Middletown transcript., 1881-04-29
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

for engagements.
- Evening strolls to old st. Anne's are
once more enjoyable.
: Business continues active with Mid
dletown's tradespeople.
E. r. Cochran continues to ship large
quantities of nursery stock.
~ Shad traders were numerous enough
to glut the market on Saturday.
= We've had thunder shower; now
look out for lightning-rod agents.
L. w. Roberts & Co. intend to estab-
branch shop at Church Hill, Md.
~ Samuel Price, Esq, returned home
from South Bend, Indiana, yesterday.
A few linen coats have appeared, but
they retire pretty early in the evening.
The frame Of R. Harry Eliason's new
dwelling was raised yesterday morning.
Makens has greatly improved the ap-
pearance Of the Citizens National Bank.
= EARLY in this week there were strong
indications of an epidemic of spring fever.
- DR.. G. P. Gilpin, Of Chestertown, was
in Middletown visiting his old friends this
week.
Lloyd Cnamberlaine is Post Master
Dunning's new assistant, appointed in
place of Eugene Davis, resigned.
A number Of our young men have
completed arrangements for a social hop
in Town Hall, on Monday evening.
William Green, apparently, still has
faith in the peach as remunerative crop.
He has recently planted an orchard.
"The Middletown Ice Cream Manu-
featuring Company e. B. Rice, agent,
will commence operations tomorrow week.
The local editors peach crop will be
a total failure. There is not an indication
of a blossom in his whole orchard of two
trees.
The May schedule OF the steamer "CliO''
appears in our columns this week. She is
carrying considerable freight for our mer-
chants.
= Advertisers who desire change must
send in their copy not later than Wednes-
day noon. Changes received after that
hour cannot be made until the following
week.
- Mr.. g. e. Hukill's house on Cass
street, occupied by Rev. w. G. w. Lewis,
is being frightened up with spring coat
Of paint.
= Mr.. Robert A. Cochran is now able to
ride around and look after the various i'm
provements he is making to his. town
property.
= Bishop Lee will make his annual
visit to st. Anne's Parish on Sunday, May
ct ofI IJo ,n-i1Iy 4I,o
mon on that occasion.
~ Messrs. Town Commissioners, we are
ready for the water works and sprinkler
n)w. If it is to be done, ''then it were
well it were done quickly
: The muskrat crop was pretty good,
last winter. Philip Less has bought over
5000 skins, mostly from trappers in the
lower hundreds of this county.
= Several tracts of land in Appoquini-
mink hundred, property of John J. Dur
ham, are advertised at Sherif7s sale at the
hotel of Samuel Peacock, on Tuesday
next.
~ Excursions will soon be ripe. Cape
May, Ocean City, Bombay Hook and Toll
chester will be the objective points for an
assorted number Of trips during the
season.
- The TRANSCRIPT, in order to accom-
modate its enterprising patrons, issues
another supplement this week, in which
will be found much entertaining selected
matter.
= Rev. w. C. Alexander, of Middle
town, and Rev. w. V. Lauderbough, of
Drawyer's Church, Odessa, exchanged
pulpits Sunday last, both morning and
evening.
A number OF the representatives of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
come down over the Delaware road next
Tuesday to inspect that part of their new
purchase.
= Lord & Polk, the phosphate manu-
tlcturers, now occupy their new office
on Railroad avenue, which they have
costly fitted up. Messrs. c. P. Cochran
and Cyrus Polk are in charge.
In Middletown there is an almost
general complaint of scarcity of small
change. Dimes and nickels, particularly,
are hard to get. Some Of us experience
the same difficulty in getting large change.
- Last summer the fruit growers could
not give away soft peaches in Middletown
without letting the basket go too. They
will not experience the same difficulty this
season. Middletown people will be salts
fed to furnish the basket.
Rev. DIR. Patton, recently of Middle
town, was taken i'll at the meeting Of the
ok lnc
week, and was obliged to return at once to
his home in Philadelphia. His friends will
be glad to learn that he has recovered.
The parlor entertainment in aid of the
M. e. Mite Society, at the M. E. Parsonage
tonight, will probably bring out large
audience. Avery entertaining programme
has been arranged by the ladies and gen.
tlemen of the society. The admission fee
will be fifteen cents.
There was vivid lightning and heavy
thunder, Monday night, but little rain.
Wednesday afternoon heavy rain fell in
Sassafras Neck but did not reach us. In
the evening we had refreshing shower,
which was gladly welcomed by our town.
people. who were nearly choked with
dust.
DEPUTY Collector of U. s. Internal
Revenue, 1. L. Adkins, asks us to state
4.for the. benefit of our readers, that he
.viII he atshe National Hotel, on May 5th,
70 issue u. S. special tax stamps. The U.
s. being poor, in debt and an orphan (its
father being dead), we give the notice
eratuitously, as Collector Adkins requests.
The Middleton TRANSCRIPT, of April
% was a valuable number. 1t contained
illustrations which were as artistic and
truthlike as any published by leading
Journals. The picture Of Nihilist was as
faithfully drawn as if Editor Way had not
baen s.stuck'' by the patent medicine con-
eern Of whom he took his design.-Whtte
Hall IN. W Times
Major B. T. Biggs and wife met with
a mishap while returning from the wooden
wedding Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Price,
Monday night. In the darkness the car
,iaoe was overturned and the occupants
thrown out. Fortunately the horse did