Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-01-27
LOCAL NEWS.



Eggs are coming down.
Work is progressing on the pier at Lewes.
Two men will be hung at New Castle next week.
The Kent County Farmers Club starts of well.
The National Hotel at Middletown Is to be sold.
The sepgerbund Concert comes of on.the 18th
of next month.
Freight and travel continues TO Increase on the
w. 81 X. X. X.
The young people Of Bridgevllle INDUCED In
Tabenux last week.
We see 1t stated that an effort Is making to
start paper at seaford.
The Odd Fellows Hall Company has declared
dividend Of per cent.
The market street bridge is still standing and
teams may pass over 1t.
Work has commenced on the basin, on the
Common Farm, for the New Castle water works
If VIC have any clear weather soon the planet
Venus may be seen OF MONDAY with the naked
eye.
The appointment Of j. W. Prettyman, as Post.
master at FELTON,, makes the fifth change there in
two years.
Abner Hollingsworth has been appointed asses
sor in Christiana Hundred, vice Moses Lowther,
deceased.
On Monday, of last week, Samuel Short while
fishing at Bowers Beach, neer Frederick, caught
several ehad.
Job Townsend, an old and highly respected
citizen of Saint Georges, died last week from
pneumonia.
The Deiaoarean complains OF a great deal OF
paging in Kent county, and attributes 1t to the
colored people.
The Republican again starts the rumor that Sen
ator sprague, of Rhode Island, conemplates pur-
chasing property here.
James Murdick, Dr. has taken out letters of
administration on the estate of James Murdick,
deceased.
Pendergrast, the present Coroner, wishes re-
nomination. We presume more incompetent
man never held the office.
Dover Jail charged with the larceny OF property
belonging to Robert 9. Fraim.
twelve year son of VIM. Houston, of South
Milford, had one of his eyes accidentally put out
II few days ago while fencing with sticks.
The Middletown Transcript rejoces that col
ored village Is sprlnging up around The new
colored church on the outskirts Of that town.
Another of the $40 counterfeit notes passed In
Middleiown by Jump and Mellon, has turned up.
II makes the It'll passed there S14O In all.
Union Lodge of Masons In Middietown gave
grand banquet to a large number of invited guests
on Saturday evening, 18th Inst.
The annual meeting OF the Agricultural Society
of Kent county will be held In the old Levy Court
room at Dover, on the first day of Febru airy, at
y. IN.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Collins, near Smyrna,
celebrated the twenty-ifth anniversary of their
wedding in grand style on the evening of the
18th instant.
The Transcript Gays tour fruit-growers are an
ticpating another fine crop, next season, as 1t Ia
asserted that the best peach crops have always
followed mild winters"
Prof. Jules De Launay, ectured In Middetown
Wednesday evening on the Cutacombs of Rome.
DR.. b. +. Chatham, Cashier Of Philadelphia Ma
lional Bank, win lecture there shortly on Life and
Death.
How did tho Mutual ,. lend happen to have
personal knowledge OF the young man who want
ed to marry his mother? We do not object to
il using our items without credit, but respectfully
suggests to 1t that that is not one of the kind to
use that way.