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Wilmington Daily Gazette

Location

Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Date

Dec 02, 1872

Page

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Local Intelligence update features trials and weather note

Congress meets today as a lively hailstorm recedes. Bill Dennis faces a January hanging. Union M E Church protracted meeting continues. Slippery streets cause falls. Various local notices include auctions, road work, and civic appointments. A Salisbury man, George Polnit, linked to a Wilmington disaster, is noted amid legal and trade items.

Congress Bill Dennis Union M. E. Church Joe Hamilton George Polnit George Dutton Thealisbury Negro Wilmington Del Salisbury

Court Proceedings Report From 1872 Oyer and Terminer Session

Court proceedings in Delaware include a rape sentence for Wm Dennis to be hanged on January 24 in a private prison area after 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and judge led cases against Stein Heck and Howard with pillory, lashes, and two-year confinement for two other Germans. The docket notes larceny charges, vacated jury verdicts, reversals for lack of jurisdiction, and adjournments with legal rulings on sheriff sales and foreign attachments.

Courts of Oyer and Terminor Louis Stein Fredrick Heck Geo. Howard T Day Cts Costa Geo. B. Rodney Pencader Hundred John and Wan Ward Wm.s. McCaulley J. K. Williamson, Esq W. G. Whiteley, Esq American Life Insurance Co Wm. Reynolds Gibbons B. RK George A. Willis Gray Nathaniel ‘Womlinson Wm. Smith Philip Burk

Magistrates Cases Before Mayor

Robert Doolin, for drunkenness and vagrancy, was committed to New Castle for sixty days. Jno W Myers, from Baltimore, stopped in Wilmington, spent all his money, arrested, fined the usual amount but discharged for lack of funds, with promise to leave the city. James Potter, cdl, for drunkenness, fined 50 cents and costs. Mrs Grundy endorses ScroperT for teeth and gums, echoed by many ladies of fashion.

Robert Doolin New Castle Jno. W. Myers Baltimore Philadelphia Wilmington James Potter Cdl

Bargain Coal and Grocer Offers At Bowman’s

Cheap coal and stove fuel offered 6.25 for 2240 pounds cash only at yard south of Market Street Bridge. Also English pickles sauces Walnut tomato catsup fresh salmon lobsters sardines oysters and olive oils at Bowman's the Grocer's Fourth and Lombard. Improved preserving kettles and air tight jars and cans sold cheap by Bowman’s.

Market Street Bridge J. Brown Matthews & Latours Bowman's Lombard Mason Dexter Valve Wilcox Bowman’s Grocer 4Th

Smyrna Church dedicates new bell and $20,000 improvements

Smyrna Methodist Church completes and re-dedicates upgrades including a 2096 pound bell costing 920, with two towers, a 60 by 45 foot front, 75 seating capacity in a 45 by 62 foot auditorium. Furnishings feature walnut pews, frescoed walls, stained glass, and a large organ. Also notes sale ads, subscriptions, lectures, and police blotter items in the same issue.

Smyrna Methodists of Sm Mes la LY David Sutton Worden & Evans Messrs Peeky and Sutton Messrs. Sutton Willard Weldon 8. L. Clark John Enos

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