Middletown transcript., 1898-09-24

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cided to close his studio on Wednesday and
Thursday of each week until further notice
as he is doing landscape work.
-FoR SALE.-Two Superior II hoe Drills
one used two years, the other three. These
Drills are in perfect order, and have all Of
the modern appliances of the Superior
Drill of to-day. Price $25.
J.F. McWHoRTER g. SoN.
The Rev. B. f. Price, the Oldest mem
ber of the Wilmington Methodist Episco-
pal Conference, is confined to his residence,
at EIkton, by illness.
Swapping mackeral are now on in large
quantities in the Delaware river, especially
near New Castle. These fish for the past
few days have been furnishing great
amount of sport to anglers.
--Guiseppi Specialli and Michael Costello
in the Federal Court at Wilmington on
Monday pleaded not guilty to the charge of
making counterfeit money near Dover, and
their trial will begin next Monday morn
ing.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Old Eel
lows assembled in Boston on Monday, the
10th inst, and continued its session for the
remainder of the week.
j. Frank Brinkerhoff, of Philadelphia,
specialist in lenses for the eye will again be
in Middletown at Mrs. Massey's jewelry
store, on Tuesday, September q. No charge
to examine your eyes to determine If you
will be benefited by wearing glasses.
-Epworth League meets Sunday even
ing in the lecture room of the M. E. Church
at 7 o'clock. The subject for tomorrow
evening is "The Barren Fig tree" Mr..
Harry Fitzpatrick leader. A cordial inyi-
tation is extended to all.
Summer is over. The woods are full Of
deserted camps; the beaches are spread
with empty clam shells; the summer hotels
have taken down their awnings. and the
excursion is thing of the past, and of the
future.
The work of oiling the bed of
the Delaware railroad to lay the dust is
being continued, the first experiment hav-
ing proven a success. Several additional
miles have been oiled and there is much
less dust on the portion so treated than on
any other. Passengers have passed many
favorable comments on the change.
Tomorrow will be Rallying day in the
Forest Presbyterian Sunday School. The
Forest Sunday school will meet at 9.15 A.
M. And the Armstrong Chapel Sunday
school at 2 80 P. M. All are cordially in
vited.
d. Coleman Beaston who has been
teaching at Red Lion for the past four
years. has accepted the principalship of
the Newport public schools.
The following notice has been posted
about the Delaware College campus:
NOTICE TO oFREsHMEN!-We hereby notify
all freshmen that they shall not smoke out
side of the rooms or on the campus. And
no freshman will be allowed to carry a
cane.
"HAzING COMMITTEE"
The freshmen class numbers twenty young
men, and there is expected to be a lively
time over the notice.
Capable of making an audience laugh,
weep and thrill for an hour and half
without one dull moment" is what Miss
Ella Wilcox says of Miss Anne Virginia
Culbertson who gives an entertainment at
the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms on Monday evening
next, admission 25 cents. She gives read
ings in mang dialects, negro songs with
banjo accompaniment, changes of costume,
&c. The rooms will seat 125 persons and
every chair should be filled. Tickets for
sale by young ladies. Benefit of Y. M. Q.
A.
: Col Gordon is in command of the First
Delaware. He pooh-poohs the idea that
two battalions will be mustered out as has
been recently reported. Many of the boys
are now on leave and some on leave with
out permission" Governor Tunnel has
appointed First Lieutenant T. Edward
Brown to be captain of Company G. of the
First Delaware Regiment, and Second Lieu
tenant William T. Watson, "son Of his
father, former Governor Watson, to be first
lieutenant.
Governor Tunnesl on Thursday COM
muted to imprisonment for life the sentence
Of hanging imposed upon William Fisher,
former negro preacher, by the Court of
Oyer and Terminer of New Castle county.
The Governors action was taken upon re-
commendation of the board of pardons.
Fisher was convicted of entering the house
of Mrs. Maria Hunt, in Wilmington, at
night, with intent to commit felonious as
sault. The Supreme Court recently refused
to interfere with the sentence of the lower
court, and October 7th had been fixed for
the execution of Fisher.