Middletown transcript., 1874-09-05
Local and State Affairs.

SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1874.
Local and State Affairs.
The Wilmington Election. E
The election in Wilmington last Tuesday for
members Of the City Council, Assessors and In
spectors resulted in almost complete triumph
for the Democratic ticket The clear majority on
the Assessors vote was about 80 in favor of the
Democratic candidats. That party also carried
seven out of the ten wards on the vote for In
spectors and City Oouncilmen. The lndspsn-
dent or Anti-Rng Republicans carried the Fifth
ward, electing Wm. Candy, ESQ.,, to the city
council. Sa
Last year the city was carried by the Republic
cans, at the election for President of the City
Councils by s3l majority. Taking this into con-
sidsration the Democratic. victory this year was
an overwhelming one.
Seven of the ten inspectors of the city are now
Democrats and one is an Anti-Ring, or honest,
Republican. This will secure an honest,
straightforward election in November and pre-
vent Radical triumph through the use of re-
peaters and " colOnized " negroes. This makes
the success of the Democratic ticket secure be-
yond doubt A
The Agricultural Exhibition
The preparations for the Fall Exhibition of the
Peninsular Agricultural and Pathological Asso-
citation are being rapidly pushed forward to COM
pletion under the energetic supervision of the ex-
ecutive committee. Wells have been dug and
pumps put in to furnish water the occasion of
the fair. Sheds and booths have been erected for
the of the horses andc attle that shall be put
on exhibition and also sheds for agricultural and
other machinery fruits vegetables and such
other productions of ingenuity and the soil that
may be brought to the fair.
Everything is in fair working order and the
work is being pushed forward with great rapidity.
That the fair will he grand success is now be-
yond doubt, and should the weather prove ia
vorable it will in all probability be of the
finest exhibitions of the kind that has ever been
held on this Peninsula.
We understand that Jas. T Earle, Esq, of
Queen Apne's county, Nd, has been invited and
will deliver an address at the opening of the
fair.
Large WatermeIons.
We are greatly indebted to Mr.. James T. Love-
u
sent 10 us on Tuesday. They are, certainly, the
finest specimens of melons that we have seen for
many years Mr. Lovelace is largely engaged in
the growing of fruits and vegetables on the
farm of Mr. T. G. Murphey, near the Bohemia
Mills, and daily supplies our citizens with some
Of the best vegetables of every kind that are
brought TO market.
Tho nke IN Mrc Wm Ravnolds for nj ica hos lat
of most luscious peaches They came beautiful
ly dressed with leaves and flowers and were as
pretty as they were nice.
Miss Salie Cochran also sent us some elegant
tomatoes for which we heartily thank her, being
extravagantly fond of that vegetable
From another kind friend we received large
basket full of most elegant apples, peaches and
grapes
Middletown is certainly nice place in which
to publish paper.
Death of an Aged Citizen.
James Brown, Esq, died at his residence, near
Mt. Pleasant, on Sunday last at the ripe age OF
81 years.
Mr. Brown removed TO this county from Kent
when boy of l6 years and has continued to re-
with the exception of four years in which he
lived in Pencader
In politics he was firm, unwavering
Democrat and cast his ballot for the candidate of
that party at every Presidential election from
1917 to 1872, but in the latter year he felt he
could not stultify the pure record of his life by
voting for a man to whose doctrine he had been
ever opposed.
He was a man of most benevolent disposition
and a firm friend.
Runaway and Smash-up.
Some little excitement was created at noon
yesterday by the running away of pair OF
horses attached to mill dearborn loaded with
peach baskets. They ran down Main ST., in the
direction of Odessa. When near the residence
of Mr.. G. Foster they against a tree on the
side walk and broke loose from the wagon,
which with its load, was left standing in the
street. The horses ran on down the road and
that was the last we heard of them
Extras.
Immediately on the result of the election be-
coming known the Wilmington daiies issued
extra editions of their papers announcing G
G. P. Johnson, Esq, the people of Middletown
and vicinity are indebted for the earliest FIJI
report that came to us of the contest. The tsle.
graph announced the Democratic victory, but the
Gazette brought us the particulars, for which We
cordially thank Friend johnson.
Suicide by Hanging.
Reese NJ. Spence, an old man aged Is years
E.r, rxustI Tob, 40
Cecil county, having no friends who seemed tc
care for him and no doubt tired of living, COM
mitted suicide on the night of the 2lst, by hang
ing himself to a tree in corn field near the houst
in which he lived He was found the next morn
ing by two little boys, sons of Samuel B. Den
MIS- Commercial.
Taylor Fully Committed.