Middletown transcript., 1868-02-15
Items of Mews.

910,00 by the publication of her book of
mild twaddle about g dearest Albert -
His death is quite lucrative to his bereayed
reliet ALondori correspondent says they
% say hef hiajesty is alreaay worth about
GA 900 900. ..A wrotched IDIOT named
Neil Or o'Nsll q forget whioA) left her
f500, 900 ilpne Jump some years ago.
not one penny Of which YOU may Be sufe,
has her most thrifty Majesty ever touched
A Convention Of Bricklayers was recent
ly held in New York, and it was determined
i'to fix uniform rate OF wages an over the 4
country of $6 per day, and eight hours to
constitute a days labor. Upon learning
this -deterninations parties who -had--con~
templated the erection, during the coming
year, of large rows of houses, abandoned
the intention. s.e,i IN -. i.s., ,.i',,,s IS II.
The General Assembly of the two chief
divisions of Presbyterians will meet in Nav,
next-the old lseheol;in Albany, N. Y,
and the new. .scheol in Harrisburg, Pa At
these meetings n 10 sFthought the final arran-
gements for the union will be settled, and
that in 1859 If not sooner, the General As
sembly of the Union Church will be con-
| vened. ,i,.,. Il o.. c..., .....,. IN
! The Somerset Herald calls Crisfeld the
Chicago of the Peninsula, ON account of it's
rapid growth. A little over two years ago
the present location Of the town was salt
marsh, surrounded with water /, now Girls
field is . neat village with two large hotels,
four stores, two oyster packing establish
| Fifteen hundred vessels are reported to
be engaged in the oyster trade in the Ches-
apeake Bay, and take annually to Balti-
more fourteen million, bushels Of oysters.
The trade gives employment to fifteen thou
sand persons q,Gp s7,w 74fi ii:' s.,,yat
The project is revived 10 tunnel the Nj
agara river at theshortest crossing between
Fort Erie and the American side. The
cost, tits said, will be far, less than the
estimated cost Of bridge at tho same To-
cation, f...,,,eS. ,.,{ ,.,,,.,t t,i. fl.,...}
| 1t is said by an Indiana paper that up
wards of ten thousand persons have become
church members in that State, as the
results of the reyivals experienced there.
In the Superior Court, at Buffalo, on
Tuesday, six highway robbers were SEN
tenced to the, Auburn State prison for an
aggregate term of sixty-four years and six
| months. L.c t.,-. .f, ,,..,,l .,. =: b..
1t is officially stated that George B. Nc
Clellan was offered the English mission i'm
mediately after the receipt of Mr. Adams
resignation. President johnson has not
heard from him yet. ,..., ....iif ..,.,...s, (.
There are one thousand and forty-thrce
conyicts in the Illinois State penitentiary.
That institution is now earning about two
hundred dollars day over and above ex-
| penses. ,,,i4,.ti, s,,.., t,.,,-.., ,,..,.
The presence of the American fleet under
Farragut on the coast of Italy forms SO
great an attraction that many families have
left Paris to Join in the scene of gayety. Il
| Both the armyand the navy now use the
same signal systems, and the cadets of
Annapolis and West Point receive the same
instruction in, using themoi ,ao ,t, ST..
4 A movement il on foot for convention
to represent the producing interests of the
country, to assemble at CINCINNATI, nnder
the auspices of "thc National Cheap Freight
Railway League" 1 r
| Our troops in Arizona have had a severe
fight with the Wallopi Indians, The say
agrs repulsedA the sollicrs, and walloped
them soundly. roy & r. ris-.,i - e.,
4 The Ohio river bridge at Louisville will
be finished in 1863; it will cost Sl.6OO,
600, be nintey-fye feet above high water,
and be one mile long dina @te,o ia,
/ The Buffalo Courier states that there
were 154 900 barrels Of lager beer and ale
made in that city during 1867, yielding
$l, 500 900 TO- the brewers. a.5 +, D. ..--'1-
| There were 297 deaths in Philadelphia
last week, an Increase ..of rs las compare
with the previous week. 90 of tho deaths
We're from lung diseases. tl..4. ,R ,r n
| From Toronto 1t is reported that a strong
force Of regulars is to be stationed along
the Niagara frontier in the spring to pre-
vent Fenian raids. 4aisfp,., l'.4s
4 The United States Senate has rejected
the nomination Of the venerable General
Coombs for United States marshal of Ken
tucky. nas4silqas ...r3 l..5..., 5s..-
i Nearly every physician in New York
has under treatment one or more broken
bones or sRrains caused by slippery side
, walks. h .oaf1 gea tp,ai,. i l
/ A Detroit womahhas presented her hus-
band with four children Mt u birth. He
4 calls her conduct ioVerbearing. d, ,.o4i e,,al
Il Fifteen thousand three hundred and 6f-
ty-one new buildingssTeee erected in Ohio
last year, worth nearly SAC. .000, 900. h a.
4 The New Orleans Pieayune says that
the freedmen begin 10 see that freedom
does not mean idlencss. ,,d llB iG.'i s4 81.
During the recent cold snap in Illinois
! twenty-three locomotives were disabled on
the Chicago and Atom railroad. 4. I'D
! The recent cold weather in New Orleans
has killed the bananas turning the fruit
, from brilliant green to black 1T d ,s 4,
At recent session Of the Supreme Court
. Of Vermont, seventeen divorces were gran
J ted and thirty -four refused ~, ., i'm
The ice in the gapup tho Delaware riv-
, er is in some places piled up to the hight
. Of twelve, and fifteen feet eaa .,r,J rs; ~
, Snow fell for the first time. in, forty-six
years in Cadiz, Spain, about the middle of