Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1871-11-30
The Smallpox record OF Philadelphia shows
deaths per day for the last week.

The Smallpox record OF Philadelphia shows
twenty-five deaths per day for the last week.
Ship Yards.-The s'e.m tug Andrea @.
Gray, Of Chesapeake Guy, Nd. arrived at
Enocn Moore's ship yard ON Tuesday, for
repairs.
Police RecOrd.-Last week, Mayor Valen-
entine heard the following cases For drunk
enness, II larceny, 5 assault and battery, 3 ;
threatening bodily harm, total, 20 cases.
Religious Services. Service in the Hanover
Street Presbyterian Church, corner of Sixth
and King streets, this morning at 100 o'clock.
Preaching by the pastor, Rev. Lafayette
Marks. The public are cordially invited.
DR.. Brown's Sale.-Dr. ]. A. Brown on
Saturday last sold his household goods, horses,
cows, hay, ETC., but did not sell the houses
advertised The amount of the sale was ST.
1862. 70, and the average price of cows was $50
each.
Valuable Steam POioer-Mr. A. L. Hen
derer, who has opened neat machine shop,
at the northwest corner of Third and Tatnall
Streets has a small steam engine which will
interest farmers, mechanics and factors A
three-horse power engine weighs 2, 100 pounds
End occupies space feet in diameter and 64
feet high.
County Farm Purchdsed.-Tho Trustees
OF the Poor at their meeting held on Wednes-
day, purchased the McCrone farm, near
Hare's Corner, for the New County Aims
House Building, &c. The price paid is one
hundred and twenty-five dollars, per acre.
We understand there are about one hundred
and forty acres in the farm.
City Markets On Wednesday farmers sold
butter from 40 to Acc pound lard, 124c do !;
turkeys and chickens, 1Sc do indian meal,
&c do; ducks, 81 to 81 40 pair patrdges,
zoe do eggs, 40c a dozen hominy, 10c a
quart sweet potatoes, 90 to 25c half peck !;
Irish potatoes. lOc do apples, l7c do; tur-
nips, &c do /; Irish potatoes, soc bushel ap-
pies, $l.20 do.
an Old Document Jos. C. Taylor,
grocer, No. 93l West Front street, has ia
his posst sson deed, for one thousand two
hundred aud fifty acres of land In Delaware
county, on which the town CT Media now
stands. The land was conveyed by VIM.
Penn, the founder Of Pennsylvania. TO WIN.
and Peter Taylor, on the third day Of March,
1851, and the document bears the hand
wiring of Penn, tOgeih"r with his seal.
Lumber.-The brig Lepes Clark of Bangor,
Capt. E. Smith, arrived at this port on We'd
nesday with 200, 900 feet of Maine lumber, for
Messrs. W. r. g. II. Cause also, 90, 200 feet
for Philadelphia.
The schooner NJ E. Fsmerick of Milton,
Capt. Daisey, arrived on Wednesday, with
165,00 feet of lumber, from Jacksonville,
Fla, for the Philadelphia, Wilmington g. Bal
tmore Railroad Company.
:. Hebron Lodge, No. IA, T. o. o. f. of Sea-
ford, now meet regularly in their new Lodge
room on High street. The room is neatly
finished, and furnished with library, for the
use of the members. 1t is one OF the most
complete and comfortable lodge rooms in the
State, and reflects much credit upon the men,
bers Of old "Hebron,n for their taste and lib
erality. The Lodge is twenty -four years old,
and has a membership of nearly one hundred.
Ship Yards.-The steamship Mdtdg0rdd,
of Morgan's steamship line between New Or
leans and Galveston, arrived at the Harlan,
Hollingsworth & Co.'S, ship yard on Saturday
for repairs, which will require two or three
months work. The steamer Annie of War
ner's Electric Line, left the yard on Saturday,
after having undergone repairs. The steamer
Vesper of the same line, also arrived for re-
pairs on Saturday.
The u s. government steamer U. s. Grant
made a trial trip on Monday, leaving Messrs.
Pusey, Jones g. Cos, ship yard about eleven
o'clock
Cieaity.-
Civility costs nothing,
And'at times we find