Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-11-10
LOCAL NEWS.

zeal ducks are numerous in the Kent marshe
Game Is plentiful down the State this seasol
week.
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: station.
Horseback riding is fashionable with the ladis
OF Milford.
Smyrna is TO have three dentists There, Time
how will that do
The breast of the first dam on the Brandywin
has been repaired.
Wilmington ladies are not too proud to pus
their own baby coaches.
"A religious revival commenced in the M. Z
Church at Clayton last week.
What has become of the project for running
small steamboat to Newport
DR.. Miller, of the Ninth Ward, will shortl,
romove to his farm in New Jersey.
The boys seem to have played their usua
freaks down the State ON Hallow Eve.
The Presbyterian congregation Of South Mil
ford will hold festival on the Goth inst.
Representation according to population is one
OF the planks of the Republican platform.
John A. Jenes has been appointed special
constable at the Middletown railroad station.
One Of the new locomotives for the w. & II.
R., will be heavy ten wheel freight engine.
Rapid progress appears to be making on the
branch railroad to the river in South Chester.
| A lodge of the Junior Order of American Me-
chanics is to be organized in Dover on the eve
ming of the 10th.
Temperance meetings are held at Temperance
Hall, g. e. corner 9th and Market Streets every
Sunday afternoon.
The Gazette states that the crew of the U. s.
Revenue Cutter Miami participated in a recent
Democratic parade.
Rev. Robert Todd, of Denton, Nd, will take
the place of Rev. DR.. Quigley (deceased) in the
Nj. Z. Church at Laurel.
The steamboat Samuel M. Felton has gone
into winter quarters at the Harlan & Holdings
worth Company's works.
Remarkably rapid progress is being made on
the steamship Hutchinson, now being completed
at the H. d II. Company's yard.
On Thursday night. fine fat COW, belonging
to the Sisters, was stolen from the lot in the
rear of the Academy of Visitation.
Captain Charles s. Bell, the celebrated scout,
and for long time our Texas correspondent,
will soon enter into the lecture field.
Geo. Whitlock recently convicted Of gambling
in the Kent County Court, was fined $50, but
not imprisoned, as was enormously stated
The teachers and pupils of Smyrna Seminary
are preparing. to give an entertainment in few
weeks. 1t will consist mainly of Tableaux.
",
Church in Milford, received surprise donation
OF money, clothing, provisions, etc., last week.
Rev. Chas. D. Shaw has been elected one of
the Executive Committee, Of the Wilmington
Institute, in place of Daniel W. Taylor, resigned.
Considerable quantities of coal oil, anthracite
coal and building lime are being received by the
Wilmington Il Reading railroad, for city cousump-
ton.
Sanford's negro minstrel troupe gave per-
formance in the Hall of the House Of Repression
tatives at Dover on Thursday evening Of last
week.
The Republican ,.despises not the day of
small things" It enthusiastically notices the
erection Of "a beautiful woodhouse," in
st. Georges.
An item going the rounds Of the peninsular
papers about the reopening of the Annamessex
line is premature and unauthorized, il not pos
lively incorrect.
special communication Of the NJ. w. Grand
Lodge Of A. r. A. NJ of the State Of Delaware
will be held in this city on Thursday, Dec. /, at
10 o'clock, a. m.
Madigan Il Co.'s Circus had slim house at
Milford, but a number Of gamblers, following in
it's train, showed some rural youths "the
elephant to their cost.
The tug boat Martha, Capt. Downing, towed
vessel load of lumber to Christiana the other
day. The Christiana has seldom, if ever, before
been traversed that far by steam.
LILO blutc IUOl VI ot. JUilI ITOlebluub EplbcO-
pal church is being removed and replaced with
tarred felt under 1t, in order to make the interior
of the building warmer in winter
The schooner Augusta, of Seaford, collided
with steamer in Chesapeake bay in the early
part of week before last and sunk in fathoms
of water. One man was drowned.
The boys continue the dangerous practice of
playing shnney in the streets, sending stones
and blocks along the pavement to the endanger-
ment Of life and limb Will the police not put
an end to til
Thos. II. Streets, of this State accepted the |
appointment of Naturalist under Surgeon Spear,
U. ). N, in the Tehuantapec and Nicaragua Sur |
veying expedition which sailed about the middle |
of last month.
The Wilmington Parlor Match Factory at 9ti |
and Church streets, has had its facilities ft |
manufacturing increased, and passed into the |
hands OF Mr. 3. James, who retains Mr.. Conner,
as Superintendent.
Some villains placed pillow line around the
neck of colt belonging to John Beck, Of Red |
Lion Hundred on the night of the 20th of Octo-
Der, and choked it to death. 1t was worth 800. |
No motive can be assigned for the yiainous act.
Negotiations have been pending for some
time to enable the Wilmington & Reading II. R.
to run its trains through to Reading, the cars
going onto the p: & II. II. r. at Birdsbolo.
they are likely to be successful, we learn, and
new schedule will shortly be arranged
DR.. Cameron of this city having written pri-
vate note to one D. s. Pratt of Milford, asking
his opinion on the school system in the State, and
on the propriety of national system, the man
PUSHES into print and publishes half column
Of twaddo in the Milford paper, arguing that it
ia unconstitutional for the National Government
10 confer any educational benefits on the State.
In reference to base ball game played at New
Castle, last week, between the Atlantic club, of
that town, and the Atlas, Of this city, we are
in receipt Of letter from the former club. They
claim that the game closed at the end of the 7th
inning, (the sth not being completed and that
tho score then stood Atlas is; Atlantics a.
They also complain that the Wilmington club
were very captious abont an umpire. We cannot
print the whole letter.