Middletown transcript., 1886-02-19
ren,nsuia News.

- The condition of Talley, who shot
Handy is very much Improved. sE,
= Wilbur Eliason has leased tile straw
board factory at Chestertown with, the
view OF starting it up again after the COM
ing harvest.
IA petition has been presented by
Representative Gibson asking for $40, 900
for the improvement of Chester river
above Crumpton.
+ -Miss Margaret Ann Salisbury, only
sister OF Senator Salisbury, died Monday
afternoon at the home of her brother, aged
81 years. She had been ill, tor long
time.
= Governor Lloyd, of Maryland, has APP
pointed his friend William II. Willis OF
Church Creek district sheriff or Dorcfies-
ter county in place of Luther Martin, de-
ceased. .,
The stone bridge near Dover, SPAN
ming st. Jones creek which was built re-
Gently at cost Of s., 300, was damaged on
Friday and Saturday by the feed-to the
extent Of $1,000. gt TT7 fsLf
1t is stated that large cotton goods
manufacturer desires location OH the
Peninsula, LemueI Malone, of Salisbury,
offers the required amount of land in Sal
isbury free Of charge.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
g Archbishop Corrigan of New York has
received private dispatch from Rome
announcing the etranster Of Bishop Becker,
of Wilmington, Delaware, to the vacant
see of Savannah, Georgia.
Bishop Becker was seen Tuesday.
He said the transfer is highly probable,
| but as vet he has received no official iDfor-
| nation. The Information would come
from Rome to him. The same rulnor; pre-
vailed last fall, and if was then. stated that
the transfer would be made this year.
= At the meeting Of the County Com
missioners Tuesday, petition, signed by
a large number of the citizens of Port De-
posit and vicinity, was presented by Mr..
F. 8. Everist, asking an appropriation OF
81 500 for the relief ofthe poor of the town.
The Commissioners passed an appropria-
ton for 81, 900. The session Of the Com
missioners was largely taken up with
corrections of the levy list.
= The Post-master-G General has ap-
| pointed the following fourth-class post
masters in Delaware: At Hockessin,
Albert T. Williamson; at Newport, James
F. Porter; at Roxana, Mrs. Mary A. 9.
Dawson; at Williansville, Elisha Gray.
Williamsville is a village in Baltimore
hundred, Sussex county, near the Mary
land boundary and on the edge Of the
| Cypress Swamp. Messrs. Williamson
and Porter are both county constables
for New Castle county.
| William K. Stackhouse, wealthy
farmer ofthe Fifth district, Cecil county,
took oath on last Saturday before mag
lstrate that he was in danger of his life
from. his son William. Young Stack no use
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
crime committed in Hartford county some
| years ago. He was pardoned through his
fathers efforts. Since then, it is said, he
has been great source of trouble to his
father, threatening to burn him out and
kill him unless he furnished him with
money.
Lorenzy Dow Martin, better known
as the liking of Rehoboth," died at his
home at Rehoboth, Sussex county, on
last Wednesday. At one time lie owned
and titled the land now plotted and
known as Rehoboth. About fifteen
years ago he sold most of his land to
the Rehoboth Beach Association, for
which he received very trifing sum
in comparison with its present value. He
had been in declining health ior several
months. He was rs years of age, and left
a widow and three children.
"A meeting in the interest of temper
ance was held on Saturday at Elkton in
which resolutions were adopted providing
for acommittee of eighteen, two from each
district, which is to draw up bill to take
the place of the present local option law
which is considered a dead letter.. The
meeting was largely attended and the
prohibitionists made a strong effort to
keep the question from being acted upon
by the Legislature, but the sentiment was
largely In favor Of such action, on the
ground that prohibition does not prohi-
bit.'' Easel
The House Of Representatives Wash
ington), committee on claims last Thurs-
day instructed favorable report to be
made on Representative Compton's bill
| to authorize the settlement OF the accounts
tofthe States of Maryland and Virginia for
advances made to the United States in
LEO and 1871. for the purpose of aiding in
the erection ofpublic buildings in the
District OF Colurnbia. Interest on the
mount which shall be found due is to be