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Middletown transcript., 1894-04-14
PERSONALITIES

Little Lines About Men and Women
and What They Are Doing.
Will Brady returned to Swathmore
College this week.
Mr.. Harry Elason was in in Whining
ton on Thursday.
Mrs, B. 0. Payne spent few days in
Dover this week.
Rev. and Mrs. n NJ. Browne, were in
Wilmington last evening.
Miss Edna Frazier returned home from
Philadelphia, on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Eliason visited
Wilmington friends this week.
Miss Ada Lockwood spent this week
with friends in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mary Wilson and Mrs. Lizzie Will
liams are visiting friends at Milford.
Mr. George Hukill Of Oil City. Pa. made
brief visit tc his brother G. f. Hukill last
week.
Miss Anna Barnard, of Cheswold,
spent few days in town this week visiting
her mother.
-Drs. w. E. Barnard and A. NJ. Cham
berlaine spent the day Wednesday in
Philadelphia.
Frances Hoffeck er Esq. of Wilmington
will spend Sunday in town guest at the
NJ E. Parsonage.
Miss Maybe Taylor eturned home on
Tuesday, much improved by three weeks
visit to Atlantic City.
Mrs. William Taylor, Mrs. w. j. Bar
nett and Miss Maybe Taylor visited friends
at Bridgeville on Thursday.
Mrs. J. Z. Stats, of Fairlee, Md, was
the guest of her mother, Mrs. Catherine
Merritt several days this week.
Rev R. H. Adams, P. E of Dover Dis
trict, and Rev. 7. E. Bell were in town
on Thursday, guests of A G.. Cox.
-Abram sVandegrift who has been in
Minnesota for some months has returned
home. His old friends here are glad
welcome him back.
Miss Tillie murphy returned to her
home, in Philadelphia this week, after
several weeks visit with her sister, Mrs.
Hail.
Victor Messick will soon remove to
Greensborough, Md, where he will take
charge of the store recently purchased by
his father, ]. B. Messick.
William Vansant who for the past six
years has been a popular and obliging
salesman with s. NJ. Reynolds G. Co., has
accepted position with ] B. Messick & Co.
Louis STAN was one of the 72 fortunate
boys out of 450 candidates for admission to
Williamson's Industrial School at Media,
Pa, and entered upon the three years
course ON Monday.
Mrs, Hall and dnughter Miss Lizzie
attended the graduating exercises at the
College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia last
evening, where Thos. NJ. Hall, the eldest
son of Mrs Hall was one of the graduates.
Louis NJ. Barnard has gone into busi-
ness for himself at Laurel, where he recently
opened store in general merchandise. Mr..
Barnard is well and fayorably known here
and his many friends wish him abundant
success.
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GLORIOUS FOURTH.

The 4th of July Celebration Is Now an
| Assured Thing.
The 4th of July celebration to be held
in Dover is now an assured thing as a
sufficient sum has been subscribed to defra
| all expensens.
At meeting of the Robbins Hose Com
pany Monday evening it was decided to
participate in the celebration. They will
extend an invitation to the fire companies
of Middletown, Clayton, SMYRNA, Wyom-
ing, Camden, and Milford, The Knights of
Golden Eagle will participate and expect to
have anumber visiting circles. Also the
Jr. O. u A. NJ, and other secret organiza-
tions.
All organizations in the county are in
vited TO participate. Those intending to
do so are requested to notify the committee.
The parade will take place in the morn
ing.
Negotiations are now pending with
Moriarity and Mcconnell by the athletic
committee to have ten-round match be-
tween these two men for the championship
of the State. There is a probability that
the match will be arranged, as both men
are known to be eager for the fray and
both are confident of winning. Moriarity
has thrown out challenge to the sporting
fraternity of the State, which Mcconnell
has signiied his intention of accepting.
Mcconnell desires, however, that Moriarity
relax the weight stipulation (133 pounds)
and allow at least two pounds-give or
take. Moriarity has not yet fully agreed
to this condition, but there is every proba-
bility that be will in few days. 1t is quite
likely that several other contests will be
arranged between Wilm ington boxers and
probably there will be one between Will
nlingtonian and an ambitious youth down
the State. The sparring will alternate with
horse racing and other athletic events and
a continual show of genuine athletics is
promised from first to last, with no long
intermissions or tiresome waits.
The committee in charge propose to close
the celebration with grand display of
fireworks,-DoUer Inder.
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gentleman, of this town, died at the resi-.
dence of Thomas Halle on Monday MORN
irg last in the S2d year of his age. He has
been resident of this town for a number
of years and was Chief Magistrate until
about five years previous to his death,
when he became totally blind. His funeral
took place on Wednesday afternoon. In
terment being in Bethel cemetery.
About thirty members of Elkton Council
No. %. Jr., o. U. A. NJ, came to this town
on Monday evening and instituted Council
No. "a. The new council starts out with
membership of about thirty and promises
to be prosperous one. After the ceremony
of installing the officers in their respective
office, the visiting members were hand
somely entertained at supper in charge of
few of the young ladies of the town.
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CHESAPEAKE CITY.

