Middletown transcript., 1870-09-03
LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.

toners with alacrity.
The constant rolling of peach wagons and
other vehicles through cur streets, envelops the
town in a cloud of dust which at times is almost
suffocating. Nearly six hundred vehicles pass
through this town daily; and counting both ex-
its and entrances the number is nearly twelve
hundred
The new Depot is nearly completed. 1t is
great and much needed improvement A two
story dwelling has also been erected with the
depot, and q large restaurant for tue convenience
OF hungry travellers, has been lSsvided for in
the building.
What with the peach trains and the passenger
trains. the peach wagons and the crowds of busy
men hurrying and scurrying to and fro the Av-
enue along the Rail Road presents n scene of an
imation and activity. As 3 o'clock approaches,
the time for dcspatching the New York Peach
Train,) accelerated movements may be witnessed
among wagons, horses and men. Everything is
working against time, baskets are flying into the
cars, and the peach-shippers haven't time even
to-say their prayers
The large three-story brick store house and
dwelling which Mr.. Robert A. Cochran is erecting
on the corner of Main and Broad streets, is APP
preaching completion. Mr.. John b. Roberts has
just put on substantial galvanized iron roof
Warmers auction sales attract crowd every
Wednesday and Saturday evenings, and Ingram
rattles off the bargains at rapid rate. The store
| is 10 be opened anew, about the middle of this
month, by Mr.. ]. Frazier Eliason.
Lake street has been graded, at its junction
with Broad, and the surplus earth used TO fill up
Broad street, at that place. Broad street, from
Main to Lake, looks neat and cleanly, the gut
tiers having been cleaned out and freed from the
weeds. Other streets would look better if SINH
larly treated. Cass street is not yet completed
| Property holders ought 10 extend the shade trees
on both sides. When curbed and paved it will
be one Of the handsomcst streets in town, adorn-
ed as it is with neat cottages, howcr-plats and
shrubbery.
]. NJ. Cox & Bro are about to pave in front of
their Carriage Factory it would look all the
better if the whole area in front were paved, and
| they would find it more convenient. The expen-
diture of few hundred dollars upon their facto-
ry building, would greatly improve its appear
ancc. little ornamentation about the gables,
caves and windows, and coat of stone-colored
paint, would make it look like another building.
The belfry also should be removed and a larger
and handsomer one erected in the centre of the
main building These improvements could all
be made at trltling cost and the exterior of the
establishment would then better represent the
excellence of the work done Within and the en-
tcrpriZe and public spirit of the firm. Our car
rage manufacturers, the Messrs. Cox, and Mr..
IL. d. Howell, are noted for the excellence and
durability of their carriages, and are worthy of
the liberal pnblic patronage which they enjoy.
Throughout this peninsula the miscellaneous
character Of % Arthur Bradey's Estate" long
SluCc pdSScu lntO u pTONerD. w uelner Amos L.
Bradley, of this town, is lineal descendant of
his or not, is immaterial Certain it is you can
buy little of everything in his line at his store,
from barrel of flour to a peach can, and feed
of all kinds for man and beast. What he can't
supply, Il. I. Evans and ]. B. Fenimore Co.
| can. Guano, fertilizers, ladders baskets, prun-
ing Knives tile coal, and wood, at the former
house. and at the latter, hardware, lime brick,
lumber, paint, oil, glass, putty, windmill pumps
and ready dy-made houses.
Wright turns out some very neat marble tab
lets and slabs, at his Marble Works on Broad
| street.
We learn that Shach is paying ten cents per
basket for soft peaches at his distillery in Cath
crime street.
On Tuesday last the number of vehicles which
passed through Middletown, Of all kinds, COM
prisng wagons, carts and carriages, was taken
down by persons stationed at convenient points
for the purpose. The aggregate footed up SCI !,
us follows:
From the East, wagons CO, carriages 48-lll
From the West-wagons l44, carriages 9G-240
From the North-wagons %, carriages 65-O93
From the South-wagons AZ, carriages 4S-0o0
Total 277 257
To which add II carts and 10 carriages from
all points, and we have the grand aggregate OF
vehicles of all kinds which passed through Mid
dletown, on that day, of SCI. Only the vehicles
which came into town were included in the above
count This exhibit will show the activity in
and around Middletown. 1t is proper to state
that Tuesday was the height of the peach ship.
ments, and also discount day at the Bank. A
drove of sheep and drove of cattle also went thro
and fifteen persons on horseback.
DR.. z. A. VanDevcnter, of Wilmington, ha.
made very important invention for the comfor
and convenience of passengers railroad trains
1t is an apparatus to be attached to the smok
stack OF locomotives by which the draft of th
furnace is increased, and all the smoke steam
sparks and cinders carried off over the Car
TO the rear OF the train, and by which, at the
same time, the cars are thoroughly ventilated
thus saving the eyes nosrils, ears and mouth
of the passengers from the almost nsutlcrable an
, noyance and their clothing from sparks and SCOT
and rendering railroad travel as pleasant as tha
by steamboat. DIR. NanDeventer has obtained
cdreat on his invention through the office of Capt
j. N. Barr, Solicitor of Patents, who has also OBJ
tuned patents and caveats for other parties
The Doctor is now in New York negotiating witt
! leading railroad companies for putting his i'm
provement GU their trains.
List of letters remaining unclaimed in the Pos
0flie at Middetown, September list, 1870 IS
b, Colley, Samuel Chambers Lavinia Chambers
Charles Collins Jonathan Catlin, S. B. Derrick
son, Margaret A. Flamor Mrs. Fimrow, l.. w
Guild, II. Gooseberry, William Gale, Thoma
Gull, Sallie HUDSON, Robert Il. johnson, Edwar
Lauice, Ann Murray, James McPherson Mar
G A. Millson, Prof. II. II. Morrill,, Mary Peterson
! Samuel Sheppard, Moses Wright, C. W. Warren
Charles Wharton. Persons calling for the abov
e letters will please say they are advertised.
A correspondent says:-'I sec somebody ha
n been lately by the'lower road to the Pier. Ii
your reporter start with the same point in view
but go TO the Brick Mill, thence to Smiths Mil
on to Boyd's Corner, and into Port Penn, vi
| 1iS far / Ir
n arts promise him far more picturesque rid
: than by the other route, through and by som
splendid peach orchards. and insure his seen
y as fine, ii not finer corn, than any he saw on hi
g former trip. Just let him try it."
q There were three hundred and twenty-five cal
passed over the Delaware Rail Road by actui
count at this station, on Wednesday last and
wasn't very good day for cars, either; thoug
n the number may be taken as a pretty fair ave
u age, per day, during the height OF the peac
)f season.