Middletown transcript., 1870-07-30

The entertainments given in the Town Hail.
on Thursday and Friday evenings by Mulligan,
Mortimer, Howard & Brays Minstrel and Bur-
lesque Opera. Troupe were of the highest order,
but were slimly attended on account of the short
notice and unfavorable weather. This troupe
combines some of the best talent in the country,
and is, as it claims to be, null secundus far ex.
ceiling, we think, either Dixie's or Sanfords
Charles Howard's Plantation Scene was verita-
BILE representation; the clog exercises, and the
music, vocal and instrumental, were very fine
due appreciation of which was shown by re-
pcated spplause.
THERE is NO PLACE LIKE HOME "A citizen of
this town, who with his family returned home
from the seaside, a few days since, says he felt
the full force of the words of the old song, when
he reached Middetown, having escaped from the
dust OF travel, the burning sun, and the devour-
ing mosquitoes on the beach. Going to the sea-
side for comfort, is not what it is cracked up to
be, in this sweltering weather, at least The
comforts of home are greater than any which can
be purchased for money at our best watering
places.
STURGEON FIsHIND AT New CAsTLE.-Parties
from Philadelphia and New York have recently
built scow and located it out in the river oppo-
site New Castle for the purpose of catching stur-
geon. They have all the necessary facilities for
canning the meat and converting the fat into
oil. 1t is to be very lucrative business and
from the energy these men appear to display,
they will realize handsome profits.
Our acknowledgements are due to Messrs. War
ner, Dickson & McElrath 33s Greenwich street,
New York, for n crate of fine Lawton Blackber-
ries, grown upon the farm of Mr.. VIM K Lock-
wood, Sassafras Neck, Cecil county, Md deliv-
cred at the instance of Mr. E. b. Rice for said
firm. Our thanks are due to those gentlemen
for their kind attentions.
DELAWARE CoLLEGE.-This tme-honored insti-
tuition will be opened under the new organiza-
tion on the oath of September, and we trust that
its future career may be in every way successful.
Every parent having sons to educate should take
an interest in sustaining the College and giving
to it the material support necessary to make it
prosperous.
Eighteen car loads of peaches went over the
railroad on Monday, and the same number on
Tuesday, five of which were for Philadelphia
car load per day has been shipped from this
station, and on Thursday, two car loads were
sent off.
" The merciful man is mcrciful to his beast"
Spare the poor horses, mules and oxen. What
with the heat, the flies, and the rough usage of
their unthinking and unfeeling drivers, they
have hard time of it..
The total number of cars engaged to carry the
peach crop, this season. is 420, more than were
employed last year. As the crop is lighter than
that of last year, of course the cars will not make
as many trips.
The Catholic congregation is engaged in erect
ing quite fine Church at New Castle The
front is to be of white marble. The estimated
cost is from twenty-five to thirty thousand dol
lars.
Thomas B. Lockwood has sold his farm in the
Alley, two miles from Smyrna, containing
$50 acres, to John Appleton, of Odessa, for $l5,-
o0o-Slo0 per acre.
Governor Salisbury has commissioned J. NJ
Barr, Esq. to be Notary Public for the city of
Wilmington, in place of Virgins.
Rev. H. Colclazer of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, will preach tomorrow morning in the
Presbyterian Church. at the usual hour.
Blackhird Camp commenced on Thursday
There will be pretty general attendance to-
morrow.
The Milford paper says that an old colored wo-
man in Sussex County, has fallen heir to twenty
five thousand dollars.
Some evilly disposed persous a Kittst Ham
mock deface the carriages of parties stopping
there by cutting them.
A new building and loan association is talked
of in Middletown, to be organized on the perma-
nent plan.
The Clesteryille, Nd. Camp which commenced
on Saturday last, it is reported, will continue
until Tuesday next.
A Gazette correspondent suggests Jesse Sharpe
as the next Democratic candidate for Governor.
Camden Camp commences next Wednesday.
About one hundred tents are erected.
The Red Lion Camp, commences on Wednes-
day, the third of August.
The Fifteenth Amendment celebration comes
off on Saturday next, in this town.
The peach pickers are on hand again, this sea-
son, but not in such numbers as last.