Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-08-18
The population of seaford is rumored to be

| about 1900.
One hundred and forty persons professed con-
version at the Harrington camp meeting.
James Fl. English is appointed Constable, cioc
John Millaway, resigned,in Duck Creek Hundred,
Kent county.
the bricks for the Normal School in that town.
1t requires 100000.
The steam-tug S,cdiloto, Of Delaware City, is
undergoing repairs at the Harlan Il Hollings-
worth Companys Works.
Mrs. John West, of Frederick, fell and broke
her arm as she was getting into a carriage on
Thursday the 4th instant.
The fall term of Wesleyan Female College,
under the charge Of Rev. John Wilson, opens on
| September 9th.
1. L. Chamberlain is having drain laid from
his morocco factory to the sewer on Fourth
street, near the city spring.
The Democratic candidates for assessors and
inspectors in Sussex County, will be nominated
at meeting to be held September 10th.
The Postmaster General has appointed Mrs.
Mary r. Stern postmistress at Chadd's Ford,
Delaware county, vice William L. Stern, decd.
A large schooner, which d. w. Moore, ESQ.,, is
having built at Laurel, is fast approaching COM
pletion, and will be ready to LAUNCH next month.
The Hannah More Academy, at Sth and West
Sts, under the management of the Misses Grim
shaw, will commence its fall session on the 18th
of September.
Walton, Whann 4 Co., have just erected an
addition to their extensive phosphate works, on
the Christana river above the Harlan 4 Hol-
lingsworth Company's yard.
movement is on foot to organize Board of
Trade in Reading. meeting was held on
Wednesday afternoon, over which ex-Congress-
man =. E. Ancona presided.
The steamer Granite Sta to and the Junction
and Breakwater Railroad Company, issue excur-
81. 4snt,a fn.
New York. Round trip tickets, $3.50.
The accident on the Delaware and chesapeake
Canal brought down the price of peaches in this
city. Large numbers were brought here in
wagons from boats compelled to lie in the canal.
Rev. Abraham Poulson of this city has accept
ed an appointment at Upper Sandusky, Ohio,
under the Conference of the German Methodists
and will leave in day or two for his new field of
labor.
Don't boil coffee-infuse it. Pour boiling
water over the coffee, and let it stand eight
minutes. tightly covered. 1t is then ready for
use, and ia delicious. SO says superior house,
keeper.
The Jackson X Sharp Company sent away to-
day. over the Wilmington a. Reading Railroad,
two fine flrst-class passenger cars for the ALLIE
gheny Valley Railroad, and one for the SPRING
field Il Illinois Railroad.
AT Fort Delaware the bastions of the work are
to be modified 30 as to fit them to heavy guns
with magazine traverses and thick earthern para
pets. For this work an appropriation of 537, 900
was recommended and made by Congress-
FELTON, Seminary, under the charge of Mr.RH.
Skinner, continues to grow. Its prospects, we
are told, were never better than at present. The
fall term bids fair to open with full and flour
ishing school. 1t commences September 1st
The delegates to the Democratic State Conven-
ton, are J. Poulson Chandler, Marshall s,
Chandler, Chas. Dougherty, ThomasS. Chandler
James Armour In New Castle Hundred, John
c. Morrison, H. Silver William Herbert, George
Gray. Geo. NJ. ID. Cam.
Miss Sue Bean, one of the teachers Of Smyrna
Seminary, died unexpectedly at the residence of
her parents, cambridge, Pa, last week. She
was graduate of the State Normal School of
Pennsylvania. and lady of superior attainments.
Smyrna Times.
In another column appears the card of the
Bellevue Female Institute, Attleboro, Bucks
county, Pa, This institution is located about
twenty miles from Philadelphia, is delightfully."-
situated, and the teaching is thorough and con-
seientious W. w. Woodruff, A. NJ, late Supt.
of Public Schools in Chester County, has con-
nected himself with this Institute.
As the engine of the Pennsylvania Central r.
IL. Company was backing some cars on the
switch connecting that road and the Wilmington
and Reading Railroad at Gainesville on Saturday,
the cars ran over the track and caused slight
detention on the latter road The trains rum
ming North and South which met there, were
compelled to change passengers and run back
to Brdsboro and Wilmington.