Middletown transcript., 1877-09-01
s1TURDAY MORNING, SEPT. /, 1871
LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS
New moop next FRIDAY.

morrow afternoon.
Peach shipments are falling off rapidly the
season will soon be over
Peaches we're sold at the depot, here this
week at fifteen cents per basket.
Fhe Orphans Court and Court Of 0hancery
n =. =. s7F HEs7F G1=stslle G1=stslle e. Mlessasss
The public schools Of Middletown, for the
Fall term, will be opened on Monday next.
Some young chaps Of Wilmington are trying
to get up a party to camp out along the Chris
tiana for a few days.
james Robinson, Wilmington darkey, was
captured and sent up to Chester on Monday,
for robberies at Linwood.
CITY Treasurer Vincent, of Wilmington, will
nav this month, S4,5sO interest on the city
loan Of $i5s, 900.
sunuyside Grange, P. Of H., is going to
have big picnic next Tuesday, at Bridge
vile, Sussex county.
The aWOrkingmen's Party don't amount
% much in wilmington. Their candidates
decline the nominations, preferring to stand by
their old parties.
Another railroad excursion to Ocean City
was made, on Thursday. We presume they
viii Be continued each week during the warm
weather.
Rumor says that the Temperance movement
has forced a reduction in the rent Of one Of the
Middletown hotels-on account Of the great
falling off in the sale of drinks.
The Pacific circus showed in Lewes on Mon
day. The s'olde towne' has been free of these
peripatetic nuisances for over forty years but
the agent Of this one found it and sent it there.
Sweet potatoes are going to market now in
large quantities. Eight car loads were ship
ped BY the Old Dominion steamer from Lewes
TO New York one day last week.
The hot weather and rains Of last week
caused the peaches to ripen so rapidly that
some Of our growers were 50 unfortunate as to
lose several hundred baskets Of fine fruit.
J.F. Mancha has recently sold farm near
Dover the property Of Thomas Burnham And
the Misses Burnham, of Aliddletown, to Joseph
Whitaker, Of Philadelphia, for $4,000 cash.
The new building of the Wilmington Con-
ference Academy, at Dover, to replace the one
that was burned down, is finished and was
formally handed over to the Trustees last
Tuesday.
Messrs. williams Clark, who recently
bought out the seaford Citizen, have com
menced the issue of a new paper which they
call the Sussex County Index" May it have
abundant success.
Mrs. J. v. Parry, administrative Of B. NJ.
Parry, deceased, win sell at public sale to-day,
a fine lot of horses and carriages. Among the
horses are some very valuable ones, including
the fast trotters Atlas ana Dolly Warden.
Geo. Maynard, Of Smyrna, conductor on the
Nd. 4 Del. Railroad got caught between two
cars which be was coupling, last Thursday
week, and was badly bruised. It is also feared
tnat be was injured internally.
Shipments of peaches have been made during
the past season from Frederick to New York
yia the N. J. Southern R. R. They are nov
discontinued but the route was much liked BY
those who used it.
During peach season the Old Dominion ;. ?
GO. ran two steamers-tAe Richmond and the
Automatically from Lewes to New York
The Richmond is now taken off and the Albcr'
marie has resumed her tri-weekly trips.
A small boy-son Of A. O. Meusch, Of Cam
dek, fell of a load of peaches, one day las
week, which be was taken to the railroad
depot. Two wheels Of the wagon passed owe
him. and hurt him so badly that it is no
thought he will live.
A tramp who gave his name as John Lemol
and said he was from Philadelphia, was ar
rested on Monday, charged with breaking int
the railroad depot, at Clayton, last week, an
rifing some trunks. He was sent to Dover
be squeezed.
Personal.
Prof L. B. Jones, formerly Of this town,
now visiting the neighborhood, and expects t
be at the Chapel, at Armstrong;, on Sabbat
afternoon, where he win be pleased to mee
with his many friends, when he viii review tn
lesson Of. the day.
Hot weather.
The weather this week has been Of the re
hot kind. Wednesday was one of the yer
warmest days that this summer has given qf
The mercury, on that day, rose to 90 degree
in the shade, and on several other days il wa
not far behind. A good all-day rain would
considerable good about this time.
The Churehes Tomorrow.
sr AxSn's P. E. CHURcH. Divine serviC
at the usual hours, morning and evening.
FOREST PREsBYrERIGN Service in the morr
ing at haE past ten clock. None in evening
BETHESDA N. E. GHURcH.-open for religion
service morning and evening as usual.
TEMPERANoE MEETING in the Town Hall
four O'Clock, p. m.
Opposed to Temperance.
"A Wilmington merchant got drunk fe
evenings since and lay down on the side-wa
to sleep Of the effects Of the liquor. Son
tramps saw him lying there and went thr OnG
him. or rather his pockets, getting Sl1
money and some other things. He says
had Sl75 in an envelope which unfortunate
The tramps missed. That man could see
good ia the Temperance meetings.
aAna he fell among Thieves"
Joseph Snow, the Smyrna man who v
aeeced BY the circus men, employed Dov
LAWYER to get his money back for him. 7
lawyer overhauled the circus and succeeded
getting back Sl25, and kept $45 Of it as
pav. and now the Times wants to know # :
lawyer is not to be overhauled.