DIR. Edward Graves spent Sunday at
J. NJ. Reeds.
Miss Alice NJ Perry returned to Wilson
College on Monday.
Stanley Steele spent a few days of lasi
week with friends in Baltimore.
Several street fights occurred i'll town on
Monday, but fortunately no one was hurt.
Mrs. ]. H. Steele and son, Harold and
Oakley Barwick spent part of this week in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Benjamin Hanson and youngest
son, of Baltimore, were guests at George s
Wooley's this week.
Presiding Elder, Rev. L. E. Barrett will
preach in the NJ. E. Church on Sunday
evening, April 18th, at 7:3O o'clock. All are
invited.
Mrs. Augusta Pearce, who has been visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. Polk Steele for some
time past has returned to hor home in
Cecilton.
Miss Carrie G. Brady attended the Easter
entertainment at Princeton College dur
ing last week, given by the Junior class OF
which her brother, Henri Brady is q
member.
The lecture on Love, Courtship and
Marriage" which was to have been de-
Iivered on Wednesday evening last, has
been postponed until later date. on ac-
count of the inclemency of the weather on
that evening.
Wilhelmina Allen, daughter Of James
Allen, and William T. Reed, son of the late
William Reed. and both of this town, were
married at the home of the brides parents
on Tuesday evening by the Rev. w. Jag
gard, the ceremony being very private.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed will reside in town and
we wish them much future happiness and
prosperity.
Gilbert F. Chrisfield, venerable old
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Worlds Fair Buildings

All of the big Worlds Fair buildings were
sold at private sale by the South Park Com
missioners this week. L. c. Garrrtt, st.
Louis contractor, bought the lot for $4,000.
This purchase includes the great Manufac-
lures Building, Machinery Hall, and all the
buildings of Administration, Electricity,
Mines, Agriculture, Fisheries and Trans
portation. The only structures not named
in the purchase are the Art building, now
the property of the Field Columbian Mu-
scum, the Convent La Rabida, the two ser
vice buildings into which the exposition
camp has gathered its effects and the For
esty Building. The purchaser will begin
the demolition Of the buildings at once.
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PREsBYTERY OF NEW CASTLE.

Figures From the Report of the Dover
Presbyterian Chnrch.
The Presbytery Of New Castle will hold
its annural spring meeting next Tuesday
and Wednesday in Pocomoke City, Md.
Among the items of business to come be-
fore the Presbytery will be the election Of
Commissioners to the General Assembly
which meets in Saratoga in May, the con
sideration of committee reports on the
various benevolent enterprises of the
church and and the reports of the variou:
churches of the Presby terry concerning theil
work for the past year.
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PORT PENN.

Abram Vandegrift is in town, having Just
returned from Duluth, Mimi.
HI. Prices banks have been examined
and found uninjured. The strong wind
and high tides have brought the water over
them in flood. T. F. Dilworth's banks
are injured.
Spring is on us, "with all its severity"
as Horace Walpole remarked OF an En-
gish summer. All that was safely locke d
in the weather bureau drawer during three
weeks of March is now making up for lost
time.
Rev. J. d. Given has gone to Quantico,
seven miles from Salisbury, where he will
supply three churches. His successor, Rev.
J.H. Robinson, preached in the Method ist
church last Sunday. Rev. 2. 5. White oc-
cupied the Presbyterian pulpit.
DIR. PhilipR Cleaver brought home from
the West Indies cluster of eight cocoanuts,
enveloped in their rind as they grow upon
the palm. This outer rind is said to pro-
tect them in falling from the high trees,
and from the intense heat of a tropical sun.
A Port Penner in California writes OF the
"loveliness" of spring there; the profussion
of blue supins and escholsias as well as
buttercups growing wild in the groves
Canned goods are higher priced on ac-
count of the discouraging prospects for fruit
in the east; and the fruit-growers there are
happier.
The severe easterly storm which has
ragged since Tuesday has had the usua
effect in breaking down barriers and over
RsEowing the marshes and roads. Extent o
damage cannot now be estimated, but thu
river is flowing over H. Prices bank, ane
Mrs. William Flemming was compelled t.
abandon her house, and lost pig and 1ocE
of Chickens in the food. The marshes be
tween here and Augustine Pier are als'
flooded; SO that the only ready approach t
the village is by way of Thorntown, which
course the butcher and mail driver ar
compelled to pursue. A three mast
schooner is at the wharf without her an
chors, and some of the fishermens poat
were driven upon the marshes.
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A Fashionable Lady.

