Middletown transcript., 1892-09-01
PENINSULA MATTERS.
INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FRoiI
OUR MANY EXCHANGES.

OUR MANY EXCHANGES.
George N. Hall, an eight year old
Wilmington lad fell into the Brandy.
wine and was drowned on Monday.
Hugh G. Brown, George v. Massey
and Senator Anthony Higgins, will
address a Republican ratification
meeting at Milford on this evening.
Ill health has forced Rev. ]. Simp-
son Trotter to resign the pastorate
of the Reformed Episcopal Church,
Wilmington.
Philadelphia contractors have COM
menced work on the launchway for
the United States Life Saving Station
opposite Lewes.
Ex-Superintendent Of Sunday
School B. M. Cain, of Lincoln, has
had charges of waywardness preferred
against him by the Methodist Church.
After having expended 5000, 900 on
Wilmington's newly-paved streets
this season. the city officials will at
once pave Delaware avenue with fire.
brick at cost of $4,000.
Mistaking a well-meaning saluta-
tion to his wife as an insult, Captain
Theodore Burton, of Millsboro, land
ed his fist in Ira Jerman's face, and
the irate husband was fined.
A. Edwin Keigwin, of New York
City, will deliver Humorous Lecture
on "Bores " at the Bridgeville Pres
byterian Church on Tuesday evening,
September 18th, at O'Clock.
Seven buzzards were found dead on
a farm near Newport on Sunday.
They had died, it is supposed, from
feeding on a part Of the carcass of a
horse that had died of anthrax.
Burglars effected an entrance to
the post-off1ce and store of Harry
Bouchelle of Chesapeake City, Friday
night, by prying the doors open.
After ransacking both places for
money they took in cash but $1.35
from the post-of1ce and $3.50 from
the store:
Between 700 and 800 people, mostly
mechanics and farmers attended the
Democratic mass meeting at Marshall
ton Saturday evening. The speakers
were L. Irving Handy and Victor B.
Woolley. A total of 35 new members
were added to the Cleveland club. A
joint Mill Creek and Christiana Cleve-
land and Stevenson club was organic
ed.
Rev. A. N. Keigwin, of Whining
ton, who recently.expressed the belief
that the millennium would come in
1897, now states that it will be several
years after that time. "There can be
no question" says Mr.. Keigwin, " in
the mind of any student of tie Bible
or of the signs of the times that the
world is on the eve of a great CRISIS
and it behooves all to watch and be
ready"
The schooner s. F. Munson, from
Boston with cargo of lumber for the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad, got stuck Tuesday on
Wilmington's big water main, which
crosses the Christiana at Third street
bridge. The main snapped in two
and for two hours there was a water
famine. All the mills and factories
of the south side were compelled to
shut down. The Water Department
finally located the trouble and the
break was repaired.
Thomas Ford, charged with taking
jewelry, ETC., from the house of John
M. Thackery, of Wilmington, a few
weeks ago, and who was arrested in
Philadelphia, has been brought back
to Delaware on requisition and
lodged in New Castle jail. The case
was to have come off on Tuesday, but
was postponed until next Wednesday.
Ex-Attorney- General John Biggs is
Ford's counsel.
The West Chester Local News last
Friday, said: "Aged and well-known
Henry Robinson is dead. His death
occurred this morning at O'Clock,
after suffering for over a year with
rheumatism and infirmities incident to
old age. Henry was born at Can't
wells Bridge, now Odessa, Del, in
1916, and was consequently n years
Of age at the time Of his death. He
was raised by the father of Robert
Porter, and was, we understand, a
slave until 28 years of age, when he
ran away and located in West Chester,
where he has resided ever since, a
period Of nearly so years" Doubtless
some of the old residents of Odessa
can recollect their former citizen.