Middletown transcript., 1877-06-09
Temperance Meeting.
r. E. Convention.

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The annual convention of the P. E. Churc
of the diocese Of Delaware, which has been
session this week, at Georgetown, adjourne
on Thursday. The following were chosen 8
delegates to the General Convention: Clerics
-Messrs. Brooks, Douglass, McKlain and Lii
tell. Lay-Messrs. Curtis, Fell, Raymond an
Bates.
A Welcome shower.
The dry weather which was fast becoming
drouth, received a temporary check on Tues
day morning by delightful, though not yer,
heavy, rain, which settled the dust and mad
the women folks and storekeepers happy, if i
didn't soak the corn roots much, and did pre-
vent some persons from doing work that they
intended to do that day. A heavy rain fell a
night.
Sewing Machines.
We ask the attention of any Of our reader:
who may wish to secure good Sewing Ma.
chine to the advertisement in to-day's issue Of
A. T. Stoops, No % South 9Th street Phila-
delphia. Mr.. Stoops is agent for ''The New
Wilson Sewing Machine, and dealer in all the
first-class makes of machines The machines
have been greatly reduced in price, they are
warranted to give satisfaction, and no extra
charge is made for boxing or shipping to par
ties who reside in the country Read the ad-
vertisement.
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Co.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders Of
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company
was held Monday morning at the office Of the
company in Philadelphia. The report of the
directors shows that during the year ls76-77
the receipts from all sources were 1921, ,O0s. .4s,
and the total expenditures, including interest
on the bonds, repurs, ETC., were $2l3, 1895.
Andrew g. Gray, If New Castle, was reelected
President. Nearly all the directors are Phila-
delphians.
New Advertisements.
Henry Clayton advertises a prime lot of cab
bage plants, just he thing to feed peach pickers
on.-E. G. Fenimore advertises some fine
Chester White Iigs full blood.-The Milton
Dramatic Association announce their enter
tainment next Wednesday evening Samuel
Townsend, Esq, advertises the coach shops,
now occupied by Il. D. Howell & Son, in Mid
lletown, to be sold at Public Sale on the 18th
If July. He, also, announces the sale Of his
arm in Somerset county, Nd, on the 10th of
Tuly.-A. 7. Stops advertises cheap sewing
nachines.-Wilmington Trotting Association
publish their programme of races
at Now Castle.
A bold and most impudent burglary was
in the store of James T. EIiason &
3ro., in New Castle, Sunday morning. About
or 9 O'Clock, that morning, burglars entered
he store, and, passing through, went to the
oom of the young men over the store, carried
if their clothes, took from their pockets the
2eys Of the safe, opened it and took therefrom
ome $500 in money. The clothes were found |
lext morning in stable back Of the store.
Nothing else seems to have been disturbed.
truck by Lightning.
Wednesday afternoon, as William Lowder
vas engaged in picking strawberries on farm
ear Lebanon, DEL, he was struck by light
ing and instantly killed. Three other men
Eho were engaged at work near him were also
evereIy stunned, one Of them 50 severely that
was long time before he could be brought
o consciousness. The same fash, it is stated,
truck and instantly killed a COW sbout mile
rom where the men were.-- GGzetts.
This is doubtless the man alluded to BY us
. another placs.1
temperance Meeting.
According to announcement Gospel Tenn
erance Meeting was held in the Town Hall
unday afternoon, commencing at o'clock.
pretty large aulfer.e was IN a.ttendance.
he stage was SIS. Patton,
Iartindale and artindale con-
ucted the exerc we're made
IL OtNou duu mr. mdT-
ndale presented pledge which ne read and
lvited all present who felt 50 inclined, to
ign it. The hymn 'Rescue the Perishingr
'as then sung, during the singing Of which, a
ODDLY number of persons of both sexes-some
whom never drank drop Of liquor in their
Ves, while others felt themselves fast becom-
lg the slaves Of intemperance walked to the
ont and placed their names upon the paper,
Lodging their word and sacred honor to ever
hereafter abstain from the use of intoxicating
quors as beverages, and also promising to do
Il in their power to induce Others to go and
0 likewise. This meeting was promised to be
ut the beginning of "a series of like character.
Great Big Snake story.
The Herald tells this: Mr. A. Wingate was
stting trap for swapping turtles on Shipping