Middletown transcript., 1868-06-27
Items OF News.

Preparations are being made at Browns
vile, Texas, for military expedition un-
der the auspices of the old hero, having
Monterey and Bagdad as objective points.
1t is stated that Santa Annals Brownsville
agent has purchased 400 horses with equip
meuts and rifles, and on an understood sig
nal from Nogrete OF Ortega movement
will be made on Monterey.
Mr.. Longfellow has arrived out and been
the recipient of marked attentions. On
the 10th the University of Cambridge con-
ferred upon him the degree of Doctor Of
Laws. The Vice-Chancelfor, in comforting
the degree, made an address in Latin, in
which he referred with marked satisfaction
to the appointment of the Hon. Reverdy
johnson to represent the United States in
England.
The steamer Tavern, while towing
barge bound to Bridgeport, Connecticut,
exploded her boiler off pier l, East river,
| New York, on Saturday morning. The
tug sunk Immediately. Ira Lynch, a deck
hand, was blown overheard and drowned
| the rest of the crew were saved
When Charles Dickens arrived home
from America, the farmers turned oht on
the road to his house to greet him, and the
houses for miles on the way were dressed
with flags The village bell-ringers rang
merry peal of welcome home again to
the great author.
George Francis Train has been again ar
rested, and brought before London
Court for Bankruptcy and remanded to
prison. He declared his arrest proceeded
from political motives and called on the ar
my and navy Of the United States to pro-
tect him
Col. G. r. Hampton, brother of General
Wade Hampton, a large land owner in
Oconee county, South Carolina, has ex-
pressed willingness, with many other
public spirited citizens, to give lands to
bona .tide settlcrs-German and other for
eign cmigrants.
flock of pigeons, covering space of
twelve and one-half miles in length and fif-
ty feet in breadth, passed over Wellsville,
Tioga county, Pa. few days ago
Over. 1925, 900 quarts of strawberries
passed over the Camden and Atlantic Rail-
road on Tuesday last so, 900 of them going
to New York, and the balance to Philadel-
phia. They were mostly from the vicinity
of Hammonton, N j.
Miss. Lotitia G. Tyler, granddaughter
of ex-President Tyler, has issued pros.
pectus for new literary paper, to be de-,
voted exclusively to improvement and
amusement of boys and girls. 1t is to be
published at Montgomery, Alabama.
Miss Louisa Simpson, a wealthy old
maiden lady, who recently died in Pitts,
burg, provided in her will fund for the
support of her dogs, and ordered her horse
to be killed, for fear he would not be trea-
ted well by other owners.
The bricklayers of New York to the num-
Der of three thousand have struck-deman-
ding four dollars and half for eight hours
work. They have been getting FIVE dollars
for ten hours.
!. The wheat harvest commenced in vari--
Gus sections of Virginia last week, and the
yield promises to be very heavy. Some
parcels of new wheat have already been re-
ceived at Richmond.
Maine is the Lake State of the East it
has more than 1900 lakes, elevated SO high
as to give ample water power for three or
four millions people, should the popula-
tion ever become so large.
The grasshoppers are destroying the,
growing garden and farm crops in Central
Iowa. The pests swarm over the fields
and leave devastation behind
Two stores on Washington street, Bos-
ton have in their windows delicate Pana-
, ma hats valued at $125 to $780, They
are the "ge nuine article"
Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, & 9TH
er States of the South are harvesting their
wheat, of good quality and satisfactory iu
t quantity.
: A school-house in Monroe, Conn. was
, stru ok by lightning on Tuesday morning,
and three children, 6, 10 and 13 years of
, age, were instantly killed.
t BY the collision of the steamer Morning O
, Star with bark 20 miles from Cleveland,
3 Chic, on Saturday night, both were sunk.
( and twenty persons are missing.
The revolution in Venezuela is gaining
t strength and rapidly extending. The
e revolutionary force was within few miles
of Caracas at last advices.
n The new iron Steamship Fa, n, which
h sailed from Philad. .lphia on IL Instant
for Havana, has not been hear r.u nd
= it is feared she has boen lost
v The Titusville (Pa.) Her o-lates
It the present daily production G.. ne..u gum
y. at s 7iU barrels, ah1 t.le numk.l OF new
IS wells drilling at 245.
" There are 800 revenue officers in New
i York city, and yet whiskey sells there for
sixty cents per gallon, when it ought to
el pay two dollars tax.
al The largest gold brick ever seen in Mon
:. tana is on exhibition in bank at Helena.
r. Its weight is 1852 ounces, and its value
IN is $31, $50.
: In the South Carolina House of Repre-
sentatives, which is said to meet in well
u ventilated hall, there are eighty negroes.
le The first samples of new wheat have
a. been received in San Francisco, and are Of
excellent quality,
at Dickens's son is giving readings in. En-
1t gland from the writings Of his father, but