will be mad
70 make II n, excursion of the season, and SUI
tain the reputation gained by their former ones
The first coal to arrive in Wilmington, direc
from the Schtyiklll mines, was shipped by lines
~ finncy Pottsyille Pa, from Jos. Patterson
celebrated Live oak Colliery at Mine Hill Gap
was consigned to the J. O. Pickles, Wilmington
DEL.
Young man III the employ of Philip Nc
D1well, and living in McDowellville, fell froI
load Of sand he was driving near 9TH 4 Orang
Friday evening and one of the cart wheels passe
over his leg crushing it terribly but not breakin
the bone.
We are now publishing III both our daily an
weekly issues, the timetable of the Kent Count
Railroad, now open to kenncdyyile, and bein
rapidly pushed further west under the efiiciei
management of Mr.. Wingatc, its onterprsin
Engineer and Superintendent.
Joseph Hill has been sent to Dover Jail fl
stealing twenty dollars from John Dunn, of Ha
iington. He had invested the money in clothing
And 50 it seems, the money won
liy honest toll of hardy Dunn,
Is stolen from his very till
And spread upon a worthless Hill.
Thursday evening special train containing Il
Congressional party visiting Philadelphia to il
lrrc into the propriety of selecting it as Il
all N os ,al t1,.A
here, having made the run from Baltimore
Tins cty without stopping to give the locomoti'
water They made the complete distance fro
Baltimore to Philadelphia, about 81 miles, in ty
hnnrs and ~ minutes.
Two children of Mr.. Colt of Mill Creek Hi
''lcd, lied ON the 9th inst, from eating stryc
ilIte which had been placed in a closet to k
Ncrnln. The parents had left the childrt
asleep while they went to look after the aifai
Of tho farm, when it is supposed that they we
awakened, and the elder, which was only B yea
OF age, procured the poison, and after eatil
some OF it, gave portion to the other.
Hereafter the steamers of the Erickson lin
plying between Philadelphia and Baltimore, W
stop at Wilmington on Thursday of each wee
Tor freight to Baltimore.
The steamer Florence Franklin, of this Lin
Is now receiving freight at Lobdell's wharf, TO
of Lombard street.
Merchants and others receiving goods froi
" sllll'lnp 10 Baltimore, may ilnu II 10 tlelr
vantage TO patroniZe this line.
Robert A. Soden, who recently gave All exhi
lion of a learned pig and other animals in IL
clty and III Chester, has called on us to say /
assertion We took from the Chester RepuJiicO
That he had left that city without paying his bill
Sioialy false. He will be at Elkton this wei
next week in Port Deposit, and the follow
week at llare de Grace, 30 il there We're a
ialls against him his creditors could eat
nNl hun. We can say for Mr.. Soden that
ali all his bills contracted at this Office, and
believe all others in this city.
We regret exceedingly to learn that our frit
naihne NJ. Harrington, ESQ.,, is confined to
house and suffering severely from a neural
aallecton of the head, which particularly affe
,ls eyes. A few years ago, prior to his appo
ineilt as Secretary of State, he had a severe
lack Of opthalma which confined him to d
room for many months and left his eyes a
weak. lie had been complaining of nnus
Weakness of eyes for some weeks, and this set
10 have been the preliminary to the present
'acA. Worklng is passion with him, and
suppose that overwork is the cause Of his illn
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SAD, NERY-The Gazette, among other err
witch are not 40 serious speaks OF the gel
manly and polite Delaware Secretary of st
t "a W. Wright, Esq, as "Augustus W. r