Middletown transcript., 1895-09-28


age Of ninety-seven.
George Il. Harwel and girl named
Bats were slaves together on a Vir-
ginia plantation thirty-five years ago.
They were engaged to be married,
when the war came, the plantation
family was broken up, and the two
were separated, neither knowing where
the other went. They never heard of
each other until few months ago,
when they met by chance in Ashland,
Wis. A week ago they were married
there.
The oldest person in the country is
said to live in Harrison Co., KY, an
| old negro woman, who is known to all
the inhabitants as "Mammy.n "Mam-
N.Y." says "The Cynthia Democrat. /"
s'is believed to be 100 or 1875 years old.
She has always lived in the Carroll
| family. Mrs. Carroll says that through
the family records Nanny can be
traced back considerably over 100
years, and estimates her age at the
figures given above. She came from
| Virginia to Kentucky and was always
considered delicate woman, but even
now gives promise of lasting many
years longer"
The fight between the religious bod
| les and the hop growers in Washing
ton is still on and is growing hotter as
the hop harvest approaches. Hop
growing is the principal industry in
many parts of the State, and the va
rious religious organizations have fire.
quently expressed strong disapproval
of the business, even to excluding hop
growers from church membership 1t
was announced in the Methodist Con-
ference at Seattle few days ago that
the hop crop was being greatly dam
aged by lice, and fervent thanksgiving
was offered. The farmers remind the
preachers that hops are used for max
ing br. ad as well as beer, and ask why
the preachers don't pray for the failure
Of tie rye, barley, wheat corn. sugar,
and grape crops, tecause Intoxicating
liquors are made from all of these pro-
ducts.
Laws have been enacted in Belgium
prohibiting the hunting of frogs. The
Belgian hunters, however have found
it easy to continue their occupatio in
the neighboring country of Holland.
Recently, in one day y;these hunters sent
as many as 10000 frogs legs to Paris.
AS these delicacies bring from four to
five cent apiece, the. calling is a paying
one to some of the hunters.
The managers of the Atlanta Expo
sition have given concession for the
sale of whiskey in the negro building,
but protest against the outrage has
been sent to the managers by the Sec
retary of the Central Committee of the
Colored Exhibit at Washington.
| THE GREATEST OF FRUIT SEASONS.
1t is probable that for few years to
come, at least the Summer and Au-
tumn Of 1895 will stsnd as the greatest
fruit season this country ever saw. 1t
lasted the longest and was the most
| plentifully supplied of any season of
which there is any record. Following
| the late frosts and the unreasonably
cold weat her in June this result is sur
prising.
While many other fruits have been
grown abundantly, the fruit which
will distinguish the year most of all is
the peach. 1t came early, lasted longer
and was better in quality and larger
in quantity than the crop Of any pre-
vious year. The Georgia peach yield
has never been equaled in size or fne-
ness. 1t reached the market early in
July, and gave the peach crank an idea
Of what was in store for him. About
1900 carloads of the fruit were shipped
from the State and probably as many
or more were consumed. dried and
canned in the State. The Southern
peach had not left the market when
the Maryland and Delaware peach
came in with yield of 1900, 900 bas-
kets and a return to the growers Of So,
500, 900. The New Jersey crop cannot
be estimated, as it is still coming to
market, but the Michigan crop, with
an estimated yield of 5000, 900 baskets,
is the greatest surprise of the season.
Missouri was also bountifully supplied
and even Connecticut has tried to show
that there is still some life in the old
peach orchards Of that State.
But Michigan will have other fruits
beside peaches. Its apple, pear and
plum crops were large, and generally
in the West the apple crop will be one
of the best ever grown. This will be
good news to the Eastern and Southern
States, where the apple yield is gener-
ally short. The gradual acclimatiza-
tion Of the apple in the Northwestern
States is encouraging to fruit con-
sumers. For many years it was be-
lieved that Minnesota was too cold to
ever become an apple State, but after
years of trial and the testing of many
hardy specimens from cold climates it
is believed that variety has been
found that will stand the cold and
yield abundantly. In the near future
Minnesota may be expected to take its
place among the States supplying the
hardy Winter apple. The fact that
Oregon and Washington are destined
| tn hocorna uroat fruifsurowinn Ctofos