Middletown transcript., 1878-04-06
State n ews.

They are playing base ball in Smyrna.
Get your mouth ready for strawberries.
Canada emigrnnts are much pleased with
Delaware.
The Wilmington Republican is figuring on
the Moffel Punch.
Lower Peninsula papers say small fruits are
damaged
New Jersey now asketh for the ''relc of bar
barism, the whipping-post
Travel is light on the Delaware Railroad,
but freighting is fair.
The time for the march Of the grand army
Of tramps is rapidly approaching.
Fish are .fe,e on the coast and the haulers Of
seines are having poor luck.
The prospect Of peaches and cream is consid-
erably brighter than it was week ago. Wen
have the cream anyhow
Andrew Smithers has been appointed P. NJ.
at Dover, rice Miss Smith, married and re-
signed.
The Times Of Smyrna says potatoes are very
low in that market: Sweet, 40 to As cents per
basket; round, at from 35 to 40.
The Orphans Court was in session at New
Castle on Monday, but, there being no busi-
ness, it adjourned till the first Monday in Sep
tember
Buffalo William will swing the bloody
Thomas hatchet at the Grand Opera House,
Wilmington, on Monday evening next, in the
play of May Cody"
Some Of those young men down the Penin-
sula who recently signed the temperance
pledge are said to be now carrying the extract
of corn in new oil cans
The New Castle correspondent of the Gazette
says George A. Millington, lessee of the jeff
erson House, has repainted and otherwise Civ
en- the house renovating, making it the best
furnished and kept establishment in tine State,
your Clayton House only excelling it in size.
Z. S. MARSHAL APPOINTED. President,
on Monday, appointed Henry II. McMullen of
New Caste Hd U. S. Marshal for Delaware.
eice John n Dunn, whose appointment was
rejected. Mr. McMullen was the Republican
candidate for Sheriff Of New Castle county at
the last election
GRIsT MILL BURNED On Saturday last, the
large four story grist-mil Of Adams 4. Co, Of
Laurel, was burned down This was one Of
the best mills in the lower part of this States
1t was run by water power. The fire is sup
posed to have origina ed from some of the ma
chinery. Loss about So, 600, 81, 900 of which
was insured in the Kent County Mutual Insur-
ance Company.
Kent county, says the EUery Erening cor
respondent. has population of 80, 900, over
Z 600 of whom are black. The interests are
chiefly, indeed almost entirely agricultural
As in other localities on the Peninsula, the
farms are entirely 100 large and unmanageable.
There are 2, 800 farms, nearly half of which,
9S7, contain between 100 and 200 acres; there
are ll8 between and 10 acres; 100 between
10 and 90; 3sS between 20 and SO; $50 be
tween so and 100; % between 500 and 900,
4 Of over ], 900 acres.
A pair Of bright, smart, virtuous young Lac
dies with courage and snap in them, looking
out for a chance to make an honorable living
by their own exertion, are contemplating
new barber shop that shall take down anything
ever before seen in this town Rich carpets,
embroidered chairs, lace curtains, luxurious
lounges and everything in keeping. But no
spittoons and no smoking and chewing al
lowed Il is to be clean place in every re-
spect, and only clean people will be desired as
customers If they conclude 10 60 on with
the enterprise, due notice will be given in these
! columns Milford Neus.