The Morning herald., 1876-07-24
ONE CENT.
Minor Locale.

Minor Locale.
The price ofbutter is still advancing.
The showers of yesterday were quite en-
joyable.
The Thermometer was satisfied yesterday
at $50.
Harvest peas have appeared in our mar
ket.
Lewes Is said to be famous town for
geese.
Bush's Philadelphia freight line il prompt
and reliable. @5.
Rehoboth is fast becoming popular -
place of resort.
St. Paul's pastoral residence is now ct
SOL jackson street.
Quite number of Wilmingtonians visited
Penn's Grove, yesterday.
. Lancaster county prison has only "a avail
able cells and 1866 inmates.
All kinds of fruits are ripening much ear
lier this year than generally.
The Centennial is not very popular with
the average Wilmingtonian.
Cool Spring Reservoir will again, to day
resound with the pick and shovel.
The attendance at the Chester Heights
Camp Meeting is said to be rather slim.
The blackberries this season are unusually
plenty, and said to be very fine in quality. <
Chief-Justice Comegys and family have
gone to Rehoboth to spend the heated term.
New Castle is almost hidden from view,
by the luxuriant shade from the large trees
in it.
Next Sunday will close the services at the
First Unitarian Church, until September
the first.
The churches were not so well attended
on sunday, owing to the rainy like aspect
about 1890.
Rev. Louis E. Barrett, pastor of Epworth
chapel, is now at Cambridge, spending his
vacation.
Rev. William Murphy, pastor of the Old
Swedes' Church, has returned from his
visit to Cape May.
The Flick's Boat Club, of Philadelphia,
visite1 our city on Saturday and returned
home in the evening.
The St. Michcels, Nd, "Comet and Ad-
vertiser" has been sold by w. NJ. Poisal to
Mr.. George E. Haddaway.
This morning the men who may be for
tunate enough to get job, will pick up the
shovel to excavatc the new basin.
Notwithstanding the hard times, quite .
number of our citizens are engaged in build
ing houses throughout the city.
Perch fishing is said to be unusually good
this season, and are much larger than
those formerly caught in our streams.
The managers af the Brandywine Summit
camp meeting grounds have resolved upon
q ro6Y1 in tho to1 rNf
On Saturday evening, August 12th, fair
will be opened In the basement of st. Paul's
Church, Fourth and jackson streets.
Our city is still overrun with tramps, butt It
is hoped that the peach harvest will give
employment to great many of them.
"Lizzie Keller" reliable 2.27 trotter, 10
years old, fine size and perfectly broken,
will be sold On the 31st inst, at Lancaster.
Mr.. Dick Harrington is spending the
! summer at the Prospect House on the Cana
dian side of the Niagara River at the falls.
l. If the cool nights continue, the only thing
| that can possibly prevent one from enjoying
sleep, will be the enlivening bux of some
blood thirsty mosquito.
| Yesterday was the first one for thirty
days during will ch the mercury did not rise
to 900. Last night at sundown 1t was only
up to 76o.
The Hope Bay Club, comprising seven
teen members, propose making trip down
the bay, starting on the 29th inst. They
will be gone ten days.
The Jersey mosquitoes are said to he con-
scious that this is the Centennial year. and
are accordingly much larger and more
healthy than heretofore.
The number of visitors to the Centennial
Exhibition since the opening aggregates
2,254, ,074, and the cash receipts STAB ,576 ,5O.
The number of uon-paying visitors is there
fore 76s,92+.
| VIM. Adds, an elderly gentleman, resid-
ing on Penn ST., Reading, got up in his sleep
on Tuesday night and accidently fell from
the I'd story window, breaking his leg in two
places.
Mr.. Charles W. Pusey, of the firm Of
Pusey, Jones & Co., of this city, left here ON
Thursday last, for San Francisco, Cal, to
take charge Of the Goodall, Nelson and
Perkins steamship line, Of that city.
The D, H. 8. & R. club, numbering about
J ifteen persons, inteud making trip down
. }he bay, and along the coast to Long Island
} Sound and vicinity, some time next month.
The party will be gone nearly month.
Academy" is the name of a new station
on the P. w. u B. r. r., nea. Sharon
Hill. This makes fifteen stopping places
between Chester and Philadelpnia-a dis
tapce of fourteen miles. No one can CON-
! plain of lack of accommodation on this
!, road.
H,~-a>... Ol...~ nyn.m.