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The Reason We Gan
Work So Cheap
Is because we have our own
Factory and do not have to
pay anyone a, commission
for doing work.
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Ait work is pressed and finished for the fol
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CLEANED
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Suite Scoured. 1 uu
Pacts Dry Cleaned.
Pants Scoured . . ..
Overcoats Dry Cleaned
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at Reasonable Prices.
dulls Altered and Repaired. Vel vetCoUare
put on Overcoats. Coats and Vests Relined,
uew Binding on Coats and Vests and new
Buttons put on all Clothing. The Hartford
Dyeing and 8 couring Works wUl Crease and
Press Pants free charge once a week, for
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me and delivered in four day.
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SECRET SOCIETIES. _
Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr. O. Ü . A. M.
Meets Ivery Monday night in McWhorter's
Hall at 8 o'clock. w t 4
Union Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M. Meets
first Tuesday of each month in Town Hall.
Good Samaritan Lodge. No. 9, I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday mght in McWhorters
Hall at 8 o'clock.
Damon Lodge, No. 12, K. of P. Meets every
Wednesday night In McWhorter's Hall at
8 o'clock.
Major John Jones Post, No. 22, G. A. R.
Meets every Friday night in Reynolds Build
ing at 7 o'clock
Welcome Conclave Heptasophs.
every second and fourth Friday night in K.
of P. Hall.
Union Lodge, No. 6, A.O.U. W., meets every
2d and 4th Tuesday night in McWhorter's
Hall.
Meets
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meet* drst Fri
day night of each month In Hose House.
MIDDLETOWN. DEL, APR. 21, 1898
Of Interest
to Farmers
THE VALUE OF CLOVER.
Clover, if we could only impress tbe
fact upon tbe general farmer,*is a plant
bat draws from tbe atmosphere and
tenricbes tbe land. Other plants do
ibis; but clover more. It bas to do
with the most vital and important
element in manure, nitrogen, tbe very
thing that is tbe rarest and most difficult
to obtain. It improves the soil by its
roots alone, if tbe crop is used for
other purpose*; ibis even if a seed crop
is taken. How much more benefit,
then, if a whole crop is turned down
containing so much nitrogen? And
you bave the manure without working
for it. Tbe plant works for itself and
for you. We get its strength from a
free source, the atmosphere, tbe great
storehouse that gathers from all sources
but most for the energetic farmer.
And you can make the plant work
for your soil. A little manure applied
on the surface will do this, and if
plenty of seed is sown there will be a
thick set. Then it needs a chance
with the atmosphere, and plaster aids
this greatly. With warm showers
there will be a growth surprising. It
will be dense, fine stemmed, and of a
fair length, depending somewhat on
tbe season. Cut this when it begins
to lodge, wbich will be about tbe time
the blossoms appear, and then will be
avoided h 11 rot or mildew consequent
on long coarse lodging, and the yield
will surprise you—two and a half or
three tons, and such bay is not made
from any other plant. And tbe second
crop will be nearly or quite as good as
the first. *
THE HIGHER LIFE.
Most of us pay too much attention to
tbe trivialities of life and and its su
perficial tendencies, while its true
meaning i= lost sight of.
Life is not for a day, but it goes on
through all the years of eternity, and
it should be a state of progress, ever
opening before us new conditions of
advancement whereby we may become
more complete in our manhood or wo
manhood.
Instead of bowing before every re
buff, cringing at every disappointment,
let us bave more courage and firmness,
knowing that sometime in the un
fathomable future, we shall be reward
ed for the efforts we h ave made.fortbe
good we have tried to do. Nothing
good is ever lost ; it may be lost to sight,
for a time, but i' will return to us in
some other form. We may strive af
ter some certain thing that is denied
us, but ibe striving gives us new pow
ers that briug within our reach results
that before were never hoped for.
Wben we realize the possibilities of
life and feel what a grand thing a true,
noble life is, tkeu we can overlook tbe
petty auDoyancts and blasted hopes of
every day life, and pass unflinchingly
through the trials and temptations of
life.
In all nature we see progression;
the chrysalis becomes a beautiful but
terfly, the bud unfolds into a fragrant
flower, tbe seed become a plant or tree
and from the germ hidden iu tbe heart
of the bulb there devfciops a blossoming
plant. Uncared for it remains dor
mant but when the necessary condi
tions are given how quick the change.
