Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-09-15
The Pcninsiiln.
QUEEN ANNE's COUNTY.


The Centreyille Citizen gives n hearty and ell
thllsiastc support to Mr.Torbert as the Republi-
cali nominee for Congress.
The number of dogs in Centreyie District is
LOOT in Queenstown District 5iD; III Kent Is
land District 43i. The Church Hill and Dixon's
Districts not yet reported
CECIL COUNTY.
Granite for tho new Jail is being delivered at
Elkton.
A ,Young Mems Democratic Club is to be
organized in Elkton.
4 boy named John Smith, son of one of the
employees of the Delaware and Chesapeake Ga
nal, accidentally shot himself while foong with
pistol on Monday of last week.
,rhe second session of the Good Templars Con-
yention for Cecil county was held at Charles
town on the 9th inst.
WORCESTER COUNTY.
Rev. ogle Marbury has accepted tile call to
All Halow's Presbyterian Church.
1t is said that Trchina has made its appear
ancc amongst the swine in this county.
The Irish potato crop is failure.
A gang of gypsies have camped near Purnelrs
mill
wIcoMIco COUNTY.
Jack Smith and Jack Parsons, two colored
citizens of Salisbury, INDUCED in a street tight
| last week, in the course of which Parsons got
| seriously wounded in the head.
The fire continues to rage in the woods in
Trappe district and nothing but rain will stop IT.:
| 1t has been burning for three weeks now and all
efforts to stop it, have been unayalling.
TALBOT COUNTY.
The Easton Gazette expresses great regret at
| the manner in which Mr.. Torbert was nominated
but he feels bound to support him if he runs.
The Methodist Protestant Society, in Easton,
being about to repair its church, the M. u. CON
gregation has offered to share its church with
them, during the progress OF tile work.
The Easton Journal Of the Sth inst. says =
.Mr. Philemon T. Kennard, an influential and
talented member of the Easton bar, died i'll this
place Yesterday afternoon at ~ o'clock, aget
about 32 years His disease was congestion Of
the bowels, and death very unexpected.
The Democratic primary elections in Talbo
resulted in the choice of Hambleton delegates Il
every district in the county, from winch we ]uos
the Star has scentlated in vain
DORCHESTER COUNTY
Tho statement of some of the papers thai
Mr. Burton had ceased to have editorial charg'
of tho Cambridge Inteliigeitcer, seems to hav'
been entirely without foundation
Republican clubs are being organized in ever
district in the county, and q disposition Is ma III
fssted to prosecute vigorous campaign.
, The camp meeting season is over IN TIN
county.
DIR. w. ID. Noble has become one of the editor
of tile Dorchester County Ne'rs.
Tho bridge over Great Blackwater river is sal
to be unsafe.
! Garden vegetables have been injured by tn
+ drought.
Q The new Masonic Hall in New Market will |
o completed in about month.
Q The steamboat Thomas Collyer is doing a fin
II business on the Little Choptank river.
! The Democrat claims that Cambridge has MOI
i pretty girls and more idle men than any .o DIV
on the Peninsula. We judge from li,s local CO
umns that DUnger is not one OF the latter.
Mrs. John X. Martin has built beautif
residence on tho Church Creek road, me-
" Blackwater river.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
!, The last number of the True 4Md,yhhF
" not worth continental anathema, but 1t mas OF
r oneer editorial in which it says, after noticli
k, Napoleon's surrender, - II France sno1i! On
l., fire. M az the Southern Confederacy did 1t W
y be yery doubtful as to what will be the I'LL
al result" If Franco g fired up like that defun
to organization she would be likely to continue q
81 parallel and " go up" but then II Is propu !,
o. That tho Handy Andy who edits that sheet Ii
II not heard of the fate of the Confederacy.
~ Owing to the sickness of its principal, Was
nj ipeton Academy, in Princess Anne Will not OF
he until the 26th inst.
II, The people are in hopeless helpless terror
If the burning of tho woods bnt nothing seei
ne likely to stop the flames. ,...,,. % g,
nc Levin Ross. in Hungary Neck district, ne
cd Witch Bridge were totally destroyed by fire abe
ut IL o'clock Sunday night week. Loss about sl5'
No Insurance.
fl, CAROLINE COUNTY.
~ The Union insists on the withdrawal OF IL.
ad Torbert as the Republican candidate for "
ma ! gress. -. H.
ne The NJ. L. Parsonage at Denton. is to be
nu paired and re-iinished.
ieS Denton bridge is at last to be repaired.
nd ,s,-y,,, n no De,ectcd -The hues impaired to g
nnads Nv Phnlon's Vitaa. or Salvation for the Hi