Middletown transcript., 1868-08-08
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Items OF News.

Private letters received in New York
speak Of an approaching war between
France and Germany as inevitable, and to
commence probably before the year is out.
Some event of great Importance precipita-
ting the result, it is limited, will oc-
cur as soon as Count Bismarck returns to
Berlin. These views, it is said, are very
widely entertained in commercial circles,
and merchants and bankers alike are sha-
ping things accordingly.
In Hayti the revlutionists have won a
victory over the troops of Salvnave, and
are pressing the siege of Port-au-Prince
with renewed viger. Dominican troops
have crossed the frontier and commenced
the invasion of Hayti. The revolutionary
movements in San Domingo against Baez
are steadily progressing.
Charles G. Halpine, (NIiles O'Reilly)
late Register of New York, and editor Of
the Citizen, died at his residence in New
York city at an early hour on Tuesday
morning. His death was the result of an
over dose of Chloroform taken to alleviate
neuralgia pains. He was the author Of
the poem, g Tear down the Haunting Lie. u
The election in Kentucky, on Monday,
for Governor and other State officers, re-
suited in great victory for the Demo
cratic party. The majority of Mr.. Ste
venson, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, is estimated at over eighty thou
sand.
In Michigan, recently, thirty-fve men
went into a harvest field to cut grain.
About 10 A. NJ. not less than sixteen Of
them were sun-stricken, the majority OF
whom died under the exposure. Such an
instance of wholesale casualty has hardly
a parallel in the history of this country.
They are building an immense skating
rink in Boston this summer. The affair is
on grand scale-the lot containing 3d.
900 square feet, the elegant brick building
having accommodation for 1900 skaters
and 500 spectators, and the estimated cost
800, 900. .
A false alarm of fire induced a rush for
the doors by the entire audience in Lang's
Music Hall, Manchester, England, and
twenty-three persons, mostly women and
children, were crushed to death, while Q
large number had limbs broken and were
otherwise injured.
The. Gable kilograms state that the
wheat harvest in the British islands il
nearly over, and according to an estimate
which can now be formed, the yield of tn,
crop will be double that of last year, ant
will exceed by one-third the annual ave-
rage.
Baron Stoeckl, the Russian Minister
gave his receipt at the Treasury depart
ment on Saturday last for 1900, 900 tn,
purchase money of Alaska. 1t is an
nounced that extensive coal mines hav
been discovered there.
1t is said that the earnings of the West
ern railroads continue to be largely in ex
cess of last year. With at least twenty pc
cent. larger crops to be moved this year
their prospects for dividedns are very en-
couraging.
Forty or fifty men are at work in gol
mine in Tippah county, Mississippi, and
is said make it pay The ore is found in
kind of soap-stone, which is pulvcrized
and then the gold is washed out with
rocker.
During the month of July tho sum O
$213,618 was coined at the mint in Phil
delphia, including 1854 in gold, S56,
S48 in silver, and $l48, ,575 in nickle an,
bronze.
The sheriff of Richmond county, Texas
lately sold tracts of land valued at $50 t
1915, gold, per acre before the war, at pri
ces ranging from 75c. to S.. 20 in currency
A child in Jasper county. Iowa, wa
lately bitten by a spotted adder, He turue
black and spotted all over, like the snake
and died in half an hour in great agony.
! A little girl died recently in Londol
from injuries caused by the attack Of
rooster, which knocked her down an
pecked ferociously on the head and chest.
The approaching eclipse of the sun, o.
August Is, will be remarkable for its du
ration, viz. six minutes and fifty seconds
1t will not be visible in the United States
The Atlantic cable of 1866 ceased t
work on Monday. The fault is at tn
Newfoundland end, and it is supposed t
have been damaged by an iceberg.
The Richmond Dispatch says Germa
Radical paper called The Future, (whe
translated, has come out against the elec
ton of Grant.
Joshua Hill and I'll. V. NJ. Miller, elec
ted United States Senators from Georgia
are represented as opposed to the Radica
party.
1t is said that they have patent eyelasl
es (for the ladies) for sale in New York
Artificial eyebrows have long been know1
There are at present seventeen lines
steamers (making 1922 voyages per al
num) between England and America.
Up to Saturday night, 45, 900 cart load
of mud and dirt left by the late food i
Baltimore had been removed.
The farmers in Montana are yoking Blu
falo calves with the expectation of trainin
them to do the work of oxen.
Jemimy Lewis died in Norfolk, on tl
2sth Of July, at the advanced age of on
hundred and ten years.
Long Island has lost its Oldest inhabi
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