Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-12-29

Bel Air is to have a telegraph office.
christmas was well observed in West Chester.
"A new bridge is to be built across the Bran
DIVINE at Ridge station on the Waynesbury II. r.,
in Chester county.
The Reading papers got out fine large
christmas was well observed in Reading.
Reading wants respectable passenger
depot.
There is a boy in Reading under twelve years
Of age who has over $500 in savings bank the
proceeds Of his own earnings.
&C. G. Robinson has sold the Spring Lawn
Farm of ZIG acres in New London township
Chester county, to James Pierce, of Cecil county
for s65 an acre This farm was sold wear a ago
by the assignees Of James Hodgson for $40 per
acre.
"A band of Gypses is wandering about Ches-
ter county.
The Good Tempars of Delaware county Pa,
are enjoying a season of high prosperity, the
result of practical earnest work. They have
twenty lodges, all active and thrifty.
Newton Il. Thomas, Of West Chester. has
been appointed to the position Of Captain of the
watch and night Superintendent at Wilcox's
paper mill where the Government Bank note
paper is made.
"A good old Quaker farmer of Gutherieville
Chester county, writing to the Downingtown
journal TO indicate his section from the charge
Of poverty, gives at length his crops &C., and
says in conclusion he owes nc one mot even the
printer, being paying subscriber to the VILLAGE
Record for SO years--and always voted the Re-
publican ticket, from Adams to Grant, and no
quibblins about it,"
-Foulk Cloud. who resided near Sloan
church, in Bethel township, Delaware county,
Pa, was attacked with paralysis while trimming
peach trees, last Thursday afternoon and died
in few hours afterwards. He left the house
M two md xrqa fattn hnu five
lying on the ground insensible. He was con.
yeyed to his residence, and medical aid called in
but the restoratives applied failed to produce
the desired result. He was about II years OF
are.
One new Market House has Just been com.
pleted IN ReadlnS and another will be finished
in May.
The large new foundry of the Reading Rail
road Company, at the North West corner of
Seventh and Chestnut sts., Reading has been COM
pleted so far as the building itself is concerned,
and work is progressing upon the interior. The
machinery Will be put in shortly, and it Is pro-
bable that the establishment will be in partial
operation in about five or six weeks
Mexican Buchanan is now running dramatic
company in Reading.
--Wondell Phillips will lecture in Reading on
10Th Of January.
DIR. Walter Williamson, formerly of Della
ware county, but latterly professor in the Ho-
moepathic College in Philadelphia, died recently.
The Chester Omnibus Company has reduced
its fares for all distances to cents. The ex-
pertinent thus far has not paid.
Feeling that the current price for assaulting
an officer is quite reasonable, another man has
given Chester policeman severe beating.
The Chester City Council has adopted pro-
test against the erection of ice breakers in the
Delaware, of that city front. ,.,,.,.
The Stockholders OF tho West Chester and
Philadelphia Railroad Company will meet at Me-
dia on the 9th Of January next, to elect officers
to serve the ensuing year.
---roatIlis reJoices in Don Quixote, who
goes around the streets knocking down bum
mers. He is now in jail, refusing to pay fine
imposed upon him for his philanthropic endeav-
ors, Az he thinks his action was entirely laudable.