Middletown transcript., 1886-02-12
Peninsula News.

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Gibson is quartered at Willard's Hotel,
while in Washington.
= F. Aldridge, Republican has been
deposed as route agent on the railroad
between Chestertown and Clayton, and
F. III. Greenwood, Democrat, has been
appointed to the place.
- Mary Wilmore, an aged negress of
Queen Anne's county, has come into a
comfortable fortune through the death of
her daughter at San Francisco, who
ran away as slave just before the war.
- The Milford Chronicle says that a
shoe manufacturing firm of Allentown,
Pa, is looking for site to build factory
at Milford. The motive for the removal
is to reduce the cost of living for the en-
ployes.
The Farmers Fruit Preserving Com
pany's factory, at Five Points, was sold
at sheriff7s sale on Tuesday, for 81, 750s
Messrs. PICKERING, Gildersleeve, Dur
borough and Ridgaway were the pur-
chasers.
= The Delaware State Grange has ap-
pointed committee of five, Jacob G.
Brown, of Camden, Mrs. Jennie Brown
of Camden, Prof. Webb, of Dover, Mr..
and Mrs. Cole of Leipsic, to prepare an
exhibit of fruits and flowers to exhibit at
the next annual meeting of the Grange at
Wilmington December next. Plough
share.
The Choptank Savings Bank at Cam
bridge has concluded to suspend business
and will pay off its depositors immedi-
ately. The bank is entirely solvent, the
assets amounting to about $4,000. The
most of the depositors are children, some
of whom have several hundred dollars on
deposit, saved from their own earnings.
1t has been in operation since July, 1881,
and has declared an annual dividend of 3
per cent. on deposits.
= Hon. Stevenson Archer, State Trea-
surer-elect, of Maryland, has presented
his bond to Gov. Lloyd, in the sum of
$500, 700, with Messrs. Stevenson A. Will
lians, J. Thos. G. Hopkins, Hon. Edwin
H. Webster, Henry w. Archer, P. How
ard, Allen Hoffman and Joseph M.
Streets, all of Howard county, as bonds
men. The bond was approved on the Sd
inst. Mr.. Archer entered upon the
duties of his Office on Tuesday.
- Representative Compton delievered
an address before the Maryland Demo-
cratic Association in Washington on Tues
day night in which he expressed his total
disbelief in civil service reform; said he
would have voted against the bill had he
been in Congress when it passed, and
would be delighted to have chance to
vote for its repeal now. He believed in
democrats running democratic admins
tration.
- The citizens of Millington are mov-
ing in the direction of securing two mail
deliveries daily. There is now bnt one,
that of the morning. The evening mail
from the North is broughtto to Chestertown,
where it remains over night, and is not
delivered until the following morning,
when it is left by the north bound train.
can be effected whereby it
could be made up at Townsend and .deliv-
cred at night by the South bound train.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Peninsular Bone Fertilizer
Co., was held in Smyrna on Tuesday,
when dividend of six per cent. was de-
clared out Of the earnings. The following
board of directors was elected John E.
Tygert. John r. Robinson, DR.. j. r.
Shreve, F. E. Postles, G. Speakman,
J. NJ. Ernest and w. G. Pierce. They
elected the following officers to serve the
ensuing year: President, J. E. Tygert
Secretary and Treasurer, w. q. Pierce
General Manager F. E. Postles.
- Louis H. Bicks of East Cambridge,
during the past month or SO, has had cor
with the American consul at
India, in reference to fortune
which he is supposed to have inherited
from the death of two brothers-in-law who
owned line of steamers that piled be-
tween India and England and were other
wise immensely rich. Mr.. Bicks thinks
his share will amount to about $400,000,
which most people would be glad to see
him get, if he would use it in improving
mbridge.-Cambridg News.
- The supper given by the ladies of
Grace Presbyterian Church at Kennedy
vile was, notwithstanding the unfavora-
BILE condition of the weather and bad
roads, quite an unexpected success. The
amount realized above all expenses was
over sixty dollars. The ornamental patch |
ed sofa cushion presented by Miss Carrie
and Mrs. Edward Hurlock brought over |
eighteen dollars. Two ladies, through |
solicitors, competed for the same and Miss
Racie Archibald, of Kennedyville, was
the successful winner. Revs. Martin, Reese |
and Norris, of three different evangelical |
churches, and Mr.. Davies, the school |
teacher, were each presented with cake. |
- Mrs. Hayes of Lewisville, Kent |
county, has recently been swindled out of |
S24 by letting Gypsy woman tie it up in |
three different parcels ofS9, So and 81, and !
then hide it in order to let charm double |
Its value. After two weeks of waiting |
Mrs. Hayes brought the parcels from
their hiding places expecting to find SlS,
Sl6 and $l4 respectively. Of course she
found nothing, and the constable who
pursued the Gypsies to Brenford, with
for the swindler, found nothing
too. A young woman of Lewisville al
lowed this same swindler to sit on her
flannel gown {" for luck" After talking
awhile she made the young woman forget
her garment, and then went away taking
1t along.-News.
Temperance instruction IN Schools. |
Friends of the prohibition movement in
Maryland are expected to urge on the
Legislature the passage Of bill requiring
all schools supported at public expense or
under State control to give instruction as
TO the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimu-
lants and narcotics upon the human sys-
tenn. Fourteen States, it is said, have al
ready enacted similar legislation. Peti-
ions favoring this object are now being
circulated in this county and are receiving
n m nror1a eior, ofrraS N1l,a |