Year: 1875

BY OUR LOCAL REPORTER


Joseph NJ. Barr, ESQ.,, has sold his drug
store in this town to Nr. Clarence Anderson,
of Philadelphia, and the new proprietor has
taken charge


The NJ. E. Sunday School Of this town will
probably GO to Bombay Hook on their annual
picnic. this year. They expect to 60 in
week or two, and, Of course, the occasion will
be pleasant one.


The item Of rumored marriage which |
wrote last week, excited great deal Of in
quiry and surmise. They don't know who it
is; so, dear reader, if it is yon, please have it
published, and thus stop the question "Does
it mean u.s.


As an evidence of the amount of fruit Mr..
Sellers intends drying this season, it may be
said that he has already engaged night and
day forces to the number Of one hundred and
fifty, fifty-four of whom are girls and come
from Philadelphia. The introduction Of a
new and different evaporator makes the large
increase in workmen necessary.


The question of CLOVIS your peaches has
died and one been substituted for the past few
days, and you can hear it on all sides. Since
the fact became known that no Blackbird
camp meeting would be held this year, all
camp goers have made arrangements to visit
Red Lion. Hence the incessant demand Of
care you going to camp, Sunday"


was told rather devoutly and backwardly
last Tuesday that the cause of the recent cold
weather was in the building Of the Refriger-
ator, and my Informant wishes to know what
point the thermometer will reach when it is
completed Ny idea is that it be low enough
to keep "peach plucks' from the vicinity and
to freeze peaches good enough to stand ship
ment and sale in the cities, 1. e., in the build
ing.


The Delaware Railroad Company, to meet
the demand upon it for extra freight trans
portation by this years crop of fruit, is build
ing an additional track between Middletown
and Armstrong's. The laying of rails has
been commenced since the grading was COM
peted, and the track will be ready for trains
in few days. Nothing but fruit will be al
lowed to pass over the new track, and it is an
addition that may be the means of avoiding a
serious collision this summer.


On Saturday night the Square was the
scene of disgraceful and dangerous fight
among drunken or frenzied negroes. One of
them was struck, during the fight, over the
head three successive blows with large stick,
and his head was badly hurt. Just as this
was stopped, some one threw stone and
struck negro boy, causing him to jump and
scream from pain for long time. These
fights originate among the negroes and COM
mence when they have imbided too freely Of
whiskey and as soon as the stores close If
there is remedy, then Mddlctown sadly
needs it.


This is rather peculiar season to support
the late Confederate President, but man
living with Benjamin Armstrong, near Arm
strong's, INDUCED in some very loud hur-
rahs for jeff. Davis last Thursday, and on
being demonstrated with for his boisterous-
ness he picked up large stone and was going
to hit the proprietor Of the National Hotel,
who had struck him with whip over the
face and eyes. He was stopped by another
gentleman near at the time, although be con-
tinued to abuse the landlord. The result of
that abuse was that he got pretty complete
thrashing after which he left town, regretting,
perhaps, his short visit He was intoxicated.


Work on the Refrigerator has progressed as
much as could be expected during this change
able weather. The weather-bsarding is now
complete and the roofing nearly done. The
firm will "fillin" with cat-tails and charcoal,
and already have four carloads at the depot.
Their ice will be down ON Monday next. A
side track to the building has been built by
the Delaware Railroad, and is in working
order. A train was backing some cars on it
on Tuesday, when they were sent too swift
and struck the scaffolding that projected over
the track and sent it crashing to the ground,
soaring the workmsn three stories above so
badly that they clung to the side-board for
their lives. No one was injured, bnt there
was a general scare. L
Peach Growers' Convention.


The interest in the Middletown Peach Con-
ventions having increased to such an extent
that the Office Of J. T. Budd, where they
have hitherto been held, would no longer ac-
commodate them, the meeting on Saturday
last was held in the capacious store room in
the Town Hall formerly occupied by Mr.. G.
W. W. Naudain, with very large attend
ance. Most of the heavy shippers of this
vicinity, as we'll as some from Smyrna, and
Cecil and Kent counties, Maryland, were pre-
sent. The attendance of commission mer-
able feature, proving the value of the peach
crop to all sections of the country, and estab-
fishing the fact that our Peninsula may claim
to be the greatest peach orchard of the world
and, for this season, about the only section Of
the United States that can be said to have
crop, and with pardonable pride We may add,
that Middletown will be the most important
peach shipping depot in the world, this
season.


The meeting was organized by the selection
of VIM. Green as Chairman, and J. T. Budd,
as Secretary. After the reading and adoption
of the minutes of the last meeting, MIR.
Townsend, from the Committee on Steamship
Transportation made report, showing that
be had visited and conferred with the officers
of the American Steamship Company, of Phil
adelphia, in regard to the shipment of peaches
to Europe. The company had agreed to fit
up refrigerator compartment which would
hold from $500 to 5000 crates of fruit that