Middletown transcript., 1888-11-28

Friday of each month.
= Delaware City Volunteer Fire Con
pany. first Thursday OF each month.
jackson Lodge, f. & A. NJ, first Tuei
day of each month.
/ - Patrick Henry Lodge 1. o. o. F., every
Wednesday night.
Delaware Castle No. IL, K. G. e. ever
Tuesday evening.
= Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Starr arrives
home on Monday evening.
: TIL telegraph poles between Della
ware City and Corbit were blown dowr
by the storm on Sunday.
t I The schooner Unknown was driver
ashore on the mud, above the Battery
wharf on Saturday night.
- The Ladies of Christ Church vii
hold fair in the parlor of Mr.. Edward
Milne, in the near future.
- No school report is made this week
owing to the Teachers Institute which
gave the teachers and scholars two holi
days.
= Mr.. Samuel Hines, Sr., is an appli-
can't for the lighthouse on the farm OF Mr..
Harry Walters, now kept by Mr.. George
Duncan.
- Anthony Higgins, Esq. and Ex-
Senator Chas. H. McWhorter were in
town on Monday attending the funeral OF
J. B. Cush.
- The steam propeller Elsinore, of the
New York and Baltimore Transportation
line is also lying in harbor here on ac-
count of the storm.
= Messrs. Hemphill and Jackson re-
turned from their hunting trip down
the Peninsula on Saturday. They report
having grand time and plenty of game.
= Lorillard's steam yacht Reva, OF
New York had to be locked into the canal
Sunday on account of the weather. She
passed through the canal on Monday
bound for Florida.
- Miss Rosa Monka of this City and
Mr.. Philip Sodorman of Philadelphia,
will be married at Philadelphia on
Thursday. An account OF the wedding
will appear next week.
A camping party have pitched their
tent on the meadow OF the VIM. d. Clark
farm, near the river bank. It is unde-
cided whether they are gypsies or ship
wrecked mariners; they cannot be plea
sure seekers.
A very pretty wedding was cele-
brated in Philadelphia last week. The
contracting parties being Mr.. John Brady
and Miss Maggie McCabe. The bride is
we'll known here where she has spent
several summers and has many friends.
Captain T. 8. Vankirk of the steamer
Commonwealth, who has been confined
to his bed by sickness since last Friday
week, is slowly improving. The Com
monwealth is lying in this port Monday
waiting for the storm to abate. 1t will
be remembered that this steamer with
Captain Vankirk- and his able son
aboard, was the only vessel which made
its destined port In the terrible blizzard
of last March. This steamer trades be-
tween Philadelphia and New York, and
did not miss trip last winter. Della
ware City is justly proud Of her steam
boat captains.
= Mr.. J. B. Cush of st. Georges, who
has been 10 the employ of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, for about two
years, and has had charge of the Brides
burg station since last August, met with
a fatal accident at that place on Friday
while in the act of flag
ging a through train. He had stepped
On the next track to clear the approaching
rain, when shifting engine came
along and struck him, killing him in
stantly. It is the saddest affair which
has occurred in this neighborhood for
some time. Mr.. Cush was one of four
atherless children, his father having
been killed in the war. He was young
nan of more than ordinary talent, and
in few years to enter the legal
profession under Anthony Higgins, Esq,
IF Wilmington, Del, for the furtherance
Of which purpose he had been indus
triously working and saving since he
graduated from Delaware College in
1888. His mother and brother left home
On Friday morning intending to sur
prise him with a visit, and on arriving
1t Philadelphia found the sad news
awaiting them. The funeral services
we're held at st. Paul's Catholic Church,
Delaware City, on Monday morning.
Rev. Father DAILY celeb rated a requiem
mass, assisted by Rev. Father Brady of
New Castle who also preached the fun
sral sermon, in which he spoke with |
eloquent feeling. The funeral was
largely attended, there being a great |
many friends from Philadelphia, Will
nington and New Castle.