Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-11-17
Our Nefghb0rs.

Chester county never had finer corn crop
than that Of this year.
John J. pinkerton, of West CHESTER, has
taken to lecturing.
Chicken cholera is playing havoc with Mont
gomery county poultry.
The West Chester Republican is jolly good
looking paper.
1t is thought some Of the thieving vagabonds
tramping about Chester county, will get shot
some night, without any one getting hung for it.
--Pottstown, Pa. has 800 school children.
Chester county Quakers growl at the abomi-
nable militia tax imposed on them.
The public school teachers in Chester coun-
ty generally receive S35 or $40 month.
The Reading Eagle is going into the local
biography business, and will ''puif'' every promi
nent man of Berks county.
Some scamps recently stole 140 lbs of beef
from the cellar of Reuben Moser, in East Mont
mead, Chester Co.
Mine year old Mary A. Sayler, of West Chess
ter, has got her collar bone broken as the penalty
for hanging on behind carriages.
The chicken cholera continues it's ravages
in Chester County.
The sidewalks are being widened on Market
street, West Chester.
The Pilgrims Progress is progressing at
Reading.
Cyrus jackson, of East Marlborough, Chess
ter county, has turkey hen which commenced
laying ON the 10th of March, and is still at it.
She has in the meantime Matched 10 eggs con-
tinuing, however, to lay an egg day all the time
she was setting. She has laid % dozen eggs.
Edward McFaran is given by the Village Record
as author Of this statement.
| The Reading Eagle says the committee from
| Wilmington City Council which recently visited
that city, reported to Council that the Reading
| Survey Department is very complete and superb
| or to that Of Wilmington, and recommend in a
| resolution the adoption of the system in use
| here" The Eagle is mistaken. The committee
reported that Heading had no regularly organi-
zed department of engineering, and nothing
| approaching one that would serve for model.
On Sunday morning, October Esd, a girl
named Mary Strausser was found lying in q
cooper shop in Hamburg, near Reading, Pa.
She was covered with blood and terribly injured,
| while her mind was in such wandering
condition that she was unable to give any
account of the attack she had sustained.
| She fingered in this semi-consious state until
| Nov. 9Th, when she died. A man named David
| Lousey has been arrested on suspicion of COM
mtting the outrage on the deceased.
None of the ministers now officiating in
| Reading were born there Their birth places
were as follows. England, Washington Co., Nd,
| Wyoming Co., Pa, Zurich, Switzerland Lanoas-
| ter, Pa, Montgomery Co., Pa, Gettysburg, Pa,
| Ireland, Caroline Co., Nd, Sussex Co. DEL,
Columbia, Pa, Altoona Pa, Schuylkill Co., Pa,
| Annapolis, Nd, Acworth, N. H.
Among the features Of the Lancaster Coun-
| ty Teachers Institute, which conyenes at Lam
caster on Monday next, will be the Institute
Journal, to be published daily during the ses-
sions.
Huston & Penrose started their new rolling
MILL at Coatesville, on Wednesday, Of last week
"A dog supposed to be mad was shot recently
| in Coatesyille.
"A Friends meeting was recently held in
Coatesville. The Society has no regular meet
| ing there.
The total population of Chester county is
| found by the Republican to be 1854, gain of
| 3,306 since 1860. The gain is nearly all made in
the town and villages and along the railroads,
| the agricultural communities showing decided
falling off since ten years ago.
Rev. A. A. Willetts' lecture on the Model
| Wife," in Coatesyille, was very successful.