Middletown transcript., 1895-11-02

The rain, the beautiful rain came o
Thursday about noon, and continued unf
after eight o'clock, thus materially intel
fering with the street pranks of hollowe'e
revelers, but there was little regret on tina
score, and the rain was doubly welcome
The sunshine and soft air that FOLLOWED
made beauty everywhere, and Novembe
came in with an Indian summer halo, To-
haze) in the atmosphere.
/ Harriet Lewis, an old colored woman
living near Glasgow. was found in dying
condition on Friday morning of last
week, lying on the floor of her home, in
pool of blood. She was conscious and sta
ted that her grandson David Grionage had
beaten her with club. and after stealing
her purse had fled. She had sold COW for
S24 and he was after her money. She died
in the afternoon. The-boy was arrested
and taken to New Castle jail, He declares
his innocence.
The NJ. e. Church repairs and improve
ments are now complete and everything is
in readiness for service tomorrow. J. H.
Emerson had the contract for furnishing
the new carpet which is beautiful in pat
tern, rich in color and of excellent quality,
well made and we'll laid. The old carpet
has been utilized in the Sunday School
room which has also been re-carpeted.
The classroom has brand new carpet
also, and has had the additional improve
ments of new paint and paper. The whole
church is exquisitely neat, clean and pretty.
Quite an exciting runaway occurred in
town ON Tuesday at about the noon hour.
Mr.. Geo. Merritt's team hitched to farm
wagon was standing infront of his brothers
Mr.. Samuel Merritt, ON Crawford street,
when the horses took fright and ran away.
They came up Broad street to Main and
turned in at the Middletown Hotel, where
they collided with one of the pillars sup
porting the Hotel piazza, and struck it
with such force as to'knock out number
of the bricks and moved the entire col
umn from its original position. They next
came in contact with an oil shed and stor-
age house of Jno A. Reynolds, which was
utterly demolished. The hind wheels of
the wagon were also lost, but the fright
ened horses kept right on in their mad ca
reer, tearing down West Main Street, max
ing for home. Passing Messick's store the
noise frightened another team belonging to
theSt. Augustine Creamery and the two
runaways had the road. Mr.. Merritt's wagon
was wreck, but no other damage befel
the teams. The populace was out Ell masse
and there was considerable commotion for
a time.
Among the many benefactors of the
age we count among the foremost those
who furnish amusements and enter
tainments that amuse and entertain.
Everybody gets tired of the weary old
work-a-day world sometimes and there
IS nothing like an evenings enter
tainment of fun and nonsense as we'll |
as sense and feeling to give new color to
life. The entertainment by Prof and Mrs.
De Keller Stamey to be given in the Opera |
House next Friday evening, November 9Th, |
will do all that and more, and no one |
should fail to hear them. The program
will consist of a number of dramatic rep
impersonations, and dialect |
Rotations, also pathetic and pastoral selec-
ions, and not only the laughter-loving, but
he sober side of their audience, as well, will |
,e pleased. Music, consisting of songs,
luetts and orchestral selections will be
feature of the program. and rich treat is
in store for the people next Friday night
The entertainment is under the auspices of
he NJ. E. Sunday school of this town. The
admission is 35 cents for reserved seats.
md if you want to make sure of seat,
ecure it early, for they are already in de
nand. The posters were hardly out before
Mr.. Leatherbury was besieged for reserved
eat tickets and the indications are
hat the entertainment will be one Of the
most popular Of the season. General ad-
mission % cents; children 15 cents.