Middletown transcript., 1868-11-28
Ite,..s OF News.

september oUth, report that the mountains
are filed with refugees, chiefly women and
children, who are subsisting on roots,
grass, and the bark of trees. The whole
| lighting force, refusing to submit, are still
harassing the Turks, and presenting as
firm front as possible under the most ad-
verse circumstances. The Greek consul
N. York also says that sixty thousand Gre
tan refugees are scattered through Greece,
and are entirely destitute. Recently large
body of Cretan children, clothed in gar
ments sent from the United States, went
to pay visit of thanks to the American
consul at Athens. .s.sse.-
A man known to many of our citizens
as ''Big Jim Elliot died at Dixon's Tav-
ern, Queen AIMS county, on Sunday last.
He was remarkable for his size, his weight
at one time being near six hundred pounds.
He formerly travelled through the coun-
try exhibiting himself, in company with a
dwarf negro, part of the time.-Snyrna
Times
Mrs. j. J. Audubon, the widow of the
naturalist, for whom an appeal was gotten
up in Savannah, writes to the editor of a
paper in that city that she knows nothing
of the signer of the appeal and is in no
need of assistance, as she is boarding COM
fortably in New York city, and her thir-
teen grandchildren are independent of her.
The English Duke of Cambridge is a
fortunate ofiice-holder. He gets 1886 IA
day as commander-in-chief; $50 day as
general, and $12, 900 year for the three
colonels' commissions he holds in the Bri-
tish army. The duke also has, besides
these, $3.50, 900 year income.
A gentleman at Taunton. Mass. kept a
mammoth pear in drawer some weeks,
and on taking it out recently, found that
, it had been excavated and filled with a
mouse's nest in which were five diminu-
tive mice, about the size of peanuts, of a
pink color.
Mayor Hoffman, of New York, has sent
, in his resignation, in order that his sue
, cessor may be chosen at the approaching
municipal election. The resignation will
take effect on Nov. 30. Mr.. Hoffman will
be inaugurated Governor ON january list.
III. Rives Pollard, editor of SoaAe,r,
Opinion, was shot and killed in RICH
mond, Va Tuesday, by James Grant.
The cause of the shooting is said to have
, been an article in Pollard's paper reflect
ing on the character of Grants sister, al
t leging an elopement with lover.
t There is volunteer company in New
York numbering seventy men, none Of
. whom have boards less than foot in
length. The captain, named Vietenhei-
mer, cultivates an ornament of that kind
1 which extends to his knees
The present quarters of the Freedmen
Bureau will be given up 1st of January
: when the existence of the bureau termi
Y mates by law. The educational and claims
: work will continue for anothpr year, will
headquarters in Washington.
A young German, of Milwaukee, sho
himself on Saturday, because an expected
e remittance from Fatherland" did MOI
/ come. The remittance came on Monday
: in time to meet the expenses of his burial
e Articles have been signed for prize
: fight between Fred Bussey, of Chicago
: and Tom McAlpin, of Detroit, for a stak,
s of 81 600, the fight to take place Decem
: ber IS. within fifty miles of Chicago.
C A little boy of thirteen, having placed
o a penny on the track at Brunswick, Maine
: to see the locomotive crush it, one of tn,
e train hands threw stick of wood at hin
e and he was instantly killed.
d A family left Buffalo for a week recent
! ly, their house remaining in charge of
!, servant girl, who gave "a succession G
/ balls, at which she appeared in her mis-
i tress' dresses and jewelry,
J. A State convention for the farmers O
a Georgia has been called for the 9th of De
c cember, to consider the question of labor
1t immigration from the North and fron
n abroad, &c.
d A Zurich letter dated November. 18th
e says that the greater part of Switzerlan
1t was already buried in snow, though tn
-e leaves were hardly off the trees in som
J. places. .4I
20 The Snow Hill Shield is going to en-
st large and the Centreville Citizen is goiny
lie to suspend, if the editor, Mr.. Hand, VIII
h is going to leave the State, does not sci
al his office.
e There were l $50 marriages in Ne,
! York last month. This is at the rate o
&c l5. .0UG a year or more than forty day
) and more than one and half for ever
" hour. lG tIs4
n Our Norfolk contemporaries give ac
|e counts of the great abundance of will
, ducks in the waters down that way, an
s say the like of them was never known be
Of fore. s
1t Two old bachelors of indianapolis mad
!, a novel bet on the election. The loser wa
l. either to marry within six weeks or for
o felt five hundred dollars.
e A Stockton California; paper notice
a an apple tree near that place which ha
re yielded three crops of fruit the presen
es year, and is again in blossom.
10 There is invested in the iron business q
le Chicago $15, 100000 of capital, employ
re ing 1900 workmen, and creating an an
in nual product of 1926, 5,000,0O0
l. The st. Louis Republican announce
r the death of P. B. Garesche, ESQ an EN-
,e inent lawyer of that ci4y. He was ma
tive of Delaware.