Middletown transcript., 1876-10-28
LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.

LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS
One hundred and ninety-nins tickets for th
Centennial were sold at Middletown depot OF
'sDelaware Day"
Sheriff Lambson advertises the persona
property Of J. w. Vandegrift, to be sold OF
Friday, Nov. Sd.
The Smyrna Times says there have beer
twenty-seyen sheriffs sales in Kent county
since the April term Of court.
J. Addison Aspril has taken out letters o.
administration on the estate Of Mary Ann
Aspril, deceased, late of st. Georges hundred.
Mr.. Nathan Cook, of Camden, has sold bis
mare Clancy" entered at the Middletown
fair BY W. G. Fountain, of Dover, to G. W.
Fitzwater, Of Philadelphia, for $1,000.
Diamond State Cornet Band Of this town
has an engagement to play at the Democratic
county meeting Iext Thursday. It furnished
music for last nights meeting in Odessa.
Rents in Middletown have an upward ten
dency vet, and as they have been proportion
ately higher than in Wilmington, probably
they are aiming to be even with Philadelphia.
Where is the remedy for reduction?
The Democrats Of Pencader Hundred will
hold meeting at Kirkwood next Tuesday
evening, to be addressed by Hon. b T. Biggs,
John O'Byrne, Esq, Gen. William Reynolds,
Walter Cummins, Esq, and Col. William Il.
Newton. Clubs from adjoining Hundreds are
invited.
Political Notes.
Extensive preparations are being made for
making the Democratic Mass Meeting to be
held here next Thursday one of the most inn
posing Of the campaign.
State Senator Sapp of Kent County has
formally resigned his senatorshlp, which will
necessitate the election Of Senator in his
place. s
The election will take place one week from
Tuesday next.
Meeting at Newark.
Newark was considerably aroused on
Thursday night by grand Democratic meet
ing and torchlight procession which had been
previously advertised. Although the VIII
mington clubs did not participate as vas e1-
pected, there were over four hundred men in |
the torchlight procession, which was headed |
by the Newark Cornet Band. There was also |
4 company Of thrashers from Cecil county, |
Md, in the parade, who produced much mer-
riment. John O'Byrne, Esq, was unable to |
attend, but the evening was taken up by |
eloquent speeches from Hon. Eli Salisbury |
and others.
Driven to Death.
About two weeks ago, William ". Pyle, |
sewing machine agent Of Wilmington, hired
q horse Of Mr.. Alex. Maxwell to 60 to Sassa-
fras, Nd, or probably little further, as he
wished to self machine before returning
He went to Sassafras, to Worton Heights, to |
Hanesville, to other places, and as he neared |
Galena on his return home, started the horse |
in q run down and up the large hills, and |
soon after the horse was stabbed in Galena,
he died, driven to an unwilling and painful
death BY a man. Mr.. Maxwell has been over
the route taken BY Pyle and procured sufi-
cient evidence to substantiate all these charges,
and intends to hold tie offender responsible
before the law. The horse was valued at
$l76.
Campaign Club.
At an informal meeting Of Democrats in
the office of the Managers of the Peninsula
Agricultural Association on Monday evening,
a campaign club, to be called the Tilden Club
of st. Georges Hundred, was formed with
Jas. H Scowdrick for President, and Jas. B.
Naudain, for Secretary. All present enrolled
themselves as members, giving the club good
start. The club met for the first time in their
new, room in the third-story of s. N. Rey-
nolds' store On T1ursday evening. Forty |
seven names w1ye4 enrolled and much enthu-
siasm prevailed. II i earnestly requested |
that all persona tx5ofingl Democratic princi-
Piles regularly YN ire room, which win be
open every ev1li61 and where will be found
campaign documents, daily papers, &c. The
club attended the meeting at Odessa last
night in body, headed by band Of music
and displaying handsome transparencies and |
torches. i
eNatchman, Tell Us OF the Night"
Last Monday night, as the rain came re-
luctantly down, Mr. Andrew Hushabeck and
his son Augustus, took positions on each side
of shock Of corn near the formers residence
in Middletown, to watch for the negro or
negroes who had been stealing the corn for
the past month. Peeping out from beneath
his umbrella, Gus. discovered burly negro
helping himself to corn, and thereupon at
tackled him with stick, which was brought
down on the darkey's head pretty lively
The father hearing the noise, went around to
where the contest was going on, and in bis
excitement and failure to distinguish the
contestants, struck his son heavy blow in
the mouth with club, knocking him to the
ground and dislodging seven of his front
teeth. At this moment the negro escaped,
and is doubtless suffering as greatly from the
effects of his thrashing as Gus. is from his ac-
cidental hitting. 1t is estimated that over
twenty bushels Of corn have been stolen from
this field since it was shocked.
tCommunicated.)
MrDDLErowN, OcT. Gath, 1876,
ssSeek and ye shall fnd," has proved
vain motto to many, when applied to their
efforts to learn something Of the doings of our