Middletown transcript., 1870-10-01

Wilmington has 5,42s dwellings; 8, 800 fami-
lies, 263 productive or industrial establishments
one farm, and the deaths for the year ending May
3lst, l870 were 454.
Brandywine has $50 dwellings, 500 families
26l farms, 27 industrial establishments, and had
deaths for the year named l6.
Christiana hos $40 dwellings, 500 families, 26l
farms, 81 productive establishments and deaths
for year named were IL.
Mill Creek has 654 dwellings, 625 families, $40
farms, 20 productive establishments, and deaths
for the time named were II.
White Clay Greek has 364 dwellings, 34l fam
lies, l57 farms, IL productive establishments,
and deaths for year named were %, dwellings,
families and deaths of Newark not included.
The town of Newark, not included in above,
has 1876 dwellings, l89 families, and deaths for
year named 6.
Pencader Hundred has 463 dwellings asa fam
lilies, 224 farms, IA productive establishments
and the deaths for year named were 80.
New Castle Hd has 284 dwellings, 2S2 fami-
lies l52 farms, 19 productive establishments,
and deaths for the year named were "a. Dwell
liugs and families of the town of New Castle not
| included.
The town of New Castle has 334 dwellings and
34l families.
Red Lion Hid. has 232 dwellings, 222 families,
6l farms, 81 industrial establishments, and
deaths for the year named 36 The dwellings
and families of Delaware City not included.
| Delaware City has 258 dwellings and 256 fam
| lilies.
| St. Georges Hd has 4s2 dwellings, and 492
families, Exclusive ofthose In the three towns
following 201 farms, 8 productive establish
ments, and deaths for the year named were 49,
Port Penn has 6l dwellings and 65 families.
| Odessa has l3l dwellings and 100 families.
Middletown has l69 dMellings and l69 fami-
| lies.
Appoqunimink Hid. has $50 dwellings and ZIG
| families 373 farms productive establishments,
| and deaths for year named were %.
Believing that the population of Middletown is
greater than it is represented to be, in the pub
lished census reports, four citizens of this town
| purpose to take the census of the inhabitants
over again, to-day, commencing at 9 o'clock,
| this morning, at which hour they will meet al
the Post Office, in order 10 divide the work be-
| TWEEN them. The citizens of the town are reques-
ted to facilitate their labors, as much as possible
by giving ready answers to their questions. Ii
is only proposed to designate males and females
black and white, adults and children.
| AT the Maryland State Fair, held at the Pimli.
co Grounds, Baltimore, on Wednesday, Cecil
owned by S. b. Foard, Jr. of Elkton, won tht
second race, open for horses that had never beat
three minutes in public. Five horses started, Ce
Gil being on the outside. At the quarter pole
| Cecil was ten lengths ahead at the haf-milt
continued to widen the gap, passing the judges
stand in 2:40, distancing the entire field.
LIFE OF GEO. READ.-Mr. William T. Read, OF
New Castle, Delaware, the author of numerous
valuable historical researches, has now in the
press of Messrs. ]. B. Lippincott Il Co. of Phila-
| delphIa, volume of the Life and Correspondence
of his grandfather, the distinguished George
Read, one of the signcrs from Delaware, of the
Declaration of Independence, and afterward Uni
fnh Sfof Cnnn ntrr fprr, 4l.aC Ckaka
INpRoNEMENT.-The Delaware Republican saws.
| We are informed that the Edge Moor Company
| intend to erect three hundred dwellings nnmedi-
tely at their great works near this city. They
| also intend to commence the manufacture of steel
about the first of December next, under process
| invented by Mr.. Sellars.
Thomas ]. Marvel, ESQ. of West Dover, sold
| three calves to Joseph Fessmyer drover on Mon.
day, for $l00. The calves were about FIVE months
| old, and their aggregate weight l,069 pounds.
DR.. Williamson, former Rector of Calvary
Church, Wilmington, has accepted a call as AS
| sistant from Emmanuel Church, Baltimore.
The corner stone of a new Methodist Church
has been laid in Lewes. The edifice is to be 4C
by 60 feet, with steeple 80 feet from base.
1t is estimated that 40, 900 gallons of peach and
apple brandy have been manufactured in KEN
and Sussex counties this season.
Edward G. Bradford, Esq. is advertised to ad-
dress radical meeting in the Court House, al
New Castle, on Saturday evening.
Bill Collins, one of the negroes that broke jail
at Dover short time since, was recaptured neal
Milford, few days ago.
Farmers around Smyrna say that nothing like
the usual amount of wheat will be sown this
Fall, as it don't pay.
The best quality of coal is selling in Milford al
81 per ton. Why can't dealers here sell as low
Ex-Gov. Ross, of Sussex county, has five thou
sand standard and dwarf pear trees
Middletown has shipped 200, 900 baskets Of
peaches to New York, this season.
At Seaford, five houses are being built, besides
old ones being repaired,