Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-10
THE pENi>sULA.


Bishop Lay confirmed n number of candi-
dates in the Eplscol aI Church, ut Hillsborvugh,
on Sunday week.
The family OF Benjamin Turner. in tho Fl,s.
District, are embraced in the list Of the heirs OF
Auueke Jams, VIII clam the Trinity Church
property, iu New York city. -.
And now Denton has protracted meeting.
Ninety. four marriage licenses were issued by
the County CLERK last year.
The surveyor estimates that the new rond
from Denton to Ridgely can be opened for s400
or 900.
KENT COUNTY.
The Kent MUs regards the Fifteenth Amend
ment as dreadful reality aud says that lat
the next election tine most Ignorant nd Degraded
negro In the community will vote ride ny side
| with the whites" Then let eur luglbrious con-
| Temporary do all In it's p"~er TOR th.ir eievat'"
and education, and the :" reality" will SOON cease
| to appear so dreadful" 10 1t.
Successful REVEALS are in progress at the NJ.
z. aud NJ. z. churches. in Chestertown.
wIcoMIco COUNTY.
The county longs for Jail 1t can call It's
| own.
Thomas Mitchell, an aged and respectable
citizen of Salisbury, died last Thursday, alter
| urict ilness.
The Easfern Sho,emsn begs that the Salisbury
street LAMPS m, ~ bs tle ned ut least once year
That seems to BIZ reasonable request.
TALHoT COUNTY.
| In addition tn the buildings they have recently
| erected there, tho Maryland an Delaware u III
road will shortly erect freight depot and cur
| house at Eiston
The post office at Cordova ia now open. Mr.
| Robinson, the postmaster recently appointed,
| having entered on his duties.
A young man named Burnley, WIS recently
caught brLwren two cara at Eislon Depot, anu
had his collar bone broken.
Mrs skinner. widow living In Miles River
| In, fan hraa aim
eating the wrist Of tho other.
W. c. Kellam has admitted John T. Harrison
to partnership IN the proprieorship ofthe 81. MI
chaels Comet. IL Is good little paper and de-
serves the success ii appears TO have achieved.
Mr.. A. Chaplain has been elected school ex-
amlner.
Tho streets of st. Mchacls arc being oyster
shelled.
Willow trees were In leaf last week.
AN effrl is m king to secure the erection Of
| new Market house in Custom, und the L"gisla-
turc will he petitoned to grant the Town Com
nissiUners authority to b'rrow St00J Tor the
purpose.
Some wealthy Indies Of Goldsborough and
Miles River Necks. will, during the coming sum
| mer huild Il new Episc pal church aud reclory
at Potts Mills, near the site Of the proposed or
J phans asylum.
A number of corn houses, in Chapel district
have been robbed recently.
/ l
Postotllce.
T "A lodge of Knights Of Pythias is to be organ
lied In Ekion
e -Elkton sporsmcn enjoyed a fox hunt last
4 week.
. On Sunday evening week Young gentleman
Y of Elkton went ''a.woong" aud stad very lnte :
coming out he found his horse gone. He pre- If,
o another aud started toward home. Atttr going q
. mile or two he LIQUID his horse and buggy ho'i
!, kiug on their sides The horse had been throw
Z down ty the hitching post when ne MAD Droken
II OF and dragged with him.
I DORCHESTER COUNTY.
The Democrat and Herald says that, from al
1t can learn, It Is able to stale the Dorchester ant
\. Delaware Rulroad has, thus far, paid It's way ant
~ that its business is gradually Increasing. I'M
) | track Is constantly being Improved and every
:, thing il kept IN the nest oi order. In fact, u
\, one eau Gnd fanlt with its management.
The smoke house of-Mr B. Mile, at Jack town
near Cambridge, was recently robbed OF Its winte
ie supply OF meat.
n, QUEEN AsSE's COUNTY.
., A cow on the farm of james Wallis, nea
~ Beaver Dams, has given birth u calf which ha
!, Two distinct aud perfect heads
> "A. R. Weldon. of Centreville, has been I'D
or United to the BAR
n. SOMERSET COUNTY.
b; Cattle continue to be shipped North froI
!, Princess Anne.
D. Cherokee plum trees were in blossom sewers
N. days ago.
nd The new locomotive on the Eastern Shot
u, Railroad cost $l3,OUO
Albert Smith (colored) has been sent to Son
er- erset Jail charged with stealing ueat from h
deserted wife. He halls from Wicomico.
y Truckers around Princess Anne are plan,lr
Nv. English peas.
The Somerset Herald says WIN. II. ku
en-. gold Esq of philadelphia, h's recently sold h
w | farm situated three miles from town to Mr.. WI
hanson, uf New York, tor $4,000. This Is Il
os | farm which Mr. Ringguld pur, hased from Sin
ard | Wilson for SO 900. and which Mr.. Wilson bong
OF Capt. Johu e. TOnttine for 900.
cb, Polly Parks, n malieu lady Of 90, died at b
residence in Revel's Meek, gu tue 18th ullimo.
~, Ship fever has made its appearance at Jerlct
l. In Potato Neck, IL having been carried there
n | some sailors. Captain Charles Beaucnamp dl
h,a from IL last Saturday, and several colored IN
~" are sick with ".
IN WORCESTER COUNTY.
and The Snow Hill Shield has enlarged aud
on new dress.
lnil- An artificial chanutl is to be opened ner
Is. the beach, near the hend OF syrepoxeDt Bay.
cid thousand workman will commence operuti
anu there on The 22I iisiari, says the ShitM.
jacob u. sturgs,of Worcester county ia Z
'aV'u on = visit 10 Texas
Tue heuruvsis around Berlin are troubled
u. Il ,st week, at Snow Hill, David Sharp
ndy' aged %, led Eliza y. spencsr, uged w, D.