Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-09-22
Our Neighb0rs.

Chester county roads are dusty.
The white potato crop is failure in Salem
county.
Chicken cholera is playing hob with the
poultry in Salem county, N. ].
lodge of Good Templars is about to be or
ganized in Seaford.
Tobacco is being successfully and prohtably
cultivated in Bucks county.
A body of Good Templars was instituted at
Salem, N j., on the 14th inst.
Robert Sutton, Of New Castle, has secured
patent for propeller for steam vessels.
Chester County Teachers Institute will ho'd
its next annual session at Coatesville on Oct. III.
ID. H. Hawkins has purchased ground for the
erection of an extensive summer boarding house
at Media.
The Delaware County Teachers Institute
will be held in Media, commencing on Monday,
November It'll.
The Richings complimentary concert at Me-
dia, last week, was a very fine affair, and had a
crowded house.
Three Young men of Georgetown, John p
Salisbury, David T. Marvel and Edwin Parker,
left week before last for Princeton College.
The Coatesville Union advocates the cleo
ton of Henry s. Evans as Senator, deeming tho
claim of Montgomery county inadmissable.
Morris Hagedorn, of Coatesville, attempted
TO blow out coal oil lamp on Saturday evening
week, when it exploded burning him terribly.
The old warehouse of the Pennsylvania II.
r. Co., at Penningtonville, Chester county, was
totally destroyed by fire on Sunday night week.
Delaware county farmers are busy just now
putting in wheat and rye and a greater bredth
than usual will be sown in these grains this year
George Afllick, of Chester township, Della
ware county, was recently killed by all accident
near Pittsburgh, as he was coming East with
drove OF sheep.
pt
| for the iron bridge at Hunters Ford, Chester
county, to Cofrode Il Co., Of Philadelphia at
| S22.50 per foot.
Miss Lawrence, of Delaware county, believes
| herself a poetess, and 'Enthusa and other
poems" just published by her, will probably de-
eide the matter pro or con-
| On Wednesday of last week Upper 0ctorara
Presbyterian Church celebrated its 150th ami
versary.
"A correspondent of the Village Record says
the corn crop in Chester Valley is better this
year than usual.
There will be torchlight procession in
honor of the Fifteenth Amendment, in West
Chester, on the 22d inst.
| Caleb Z. Talbot, a venerable and much re-
spected citizen of Honeybrook township, Chess
ter county, died last week in the Sth year OF his
| age.l
| Hugh j.. Steele, Esq, of Coatesville, is
Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Con-
ferees, for Chester, Delaware and Montgomery
counties.
Vim. ]. Kaufman, Of the Chester Valley
Union, published at Coatesville, has associated
with him in the business, Frank Z. Hart, late of
Strasburg, Pa.
The annual exhibition of tho Chester
County Agricultural Society will take place OH
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, September both
and 30th, and October LIST.
| The annual address before the oxford Agri-
cultural Society, will be delivered by Hon. Ciias.
Il. Phelps, NJ. G., of Baltimore. He was once a
resident of West Chester and is the son of Mrs.
Lincoln Phelps, an accomplished teacher who
had charge of young ladies' seminary in West
Chester, some twenty years ago.
| Fred. Sprang, Pennsylvania artist, of fine
| talents has been residing in San Francisco for
some two years, has returned to Reading.
Hon. Mr.. Washburnc late U. s. Minister to
Paraguay, will reside in Reading, during this
winter.
Salmon are being caught in the Susquehanna
River weighing from five to ten pounds. The
clear water affords splendid facilities for fishing
Hundreds of people in Harrisburg, Pa. are
afflicted with fever and ague. The same nm
pleasant malady prevails in many other towns
along the course Of the Susquehanna.