Middletown transcript., 1898-08-13

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Wilmington. Monday morning, and the ca
and contents were burned.
The village camp meeting at Trinity A
M. E. Church closed not on Sunday even
ing, but on Thursday evening, after a yer!
| successful season.
William Fisher ,colored, under sentenc
of death at New Castle for burglary will
intent to rape, made a fruitIess effort t.
escape from Jail on Tuesday night.
In the first election district in Middle
town there were registered on Saturday 26
and not 40, as has been reported, and in thu
second district SO, total of SO for Western
st. Georges.
Mr.. Harry DeValinger, has put in hi
grocery store this week the largest and
finest refrigerator ever in Middeetown. Il
has a capacity of two tons Of ice and of five
beeves at once.
Miss s. M. Brooks. Of Wilmington, was
found unconscious in Brandywine Park
Sunday from the effects OF eating toad
stools. She was taken to the Homeopathic
Hospital in Wilmington and will recover.
Rev. Elan M. Carton, D. D., of Havre-
straw, N. Y, paid the TRANSCRIPT a plea
SAINT call on Wednesday. DR.. Carton is one
of the young men who have gone out from
Delaware to make a success. He has been
visiting relatives at Wyoming and preached
at Camden camp last Sabbath.
There was "house party" at the DIR.
Crawford Mansion on the Levels from Sat-
urday to Wednesday. They were Misses
Bessie Mortar, Marie, Blanch and Agnes
Lockwood, and Blanch Wright. Messrs. w.
G. and Harry Lockwood, and DR.. Scott and
DR.. York, both of Philadelphia.
The ladies are always looking for a
man-under the bed.- Miss Will Beasten
pushed her inquiries into the pantry last
Sunday evening and found. not man, but
the skirts and big feet of Dora Pratt, do
mestic. When the door was locked to pro-
cure help to arrest her. Dora proceeded to
escape through the window: She was
caught and committed to Jail on Monday.
The usual size now for ladies' visiting
cards, says London Queen" is three
inches wide by two deep-a little smaller
than they used to be. The cards should not
be glazed, and the printing should be in
small, clear copper plate type. THE TRAM
SCRIPT is prepared to do visiting cards at
lowest prices and the latest styles.
There is plant, it is said, that is never
touched by insects, and that is tansy. If
you rub horse over with handful of it
before taking him on the road. it is claimed
that flies will not touch him. Why should
not the plant be grown and used exten-
sively as suggested "A righteous man
regardeth the life of his beast" 1910.
According to the Pnblic Health Jour-
nal mosquitoes cannot abide the touch of
permanganate of potash. 1t is instantly
fatal to the insects in all their stcges of
development. A handful, it is averred,
will kill all the mosquito embryos in a
ten-acre swamp. 1t is recommended to
scatter few crystals of permanganate
Videly through marshes in which mos
quitoes abound.
Mine young ladies arrived from Gen.
treville, Md, Thursday morning to learn
the art of shirt making, so that when work
started at Centreville they will be able to
instruct the new hands. Mrs. o. M. Mat
thews accommodates FIVE of them: Mrs.
Nellie GlanVille, Mrs. s. A. Baxter, Misses
Mollie and Ethel Barnes and Miss Emma
Elliott, Mrs. Richards accommodates two.
the Misses Welsch, and Mrs. Whittock &C.
commodities two, Miss Florence Chance
and Miss Jennie McFarlan.
Charles Walsh and Edward O'Neil,
two privates from Camp Tunne II, and Geo
R. stradley, of Townsend, were committed
to Jail Wednesday by Squire Reynolds
charged with attempt at felonious assault
upon two Italian girls aged Is and II year.,
on Tuesday afternoon near Townsend. The
girls were with their father. Ralph Stafa-
oni, strolling musician, and were ILL
treated and would have been assaulted but
for their cries and the fatner's call for help.
George W. Shockley and William P. Will
son identified the men, as did Satanic and
his daughters. O'Neil is from Laurel:
Welsh was in Middletown a few months
before be enlisted, and is bad egg. He
was the deserter recently captured in Phila-
delphia. The Italian and his girls were
held in 800 bail as witnesses.
Wednesday afternoon a fight occurred
near Woodland Beach between four soldiers
from Delaware City or that vicinity and
several parties residing near Hartly Station.
Two soldiers attempted to fight with man
named Andrew Parker, when the latter
promptly knocked one of them down and
blackened the eye of the other. The four
soldiers then caught hold of Parker and
attempted to choke him, when another
man, whose name could not be learned,
walked into the crowd with knife and de-
manded fair play and slashed the clothing
Of one of the soldiers. Parker freed himself |
and at once renewed the attack and hit one
Of the men on the nose, and while the man
who was struck was falling backward Par
kar planted another blow which took him
clear off his feet. Before the fight was
ended the four soldiers were pretty badly |
1isfgured. The left ijaw of one man was !
swollen to twice its normal size. the eye Of |
mother was closed; another had a cash |
'ver his left eye. and the nose Of the fourth |
nan was badly swollen and his coat was a |
mass of blood.-Every Evening.
A jolly Grabbing Party.
1t was quite jolly company which left
on Tuesday morning at 6.45,
1nnnd for Port Hnrrnnnr.