Middletown transcript., 1868-12-05
LOCAL ApEArRs.

ty purpose attending Mr.. Greely's lecture
on 4 Self Made Men," to be delivered at
Elkton on Monday evening next, att o.
clock. Mr. Greely is not much OF
a faYorite among our citizens, but his mo-
toriety attracts, not less than the subject
Of bis lecture, which is very popular
one and which the lecturer possesses the
ability to present to his auditors in very
attractive form, provided be will keep his
peculiar idiosynerasies out of view. sg,a.s.s
Rev. A. A. Willis, will also deliver q
lecture in the Odd Fellows Hall, at Elk
ton, ON Thursday, evening". January IA,
1868. Subject Sunshine the Secret of
Happiness" i
PosT OFFICE AFFAIRs.-A new post Of
fee is established at Urieville, Kent coun-
ty, Md. and Henry NJ. Rollison appointed
postmaster; directly on the route from
Elkton to Chestertown, ON which service
is six times week. AT Fieldsboro' New
Castle county, Del. Edward Silcox, Jr. is
appointed postmaster, vice Joseph c..
Hutchison, resigned. AT FELTON, Station,
Ken Mt county, Del. M. Norris Stevenson
is appointed postmaster, vice VIM. III.
Cain, failed to bond,
IMPROVEMENTS IN MDDLETowN.-The
have been erected in Middletown, during
this year, twenty-five dwelling houses,
ono brick and two frame store houses, one
ste am sash factory, one large brick Town
Hall, seventy feet square, and one large
ware-room, besides stables and other out
buildings. Where is the town of not more
than one thousand inhabitants, that can
show more extensive Improvements during
the year?
Fairs, festivals, hops, lectures, concerts
and sociables, are all projected, here, this
winter, in view of the speedy completion
of the Town Hall. Our citizens are fond Of
am usement, and will not lack that kind of
aliment after the Hall is finished. A public
Library and Lyceum, are also contempla-
ted. Several gentlemen with most com
mqndable liberality and public spirit, have
exp pressed determination to make dona-
tid ms in aid of Library.
The Cecil Democrat says :-Easton pa
pc RS say that railroad is projected from
EIkton to Halltown, in Caroline county
thereby to secure an equal chance for Bal
tirhore, etc. This may be projected, u
but it will never be built, nor would it pay
if it should If the people below want Q
direct route to Baltimore, they can readily
SECURE it at a less cost, by making a short
road from Elkton to Middletown.
+ Duck k-shooting on the Bohemia and Sas.
safras rivers. has been quite lively this
Fall. Two young gentlemen killed 66, il
"a hours, recently on the Bohemia. They
SEX cured forty-eight, and eighteen Others
could not be secured, on account of the
stormy day. We are indebted to one o
the gentlemen alluded to, who is capita
shot, for brace of fine black heads.
A rumor was current here, some day
since, that Mr.. Charles Smith, carpenter
formerly of this town, was knocked over.
board and drowned, from an oyster boat, be
tween Wilmington and Philadelphia, on TIN
18th of November. This cannot be true
as letter has been received here sine
from Mr.. Smith, dated New Haven, CT
Nov. 21st, 1868.
A protracted meeting has been in pro
gtess at the Warwick Methodist Protest
ant Church, for five weeks, Rev DIR
Ewell, pastor. Fotty-eight persons hav
been added to the Church, in that place
and about sixty have professed chang
, Of heart The meeting is still in progress
81 Mr.. VIM. Moat is building on LAX
a street, frame tenement, 35 by % feet
Mr.. John Morrison, contractor. MI
. Morrison is also erecting two back build
: ings for Mrs. Lydia V. Cannon, ON Mai
street.
Mr.. Lingo is building dwelling hous
+ for Mr.. Thomas w. Buckle, on Lake st.
e Elizabeth Massey, a colored woman Ii,
t ing on the farm of Mr.. Samuel Fenimort
near Odessa, had the thumb of her le
hand amputated on Monday last, by Di
+ G.. G.. Chamberlaine, of this town, on az
count of bone felon. Chloric Ether wa
: administered to facilitate the operation.
e John Peoples, of Christiana Hundred
was on Wednesday chosen Cashier of IL
> National Union Bank of Delaware,
re Wilmington, vice Joseph w. Day.
he The Gazette says that the liabilities
Mr.. Day, the late defaulting cashier, wi
amount to $44, 500.
*l FRESH FIsH.-Our town has been SUI
i ulied TO, some weeks past, with pix
a perch, and mu,,llets, from Noxentown mil
pond. They are tassen by the gill-ne
and are sold at ten cents per pound.
: An election for nine Directors will
= held in the banking house at Odessa, /
e Wednesday, the 9th of January next. at
+ O'clock, p. M. See notice Of Cashier,
m cur advertising columns.
1t VIM. G. T. Poulson, convicted of forg
ry year or SO ago, and confined since
I, New Castle, has been Internationally pa
! doned by the President of the Unite
: States and set at liberty.
Of The bridge over the Sassafras river, b
d tween Georgetown and Fredericktown,