And thus it is with us. Within us
there is a spark of diviue fire that
smoulders ou, until we, becoming con
scious of our higher self, reach out for
guidance in the path of true living and
longing and groping for the ligbt, our
spiritual nature devel ipes and we take
a broader and higher view of life.
And as we pass through life let us
feel that we are guided ny a higher
power and trustingly say: "Where he
lead I will follow, l will follow all the
way." And u bet her our path be rocky
and steep or smouih and easy, it leads
to the one gateway through which we
must all pass to immortality, and there
in that better land our hopes will be
realized, our troubled souls at rest.
DF.HÖFNING COWS.
I have practiced dehorning for a
number of years, and bave probably re
moved the horns of 300 creatures. I
would not itave a herd with horns. My
cows flock together like so many sheep
aud have no differences arising from
inequality of strength or dislikes to
settle.
Scarification, broken horns,
goring, cruel thrusts and general fights
are things of The past. As I think of
it, money could not hire me to keep a
herd of horned cows. An ordinary
herd will suffer more pain from broken
or shelled horus than from dehorning,
to say nothing of gouging and goring.
It is an act of mercy instead of
cruelly to remove tbe horus from cat
tle. I once dehorned sixty-four coira
in lour hours of a given day, and the
evening milking only fell of twenty
pounds of milk, and iu many a case
after cutting off one horn and while
preparing to cut tbe other, tbe creature
would eat anything offered it. It hurts
and the wound bleeds, but the opera
tion is short, and the animals pay little
or no attention to it, and bow much
more delightful when the horns are all
No more cruel, domineering
gote.
bosses in my herds. I keep about 100
cows. I am very glad to tell you how
I view dehorning, and am free to say
1 regard it mistaken humanity to ob
ject to the most humane practice,—
Governor Groat of Vermont.
TICKLE THE EARTH WITH A HOE.
Tbe gardener will always find abund
ant success if he will not neglect this
tickling of the soil with a boe or culti
vator. It is wonderful what tillage will
bringout of tbe soil. Most men must
till tokeep down weeds. They do not
realizetbat tbe benefits of this work
are far above any mere weed killing.
By persistent cultivation we tret the
soil loose and mellow, porous and ligbt,
so air can enter and roots freely branch
and distribute themselves throughout
tbe entire mass of earth within their
reach Furthermore, tillage is a break
ing-up process, particles of rock and
organic matter being reduced in size
and made available for tbe nutrition of
crops.
Then there is the immeasurable ef
fect of shallow surface cultivation in
forming a mulch upon tbe surface of
tbe ground, a thin layer of loose, dry
earth to cut off tbe rice of moisture to
the surface and its subsequent evapo
ration and loss to tbe use of tbe grow
ing plants. Water in a drouth is a
pricelese boon to vegetables and conser
ving the supplies of moisture is one of
tbe most vital subjects with which tbe
agriculturist bas to deal. Tillage is to
a certain degree manure, as was claim
ed by Jetbro Tull of old.
THE FUTURE OF THE HOR8E
INDUSTRY.
Many horse breeders are led to believe
that present low prices will continue
almost indefinitely. To imagine that
horse raising will never prove remun
erative, or that horses will never again
bring good prices, is in my opinion a
great mistake. Tbe farmer must have
bis horses. The mature horse on the
farm today need have little fear of his
being displaced by machinery. No
motor of any kind will give tbe same
satisfaction under all circumstances
that a good team will, at an equal cost.
Steam has been tried as a motive pow
er in plowing on iarge scale, but it bae
never come into general use. Electri
city cannot be used on tbe farm until a
perfect storage battery in invented.
Electricity will do very well for propel
ling street cars on their smooth, solid
tracks, where each successive trip is
made over exactly tbe same route. Ou
the farm it would be quite different.
The bicycle has undoubtedly taken tbe
place of many horses, but not to tbe
extent generally supposed.
Because horses are cheap now, is no
reason why they should remain so. Any
other branch of tbe live stock market
fluctuates with tbe supply and demand.
Because the horse market has been
away down for several years, is
one of the best reasoos for predicting
an upward turn before long, and horses
will then be as bigh as they are low
now. Horses will become scarce as well
as other stock.Tbey are certainly scarce
In our section now. Very few strictly
good marketable h orses can be foand.
Farmers quit breeding years ago. It
did not pay; horses could be bought for
less money than it cost to raise them.
