Middletown transcript., 1875-09-25
hIiddIetown and Vicinity Items.
By OUR LOCAL REPORTER.

uiddletOWn ana vicinity Aee"ms.
BY OUR LOCAL REPORTER.
Railroad officials, visiting Delaware, smok
fifty cent cigars. Now, old smokers, do yo'
envy them?
There is prospect that an entertainment
will be given by the Knights Of Pythias il
the Town Hall one evening during the Fair
the performances to be of varied kind.
I was shown the new variety Of peach
known as the 'Prixe," on Thursday. Mr.
James T. Shallcross is the grower Of this ex.
cellent variety. and he considers it equal to
Crawfords Late, which it resembles very
much. lis flavor is very fine, and recon-
mends it to the fruit grower.
Some one from this town, writing high
flown English to the Morning Herald, wishes
TO call Middletown the, "Hub." and asks
Boston to resign that name. Now, friend,
can't you deal in smaller words? We are
interested in your welfare, but shall grow
faint if you continue in this style.
A negro named Dick johnson was arrested
on Wednesday and confined in the cells,
charged with stealing clothes from friend,
and this charge was well sustained, as said
clothes we're found in Dicks valise. After
being kept in the cells for one day without
anything to eat, the darkey was released.
An improvement is being made to the inte-
ror of the north end Of the freight depot Of
the Delaware Railroad in this town. Other
repairs are going on. including that, to the
roof, which needs more gravel. We can boast
of good depot and surroundings now that
are an accommodation to the large number of
travellers from this neighborhood.
Mr.. C. C. Foster, of this town, died on
Monday morning last, after long illness,
being affected to some extent with five or SIX
different diseases. Mr.. Foster will be re-
membered as the patentee of a phosphate
drill, which he manufactured at Odessa up to
1868. Some trouble was occasioned by an
alleged infringement on his patent, and Mr..
F. subsequently stopped the manufacture and
removed to Middletown, where he has been
dealing in cigars and tobacco, etc., up to the
time Of his death.
A narrow escape from a fatal accident was
witnessed by your reporter on Thursday last.
At one o'clock, Mr. M. E. Walker, wishing
o reach the other side of some peach cars
standing near the depot, concluded to 60
lnder one of them, and as he was in the CEN
re of the track, an engine Jared the cars
7ery hard, but Mr.. Walker, being scared by
he noise gave jump, and by that alone,
escaped very serious accident. Others wit
,essed the affair, and express themselves sur
,rised that Mr.. Walker saved himself at all.
On Thursday morning, as some shifting
vas being done at the depot in this town,
me of the brakeman started in q run intend
ng to jump from one car to another, but
hese two had been uncoupled and were too
vide apart to be reached. The brakeman
eeing this suddenly caught at the brake on
op of the car, but lost his hold and fell be-
ore the car as it was moving. He made a
manly struggle for life, and though the per-
ons who watched him expected to see him
instantly crushed, he gained his footing and
aved himself and the spectators an expected |
ad duty. 1t will be seen that we had two
-ery narrow escapes from death on Thursday, |
ithar Of which would have called forth the |
of the whole town and vicinity.
The P. 4. p. 4. Fair.-The purses for the
ifferent trotting classes previously named
ave closed with six of them full The 2:27 |
lass could not be filled, neither could the |
talion and double-team classes, but special |
remium of $40O has been offered for horses |
hat have no better record than 2:40, which |
viii be closed on Saturday, October I'd. An
thcr premium will be offered, which is to be |
illed by horses in the vicinity of Middletown,
# which sufficient number has been enter
d. But three entries were made in the 2:27
ace, and of course the executive committee
ound the number insufficient to guarantee
be race profitable, as the premium was $500.
All the committees are hard at work now,
md there is. every indication that the Fair
will be very successful and interesting, a
promise of which has been repeatedly made
" the officers of the Association A list of
ntries will be published in few days. The
ates for children's season tickets is so cents |
md not twenty-five, as was accidentally |
,rinted on the bills. L.