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Middletown transcript., 1874-09-12
Democratic Club.

The Democratic citizens of Middletown and vi
cinity are hereby requested to meet in the room
over Messrs. Foard s Comegys store, on Monday
evening, the i4th inst, at o'clock, for the pur-
pose of organizing club for the present cam
paigu.
The campaign Of 1874 is now fairly .opened
and It Is earnestly hoped that all Democrats wiil
enter into the work before us with hearty zeal,
aud each do his part toward making the issue OF
the election success to the Democratic party
and principles. As more caa be effected through
a concert of action than otherwise, it 10 greatly
10 be desired that the club now called for will
be made strong one. Let each one do his own
part and its success will be certain.
Il. R. COCHRAN,
Member of Co. Ex. Com for ST. Georges Hid
Birth Day Congratulations.
Wednesday being the anniversary of the brit
day of E. W Lockwood, ESQ.,, number of hi
gentleman friends called upon him and Offered
their congratulations and wishes for many re
turns of the same. A generous supply of refresh
ments were set ont and good time general
MAS had,
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NOTICE Notice is hereby given 10 the tax
payers of Mddletown that the taxes for 1874 are
now due and an early settlement is required
JOSEPH HANSON, Treasurer
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All persons indebted to me will please cal
and settle. ]. B. ROBERTS.
aug 29-2t
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can be had on application al the TRANscRlpr OF
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The Democratic Candidate.

MIR. JOHN p. oooHRAN's LETTER ACCEPTING
gRNoR,
The following is the correspondence
growing out of the nomination OF Mr.
Cochran as the Democratic candidate for
Governor;
70 JOIN P COCHRAN, Eso., .Mdlietoma,
Delanarc
SIR AT the Democratic State Con-
vention, held at Dover, Thursday, Au-
gust 9th, 1874, we the undersigned,
were appointed committee on behalf Of
the Convention to inform you of your
unanimous nomination as the candidate of
the Democratic party of Delaware for
Governor
In discharging the agreeable duty
which has been deyolved upon US, and in
asking that you accept the position for
which you have been named we beg
leave to add the assurances of our naivid-
al consideration and regard
WILLIAM DEAN,
IGNATIus e GRuBB
GEORGE GRAY
RoBBRT DENNY.
JosEPn BuRcnENAL..
JAMES l.. WoLLeor,
w FISK TOWNSEND,
GHAs G. STockLEy
r G. ELLEGoon
SEPTEMBER !, 1874
COCHRAN GRANGE, Sept. I, le74-GEN-
| l. Al. Il.
edge the receipt of your letter of the lst
inst conveying the gratifying intelligence
of my nomination by the Democratic Con
yentiop, assembled at Dover ON the 9th
ult. as the candidate of the Democratic
party of Delaware for Governor, and ask
ing my acceptance of the same.
should feel that | had done great in.
justice to my friends botG in and out Of
the convention were to decline an honor
so magnanimously bestowed by them and
for which | return my most grateful ac
knowledgements
I hereby endorse the principles enunci
ated ip the resolutions adopted by the
Convention as the platform of the Demo
cratic party
can offer no better pledge to my
friends for the unselfsh manner in which
they have accepted me as their standard
bearer in the coming canvass than my
past record, and should we be so fortu.
nate as to consummate the work so nobly
begun--the election Of the whole Demo
cratic ticket on the 3d day of November
next-no effort on my part, as Chief Ex
ecutive, shall be wanting to carry out tn,
wishes and best interests of the people o
the whole State
In conclusion, gentlemen, permit mi
again to tender you, and through You Il
6 the members of the Convention, my heart,
; appreciation of the fattering manner IL
, which you have been pleased to speak o
G my nomination.
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49, M xoll t3y siticere thaH Ii ioS vi
bono onfsrrcd when | shall have the
hd1( of Ssn1srx,haf intervisw with you.
with sentimepts Of high regard, 81
remain with much respect,
Yours very truly
JoHN p. COCHRAN.
To WILLIAM DEAN, ESQ.,, and others,
Committee Of the Democratic State
Convention.
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Minor Topics.

INSPECTORS in the lower Hundreds
Pencader-C b. Ellison; Red Lion--Jesse
Alexander, East; William Jones, West. st.
Georges-James B. Clarkson, Vest Henry Wal
ters, East. Appouuinimink-H II. Appleton
North NJ. d. Hickman, South.
For Road Commissioners of st. Georges Hd.-
John Robson, l. Ward Vandegrft.
Assessor--Dan B. Stewart.