The supply has been cut off at both
ends. There are several classes of
horses that are bringing good prices
now, and will so continue in spite of
steam, electricity or bicycles. Tbe extra
heavy draft horse and tbe family coach
or driving horse will oontinue to be in
demand for the next century at least.
Tbe supply of horses that will mature
and be marketable in 1900 is very small
indeed. Tbe farmer who owns a good
brood mare or two can very profitably
turn his attention to raising good horses
In order to raise good ones, he must
breed a finely built, sound mare to an
equally well built, sound sire. Con
stitutional and structural defects
are largely hereditary, and should be
carefully avoided.
HOW TO BREED UP CHICKENS.
A farmer's wife who has raised
straight barred Plymouth Bocks qbout
15 years, said to me only, yesterday
that she had decided to cross them
with Laugshans this season. "Why do
you propose to do that?" I asked." To
improve them," she replied. "They
are about run out, I think. I am get
ting uo eggs this winter, and many of
my chicks appeared to be no better
tban scrubs last summer wben I sold
them." "Where have you been get
ting your change of males?" I nsked.
From the neighbors. I swapped with
B—last spring, and tbe year before I
got two from T—for 40 cents apiece.
I think all of them were good
chickens."
Now 1 happen to know exactly how
she has managed—or I should say, mis
managed—her flock the past nine years
and why it did not "run out" sooner
was a mystery to me. Eight years ago
a poultry buyer told me that she bad
the best flock of Plymouth Bocks be
knew ot "Why," said he, "she sells
eggs all winter, and her spring
chickens weigh like lead; while her
grown hens are the largest Plymouth
Bock lever saw," In seven years she
has, like thousands of othen are doing
run that fine flock down to the little
end of nothing.
Her best hens iayèd all winter, when
eggs were a good priee, and every one
of those eggs went to market. By the
time hatching season came along about
all her winter egg layers bad quit, and
all of tbe comm< n springers were fiR
ing the nests. Then eggs were cheap
and every hew that became broody was
set, not on eggs from her best winter
layers, but on those lsyed by common
spring layers.
It is well understood by intelligent
stock breeders that like begets like. By
selling ail of tbe eggs from ber winter
layers aid batching only those of the
spriug layers, the former naturally
wore supplanted by tbe latter, and now
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she complains that she is getting
no eggs in winter, and that her flock is
"run out." Had she reversed this
policy ahd bred only from her most per
sistent winter layer.', she would now be
in possession of a valuable flock in
stead of one that is "run out.
It Is as easy to breed up a strain of
persistent layers as one of extra large
boned fowls. All tnat is necessary is
to breed from tbe best and most vigor
ous of the kind you desire, and in a
few years you will have just what you
want. I once owned a B. P. Rock
pullet that was, as the boys say, a
"whale" I mated her with a "whale"
of a cockerel and fully 80 per cent,
of the chicks hatched from her eggs
were whoppers; but they were as
clumsy as BraLmas, and most of those
who purchased them declared that
they were rather too much of a good
thing, and I got rid of them.
If your flock is "running out," do
not cross it with something entirely
different, because you will then have
only mongrels, but go to work and
build it up by mating a few of the
very best specimens of your flock with
a good male, keeping only tbe chicks
from this mating. Follow this course
a few years and you will bave a flock
you will be intensely interested in and
proud of.
"I would like to' adopt that plan,
said a lady at a farmers' institute a few
days ago, "but I simply haven't the
conveniences." I pointed out that all
that is needed is a 6x6 ! ouse in a yard
30 feet fquare. Firty-eight-inch poul
try netting is cheap, and one roll will
make a yard 35 feet square. Early in
February, place the male and the eight
or ten females you desire to breed from
in this yard, and they will soon lay
enough eggs to provide you with 100 to
150 chicks, then they may be allowed to
run at large. If they are high flyers
clip one wing when they are yarded.
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AN APPALLING SILENCE.
WHEN NIAGARA FALLS RAN DRY
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
"At 5 o'clock on the morning of
March 31,1848, just fifty years ago,
said an old resident of Western New
York to a N*-w York Sun reporter, "I
awoke with a sense of something ex
ceedingly strange oppressing me. I
was born twenty-five years before with
the roar of Niagara Falls in my ears,
and bad lived ever since then within a
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mils of the thundering cataract. Wben
I woke that morning oppressed by that
strange feeling io was some time be
ta e I discovered that it was caused by
tbe unmistakable and astounding fact
that the rumble and roar of Niagara
was gone.
