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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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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Rim Mee Cial
Orrice Pe
Jota McLearz Soo
Board of Trustees of the Poor of
New Castle County
Tg Hare
SER Ucr
Allen Gaw Throp
Joan W. Evans
Newark
George Ludge
Claymont
Octil-Dawin Aituasiog
Sixth Street
I. i. Frazer
Telegraph Building
Third and Market
Front
Clayton Streets
Clayton Street
Geo
C. Maris
Market Street
Third Street
M. & S. Brown
E. Belt
James Belt
E. Bringhurst & Co
Market Streets
BOR Sale
Ata
Roward Gents
Alfred Betts
Jackson Street
P. Johnon
D'nake Avenue
Masonic Mall
I. B. McIntire
Gazette
Market Etreet
Roial
Pn Bel
THE
East Third Street
Wilmington, del
Jacob Butz
Butz & Bro
King Street
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Delaware
Best
Oranlities
A&c
I'ler’s
Himothy
Nile
Local Intelligence
H.J. Liftchild
Milford
Harrington Road
Richard Corsa
Cordham
N. Y
Tax Press
Wilmington Press
Board of Trade
Horace Greeley
Penn
Rt. R. Co
Messra, Thomas & Son
Delaware City
David H. Wingate
W. B
Hilles & Jones
Wilmington & Reading Railroad
Brooks’ Locomotive Works
Dunkirk
Grant Locomotive Works
Pnterson
N. J
Anthony Rue
Ellerslie
Ofice of Esquire Vuh
Bays
Philip Quigley
Wales
Wasesa Damages
Pennsylvania Avenue
North Side
van Buren
du Yont
Edward T. Belian
Franda Barry
Lewis Thompson
Chas
1. Dulont
Lucas Ulrich
Messrs. Ward, Blades & Co
Chrisfield
J. H. Vincent
D. D
Grace Church
Puesda
Masonic Temple
General Hall
Historical Society of Delaware
Gettysburg
Jas. C. Beebe
Thomas Rowland, Jr
Samuel 8. McCracken
Mills
Stewart
Isaac Wilson
Fourth
Winstow
Wilson
Tie
Alms House
Pennsylvania State _ Poult Society
Concert Hall
Philadelpha
James B. Nicholson
Grand Lodge of
U.S
Masonic Hall
Eden Lodge
C. F
Nicholson
Munper
John R. Plater
Cambridge
Jan Virginia
Easton
Plater
Granville Worrell
Grocers & Gen Dealers
Ss. W. Cor
Fourth and Market St
Goversi
Coley
Ee‘yrustres
George B. Rodney
Eqs
Lippincott’s
Tioter
Middletown
A. Malmsten
Wilmington Householders Association
Sweden
A. H. Grimshaw
Workingmen’s Institute
Mowruty
Hed Men's Hall
LaVille
Wilmington and
Brandywine Council
Hall
Market
Franklin Council
Mechanics’ Hall
Enterprise Circle
Washington Lodge
Knights [ Despare
Old Church
Spruce
Wayaset Lodge
Boott
Roots
Washington
King Stree
Merindes
Cretonnes
Serges
Empress
Poplins
V. M. Kennard & CO
Market Street, Nor
James Bradford
Lilden & Nephew
Ecalcomania
N. B
Sium
James France
Apapha
I.el
Bayer Langings
WNDOW
A. B. Jones
Gil Market Street
John Boddy
Confections
Toys Children’s Coaches
John Roddy
Wilmington. Cat
Shcmilon
Blo
Ireland
Norway
Denmark
Germany
France
Belgium
United States
New York
Lndon
Liverpool
Glasgow
Henderson Brothers
Toar
Mt Eeton
Blatchley
Blaley
Senley
Nate
Reni
Duas G. Buarenier
M’fr
Commerce St
Phila
M. A. Corbon
Wilngton and
Michael McGeary
Teas County
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