Middletown transcript., 1877-04-14
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL "A, 1877.
LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.

So has the Middletown one.
Some one entered the store Of r. NJ. HUI
bard in seAfOrd one night last week and stO
$50.
The meadows along the Christiana at Wi
mington were flooded by the recent heaV
rains.
Rev. B. F. Price has been appointed to ii
NJ E. Church, of Delaware City, in place
Rev. J. W. Weston.
Jacob Il. Hawker, Of Baltimore Hundred
Lately fell heir to $3.50, 900 by the death of hi
father and brother.
Geo. F. Gouley, formerly Of Wilmington
was one Of the victims of the great St. Loui
FIRE on Wednesday.
The imissing boy" about whom the viii
mington papers had so much to say Weel
or so ago, has been found.
The Delaware City painters have agreed tc
paint the N. E. Church parsonage in tha
town free Of charge.
Farmers have generally got their oats
sowed, that is those who SOW oats, and are
at work blowing their corn ground.
Sussex court met at Georgetown on Mon
day. Owing to illness, from jaundice, Chiei
Justice Comegys was not present.
Isaac N. Grubb, collector Of Brandywine
Hundred, has settled up with Treasurer Her
bert for 1876. He is the third on the list.
Prof Jas. h. Groves has been reappointed
State School Superintendent BY the Cover
nor. He holds his office one year at time
WE. Heisler having purchased of S. Y =.
Wilson his property in the centre Of Newark
is having it repaired, renovated and i'm
proved.
Cleaver Brothers 4 Co., bankers, Of New
Castle have failed, but it is said that arrange
ments have been effected SO that they will
continue business.
The Newark Journal is much better printed
and far better looking, as well as more
readable. paper since it abandoned the
''patent outsides"
A gray horse was stolen from the stable Of
VIM. o. Green, near Warwick, last Saturday
night. he offers reward of S25 for bis
recovery. See hand-bills.
Philip Cannon, of Bridgeville, is building
a cottage for himself at Rehobeth, and it is
expected that several more will be built there
during the coming summer.
Some rascals went to the farm Of R. NJ
Jones, near Dover, one night recently and
stole fine heifer. They killed and skinned
her in Mr. Jones yard.
Herring have been in market for some time
but shad have been slow in coming. They
are beginning TO put in an appearance now,
however, but are terribly high.
Our people, taking advantage of the ''let
up in the severe weather Of which this
spring has been SO fruitful have been busily |
engaged in making garden this week
Mr.. S. B. Kelly, has opened new shoe and
hat store in the storehouse formerly occupied
as an Office by the managers Of the P. A. 4
P. Association. Read bis advertisement.
Major B. T. Blggs has given the contract
for the mason work Of his new brick house in
Middetown to P. J. Duffy of New Castle
who offered to do the work on the best terms.
Two cars of the south-bound morning
freight train on the Delaware r. R. jumped
the track at the Delaware Junction on Friday
morning and caused a six hours delay to the
train.
Rev. Charles NJ. Galloway, an Episcopal
clergyman died very suddenly at his resi-
dence in Wilmington on Wednesday evening,
after an illness OF only "a hours. He was 81
years old.
Mr.. @. W. W. Naudain offers a well Sc
lected stock of dry goods, groceries, &C., to
The citizens of MiddIetown, at prices so low
that none have right to complain Of them.
See his published prices.
Since the consolidation Of the EUsry Econ
n0 and Commercial and consequent advance
n price, the WILMINGTON penny papers all
lain an increase of circulation. sit is an
N wind that blows nobody any good"
Joseph Richardson, Esq, father of ex-
Sheriff Richardson and one of Wilmington's
,ldest citizens died on Monday evening. he
vas in his s6th year. Bis children, grand
children and grsat-grand-children number q
The grocery store of Purnell NJ. COlley, in
Wilmington, was broken into by some would I
,e burglars, Tuesday night, but ''Pateut
.larm" aroused the next-door neighbors, and
hsy made the scamps decamp without any
,ooty.
"A uarty Of Wilmington school Buys picked
ID lump Of Heifiiae II .he street. in front
# q house from which drug store had just
,een removed, and ate it, supposing it to be
ssenee of coffee. They were all badly poi
oned.
The bad weather that has prevailed for
evsral weeks has made ths seasUn so back
yard that but little farm work could be done,
Intil within the last few days, and the farm ,
rs are ''hard at it" trying TO make up for
ost time. ,
II is stated that Rev Mr.. Haldeman, the !
nuch-taIked about minister of Wilmington,
J going to have a choir of fifty singers in his 7
hurch, and they are TO be lead by the brass {
Iorn known as the cornet, and other orches- l
"a instruments, if deemed advisable. {
MIS-. NJ Reynolds has just returned from
be city with an additional supply Of new
,oods TO his already immense stock. Mr.. R.
uys cheap and sells cheap, and offers a
Dlendid selection Of goods at very low prices.
lead his big advertisement and profit BY it.
Miss SalIis Stevenson, Of Dover, got her 4
ands badly burned last week, in attempting t
, clean pair Of kid gloves. She had rub d
ed vesta ell on them and was holding them
YER the stove to dry, when the oil took FIRE r
nd burnt the gloves and her hands too
oral.-Young ladies should not clean kid
loves.