Middletown transcript., 1888-09-13

uhb mUEe uduuIhcturce tudu any tOWu IN Tue
county, and that it is the largest fruit ship
ping station in the world.
Thomas Curry living near Greenwood and
son of Albert Curry, Esq, late candidate
for Governor on the Republican ticket, ship
ped 600 baskets of fine peaches to Boston,
one day last week, and did not clear enough
70 pay freight.-Laurel Gazette.
People who live in new countries are Ii
able to be prostrated by maIarial fevers.
Inhabitants of cities, by reason of bad drain
age and unwholesome odors, suffer from
81 milar diseases. Ayers Ague Cure is war
rante d specific for all malariaI poisons.
Harry Scott of Seaford ran from FELTON, to
Bowers Beach, distance OF twelve miles, on
wager. The wager was that he was to run
the distance inside of two hours, and if he
won he was to receive ten dollars, if not he
was to get nothing. He won the money
Be lew.
We know of no mode Of treatment which
offers, to sufferers from chronic diseases, a
more certain hope of cure than that which 10
conprehended in the use of Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla. For purifying and invigorating the
blood, this preparation is unequaled.
The schooner Governor Stockley, Captain
George Prettyman, sunk of West Flats,
sabeut two miles from the mouth of the Mis-
pillion, at II o'clock Friday morning.
The sea was high and quite heavy gale
was blowing at the time. The crew of the
sunken vessel took to the rigging and Captain
David Still, with schooner Annie e. Pierce
went to their rescue and succeeded in getting
them of.
Last Saturday the express train which
leaves Dover at $40 A. NJ, met with an ac-
cident above Cheswold which might have
been serious. While the train was running
40 miles an hour the tire of the driving wheel
eff eff the the locomotive came of. # knocked
hole in the boiler and broke three spokes out
of the wheel. The engineer applied his air
brakes and he and his fireman jumped off.
The train came to stand-still fortunately
without leaving the track.
Three small boys were playing with q
rife in Centrsville, Md, few days ago.
They "didn't know it was loaded" and the
rife was accidently discharged. The ball
hit one of the boys in the right hand corner
of the lower lip, passed under the tongue and
itselfin the lower cheek. He did
not know he was shot till he sfw the blood
streaming from his mouth. The ball was
extracted and the little fellow is now doing
well.
The treasure seekers at the Breakwater
are still digging away on every favorable
They claim to have found
the spot where the De Braak is buried,
but thus far nothing has been unearthed
but teak wood and virdigris." This fact
however is accepted by the diggers that
The Spanish gold is nigh at hand. This
week however has been most disagreeAbls
one for their business and most of the time
the steamer has been laying at her moor
ings in the Observation-Disclosures Light.
The ebay Fork Swindle" has been sue
cessfully practiced in Dorchester recently.
Gilbert Vanderpool succeeded in swindling
Mr.. W. W. Hackett a farmer Of that county,
to the tune of $l5o0--that is, if the notes
can be collected which have turned up with
Hacketts signature, and which be signed
under misspprehension of their character.
Hackett had bargained with Vanderpool to
sell hay forks and thus opened the door for
he use Of his signature. At last accounts
h sheriff ofDorchester was after Vanderpeol
and it is to be hoped he will get term in
he penitentiary for obtaining money under
alse pretenses. Kent News.
While riding along the road few miles
from Georgetown one day last week John
" illiams and William Kitchens got into a
political dispute which soon ended in blood
shed. The eliminating point of the dispute
was Williams assertion that "Cleveland
was the cause of peaches selling so low,"
Kitchens promptly replied that this was q
T. lie and that he was a Cleveland man
himself. Williams could not stand this and
rave Kitchens blow that knocked him
lown, whereupon Kitchens made a savage
.ttack upon Williams with an ugly topping
lnife, inAictiug severe wounds on the arm,
houlder and back, and severing ths bicepts,
ricepts deltoid, and latissimus dorsi mus
les. The wounds bled freely and Williams
DON became 90 weak from the loss of blood |
that he could not stand being brought into |
own too see physician. After some delay |
he services of medical student John Ham |
nond of the University of Pennsylvania were |
ecured and the wounds were skillfully Dress
d.-Sussex Journal.
DoN'T DEsPAIR.-If you are weak and |
weary from some so-called chronic disease, |
on't give up. Sulphur Bitters has given |
ope to many invalids, where hitherto there |
vas nothing but despair. It will build up |
nd renew your whole system.-Editor week
y American.
There was q very narrow escape from
erious railroad accident at the P. W. & B.
epot in this town Thursday afternoon. A
train had to vacate the north
ound track for the express moving north at
o'clock and went on the south bound track.
t had hardly got on the south bound track
Then the Perryville extra, through freight |
rain was heard around the bend. The en-
ineer of the latter train did not see the other
rain until he passed the Jail, owing to the
urVe. He at once reversed his engine and
Yhistled down brakes. A collision seemed
imminent and the engineer and fireman both
1mped near the depot. The former was
umbled about and badly bruised and the
after sustained in juries to his hip. The col
ision did not occur, however, owing to the
resence of mind of Mr.. Benjamin NJ. Wells,
be well-known express agent who succeeded
n sigma ling the men on the construction
rain which had not come to a stand-still, to
love down the road. This was done and
be two trains did not come nearer together
han about 100 feet The deserted engine
anne to a stand-still near the Blue Ball
rossing.-Cecil Wing.