Middletown transcript., 1878-09-07
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. !. 1878.
Local Affairs.

glad to know that Charles Chester music
store is a success.
The splendid store room in the Town HALL
lately vacated by Moore Co, is still vacant,
Here is good opportunity for some one to
engage in business.
Mr.. G. W. Naudain, of Odessa, is now
making daily trips to Philadelphia on the
"Clio," and will sell on commission all kinds
of ofeountry produce.
The Tournament at the Delaware State Fair
nrnrnises TO be an event Of extraordinary in
terest. In the evening a grand ball will be
given BY the citizens Of Dover
The chesapeake City people had an enjoy
able excursion 10 COLCHESTER Beach, per steam
er Chester, on Wednesday. The Diamond
State brass band furnished the music.
Walton, Whann 4 Co publish this week
a number of new testimonials from our farm
ers, who, it seems have been much pleased
with the Acid Phosphate as a wheat pro-
ducer.
We learn that Mr.. Victor Lord is engaged
in the manufacture of phosphate, at Odessa,
and is meeting with success. There is GER
tainly a good opening for that business in
this neighborhood.
Mr. B. j. Green, near Warwick, Nd, has,
this season, raised the champion wheat crop
of this section. He has just measured up Il,
4G6 bushels Of wheat, the product Of 81 acres
of ground, which is an average of 3S bushels
per acre.
Mr. ]. D. Fenimore, near Odessa, has one
of the handsomest and best kept vineyards in
the State and we understand that it is paying
him good returns this season. We passed by
it on Wednesday last and should like to have
gone in and sampled the grapes but a neat and
impassable hedge-fence forbid.
Advertisements have crowded our paper a
little of late which has necessarily caused
decrease in the usual number of columns of
reading matter Many contracts will soon
expire, however, when we hope to be able to
devote more space to miscellaneous news and
local matter than we have been doing in the
past
On our first page viii be found an account
of the shooting of A. H Blackiston, formerly
Of Kent county, Nd, by 7. Cook Hughey, at
Cumberland, on Friday Of last week. Mr..
Hughey was to have had hearing on Tues
day, but waived examination and was commit
ted to Jail to await the action of the grand
jury next month.
friend now in Kansas, who has had much
experience with Eastern Shore ''chills," writes
home that we don't know what regular,
genuine ''shake' is Out with him it is
known as cottonwood valley shake" and,
whenever a man has one, all Of the pegs fall
out of his boots The Eastern Shore ague is
good enough for US.
Do not forget the grand excursion to Cape
May per rail and steamer Thomas CLYDE,
Tuesday next The 'mixed train" leaving
Middetown at $50 A. NJ, will connect with
the excursion train at Clayton, which will
meet the "Clyde" at Bombay Hook. Returnr
ing, the same train will connect with the ex-
cursion at Clayton, at 8. P. NJ.
Uuder the head of New Advertisements
will be found the card of j. D. Marshall, with
the Philadelphia notion firm, Jones, Hoar l.
Co. We advise our friends to call on Mar
shall when in the city and look through his
stock, for he is one Of the best fellows in the
business. The firm which he represents is
well known all over the Peninsula.
Another grand excursion will be run to |
Cape May, per steamer Thomas CLYDE, on |
Tuesday next. Passengers on the Delaware |
road will connect with Gerker's train at Clay |
ton, which will meet the "Clyde" at Bombay
Hook The Diamond State brass band, of |
Middletown, will accompany this excursion,
and those who go may expect an enjoyable
time.
The foundation walls of Mr.. ]. B. Foard's
new dwelling, on Main street below Cass, are
up and we are informed that this will be one
ii the ifeatte5t ssasa haHaseest residences in
our town Mr. Morrison is the contractor.
Broad street; it seems, is also to have another
new dwelling, W J. H. Lingo having con-
tracted to erect it&or Mr.. Charles Tatman, Jr.
1t will be a commodious structure, we learn,
and an ornament to its neighborhood.
We learn that Miss NJ. NJ Cole, who was so
successful as a teacher Of vocal and instrument
tal music last season, and with whose fine
musical attainments our people are so well ac-
quainted, is now forming classes for this sea-
SON. both in Middletown and New Castle, and
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terms. Miss Cole has given a number Of very
successful concerts in MiddetOwn, at which
she has always been enthusiastically received
by our citizens.
The Democratic voters will, to-day, nomi-
nate State Senator's members Of the Legisla-
ture and Levy Court Commissioners through
out New Castle county, and some Of the hun
dreds will nominate Road Commissioners, In
spectors and Assessors: while others will defer
such nominations one week later. There are
a good many candidates in some Of the hum
dreds, and the canvass for the nomination has
been conducted with considerable warmth.
but we hope the minority viii bow gracefully
10 the will of the majority, and adhere to the
motto that ''in union there is strength"
Howard Pyle, Esq, who has been for some
time preparing series Of illustrated articles
for Harper's Magazine relative to the PENN.
suIa, was in town on Tuesday last taking
notes. He visited and made sketch Of st.
Anneis Church and acquainted himself with
as much of the history of that venerable build
Ing as is comeatabe. We have not learned
when Mr.. Pyle, lwho, by the way, is native
of Delaware), proposes to commence the pub
lication Of his Peninsula papers in HarPer's,
but probably not before the beginning Of next
year. Il