Middletown transcript., 1868-09-12
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

meet in the city of Wilmington, in
McDonneiPs Hall, No. 504 Market street,
On Thursday the Sth of October next, at
10 o'clock A. NJ, to continue two days. |
business concerning the inter-
csts of every member of the profession will
come before this moe.ing. A Bill to reg
ulate and control the practice of Dcntis-
try in Delaware, will come up for final ac-
ton, preparatory to presenting it to our
next Legislature, and praying its passage
as a law. A code of professional ethics
will be presented for consideration and
adoption. The Essayists are as follows
DR.. Fl. @. Register, subject, Carries DIR.
G. r. Jefferies, subject, Fang Filling; DR..
VIM. IT, Smith, subject, General Practice.
A Clynic will be held during the session
Operators, Drs. Bonwill and Register.
BREAKING OF TIE EMBANKMENT OF TIE
CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL.-In
consequence of the heavy rain on Thursday
and Friday of last week, the embankment
of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
about three quarters of a mile from the
town of St. Georges gave way on Friday
night, overhowing a considerable portion
of the land in that vicinity, and doing
great damage to the roads The water is
nearly all out of the canal, and vessels arc
lying high and dry. At the Summit the
water was not over II inches deep.
The damage is estimated at 500, 600.
Il large force was Immediately put to work
repairing the breakagc, and the Canal will
be in navigable order again by Monday
next. The water rises in the Canal at the
rate of eight inches per day, from the
powerful steam pump at Chesapeake City
The Board of Directors of the Town
Hall Company are in want of money.
Subscribers to the stock are requested to
come forward to their relief. We are re-
qucsted to say, to one and all Of them, -
PAY UP. That is what is now needed.
PAY UP and the countenances of the
Directors will be suffused with smiles.
PAY UP-and the noble edifce will GO
UP like magic. Let every one "walk up
to the Captains Office and settle," or to
the Treasurer's office, which is the same
thing.
There will be much better agricultur-
al Exhibition at Wilmington this year
than usual in the Ladies Department, in
the display of stock, Farming Utensils
and Farm Produce. The managers are
working like beavess to make it n success
and we hope they will do it. They otfcl
$4,000 in premiums which are alike oper
to exhibitors from all parts of the State
and Eastern Shore of Maryland. Now lei
the people turn out en- neasSe on the 18th
18th and 18th of the present month to at
tend the fair
ARREsrED.-O Tuesday last, Jame
Harris, colored, was arrested at Lock
woods Camp meeting, by officers Scooter
and Butler, about eight miles from Do
yer, as one of the parties who placed
freight car on the railroad at Wyoming 70
the purpose of throwing the train from tn
track lie was lodged in Dover Jail, AM
We learn has acknowledged being presen
) at the time the infamous act was perpetra
ted.
ARREsrED.-Edward Leary and anothe
colored man went to the hotel of Malcolr
Hood, on Sunday afternoon, called fo
something to drink, and gave a $40 not
D on the Elkton Bank, which has been bro
: ken for several years. The note was ia
ken and they received their change an
= walked Off, Leary had hearing befor
the Mayor on Friday afternoon, when h
: was held in the sum of 5000 for his az
=, pearance at Court.-Del. Gazette.
QUEEN ANNE's AND KENT RAILROAD
We learn that the Board of Directors mt
at Centreville on the Sd inst The roa
. is progressing finely, the bridging bein
: nearly all finished and more than half til
), road graded. The grading is now with
seven miles of Contreville, and abont ont
: third done from Millington to MASSEY
/ Cross Roads. The last monthly asses
o mcnt for work done upon the road amour
n ing to $1,000, was promptly met, and tt
II finances of the road are encouraging.
e On Saturday last Woody johnson ar
II Rachel Piner, (col. y were brought befo
,e Esquire Ridgeway, in Odessa, on Il
charge Of Henry Perkins for stealing mea
The man charged the woman with commi
ting the theft, and on the other han,
1t the woman said the man did it; but fna
/ ly declared the man told her to do s
" Both were committed to Jail, no securi
" being offered,
J. The Democratic sitizens of Appoquin
+ mink Hundred will hold meeting at tt
tx Hotel Of VIM. Price, in Blackbird, tod;
of at 7o'clock, p. NJ. for the purpose of O
Va i
general attendance of the party is respoo
fully invited.
L. Next Thursday, Friday and Saturd
Of the Delaware State Agricultural Exhil
;n ton comes off at Wilmington. Don't fo
, get the time.
STAY LAw-The Sussex Journal urg