For Road Commissioners of Appoquinimink-
Israel Gunkel, John A. Derrckson.
Assessor-Israel P. Hall
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THE RESOLUTIONS.
The Democratic Party Of New Castle County,
in County Convention met do resolve and
| Geclare -
l. Resolped, That we hereby adopt and reaifirm
the platform adopted by our State Convention
held at Dover, August 9th, 1874.
O. Resolped, That we cordially endorse and
ratify the nomination OF John P. Cochran, Esq,
of New Castle County, for Governor, and James
Williams, Esq, % Kent County, for Representa-
tive in Congress; and that we congratulate our
| whole party and people upon having secured in
them candidates Of highest character and fitness
whose upright capable and useful lives justly
entitle them 10 the confidence and support of all
true friends of honest and capable government
in both State and National affairs.
3. Resolped, That the Democratic party Of our
State in the selection ofsuch reputable candidates
has proven itself to be the true exponent OF thai
decent public opinion which seeks TO repress and
is bring to an end the fragrant and widespread
d official corruption and incompstency OF the times
a. and that in the nomination of New Caste
County candidate for Governor our party ha
d also proven itself faithfni 70 the first rights an'
y claims Of our county, while the recent Republican
party has been fathless to our people ana tais
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The Presbyterians of Kerr's Creek,
Rockbridge county, Va, dedicated new
church Sunday week, Rev. Samuel Brown,
preaching the sermon. They opened the
church to the use of all other evangelical
denominations. .5., .a,a
J, Katow, the Japanese student at
Washington and Lee University, was ad-
mitted to the Lexington Baptist Church,
Sunday, BY baptism, Rev. Mr.. Barron,
performing the ceremony: 9ii esf
A protracted meeting was held in the
Baptist Church, at Harrisonburg, last
week, the pastor being assisted by Rev. DR..
Charles Manly, of Staunton-th services
being daily both morning and evening.
Branson g. Liggett, formerly of Hardy
county, Va, was accidentally killed in
TEX Texas recently, by pistol IN his own
Father Ryan, the .soonquered Banner
clergyman AND poet, is to address the
University OF Virginia Literary Societies
on July list,
The 1rishmen at Petersburg, Va, cele-
brated st. Patrick's day Monday, April 7.
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MARROW ESCAPE OF ACTORS. On
Monday last, while two actors named Muir
ray and Cornell were playing in bar-room
scene, they drank liquid resembling whis-
key in color. Almost Immediately MI
Murray fastened from the stage, apparent
ly in great agony, and Mr.: Council fell
upon the floor in commissions. The cur
tain came down with a rush, and the man
ager announced that the performance could
not go on, because some of the actors had
accidentally taken poison. 1t seems the
property man hired some show bottles from
the City Hotel for the bar-room scene in
the play, the water in one of which was
colored with bicromate of potash and the
other with red cochineal. He used the
water in these bottles without changing it.
Those of the actors who drank from the
bottle whose contents were colored with
cochineal escaped unframed. The two
men suffered great agony, but finally re-
covered Philadelphia Bulletin. as
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-10

The SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
AS stated in a notice of the approaching
meeting of the Presbytery of Chesapeake,
published in yesterdays Gazette" Rev.
DR.. Bullock has announced his determine
ton of resigning the passionate of the I'd
Presbyterian Church in this city. The
difference which exist between the pastor
and a portion of his congregation, and
which led to this determination, were oc-
casioned by complaints made by the latter
of the long sermons preached by the Rev.
Doctor. irrespective of the suggestions
that were made to him concerning the adj
visibility of shortening them of diff
Guilty he had with member of his congre-
cation; OF his sending his step-children to
St. Johns Academy the principal of
which, Mr.. Richard L. Carne, is Cath
Ollie, after having advised his congregation
against sending their children to Catholic
schools, and OF his having had a personal
difficulty with Mr.. J. H. Parrott, one of
the Elders of his Church,
(Vn1 Gazette
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The Baptist Ecclesiactlc Council in the
case of Rev. Florence McC earthly have agreed
upon report, withdrawing from the &C.
cused the hand of ministerial fellowship,
but not advising the church to expel him
from it's membership.
The Baltimore & Ohio r. Il. on the 1st
Of April raised The wages of their men at
the Cumberland rolling mill ten per cent
the first advances In any Eastern iron works
since the panic,
Fhs Mills House at Charleston, South
Carolina. which cost over $500, 600 in gold,
was sold at auction Monday fol. S27 900,
Jos. Harrison, Jr., Of Philadelphia, died
last week, leaving %. 100000 to his rela-
tiyes .w-as
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SALE OF THE PrNNvpAcn,pnT ,nns

SALE OF THE PENNYBAcKER LANDS
The tract Of land, on Linvill's Creek in
Rockingham county Va, belonging to D.
