Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-09-08

Inc Dnlard saloon al nliloru Will shortiy re-
| pen.
The new depot at Niddletown is nearly com
The circus will exhibit at Smyrna on the 18Th
The Georgetown base ball club beat the Sea-
| ord club.
The Grand Lodge, l. 0. G. T., meets at Dover
| ,-morrow.
Eggs are scarce as ever and still sell at thirty
ents a dozen.
The North end Of Market street is being put in
good travelling condition.
Smyrna and AIiddletown are to join in starting
| dancing school,
This years apple crop was the largest eve,
| ;rown in this State.
The bronze eagle for the soldiers monument
ill soon be completed.
The New Castle County Democratic Convention
Gets next Saturday.
The Milford colored people will make an ex-
iision to Lewes this month.
The Dela,pnredn complains of disorderly con-
ict in the streets of that town.
| gentleman from Media Pa, is about to erect
steam grist mill at Middletown
The Sussex Democrats think the census new
Measure of radical tyranny
Albert Pennington, Of NIiddletown, has invent
| a machine for cutting corn
| The chicken cholera is playing havoc among
| he poultry in Christiana Hundred.
The Reading Young Mannerchor will make an
xcursion to this city on the 18th inst.
Richard Mitchell, OF SMYRNA, has secured
| patent for his Excelsior Peach Basket.
Cider mills and brandy stills are in active oper-
| ,tion in Kent and Sussex counties.
| The recent excursion OF the South Milford M
| y Chapel to Lewes was brilliant SUCCESS.
MYERS C. Conwell has been appointed Superin-
| endent of the Junction and Breakwater Il. Il.
| Mr. Ponder did not have to ponder long over
| he nomination, as he has already accepted.
This is the day for paying county taxes, and il
sou have neglected it you may have time yet.
| The sidewalk on Delaware Avenue next the
| Baptist Church is being paved to its full width
| An earnest and vigorous effort will be made to
mako the Horticultural Fair grand success this
| year.
The fruit canning establishments down the
| state are preparing to do a large business this
/ month.
The grading for the branch from the Whining
| ton & Reading Railroad to tho Christiana ID
| completed.
John Fehrenbacl has taken out letters OF adj
| ministration on the estate Of George Stroehle,
| late OF this city.
| d. W. Taylor, Secretary of the Jackson 4
Sharp Co., has returned from his visit to Lou
doun Co., Virginia.
| 1t is beginning to dawn on he Democratic
| mind that the City Government ID still i'll the
hands Of the Republicans.
| Red sweet POTATOES were in market this morn
| ing. They are ratlar rare now, but few years
| ago they outnumbered the yellow variety
The Ninth Ward property owners are begin
/ ming to talk of laying out handsome streets on
| the south side of the Brandywine
| Our Wilmington markets are quoted by the
| Chester and Delaware County papers, but those
| in the State seldom mention them.
George W. Murphey and Alfred D. Murphey
have taken out letters testamentary on the estate
OF VIM Murphey, late of Brandywine Hundred.
A little more light would be o valuable add-
i ton to the Wilmington and Reading II. IL. depot.
| place so near the gas house ought not to be in
darkness.
Thomas G. Chandler of Pencader Hundred,
| raised the present season l06 bushels OF wheat
| from six acres of land. This is fair crop for
| this season.
Mr.. Casho. of this State has established a
| sllop at Melville, Caroline county, for the manu-
facture of felloes Shafts, sleigh runners, and
other bent wares.
A thirteen year old daughter of Robert NJ Car
ter. of Christiana went into spasins, on Monday
18th ult, and died before medical assistance
could be summoned
We have heard nothing Of late OF the PROPOSE
tiou to call Newport Pike (within the cityl Mary
ceived, when first made.
L. w. Stilham e. Son Auctioners 81 Real
Estate Agents, Ill Il. 4th, street, sold Tor Isaac
Cloud at private sale house No. 6l2 Lombard st
to Henry, Elliot for $1,000.
The new Automatic Telegraph Company will
soon open its office in this city. It already has
communication from here with New York and
Washington but is not prepared to take BUSINESS.
Two base balsts ran together at Milford the
other day while endeavoling to catch ball and
one of them was knocked senseless by the COLI
sion and very severely injured, for time 1t was
: thought fatally.
The Denton Union says that so far as vel
heard from Sussex has raised larger potatoes
than an, other county on the Peninsula. Ihes
we're III inches in circumference
Tile large steamship wyanoke launched som'
weeks ago by tho Harlan ~ liollingsworth Com
} pany il rapidly approaching completion ana VII
probably be ready to sail within TWO WeehS'
Joseph w DAY. formerly Of this city, is engat
e,ea in asscssiug damages in the Chesapeake y
Ohio Railroad, in Virginia gentleman me
him Mt a cauip meeting, in that region shor
; time ago
, Tho steamer Diamond State, plying between
I,ewes and New York has 40 berths N the iauies
cabin and hi in the lower cabin besides 4s star
rooms. She is to be thoroughly overhaulei DC
, fore resuming trips next season.
substitution books for the proposed raroa'
from Georgetown to Gnmhoro IN sussex couit n,
q have been opened. THIS road would give til
splendid cypress and cedar OF, the great cypfes
swamp ready access to market.
At the State Normal University. we are Pr,
. | pared TO enter into contracts with dcsirapi
= parties to fit their sons for the best Colleges
= The United States and take no pay until they al
e admitted. This ia no boasting, it IL business
L Address the President of the Faculty.
The wreckers are now at work upon the hui
Of the schooner Lydia A. May, which was sun
in June last on the .West Flats" opposite Tn
u mouth of Mispillion Creek She was loaaed VINE
ID she went down, with about 3oo IONS Vi soie W"
~ --Bfut,,dl Friend.
"a Some people who took tho trouble to coui
" report that 561 vehicles came into middleton
n | from the surrounding country, on TUESDAY
Y last week 1t il added hy a local paper, In
planation, that it was discount day al ne Od'i
az well as the hight of the peach season.
II. CIarlsson Taylor of this city, a minister
m the Society of Friends preached Ill the Con
~ | Uouse at Easton, Talbot county, on evening
"a tie fst inst. The Star says 80" The discour
q. was able. earnest, and eloquent, and the q
p dence, which was large, were hghiy pieas'
IS with it,"
FATAL AccIDESr.-0n last Tuesday, john ia
linpton. brakeman on the Wilmington * hea
ine railroad, fell between the cars on the trae
NJ at Chadd's Ford His leg was run over a
-, badly mapgled, from the effects OF when
~ died on Tuesday night. His remains were mt
lno red from his fathers residence, in Sadsburyvii
yes Codtespille Union.
FINE PEAcHEs.-Joseph Bringhurst showed
this morning, handsome basket OF pea.ch
lest taken from tree growing in his yard, winch
tie, known TO be over fifty years old. They were
.rs fine appearance and flavor, although hir.
zeal inks them rather ia o ~ fnr MOI
W t;,a ,,annl, tree.