Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-31
LOCAL NEWS.
NciHl,Do ing Counties.

| Rabbit shoot'n in Pennsylvania must cease
| tomorrow.
| West Ch'4:9 will lave but few weddings
| this winter, s1 'tis said.
The cid West Chester H. r. was opened to
travel on Sunday, with great effort.
The re opening of the Brandywine Baptist
Church has been postponed until Jan. o.
-Twenty-nine properties will be sold at West
Chester by the Sheriff on the 23td Of January.
Hay is selling in the heighborhsod OF Oxford
at from $50 to $3S per ton, 1t is said to be very
scarce
| DR. T. W. Taylor is anxious for a night
school at Kennett Square, and even offers q room
rent free.
The Chester County Needle Works. located
near Lswrenceville, turn out weekly from q, 900
to 10000 needles. n
VIM. II. Kembe's dwelling, at 2lst and
| Spring Garden, was robbed Of jewelry worth
| 81 1880 on Saturday.
The Borough Council Of Kennett Square
wants to borrow $1,000 with which to pay of it's
Bonds to that amount,
Tho Phenixville Messenger office has passed
into the hands Of an assignee with $3 900 labili-
ties and 81 ,O4O in assets.
--lsaac Pyle, of Illinois, formerly proprietor
OF the hotel at Kenneth Square, is on a visit,
with his family, to his old home.
Joseph Christy, OF E. Brandywine, Chester
county, was found dead. beside log last Tues
day, where he had eat downto whet his axe.
The thief who has been stealing 80 many
| horses in Hartford county has, at last. been APP
pretended. His name is Frederick Cohen.
Many Of the mills in the middle and north
| ern parts OF Chester county have been compelled
to stop FOR tho past week on account of the ice
| There is 80 mnch extra business before the
| Chester county court that an additional panel of
| jurymen had to be summoned for the approach
| ing term.
Joseph Kaufman will assist in the manage
ment Of the Coatesyille Uni0n after January.
MIR. f. P. Hart, who has been the editor, enters
on other duties.
| The large Anthracite Furnrce lat ,Brdsboro
belonging to Messrs. e. Il G.. Brooke, which blew
out for repairs some two months ago, will be put
in blast this week.
--Rebecca A. Schanck a colored woman resid-
| ing in West Chester, was found dead in her bed
on Friday morning last. She was at festival
tine evening previous.
An eccentric traveller. is peregnnating
through Chester county with 40 jewsharps at
tached to string. He stops at private residen-
ces and gives free concerts. it iaH
Tho Reading Railroad moved a coal tonnage
during its year ending on the Both ut., of ,1s5,
493 tons, the largest tonnage in any one week
reaching 1871 ,048 tons.
The Free Reading Room for Mechanics is to
be opened 10 Chester, after the first of the year
-booksi papers ana games are TO DO the lnduce-
ments for an attendance.
An industrious colored woman named Eliza
| Brown, residing in Chester. was robbed one day
| last week, Of ninety-sx dollars, the savings from
the whole Of last summers work.
Several passengers at the Baltimore Central
| Junction were detained at that place on Thurs
day last over "a hours One night was spent by
| them at that pleasant and romantic retreat.
The Missionary Society of the Central Pres
| byterian Church, Of Downingtown, sent west,
| two weeks ago, box containing clothing etc.,
for destitute missionaries on the frontier; val
ued at 100000.
| The Rev. John Bolton, of West Chester, has
accepted the appointment of honorable secreta-
| ry of the Commission of Home Missions to the
colored people for the Episcopal Diocese of
| Pennsylvania.
Eugene Brady. Cease removed from Hartford
to Cecil county, plead insanity as an excuse for
an attempt to murder John w. Anderson, by
striking him with an umbrella in which a bal
of iron was concealed, but the jury didn't 30 adj
| judge him, and his residence for the next two
| years will be the penitentiary.
--Robt McCaulley took passage on a train
| east on the p. Il b. G. II. r., for Lincoln, but
/ upon reaching that point determined to go furth.
or and left the train to procure ticket for this
| purpose. In endeavoring to jump upon the train
/ while in motion he fell between the platform and
| car and narrowly escaped death.