Middletown transcript., 1882-03-03

for practice at halfpast six on Monday
evening.
: Rev. Mr.. Lewis new dwelling on
South Broaarstreet attracts many visitors
on pleasant afternoons.
- Rev. Mr.. Alexander will preach at
the Chapel, at Armstrong;, on Sabbath
afternoon, at 2.3O o'clock.
- Rev. w. H. Woolverton, of Stockton,
New Jersey, will preach at Drawers
Presbyterian Church Sunday morning
and evening.
- The entertainment to take place in
the Hall tonight, for the benefit of Forest
Presbyterian Church, will certainly be
very pleasing affair.
- George w. Ingram, real estate agent,
has sold to S. Downs, of Delaware City,
the farm of Edward Silcox, at Noxentown,
145 acres, for Sc, 500 cash.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Conference Academy will be held in
Middletown, next Friday, to elect four lay
trustees to serve eight years.
The Rev. Cyrus Huntington, of
Dover, preached in Forest Presbyterian
Church on Sunday morning and evening,
exchanging pulpits with the Rev. Mr..
Alexander.
- The town election on Monday does
not promise to be exciting. Middletown
has no ring to crush, and the taxes are not
high enough to excite public interest in
local contests.
Quarterly Conference will be held at
the NJ. E. Church tomorrow ISaturday)
at 10 A. NJ. Love Feast on Sunday at 8
A. NJ. Presiding Elder Martindale will
preach Sunday morning at the usual hour
of services.
~ Rev. T. J. Prettyman, who died sud
denly, at Newark, Worcester county,
Md, on Monday, was well known to many
OF our people. He received his recon-
mendation to the annual Conference from
a quarterly Conference held at Middle
town.
A thief attempted to carry away j. w.
Jolls' Conference poultry Monday night
but was discovered as he was removing a
board from the chicken house. He went
away in a hurry and fell over the fence
lust as Ike Jones blazed away at him with
pistol.
Mr.. j. B. Foard sustains a severe
loss by the death of his wife, Fannie,
which occurred on Thursday. He has the
sympathy of large circle offriends. The
interment will take place on Monday, at
II O'Clock, at St. Augustine Cemetery,
Cecil county, Md.
= On Saturday Mr.. WI. 81. Lingo had
fine lot Of fowls, which he was fattening
for Conference; but, alas, on Sunday his
hennery was empty. Thieves had come
in the night and taken away the entire
fowl supply. The hennery of Mr.. s. B.
Kelly was also robbed.
Alexander Maxwell has, at the
National Hotel, the most ferocious look
ing dog in town, and yet he is perhaps the
,duietest and most harmless. Mr.. Max
well keeps him chained to the parlor
stove. He is certainly the most valuable
STYLE of dog yet introduced to the public,
and one of the striking features about hlm
is, he will never go mad.
The following is a list of letters re-
manning in the post-office at Middletown,
Del, for the week ending March 4th, '82
Samuel Bishop, Miss Olivia Corsey, Mrs
Jennie Clark Carlton, Bernard Duross,
Miss Clara Fields, James Garten, Mrs
Charlie Garner, Jonathan Hazard, Martha
Henry, William Messick, w. B. Pierce
Jacob Wisber. Persons calling for the
above letters will please say that they are
advertised. D. L. Dunning, P. M.
There will be few if any vacant house;
in Middletown after the twenty-tifth
last wear a number of families of laboring
people moved away, expecting to find II
anew field more steady employment, but
-s,reater number will move here this spring
Biggs, Clayton & Co., who few weeks
ago had some fears that sufficient labor 10
their canning operations could not o.
found. now have assurance of an abun
dance of help when they are ready for It
The board of commissioners hav
decided to dispose of the old "Town VI
-fice,, at private sale, and it is elsewher
advertised in our columns. The ouildlni
has been little used for town purpose
recently, except for storing gasoline, ana
is not in very safe locality for that. IN
+on-n should acquire piece Of real estat
and erect thereon decent building 10
the storage of its property and the trans
action of its affairs. Doubtless one of ou
1ihoral land owners would contribute
lot for the purpose.
IT is probable that Miss E. S. Chae
bourne, Of Boston, who has twice reau
--our Hall to delighted audiences VIII
onooged bv irving Lyceum to give rea'
irgs at a date between the 10th ana 5lsC
March. The society now has the mattt
under consideration, and dehnlte acIio
will he taken in few days. MISS Cha'
hoprna is n graduate of the Boston Scho'
of oratory, and is a lady OF rare gi''s al
attafnments. If the entertertaihnien'
arranged, pleasing musical selections WI
be given by the Lyceum.
IS Since the Delaware railroad came u
dar control Of the Pennsylvania comPar
+ho snnnlv of tickets kept at the statol
has been reduced more than three-iourIh
different ticket system has been lhtr
d,oad which does away with the keepll
,f snaciaI tickets for small stations al
stations on branches. The tickets on u
Junction and Breakwater road are 10 lol
strips. and Agent Jones measures the
offby the yard, according to the distan
the purchaser is going. 1t takes lit'
less than three yards of ticket to carry
passenger all the way through to Lewes
The town election for two Comm
sioners. an Assessor, a Treasurer and
Alderman will be held on Monday The
will probably be two tickets in the ne
though politics will not enter INTO
contest. Messrs. Hanson and BucKe
the retiring Commissioners, and as IN
have made efficient officers they y
doubtless be honored by a re-electloh
thew want it. Messrs. A. G. Cox, the
tiring Treasurer, c. E. Anderson,
Assessor, and John Vasey, the Alderm'
will probably be reelected. The stal
Of the board on the water-works questl
cannot be unfavorably changed by
-r. F4I,a lection rs the three memD