Middletown transcript., 1874-07-04
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1874.
Local and State Affairs.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY
The Fourth In Dover.

While Middletown will retain its customary
state Of blissful quiet to-day, and business will be
transacted as usual, Dover will he all in tur-
mil of excitement over her Fourth of July cele-
bration. just read what the Detaoarean says
they are going to do down there TO Gay =
" The commite of arrangements for the sport
arranged TO take place to-day have secured the
services of the Middletown brass and string band
to furnish music on the OCCASION The band
musters l5 horns and string instruments. The
days exercises will commence with ssgame of
base ball between the Milford and Dover clubs,
to be followed by procession of masked horse
men (not Ku Klux) in variety of comcal dis
guises We understand that about 100 persons
will engage in this piece of fun. After dinner
race in bags by boys will be introduced to ex-
cite mirth; to he followed by the laughabe per-
formance of blindtold wheeling of wheelbarrows;
foot and throwing of weights, light and
heavy, will furnish amusement for the feet and
muscular the game called ducking for a duck
and chase after creased pig will conclude the
afternoon entertainments. In the evening, after
dark, handsome display of fireworks will take
place, the whole TO conclude with a ball in the
oPch an, ~ totShish'i W. "hiNH :" hooii ooAoV
feet, will be laid. A portion of the ground will
be shaded by Pavilion.
Consummste Villainy.
A rumor reached our ears few days ago, and
it was well authenticated too of transaction
that recently took place in the upper portion of
this county that is certainly one of the most un-
mtigated pieces of rascality that heard
of: A fellow who claims TO be real estate
agent, and sometimes does little business Of
that kind, pretended to sell hotel belonging 10
certain parties and locaed-we wont at present
say where-to woman who at first agreed to
pay cash for the property. When the time came
however, when she was to pay the money and re-
ceive the deed, she represented that she had been
unable to get the money by that time but would
certainly have it within few days or weeks
The hotel owners, wishing TO accommodate her,
and not wishing to lose the sale, agreed that the
aforesaid real estate agent should hold the deed
until the purchaser paid the money and then de-
liver it TO her. Getting the deed into their pos
sion, the agent and his accompliee, having first
paid off "A lien OF S75 against the hotel, morga-
ged the property for several hundred dollars and
pocke,ed the money, leaving the owners Of the
hotel to get their money when they caa.
1t is said, by persons who profess to know
whereof they speak, that there is no law in this
State by which the perpetrators of this ylainy
CAN be punished. Can this he so?
Chapter of Accidents.
Last Saturday seems to have been an unucky
day A man named Patrick Holland was kick
aI hru horsn hat bp W. har had
his leg broken. WIN. Evans WAS terribly hurt
about the head and face at the Diamond State
rolling mill, by being struck by the tongue of
buggy (whateyer that is, some kind of a
thing, however, used in the mll) and knocked
down against pile of iron. Robert Leeds was
working upon an addition to the Commercial
office when the scafioding gave way and he was
thrown TO the ground, two nails running into
him and causing a bad wound Only few days
before workman in the mill of Jessup & Moore
had two ribs broken and otherwise injured
by falling from elevator. These together
with the drowning of the two boys, Mcbride and
Meaney, make quite chapter of accidents.
Free Lecture the Book of Revelation.
DR.. Robt. Morris, Secretary ef the American
Holy Land Exploration, will, by request deliver
IL lecture upon the above subject at the following
places In Odessa, at DR.. Crowells church, at
104 o'clock A. NJ. Sunday (to-morrow) at the
Town Hall, in this place. at clock p. NJ, and
at Chesapeake City the same evening at
o'clock.
Those who heard brief synopsis of this
great subject two weeks since we need not urge
TO be present, and TO those who have not yet
had the pleasure of hearing DR.. Norris we can
only say do not fail to be present, as we learn
this is probably the last visit we shall have from
this distinguished explorer before his return TO
the Holy Land in September next.
The Weather.
The waether during the past week has been
anything but cold. 1t was as near red hot on
Monday as it could well get without burning
things up. In our office, in the middle of the
room, the mercury ran up as high as o5 about
four clock in the afternoon, and at other places
in town ii reached 81 in the shade. One gentle
who has resided in Mddletown for nine
years says he knew his thermometer to in
dicate such warm weather, before, as it did last
Monday, There hasn't been day this week
when anybody could have frozen to death, but
it has been comparatively comfortable since the
slight rain of Monday night.
Dem. Co. Exec. Committee.
The Democratic county Executive Committee
met in Wilmington, last Saturday morning, in
answer to the call of the Chairman, Wm. Her.
bert, ESQ.,, and completed their organization by
electing R. G. Jusis, ESQ.,, Secretary, and John
P. Springer, Esq, Treasurer. Aftor some other
business, mostly of a private character, was
transacted the committee adjourned to meet in
this town, ou Saturday. the 25th.
Nice Baby
The Lewes Light is responsible for the story
that last Wednesday week, an ls-months baby,
in Lewes fell down a 3o-foot WELL and remained
there, in l2-foot water, until Mrs. Spicer, its
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