Middletown transcript., 1868-04-18
Items OF News.

them sleeping car, in passing over broken
rail were thrown off the track and precipi- |
tated down a steep cmbankment of jagged
rocks. The cars at the time were full of
passengers, of whom thirteen were instant
ly killed and fifty wounded The passen-
ger cars were broken to pieces, and the
sleeping car, in which the passengers had
all retired to rest, caught fire and was en-
tirely consumed. The dead and wounded
were taken to Port Jervis and properly
cared for.
The murder of the Hon. D. Arcy McGee
continues to be the chief topic of discus
sion in the Canadian journals. Mrs. Nc
Gee has refused to accept the address OF
coincidence from the St. Patrick's Society,
as she thinks it primarily responsible for
the murder of her husband.
The evidence against Whelan as the ac-
tual assassin of Mr.. McGee accumulates.
Three of the prisoners arrested on suspi-
cion of completely have turned Queens ev-
idence against Whelan, whose guilt, it is
said, is almost clearly established. The
trial is to take place during the present
week.
A whale thirty-three feet long and six
teen feet in circumference was taken in
San francisco bay lately by an adventur
Gus crew of shipcarpenters, who borrowed
a boat and apparatus from whaling bark
in the harbor. The carcass was hauled
into a shipyard, temporary inclosure
erected and six or seven hundred dollars
realized by it, besides which it was expect
ed that about twenty barrels of oil would
be made when the work of cutting in"
was accomplished.
A special dispatch from Ottawa, Upper
. Canada, states that Whelan, who has been
arrested on the charge of having assassin
ated Mr.. Darcy McGee, and against
, whom the evidence is said to be very
, strong, belonged to Fenan Lodge at
Quebec, and subsequently to a New York
Circle. 1t is also stated that plot to
, blow up with nitro glycerine both Houses
of the Canadian Parliament has been dis
covered, and has produced the most in
tense anxiety.
| Elizabeth Kccklcy is colored person
who has written a book, or procured one
to be written. Elizabeth processes to have
$ been, just before the war confidential
servant of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, and since
| to have occupied the same position towards
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. These several
|, condolences she publishes to whom it may
f concern. Behind the Scenes" is the IL
tie of the book, which is now in press, and
Carleton is the publisher of it.
The cable having announced that DR..
Livingston, the great African Explorer,
has at length been heard from through. a
. letter written By himself to friend in Eng
: Ian, the world will be rejoiced to hear o
= the safety of this intrepid traveller, who has
:, been buried from sight for over a year, and
" regarding whose death VIC have had such
positive statements.
The movement of trade from the Wcst
: to the Atlantic seaboard is again resuming
> lis old channel by the way of the Mississ-
. ippi river, Shipments of grain from various
4 points in the Mississippi Valley to New
y ic ports, are constantly reported, and New
o. leans fac ors are greatly rcjoiced at the
# increase of prosperity the new current
gives to that city.
. A terrible disaster occurred on Lake
:, Michigan, on the 9th inst. by the burning
y of the steamer Sea Bird; thirty person,
= perished in the flames, but two being saved
= The fire occurred about thirty miles from
Chicago there were ten ladies among thu
6 passengers, all of whom perished in tn,
- flames.
n Priscilla Bradley, white woman, wa'
a tried at Salisbury, Maryland, last week
T. 7. on the charge of causing the death of thu
:. infant son Of Joseph E. Lynch, by putin:
~ ~ strychnine into bread eaten by the child
'e The jury rendered verdict of "not gull
u ty, on the ground of insanity"
Is The Union Pacific Railroad crosses th
y Rocky Mountains at an elevation of s, ,00'
X feet above the sea. The Central Pacili
lg crosses the Sierra 7, ,042 feet above tidewa
ter, or l 600 feet higher than the famou
Mt Gents road over the Alps, There ar
i fifteen tunnels on this route.
ed Several of the judges of the election hcl
t. in Frederick county, Nd. in 1866, hav
IN been fined $50 each for refusing to rcceiv
g the votes of certain parties who presente
ne their ballots on the day of election.
as Hon. James Guthrie was stricken wit
paralysis at Louisville, Kentucky, O.
ut Thursday of last week, and serious fear
I'd of the result are entertained by his famil
80 ana 1flcnuS.
he A boiler in the pudding mill of tn
of Pennsylvania Torn Company exploded yes
a. terday at Danyille, killing one man, MOI
is tally injuring four and seriously woundin
nine.
The Toronto and Montreal banks hay
rk exported $120, 900 in American silver,
of order to lessen the inconvenience occasion
Is ed by the excessive quantity now in circr
y, lation in Canada
is The Sandwich Islanders are about
to erect monument in honor of Captai
lis Cook, as slight atonement for the condu
or of their forefathers in eating him.
rk The Massachusetts, Homeopathic Med
g. cal Society refused on Wednesday, to az
re nit Mrs. Mercy B. Jackson, NJ. d.
10 membership, on account of her sex.