Middletown transcript., 1895-08-31

Sheriff Gillis and Deputy Sheri1
Hutchison called at the TRANscRIpr ofic
yesterday The sale of the Samuel Higgins
property, situated in Appoquinimink Hun
dred called them to town. Zach Harrison
of Glasgow, the mortgage. was the pur
chaser at 81 400.
| Rev I. L. Wood was called home from
| Ocean Grove on Monday on account OF
| pastoral duties, but. is finishing his vaca
ton at his brothers, near Centreville, Md
where he is rusticating on farm and en-.
joying the delights of peach orchard. He
returns home to-day
The Tomato Cannery, owned by the
J. FL. Preston Co., is in operation, having
started work on Tuesday. Mr.. s. T. Taylor,
who had charge of the business last year.
is running it again. employing Bohemians
almost exclusively, several loads of whom
arrived in town early this week.
The entry books for the Cecil County
Fair, TO be held from September 10 to 13,
are now open at the Office of the society in
Elkton, and will continue open until Sep
tember 9th. An entrance fee is charge
only on live stock. The Fair promises TO
be one of the best ever held in the county.
Conference Academy, Dover, Del. stu
dents prepared for business, for teaching,
and for college. During the past year stu
dents prepared at the Conference Academy
have been in attendance at Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Dickinson, Wesleyan, Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, Brown, Woman's
College, Wellesly and Byrn Mawr. For
catalogue apply to w. L. Gooding, Princi-
pal.
The "Big Quarterly" was celebrated by
the colored people in Wilmington last Sum
day-the occasion of their annual gather
ing and religious feat. Services were held
in big tent, and were attended by great
crowds from Maryland and Pennsylvania
as well as Delaware. On this occasion the
colored Methodists celebrate the establish
ing of their own separate church, which
was effected about fifty years ago at the
time of the third quarterly meeting, which
has ever since been the Big Quarterly.
The second total eclipse of the moon
of the present year will take place Tuesday
night, September Sd, and will last until
after midnight. The former eclipse was
total and occurred on the night Of March
10th. The coming eclipse will be visible |
all over North and South America and in |
Western Europe and Africa and on the |
Atlantic Ocean. Its magnitude will be |
l,557. The moon will enter the shadow at |
Ii o'clock. At 6 minute after midnight the |
total eclipse will begin and will continue |
until AZ minutes past o'clock. The moon |
will leave the shadow at 245 o'clock.
Miss Laura Willis gave watermelon |
party" at her home near town on Monday
evening in honor of her guest. Miss Mary |
B. Naudain, of Wilmington. Among those
present were Miss Mary Patton Cochran,
Miss Mary Pennington Cochran, Miss Edith
Reynolds, Miss Edith Derrickson, Miss
Viola Ennis, Miss Martha Heaton, Miss
5aallie Cochran, Miss Schenck, Miss Bessie
Boyer, Miss Clara Blackiston, Miss Alice
Wood. Messrs. Layfeld, and Robert Adair,
Of Wilmington; Robert A. Comegys, Fl. A.
Pool, W. r. Reynolds. Alfred w. Tatman,
Edward NJ. Vaughan, Lindsay Cochran,
Douglas Cochran, Eben Clark, Allen Nc
Dowell, R. Louis Naudain, Stephen Boyer,
'r., and Augustus Nowland.