Middletown transcript., 1881-06-10

business.
- Don't forget "Colnrades" at Odess
on next Tuesday evening.
Up to yesterday, s6s carloads Of bel
ries had passed over the Delaware railroad
= The walls of the new building sout
of the bank are up to the completion of til
first story.
- Miss Stiner, who brought "Pinafore'
here last season, wants to come back thi
spring with ''Billee Taylor"
The many friends Of Mrs. NJ. A
Clayton will be sorry to learn that she
suffering from a severe attack Of sickness
- 1t is proposed by some gentlemen t.
arrange an excursion to the Geological
Garden, Philadelphia, during the sum
mer.
- The sermon to young men by Rev
W. G. Alexander has, by special request
been postponed until Sunday evening
June 10.
There will be total eclipse of thu
moon tomorrow (Saturday) night, begin
ming at IL o'clock. Visible here-if i
clears off in time.
= Friend George Wilson, the underta
ker, got joke on the local editor this
week. If he never gets anything Aarde,
than a joke on us we shall be happy.
Col. Hanson has just put handsome
new fire-proof safe in his Office, and Ger.
tainly none of the burglars will blow il
open if they know what good fellow the
Colonel is.
- Geo. E. Dearbarn, of 15OS Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, has kindly loaned
the Irving Lyceum fine Mathushek pi-
ano for the occasion Of their grand enter
tainment this evening.
J. Preston Dunning, of Middletown,
now a pupil at Lawreneeville IN. J.)
High School, has been awarded the honor
of the Latin oration, at the Commence
ment, on the 9th inst.
w Some evil-disposed persons have re-
Gently committed depredations on the
Fair Ground, such as stealing small ar
ticles and breaking up things. The asso-
citation is looking for them.
- Brother T. E. Hurn says he has made
more good clothes this season than during
any other season since he bought his first
goose. He has recently been filling many
orders from neighboring towns.
- Several bushels Of pub. docs. arrived
at the post office this week. Anybody
who wants some good solid reading of that
sort can get supply from the Secretary
of the Peninsular A. & P. Association.
- Assistant State Superintendent Car
penter will examine applicants for teach
ers' certificates in Middletown on We'd
nesday, June Is. Prof. Groves will ex-
anime applicants on the same day at
Newark.
- The public sale Of the Delaware real
estate of the late VIM. Wilson, in Mid
dletown, on Tuesday next, will probably
bring out large number Of land seekers.
The estate aggregates nearly sixteen hun
dred acres.
A little son of r. T. Clayton, formerly
Of this town, now of Havre-de-Grace, fell
from the second-story window to the
pavement, on Monday of last week, and
was fatally injured. The child was about
four years of age.
- +. G. Gibbs, formerly with Adkisson
& Co., Of this town, and recently Of Glou-
cester City, N. j., has taken charge of S.
B. Ginn's drug store. w. A. CHM has
gone to Camden, n. J., to engage in the
drug business in that city.
- The thanks of the TRANSCRIPT are
due to Miss Emma Brown for a can of
gilt-edged ice-cream that created more real
happiness in the office than we can ex-
press in prose, and our regular poet is en-
gagged to-day whitewashing the back fence.
~ f. r. Cochran has raised quite large
crop Of strawberries this season, many of
them very fine. Several boxes of the
''Sharpless'' variety, that found their way
into the TRANSCRIPT Office, were fully as
large as hulled walnuts and of excellent
flavor.
- Samuel Peacock, son of Samuel Pea
cock, ST., of NIiddletown is an applicant for
admission to the q. S. Military Academy,
at West Point. In recent competitive
examination, at Camden, n. j., he stood
No. in a class Of 8; and in another, at
Washington, No. 8 in class Of 35.
- Two young men were in town selling
Thermometers last week. Some paid SI.25
and thought they were getting the thing
pretty cheap, but stretched out their coun-
tenances several inches when they learned
that others had bought the same kind of
thermometers for seyenty-five cents.
- The New Orleans University Singers
Ccolored) will appear at NIiddletown Hall
on Friday Of next week, giving one con
cert. This is probably the best company
of colored singers now travelling, and they
will surely please all who have an ear for
good music. The entertainment is partly
in aid of the NJ. E. Church.
- Following is list of letters remain
ing in the post Office at Middletown, Del,
for the week ending, June l1th, 1881
Mrs. Matilda r. Hall, Mr.. E. R. Sipple,
VIM. T. Satterfield, Mr.. Jno. Simmons,
Mr.. Harrison Wolford. Persons calling
for the above letters will please say that
they are advertised. D. L. Dunning, P. NJ.
- We see by our exchanges that PENN
sular burglars are breaking into offices and
stores and blowing open fire-proofs. If
any burglar takes it into his head to burgle
the TRANSCRIPT office we hope he will
not blow open our pretty new fire-proof
If he will only come to our dwelling and
call us up we will gladly give him the
combination, or if he will send us word
when he is coming to burgle, we will leave
the safe unlocked. We like to be accom-
Tnodating when we can.
- One of the most delicious dishes of
the season is strawberry shortcake-the
real, genuine simon-pure Jersey straw
berry shortcake that will melt in your
mouth and make you forget all your
earthly cares, including your poor rela-
tions. We don't write Of the bake-house
shortcake of Philadelphia, where they ne
elect to sift the coarse gravel ont Of the
sand they sprinkle among the strawber-
ries, and where they throw in few rotten
berries and some stems, for fiavoring and
good count.
- And the town water-works are to be
built, the board of commissioners, at its
last meeting, having unanimously decided