Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-05-12
OUR nEIGHBORs.

West Chester is pestered with organ grinders.
In Chester County, the fruit prospect is un-
usually good
Chester county farmers gct rid of beggars by
offering them work.
The handsome house and lot of George
Brinton, in West Chester, hos been sold by tie
assiguees to John Hickmon, for $4,000.
The cornerstone of the soldiers monument,
in Delaware county, is TO BIZ laid on July 4th.
Southern Lancaster county is noted for the
large number OF brass bands, there.
The American Republican speaks well of The
Wilmington and Western Railroad.
Samuel Whitaker, of Hartford county, hos
patented an automatic gate.
WIN. Young, late Sheriff of Hartford county,
has Just received 1925 in a suit against The county
Commissioners.
"A four year old son of franklin Bourman, of
the upper part of Hartford county. recently upset
a kettle of boiling water over himself and died
from the injuries sustained
-Coatesville sidewalks are being paved.
-Coatosville has got its new town clock. and
Is happy.
Evans Rogers has been elected President of
the Chester County Agricultural Society.
Sufficient progress has been made on the new
st. Luke's Church, In Chester, to admit OF Its use
for Sunday school purposes.
"A luTRG UCW CUlluu ulH III SutrttiyoWucu ny
McCrea & CO., and operated by John Brewster,
WINS destroyed on the morning Of the 81 instant,
by an incendiary fire. 2
The Chester Republican wants legislation to
protect shad from coal oil
Tho colored celebration of the Fifteenth
Amendment, at Chester, was grand success.
No arrangements have yet been made in
Chester for decorating the soldiers graves.
If Phebc Thomas, of Newtown, Delaware
county, lives until the 1871 of July next, she will
ue one hundred years old.
In PENNSYLVANIA, boys arc fined 81 for jump
ing ON railroad trains. II killing will not stop
them, how wi filming answer
Factory operatives at Chester have deter
mined 10 resume work at n reduction of II per
cent. In cotton and per ceut 10 wooden mills.
A strange colored man, subject to fits, was
found dead in stable III l1ayre de- Grace few
weeks ago.
Governor Geary has appointed Samuel NJ
Fainter, Of West Chester, To he Notary Public.
Rev Joseph L. Sagebeer has resigned the
pasinrshp Of the Will town Baptist Chuic and
| accepted u call To the vi cent Baptist Church. 10
W, 81 Vincent, Chester county. aM.y a.s,,e
The Episcopalians OF oxford ave making
preparations To hold festival aud fair, In Oxiort
Hall, In the early part Of June next, To assist IL
The purchase OF lot for their church.
| THE Pennsylvania State Sunday School Con
| ventiun for 1870, will be held at Harrisburg, OF
tuesday, Wednesday and thursday, June IA, Il
md 49, George II. Stuart OF Philadelphia, u
expected 10 preside. ..5.
Prof Edward MagIll, of Swarthmore College
| IS to lecture in West Chester, on "Pompeii,'' Of
the evening of the 19lh. The West Cheste
papers call him "McGill." Oh
The West Chester Republican warmly ap
proves the Wilmington and Western Railroad.
The shops at Kennett Square, occupied b
the Ppnnuck Mani'g, Co., and jackson, Cause. (
M. tonk Gre, on Wednesday of last week, bu
were saved without great damage