Middletown transcript., 1883-01-19
A Winters Day.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Town Notes.

measure next summer they mustn't blam
it on short ice crop.
The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Peninsular Agriculture
and Pathological Association will be hel,
in Middletown on Saturday Of next week
January 27.
= Blessed is the man of New Castlt
county who don't expect an office of th,
Delaware Legislature, for he will not ge
left. This isn't exactly the way it is il
the Bible, but it's true, nevertheless.
Any person who would build in Mid
dletown row of neat cottages to rent at {
moderate sum would no doubt find the
investment a good one. Houses are in
demand and rents are crawling upward.
Miss Sadie Howell sailed from Phila.
delphia to-day for Florida, where she will
spend the winter with relatives. 1t must
be a pleasant transition now from this
land of snow and ice to the land OF
oranges.
The weather OF the present week has
thus far been made up of rain, sleet, snow
and balmy sunshine,-variety enough to
suit all tastes. To-day the icy sidewalks
offer fine opportunity for falling down
easily and gracefully.
- Middletown's population would prob
ably be increased by fifty or more fami-
lies during the next two months if there
were dwelling houses for them. There is
great demand for houses and not one
that we know OF, for rent.
"A list of letters remaining in the post
office at Middletown, Del, for the week
ending January II, 1888 Henry Butcher,
DR.. J. A. johnson, Miss Debby Moore.
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say they are advertised.
: There not being a quorum of stock
holders at the regular meeting of the
Mutual Loan Association, on Tuesday
evening, the money in the treasury was
not offered. The first series stock of the
association will run out probably in
March.
Extra services in the NJ. E. Church
will be continued during next week.
Prayer meeting will be held every after
noon at 2 o'clock, unless otherwise an
nounced from the pulpit. The Rev. A. T.
Scott is expected the first of the week, to
assist the pastor.
The repairs and Improvements to
Forest Presbyterian Church will be nearly
finished on tomorrow, but the dedicatory
services will not be held before the 28th
instant. The pews are in place and the
carpet will be put down during next week.
Rev. Mr.. Alexander, the pastor, expects
one or more clergymen from abroad to
assist him in the opening services.
Several gentlemen are endeavoring
to secure r. J. Burdette for his famous
lecture, I" The Rise and Fall of the Mus
tache, :" at Middletown Hall, early in Feb
ruary. Mr.. Best, under whose auspices
Burdette recently lectured in Whining
ton, writes the TRANSCRIPT that he will
guarantee twenty laughs and five weeps
to each minute Of the Hawkeye Man's''
lecture.
An assistant to Diamond Dick" the
long-haired root doctor, loaded mp with
Maryland fire water at Hagerstown, few
days ago, and created a sensation by max
ing believe that he was going to murder
Diamond Richard. The affair was nothing
more, probably, than a free advertising
dodge. The "doctor," who is very well
known on the Peninsula, has a fertile
brain, and he will get his name in print
wherever he goes, if he has to carry around
with him his own hired assassin.
Mr.. R. A. Brice, Of the firm Of J. E.
Hendrickson & Co., Philadelphia commits
sion merchants, was here on Friday last
and sold to Philadelphia butcher, for
good prices, nineteen beet cattle for Mr..
S. F. ShalIcross and seventeen for Mr.. E.
r. Cochran. That is where our beef cattle
are going. These commission merchants
are selling them to the city butchers, and
after awhile we will have to pay dollar
and half for beefsteak about as big as
a liver pad. We don't know much about
agricultural pursuits, but it strikes us sort
of sideways that New Castle county farm
ers might make very much more money
by giving more attention to cattle raising
and less to wheat.
We learn, upon apparently good au-
thority, that st. Anne's Parish is soon to
lose its present Rector. Rev. Mr.. Lewis
intimated to us sometime since that a seri-
GUS trouble with his eyes might occasion
his withdrawal from active labor, but we
had hardly anticipated it so soon. He has
been the Rector of st. Anne's Parish since
1877, having succeeded the Rev. Mr.. But
Ter. His church has fully maintained its
membership under his charge and he will
leave it, if circumstances compel his with
drawal in a very healthy condition. Mr..
Lewis is much beloved by his parishioners
and they will be sorry indeed to lose him,
If he leaves Middletown the Irving Ly-
ceum will, too, lose valued and popular
member.
= Harry Petherbridge, whois growing
up'' with Dakota, has sent the TRAN
SCRIPT copy Of the Fargo Sunday Ar
gus, a big and bright paper full of glowing
pictures of that wonderful Northwestern
land. we should surinise from this news
paper that in that country along the
Northern Pacific the spirit of enterprise
tended the door, took the tickets, rung
M the curtain and ran the whole show.
There man is liable to go to bed as poor
as skim-milk and wake up with
fortune on his hands and Colonel to his
name. If we were printing a newspaper
for the money there is in the business, in
stead Of for our health and the fun
there i in it. we fear we should be tempted
70 mack our wardrobe in a collar box some
fine morning and start for Dakota. We
sbould he missed though. Our creditors
would be inconsolable.
Real Estate.
savaral narcels Of valuable real estate