Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-28

OUR unIGHBOns.

The Chester people like Circus better tnan
opera. 3, ~ ~. - =
Mr.. o. s. senter is compiling Directory Of
Delaware county. #
,,,.P.atoes are selling at Salem, M, for lwen-
ty-five cents bushel. .4i1g.Yf.f
Floods and drift wood have interferod with
seine fishing In the Susquehanna recently. ~
The Cation Opera Troupe had very poor
house In Chester, barely paying expenses. ri.
Geo. Hoffman, of west Whlteand, Chester
County, commenced planting corn on saturday
week. fe .f
Isaac YarnalI, of Media, has disposed Of 20
acres of land adjoining his farm Ia MARBLE, 10
james Calhoun.
Senator Revels was invited to attend the
Amendment celebration at West Chester, on the
26th but declined. w
--One Of our neatest, brightest, and best con-
Quoted exchanges Is the Chester kepuohcdn
Long may 1t wave. s
The Chester City Band gave It's annual ball
on Monday night, the 18th instant. 1t was, as
usual, well attended.
Henry Thomas, Of phIladelphia' has ? u,r r..
chased the farm Of W. W. Greene, at Marble, 10
Delaware county, for SIS, 500.
Over 5000 was subscribed in st.Paul's Episco
pal Church In Chester, on Sunday week, LOT TO-
lifting lis Sunday School room.
Court commenced In West Chester to-day.
There is not much criminal business on hand
only ten prisoners being In Jnil. r7faT
John wareham was struck with paralysis
while dressing on Sunday morning, 11th inst, o.
his residence, in Hayre de Grace.
The store and dwelling of Amos Spencer In
Havre de Grace were robbed of some clothing and
money on the night of the 10th lust. -
The Good Tenplars OF Chester are doing
capital service. Recently number OF hard caset
have Joined the order, aud they arc now sober
men.
Chester is to have a new and handsome Coun.
ell chamber. 1t Is TO be located on the second
be made for the public.
The Baptist Meeting of East Brandywinc,.
Chester Co., have bought the house and lot OF
jesse Rodgers In Guthrcville for sl650. 1t Is In
tended for parsonage.
Theodore Cameron and VIM. Boyd, OF East
Nottingham, Chester Co., were wrestling, on
Tuesday of last week, and 1t resulted 10 the Tor
mer getting his leg broken.
AT the election for officers of the new borough
OF South Chester, on Thursday, the 14th Instant,
| the " Workingmen's Ticket" comprising men
of both parties, was elected.
Our ''Gollath" joke Ia going the rounds of the
newspapers If It induces our brethren to read
up in their Scriptures. the COMMERCIAL Will once
| more be beueatng the world. ,-
| -Coal has been found In Nockamixon town
| ship, Bucks county, in considerable quantities.
| One farm has been leased by company for 90
i years. The coal Is said to be of good quality.
The colored people of Media and It's vicinity,
will celebrate the adoption of the Fifteenth
| Amendment on Tuesday next, by public meet
ing at Everett Grove and festival In the evening.
The School property at Village Green Della
] ware Co. known as the" Village Green Semina-
| ry," was sold last week at the Philadelphia Ex
change, for little over twenty-one hundred dol
lars.
St. Paul's P. E. Church, at Georgetown, bias
| oil atadn Ion Edxpar la aud HIM EaIah n
| L1yton delegates to the next annual Convention,
with Benjamin Burton and Jacob Moore. Esq, as
| alternates
In Delaware County Joseph wataon has been
appointed Post Master ut Lenbi, In the room OF
Joseph Mccartney, removed; and William J.
| Hopewell OF Edgemont, In place of William +.
Worrall, resigned.
The following have been elected officers of
| the new borough of South Chester Burgess,
Thomas j. Clayton Town Council, Thomas l.
| Leper, William Morton, Daniel Brown, Samuel
| NJ. FELTON,, Sol0man May.
The Oxford Press says the appropriation of
three thousand dollars in aid of the Experimental
| Farm was obtained through interchangeable exer-
| tions of Senator Brooke, and that he is entitled
TO the thanks Of every friend of experimental
farms.
| A simple colorcd man, named VIM. Fisher.
| was arrested, on Saturday, charged with laying
rail on the track of the West Chester railroad.
He confessed the act, but be Is evidently not
responsible person.
The Committees appointed to agree on site
for the Normal School In West Chester have Sc
lected, we understand. the lot on Church street.
belonging to Wayne Macveagh, Esq. The price
is reported to $40, O00-ten acres.
William Howard Day, of Wilmington, Del.
made capital speech ut the celebration of the
Fifteenth Amendment In that city last week. The
COMMERCIAL publishes Mr.. Days remarks In full
and they are worthy Of the mau and the occasion
Chester Republican. %
Mr.. Thomas Mason, q wellknown citizen of
Chester, on Saturday, 10th instant had minnie
ball (weight one aud quarter ounce) extracted
FROM his bladder, by the dangerous operation OF
LilhOtomy. Mason WINS soldier, and was shot
on the 31st OF March, 1865, near Hatche's Run,
Virginia. He ia doing well.
Hon. W. Townsend, member of Congress
from the Chester district. has invited number
of Senators and members, who ARE interested in
the educatiou of the colored race to pay vsit
to the Lincoln University, at Oxford, and the
superintendent of the Baltimore Central Railroad
has rendered them special Cur. The visit will
come off some time In May.
Susan Walker, widow of the late Benajah
Walker, of Pennsbury, Chester county, left last
week for the residence OF her daughter who re-
sides In Illinois. The old lady Ia nincty-tbree
years old, and was born aud lived all her life iu
Pennsbury. She had never traveled--and never
until she left for the West, had scen railroad cal
although she had lived for years within the sound
of the whistle Of the locomotive The cars were
quite a novelty to her.
The Treasury OF Bucks comfy. Penna., Ia
entirely empty. The inieigencer says that per-
sons holding checks Issued by the Commissioners
, tor work done aud material furnished for bridges
or for any other purpose, will have to wait fol
J the money until the county tax is collected In
, July or August. OF course the county officers
: are Democrats, though we hopo this scaudcloui
extravaganza, and the changes wrought by thu
18th Amendment will effecta revolution this fall