Middletown transcript., 1881-07-22
County.

- The Teachers Institute, this year,
will be held at Odessa.
= Blackbird Camp Meeting Will COM
mence on wednesday next.
A good deal of sickness is reported to
be in and around Newark at present.
= Smallpox reports are seriously dam
aging the business interests of Whining
ton.
A case of fatal lock-jaw from toy
pistol wound occurred in Wilmington this
week.
Alexander p. Crawford, "a well-knoWn
resident of Glasgow, died on Tuesday,
aged 65 years.
= There were forty-six deaths in Viii
lnington last week, five Of which were
from smallpox.
A barque load of passenger c:Irs for
Brazilian railroad was shipped from Will
mington on Monday.
ID. P. Hutchison will have a boarding
tent at Blackbird camp and will doubtless
make the hungry happy.
- Joseph Dean & Son, of Newark, have
received a aGovernment contract to furnish
$4,000 yards of blue cloth.
~ The Methodist parsonage at Newark
caught fire from stove pipe, last week,
and made narrow escape from destruc-
ton.
A colored man found a roll of money
amounting to 500 in the coal which he
was unloading from car, at New Castle,
on Friday.
= The official board of New Castle NJ.
E. Church deny that there is any dissatis-
faction in the congregation with their
pastor, DIR. Bristor.
- It is reported that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company is trying to buy the
United States Hotel property at Whining
ton with the purpose Of erecting a large
hotel thereon.
- The body Of an unknown man was on
Sunday found on the shore, near Port
Penn, which, apparently, had been in the
water long time. No clue to the mans
indentity was obtained.
james Oldham, son of J. R. G.
Oldham, of Christiana, was buried be-
meath caving bank Of sand, in which he
was digging, on Tuesday. His fellow
workmen went promptly to work and
dug him out. To their surprise he was
uninjured.
A correspondent of EUery EUeaing
SAYS that Sheriff Clark allows a life
prisoner, the negro George Draper, who
killed another colored man at Middletown,
"to go about town pretty much as he
pleases and employs him in looking after
his horse"
- The Stationhouse at Townsend was
broken open one night last week and the
mail bag for the Queen Anne's and Kent
railroad, which lies there over night,
rifled of its contents. A number Of the let
ters were found scattered along the rail-
road, near the station.
= The headquarters Of the Delaware
division of the p, w. q B. railroad, at
Front and French streets, Wilmington,
are to be vacated next week, as the build
ing is to be torn down, preparatory to the
erection of the new depot. The tenn
porary headquarters of the Delaware road
will be in the directors room in the old
depot.
= Laura McGrath, who was entieed
from her home in Philadelphia, deserted
by her seducer in Wilmington and fell
into the hands of fiendish and brutal
roughs along the Brandywine, was Uaken
to her home by her father on Monday
evening. Five arrests in connection with
this case have been made in Wilmington
William Libsy and John Malloy, for rape,
and George and John Hoffman and Joseph
Farrell, for violent assault. A hearing
has been set for Monday. James Maloney,
who abducted the girl from her home and
brought her to Wilmington, is still at
large.