Middletown transcript., 1868-07-11
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Items OF News.

mas ueclueu 10 pc UNCONSTITUTIONAL the reg
istry law passed by the last State Legisla-
ture. The point Of the decision was that
the law infringed upon the provision of the
State constitution, enfranchising every
white male citizen twenty-one years of age,
except criminals and persons of unsound
mind. The law.was passed by Radical
Legislature under the pretence that illegal
voting prevailed in Philadelphia, of which
the advantage accrued to the Democrats.
The Wilmingtonians are talking of
public park along the banks of the Bran
dywine. The Republican of Monday last,
says:
"The expediency of procuring ground
for park is now being agitated. Visi-
tors to our city generally seek the Bran
dywine and therefore park located on the
banks of that stream would perhaps prove
more attractive than one in any locality.
Our own citizens also seek the pleasant
shade on the hill side for pic-nics and other
parties. 1t would therefore be wise in
our city fathers to secure these favorite
grounds, and set them apart forever for
public use. Other cities have their parks
and Wilmington should also have hers.
SURGICAL SEPARATION OF THE SIAMEsE
TwINs.-The scientific world, and espe-
cially that portion of it who have made the
study of medicine and surgery their profess
sion, cannot fail to be intensely interested
in the fact which has recently come to our
knowledge, of the determination of Chang
and Eng, the Siamese twins, to proceed to
Paris to submit to a surgical operation for
the purpose of discovering the wonderful
link that has so long bound them together.
-New York Tribune.
A party of soldiers belonging to the
Twenty-ffth Regiment of Infantry, in
Memphis, yesterday, went to the house of
Edward O'Neill, who had shot comradc
the day before, and battered down the
door. O'Neill fed to the jail for safety,
but was pursued and fired at O'Neill's
friends on hearing the firing soon collected,
and but for the arrival officer Day, with
a guard, bloody riot would have ensued.
Three little girls, named Mary Sullivan,
Margaret Doherty and Ann Carroll, while
bathing in a pond at Brooklyn, New York,
on Thursday, were drowned Mrs. Do
herty, mother of one of the children, and
James McGee, while endeavoring to res
cue the children, got beyond their depth,
and were also drowned. The bodies have
all been recovered
During the last year the Irish in this
country sent home the sum of S., 200, coo
to their relations. OF this sum more than
a million dollars was prepaid passage or
ders. During the last twenty years more
than seventy million dollars have been
transmitted to relatives in Ireland for emf
grafton.
Peter Cagger, a prominent Democrat,
of Albany, and member of the National
Convention, was killed by the capsizing of
carriage, in New York, on Monday
night. John E. Develin, who was also in
the vehicle, was dangerously injured,
and has since died.
Lafayette Q. Baker the notorious chief
OF the government detective force, during
the war, died in Philadelphia, on the 3D.
inst. He was guilty while in New York,
of many of the grossest acts of rascality in
his profession, and was finally dismissed
the service.
Two young men named James Gray and
Thos. 3. Cropley got into a scuffle in
Georgetown, ID. Q. on Sunday morning.
Gray was thrown down and ruptured
blood vessel, from which he died almost
instantly.
The heirs of a man who recently died in
Paris, found new, unused postage stamps
among his papers to the value of $40, 900
lie bought them simply to see their differ
ent colors arranged according to his fancy.
A Mr.. Benedict of Harlem, is said to
be the possessor of a coin of the reign
of King Solomon. 1t has been pronoun
ced genuine Hebrew coin by a Rabbi.
Mr. Benedict has been offered $3.50 for it.
The population of France is shown by
the latest statistics to be IS, OCT ,074 peo-
} pie; 1904, 100 are men; 9,052,9
are women. The excess of women is small
ler than in the New England States.
The London Daily Neaos says, oditori-
! ally. that Stewards despatch relative to
Fenians, sent to the Secretary OF the
, American Legation, is discourteous and
unfriendly to England.
J The French Government has appointed
a Scientific Committee to examine the fea-
sibility of building submarine railway
tunnel between England and France.
A fatal accident occurred or the Phila-
} delphia and Erie Railroad, near Erie, ON
Thursday. A train fell through a bridge,
when several people were killed.
, Mr.. Peter Beemiller, of Silver Run,
) Carroll county, Md. died suddenly last
week, from drinking cold water after re-
turning from the harvest field.
A ridiculous lady of New York is going
to Europe for medical treatment of a fat
! poodle, which has already reached the ma
ture age of 16 years.
1t is proposed in Boston to give Charles
Francis Adams public reception on his
return from Europe. Mr.. Adams retur-
, ned on Wednesday.
| Eighteen members of the present British
Parliameet have, since its organization in
1860, been unseated for bribery connected
with their election.
Sixty persons were precipitated into the
river at San Francisco on the 4th, by the
falling of a draW-bridoa Ton hoJ;oa -.