Middletown transcript., 1868-11-21
Items OF News.

Quite an excitement was created in Ra-
leigh, N z. ON the 11th inst. by the ar
rival of wagon train laden with arms
As they were deposited in the State Arse
nal, it was concluded they were intended
for arming the loyal militia, with view
to inaugurating a state of affairs similar
to that in Tennessee, Arkansas and Elori-
da.
In Tallegada, Ala. recently, black ju-
ry was empanneled. There were about
fifteen negroes, tried for various offences,
each one of whom on his trial demanded Il
white jury. The colored jurors sat in their
box from Monday morning until Saturday
night without having a single case submit
ted to them.
The Wedding of Speaker Colfax with
Miss Nellie Wade took place on Wednes-
day, at Andover, Ohio, the present home
OF Miss Wade, who resides with her step
mother, her father and mother both bein 4
dead Miss Wade is the niece of Senator
Wade.
The Fenian Brotherhood will begin U
general Congress in Philadelphia, ON the
24th inst. at which over one thousand del
egates will be present from this country,
California, Canada, England, Ireland,
Scotland, Australia and South America.
The two negroes, William Wells and
William Wilson, convicted in Princess
Anne, and under sentence of death for the
murder. of the Captain and Mate of the
schooner Bruce, escaped from the Somcr-
set county Jail on Tuesday night week.
| &c aI thak txya ono N bale nil
lions of acres of land in South Carolina,
fully one-half of the whole amount improv-
ed, is offered for sale, and the average
price does not exceed six dollars an acre.
A conspiracy to overthrow the existing
order of affairs in FRANCE has been discov-
ered The Ministry have adopted reso-
luton providing for the most vigorous
measures for its suppression:
Gen, Sheridan, it is said, reports that
he has seen herd of bufaloes ninety
miles ia length and twenty-five miles in
width, and estimates the number it con-
tanned at 800, 900,
The penalty Of Western election bet
was eating cooked rat. This beats wheel
barrow rolling out of sight, and is another
| proof that "the fools are not all dead yet. y
The Philadelphia Mercury says that FL
L. Helmbold, the patent medicine man,
has become insane, and by the advice Of
his physician is now in an insane asylum
The national army. according to the
last report of the Adjutant General, is
composed Of 43, TAI men, white and black,
commissioned and on-commissioned.
A dispatch from California announces
that the board of Regents have elected
General George b. Mcclellan as President
of the University of California.
: The New York Mail knows of a fur.
nished house on Fifth avenue which rent,
for two thousand dollars month. Tn,
occupants are Cubans
/ Sussex county (New Jersey) sportsmer
are going to import large quantity o
live quail english partridge from Ohio
and set them loose.
| The Pacific railroad is employing an ar
my of fence builders; fences being neces
sary to keep the animals off the tracks
i California grape growers get only three
quarters Of a cent pound for their oroI
i delivered at the wine press
i Two hundred French factory girls viii
sail this month FROM HaVre for New Or
| leans, TO work as servants,
i One peg factory in Burlington. Vt
uses four cords of wood daily in the man
ufactqre Of shoe pegs.
The hair of James Ferguson, Of Buffa
10, a worker in copper, has turned perfect
/ ly green,
ShocAs of earthquakes continue to occu
all along the coast Of Chill and Peru.
i Australia is shipping Kangaroo sausage
for English epicures