Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
LOCAL NEWS.


ssasord ID not given to politics.
The schutxsn Park Ia nearly completed.
The seaford canning establishments are busy.
A Georgetown man called 1t bakery for shoe
stringu. uIy
The Town Commissioner Of Seaford are build
Ing sewers.
T..e work Of excavation for the new Hotel has
commenced ..t
Tho Delaware city Episcopal church Is to have
now organ ,
Alarge white crane was recently killed at tine
are being enlarged.
some very good-sized catfish are now pelne
caught along the wharves.
camp meeting at Lewisville Circuit, sussex
county, commenced on Friday
The peach pickers about Middletown have RE-
quent lights amongst themselves.
The improvements in st. Mary'a CATHOLIC
Church are approaching completion.
John Wallace, now Of Chicago, Is paying
short visit to his old home in Milford
L. J. Foard, Of the San Francisco Golden Guy,
once Of this city, has recently visited Eiktoh'
We see it stated that the Superintendsesnnso o ..
the Junction and Breakwater Il. u. gets szooo
year.
The Jenny Busk concert troupe did not appeal
in Smyrna Is announced, owing 1t Is said, to sick
ness.
The stockholders of the Diamond State Loan
Association will meet to make their SD payment
this evening.
The Trustees Of the Poor are again taxing
steps toward the removal Of the Almshouse
from this city.
Some peach growers around Middletown refuse
10 Join in tho Wholesale condemnation OF hale's
Early peaches. ..
A camp meeting will commence OH the 18th
inst. in James Martins woods, near Georgetown,
Sussex county.
The third insiallment on tho Wilmington and
Western stock, IL now due, ana payape ~ tho
Companys Office.
The Water Committee has engaged Captain q.
H. Gallagher to Inspect the work Of laying
the new water main.
The Athletic Base Ball Club Of this city has
been reorgAnized and il now ready to receive
and send challenges.
The Washington Fire Company will give an
excursion to Cape May, OH the steamer Sue, on
Thursday, August 3lst.
Vim. Messick, Of Sussex county, had a valuable
horse to die last week on returning home from
hauling peaches to Seaford
Michael McAteer has taken out letters Of ad-
ministration upon the estate Of Catharine Nc
Ateer, OF Christians Hundred.
The Record gives = glowing picture OF the ad,
vantages Of Ssaford, and Hospitality invites all
Rev. Samuel McElwee has accepted the call to
Christ's Church at Dover, and will enter upon his
duties the first Sunday in September.
Rev. Samuel McElwee, Of Washington, d. G.,
has been invited and il IL understood will accept
q call to the Episcopal church, Dover.
The Sunday School of the Catholic, Church, at
Delaware City, recently had very pleasant pic
mic in CleAvef's woods, near that town.
The term of VIM. f. Jones, Prothonotary OF
a,,unov will evpire in January and there
u already an eager scramble for the place.
house belonging to Capt Elisha Carey at
Louisville near Laurel, was consumed by fire on
Wednesday. Loss $500. Furniture saved.
More churches have been closed in this city
this summer than ever before This il right
Cergymen need rest as well ~ other people.
Fishing is forbidden in this State on Sunday
under penalty of $50 which knocks the calcu.
lations OF some Of the excursionists at Lewes.
A down country paper says ''rowdyism s ram
pant in Wilmington" which IL simply untrue
There is less fighting here than in most PENN
Hula towns.
number Of colored rowdies accompanied tho
L. Zion Sunday School excursion from this city,
and engaged in thieying and pistol-iiring at
Bombay Hook
The building committee Of the NJ. L. Church
at SMYRNA, has determined to appoint superin-
tendent to do the work on their church instead
Of contracting.
Dr. Negendank is enlarging and improving the
dwelling on the farm which he recently purchased
near the Brandywne Presbyterian Church, in
ChristianA Hundred.
Eighth Street Market House is one Of the
institutions OF the city. More market houses
are needed in other sections, and our main street
should be freed from market men.
The coored people Of Smyrna, will hold camp
meeting In the woods of Horace Sprnance, Esq,
near Sassafras Crossing. commencing August
18th. Rev.Jacob Wilkshelms, pastor.
John STAFFORD who is managing the farm OF
James O. Douglass, near Chippewa, New Castle
Hundred, has seventy acres Of corn which it is
estimated will yield over 900 bushels.
The contractor who has been digging the
grave Of the Democratic party Of this city in
Eleventh street. between West and Delaware
Avenue has left 1t 30 that horses are likely to be
driven into it at any time. Look out for acci-
dents in that quarter.