Middletown transcript., 1877-04-07
Lnnd snIes by the sherIf.

Land Sales by the Sheriff.
Sheriff Grubb sold the following lands a
Townsend on Tuesday: The farm Of Owen Q
Grow, near Smyrna Landing, 1901 acres Il
Andrew Spear, of Leipsic, for $3.50. Thi
is the third time The land has been knocked
off. Also the lands of the late Richard G
Hayes, Of Odessa. The first tract, 349 acres
near Blackbird, adjoining lands of 2. Med
Roberts, and others, TO Columbus Watkins
for S2sOO; the second tract, adjoining tht
above, I29 acres, to same party, for 1000
II is understood that there are liens agains
the property in addition to The prices to be
paid.
Every Evening and Commercial.
The much talked Of combination Of these
papers went into effect last Monday. Mr..
Jenkins backed out and surrendered bis edi-
torial chair 10 Mr.. Croasdale and the latter
stepped to the front in The capacity Of editor
in chief Of both papers now united. Under
the new arrangement the old name of each
paper is retained which makes the title Of the
new one appear somewhat cumbersome, but
ii permits the retention, to the newsboys, Of
the old and familiar cry of EVERY Evening
and Commercial" and this will compensate
for the seeming defect Of the big title.
The new paper is quite handsome sheet,
well printed (after the FIRST copy good size
(24x3s) and contains large amount of read
ing matter. The price of all this is two cents
per copy The new enterprise has our best
wishes for success.
Kent County RaIIroRd.
The following from the Philadelphia In
qtarer of a recent date, looks as though work
would be resumed on the Kent County Rail-
road Jay Gould, it will be remembered,
bought the Kent county road.
REoRGAEIzED.-Yesterda at IL o'clock,
number Of influential gentlemen Of New Jer-
sey and New York met at the West Jersey
Hotel, in Camden, for the purpose Of organ
izing company to operate the railroad from
Vineland to Bay Side, on the Delaware. The
following directors were elected: Jay Gould,
Thomas Sheridan, John F. Bingham, of New
York; William s. Sneeen, William G. Miller,
Edward P Miller. John A. Hance, of New
Jersey. Jay Gould was subsequently, made
president The name adopted By the meeting
is the Vineland Railroad Company. 1t is the
intention of those who have the matter now
in charge to put the road in working order as
soon as possible, making through connec-
ton from Baltimore to New York.
Peach Prophets and Prospects.
As usual variety Of opinions is expressed
in regard to the peach prospect. So far,
however, no one has ventured to assert that
they are all killed, though some go far
enough to say that some varieties are greatly
injured. Very little is said about them in
this vicinity yet, the general impression seem
ing to be that, unless some great unlocked
for calamity happens to them, there will be
enough and to spare. All we have heard so
far is little talk about holding meetings, as
was done two years ago, to make arrange
ments for marketing the fruit of which there
now seems an excellent prospect for a tre-
mendous crop
We have gathered from our exchanges
little OF what is said about them in other
places, which we present to our readers.
writer from Milford to the Commercial
says ''Some think this will be good year
for peaches, because the buds have not COM
menced 10 swell yet, while others think the
hard winter has frozen the ends of the limbs
and lessened the expectations ofa good crop"
EUery Evening: IA gentleman had been
informed that below Milford the late varieties,
which blossom first were greatly injured
The Hale's Early are safe."
Cambridge (Md Chronicle 1t seems to be
the general impression of the leading fruit
growers in Dorchester, and of others in diff
ferent parts of the Peninsula, that the pros
poets for full peach crop this year is very
Dover Sentinel "The peach buds are said
to have been injured by the late storm"
Lewes Light 1--WE are informed by Sea-
ord correspondent that all the buds of every
variety in that section and below there, are
killed. Yesterday we visited several orchards
IN this vicinity (Lewes) and were surprised
10 find that nearly or quite all the buds were
alive and presented healthy appearance"
Denton Onion d: The peach croakers have
entered their protest against a fail crop of
this fruit. Some of them have already OBJ
ected to more than half crop. There will
be full crop, gentlemen, and it is no use
denying the fact.
A Defaulting Bank Cashier.