To be properly attired, it is not only
necessary that your Hat or Bonnet be pret-
ty; but are the colors properly blended?
Is it stylish? Mrs. B. o. Payne and her conf
petent assistants have made lady's head
wear life study. Frequent visits to the
largest fashionable establishment OF
the large cities, enable them to exhibit to
their patrons the choicest selections Of the
Millioner's art Prices are not only the
lowests in Town, but very much less than
goods of the same grades in the cities. The
opening days of last week indicates that
the ladies appreaif
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DELAWARE CITY.

Mrs. Julia Brewer is recovering from an
illness.
Contrary to the report of last week. shad
are very scarce.
Miss Annie Anna Schunder is visiting re-
latives in Philadelphia,
The storm prevented the steamer Rey-
bold making her usual trip.
pav TT. Rraddon is assistant rector of
st. Marks P. e. Church, Boston.
Rev. Mr.. Amos and family have arrived
at the NJ. E. parsonage. A reception was
tenderedthem in the chapel Friday evening.
A stack Of fodder belonging to Martin
Cunning was burned on Friday. It is
= spght to be the work Of some OF the
4 II Nv held iagt
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Tomato Culture in Kent.

With several successful seasons Of tomato
culture to their credit, the farmers of Kent
propose to go this year into the culture OF
tomatoes to greater extent than ever be-
fore. Packers have increased the capacity
of their plants, several new canneries have
been added to those already in the county
and the acreage has been increased, not
only to meet the local demands, but those
also of Baltimore packers. 1t is estimated
that /, ,9S7 acres will be planted with to-
matoes in Kent this year, and that the
Weld will be Is, 900 tons, 81 ton. making
the money valve s97 1854, If all expectations
and calculations are realized.
Middletown transcript., 1894-04-14
Can Sell the Delaware Build ing.

State Worlds Fair Commissioner George
W. Emery went to Chicago this week to
sell the Delaware building at the Worlds
Fair. He has full power to act, the COM
missioners thinking that was the best way
in which to dispose of the building which
has been the source of so much care and
trouble to them. There is now no posi-
bility of the building coming to Delaware
as was once proposed.
Middletown transcript., 1894-04-14
Death Roll.

Miss Helena Cam, youngest daughter of
Richard Cam, died at her home near Kirk
wood on Monday. Though life long in
valid, she was of a bright and sunny dis
position, and favorite in the home and
among large circle of friends. She was a
member of the Glasgow Presbyterian
church and lived eonsistant life. Her
funeral took place on Thursday from she
residence Of her father Interment at st.
George's Cemetery.
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JOHN p. MCINTYRE PROPRIETOR

The National Hotel I'm new Hands.
John P. Mcintyre had this week pur-
chased from Charles /. DeVallenger the
National Hotel, with all the appurtenances.
He will take full charge of the same May
IL, and will endeavor to furnish first class
Accommodations for his guests.
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Budd Dohle Will nrixa

Budd Doble, the famous trotting horse
driver and trainer who has been reported
as having determined to drive no more.
says there is no foundation for the state
ment, as he expects to drive more this year
than ever. He is in good health and has
no thought Of retiring.
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The Shirt Faetorv.

1t is cause for very general regret in
Middletown the force of workers at the
Shirt factory are reduced from upward to
hundred to only about 25. 1t is ernestly
hoped that the force will be recalled after
few weeks as is expected.
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Raantiful Ice

In spite of the mild winter Middletown
is not without an ice house well filled with
beautiful solid blocks Office. Mr.. James T
Clark, fomaly of the firm Willis and Clark
has been busy this week filling the ice
house at the Middletown Hotel. from
which he will supply the people during the
coming season. He obtains the ice by rail.
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HUNTING'S MENACE RTE.

