Middletown transcript., 1875-09-18
SATURDAY d MORNING, SEPT. Is, 1875.
4 Local and State Affairs.


Person Sho are ,inde5tss 10 Us, sOiA confer d
t4po, BY eail;aag1 ana settling taeir accounts
ItsiaS u Local Interest. ls
-0ststresss were remarkably quiet on Mon
day evening,sa4 i y s.i5 siss i. .ii
AS peach picking grows lighter the tramps
become, daily, more numerous in town.
The rain on Friday last was heartily well
coined by the town people, # NOT by peach
q 5i4a isss.i s54 .as;I8g-sa.9 a.5Aiasl
The annual reunion services at Old Draw
yer'sl Church, near Odessa, were held last
Sunday. ssg# nfiee.i,, h. .sss. ID fssl st..tss
The Sheriff g real estate sales nre now ad-
vsrtised ID the Ao1niay Herald, the new daily
paper just started BY the Messrs. o'Byrne.
School, in district No. so, will begin on
Monday next under charge Of Mr.. Stephen
Higginsou. Il TO IA
Miss Annie Maxwell has opened private
school on North Broad street. in the room
formerly occupied BY g; W dnghu as
broker Office. :
Messrs. RIM \ ". T. JohnsoHsof Smyr-
ma, intend to open shoe store in the store
room in the Town Hall, this town, recently
occupied BY Mr.. G. W. W. Naudain.
Andrew Kirk, son Of James Kirk, Esq,
editor Of the Dover Dslavarean, has been ap-
pointed 10 a cadetship at the o. 8. Navy
Academy, at Annapolis, by Senator Bayard.
Captain NJ. W., Macklem, Of the Monitor
House, Wilmington, has q pumpkin said 10
measure A feet by 5 feet, and to weigh 793
pounds. 90 20 ssisis tiia1l5sliseot .
Rev. J. Hough breaches at the Methodist
Church tomorrow. The Quarterly Confer
nee meets at the usual place at 81 p. Nj,
to-day. il'.e@ o'5qaeie pstE sla!
The. .Aorning Herald, published by the
Messrs. O'Byne every morning in Winning
ton, is credit to their enterprise and to the
city as we'll. s5 !, s,+s' X. .sss s.t.,,S
Peach shipments are now growing smaller
every day. ''Smocks' and few other vari
eties only remain to be shipped and they are
scarcely worth calling peaches. an at,iei
The annual fair Of the Peninsula Agricul-
tural and Pathological Association takes place |
this fall on the 9Th, 9Th and 7th Of October.
Only little more than three weeks off. q snol
The Changers Of New Castle county and
adjoining counties of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, are going to have a harvest home and
picnic in the woods near Newport on Thurs !
day.zsa, is f sy.oia y sssgas5
The Sussex Journal says the peach-growers
of that county are worse off now financially
than they were before the beginning Of peach
season. Their shipments brought them in
debt. t'''iT.s' - 49, EFiN
During the evening exhibition offgthe New I
Orleans and New York Circus Company at
Wilmington last week severe storm of wind
and-saia came up, and unceremoAiously put
stop to the proceedings, a>i
The Attorney General, it is said,. intends
to have the Constables whoTfailed to execute
the Coroner's warrants for the arrest of the
Whitiocks indicted at the approaching term
of Court for dereliction Of duty.
The Herald and Commercial have been pitch
ing into each other, this week, on the ques-
ton of fnances-specie and greenbacks-
each accusing the otherrof knowing nothing
about the subject. Il -
ln .5tf.- ati -
]. Fletcher Burris, formerly of this Hun
dred, and recent graduate of the Michigan
University, Ann .Arhor, Mich, has obtained
position as teacher in California on a salary |
of $25oo per annum.
TEd rain which fell on Thursday may have
somewhat retarded the work Of gathering
and shipping peaches, but it was, hailed as a
great public blessing by the town people, for
the dust had got awfully thick again.
The work Of cutting off corn, has COM
menced, and the fields are beginning to pre-
sent q very autumnslike appearance. The
farners are also busy preparing the ground
for wheat and seeding will soon commence.
The, "Blind Staggers,' the horse disease,
which recently broke out among the horses
in Thoronghfare Neck still prevails in that
district and numbers of valuable animals are
being daily added to those which have died
oft. .sag8taa 9 S1o3sIN LAA4tIu
DR.. Clayton A. Cowgirl, formerly of Dover,
but now State Comptroller of, Florida, has
been making q visit to his parents in Dover
r., - -
Gov. Stearn and State Senator Burris, Of
Florida ....44. gssz.-
Those abominable nuisances, the tramps or
peach plucks, now that the peach season is
drawing to close, having spent the money
they received for rum, are hanging around
the streets and annoying the people by their
constant begging. ~
WIN. Short, an old and eccentric citizen Of
Georgetown, Sussex Co., died in that town
last week. Some of his peculiarities were to
wear long white hair and beard, say queer
things and prefess to believe nething that he
did not see, or feel for himself.
1t has been suggested that it would be an |
eminently proper thing for the stockholders
OF the Peninsula Agricultural Association. |
with their wives, daughters and sweethearts,
to hold grand basket picnic on the Fair
Grounds previous to the exhibition.
There are said to be about l70 stills in /
operation in this State making peach brandy. |
1t is estimated that some 10000 gallons have
already been made and considerable more
will be made yet This feature of the great
peach crop looks more like q curse than
blessing. F1 r.lrT
The Injunction case of E. w. Lockwood,
against the use, Of the peach cutler patented
nv John A. Jones' of Middletowp was tenn