"Certain that some unbeard-of catas
trophe must be impending, I sprang out
of bed, dressed hurriedly and ran from
tbe bouse. Early as it was 1 found
scores of people had been awakened as
I bad been and were hurrying pell-mell
toward the Falls to learn wbat was ?he
cause of tbe alarming quie ude. It was
soon learned, and a sight was witness
ed at the Falls of Niagara such as had
never been seen before, at least by peo
ple then öd earth, and it is not within
tbe bounds of probability that such a
■ gbt will ever be witnessed agaiD.
Where had been that stupendous cata
ract was but a naked bed of jagged,
black and slimy rocks, and tbe precipice
was bare from shore to shore.
"The American chaonel of the river
had dwindled to the dimensions of a
creek that one might easily step over,
and tbe water that still ran in tbe
British channel resembled some inland
river affected by a ssvere August
drouth. Goat Island was as big as two
Goat Islands, as the water bad shrunk
from every side of it, leaving a wide
expanse' of ragged, savage-looking
rocks, which no eye, so far as the re
cord was, bad ever seen before. The
bed of the Canadian rapids, far out in
to tbe stream, was dry, as was the space
between the lower end of Goat Island
and out beyond the tower, that well
remembered old landmark, long since
gone.
"The rocks thus exposed were black
and forbidding, giving tbe dry river bed
tbe appearance of a tract of timber
through which fire had swept,, leaving
only a myriad of charred stumps stand
log. Tbe Three Sisters looked forlorn
In tbeir enhanced dimensions. Tbe
great jet of water wbich bad from time
out of mind leaped into the air from
the snarling rapids s >uth of these
islands, and is leaping there to-day, was
not leaping that morning, and there
was not enough left of the rapids to
snarl.
"This extraordinary condition of af
fairs at Niagara continued ali day, and
there waa no sign of a change when tbe
disturbed people, weary of waiting for
one, went to bed late that night. Wben
we awake tbe next morning, however,
the old familiar thunder of tbe fails
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was shaking the earth as before, and
the river and rapids were again the
rushing, seething, whirling, irresistible
torrent as of old. Then we le .rned '
what had made Niagara run dry.
"The winter of 1848 had been one of
the coldest on record. Such ice had
never been known there, I guess, as
formed on Lake Erie that season. Tbe
break-uu came earlier than usual
though. Toward the end of March a
stiff northeasterly wind came up. and
its force was so great that it moved
the gieat fields of ice, then en
tireiy se arated from tbe shores, up
tbe lake, piling tbe floes in tbe great
banks as they moved. Toward night on
March 30 tbe wind changed suddenly to
tbe opposite quai 1 er and became a tre
mendous gale. Tbe lake's surface was
packed with miniatuie icebergs, and
these were burled back by the storm
with such force tiiat a great dam was
formed by them at tbe bead of Niagara
Hiver. This dam was for tbe time so
impregnable and complete that tbe
current of wa er that finds its way
from the lake in the rustling channel of
that river, to be at last dashed over tbe
gigantic precipice at tbe Falls of Niag
ara, was held in check, and only a very
small portion of i's usual volumecould
find a passage through tbe great pack of
ice. Couseqoeutly it was not long be
fore tbe river above tbe fails was drain--]
ed of its supply, and, as the ice dam
was strong and stubborn and held its
place, by tbe time the morning of 31si
came ibe stream was virtually exhaus
ted, and for 24 hours tbe thunderous
voice of Niagara was hushed. Some
time duriug tbe night of the 31st or
tbs early morning of April 1 tbe ice
pack gave way uader tue great pres
sure from above, aud ibe long-restrain
ed volume of water rushed down and
reclaimed its own." _
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Deafness Cannot be Cored
by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There L
ou ly one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness i
caused by an inflamed condition of the mu
lining of the Ensthacian Tube.
coos
When this tube is inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is etirely closed, Deafness is tbe
result, and unless this inflamation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its nor
mal condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by
Catarrh, which is nothing but au inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any ease of Deafness (censed by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulera; free.
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Sold by Druggists, 75c. J
Hall's Family Pill» are the best Y
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Remarkable Rescue.
Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, III,,
makes the statement, that she caught cold,
which settled on her lungs; she was treated
for a month by her family physician, but
grew worse. He told her that she was a
hopeless victim of consumption and that no
medicine could cure her. Her druggist
suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for
Consumption; she bought a bottle and to
her great delight found herself benefitted
from first dose- She continued its use and
after taking six bottles, found herself sound
and well; now does her own housework.and
is as well as she ever was. Free trial bot
ties of Ibis Great Discovery at Dr. H
For ""vous persons, young people and
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from pure grains. Get a package from your
grocer to-day. Try it in place of coffee. 15
and 25c.
Vaughan's Drag Store. Large bottles 50
cenls and $1.00.
"When we reached the station," said the
young bride recently returned from the
wedding tour, "the men picked my hus
band up and carried him to tbe house on
their shoulders.
"but it wasn't the first time they carried
him home."
"Yes." said a neighbor,
The evidence in the case proves Hood's
Sarsaparilla cures scrofula, salt rheum,boils
humors and all eruptions.
Many People Cannot Drink
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can drink Grain-0 ,when you please and '
sleep like a top. For Grain-0 does not
stimulate; it nourishes, chsers and feeds.
Yet it looks and tastes like the best coffee
Tom—"Why do yon always call your
Dick—"Any woman
who could succeed in marrying of my four
sisters deserves the title."
mother 'the mater?'
Many School Children are Sick ly.
Mothe r Gray's Sweet Powders for chii
dren. used by Mother Gray, a nurse >'n chil
dren's Home, New York, Break up Colds in
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destroy Worms. At all druggists, 25c.
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Friend—"This seems to be a comfortable
flat." "Harlemite—"It does. It makes
that impression on everybody who don't
live in it."
"People are not alike, andwhat suite one
may not suit another." "I guess that's
right. What is one man's bicycle is an
other man's juggernaut."
Mistress—"Bridget, are there any letten
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DELAWARE DIVISION
On and after January 17th 1897, traiu
will leave as follows :
SOUTHWARD.
%
MAiL
PM
EXP.
A. M.
110.20
11.04
FA 8.
AM.
|7 25
PA8.
P. M.
VAIL
P. M
|3.46
Philadelphia
Baltimore. ■
Wilmington.
Farnhurst .
New C astle.
State Road .
Bear. . . .
Porter.. .
Kirkwood .
Mt. Pleasant.
Armstrong..
Middletown
Townsend .
Blackbird. .
Gr'n Spring..
Clayton. . .
Smyrna. .LV
Brenford . .
Cheswold. •
Dupont... .
Dover.
Wyoming.. .
Woodside.. .
Viola...
Felton . .
Harrington..
Farmington,
Greenwood ,
Bridgeville..
Cannons.. .
Seaford . .
Laurel . . .
Delmar. . .
.02
111.10
9.06
5:30
-
2 06
8.00
4.27
I
8:55
11.50
f 8.22
8 27 f 11.21
f 800
f 7,04
4.39 7.t9
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f 3.10
f 8.15
f 3.20
f 3.25
f 3.34
7:14
7:19
- ■
f 4.49
8.45
7:25
6
7:80
f 9.03
9.08 11.50
3.43
6.18 î:48 120»
5 28 7.-56
917
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f 9.22
f 9.27
f 358
f 407
18:01
fos/7
12 07
9 23 1.1.57
4.13
5.42
8:1]
12.57
4.02
5 20
8:03
19 8
f 4.18
18:18
19.43
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9.58 12.23
10.05 ft 2.29
non
fi0.15
10 20 H2.40
10 34 12.53
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no.50 f 1 08
10.58 f 1.16
6:34 l.ls
8:40a 124
f8 47
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f 6.15
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8.56 a 1.38
1.50
f 6.41
f 6.49
f9.15
f9.23
6.56
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19,36
11 13
1.27
710
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2.56
11.23
f 1.37
7.19 9,55 a 2^8
7.29110 05 2.50
11.38
1.46
a m. a. m. p. m. p. ra. p. m
NORTHWARD.
EXP. MAIL
IA. M. A. M
PA8
P.M
EXP.
A. M.
Ü7.00
MAIL EXP.
A. M.P. M.
*8.00 22 15
|1.08
Delmar • • • L
Laurel . . |f J .til
Seaford . . .
Cannons. . .
Bridgeville.. f 1.48
Greenwood..
Farmington.
