Middletown transcript., 1868-08-15
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

MORE RAIL ROAD ACCOMMODATION -
On and after Monday next, 18th, it is pro-
posed to run passenger car on freight
trains between Wilmington and Harring-
ton, each way, daily, Sundays excepted.
Going South-Trains leave Wilmington
8 am; New Castle 8. so; Middletown s. 30;
Clayton $50; Connecting except ON Mon
days with train from Smyrna) Dover 7 40;
Camden 8; FELTON, $40; due at Harring-
ton at 9 am. Going North-Leave Har-
rington A p. m; FELTON, 4.25; Camden
$40; Dover $40; Moorton 6; Clayton
8 6.25; Middletown LAO; New Castle 9; ar
rive at Wilmington $50 p. m. subject to
delays incident to freight business. These
trains will not stop specially to take up
passengers (when there is no freight work
to do) at any other station than the above
named, but will stop to let off passengers
at any stopping place except Hare's Cor
ner, State Road, Delaware Junction and
DUPONT.
The peach season has fairly commenced.
Six hundred baskets passed up the Della
ware Railroad on the 7th inst. all from
the lower part of the State None had
been shipped, up to that date, from any
point on the road above Bridgeville. An
average of four hundred boxes day,
equal to eight hundred baskets, are now
passing over the road. Prices must con-
tinue to rule high, owing to the scarcity.
Mr.. Edward G. Fenimore shipped 175
baskets of peaches from New Castle wharf
on Thursday, for New York, and will
continue to pick each day until his crop is
all sold. He will have some 5000 bas-
kets. perhaps the largest yield in the State.
Two hundred and twenty-four baskets
were shipped from New Castle on that day.
AS fertilizer, Bowers COMPLETE MA
NURE has gained reputation of the high
est character, and we learn that it has
been in great request; the time is fast ap-
preaching when farmers should turn their
attention to the selection of the manure
they intend employing to insure good
crop of Wheat. We recommend to them
the COMPLETE MANURE as being the best
adapted to produce the required results.
BASKET MAKING.-A. G. Baldwin is
engaged in this business at Townsend.
His baskets are made of white oak slips,
and are smoothly and substantially put to-
gether. He makes all sizes, from the
bushel basket down to the smallest in use.
and will fill all orders, either for neacb bas-
kets, or the ordinary starm baskets. With
the ASSISTANCE of another, he is able to turn
out 5000 baskets per year. The price of
his bushel baskets is one dollar each.
Alexander Wilson, Esq. is erecting
handsome new dwelling house, % by 46
feet, three stories high, frame, on his
farm at Wilson's Point, on the Sassafras
river, Kent county, Md. P. G. Strickland
of Elkton, contractor. Mr.. Wilson is
most successful farmer, and has made his
farm like garden for thorough tillage
and fertility.
A violent storm passed over the region
about Mount Pleasant, on Friday after
noon of last week. The hail damaged the
corn fields considerably; the rail road
track was overAowed, and the cars were
detained half an hour by the mud and
other obstructions deposited upon the
track.
James Booth, confined by the Judgment
of the Court in the insane department Of
| New Castle County Aims House, ESCAPED
from that institution, one day last week,
and returned to New Castle. He was re.
arrested by Sheriff Herbert, and taker
back to his old quarters.
T. w. Eliason, Esq. has resigned tn,
Presidency of the Kent County Railroad
and William Janvier, ESQ. has been elect
ed in his place. Robert Nicholson, Esq
has been elected Director of said Com
pany, in the place of Hon. George Wicker
resigned.
On Thursday next, the Goth inst. tn
Camp Meeting of the Smyrna Circuit nea
Blackbird, in Mr.. Jacob Hills woods
four miles from Smyrna, will commence
1t is said there will be over sixty tents
erected.
| ~ o. NoWIahu' ISq resluinS near lao
Gust Grove, Kent county, Md. lost a val
liable horse, in the field, on the 7th inst
The animal fell dead at the plow. 1t wa
insured at $140.
About twelve miles of the Queen Anne
Railroad have been graded. The work
we understand, is progressing finely.
Mr.. Horning will be absent from MID
dletown for week from next Thursda,
at the Smyrna Circuit Camp.
Curious INcIDENT.-A very pretty an
, curious incident illustrative of the reason
ing powers possessed by inferior animals
recently occurred in the case of canar
bird. The door of the birds cage was O,