What the People Think of Hunting's
Railroad Circus.
Hunting's Rail Road Circus, Museum and
Menagerie were visited by thousands yester-
day, and the ring performance was the best
ever seen in the city. The management of
this show deserves the support of the public
everywhere. Their modern way ofmaking
people merry is decided step in advance
of the stereotyped style of long ago, and we
wish the whole outfit the golden harvest it
SO richly s.-WilkeSbarre Pa Lead
er.
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(hrracffou

DR.. Clayton wishes to state that the oper-
alton referred to in our issuse of two weeks
ago was the post morton removed of
-hypertrophied spleen, and not cancer as
stated. N =
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A New Engineer .

Geo. W. Jordan, ofSmyrna, has be en- ap.
pointed engineer at the electric light station
vice F. P, Rose, the former engineer.
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AIarriRd.

Married.
Mr.. Abram Fox and Miss Minnie G.
yandegrift, of McDonough, were quietly
married at the PTAaiEyIt PTAEI Eian Manse, Odessa,
J >eh 2Sth, by y Aawyer. =
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Packed audiences greeted the perform

Packed audiences greeted the perform
ances given in this city by Hunting's rail-
road circus, museum and menagerie, and
the rounds of applause which frequently
arose from the throngs inside the immense
tents, proved they appreciated and were
pleased with the entertainment. Their
trained animals were prolific of pleasant
motion and various features were all ex-
ceedingly funny and enlivening. The whole
performace goes with vim which is always
gratifyingy.-Newburg, N. Y. News.
Middletown transcript., 1894-04-14

Hunting's Circus and Menagerie was fill
ed to overhowing last night-hundreds were
turned away 1t is an old fashioned per-
formance, and could remain here all sea-
son. Everything is moral, clean and home
like. There is not too much circus, but
just enough to make it enjoyable.
nellsuiIle N. Y. Times.
To exhibit in Middletown April %.
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APRIL
TREACHERY
A SPRING BLIZZARD THAT RRINGS
HAVOC IN ITS TRAIN,
RAILING AT THE WEATHER
A Destructive Storm Makes tho old
esn Inhabitant Marvel-Port Penn
and Delaware City Suffer From the
Over Flow of the River Banks.

iILES and tears have
always character
lied t he fl C k ! e
month of April,
but her behaviour
this week is simply
monstruus. 1t is
against our princi-
piles to rail at the
weather, but this
weeks performance
was more than We
could stand without
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-14
SutrItire Value of Peeled Almonds s

An English physician is till this mo.
ment the sole authority for a statement
concerning toe nutritive value of peeled
almonds. ~ seldom go my rounds, -
he says, "without taking a little packet
of almonds with me, aud l find an
carried on for hours without so much as
remembering that have missed my tea
or luncheon He does not advocate
their wholesome qualities except indi-
rectlY, but he will doubtless find many
ready disciples to his theory.
Peeled snd Drowned and salted al.
monds are a much -prized dainty, hitherto
INDUCED in with caution under the i'm
preston that they were most pernicious
IN their effects upon the digestive organs.
A few seasons ago, in Washington, the
serious illness of several society women
was alleged to have been caused by per-
sistent almond muuchiug, and the dis
cussion evoked at that time created a
prejudice against the crisp and tooth.
ONE edible. If we have been mistaken
all these years. the 9ayety OF the future,
al least, is added to.-Nev YORK Times.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-14
Danger of High Speed at Night.

The Railway Age, in an editorial com.
nent upon the danger of collisions in
algh speed at night, says: "Self-pres-
ervation and every other motive prompts
the engineer to stop at the appointed
meeting place, and it is not difficult
to believe that in the hour of night,
10 an open country having few land
marks, with dense fog, increased by
smoke and steam settling down upon the
line, the engineer may miscalculste his
speed and lose his reckoning. To the in
satiate passion OF the public for fast time
Is due in part at least another of the
many appalling accidents of late years.
Seated in his comfortable car or wait
ing at the station for the expected train,
the traveller is impatient at every in
itant's delay and thoughtless of the pos
sible dangers of haste. If time is lost
the engineer has to bear the blame aud
hear or imagine the reproaches or ridi-
cule of passengers, trainmen, dispatch
ers and superintendent. Moreover to
slow up is to invite possible collision
from the rear, and to fail to make the
meeting point on time means danger in
front and so he drives on, sometimes to
destruction. To prevent the possibility
of accident like this, will the railway o
the future be lighted every mile Of it.
length by electricity! 1t may be.-Nea
Orleans New Delta.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-14
A Story of Greeley.

