Middletown transcript., 1876-04-29

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SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1876.
LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.
Appointment Of Notary.
John A. Reynolds, Esq, of this town, was
appointed Notary Public, by Governor Coch-
ran, on Monday. Term, seven years.
Services At st. Augustine.
Divine service will ID. W be administered
in the P. E. Church, st Augustine, Md, on
tomorrow Sunday afternoon, at O'Clock,
by Rev. Mr.. Skinner, of Elkton.
sudden Death.
Mrs. Ruth F. Enos, wife of Samuel N.
Enos, of Odessa, died very suddenly at her
residence in that town, on Monday night, Of
hemorrhage of the lungs. She had been in
poor health for several weeks.
Cutting Affair.
In melee, in Wilmington, on Sunday af-
ternoon, a man named Butcher was stabbed
and pretty badly cut by another man named
Preston Rash. Whisky was the trouble, and
Rash is in Jail.
The M. e. Church.
The pulpit of the NJ. E. Church, in this
town. during the absence of Rev. DR.. Matleck,
the pastor, in attendance upon the General
Conference, which commences its session at
Baltimore next Monday, and which will pro-
bably continue some four weeks or more, will
be supplied by neighboring ministers SO that
all the services will be continued as usual.
Ended in a Row.
O'Brien's circus, or rather the concert after
the circus, did not altogether suit the rough
element of its Wilmington audience, and they
rushed upon the stage, drove off the actors,
and broke up the performance. One circus
wagon was upset in the row and one man got
his head cut and peanut stand was demol-
isbed. That was all the harm done.
Run Away.
It's reported that Dick Harrington, lately
chief contributor to the editorial department
of the Dover Sentinel, has left the country for
his own, as we'll as his country's good. Will
not some other Of the scalawag politicians OF
Delaware follow his example 10 this respect
It would be the most patriotic service they |
are ever likely to render their county,
Milford Nescs.
A Sussex Delegation.
His Excellency the Governor was waited |
upon, on Thursday, by four gentlemen from
Sussex county, two Of whom were willing
fand anxious) to serve the State in the capac-
ity of Inspector of Weights and Measures for
that county. The others came as friends OF
the applicants. ''Strong delegations OF the
friends of one or more of the numerous can
didates for the Office Of Recorder Of Deeds,
which becomes vacant on the 18th of next
month, are promised (or threatened) in
short time.
Bold Robbery.
On Monday afternoon, as Mr.. James Porter,
of Stanton, was driving up Madison street,
near Second, in Wilmington, on his way to
O'Brien's circus, his horse was seized and
stopped by couple of men, who then sprang
into his wagon, and while one held bis arms
the other deprived him Of his watch, a valu-
able one, and then they both hastily de-
camped, one taking the direction toward the
moor house and the other toward Hedgeville.
Mr.. Stanton did not know the parties, nor did
he give chase after them. This was GER
tainly a bold highway robbery y.-HeraM
|,
Some time ago we told Of some pigs belong
ing to Mr.. James Kanely, of the Levels, which
had gone mad after having been bitten by a
rabid dog. At the time it was feared that
more of Mr.. KS stock had BEEN bitten, and
on Wednesday last a COW showed unmistaxe-
able signs of hydrophobia and had to be
killed. Her behavior was very singular. She
frothed at the mouth; kept up constant
lowing; would strike her horns violently in
the ground, run at any animal or person who
went near her, until within few feet OF
them, when she would suddenly stop; her
ewes grew red and wild and were much
swollen, and she seemed to suffer much pain.
Mr.. B. F. Kanely ended her troubles by
shooting her in the head with revolver.
Bi.e saturday. Il
II this day week could not properly be
called sBlack Friday 1t might justly be
styled "Blue Saturday, The effects of
the cold weather of the previous Wednesday
night had just begun to be known and as the
growers came in from their orchards the
ravages of the frosts we're detailed and great
injury to the fruits reported. For long
time, in fact almost all day, the prevailing
topic of conversation was s'Peaches." Wher-
ever two or more men were seen gathered
tooether it was safe enough to guess that they
were discussing the Peach Prospect. For two
ar three years past the peach crop has been,
financially, almost total failure and as it is,
ID too many instances, the chief dependence OF
farmers. the brilliant prospect held ont last
Saturday of the destruction of the fruit and
another failure, this year, was enough 10
cause depression Of feeling and to make
men look, and feel "blue." The damage
done By the frost and cold Of Wednesday
night of last week was very serious. ln some
orchards the buds were almost all killed, ana
one grower who has an orchard OF upwards
Of 1000 trees near town it is said by persons
who have made thorough Investigation"
will have scarcely basket of peaches on all
his trees. In some cases one part OF an
orchard will be badly hurt, while in another
there are plenty left. Sometimes in one
orchard no material damage will be perceived
while in another, in the same vicinity, scare
" any buds remain uninjured. There Is,