Middletown transcript., 1876-01-29
SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 20, 1876.
Local and State Affairs.
Items Of Losa, Interest.

Items OF Local Interest.
LIP. Mcdowell, Esq, started for the We
on Wednesday morning, to make his annu
purchase of mules for this market.
Abel ]. Porter, who was badly hunt by t
upsetting Of his dearborn on the 18th inst,
reported to be recovering
John b. Grubb, proprietor of 'Grubb
Hotel" Wilmington, died on Thursday NOR
ing. He had been sick several weeks.
Three sacreigious thieves broke open IL
s'poor box' of st. Paul's church, Wilmington
on Monday evening and stole the contents.
French's "New Sensation met with eve
poorer success in Smyrna than it did in Mic
dletown. Its failure there was attributed t
the revivals.
The attention of persons wanting stock
invited to the sale of Messrs. Reynolds & Co.
on the Levels, near this town, on Tuesda.
next.
A Teachers Institute tor Sussex count,
will be held at Georgetown during the frs
week in February. Superintendent Groves
will preside.
j. j. Greenwood, of Mill Creek hundred
recently cut down an ash tree that measured
six feet in diameter at the butt 1t made six
cords of wood.
The great revival in the NJ. E. Church. al
Dover, is continued with scarcely any aba.
tion of interest. Over one hunered persons
have been converted.
A farm of Gideon E. Rothwels, 25l acres,
near Casperson's Mill, near Smyrna, has been
sold, by ]. T. Mancha, real estate agent to
William E. Riggs, for S., 1000.
Since the commencement of the Moody and
Sankey meetings in Philadelphia, Robelen 4
Bro, of Wilmington, have sold more than
1000 copies of their Gospel Hymns"
s. F. Shalcross, Esq, has contracted with
J. 3. Worden, of Smyrna, for lumber with
which to build his barns, destroyed by fire on
the 18th instant
A dangerous, because well executed, $40
counterfeit note on the First National Bank
of Portland, Maine, is said to be in circula-
ton on the Peninsula. Look ont for it.
The sacred songs and hymns sung at the
great revival meetings of Messrs. Moody and
Sankey have been adopted by the Presbyte-
rian church, Of this town, for use at prayer
meetings, lectures and concerts.
Thomas W. Pennington was arrested in
Wilmington on Wednesday on charge of
passing counterfeit money. In default of bail
be was sent over to New Castle to wait till
court meets.
The Board of Managers Of the Peninsula
Agricultural l. Pathological Association have
decided upon Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, October Sd, 4th and 9th (ls76) as the
time for holding the next annual fair
Two little boys we're sent by express on
Tuesday from Wilmington to Fernandina,
Florida, to their father who was dying.
Owing to delays they did not arrive until'
Saturday and found their father had died on
Wednesday.
Mr.. Preston Hardcaste, formerly of this
town, now a resident of London, Ohio, was
presented, short time since, with a hand
some moustache cup, by some of his newly
made friends, in admiration of the handsome
adjoining Of his lip.
At meeting Of the Committee on Educa-
tion, appointed by the State Centennial Com
mission, held in Wilmington last Saturday,
il was resolved to decline to make an exhibit
at the Centennial of Delaware's educational
progress and facilities. wise move.
Distressing Accident.
An unfortunate shooting accident hap
pened in Chestertown, Md, on Tuesday af-
ternoon. little. boy, son ola Mrs. Girls
field, and nephew of j. A. Pearce, Esq,
while playing with another boy, Richie Hyn-
son, was accidentally shot through the lungs
by the latter, and, it is feared, fatally in
jured. The relatives and friends of the two
boys are greatly distressed over the unfortu-
nate calamity, and the greatest sympathy
is felt for the afflicted mother of the little
victim. TThe child has since died.
Cake Presentation.
S. M. Reynolds as the recipient, on Tues
day, Of handsome cocoannt cake presented
to him by the ladies connected with Wheat
land Grange No. l47, P. of Fl. of Sassafras,
Nd, as token of the generous feelings enter
tanned by their grange for HIM. The cake
was made by Miss Maggie Johns, to whom
the task was delegated by the ladies of the
grange, and right nobly did she do her duty
as the excellent taste and flavor of the cake
most amply testified. The fact that Mr.. R.,
is merchant middle man-greatly en-
hances the value of the present as indicative
of the confidence and good feeling that exists |
between him and the grangers.
Fire In Chestert0wn, Nd.
A fire occurred in Chestertown, Md, on
Tuesday morning, which, but for the ener-
getic labors Of the citizens, might have proved
a disastrous confagration. 1t broke out
about three o'clock in the morning, in an old
frame building adjoining the store of Mr..
Nicholas Westcott, on Main street. The old
building being very dry burned like tinder
,making fearful looking blaze and lighting
up the whole town. So rapidly did it burn
that its occupants, two of whom were women
i'll with typhoid fever, had barely time to es-
cape with their lives, leaving their effects to
the mercy of the flames. The people rushed
to the scene and by dint of hard labor sue
ceeded in getting the fire under control and
confning it to the one building, though it
was only with the greatest difficulty that they
saved the store of Mr.. Westeott, which was
,c Gro Nearly all the wells in the vicinity