Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-07-12

The Chester Neos, of Saturday, says:
"It has been discovered that the coping
of the p, W. h B. depot, this city. hal
been placed sig or eight inches too low
It would have been better, in tho long
run, to have built new depot"
p Rev. Jesse B. Knipe, pastor of the
Reformed churches Of st. Paul's, Pikeland
and Vincent, Chester county, is lying very
| i'll from the effects of fall and is scarcely
expected to recover He has been pastor
| of the above charge for nearly 40 years.
The West Chester Neus says it under
stands that. William W. Poll, recently loca
editor of the Republican of West Chester,
intends starting paper in kenneti
Square. Mr.. Polk will have the best
wishes Of his many friends for his success.
On Saturday afternoon, saysthe Cheste,
Ne,os, two women in Chester got into a
quarrel over national affairs and fought
| fiercely, seriously marring each others
physiognomies. We trust this ia not
Chester's mode of showing appreciation
of woman's rights.
Maggie Stewart, of Chester, aged 1G
years, was struck over the right eye by a
base ball on last Friday afternoon, and
knocked senseless. A gang Of rough boys
were playing ball in the streets. The
victim OF their brutal carelessness suffers
greatly from the wound.
On Tuesday, George Weaver and
William Elliott, who are believed TO be
members of gang of Philadelphia
thieves, were lodged in jail, charged with
Burglary at William Lockwood's, Glenloch,
Chester county, short time ago. They
acknowledged the offense.
Justice Adams, of Havre-de- Grace,
recently rendered decision in COW case
to the effect that tho ordinance prohibit
ing persons from allowing COWS to run at
large in the streets is illegal. That style
of "justice" will not be likely to commend
itself to the Circuit Court. -5-t
The contracts for building an iron
bridge over the Brandywine Ut Coatesville,
were awarded on Thursday. Peter Burns,
Of Reeseville, gets the store work at d 1859,
and the Bridge Company Of Canton, Ohio,
the stoneworh at = 800. The bridge will
be SO feet long and 81 wide. ---.t'
A man named Wilson had his pocket
picked at Chester, on Sunday, while lying
on the wharf intoxicated. He said the
amount taken was 1862. Is. James Boyle was
arrested, charged with the theft. Witnesses
testified to seeing his thievish operations,
and he was held in $500 bail. r
The Fourth was celebrated at West
Chester by a parade of the local military
companies and the National Grays Of
Philadelphia, and by literary exercises in
Horticultural Hall in the afternoon, the
ohiaf faotuvo nj ,u1,ia1S
Grafton by John ], Pinkerton, Esq.
Lieutenant William Wor,ah Savage,
Navigating Lieutenant of Her Royal Navy,
is now visiting DR.. Miner Worrall, at
West Chester. The Lieutenant has
recently been connected with the iron clad
fleet at Constantinople and now is on
leave Of absence prior to his reporting fer
duty at Nassau.
The Fourth was celebrated at Chester by
pic-nics, and meeting in the City Hall,
where Alfred Taylor read the Declaration
of Independence, and addresses were
given by Mayor FORWARD, Major Stacy, U.
Johuson, Esq. There was less than the
usual amount of fighting and rum-drink-
ing,
Mrs. Lydia Vaughn, widow lady of
| Atglen, Chester county, so years of age,
was struck by freight train at that place
Monday evening and one of the bones Of
her shoulder broken. Her in
juries are not considered very dangerous.
The West Chester Ne,es says the first hus-
band of this lady was John Duer, once a
well-known lawyer Of West Chester.
Richard Darlington, whose Seminary
building and residence ut Ercildoun wert
SO badly used by the tornado Recently, hal
purchased the farm Of F. A. Dick, JUS
outside the limits of West Chester, at
cost of $4,000. 1t contains ~ acres a
land, and pns pr two buildings. My
darlington intends erecting there schoo
building to accommodate 30 pupils, an.
hopes to open his school in October.
The other evening a celored boy i,
Chester stole GO or 10 cents from the til
Of small store, while the proprietress wa
cooking supper in another Ta.al, the,
called her and Invested ! cent in cakes
giving . piece of money of a large
denomination than that small coin. As h
had taken all the change previously, tn
theft was discovered and he was sooI
locked up.
The shooting of Mrs. Louisa Culin a
Chester, on the Fourth, mentioned il
EVERY EVENING AND COMMERCIAL yeste,
day, is believed to be due to the careless
ness of young man who was shooting q
target. She was sitting on the from
doorstep Of her home, and was knpcke
senseless by a large reyolyer ball whial
struck her an the head behind the left ear
The bullet was extracted. A fracture o
the skull was produced, but the brain wa
not injured. 1t is feared that the resul
will be very serious.
On Tuesday evening week, says tn
West Chester Neps, Mrs. Mary Root, c
North Coventry township, Chester county
was engaged in milking, when eros
bull in the barnyard made fierce attac
: upon her, threw her to the ground ap
t gored her in the most frightfal manner
the abdomen and sides, and would no doul
, have killed her had it not been for Mr.
White hearing the screams Of the injure
: woman, and promptly appearing on tt
ground seized pitch fork and made BATH
, with the Infatuated animal. This drew tt
. attention of the latter, from the object of h
attack to Mrs White, who kept the bull &
! bay with the fork until both could oscar
: from the barn yard. Mrs. Root is sufferin
q severely from the effect of her wounds.
s The West Chester Record estimates thl
more than 1000 people visited, last SUI
/ day, the ruins made at Ercildoun by IL
n recent tornado. They were from all par
7 of Chester county and the neighborin
/ counties of Lancaster, Montgomery, Del
ware and Berks. Quite delegation fro
= Baltimore went by train to Oxford ar
: thence 10 the sceae OF devastation
|. carriages. It is stated that nearly 81
8 carriages were counted at one time {
Sunday in the vicinity of Ercildou
Many contributions for the relief OF Il
= sufferers were made.
}, The Chester county papers devote mu'
J, space, as ia natural, to the great whirlwil
OF Sunday last. A correspondent of Il
" West Chester Locat Neaes says it appea
to have begun near the Gap in Lancast
"a county. From there to Marshallton, .
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