Middletown transcript., 1881-06-10
State

- Dover people call it the 'St. Jones
riUer."
Sussex county promises big buckle
berry crop.
- James Leatherbury, of Dover, lost a
finger by a buzz saw, last week.
= The army worm has appeared in a
few wheat fields of Kent county.
Two thousand quarts of strawberries
were shipped from Clayton on Monday.
- Twenty-Five deaths occurred in Will
mington last week, six Of which were from
smallpox.
WI The yield Of the strawberry planta-
tions around Milford did not come near
up to expectations.
- When an italian band of wandering
musicians strikes Georgetown business is
suspended while they stay.
A good many Delaware towns that
are troubled by surplus Of dogs would
be immensely benefited by bologna sau-
sage factory in the vicinity.
- The Milford NeOS notes the arrival
Of "a large invoice of early-crop mosqui-
toes and states that the Matching stations
will be fully equal to the demand.
- Burglars entered the store Of Alfred
L. Burton, at Lewes, on Sunday night,
burst open the tire-proof safe and secured
a $1,000 Government bond and an un-
known sum Of money.
- The Smyrna Times, one of our most
valued local exchanges, appeared this
week in new dress Of handsome type,
and looks as bright and cheerful as the
countenance of Philadelphia drummer.
Miss McCabe, Of Sussex county, took
a dose Of saltpeter in mistake for EPSON
salts and nearly died from the effects of
the same. She was to have been married
on the evening Of the day Of the unfortu-
nate mistake.
- The occupants OF Milford boarding
houses held an Indignation meeting last
week, passing a series of resolutions in
which they stated that trout, though an
excellent dish for fifty meals in succession,
is not good for a steady diet. They ap-
pealed for change.
Lottie Maloney, formerly of Smyrna,
the romantic incidents in relation to
whose adoption by wealthy Philadel-
phian, DR.. Jos. NJ. Leon, were related in
these columns a few weeks ago, visited
her old home last week, accompanied by
DIR. Leon.
= The trials of speed announced for
July 4th, at Fairview Park, will probably
be witnessed by many people from all
over the State. Mr.. Wharton is making
strong effort to have the exhibition first
class affair. Lovers Of good trotting will
doubtless have day of rare amusement.
: Jacob Cordray, living near Dulaney's
Chapel, was shot i'll the head last Sunday
by a careless young man who was in pur
suit of crow. Cordray was standing but
few yards away and received the whole
load of shot. He will probably survive
his injuries but will lose the sight of one
of his eyes.
At the first excursion to Bombay
Hook on Wednesday, which was from
Union Church, Wilmington, a Miss
Thompson fell from swing striking
stump in her descent and breaking her
left leg above the knee. DIR. Enos, of
Odessa, who happened to be visiting Bonn
bay Hook, attended to the fracture as well
as the limited facilities at hand would per-
mit.-,SmyreG Times.
WILDER Collins, a young white man,
working as farm hand for Alfred Car
penter, on the Thoroughfare Neck road,
was assaulted by four negroes, robbed and
left for dead, while on his way home from
Smyrna, Saturday night week. He re-
covered and wandered to neighboring
house, and, on Monday, laid the case be
fore Justice Deakyne, who issued war
rants for the arrest Of the negroes. They
are now i'll New Castle jail.