Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15

The shad fishermen of New Castle arr
growing confident that there will be
season this year after all. The cold weathe
has put it back almost half month. Thi:
time last year some of the men had theil
nets and boats paid for and a neat little
sum laid by for rainy day. This year has
been backward, and the men have lost IL
proportion to last years gain. They hope
to make it up, though. The Fishermen's
Protective Association, whose office is on
the wharf, reported the largest catch of the
season Tuesday. The highest catch of any
one fisherman was 127. The fish are sell,
ing at about thirty cents per piece hun
dred
William E Cotter, of Philadelphis,
was found guilty on two counts of the i'll
dictment for conspiring with W. n. Boggs
to misapply the funds of the First National
Bank of Dover, Del. His sentence is 10 pay
fine of 5000 and be imprisoned for IS
months. District Attorney Vandesrift
Thursday asked the Court for permission
to enter nolle prosequi in the cases of
State Senator J. Frank Alice, Amos Cole,
| Charles s. Butler and Joshua R. McGonial.
who were also indicted for aiding and
abetting Boggs. The Court granted his
motion. The only Dover bank cases now
open are those against United States Sena-
tor Richard r. Kenney and Harry T.
Foard of Dover.
The average daily temperature of the
tickle month of April is 81 degrees, but in
% years there have been marked variations
from this record. April 1871, for instance,
averaged 81 degrees, but this is the warm
est April on record, and contrasts with 1874,
the coldest April, when the mean tempera.
ture was 49, The highest the thermometer
ever reached in April was on the 30th of
the month in 1888, when 91 degrees was
registered, and the lowest the mercury eyer |
sank to was on the ~ in 1874, when IS |
degrees was reached On April 10Th and |
1lth in 1894, there fell l inches of snow, |
the greatest ever recorded for a hours in |
April. There are on the average nine clear
days ten partly cloudy days, and eleven
cloudy days in April The prevailing
wind is from the boundless northwest, and
Old Borea's best record is fifty miles an
hour on April 81. 1879.
Forest Presbyterian Church had a very
large day last Sunday. 1t was very gratify~
ing to The members Of the church and espec-
ially so to the pastor, Rev Francis II. Moore,
D. D. For some time the officials and mem
bers have contemplated some improve
ments, including The frescoing of the aud
ience room, the re-seating Of the Sunday.
school room, painting, new carpets through
out, etc. After an appropriate sermon on
Sunday morning touching upon the beauti-
flying of the Lords house, a subscription
was started which with the amount in the
evening from those not present at the
service footed up the exact sum
of $4,000 The treasury has had a re- {
serve fluid of $4,000 for Improvements for
some time and the ladies are hopeful that
their entertainment and supper given last
evening will net $4,000 for this purpose
From those who have not had an oppor- j
tunity to contribute this amount will be
nicely increased. sufficient sum to make ,
al the contemplated improvements. The
result is very gratigying to the church. 1t
was quite large day. There was an error
IF $500 in Sundays announcement.
Professor John R. Sweeney, one of the
musical composers who ever :
yisited this Peninsula and was SO well.
Known here died at his home in Chester. r
Pa, Monday evening. He was in his 63i g
7ear and had been sufferer for the past
'ear from paralysis. He was born in West :
Chester December 31st, 1887. AT an early :
lge he developed remarkable musical !
,owers and when 10 years old began the +
SYSTEMATIC study Of music. At the age Of :
p he was a teacher in Dover, Del, and
Third Delaware Regiment Band, with :
which he continued until it was disbanded
~ the government. In 1871 he removed .
o Chester. He was twice married. He is /,
survived by his second wife and three
children, Colonel Frank G. Sweeney, B.
Hilyard Sweeney, and Miss Joseph Swee- !
ley, the latter a noted vocalist Professor 1:
Sweeney composed much music for the =
sunday school and few collections of songs
or schools were complete without num- :
ser of his selections. For a number of
years he was conductor of the singing at
he Methodist camp meetings at Ocean
Grove. He had edited twenty. two books of
ongs, three anthem books and composed
'ver 1000 pieces of music. The royalties
rom lis copyrights amount to many thou L
and dollars annually.