Harrington.. 2.22
Felton . . . f 2.33
Viola.
Woodside...
Wyoming...
Dover....
Dupont... .
Cheswold. .
Brenford . .
Smyrna. .LV
Clayton. . . 8.0Ö
Jr'n spring..
Blackbird. . .
Townsend .
Middletown 3.30
Armstrong..
Mt Pleasant
Kirkwood .
Porter'.. . .
Bear ....
State Road .
New Castle .
Farnhurst. .
Wilmington. 415
Baltimore . 6.31
Philadelphia 5.10
§3.80
7.11
a
2.25
3.41
M
8 24
2 35
LSI
f 7.31
f 8.31
f 4.04
8 37
f 246
f 2.54
4.11
47.45
4 8.45
4 8.53
4 4.19
4 4 27
4 7.53
9 06
3.08
4:40
8.14
9.16 f 3.18
4 9.20
4 9.24
9.31 4 3 30
4:i9
48.18
4 4:53
4 4:57
m a
p2:46
§6 57
(8 29
5.05
2.52
7 03
3 36
5:11
47 08
47.13
4 9.48
4 9.53
9 49 3 44
4 5:-.0
f 5:25
47.18
7.14
8 42
5:24
7 24
8.53
9 59
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4 5:37
4 5:43
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41008
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10 13
1.07
5:49
7.60
9 15
10.23
4.16
7:: 7
f 6:01
410 32
10.40
10 46
410.51
41056
11.02
411.07
60»
8 06
6:15
■ 18
9 34
4.34
6:20
48.20
o a
48.25
8.31
9 46
4 4.47 6:35
4 6.39
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i9 60
8 45
9 58
11.17
4.59
10 40
11 15
1240
&48
6.55
9342) 10 46
12.06
5.42 7:33
am. am. a m. p m. p m. p m
I Daily. § Daily except Sunday.
"a" Stops to leave passengers from Wilming
ton and pointa north, or take passengers for
points south of Delmar.
"f ' Stops only
or on signal.
"p" Stops to leave passengers from points
south of Delmar, or take passengers for Wil
ming and points north.
"i" Stops to leave passengers from Middle
town and points south.
"t" Stops to let off passengers from Har
rington points soMth.
notice to conductor or agent
the
al
in
New Castle accommodation Trains.— Leave
Wilmington 8.13, 11.04, a. m, 2 51, 4.27, and
6 55, p.m., week-da's Leave New Castle 8.8J,
9.46, 11.02 a. m., 4.4,7 and 6 35 p ra., week
days.
Express trains leaving Harrington 8.05 a. m.,
and arriving at 6.38 p. m., week-days, run
through solid to and from Baltimore, via Porter
and Newark
Delaware, Maryland* Virginia R. R.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
statiods 10.39 am week days,6.37 p m Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturaa.vs. Returning train
BRANCH ROADS.
leaves Franklin City 5.50 a. m. week days and
l. 42 Tuesdays, Thurso a > s and Saturdays only.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
steamer) 1.43 p. m., weekdays Returning,
leave Chincoteague 4.42 a. m. ( week-days.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
at 10.39 a m ,6.37 p. m . week-days. Returning ,
leave Lewes 6.45 a. m.,8 11 p. m. week-days.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 10 39 a. m. week
days and 6.37 p. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays.Returning, leave Berlin 6.57 a. m.
week days and 2.43 p. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
Queen Anne & Kent R. R.—Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations 9 22 a. m., and
5.32 p m.. week days Returning, leave Centre
ville 6 50 a. m.. and 1.27 p. m., week-days.
Delaware & Chesapeake R. R —Leave Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations 9 38 a m., and
6.47 p. m., week days. Returning, leave Oxford
6.45 a. m., and 1 40 p. m., week-days.
Cambridge & Seaïord R. K.—Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermédiate stations 11.17 a.
m. and 7.14
Cambridge
Connection.— At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's A Kent Railroad. At Clayton
with Delaware A Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore A Delaware Bay kailroad At Har
rington, with Delaware Maryland Sc Virginia
Railroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge A Seaford
Railroad. At Delmar, with New York, Phila
delphia & Norfolk, Wicomico A Pocomoke. and
Peninsula Railroads. 4
J. B. HUTCHISON, General Manager.
J. R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
P m. week-days. Returning, leavs
7.0 I and 10 55 p. m. week-days
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