Middletown transcript., 1875-02-20

city. Could they be caught, human ingenuity
would be taxed to the utmost, to invent pun
ishment severe enough for such devils and
their crime.
Comm anicated.(
The Odessa Charades and Tea Party.
The entertainment, consisting of charades,
and Martha Washington Tea Party, given
on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this
week, was a very fine and successful affair.
Promptly at II o'clock, the Odessa Social
Orchestra began a we'll selected musical
meldnge, which was continued for about a.
half an hour, when the curtain arose for the
introduction of charade No. |, 1.-THE Last
Loaf which was cleditably acted by Misses
B. and K. Appleton, Miss Mccoy, and Miss
Moore, assisted by Messrs. Stephens, Brown,
Perry, Appleton and vandegrift. The par
ticipants in charade No. 2, were Misses APP
pletoa and Baker, and Messrs. Brown and
Perry
Much credit is due the young ladies for the
pleasing manner in which they rendered their
parts, and the gentlemen, also, were none the
less deserving
At the conclusion of the charades the
coquettish "bride" requested the audience
to return again on the following evening to
find her the same fortunate, happy heiress.
We then retired to be the guests of the
Martha Washington Tea Party. The Repre-
sentatives of the "Thirteen States were fan
tastically and tastefully attired in the costume
OF Eye olden time, and the tables were
abundantly supplied with such articles as
were we'll calculated to satiate the cravings
of the appetite. Cupid's piercing arrows
few hither and thither, and among his VIC
TINS were both the "Colonel" and the "Cap-
tain" The former was severely though not
mortally wounded the latter is gone beyond
recovery, as the shaft was we'll aimed. We
extend our congratulations to all connected
with this successful entertainment, and hope
their labors were plenteously rewarded.
ALPHA
(Communicated)
Warwick Locals.
We throw up the sponge! No mans acts
have right to be uestioned, who can write
such a letter as was published in last weeks
Gazette, penned by Mr.. Townsend, about
boys and fruit, and let US differ as we may on
abstruse problems the cardinal virtues of a
mind SO just and generous needs no panegyric
Of ours. Send down the Wilmington boys
and we will fill them to repletion with
peaches and berries, and help them to climb
chesnut trees if it takes all the lawyers in the
state to get them down again.
Our minister has become disgusted with
his hearers; he likens his efforts to lone
beating the air., and hints pretty strongly
that he were well quit Of US. We have divers
people here, but they are pretty much like
others-s little lax about church matters
perhaps, but right good fellows withal.
Yon are aware, my dear sir, that annual
elections are held in our state, and although
we may not vste early, we are bonnd 10 vote
often. Politics are ever on the tapis, and
place-men very numerous, as natural con-
sequence some poor fellows get to be section
bosses on the highways and collectors and
after weary waiting think they are well
paid and doubtless are, for one would
rather be trustee of a public school than
private in the ranks.
A strange pedestrian passed through our
village the other day; venerable and stately,
he sported an ancient beard, while his port
nd cta ola cfs fo
He might have been the wandering Jew, or
the shade of defunct engineer, but those
who had the best right to know, swore be
was the patriarch of the Changers for the
plume of his hat was a peacock ather, and
his staff aR immense corn stalk. There was
something uncanny; he left no track on the
newly fallen snow as he wended his way to-
wards Middletown.
Our beligerants we thought IN state of
syncope, but blood will tell, and the knife
was freely used few days ago by one of our
school-boys on his mate. "Spare the rod
and spoil the child says Solomon, but there
are those here who think his advice applicable
to his time only-that correction cowes the
spirit and breeds servile race.
The swath mown by death this winter will
net sooa be forgotten. The young, the lovely
and the stalwart have fallen, as we'll as the
aged and infrm, and though the surge of
busy life soon smooths rough surface the
sudden shocks which have startled the coun-
try leaves 40 ordinary impression. That
graduation which deludes fails now to con-
vince when calmly contemplatngly the fall
OF those known 10 be a short time since in the
full vigor and pride of life and doubt exists
and fear riseth not knowing where the next
bolt may strike r