Middletown transcript., 1877-08-18
LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.
Full moon next Thursday.

Full moon next Thursday.
Sun rises at SIT sets at s.4s. Days length
l3 hours and 90 minutes.
Harry Carpenter, Of Philadelphia, lost fine
horse while driving on the road from Rehoboth
last week.
The canning establishment at Five Points
near Camden commenced operations last week
with one hundred men.
The junction 4 Breakwater Railroad has re-
ceived twenty new, well ventilated peach cars
and two new stock cars.
The weesmall shower on Thursday night laid
the dust for a little while, anyhow, if didn't t
do any other good.
The Democratic nomination election for can
didates for city officers will take place in VIII
mington this afternoon.
Mr.. c. G. Sellers commenced work in his
eyaporating house in this town last week, with
a full complement of hands.
The potato bugs are taking their departure
from the vicinity of Seaford, and the roads,
fences and bushes are covered with them.
Large shipments OfsOft-shell crabs are being
made to New York from Lewes, and are said
to beat peaches, in paying, all hollow.
There will be total eclipse of the moon on
Thursday evening, partially visible here early
in the evening. It viii be ended by O'Clock
What with peach shipments, circus, tramp
fights, fires, &C., Middletown has been lively
place this week, but that is nothing unusual.
Thomas H. Gould has been granted letters
Of administration by Register Biggs on the
estate Of Thomas Glasco, late Of Red Lion hun
dred, deceased.
A double-decked, three-masted schooner,
George w. Buckner, intended for the Cuban
trade, has been launched from the yard of
Black Co., at Milton.
The Milford Ns,Os says the corn is now be-
yond the reach of drouth, and the prospect is
the largest crop ever housed on the peninsula
viii be gathered this autumn.
Mr. George NJ. D. Hart, of Townsend, has
taken out letters of administration upon the
estate Of David Deputy, late Of Appoquiniminll
hundred, deceased.
The "Morhing'' Herald reaches here in the
evening, which makes it particularly valuable,
as we can then read all the Wilmington daiIies
at the same time.
Two tramps had a fight at Dover, one night
last week and the report came up here that
terrible riot was in progress at the capitol
We didn't bite, however.
Ladies look out The Colorado beetle, or
abominabIe potato bug, has commenced to at
tack flower beds now that the potatoes and
egg plants are out of their way.
A severe hail storm passed over the lower
part Of Kent county on Monday. A fine pear
orchard, belonging to Mr.. Edward Anderson,
was badly damaged by it.
james Brown, the negro who was shot and
so nearly killed, by another negro, at the Cap
itol hotel IN Dover on the 4th Of July, is said
to be rapidly recovering.
s.W. Hall & Co., of Frederica, are making |
arrangements to put up over ], ,OOO, 900 cans of
tomatoes. They have contracted for the toma-
toes off Of 300 acres.
The Seaford Citizen has been sold to viii |
liams 4 Clark, and win be, hereafter, publish
ed by them. It has been suspended for some
time, as Pennington couldn't make it go.
Some tobacco-hungry chap crawled into the
store of John Crumlish, in Wilmington, over
the transom, last Friday night and stole some
segars and tobacco That's all be took
Some ight-6ngered rascal got into the
kitchen part of Mr.. J. A. Reynolds house last
Saturday night and stole some clothes belong
ing to Frank Pierce, Mr.. RS eolored man.
A horse and carriage, belonging to John
sBann Of Red Lion hundred, were stolen from
in front of a house in Red Lion village last
Sunday evening. He has since recovered them.
Agents Of the Baltimore Ohio, Reading
and Pennsylvania Railroads are on the line Of
the Delaware road soliciting shipments over
their respective roads to the cities Of the West
The Herald now gets the bulk of the Sherif7s
advertising. Is this because it has the biggest
circulation, Or does the ''choice Of more I'M
fortunates fall on it than on the other dailies
The Sentinel advises the farmers that they
cannot be too careful Of their out-buildings
during the prevalence of the tramp nuisance.
This is good advice and should be carefully
needed.
The Great Pacific Circus didn't have much
of an audience here on Wednesday. The peo-
Die have become tired Of circus humbugs and
don't care to spend their money on them very
freely.
The Smyrna Times says that the yield Of
peaches along the line of the Maryland Del
aware Railroad, from Clayton to Easton, a dis
tance Of forty-four miles, i the best on the
peninsula.
The congregation of West Presbyterian
Church Of wilmington viii make an excursion
to Cape May and Sea Grove next Thursday.
The tickets for the excursion are $l.5O. Cheap
enough.
An insane boy, some 10 years old, named
Robert Mote, wandered away from home near
Newark, one day last week, and was found in
Wilmington and taken to the Insane Depart
ment of the County Almshouse.
Two tramps went to the house Of Mr.. McIn-
tosh, near Frederick, on Friday of last week,
during Mr.. McIntosh's absence, knocked down
his son and tied him, and then robbed the
house Of what money and other valuables they
could find, and decamped with the plunder
A step more in the direction Of common
sense has been made by the fashionable custom.
The following item is floating around: 'Gen-
tlemen it is no longer the correct thing, in
tp-top society, to take off your hat to ladies in
the street. A simple bow now sufices in Paris,
Berlin and New York n-Er.
M. e. Church.
Rev. ]. v. Smith will preach tomorrow