Middletown transcript., 1892-09-15
PENINSULA MATTERS
INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR MANY EXCHANGES.

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INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FRol
= OUR MANY EXCHANGES.
J State Senator A. B. Richardson ant
wife, of Dover, arrived home from
Europe on Saturday last.
The excursion Steamer Thomas
} Clyde and Excelsior made their las
trips for the season on Saturday.
. The horses of Kent county ar
dying from blind staggers. SeYera
horses have died near Dover ano
{ others at Leipsic.
+ w. 8. Oracle, living near Newark
last week sold his 2-year-old coli
Il Happy Minnie, 2.41 to George Scatter
good Of; Philadelphia for $500.
4 Forest fires have been burning in
/ the vicinity of Pocomoke City, Md,
for several weeks. A large amount OF
valuable timber has been destroyed
| At a meeting of the Citizens Per.
manent Relief Committee, of Phila'
delphia, on Tuesday, it was decided
to donate 81, 900 to the relief of the
sufferers from the fire at Delmar.
The Delaware Pilots have been
notified by the secretary of the board
of pilot commissioners to stop all
vessels at the Delaware Breakwater
for quarantine inspection.
James w. Evans, mill owner and
merchant, OF Bishopville, Worcester
county, Md, died on September of
typhoid fever. He was SO years of
age and a member of the firm of
Evans & Blades, at Newburne and
Elizabeth City, N. C.
The Rev. C. NJ. Armstrong, rector
of st. Philips P. E. Church at Laurel,
has resigned that pastorate. He will
| accept a call to the pastorates of st.
Andrews Parish Church of Philadel-
| phia. His resignation takes effect
| October 1.
Andrew Horsey, colored, over whose
head hang more indictments for
| gambling than have been made out
| against any other person in Whining
| ton, was again arrested on Monday,
charged with keeping gambling
house at No. 104 West Fifth street.
The Republicans of Dover have
flung Harrison and Reid Banner to
the breeze in front of the Post office
is upside down making it read 1851 an
augury Of the fearful manner in
which that party will be turned down
in the coming contest.
VIM. II. Caldwell, one of Whining
toms colored policeman was on Satur-
day fined $25 and costs for assaulting
Leroy Welch white man. He tried to
arrest Welch who was innocent of any
wrong doing and of course resisted
arrested Caldwell admitted being
mistaken in the man out denied the
assault.
Burglars broke open the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail
road station at Newark, Monday, and
carried the 1500-pound safe to field
100 yards distant, but failed to rifle
it of the contents. The dial plate had
been forced off and the top of the safe
door was broken loose, but the lock
was intact.
Salisbury, Md, are discussing the
advisability of making trades dis
play in that city on October II. This
date will be the sixth anniversary of
the burning and the fifth anniversary
of the rebuilding of the city in 1867.
Over 500 houses were destroyed by
the fire and the loss was estimated at
over $1,000,000.
The Wilmington Fair this year was
a financial failure. 1t is said that
that Association fixed ron the same
days as the Elkton Fair for the prr-
pose of breaking up the latter; but
the breaking up is now on the other
side, as the Wilmington papers on
Saturday announced that the Asso-
citation would hold no more exhibit
tions, while the Elkton papers an
nounce that an exhibition there is
assured for next year.
Col. VIM. Singerly, owner of the
Elkton Stock Farm has an OK six
years old, half Durham and half
Holstein, length twelve feet, belt
eleven feet, height 5 feet 3 inches,
weight 8, $40 poundsand still growing.
Col Singerly will exhibit him at the
Chicago Fair, next year, when he ex-
poets the animal to reach the unpre-
cedented weight of 4, 900 pounds. He
has refused the offer from an enter
prising exhibitor of So, 500 for the use
of the OK for two years. His owner
bought him when calf in Michigan.
The passage last week of a. large
number of immigrants through Sails
bury, Md, en- route to New York from
Baltimore, and from New York to
points in the South, has caused fear
of an invasion of cholera in that city.
Immigrant trains pass over the New
York, Philadelphia and Norfork rail
road every night and stop at Sails
bnry for water, and measures are
being taken to prevent a Judgement
of thedisease from these trains
Cholera was introduced into Salisbury
in 1882 by bay vessel from Balti-
more.-Morning News.
The Democratic Primaries held last
Saturday were conducted in quiet
and orderly manner. Despite the
large number of people attracted to
the different towns where the Regis
trars were in session and the Pri-
maries being held there were very
few disturbances. i- -ffst.t6
The result of the nomination
county was the selec-
tion of the following ticket: iJ
State Senator-John Pyle, Whining
ton.
Representatives J. Harvey
Spruance, Wilmington; Harry Day,
Brandywine; J. Harvey Whiteman,
Mill Creek; William Cooch, Pencader;
James H. S. Gam, Red Lion; Columbus
Watkins, st. Georges; j. Henry
Hanson. Appoquinimink.
County Commissioners First dis
trict, Lewis Derrickson; Second, no
n Il Il.
Fourth, Henry M. w hite; Fifth, Will
liam A. Scott.