Middletown transcript., 1877-02-03
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 8, 1877.
LOCAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.

LOOA4 AHO O4 AL hA hA4bO
The Clerk of the Peace of Kent county is
sued 2o5 marriage licenses during the pas
year.
A number Of the citizens of Milford and vi
cinity are said to be making arrangements tC
remove 10 Texas.
Richard Harrington is said to have beer
one of the converts at the late revival at The
NJ. E. Church, in Dover.
WIN. Cleaver, Of this hundred, is making
arrangements to remove TO Florida, where he
proposes to take up his residence.
Only one building permit was taken out in
Wilmington during the month of January.
Hard times and scarcity Or money.
The Delmargia Fruit Drying Company $
big building, in this town, is advertised to be
sold BY ex-Sheriff Lambson next week
Amos Turner, of near Milford, has shipped
! 400 barrels Of sweet potatoes to New York
this winter, for which he received 81, 200.
The stock of the new Fruit Growers Ma
tional Bank has increased ST rs per share in
valae since its organization, six months ago.
VIM West, Jr., of Lewes, was in the act of
pulling bis gun from boat, last Thursday,
when it was discharged, blowing off his left
arm,
Joseph Wells, Of Blackbird Hundred, died
at his residence near Greenspring station, on
the Delaware railroad, on Wednesday morn
ing.
The sheriff of SUSSEX county advertises
twsnty-six sales OF real estate, Of which sew
enteen are properties of Benz stOekley, of
Seaford
Dr.. Isaac Jump, Of Dover, was thrown from
his carriage on Wednesday, through the
breaking Of a bolt, and badly bruised and
cut about the face.
Judge Davis, recently elected to the U. s.
Senate, from Illinois, is native Of Cecil
county Maryland, and was once student at
Newark Academy, in this State,
A pistol which Joseph Handy of Brandy
wine hundred, was examining, last week,
went off accidentally and the ball passed
through the wrist Of Mr.. Hanby's daughter
making painful wound.
Ex-Gov. Ponder, it is said to have been dis
covered by some investigator is ineligible to
the position of president and director of the
Georgetown bank which be now holds on ac-
count Of having removed from Sussex county.
Reynolds & Co.'S second annual stock sale
viii be made on Mr.. RS farm, on the Levels,
on Thursday next People who are in want
OF stock may find it to their advantage to at
tend, as some good bargains may be secured.
-Four boys broke into the Office of Bancroft
Sons cotton mill on the Brandywine one
night last week for the purpose of robbing it
of such valuables as they could find, but they
were discovered and two Of them captured.
Robert Fee, a workman in the employ of
the Harlan & Hollingsworth Co., Of Whining
ton, was suddenly taken with appoplexy
while. engaged at his work in the shops, on
Friday Of last week and fell, dying in few
hours afterward he was fifty years old.
Religious Notices.
Divine Seruice will be held in the new N.
E. Church, at Summit Bridge; under the min
istration of Rev: George R. Bristor, on Sun
day, at o'clock, and u o'clock, p. m. The
public are invited to attend.
The Rev. Mr.. Butler is sufficiently recov-
cred from bis sickness to resume his duties on
the coming Sunday.
New Heztdences.
Mr.. Lingo, on one, and The Associated Car
pentefs, on the other, are running up the new
houses Of DR.. John Patton and Mr. Frank Ella
son with great rapidity during the pleasant
weather that is now prevailing. Both these
houses win be handsome buildings and ma
terially add to the appearances of Main street,
on which they are located.
Meeting Of New Castle Prssbytery.
A special meeting of the Presbytery of New
Castle is to be held at Newtown on the 9Th Of
February, to take action upon the request of
the Rev. B. F. Myers, to have the pastoral re-
lations between himself and the Presbyterian
Church at Snow Hill dissolved, in order that
be may accept the call of the Presbyterian
Church at New London, Pa.
Special Services in the n. z. Church
The.meeting at the Methodist Church has {
continued another week with slightly in
creased interest. During this past week Rev.
Mr. Hunter St. Georges and Rev. Mr.. Mer- I
ritt have preached. The ensuing week Rev.
t. E. Terry Of Leipsc will preach every even S
ing after Monday And the four weeks I
special effort will close on Friday night of I
next week. {
A DistiIIery Captured.
Henry Gerker, the great fruit-grower of !
Kent county, has got into trouble with the U.
S. Revenue Collectors. he removed some
distilled spirits from the place Of its manufac-
ture to another place without procuring a !
license, and the collectors bounced him as !
soon as they heard of it and seized his dis !
tillery. Mr. Gerker went up to Wilmington
on Tuesday and entered $1,000 bail for bis
appearance TO answer before the o. S. Dis !;
trict Court He says that ignorance Of the :
law got him into the trouble.
sales % Personal Property.
The following sales of personal property /
will be made in this vicinity on the dates F
named
J. C. Sellers, MiddletowD, February 7th.
James Boulden, Pivot Bridge, Feb. s.
Reynolds & Co., Levels, Feb. sth. .
B. NJ. Crawford, Jr., Middle Neck, Nd, Feb.
u.
L. a. Cavender Mt. Pleasant, Feb. 18th. 9
Sarah A. Townsend & Sisters, vance's
Neck, Feb. 18th U
A. G. Osborne. st. Georges, Feb. 10. u
W. T Beeks, Sassafras Neck, Nd, Feb. 20.
Cant. John 7. Oooper. ThorouRhfare Neck. p