Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-10-06
LOCAL NEWS.
Farmers clubs are needed in this State.

Milford reioces in tho prospect of a now pot
tfice
Farmers down State are about dono savin
fodder.
Horse racing is quite common in the streets o
Milford
Two 'slast cars" were sent from Middleton
this season.
f. @. sewall Esq, has returned from a visi
to New England.
"The family circle" is mild synonym 70
g the Salisbury Ring"
Revival meetings are being held in tho NJ. i
Church, at Bridgeville.
They seem to be building boats, all over Pussy
Jones Il Co. boat yard.
Mddletown shipped 200, 900 baskets Of peaches
to New York this season.
This cold spell seems to have stopped the
humming of the mosquitoes.
Surveys are being made for railroad from
clayton to Bombay Hook Island.
The Grand lodge of Delaware, l. o. o. f.
meets in this city on tho 18th inst.
The Blue Stockings recently beat the White
Caps at Dover by u score of 4S to %.
The work of finishing Delaware Avenue Dap
tist Church is making rapid progress.
Dry weather cut short the cabbage crop.
Sauer-kraut will be unduly scarce this winter.
The schooner CLAYTON Frame, of Milford,
Sam Townsend says lie is "somotliing of a
Quaker The Quakers have our sincere SYM
patty.
VIM Dyer is about to erect two new store
houses and Cahorn Il Son a new carriage factory
in Dover
The Smyrna Good Templars are preparing to
give dramatic presentation of " ten nights in a
Bar Room"
The Democratic meeting at AIiddletown is to
faka nlapa aftpr nil anil will In lnlI M VhtIPa.
day, October 18th.
Lol. II. s. MtJomb, of this city has been quite
lame for some time from the breaking of a ten
don. He is rapidly recovering.
Our exchanges find our condcnsations both
useful and convenient and appropriate them AZ
freely as they do our local items.
The II. & II. Comrany's dry-dock is nearly
finished and the mud machine il cleaning out
the new diy-dock along side of it.
Tho wreckeis have abandoned the attempt to
get up the schooner Lydia A. May, recently
sunk off the mouth of Mspillion Creek
Anthony NJ. Higgins, of St. Georges Ill.,. has
taken out letters testaInentary on the estate of
Thomas J. Higgins of that hundred, deceased.
The Gazette thinks the Republican party of
delaware is going to pieces, and has heard of
no detection in tho Democratic ranks. Wise
Edzette!
Professor Giimslaw, of the Milford High
School, will deliver n course of scientific lectures
10 the students, TO which outsiders will be
al'ntted.
Rev Jas. T.. Eillgore, formerly of Newport, in
this county, has been elected President Of the
Methodist Protestant Conference in Penn
sylvania.
A young man named Wm Bartlett was recent
u hurt about the head and feet, by plank fall
itF on him, at the yard of tho Harlan Il Ilol-
lingswor.h Go.
festival will he held for the benefit of the
Presbyterian Church of led Clay Greek, at
Brandywine Springs, on Thursday afternoon and
evening October 9th.
match game of base ball WINS played on
SATURDAY last between the Active and Seneca
lase hall clubs resulting in n score of 4 to IL
iii favor Of the Active.
The market people are getting careless about
leaving the spaces open, marked by the white
marble blocks near tho curb stone. The clerk
y the market should attend to it.
Tho nov iresta work of the Wilmington &
Reading railroad is completed, and tracks are
now laid on each side Of their temporary depot,
Mile the coal bins below the ifaoh+ ar5 asreaiy
in use.
Our friend, GARRISON Taylor, described tho
Valley Of tho 70 Semitic at the Lancaster County
Teachers Convention. 1t hardly is necessary to
say that his description differed from Olive
ldgan's.
We have received of Robert Casey of East
lrandywine, two boxes Of blackherrics, taken
from bushes from which the fruit We're picked
o. INC l2tli OF July. Mr.. =. VIII accept onr
tlaliks for the same.
ic0nple of colured men at Frederick got into
Alaatrel about woman recently and UNDER
inph 10 settle their dispute in the good old c!iiv-
alIie way Ivy shooting at each other with rcvol-
vert. Neither Was Hurt.
The Messrs churclmau. of Claymont have
one of the finest Berkshire piy5 In the State
She il one wear old and has always secured her
own living in tho field, and keeping so fat that
/; has not been necessary to feed her
Our manufacturers are now preparing their
returns OF sales for the quarter ending Septein-
her Both, for the Revenue officers and do il
more cilcerfAlly than usual as tliis il tho last
time, tile tnS being now done away with.
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ponlsyIyania S,nre,,o Gnn,t d;.aolyaJ 10 IN
junction obtained bv Walton. Whann 4 CO.. of
this citv To restraiu Wlmnn Brotbers of Chatl's
Ford, from manuficturin. Super Phosphatc.
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We most p1nant and entertaining speaker on
lln PLATFORM, i to deliver her lecture, entitled
lhlgllt Side. there on October Dist If it were
not that she is coming here this winter, We
should advise our readers to go down to Smyrna.
Nut,er H. Davis. ESQ.,. well-known citizen of
Milford died at lis residence in that town, on
Wednesday of last week. aged tiftv-eirht Years.
Some years ago lie was a member Of Tie firm OF
Davis Il Bennett, then extensively engaged in
merchandising. He leaves wife and eleven
children.
cav II cburcbmon have s,artel n slim
mill, at Claymont. and have already contracted
10 build six canal barges for the Reading Railroad
Company. They have also contracted to furnish
the lumber for ia similar boats which will DO
Luilt by George Derbyshire at Chester
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