Middletown transcript., 1875-09-25
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25, 1875.


SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25, 1875.
@ Local and State Affairs.
Person scho are indebted 70 us, soiU confer I
.faror by calling and settling their accounts.
Items OF Local Interest.
Kent County Agricultural Fair commences
next Tues ,ay, and continues three days.
Peach season is rapidly drawing 10 close
and will, probably, be over in about another
week.
At the regular monthly meeting of the Mu-
tual Loan Association on Tuesday night
funds sold at from l.30 TO l.50 per share pre-
MUM.
The fair of the Salem County, New Jersey,
Agricultural Society will be held next week
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Read
the advertisement in this issue.
An Attractive Store.
Mr.. Clarence Anderson has thoroughly
cleaned up and put in order the Drug Store
recently purchased by him of Captain J. NJ.
Barr. and has now as neat and attractive
store as one need wish to see. If keeping
things in a nice condition wins the approval
and deserves the patronage of the public,
then sure Mr. Anderson is entitled to it.
Thanks.
Mr.. B. F. Kanely returns to the friends and
neighbors who fastened to his assistance and
worked so hard to prevent the destruction Of
his property by the FIRE of Monday morning,
his most cordial and grateful thanks. While
he hopes that none of them will ever need bis
services in the same way be is ready to give
them to the best of his ability when required
Wanted to ssGo West"
A young man living near Milford thought
he'd go West last week and even got as far as
Harrington on his journey. But on reaching
that point an officer seized him and brought
him back 10 Milford to see the girl he left be-
hind him. He saw the girl in the Squires
office, and in obedience to the law he married
her, right then and there. So instead Of be-
ing Western fortune seeker he is a family
man, and still he amt happy.-Smyrna
Times.
FEN Down Well.
Mr.. R L. Price met with a accident on
Wednesday morning which might have been
attended with serious consequences, but for
tunately he escaped without injury. He was
at work near an unused well and in stepping
backward fell down it, distance of 2s feet.
Fortunately there was but little water in the
we'll, and with the assistance of a colored man
working near, Mr.. Price was soon out Of his
unpleasant predicament. His escape from in
jury seems almost miraculous.
Notice 10 Teachers Of Free schools i'm
Del&sesIfe.
The Registers for Schools and Blanks for
monthly reports Of Free Schools in Delaware
will be deposited at the following places, and
can be had on application, after September
2lst: Book Store, Smyrna; New Castle
County National Bank, Odessa Store of D.
L. Dunning, Middletown; Store of Bough-
man, Thomas Co., Wilmington Store of
Cowgirl, Dover; Office of Prof. W. h. Pur-
nell, Newark; Residence Of A. F. Knight,
Port Penn; Residence of ]. C. Clark, Kirk
wood; Ollie of Recorder of Deeds, New
Castle. Ft: J. Il. Groves,
Supt. of Schools in Delaware.
Barn Burned.
About ten O'Clock on Monday morning the
barn on the farm OF Robert A. Cochran, Esq,
on the Levels about two miles from town, in
the tenancy Of Mr.. B. F. Kanely, was discov-
cred to be ON fire, and in a very little while
il, with the adjoining sheds and outbuildings
was burned to the ground. The barn was
a large frame buildingfeet 90 by 80 feet, and
contained some 500 bushels Of wheat belong
ing to Mr.. Cochran and several tons of hay,
a threshing machine, farm wagon, drill and
other farming implements, the property of
Mr.. Kanely. As all the men were in the
fields some distance from the house the greater
part of the contents of the buildings were
destroyed The total loss, including the
buildings, is estimated at from Sc, 500 to
$1,000, the bailding being insured.
List OF Letters
Remaining in the Postofice at Middletown,
Del, for the week ending September 25, 1875:
John W. Adams, Hiram Adams, Anthony
Adams (2), Prof Asch6eld, John A. Bogart,
Clara Cooper, Eugene. Cronin, James Cop
page, Mrs. A. ]. Cary, Elander Gustav, Ed
ward Darlington, Hiram Daily, 7. H Elders.
Hiram B. Frock, s. X. Fishbett, John Cur
maIy, Joseph Groves, Miss Clara ]. Gilbert,
Miss Mary Depety, J. W. Jump & Co., Thos.
Lewis, VIM. Mattson, Joseph Miller, Joseph
Martin (2), Garrett s. Mofit, Harry Martin,
Samuel Houngton, John Rolph, GUSTAV Rey-
mann, Harriet Roades, o. P. Sacket, John T.
Strelton, Anna Skies, Bernard Schmidt, Jas.
H. Sanders, Winfield Thomas, Abram Will
liams, John Wills, Absolem Watson, Marth
J. Warren, George Wiltock, Henry Wilson,
John B. Whaley (2). Persons in calling for
the above will please say that they are adver-
tised. D. L. DUNNING, P. NJ.
A Recognition. Htt-
About the middle of August, it will be re-
membered, young man, peach pluck, was
mashed between the cars of a peach train at
Brenford and died. He was buried in the NJ.
e. Cemetery Of this town, in the corner for
the unknown dead. Yesterday Mrs. Peter
N. Morris, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, came
and had the remains taken up, and she at
once recognized the body as that of "her
boy" although greatly dis6gured by decay.
She recognized the clothing. He was a youth
of seventeen, and the mother states that he |
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