Middletown transcript., 1897-04-03
MIDDLETowN. DEL. APR. 8, 1897
Local News.

Every body uses Bragdon's Poultry Rem
edy, it cures; 25 cents.
A council of the Jr. o. q. A. M. was re-
Gently organized at Kennedyville:
Remember that ]. F. McWhorter has
q full line of carriage and agricultural
Implements on hand
There were two steamers launched at
Wilmington on Wednesday.
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Coy. Tunnel and staff will attend the
Grant monument dedicatory exercises in
New York on April 27.
Its folly, to lose your poultry when the
use of Bragdon's Poultry Remedy is guar
anteed to you for 25 cents.
The New Castle News" says there are at
present more men at work in that city than
at anytime during the past two-years.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.-Dr. w. E. Barnard
Surgeon Dentist, Office same location, op
posite the post Office. ALI operations per-
tanning to dentistry guaranteed. odontun-
der and Gas for painless extracting.
Ideal weather for wheeling this week!
and the wheel-men and women responded
bravely to old Soils invitation to the
country.
-Alcedo, is the name of George W.
Child Drexels steam yacht which is now
being built by the Harlan and Hollings-
worth Company which is nearly completed.
The entirely up-to-date woman must be
q skilled devotee to all the out door sports
and the same time possess score on more
drawiDgroom accomplishments.
The Rev. J. J. Monaghan, bishop-elect
Cardinal Gibbons at the Pro-Cathedral,
Wilmington, on Sunday May 9th.
Governor Tunnel has appointed DR.. Ed
ward Fowler, of Laurel, State Insurance
Commissioner to succeed Peter K. Mere
dith. The position pays about $25OO.
Windy old March is gone. He has had
his last blow until another year rolls
around. April, all smiles and tears, has
come, and gentle Spring is strolling this
way. She's getting here too.
Sheriff Finn sold the Joseph B. Deak-
yne properties in Blackbird and Appoquin-
mink hundreds on Wednesday, John H.
Rodney, Atty, being the purchaser. $4,5O0
and $1,000 were the prices.
The steamship Laurada, the craft that
has the reputation of making more success
full ilibustering expeditions to Cuba than
any other, is at the Harlan and Hollings-
worth ship yards in Wilmington for repairs.
The Jackson and Sharp Company in
Wilmington has contracts for building
four new stone barges for Hughes Bros.
and Bangs, the contractors for furnishing
Stone for the Breakwater.
The Directors Of the Brady Steamboat
Co. met in Smyrna last Saturday, and
elected G. F. Brady, President and VIM. Fl.
Brady, Secretary and Treasurer. The direc-
tors are G. F. Brady, H. H. Brady. Fred
erick Brady, VIM. H. Brady and ]. W.
Watkins.
The monthly meeting of the Trustees
of the poor was held at Farnhurst Wednes-
day. The report of Supt. Mccoy showed
2l4 white and 40 colored inmates. The pay
roll for the month was $38917. Messrs
Crocket, Chandler and Webster were appoin.
ted house committee for this month.
William Colmery and Eugene Lewis
two painters at work in Newark, had a
narrow escape from death on Wednesday
by the breaking of the scaffold. They fell
q distance of 80 feet. Calmery broke an
arm and was seriously injured but the
other man grasped a rope which prevented
him from getting hurt.
MIR. Thos. ]. Cravin, of Salem, N. j.,
who is warm personal friend Of Ambassa-
dor Bayard, has in his keeping the distin-
guished gentleman's favorite English sad
die horse, which arrived from England
this week. Mr.: Craven will care for the
horse until Mr.. Bayard returns home from
his travels in Italy.
The unusual brilliancy of Venus,
swinging low in the western skies thest
spring evenings, is much remarked upon
many people wondering if a new planet
has appeared, the clestial belle outshining
herself. But she's the same old girls, only,
like others of her sex, she has her bright
bewitching spells.
Just received car load of the celebrated
Milburn Wagons; sizes one, two, and four
horse, including the renowned "Hollov
Steel Axle" with "Sarven patent wheel
Light, strong, and durable, and beauty
all of which we sell very low. Write fol
Catalogue and prices TO GEO. w. BAKER,
Dover, Delaware
The Constitutional ConYention in
Committee of the whole, has decided Il
take the divorce business out of the hands
of the legislature, and give the courts the
exclusive privilege. The Court appoints
Commissioner to take the testimony whict
Is done in private, the Commissioner max
ing his return and recommendation to the
court.
Wesley Webb, Secretary of the Penins
ula Horticultural Society, has received re
ports form the vice-presidents of the Soc
iety throughout the Peninsula, and a com
unicalion to the TRAEscRIPr says: "Marcl
reports Of vice-presidents Of the Peninsula
Horticultural Society indicate large peacl
crop, in nearly every county reporting pre-
sent condition as 100. Pears. apples. plum
and small fruits are also in excellent condi
iiOn."