Middletown transcript., 1886-09-16
state.

- Sussex county has twenty-five distil-
leries in operation, Kent only nine and
New Castle none.
Georgetown wants new uniforms for
her police and Harrington wants hook
and ladder company.
The Superior Court and Court OF
General. Sessions in and for Sussex
county will sit October 11th. G
= PaYnter Frame, Of Harbeson, raises
watermelons that tip the beam at sixty
pounds. The small ones in his patch
weigh forty pounds.
- There are ten prisoners in Sussex
county jail at present, six of whom will
be tried at the next term of court. There
will be no capital cases, the most of them
being for minor offenses.
The next Executive of our state, Gov
ernor Biggs. will have but one Office in
the Court House in Sussex county to fill
that is the Clerk of the the Orphans
Court and Register in Chancery. All the
other officers will hold over.
DIR. E. O.. Shakespeare, formerly Of
this town, but now practising his profess
sion in Philadelphia, Pa, will ar
rive home next week from his trip
to Spain, Italy and India, where he was
sent by the government to inspect the
cholera. He has been absent from home
for several months.-Delawarean. n
The practical termination of the mo-
rocco workers strike in Wilmington,
, began Monday. The old employ
es OF two of the factories went back
to work by permission of the executive
board of the Knights of Labor, and it is
believed that the strike will be q formally
declared OFF, in day or two, The strike
was begun last March.
= The Smyrna Times reports the mar.
riage of Captain Joseph Griffin, of Denton,
Nd, aged ", to a Delaware girl of IL.
The Captain has been twice a widower
and has received congratulations on the
announcement of his thirty-third heir.
He works six days in the week at wheel
iwrighting and points with pride to the
fact that the DOCTORS bills on his own ac-
count have been but $3.50 to date.
"A correspondent of the Baltimore SAN,
writing under the headlines Of Land of
Peaches and Lovely WoInen-Skill and
Daintiness in the Kitchen" has the fol-
lowing paragraph in regard to the Penin-
sula: erich folk are the exception on the
Peninsula contented folk are the rule.
Small but comfortable incomes, pleasant
homes, hours for work and hours for
pleasure, sincere sociabiiity, and wide
spread earnest sympathy are the causes
of this contentment."
The east winds prevailing for the
last three or four days have waited to this
town and Immediate vicinity myriads OF
minute mosquitoes. They are entirely
without their usual premonitory song,
which, by the. way, is said to be produced
by the passage of air through small ori-
flee in the body under the wing, and con-
sequently do about twice their usual
amount of work. The ordinary wire
screen seems TO be about three sizes too
coarse for this crop.-Smyrna Record
= Louis W. Thilson carriage painter
at Dover, committed suicide on Wednes-
day evening Of last week by taking lauda-
mum. He was incorporate and had been
on protracted spree. His habits caused
his wife much uphappiness. After leav-
ing companion on Wednesday evening
he went to his paint shop and sent for his
wife to visit him there, but she refused to
do 30. Yesterday morning he was found
dead In the shop and since an empty
laudannm phial was found on him it is
presumed that he took his life. He was
about AZ years old and had no children.