Middletown transcript., 1897-02-06

The meeting of the State Council Jr.
o. u. A. M. will be held in Harrington on
Tuesday, Feb. 10th. Middletown Council,
No. 2. will be represented by Merritt N.
Willis. Harry E. Fitzpatrick, Joseph A.
Suydam, and Samuel A. Pitt, and Past
State Councillor e. s. Jones.
Mr.. Geo. w. Lockwood on Friday last
received dispatch from San Francisco an
nouncing thedeath of Hon John L.Durkee.
an uncle of Mrs. Lockwood, he being q
brother of the late Mrs. Morton, of this
town. For many years he was Fire Mar
shall of San Francisco, having gone to Cali
fornia in '49. He was native of Balti-
more, Md. and leaves a wife and three
| children.
Mrs. Mary v. Wilson has issued cards
of invitation to the marriage of her daugh-
ter Miss Annie Laurie to Mr.. Edward Dim
gle Hearne, Wednesday afternoon Febru-
ary seventeenth at o'clock in the NJ. B..
Church of this tom. tn. Oride-elecG is
the youngest daughter of the late Manlove
D. Wilson. of this town, and is very at
tractive and popular young lady and the
prospective bridegroom is we'll known
lawyer Of Georgetown.
Tuesday gave US everything known in
the way Of weather except sunshine. it
rained, hailed. showed, sleeted and
blew at such rate that neither man nor
beast ventured out unnecessarily and the
ground hog laid low. But Mr.. Dunn says
the ground hog is very false weather
prophet aud if anybody is so deludsd as to
believe the winter is broke. because Of
that ancient tradition, he'll find his mis-
take before .cauld and gloomy Febwar" 10
gone, and Mr.. Dunn is authority on the
weather.
brutally assaulted Mrs. Carrie E. Ball. Of
Stanton, few weeks ago. and came near
being lynched by the infuriated farmers of
the neighborhood, was brought to trial this
week and received the full extent of the
law for his crime, ten years imprisonment,
fine of $500 and thirty lashes at the whip
ping post.
&c. W. Pancoast of Delaware City, Del,
wants 325 acres tomatoes for St. Georges
and Delaware City Canneries for which
he will pay five dollars per ton cash on
demand. Address him for contract.
The attendance at Mr.. VIM. Taylor's
sale of farm stock and implements, near
town on Thursday, was very large, but the
prices brought were rather low. Every
thing offered was in fine condition, but the
scarcity of money was very apparent.
The young men of Galena will give a
dance next Thursday evening which prom
ises to be very delightful social event.
The following is the committe Of arrange
ments. o. R. Horsey, A. Wilson Cochran,
d. J. McCauley. R. T.. Cochran, Jr., An
drew W. Wilson, and J. P. Cochran, Jr.,
The patronesses are: Mrs: Richard L. Lock-
wood, Mrs. Woodland HURT, Mrs. D. J.
McCauley, Mrs. J. T. Pennington, Mrs. ]. P.
Cochran. Jr. and Mrs. S. M. Lockwood.
AT about $50 Sunday morning DR.. II.
Vaughan, returning to his Office from
professional call, discovered two men
max ing an entrance into Messick's large
dry goods and clothing store, having
broken the bars of a second story back win
dow. The doctor Immediately notified the
proprietor ana the night watchman and
the three together undertook to capture the
thieves whom they found, after consider
able search, hid away under the counter,
one of them greatly to their surprise, being
Matthew Brown, very genteel young col.
ored man whose parents are among the
incest and most highly respected eolored
people of the town. The other man is
William Watkins. The men Immediately
surrendered and after summoning the
town officer, they were placed in the lock-
up to await a hearing before the Squire
which took place Monday morning, and
being held for trial, they were taken 10
New Castle. The thieves had their booty
carefully slowed away in bag. including
clothing, boots, shoes etc. amounting to
about $40, and but for DIR. Vaughan's op-
perfume call, would doubtless have made
good their escape.- The culprits were
brought to trial on Wednesday and sem
fenced each to stand one hour in the pillory,
be whipped with twenty lashes and inn
prisoned six months.