Middletown transcript., 1876-04-22
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL'22, 1876.
LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.

Monday.
st. Paul's NJ. E. Church, Wilmington, hav
reduced their PASTORS salary from $1,000 t.
ST, 200.
Prof. Jas. H. Groves has been re-appointet
State Superintendent, for another year, b!
Governor Cochran.
Wilmington boys and darkeys are happy
John O'Brien's circus and menagerie is going
TO show there next Monday.
Bishop Lee administered the rite of confr
nation to thirteen persons at the 2. +
Church, New Castle, last Sunday.
Don Pedro the Brazilian Emperor, has ex.
pressed a determination to visit Wilmington
luring his stay IN Centenni-delphia.
The P. W. & B. RR. Co. are talking o
building a new depot at Newark-probably
at the crossing of the P. & D. R.R.
At the meeting of the Mutual Loan Asso-
citation of Middletown on Tuesday evening
funds sold at S2.6l per share premium.
The down country small fruit growers have
UeIeTHlIueu tO TcuutC tuC ptiSS 'ct P'S"A'6
berries from two cents to one cent per quart.
Rev. Mr. Haldeman, Of Wilmington, Bap-
tist, has been offered, it is said, $4,000, to
take pastoral charge of church in Brooklyn,
but has refused.
DR.. Robert R. Porter, one of Wilmington s
oldest physicians, and man well known to
the people of this county, died last Friday.
He was IS years Of age.
The D. S. Cornet Band, of Middletown, has
been engaged to furnish music at the dedica-
ton of the ST. Georges Odd Fellows Hall,
on the 9Th instant.
The congregation of Drawers Presbyte-
ran Church, of Odessa, intend to have a
strawberry festival for the benefit of their
church when berry season comes.
Ex-Governor Ponder intends to show some
hog ore taken from his farm in Sussex county
at the Centennial Exhibition. The ore is said
10 be of very fine quality.
Superintendent Kenney has been requested,
to run an extra passenger train to Rehoboth,
next summer, during camp, on Saturday af-
ternoons. He promises to think about it.
James p Hayes, Esq, of Wilmington, re-
signed his position as member of the City
Council last week. Isaac c. Pyle, of the
Clayton House. has been elected in his place.
A Wilmington chap took dose of arsenic,
one day last week, to ascertain its effects.
He found out, and came near learning which
road he was to take on the other side of
Jordan.
Both Delaware and Chesapeake shad are
very plentiful in our market at the present
time, but the vendors keep the price up most
too high Seventy-ive cents and dollar
a pair make pretty dear fish.
Hon. Joseph P. Comegys cut down big
poplar tree, last week, which stood near Cow
gill's Corner, Kent county, with the intention
Of sending portion Of it to the Centennial.
1t measured eight feet across the stu mp.
The spring session of the court in Sussex
county lasted about two days and half
There were but two criminal cases tried. One
of these was for the crime Of stealing water
melons: the other was Of like consequence.
J.. B. Herdman, formerly of this county,
but latterly salesman in dry goods house
in New York city. was run over and killed
by the cars on the railroad at Rock Falls,
Iowa, last week. His remains were brought
home for interment
Ezra Pierce, farmer who lives near Will
mington, was fined So for hitching his horse
to shade tree in that city last Saturday.
Served him right town people don't want
their shade trees broken or mutilated by
having horses hitched 10 them.
Whitelock's Vegetator is again offered to
our farmers. 1t is an old fertilizer Of thirty
years standing, and is commended very
highly by persons who have been long using
it. 1t has been used with marked effect by
Maryland farmers, and wheat fertilized with
it is said to look better than any other.
Considerable fear is now expressed lest the
recent frosts and cold weather may have in
jured the peach buds. Many Of the Oldest
growers say that it cannot be otherwise than
that much damage has been done, but the
crop is not yet destroyed. Just such weather
as this finished the crop three years ago.
A Curiosity,
A Newark lady recently found newly laid
hen egg, on the small end of which was
plainly visible the letter C-not marked on
a. bnf
the she'll 1t is supposed TO be the chickens
method of indicating her patriotism and ad-
miratioH for the Centennial.
Some Big Lemons.
We have had big apples, big peaches, big
potatoes and big eggs, and now we have big
lemons. Mr.. J. F. Shallcross, commission
merehant, of Philadelphia, few days ago,
sent his mother, Mrs. s. F Shallcross, a num-
her of Florida lemons, out of a 10: consigned
to his house for sale, of very large size. One
of these, at Mr.. SIS request, was brought to
u.s. 1t weighed l43 ounces, and measured II
inches one way and 10 inches the other or
longer, way. The flavor of these large
lemons is very fine, and one will 60 as far in
fixing up-emenades &c, ,as two or three or
dinary ones
Upset his Dearborn.
An Odessa fish merchant brought u load of
sllad to Middletown on Thursday, and after
selling few pair loaded himself pretty well
with "benzine." Then feeling lively he con-
cluaed to have lively ride and, getting into
his dearborn, started his horse in run up
the street, but on attempting to turn into
the yard of the Central hotel his wagon cap
sized, throwing down the horse and scat
,ering fish, seat, driver, &C., all over the
oayement. If the man had not been drunk,
be might have gotten pretty badly hurt as
The fall was hard enough for the purpose, but
who ever knew drunken man to get hurt by
a fall?