Middletown transcript., 1876-08-12
SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. IL, 1876.
LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.


Passenger fares have been reduced betwee
way stations on the Delaware Railroad, almo
one-third.
The Wilmington election for members {
the City Council will take place on Tuesday
September 5th.
There will be no service at the Presbyteria
Church tomorrow, DR.. Patton having nc
yet returned.
The First National Bank of Milford ha
boxght $4,000 worth of bonds to secure il
circulation.
The Lewis LigM strongly recommend
Jacob Moore, Esq, or Judge Houston as tn
Republican candidate for Congress.
The Kent County Almshouse farm produc
ed 100 bushels of wheat, this season, and
has good prospect for large yield of corn
s. w. Hall 4 Co., of Frederick are prepar-
ing, so the Dover Sentinel says, to put up over
900, 600 cans Of tomatoes, this season.
Ii is proposed to run at an early day, an
excursion train from Milford to the Centen-
nial, fare for the round trip not to be more
than $3.50.
The Blackbird camp meeting was brought
to close on Monday morning, and the
sscampists folded their tents and glided softly''
to their homes
The Wilmington Gazstte accuses the Herald
uf libelling Sheriff Lambson and the Republi-
can charges the Gazette with libelling Martin
Farrell. So they 60.
Smyrna lost one of her oldest residents last
Sunday in the person of Mrs. Ruhama Buck
master. The old lady was almost centen-
marian being 90 years old.
Charles D. Shaw, an inmate of the Insane
Department at the County almshouse COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself with a
handkerchief in his room on Saturday morn
ing last.
Preston Hardcastle, now on visit to his
relatives in Middletown, will leave here next
Monday for London, o., where be will con-
tinue in the capacity Of a salesman in a large
dry goods house.
Smyrna was thrown into fever of excite
ment last Friday night by the burning Of an
out-building in the rear Of the bakery Of W.
H. Carr. Not much damage was done but
the scare was a big one.
The river and harbor appropriation bill, as
. agreed on by the joint conference committee,
Of the two Houses of Congress, gives to Della
ware river and Delaware bay piers $4,000
and SIG, to Wilmington.
The election for delegates to the State Con-
vention, called by Chairman Reynolds, will
be held on Saturday the 26th inst. Delegates
to the New Castle county Convention will
probably be chosen the same day.
The farm of Owen G. Crow, in Blackbird
Hundred, ls0 acres, was sold by Sheriff
Lambson on Tuesday for $4,000. Andrew
Spear, purchaser. It was sold last spring for
So, 800 but the sale was upset.
J. B. Clarkson, ESQ.,, having removed to
Wilmington, offers his, house on Green street
for sale. This Isl nice property, the house
beIng but two or three years old, and is very
desirably located. Mr.. Clarkson will sell on
reasonable terms.
Samuel Everett, living near Dulaney's
Chapel, miles west of Smyrna, while thresh-
ing for A. r. Holt, near that place, short
time since, caught his arm in the machine,
and it was SO badly hurt that it had to be
amputated last week.
P. W. Mcdowell, of Wilmington, lost his
iron-grey driving horse which he valued at
Sl75 90 while on his way down the State last
Saturday week. The horse was taken with
collie a few miles above Middletown and after
being brought to Maxwells hotel stables died
during the night.
The Smyrna Times mentions the sale of an
orchard of from 5000 to 1000 baskets of
peaches for $l70O, which may or may not be
about fifty cents basket, and then asks tri-
umphantly, "Who says peaches won't pay !"
We don't think that any great shakes. Some
orchards have been sold here for good deal
more than that.
A social dance was held at the late resi-
dence of Hamilton Morton, Esq, near War
wick, Md, on Friday evening of last week,
with about twenty-five couple present
Among the strangers present were Miss
McGraw of Alexandria, Va, Miss McGreavy
of Baltimore, Md, Miss Ida Bateman ofCedar-
willie, NJ. The evening was very pleasantly
spent, particularly as the dancing was to
ss,o ,,uo;c IF pr;co,e 0rchncfra
County Convention.
According ia. the old Democratic rules, pro-
eided they are still in force since the defeat of
the new ones, the county convention will as
semble at New Castle on Saturday, September
9Th, to nominate candidates for the Legisla-
ture and Levy Court.
state Convention.
Robt J. Reynolds, Esq, chairman Of the
Democratic State Executive Committee has
issued a call for State convention 70 be held
at Dover on Tuesday, September 9th, for the
purpose Of nominating a candidate for repre-
sentative in Congress and presidential electors.
Killed ON the Railroad.
An unknown man, carpenter by trade,
fell in trying tc get on the cars while run
ming, on the Smyrna Branch Railroad last |
week and was run over by the cars and fatally
injured. He crawled into some weeds where
he lay all night, as no one knew of the acci-
dent, and when found in the morning he was
scarcely conscious. He was sent to the county
Aimshouse where he died on Saturday.
alovsments Of Tramps.
Tramps have not been quite 50 numerous
this week a. they were last. They have
passed on, probably. further down the PENN
sula in quest of ''peaches to pluck" Afew,
however, still hover about our streets making
daily visits At the kitchen doors for "litile
to eat.n A favorite occupation of