Middletown transcript., 1891-07-09
DELAWARE CRY.
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK IN A THRIv-
ING FoWN.- PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ING TOWN PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
i - Mr.. Joseph ]. Messig has been spend
ing week at Woodhaven, N. z.
! - The steamer Mayor Reybold displayed
new set of flags on the Fourth.
/ = The Morris brothers of Philadelphia
spent the Fourth here with their parents.
= Mrs. w. G. Webb, who has beer
quite i'll for several days is improving.
- The first hay party of the season left
here on Monday evening for Augustine
Pier.
- Mr.. P. Morris of Philadelphia, spent
few days this week with Master Fred
Silva.
- Miss Kate Lang and Mss. Kate
Brophy of Philadelphia, spent Saturday
and Sunday in Delaware City.
- A bay party of twenty glass blowers
from Bridgeton, N. j., passed through here
on Tuesday evening, on their way down
the Chesapeake Bay.
= The M. E. Sunday school made their
annual excursion to Woodland Beach, on
the steamer Thomas Clyde, on Wednesday
An excursion from Bridgeton, N. J.,
passed through the Chesapeake and Della
ware Canal on Wednesday morning, bound
for COLCHESTER, Md.
Miss Nettie Co1burn entertained a
large party of Wilmington friends at her
beautiful home, Marshfeld, near Delaware
City, on Wednesday evening.
- Delaware Castle, No. 10, z. G.. E.
will hold festival on Adams street, above
Second, on the evenings of Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday, July IA, Is, 10th.
= Prof. Gardiner, principal of the Della
ware City public school is visiting relatives
in New York City, and will spend part
of his vacation on the Hudson river and in
Adirondack mountains.
- The annual excursion from Penns-
grove, N. j., to Colchester, via Chesapeake
& Delaware Canal was made on Wednes-
day. The weather being stormy, only
about two hundred were Oh. board. They
were accompanied by the Pennsgrove band.
= The NJ. E. Sunday school excursion,
which was to go to Woodland Beach on the
steamer Thomas Clyde, on Wednesday,
was, owing to the stormy weather, post
poned until next Wednesday.
- The game of base ball which was to
have been played here, between the Atlas
of this place and the Upland of Upland,
Pa, on Wednesday, was postponed on ac-
count of the weather. The Atlas will
play game with picked nine at Wood
land Beach next Wednesday.
Two of the Ericsson Line steamers
have been put ON the peach route, carrying
peaches from Sassafras river, Md, to Phil
adelphia the first shipment offfteen hum
dred baskets passed through here on Mon
day evening.
A sailing yacht, belonging to Mr..
Buckalew of Salem, N. Y. having on board
party of four ladies and six gentlemen,
capsized in the Delaware, along the bar
between here and Salem creek, on Sunday
afternoon A boat left here Immediately
to give them assistance, but before it reach
ed them, a boat passing along there, went
to their aid, and rescued all of them.
= The Fourth of July passed off quietly
here. There was no public celebration,
but the stores and dwellings were decorated
with bunting and flags, and everybody
seemed to enjoy themselves. The town
was crowded with visitors from Philadel-
phia and other places, who came to visit
their old homes and friends here, quite a
number remaining over to spend their
vacation
- The cornerstone to be laid at the
Port Penn Methodist Episcopal Church
next Sunday, will in all probability at
tract large crowd of people. Rev. Isaac
Jewell, pastor of Episcopal Chur ch, Will
mington, Del. Rev. Jonathan S. Willis of
Milford, Del, and several other prominent
ministers and several laymen will take
part in the exercises. All-day services are
being arranged to commence with Love
Feast at o'clock A. NJ. The stone will be
laid at 2. 30 o'clock in the afternoon. Do
not forget to attend.
g A party of Wilmington toughs Great
ed disturbance at Augustine Pier on the
Fourth by making an attack on William
G. Bright, one of the most peaceable of oul
citizens, who had driven down to spend a
few hours there. He was passing along
quietly when without any cause whatever
he was attacked by several of those toughs,
who knocked him down and proceeded to
beat him, when the few young men from
Delaware City who happened to be on the
ground, came to his assistance, when they
were Immediately surrounded by large
crowd, armed with clubs, and hot fight
ensued The Delaware City young men,
although outnumbered five to one, made 9
brave defense, knocking the ,assailant'
right and left, but owing to their small
number and the weapons used against
them were obliged to retreat" The fight
was witnessed by a number of our best
citizens who exonerate the Delaware City
men, and say that their action was justif-
able, being entirely in self-defense. A few
special officers on the ground would pre-
vent disturbances of this kind.
Wilmington Fair.
The dates for holding the yearly