Middletown transcript., 1883-02-16
FR1pAY AFTERNooN, Zee. 16, 1883.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes

- Petitions to the Legislature favoring
county division are being circulated at
Middletown.
= The steamer Clio is being painted and
will begin regular trips between Odessa
and Philadelphia about the first of March.
= Theodore Hevelow, a negro corn
thief of st. Georges hundred, received ten
lashes at the whipping post on Saturday.
- Mrs. NJ. G. G. Leavitt, of Boston, will
lecture this evening at the Town Hall on
Woman's Work in the Temperance Re
FORM"
- The spring crop of book agents and
peddlers promises to be very heavy on the
Peninsula. The first picking has already
arrived.
- The revival meetings at the M. E.
Church were closed on Thursday evening.
About thirty persons have professed con-
version since the meetings began.
= Echenhofer & Long have received
from the west lot OF young Kentucky
mules and horses, and are disposing Of
them at private sale at their stables.
This week has thus far been bad one
for public sales, but those held in this
neighborhood have been well attended,
and live stock has brought good prices.
- Henry Ward Beecher will lecture at
Wilmington next Tuesday evening. We
fear for Henry. He may in an unguarded
moment eat of Wilmington sandwich,
and then all is lost.
= Thomas P. Scott has rented of Mrs.
NJ. f. Clayton the building on Main
street recently occupied by Mr.. Cooling,
and will move his store thereto. An annex
is to be built in the rear.
- The regular meeting of the Mutual
Loan Association will be held on next
Tuesday evening. Stockholders who
want to borrow will have an opportunity
to bid at q goodly surplus fund.
New York and Philadelphia news
papers are rather slow this season in send
ing their correspondents to Delaware to
estimate the peach crop of 1888. The esti-
mates were due some weeks ago.
= The Irving Lyceum will hold pub
lie meeting on Monday evening next.
An entertaining Debate, several original
papers and much good music is promised.
A nominal admission fee of five cents will
be charged.
~ Tomorrow evening Sam Sanford's
"Old Time Minstrels' will appear at the
Town Hall in burnt-cork specialties.
Sam comes every season, as regularly as
the almanac, and usually has an enter
tanning show.
~ If MiddIetown folks want to learn
how inefficient a hand engine is at fire,
when supplied only by private pumps,
they should ask their neighbors of Elkton
and Smyrna. Both these towns have had
ample experience in this line.
- Last Sunday was a very stormy day
and one could stay away from church
without being much chided by his con-
science, but both the Methodist and Pres
byterian Churches had good congregations.
No services were held at st. Anne's.
- There was a very pleasant social
dancing party at the residence of Mr.. M.
L. Hardcastle on Monday evening. About
forty ladies and gentlemen were present
and enjoyed themselves greatly. The
Townsend orchestra furnished excellent
music.
- The Lyceum on Monday evening will
settle the question, (which runs the
greater risk in entering matrimony, man
or woman" The discussion promises to
be amusing, at any rate. Married men
who intend to take part had better leave
their wives at home.
A special meeting Of the stockholders
of the Peninsular Agricultural and Pomo-
logical Association will be held at the asso-
ciation's room in Middletown on Saturday
of next week, 24th instant. The COM
mittee appointed to solicit subscriptions Of
new stock will then report.
Mr.. B. M. Crawford, Of Cecil county,
has kindly sent US for perusal several
copies of the Wilmington Daily Gazette
of1S2s. We eshall examine them carefully,
when we get the time, hoping to find
few items of later Peninsular news than
some Of our exchanges are printing.
= David A. Knots, of Odessa, has
rented the Kent county farm of E. Rey-
nolds, near Clayton, and will move there
on about March first. BENZ. West, who
has resided on this farm for about ten
years, will remove to farm he recently
purchased, near Blackbird, this county.
Mrs. E. E. Baldwin, returned mis-
sionary from China, gave very interest
ing account of the manners and customs
of that tar-away country, at the M. =.
Church on Sunday evening. Notwith-
standing the bad weather large audience
came TO hear her. The Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society gained large number
of new members.
= The planet Venus is now the morning
star and rises about four o'clock, present
ing a grand and beautiful appearance just
above the eastern horizon. We have not
seen it. but we learn the above related
facts from brother editor who had to get
nm at four O'Clock of a recent morning to
throw testimonial of his appreciation at a
cat quartet on the shed roof.
Az the request of Union Lodge, A.
F. and A. NJ, of Middletown, we print
this week, on another page, a very old
document concerning the antiquity and
mysteries of Masonry, that will doubtless
be read with interest, particularly by
members Of the craft. 1t is taken from
an old book entitled "Ahiman Recon-
printed in Philadelphia in 1888.
= Parvis & Biggs' new fertilizer factory
to be built near the Fair Ground, will be
36 by Y feet and two stories in height
Additions will be made as the business
Of the firm grows. Work upon the Dnllo'
ing will begin about April first. Mr.
Parvis, who will manage the business
will remove to the residence he recently
purchased of Mr.. G. F. Brady, corner O.
Main and Scott streets, about March 25th
- The proposition to buy second
hand fire engine did not meet with mucE
favor at the meeting of the Town Commis
sioners and Citizens Fire Apparatus
Committee Wednesday evening. In thu
matter Of protection against fire, Middle
town is hardly disposed to begin nov