Middletown transcript., 1888-11-01
DELAWARE o1rY DEPARTMENT
Society Meetings.

pany, first Thursday Of each month.
jackson Lodge, +. A. NJ, first Tues
day of each month.
= Patrick Henry Lodge 1. o. O. r., every
Wednesday night.
Delaware Castle No. 70, x. G. e. every
Tuesday evening.
Miss Emma Hall, is visiting Rich
mond, Va.
Yachts are passing through the canal
daily en-route for Florida.
- Mrs. DR.. F.S. Dunlap, visited friends
in Philadelphia this week.
Mr.. VIM. Hutchinson, spent lew
days this week in Newark, N. j.
| - Mrs. Maxwell, gave tea party to q
few friends on Monday evening.
- Mr.. Harry Manko, has taken Mr.. j.
N. Warren's place in the Post-office.
: Messrs. Schunder are very busy
plastering and bricklaying before freez-
ing weather comes.
= Thursday being All Saints Day,
services were held in the Catholic and
Episcopal Churches.
- Tombstones for the graves OF Mr..
and Mrs. Armour have arrived, and will
be erected on Friday.
- MIR. Thomas McGrifford, has pur-
chased the property of Jacob Rich on
| Second street, and will remove there in
the spring.
- Mr.. Samuel Hall, formerly OF this
City, will be married to Miss Matte
Mosby, of Richmond, Va, in Baltimore,
on Wednesday 7th inst.
: Mr.. Colburn's sailing yacht, Vanit-
zia, the champion Of the Quaker City
Yacht Club, Is anchored In her winter
quarters in Atwell's Cove.
- Messrs. Charles Bright and Herbert
Derrickson, left on Tuesday morning, on
the yacht Volunteer for winters gun
ming and fishing on the Chesapeake Bay.
= Miss Annie Ford of Elkton, Md,
who has been spending several weeks at
Mrs. Maxwell's, returned homo on Thurs
day. Her friends here will miss her.
- Mr. Harry Bigger, removed the re-
mains OF his father and grandmother,
from the Episcopal church yard to the
family lot in Delaware City cemetery.
- we regret to record the death OF Mr.
=. A. Mulligan's celebrated setter dog
Fitch. He was marvellous retriever and
one OF the most intelligent dogs we ever
saw.
= The ringing OF R. A. Moodey & Co.'S.
bell at i've O'Clock reminds US That the
short days Of winter are drawing near.
The show rooms OF these gentlemen are
worth visiting.
Mr.. Harry g. Clark made a large
shipment Of cat-tails (down from bull
rushes) to Philadelphia on Wednesday.
The picking of these tails employs quite
a number ofpeople, and the down makes
very comfortable beds and pillows.
= Mrs. Alice Clark is having the chim-
neys repaired at her residence on Wash
ington Avenue. There are several
chimneys on frame dwellings 10 our city
which are in bad shape, and,a winter is
fast approaching, the owners would do
we'll to see tLem, for their safety.
There is quite an interesting contest
among halfa dozen Of our pork raisers;
several premiums are uR for the heaviest
hogs. It is a common occurrence to see
man walking his pig around of an even-
ing for an appetite. The committee have
taken the first measurements.
- Mr.. Jones, student of Princeton
College, occupied the pulpit of the Pres
byterian Church on Sunday morning
and evening, and preached two eloquent
sermons. Mr.. Jones is but eighteen years
of age, yet his sermons and delivery
would do credit to veteran. He is an
excellent reader.
= A number of election bets have been
made here in the past two weeks; but
since Monday the Cleveland men have
been unable to get anybody to back Har-
rison. A very prominent politician from
Bridgeton, appeared here on Monday, and
tried to bluff by offering large bets on
Harrison, but on finding takers backed
out.
The members of the M. E. Church
Choir presented their leader, Mr.. Will
liam Anderson, with an elegant hanging
lamp on Wed nesday evening, at his resi-
dence on Gil atom Street. After the pres
entation a very pleasant evening was
spent In Halloween games. The choir
rendered some excellent music during
the evening.
David White, colored man, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed by his wife
Sunday afternoon. White who is en-
ployed on the Rogers farm adjoining
George Tybouts on the Red Lion cause
way about five miles above Delaware
City, had been cunning all day and re-
turned home about $50 o'clock In the
afternoon. He placed his gun in one
corner OF the room, where his wife
soon afterward found it and she
picked it up preparatory to cleaning 1t.
In breaking the gun to see whether
a load remained in it or not, the weapon
accidentally exploded and full load of
shot entered her husbands leg below the
knee. An artery was ruptured and the
blood flowed in constant stream from
the injury. DR.. Bellville of Delaware
City. who had been summoned, arrived
about halt hour after the mans death.
The deceased was about 40 years old.