Middletown transcript., 1868-07-18
Items Of News.

Items OF News.
The new Southern Governors, )" elected
under the carpet-bag dispen Bation, are
nearly all Northern adventur rcrs. Gov.
Bullock, of Georgia, is from New York;
Gov. Clayton, ). of Arkansas, is from Penn
sylvania; Gov. Reed, of Florida, is from
Wisconsin Gov. Yarmouth, of Louisiana,
is from Illinois, Gov. Scott, of South
Carolina, is from Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The Governor (B. B. Eggleston) proposed
for Mississippi is from Ohio; Gov. Wells,
to be voted for in Virginia, is from Mich
gan.
While we are painting with heat, scarce
ly vessel arrives from Europe that does
not tantalize us with report bf passing
icebergs, some of them of immense size,
on the coast. Steamships Borussia City
of Boston and Minnesota, all had observa-
tions of that kind. The latter at one time
was in close companionship with several
very ugly customers, and had 10 make
long detour to get out of their way.
Four colored men were arrested at Cam
den, on Monday. charged with being the
parties who recently ran an empty car on
the track at Wyoming. and caused rail
road accident which caused considerable
damage and placed in great jeopardy seve-
raj lives. .-Del. Gazette.
Governor Swami of Maryland, has ap-
pointed Hon. VIM. Pinckney Whyte, U.
5. Senator to fill the unexpired term of
ReverGy johnson. The cred entails of
Mr.. Whyte were presented on Tuesday, by
Mr.. Vickers, when he was sworn in and
took his scat.
The New York Citizen says that John
W. Forney is trying to sell the Washing
ton Chronicle, and is said to contemplate
a removal to the Pacific coast. He was
offered the Baltimore american newspaper
for 5000, 600.
According to the official reports of Gen.
Howard the expenses of feeding, clothing,
&c. the freedmen, and training thu m to vote
during the past three years, were S21,-
500, 900, which Northern taxpayers had
to pay.
AT Lacrosse, Wis. on the 4th, Rev. W
Simons completed a hundred mile walk in
% hours and 80 minutes, the actual wal
king time being 10 hours and 80 minutes.
He is to walk LOO miles inside of %
days.
Hon. Reverdy johnson has been ten
dered complimentary dinner in Baltimore
and another by the Chamber of Commerce
of New York, prior to his departure for
England
The vestry of St. Peters parish, Eas-
ton, Md. have called Rev Orlando F.
Hutton to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of DR.. Mason.
The House of Representatives PASSED
the appropriation on Tuesday, for Alaska,
the territory procured under Mr.. Seward S
treaty, from Russia.
VIM. b. Wait, leading dry goods
merchant Of Boston, committed suicide on
Monday, by severing vein in his arm,
and bleeding to death.
A single coffee plant, taken from Ara
bia to Paris in 1914, was the parent stock
of all the coffee plantations in the West
Indies.
Valentine McGibbon, an Irishman, for
merly resident of Baltimore, died in Will
mington, Del. on Tuesday, from the effects
of sun-stroke.
Generals Grant, Sherman and party
have arrived at Leavenworth, Kansas, to
remain till Saturday, and then proceed to
Denver.
The women of Genoa, Ohio, who clean
ed out the whiskey shops there the other
day, have been prosecuted for riot
Guizot has declined nomination to the
French Corps Legislatif. He says his po-
litical career has terminated.
The father of Robert Bonner was inn
keeper in Raymelton, ireland. IIe has
not written his sons life.
There are forty-three stores empty and
to rent on the main business street Of
Memphis, Tenn.
Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, collected
98,00O in England for the Southern Epis-
oopal University.
1t is stated there are $50 fewer newspa-
pers in this country than there were five
years ago.
Gen. Candy has declared military rule
at an end in South Carolina.
Gossip says As bridal couples were al
Niagara last Friday
The potato crop Of New Jersey promises
] a large yield,