Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-03-31
OUR nEIGHBoRs.

Tho Coatesville Union continues to receive "a
generous advertising patronage from our VII
mington merchants
And now foxes have Joined the chicken
thieves in decimating Chester county poultry
yards.
"A new carriage road is to be opened along
side the Wilmington and Reading Railroad, ior
some distance south Of Coatesville.
The colored people Of Media held public
meeting last week to rejoice over the adopuon Oh
the Fifteenth Amendment.
Montgomery county (Pa.) Poor House is
full. and OVERLOOKING.
e. A. Thomas, of Middlctown, Delaware Co.,
recently caught burglar, named Chas. west, IN
his house 10 the act of arraying himself IN SUIT
OF his (Thomas) clothes. He sent the fellow,
who is suspected of completely in other robberies
r. Newton Thomas, has been appointed by
Secretary Boutwell, "a Assistant Assessor ior
Division One, 10 the 9TH Penna. Collection Dis
trlct, (Chester and Delaware ctuutles), and Rich
ard X. Cummins, for corresponding position In
Delaware county.
business prospects are said to be excellent In
Chester.
1t Is said that in the new boat yard just START
ed at Chester the keel has been laid for boat to
ply between New York and New Haven, which
is to cost 100000 be $40 feet long, AZ feet beam
and 80 feet over all.
-Mafis Rhodes. of Springfield, Delaware Co.,
recently killed pig two years and three months
old which weighed when dressed 785 pounds.
Moses Hui, of Indiana, lectures on SPIRITUAL
ism In Havre de Grace. The people ought 70
be posted after that having heard the Hull OF
it,
On the 10th inst, lodge Of X. Of Il. known
ns Hartford Lodge No. "a, was instituted In havre
dc Grace.
-"Democrat Hall " In Havre de Grace, has
yery appropriately been turned into cabinet
making and undertaker's shop. Political cabl-
net making Is no longer 10 the line OF Democracy
while 1t stands badly in need oil COLLINS.
-uavre de Grace Marine railway, which We
we're led to believe was getting along nicely, is tc
| be sold at auction, and the Rebublican publishae
| there hopes 1t will have better management mere
after.
New Prospect School House in East Noting
| ham is making an effort to procure large peii
| Oxford Fair seems to have become an estab
llshed institution.
| The young Indies of Oxford Female Seminar.
| have organized Debating and Literary society
| The Oxford Press have moved into new
building, built expressly for 1t by its senior pro
prietor.
"A fine large barn belonging to James II
/ Brown, of West Nottingham Chester county, wa
destroyed by fire between and q. NJ, on tn
morning of the 2lst inst. Supposed cause. care
lessness Of n vagrant lodger. Loss, $2,50o, IN
turance $1,000.
The 9th, 2sth, goth. 3Oth Of September ha
been fixed upon as the time for holding the mex
Pennsylvania State Fair. The selection OF plac
was left to special committee of nine.
The fishermen of Salem have their boats
nets, and other necessary apparatus, oil In CON
plete order, anxiously awaiting the proper tim
TO enter upon the spring campaign OF rock an
thad fishing. few of the more eager ones, W
learn, started for the field OF labor on last Nor
day morning, but we presume they VIII not met
with much success until we have little NOR
spring weather with several days OF bright sur
shne.-Sdlem Standard.