Pennybacker, known as part of the Win
last week to Isaac Wenger, for $50 per acre.
upon terms equivalent to cash. The mill
property, with 40 acres Of land attached,
was sold for $50 per acre, and was pur-
chased by Col. M. G.. Hartman, of Staunton.
The balance of the mill tract, on the West
side of Linvill's Cheek, was purchased by
Lincoln Maupin, at $50 per acre. These
sales were considered fair for these times
but not in accordance with the prices which
these valuable lands commanded readily
before the war, by at least 20 per cent
Rockingham Reqister
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John Smith, known as "Bull John, :"
of Maids county, Va, has been commit
ted to jail for beating an idiot son aged 20,
to death with his fists, and forcing his
other sons to bury him.
Gen. McLaws of Ca, exc. S. A. has
been confirmed by the Senate collector of
the list Georgia district. 1t is said to be
the first appointment by the President
made without change of politics"
Many loads of tobacco We're refused at
the Lynchburg, Va, warehouses last week
for want of room something that never
occurred before. ,f1
Colonel Ross sold ia acres of the Cliff
ton farm, two miles from Lexington, Va,
to Capt. William Davidson, at $43 per
acre.
About $50 hands and some twenty teams
from the Valley of Virginia, have arrived
in Delaware to work on the frankfort and
Breakwater r. r.
Simpson Cubbage, of Page county, Va,
has been arrested for the murder of his
wife, who was found dead in her bed on
Friday, March 27th,
The Farmers Mil Company, a -four
iHll4lng company With dos: burner, of
Woodstock, Va. President, has been char
tered.
The graduates of the Virginia Military
Institute, in Lynchburg, have organized
Society OF Alumni, with Col D. A. Lang
hornesas President.
Colonel Row, for many years sheriff of
Orange county, Va, died a few days ago, at
an advanced age.
Double trains are to be placed ON the
railroad between HFnchburg and Washing
ton on the 18th instant,
Henry Jones, who was stabbed by Silas
Beach last Saturday, in Alexandria, is dead
and Beach will be tried for murder,
Mrs Grant and her daughter Nellie are
in New York,
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Josiah A. Stearns, the President of the
Norcrosse School. at South Boston, Mass,
says the Richmond, Va, schools, which he
is visiting, have A superior system to those
of Boston, though not so high grade.
Collector, David Good, brother of
Rev. Martin Good, was shot and killed by
Wilburn Hensley, in Scott county, Va,
last week, while levying on his cow.
John G.. Henry, the Lynchburg, Va,
defaulter. was sentenced to your years im-
prisonnlent at Albany, and 4 fine of S., 143
the unpaid part Of his defalcation.
Rev. j. s. Coleman. of Kentucky, is one
Of a club who have taken out an injunction
to stop the payment of a louisville lottery
ticket, which they claimAas theirs.
In the Virginia Senate, Wednesday, .
proposition to fix 65 cents in the 500 az
the rate of taxation, was voted down 30
to S.
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MYSTERIOUS D1sAppEARANer a die

MYSTERIOUS DIsAPPEARANcE.-A dis
patch from Poughkeepsie, N. Y, saws
''Thomas George, ex-county judge of Or
ange county, has mysteriously disappeared
from Newburg. 1t is alleged he has swim
died different persons out of sums amount
ing in the aggregate to about $10O,OOO.-
One family is said to be victimized to the
extent of $4,000. An attachment was is
ture and law library. He is said to be
somewhere in Virginia." Mr. George is a
native of this place, and served his time
in the Office of the Southern Churchman. .
and after studying law went to New York
State, and studied there, where he was ap-
pointed a judge.-Aler. (Va.) Gazette.
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Three men have been arrested in New
| York, where lotteries are against the law
| for selling tickets of the Masonic Relic,
Association Lottery, of Norfolk. Va. They
We're discharged on showing their creden
| tials.
Edmund Curry, a colored man living Oh
Greenbrier River, in Greenbrier county
W. Va, is the father of twenty-one chill
dren-all born of lawful wedlock-ffteer
OF whom are living; the youngest ia two
months old.
The French contracts for tobacco will be
awarded next Monday, Tuesday and Wed.
nesday. Virginia will get $500 hogsheads
OF the whole amount, which is good news
for our tobacco men,
A nephew of Mr.. Robert M. Holiday, of
Fayette county, W. Va, fell over cliff a
distance of about fifty feet, short time
ago, and, strange to relate, he was neither
killed nor MANNED.
