Middletown transcript., 1877-04-21
LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.
Full MOon next Friday.
Peach trees are in bloom.

length ID hours, "a minutes
A shooting and bowling alley has recently
been put up in Delaware City.
The drouth was broken on Wednesday BY
iue rain which continued over Thursday.
The Delaware shad fisheries have not been
very successful 50 far. Shad are rather scarce.
Six vessels were blown ashore at Lewes by
the gale on Monday of last week. No lives
lost
Eight hundred Delaware shad were receiv-
ed at Wilmington on Saturday last, and sold
at $40 per hundred
'Muggins" says that, in these hard times,
a Eve dollar green back looks as big as
O'Brien's circus posters.
The man who can't afford to take bis little
ones 10 0'Brien's six shows, paid three dol
lars for another dog Saturday
The Levy Court Of Kent county has fzed
the tax rate in that county at As cents on the
hundred dollars Same as last year.
The "Woman's Journal" Boston, has cap
tured Massachusetts, girl who walked forty
miles in two days to attend O'Brien's six
shows.
The party of Wilmington mechanics who
recently went to Caracas, South America,
are very much dissatisfied and wish Them
selves home again.
One of those intolerable nuisauces an organ
grinder, was in town on Thursday serenad-
ing the different houses for pennies, but he
reaPed sparse harvest
J. 7. Vests store, at Linwood, on the P.
W. & B. R. R. was broken into and robbed
of Sl4 in cash and diamond for cutting
glass worth $ll, and other things.
A number Of coal sheds belonging 10
Miss Shipley, in Wilmington. were destroyed
BY fire last Friday evening week. They were
occupied by BENZ. Hirst, coal dealer.
John Leach, of New Castle, was drowned
on Sunday afternoon last in the Delaware
river, by the capsizing Of yacht in which
he, with two other men, were sailing.
Shad are getting little more plentiful in
our market, but the price doesn't fall much.
They are still sold at from 60 to 80 cents a
pair, and they are not Delaware shad either.
''The elephant now goes roun' and roun',
The band begins to play,
The small boys roun' the monkeys cage
Had better keep away r.
Harlan Hollingsworth launched side
wheel steamer ESQ it. long by s5 it. wide, at
their yards last Saturday She was built for
the Old Bay Line between Baltimore and
Norfolk
VIM. Il. Wharton's residence, near Ocean
View, Sussex county, was burned to the
ground with all its furniture and contents
during the high gale of Monday night week.
Loss S., 600.
Robert Hewes' store, in Wyoming, was
broken into and robbed of S4 90 in pennies
on Wednesday night of last week. The
thieves also helped themselves to a supper of
eggs, cheese, crackers and cakes.
Robberies are becoming frequent at Sea
ford. butchers shop in that town was en-
tered by means of false keys one night last
week and robbed of $l3 worth of meat This
is only one of many lately committed.
0iBrien's menagerie and circus wagons
passed through this town on Wednesday
morning on their way down the peninsula.
There were some two dozen or more of them,
followed by the three band cbariots and car
riages containing the actors.
The only Automatic Fire-prOof Evapora-
tors ever made are for sale by Mr.. James B.
Naudain, agent for this company. Call and
see this new Evaporator, it is the invention
of an ls year old boy Just in time for this
years crops. See advertisement.
Richard Townsend, administrator c. t. a.,
sold at the hotel of William B. Hollis, Towns
end, on Saturday last, the lands of the late
Samuel Bartlett, colOred, in Appoquinimink
hundred. containing about forty-three acres, ;
to James T. Carter, ESQ.,, for $4Ol.
The circus is coming and the boys are wild |
with. excitement and delight. For the ac- '
commodatiOn of their big bills the agents e
have had a high board fence erected around /
the garden of Mr. Nandain, corner Broad L a
Main streets, and covered them with colored n
posters and pictures. q
VIM. Beck, the Smyrna forger, has been /
arrested in Bridgeton, N J., and is now in f
Jail there on the charge of stealing horse +
and buggy. He hired the team to 60 to /
Fairton but went in another direction, and Z
the livery man, thinking that such conduct
was not exactly right, had him arrested.
The Automatic Fruit Evaporating Co. Of
Philadelphia, are prepared to contract to
furnish Evaporators with a capacity of 300 to
500 baskets per day. One-third cheaper than $
any other process, and warrant them fire
proof in all cases. Mr.. j. B. Naudain is their I
authorized agent for this county. See adver- :
tisement in another column.
sheriR's Sale.
Sheriff Grubb, sold on Thursday, at the !
hotel of William B. Hollis Townsend, at one
o'clock, the farm of Passmore n. Mitchell, to =
Joseph Nichols, for $4,000, subject to a
mortgage of 81, 900.
Deputy Coroner Appointed. Il
Coroner Rose has appointed Jas. G. Towns
end, deputy coroner, for all the lower part of
New Castle county, whose duties shall be to ?
attend all necessary cases where inquests are
required. Therefore Mr.. Townsend desires I
that he be notified by mail or telegraph at /
Townsend, Del, Of all cases Of death which
by law requires an inquistion to be held. 81
Business Change. tt
Dr.. G. G. Chanberlaine, having sold out e
his drug store and business to DR.. q. R.
has removed his office 10 the
small building nearly opposite the Forest ! !
Presbyterian Church, lately occupied BY DR.. ta
W. F. Kennedy. The latter has removed to p
the new Office erected for him BY Mrs. NJ. E. p
Clayton, on East Main street.