Amos Cummings tells how a faithful
body guard of Horace Greeley once kept
Vice. President Wilson out of his room.
The ,, after detailing how several
New York politicians were disposed Of,
continues:
"a few minutes later Vice President
Wilson came in. He hal been travelling
good deal, and his form was covered
With the grimiest linen duster ever saw
he slammed down his old carpet bag on
:he floor and said: Il want to see Mr..
Greeley
"'Git out' thundered Ben, the old
mans busy
"'Well, can't you take my nameF
,sked the Vice President.
"'I guess I'll have TO do it; but you
Itand right here and don't move or you'll
ketch it.
"Ben went into Greeley's room, and
heard hot dialogue going on for lit
lie while. Then the Office boy reap.
peared aud looked at Wilson with su-
preme disgust.
Jest as taoIght; he don't want to
zee you,' declared Ben. Now, git out. :
Il pacifed Ben and went in to tell
Mr.. Greeley who wanted to see him.
The great editor listened to what 1 had
20 say and then shouted: TELL the Vice.
President to walk right in. That fool OF
boy said there was an old bum named
Wilson loaing around outside who
wanted to see me. "-Washington Post.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-14
Where Mud is Important.

There is nothing to make one realize
he importance of mud, indeed, like a
ourneg up the Nile when the inundation
5 just over. You lounge on the deck OF
our dshabieh and drink in geography
.lmost without knowing it. Tue voyage
orns perfect Introduction to the study
IF mudology, aud suggests to the o.
ervant mind (meauing you and mel the
cal nature of mud as nothing else or
arth that know OF can suggest. For
n Egypt you get your phenomenon
sola.ed, as it were, from all disturbing
elements.
You have no rainfall to bother you'll
ocal streams, no complex denudation;
he Nile does it all, and the Nile does
;yerything. Ga either hand stretches
way the bare desert, rising up in gray,
ocky hills. D1vn the midst runs the
,ae long line of alluvial soil-in other
words, Nile mud-which alone allows
cultivation all life in tast rainless dis
riot. The cOLn-ry bases itself absn-
utely on mud. Tue crops are raised on
1.-the houses and villages are built of it,
he land is mauured with it, the very
.ir is full OF it. The crude brick build
ngs that dissolve in dust are Nile mud
.Olidiiel, the red pottery of Assiout is
Nile mud baked hard, the village
nOsquea aud minarets are Nile mul
Ehitewashed. [ have even seen a ships
oulwarks neatly repaired with mul. 1t
0ervades the whole land, wheu vet. as
mud undisSuisei; when dry, as dust
torn.
Egypt, says Hero lotus, is gilt of the
Nile. 4 truer word was ne yer spoken.
D course it is just equally true, in a way,
hat Bengal is a gift of the Glnyes, and
hat Louisiana and Arkansas are Gift o;
;he Mississippi; but with this difference,
hat in the case of the Nile the depend
,nce is far more obvious, far freer from
disturbing or distracting details. For
;hat reason, and also because the Nile is
70 much more familiar to most English
Ipeaking folk than the American rivers,J
choose Egypt first as my type OF reg
liar mud land.
But in order to unlerstlnl it fully
7ou mus-n stop AL your time in Cairo
md the . -itI; you mustn't view it only
rom the terrace of Shepherds Hotel or
:he rociy platform of the Great Pyramid
Il Gizeh; YOU must push up country
Early, under M Cooks care, to Luxor
md the First Cataract. 1t is up coua-
.ry that Egypt unrolis itself visibly be-
;ore your eyes in the very process of
making; it is there that the full import
ince of good, rich, black mud first forces
itself upon YOU by undeniable evidence.
-Cornhill Magazine.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-14

present she wanted Pet to listen to I
plan that she had cherished for som,
time. 1t was that Pet should spend tn,
following season with her in foreign
travel. She thought t insdvisable that
young girl shoI.i be married with alb.
,olutely no knowledge of the world
She wanted 10 start in few weeks, and
wrote careful directors to Pet about tue
journey. They would meet, she said,
n Chicago, and Pet was to answer by
telegraph.
1t was her last card; but Pet tele.
graphed, Yes"
Pet awaited her sister, according TO
:heir arrangement, in the hotel drawing
:oom on Wednesday of the following
week. When Miss Murray arrived, the
pretty girl rushed towards her with out
stretched arms, ignoring all the other
people in the room.
"You're Just lovely, Eloise," Pet
warmly announced. paul said-I had
@ tell him, you know, about that silly
Charles and Rnb-that you were lovely
lister, but he's afraid you are a design
ng person and-here he is" Sac
produced from somewhere in the room
tall young man with frank sort OF
ACE, and a laugh in his eyes. Hes
going with US to Europe" she said.
I'VE were married this morning. ."-Har-
ler's Weekly.