Rev. Phebe A. Hansford, of New Haven,
Sunday began her ministrations as pas
tor of the First Universalist church, Jersey
City, N. j. Saturday she took possession
of the pastoral residence
A new Baptist church was dedicated at
Martinshurg, w. Va, last week, with Rev.
w. 5. Penick, pastor. The sum of $500
was subscribed by the congregation pres
ent.
Gov. Kemper, according to the "South-
side Virginian," is constantly receiving
inquiries about colonization in Mecklen-
burg county, Va.
The new registration is proceeding at
Lynchburg Va, and the papers on each
side are calling out the voters equal to cleo
ton times.
They are talking about forming erema-
tion clubs in Richmond, because the Hol-
lywood Cemetery Company charge $18 for
digging grave.
The Bishop Meade Memorial Church,
at White Post, Fairfax county, Va, only
lacks $500 for it's completion.
Jonathan Ingram, in Charlestown, W.
Va, Jail charged with rape, sawed his way
out few nights since.
John Berry. the oldest printer in Vir-
ginia, died at Goodson, Saturday, aged 81
years.
The Norfolk Virginian'' says several
prominent New Orleans firms will remove
to that city in the fall to do business,
An interesting revival of religion is in
progress at the Baptist Church in Scots
vile, Va,
Hon. James B. Beck, Of Kentucky, de-
clines reelection to Congress.
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CONFERENCE.-The Right Rev. Bishop
Johns, of the Diocese of Virginia, occupied
the pulpit OF st. James Church, Leesburg,
practical and! chaste discourse, to a very
large and attentive congregation. At the
conclusion of the sermon, the rite of Con-
firmation was conferred upon eight candi-
dates-seven females-one of them nearly
eighty years of age-and one male The
venerable Bishop, whose faltering voice
and trembling limbs tell sadly of the rava-
ges of time, preached again at night
Leesbouq, Vd.) Mirror. rUos -s y
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A SOLEMN WARNING TO RAILROAD
CoNDUcToRs.-Helen Crager, an attrac-
against her will by a conductor on the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad. She
caused him to be arrested on charge of
assault and battery, and he was fined and
discharged from his position. She then
went fol- the railroad company, and has
just recovered one thousand dollars DANA
ges, the Circuit Govt of Sauls county, Wis
consin, ruling as a matter of law that the
company was liable to the plaintiff for ac-
tual damage occasioned by the wrongful
act of the conductor. Now let railroad
companies take warning, and employ no
conductor of vehement osculatory propen-
stiles. - ri..s.
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A SCHOOL MISTRESS BRAINS A PUPIL.
The Eldora' Gw 4, a;thedger Of this
tween Grundy Center and Union, brings
tidings Of fatal case Of punishment by a
school teacher. His story is that ON Wed
nesday of last week a school mistress in
Fairfield township undertook to chastise
one Of her pupils, boy about fifteen years
Of age. The boy made fierce resistance,
and the tide of conflict began to set in
against the female disciplinarian. Gath
ering a heavy chair which was near, she
lifted it high over her head, and with a
sweeping master stroke" brought it down
upon the devoted head of the recalcitrant
student, settling his resistance and his
earthly existence at single blow.''
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THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGs.-Hon.
threatening to contest the recent renting
of the White Sulphur Springs, to the Messrs
Peyton, i'll the courts, on the ground that
he was the highest bona fide bidder, and
that Mr.. Webb, all employee of the Messrs.
Peyton to whom they were knocked down
was "a man of straw" Mr.. FL. Mathews, the
Commissioner for renting the property,
replies with the statement that M. Webb's
was a bona fide bid and that the terms
have been complied with by notes of G. L.
Peyton d Co., endorsed by Ed. McMahon
and Echols, Bell 4 Catlett.
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REPORT ON THE JAMES RINER AND
KANAwnAS CANAL.-Th report Of the U.
S. Engineers who examined the James
River and Kanawha Canal project, report
that it is practicable, with seven feet of
water from the James to the Ohio, requir-
ing a tunnel about as long as the Mt.
Cents tunnel, and easier of excavation
the tunnel to be single, with turn outs for
passing vessels. It will cost between
$4,000, 900 and $50 100000. The Board of
Engineers recommend the work as possess
sing extraordinary claims" for govern
ment aid, in the interest of cheap trans
pOrtatiOn
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LADY.-As Miss Matilda Slater, modest
white girl of fourteen years, was returning
after dark to her home near Cross Keys,
in Rockingham county, Saturday, March
2Sth, she was seized by George Shepherd
and John Bingham, two negroes, who
would have succeeded in ravishing her
had not her screams aroused white fam
lily near by, into whose house she escaped
The men were arrested and placed in fail.
