Middletown transcript., 1892-08-04
PENINSULA MATTERS.

stole 100 chickens from Sheriff Robin
son. .#
Rev. Herman Roe, of Smyrna, ha
been elected principal Of Townsend
public schools.
The story that the Sussex County
Almshouse was destroyed by fire Ii
untrue. 1t was haystack.
Hotel Avon, of Easton, is to be solo
at lnortgagee's sale in August, as .
consequence of the death of one o.
the mortgages.
Dover has the only woman en-
gineer in the State. She occupies
a high social position and is day en-
gineer at one of the factories in that
town.
Four mounths at hard labor and
S25 fine was what Judge Ball Of vii.
mington gave William Walraven for
striking his wife with chair, on
Tuesday.
The State Convention of the
Republican League Clubs will meet
at Dover, August 18th. The Repub-
lican State Convention meets at the
same place the day following.
Charles j. Young of Edge Moor had
his shoulder dislocated Monday by
a too vigorous hand-shake from a
friend, He is now at the Delaware
Hospital.
Clarence Elliott, of the Whining
ton Wheel Club, will shortly try to
make new worlds records for the
quarter and half mile, on the kite
track at Kirkwood, Del.
Cards are out for the wedding of j..
Leonard Price and Miss Sallie Hur-
lock, daughter of John Hurlock,
Wednesday evening, Aug. 10th, 1892,
at the Still Pond parsonage.
Five carloads of peaches were ship
ped from Laurel on Monday. The
fruit was of fine quality and price
ranged from $3.50 to So per crate.
Sheriff Simmons reports that the
stone-pile prisoners worked 1850
hours during July. Forty-six car
loads of stone were received, and 116
car loads of macadamized stone were
shipped to different parts of the
county.
A violent thunder storm ragged in
the lower part of New Castle county
Friday night. It was particularly
severe in the vicinity of Blackbird.
The school in District No. So, was
struck by lightning and badly
damaged. Fortunately the building
did not catch fire.
Cards have been issued for the
marriage of Howard s. Taylor of
Pennsgrove, N. J., formerly of Dover,
and Miss Elizabeth H, daughter of
William Fell, formerly of Smyrna.
The ceremony will be performed at
the Pennsgrove M. E. Church, We'd
nesday afternoon.
At the opening services of Camden
camp meeting last Friday evening
Rev. w. r. McFarlane offered up a
fervent prayer for rain, and in less
than one hour the heaviest shower
for weeks fell. This is probably the
first time in the history of the camp
that it has ever failed to rain, no
matter at what season it was held.
The item appropriating $4,000 tor
the purchase of a site for range
light near Port Penn has been agreed
to by the conference committee on
the Sundry Civil bill. The light,
General Bingham says, will be of
great benefit to navigators on the
Delaware.
Charles Phillips, passenger and
freight agent for the Baltimore and
Philadelphia and the Wilmington and
Northern Railroads, and also agent
for the United States Express Com
pany, at the local station known as
the "Gridiron," has been missing
since July 22d, and shortage OF
over 81, 900 has been found in his ac-
counts.
About four years ago a boy tramp
was taken in and given home by
Smith Horsey, a prosperous farmer
near Laurel, and has made his home
in Mr.. Horsey's family since. Sunday
while the family were attending camp
meeting he secured 800 which Mr..
Horsey had in the house and took
his departure. He has not yet been
captured.
In the course of two or three weeks
George w. Cruikshank, formerly
editor of the Cecil Democrat, will
start new paper in Elkton, to be
called the Cecil Sentinel. The Senti
mel will be independent in Local
politics, but Democratic in national
politics. 1t will be backed principal
ly by Albert Constable and other
well known men of Cecil county, and
will be edited by Mr.. Cruikshank.
Thomas Pennypacker of Kent
county, Md, was instantly killed by
the explosion of dynamite cart
ridge, with which he was attempting
to kill fish in the Chesapeake bay or
Saturday morning last. JOSEPH
Hughes, who was helping Penny
packer, was seriously injured. Penny
packer was blown to pieces, ano
fragments of his bones were driver
into Hughes's flesh, some OF then
remaining there until they were re
moved by a physician. There is g
law against killing fish with dyna
mite and Pennypacker was violating
it when he was killed.
E;ra of Eamhpid 0a Md