Middletown transcript., 1870-07-16

BIG EXCURSION TO LEWEs.-Wlthln the last
month five railroad excursions have been made
o that ancient town, not one of which, it is
aid, has numbered much less than thousand
PERSONS. But the most extensive one was that
which started from Smyrna on Wednesday last,
which numbered about 1900 persons The train,
by w. i. Cannon and Warren Harper, |
,f Dover, at an expense of $3.50, left Smyrna, or
Clayton, with eleven passenger cars and from
$50 to 400 passengers. BY the time it reached |
Dover there were but two cars vacant, while |
there were from 400 TO 500 excursionists waiting
TO board it. Six peach cars were added which
were soon filled, and before the train reached
FELTON, it was packed while a hundred or two
rode on top of the cars. Had the capacity of the
train equaled the demand perhaps 5000 persons
rived at Lewes about III o'clock-two hours
behind time. gentle rain, which commenced
to fall about 10 O'clock continued during most
of the time, interfering greatly with the enjoy
ment of the trip. An excursion TO Cape May,
on the New York steamer, under the auspices of
the Dover Cornet Band, which accompanied and
enlyened the excursion, was also abandoned,
much to the regret of the band and others,
though the old steamer is by no means fit for
such trip, being entirely inadequate to accom-
modate passengers, in any great numbers.
Lewes was pretty thoroughly interviewed by
many of the party-frst for something to eat
and next for something to see. The town which
shore, presents good view from the harbor.
Its houses, all Frame nearly all alike in size and
appearance, and all shingled from the ground to
the ridge-pole, with the doors opening outward
instead of inward, presented rather an odd ap-
pearance, but by no means an unfavorable one.
The streets are unpaved, and there is more white
wash than paint upon the buildings. With re-
gard to relics there is not much to see. The
" Cannon property" where the old Dutch fort
was said to have been erected, l627-30, is point
ed out to strangers the old Presbyterian Church,
with its hipped roof and fattened gables, in the
Swedish style, is still standing and Il few old
houses are marked. The grave-yards really
show more antiquity than any other locality.
Many of the stones mark back to the early part
of 100, and many cf the inscriptions are more
like obituaries than epitaphs. The Breakwater
was matter of interest, and the mounts ain of
| sand, which has been accumulating for years un-
til it has nearly covered up forest of pines, was
matter of wonderment. Hundreds never left
| the cars. They kept their seats six hours that
they might keep them three more on the ride
home.-Smyrna Times.
RAPE-Anothcr horrd outrage, of this charac-
| ter, was perpetrated near Laurel, Del on Tues
day the 9th inst. by negro man named Ben
| johnson, on the person of a respectable married
lady named Fletcher. By n letter from Laurel, in
the Salisbury Advertiser it appears that Mrs.
Fletcher and a little daughter went into the
swamp to gather whortleberries; that Johnson
/ followed, and perpetrated the henous crime,
frightening the child away. The husband of the
| injured woman and about dozen Of his neigh
bors surrounded the villains house through the
night, and Wednesday morning found him under
the building nearly buried in the soil. The in
| furated husband endeavored 10 take summary
vengeance, but was restrained by more co.side-
rate persons. The iend was brought to town
the evidence of the outraged wife having been ta-
ken at the house-and committed TO Jail to await
trial at the Oct. term of Court. While here he
acmitted several similar offences, which we
know TO have been perpetrated and attempted in
the neighborhood without being able to detect
the author-one upon person OLA young white
| woman about four miles from town, last Spring
1t is some consolation to hope that the foul deed
Of Tuesday is the villains last.
New YORK AND LEwEs.-The Steamer Wash
ngton, is now making two trips a week, but i
is intended in a very short time to put on daily
line The Washington is good size steamer
but she is deemed too slow TO run on this line
she will therefore be superseded by the Granitt
State and other boats that can make the trip il
a shorter time. 1t is the intention OF the com
pany to put on boats that can run the distanc
between New York and Lcwes in ten (l0) hours
The calculation is to have the fruit sent by thi
route in WashiRgton market two hours before
can be got in by the Jersey City line thus giyin
shippers the advantage of the carly mornn
market. As a passenger route, the junction an
Breakwater line is to be preferred not only on til
score of economy but, at this season particularly
for the advantage it offers of safe and plcasaf
trip by sea, on good steamers with fine accommC
dation3. The fare from Lewes TO New York
: So. co. including state room. Due notice will
il given of the change of boats and their time
o running, and in the meantime we would adyis
our farmers and fruit growers to be making the
r. arrangements for shipping by this line rs the
| xyil cd fn IN I'D apn
; do so.-lNutuql Friend.
= EQUIXE.-Mr. I. B. Wallace, one of our mo
u active and enterprising butchers, drives out b
y hind pair of spanking grays, that can go the
II mile somewhere between and 4. Wallace
Il not only familiar with good steak tende
loin, but he knows what is good in horse ais
r Not that he sells horse-steaks, but he will sta
(. his 'pile on his knowledge of a good hors
10 and he can draw the lines as handsomely on
ID tough piece of horse-hcsh, as he can serve te
t derloin Of bovine to tickle the palates of his Ct
d toners.
+ Bishop & Ferguson, contractors to carry t
?, U. S. Mail between Middetown and Chestertoy
III , in a two-horse stage coach, have employed
10 this service the Kent County Railroad Compan
The Company will carry the mail from Midd
~ town to Kcnnedyville, from which point it W
~ ~, be conveyed TO Chcstertown by stage. This {
rangement will go into effect next week. sta
ed and passengers, will be put on the route betwc
er these two points, we understand, BY Pagan Ii
1d nest, next week.
p, SERIOUS AcoIDENT.-0n last Tuesday evenir
OF while some whites and blacks were engaged
Ut VI firing a cannon in the neighborhood of the +
" grounds, Dover, in honor of the Fifteenth
W mendment, the gun prematurely discharged VIII
being rammed, blowing Jacob White and Jan
ok Wilson, negroes, who were serving the gun, so
If thirty feet, and taking both hands off the form
ne and one hand off the latter, and burning both
IN, ry badly-Wilson also losing eye. Jat
:. was a worthy, industrious man with fami
ht ht and much sympathy is felt for him.
he LARGE Fire AT New CAsTLE.-At about
40 O'Clock on Thursday night of last week a
broke out in the Stockton House, at New Cas-
l. and advanced with such fearful rapidity that
=. large hotel building was rapidly and entirely
~ stroyed, together with an adjoining house belo
w. ing to Miss Salle Ritchie of Louisville, Ky.
,a az occupied by j. II. Rogers, Esq. The Stock
,u ar House is the largest hotel in the town and
el situated on Water street near the River. II
l.. II.