Middletown transcript., 1881-08-05
FRIDAY AFTERNooN, AUG. 5, 1881.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

= The seaside wanderers are returning
home with healthy color and appetite
in good repair.
= Col. Joseph Hanson has purchased
the stock and coal business of Lord 4
Polk, in Middletown.
= Get your exhibits ready for the Pc
ninsular Fair. Premium lists may be haC
at the office of the secretary.
1t is said that Philadelphians anC
New Workers have arrived almost at the
conclusion that Delaware's peach crop was
hurt little, last winter.
- Ex-Governor John P. Cochran, Chas
Beasten, Esq. and Hon. B. T. Biggs, Of
Middletown, attended the funeral of ex.
Governor Salisbury, yesterday.
- Owing to the continued drought,
johnson thinks next years grindstone
crop will be short. Therefore, he advises
everybody who needs grindstone to buy
now.
- The personal property of the late B.
F. Kanely was sold yesterday at public
sale by the administrator, s. NJ. Reynolds,
Esq. The prices obtained were very salts
factory.
- The remains Of James Williams, an
aged resident of the First district of Cecil
county, formerly resident of this county,
p, were inferred at st. Anne's cemetery
yesterday.
- This has been trying week in which
to get out readable newspaper. Local
happenings of importance have been few,
our local correspondents have been lazy,
and we haven't felt very well ourself.
Our Philadelphia correspondent,
' ROsaleine," in a communication this
week, gets off many good-natured jokes
at the expense of some of our people in
connection with the Zoo excursion that
was indefinitely postponed"
A new astronomer predicts that the
world, under the most favorable circum-
stances, will only last four Thousand years
longer. We sincerely hope the time will
be extended little for the benefit of the
committee on providing town water.
= The advertisement of Delaware Col
lege, at Newark, and Of the Conference
Academy, at Dover, two very excellent
educational institutions, will be found in
another column Of the TRANSCRIPT.
Both ought to be literally encouraged by
Delawareans.
~ There will be preaching at Forest
Presbyterian Church on Sunday, morning
and evening. The Pastor, Rev. Mr.. Alex
ander, went to Ocean Grove early in the
week, but will return tomorrow. Services
will also be held at the Chapel, at Arm
strong's at 8 p. m.
- The Maryland real estate Of the late
William Wilson, consisting of five farms
Q,256 acres), and some property in the
village of Warwick, will be sold at trus-
tees sale, in Elkton, on August 25. A full |
description Of this valuable estate will be
found in our advertising columns.
= Cox & Bro. say that the local demand |
for new carriages this year has been fully
up to their capacity to manufacture. Mr..
Jamison, of Warwick, also reports the
same condition of affairs in his section. A
new carriage is nice thing to have in the
country, when camp meetings are ripe.
- Following is list of letters remain
ing in the post Office for the week ending
August 5th, 1881, uncalled for: John c.
Bogash, 2; Charles Smith, Mrs. Mary H.
Shockley, Mrs. Anna H. Wright, 2. Per-
sons calling for the above will please say
that they are advertised. D. L. Dunning.
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- Another Clyde" excursion will be
run to Cape May on Wednesday next,
with which trains over the Kent county,
and Queen Anne's and Kent roads will
connect. We have not heard definitely.
but presume that a car from Middletown
will make connection with the excursion
at Clayton.
1t is the plain duty of the Town
Commissioners toappoint an officer at least
during the season Of tramps. 1t is a dis
grace to the town that drunken vagabonds
shall be allowed to sit along the sidewalks
of the public streets. Let us have an off
Ger, if we have to do with little less
"Church hill'' dirt on the streets.
Rev. Mr.. Murray writes us from Cen
treville that the Methodists are having a
big camp meeting at Wye, and that there
are many more tents than last season.
Mr.. M. will be home in time to hold the
Stewards Meeting Saturday afternoon at
3 O'Clock. There will be communion
services Sunday morning at 1890 o'clock.
- This is the season when apple-dump-
lings are ripe. Apple-dumplings are
good thing to have in the country, but
city apple-dunpling is a sad uncertainty.
We never ate but one city apple-dump-
ling and it was very unsatisfactory. In
the first place, the worm in the apple was
hardly cooked enough to make him lie
still, and the overcoat which enveloped it
was quite sad. So were we.
This has been a warm week, partic-
nlarly the last half OF it. There has been
:, daily increase of temperature since Mon
day. Thursday night wIs probably the
hottest of the season. At some points in
Middletown the mercury reached 9S in
the shade Thursday afternoon. The fol-
lowing record for the week, was made at u
m. of each day at the store of Mr.. G. Tat
man: Monday, S6; Tuesday, SO; We'd
nesday, 90; Thursday, 50 Friday, &c.
= The long drought continues and veg
citation is showing its effects to a marked
extent. On Sunday and during Wednes-
day night there were slight showers here,
but hardly sufficient to lay the dust.
Everybody said Blackbird camp meeting
would bring an old-fashioned rain, but
for once it seems to have failed. If our
Middletown Methodists would run q Sun
day school excursion to Bombay Hook
we should have strong hopes of break
in the long drought.
The Diamond State Cornet Band, Of
this town, furnished the music for the ex-
eursion from Georgetown, Md, to Bay
Ridge, yesterday. The excursion was
under the auspices Of the Georgetown
Presbyterian church, and was q very
pleasant and successful affair. Thes steam
er "Chester'' carried the party, which
numbered over three hundred. The
church, we learn, cleared about $500 from
the excursion. The members of Onr band