Middletown transcript., 1868-01-04

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= Public HaH.-We are pleased to learn
that the Commissioners Of the Middletown
Hall Company are about taking active
steps toward erecting their Hall during
the year. $500 have been subscribed,
and the most desirable lot on Main street,
,69 by 1856 feet, has been purchased, and
they are about placing their specifications
in the hands of an architect Certainly
the Hall is much needed, and we doubt
not the stock can be managed SO judicious-
ly as to pay a good per centage and will
doubtless prove safe and paying invest
ment. ~
Shares of stock are issued at $40, and
we hope that every citizen of the town,
and the entcrprising men of the vicinity,
will be active in taking the stock at once,
so that our town may boast Of a neat and
commodious building before the close Of
the ensuing summer. Nothing can be
done to add more to the value of property
and to make the town attractive than a
good Public Hall. We learn that the
plan proposed will give ps handsome
building, an ornament to the town, and a
good Investment to the ehterprising men
of capital who may feel disposed to aid in
its erection.
The Sunday School of StI AIMS Church
held their Christmas anniversary in the
Sunday School room in Middlctown, on
Christmas evening. Carols were sung
sweetly by the scholars, and a beautifully
lighted Christmas Tree added to their en-
joyment Also, Monday 23a, st. AIMS
congregation visited the RectSry, aud fur
nished the Rector and his wifawi vast
number of the good things of fife, includ-
ing turkeys, chickens, &c. and presented
the Rector, Rev j, w. Brown, with q
purse containing $115. Mr.. Blown has
resigned the Rectorship of St. AIMS, tt
the general regret of his parish9ners, and
removes shortly to Philadelphia, where he
will assume the Rectorship Of Trinity
Church, and which opens up before him
perhaps, q wider sphere of usefulness
The Rectorship of st. AIMS is for thu
present vacant.
| Owing to the cold snap which topk place
early in December, and so severe as t.
close navigation on all the credis and in.
lets to the landings upon the 0hesapeakc
and Delaware Bays for several miles below
the Chesapeake and Delaware Qd,al, tn,
grain market at this place has bcln quite
brisk, since the new crop of corn began t,
come in; more than 40, 900 busaels o
corn and 10, 900 bushels of wheat having
been delivered during the last motth, be-
sides potatoes, oats, and other gHin anC
seeds usually sent from this staf fon by
railroad. And this large amounqDf pro
duce is freighted from Middleto1l, not
withstanding much grain is shippd botl
at Townsend and Mount Pleasant, the one
four miles south, the other four rmilb nortl
of this town. We understand tho trad'
! from all the stations ON the road lbs beer
equally brisk, IS ..ii,eal q.
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The BF2morc Cent'd ,dPoH RM.7-
There is prosperous future befqe th
road beyond all question. Owms to it
financial cmbarrassments, it encoR Rtere,
much difficulty in its construction; hut tn
indomitable perseverance of its Mhager
triumphcd. We congratulate the lircct
ors of the road upon the "good timl tina
is coming"
The Wilmington and Reading R6lwa
will connect with the New Castle and Wi
mington Railway, two miles from tlt lat
4 ter place This will put the new lhc i
, communication with the Delaware Rive
$ at New Castle, and with The roads throt gll
: out the peninsula.-,JeNrSonian-
The Delaware and chesapeake Cni
\ which has been blocked up with ice biJ
y some time past, is now open, and the b
+ lesson lines have resumed their reguli
trips to Baltimore, Philadelphia and NJ
: York.
Three hundred cords of wood, belonl
ing to Mr. Gray, storel in the Railro;
Company's woodshed, al Harrington, we
70 destroyed by fire on Christmas.
h A large coasting schooner, laden vii
If coal, was cut through by the ice, al
h sunk, at the Delaware City wharf la
/ week.
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