Middletown transcript., 1877-09-22


an address before the Kent county Agricultural
Fair, September 2eth.
Col. Ed. Wilkins, of Kent county, may per-
haps be termed the peach King Of the world.
Riverside, his estate, contains one hundred and
twenty-five thousand peach trees. sHis pear
orchard contains fifteen thousand trees, OF
choice varieties .-DeRtoR Union.
-Four wrecks Of shipping occurred on the
Worcester beach during one night recently
within distance of twelve miles above and
ten miles below Ocean City. One had cargo
Of coal, another Of sweet potatoes, one Of pine
wood and the fourth in ballast No lives were
lost.
We have been gratifed to learn, as will be
his many friends here, that Lieut. Samuel @.
Barney, of Cambridge, who was summarily
dropped from the 0. s. Navy in 1868 by the
arbitrary action Of the then Secretary Of the
Navy without even reason being assigned, is
in all probability about to be restored to the
rank to which he would have been entitled,
that Of Rear-Admiral, and placed on the retired
list in consequence Of an infrmity, contracted
in the service of bis country. The back pay
TO which his restoration viii entitIe him will
be from $35, 600 to $4,000. The proposed
action-of the Naval authorities is based on the
ground that there was absolutely no reason for
the dismissal Of Mr.. Barney, and the discovery
Of the sole ground Of ii, only recently come to
light, which was false representation malici-
ously made to Secretary Welles by personal
enemy Of this misiudged officer Cambridge
Chronicle.
Still ANorHHR DESPERATE AFFAIR N TALBOT
CoUNTY Charles Underwood lives on the
Choptank river, between Dover Bridge and
Bakers Landing, in Talbot county. On Sat
urday night last, 18th, he and bis wife were
walked about II o'clock BY two negro men,
who were trying to enter his bed room, on the
ground floor. Mr. Underwood went to the
door to drive them of, but the scoundrels
forced the door open while Mr.. Underwood
was pushing against it to keep them out. AS
soon as they got in, they struck at Mr.. Under
wood with hatchet, but the hatchet striking
the top Of the door frame, few out Of the as
sassin's hand, and was lost in the dark. A
regular fight then ensued between Mr. Under
wood and the negroes, and Mrs. Underwood
coming to his assistance with stick, one Of
them took the stick out Of her hand and
knocked her down with it. Although it was
quite dark in the room, Mr.. Underwood says
be knows they were negroes both By their
smell and hair, which be had hold Of. They
were both bareheaded, and had on ragged
clothes. Two ladies who slept up stairs heard
the noise below, and started to the rescue, and
the negroes hearing them coming, left the
house, and ran out a lane Mr.. Underwood
got his gun and followed, but did not get a
shot at them. The next morning be took the
hatchet around the neighborhood, to see il
anybody could identify it. Meeting james 3.
Frampton, he inquired Of him if he knew
whose hatchet it was, without telling any
thing about the attempted murder. Frampton
said, "Yes; owned that hatchet not great
while ago and traded it with Jim Green (a
negro living in the .nsighbOrhOod) for ham
mer.n Green was at once arrested and lodged
in Easton Jail, but there seems TO be no clue to
the other party.
THn FlrzAARELL MURDER oAm.-Says the
Easton Star Of Tuesday: The jury of inquest
concluded their investigation Of the JarreIltown
murder case on Thursday afternoon without
discovering any clue to lead to the discovery
of the murderer, who is still at large. The
verdict was, that James Fitzjarrell and wife
came to their death by the hands of some one
unknown to the jury. There being no proof
that Mrs. Kate Waddell did the deed, she was
discharged. On Thursday Mrs. Fitzjarrel'i
missing money was found in white china tea
pot, on the top shelf of a cupboard standing in
one corner Of the room in which Mr.. Fitzjarrell
was murdered. Il was discovered through q
dream. On Wednesday afternoon Miss Willie
jackson told Mr.. William Sewell that on Sun
day night she dreamed that the money was in
tall cupboard in Mrs. Waddelps house wrap.
ped up in ared paper box. Parties accord
ingly searched the cupboard in the FitzjarreIl
house, and there found the money-49 silver
trade dollars, tied up in the bag they were re-
ceived in from California, and $50 in papeI
monsy-fOur Sao's and one $40 note. The
Star thinks 1t probable this is ali the money
Mrs. F. had by her when she was murdered
and that the asaAilsnts got nothing for thu
crime they committed, except the pair Of pants
which they lost on the road TO LewistoWn, th'
night of the murder. A correspondent oi
EVsyy EVsniag says the State will soon offer &
large reward for the conviction Of the mur-
derer, and with what the county win add tt
it and what N. C. Fitzjarfsll the son will do
is expected to make the reward foot up at Least
So, 500. A detective from Baltimore is said tc
be looking up the case now. Mrs. Waddel
has made no effort to get away since her re
lease from jail and she says she intends to STAY
to see the murderer hung. Perhaps she may