The girl is a respectable girl living in the
family of Colonel G. H. Tyler.
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SALES OF REAL .EsTATE.-The Fred
ericksburg LEDGER says: Colonel Tyler
thousand dollars with company of N orth-
ern gentlemen for his famous gold mine
property, known as the cali Cooper
Mines" The News" reports the recent
sale of farm to Mr.. McCubbin, of Edin-
burgh, containing 400 acres, situated about
eight miles from Bowling Green, Caroline
county. A Scotch gentleman from the
same city named Dr.. Richie, has nurohas-
ed S'Tudor Hill," Newtown, King and
Queen equity
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A little girl three years old daughter of
M. M. Bowen, of Browns Cove, Albemarle
county, Va, during the temporary absence
OF her parents last Saturday, fell into a
mlll-race which bordered on one side of the
yard and was drowned gwU z 4
On the evening of the Both ult.. Florence.
the sprightly little daughter of R. e. Mad
doX. OF Fauquier, pulled from the stove
upon her person pot of boiling coffee
After suffering intense pain for thirty-six
hours, death came to her relief =
On Saturday last the Legislature in
joint session elected Joseph r. Sherrard.
| Judge of the Corporation Court of VIM
chester, Va, of whom Mr.. Stuart, of Au-
gusta said, "he had never known better
| and seldom wiser man, 81
Ex-Attorney General James c. TAYLOR.
Ex-senator Pendleton, of Botetourt. Sena-
tor Penn, and Blair and Allen, of the
House, are named for the vacant Roanoke
circuit Judgeship.
Rudolph Bruner, German, and a prom
inent member of the Young Mems Chris
tlan Association of Alexandria, Va. has
disappeared under painfully dlsgraceful cir
cumstances. 5llr7
There are said to be 1873 Masons in the
British Parliament--56 in the House of
Lords, and n in the Commons. Neither
Dlsraeli nor Gladstone are Masons.
Bernard, Daniel, and George Doll. three
brotherss, all prominent business men. of
Martlnsburg, W. Va, have died in the
last six months.
The Democrats elected their Governor
in Connecticut, Tuesday, by $500. and car
rled the legislature by 40 majority. The
news made long faces in Washington.
Some prominent citizens of Richmond
Va, have organized 'Hotel and Dra-
matte Company" with capital of S75, 900.
Governor Kemper, has removed the DO
litical disabilities of Aptil Richard. of
Page county, who had served a term in the
State prison.
In Dayton, Ohio, Monday, the crusa ding
women were foully abused, and the mayor
issued proclamation keeping them out of
the streets.
General j. A. Early and his brother.
Colonel Robert Early, of Missouri, are on
visit to their old home in FRANKLIN
county.
A hill introduced by Mr.. Sener in the
House, Monday, to relieve General Fitz-
hugh Lee of his political disabilities was
passed.
Postmaster Greene, of Petersburg, Va.
was upset in James river, four miles from
City Point on Friday, and came near being
drowned,
4'he private property of Senator Sprague
IN Washington city is being attached by
his Rhode Island creditors.
The Banks farm in Fauquier county
Va, has been sold to John McGenty, of
Ohio, for $4,000.
Robert Carter Nicholas, once u. S.
District Attorney, in Richmond, Va. died
in Baltimore on the I'd instant.
Ed. D. Jones, of New Hope, Augusta
county, Va, has been appointed notary
public.
A party of Richmond officials are visit.
ing the Northern cities looking at their
water works.
H. S. Shanklin has been elected Mayor of
Union, W. Va.
Josh Billings says his income from his
''wurx' is about SIS, 900 to $40, 600 year.
Recent frosts have killed the peaches in
Buckingham county.
Sidney Rucknlan has been appointed a
notary public for Highland county.
There were 10000 children on the capitol
grounds at Washington, Easter day.
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THE LAST OF AN ELoPEMENT.-
Griffin Holloman, who eloped with Mary
Edwards some time since, and whose vic.
tim was recovered by her father in Vir-
ginia, became disguised with farming in
the Old Dominion after losing his prize,
and has, too, returned to his home in NASH
and asked lis lawful wife to 'sforgive if
she would not forget;''' and she has grant
ed his request, and all seem reconciled and
as happy as could be expected under the
circumstances Wilson IN. C.l A9v0nce.