Middletown transcript., 1868-09-26
Items OF Sys.


Sundays. The end of the war has been
brought about by the acquittal of one of
the city BARRIERS, w4ase arrest bad been
caused by those WHO had agreed to close
on the Sabbath, on the charge of violation
Of the day.
Intelligence from Buenos Ayres is to
the effect that IL storm passed over that ci-
ty on the 18th of August, the day upon
WHICH the terrible earthquakes visited the.
west coast, and was attended with the
greatest loss that has occurred there faE
some time. Numerous vessels were sunk
in the hqrbor, and several houses were
blown down.
John Upton, aged thirty-fvc years,
while endcavoring to reach freight train
which was leaving the depot at Newark,
n. j. at one o'clock Sunday NOR nigg,
stumbled over high bank Of dirt and
rolled down, his neck fell upon the Track
in front of the moving traiu'. The wheels
of the engine and tendqr passed over his
neck, cutting the head from the body.
An apparatus used to hoist bricks and
mortar at building on the corner of Can.
al street and Broadway, New York, fell
Saturday evening, in consequence of
tacklc-blocli becoming unlocked and un-
fortunately killed James Tobin and p. s.
Hay. both laborers A boy standing on
thcssidewalk was badly injured by the fall.
ling bricks
1t is said that the robbers who stopped
the stage near Iaclede Station, east Of
Salt lake City, on the 25th ult captured
Sl2, 600 from Wells, Fargo & Co.'S Express
alone The company have offered re.
warl of $4,000 for the treasure, and
50, 600 for the bodies of the four robbers,
dead or alive.
At Montrosc, Conn. on Sunday. two
men named Hiram IIawty and Mortimer
Crofut had Il dispute about ladder, which
resulted in Ilawty's shooting Crofut in tho
breast, dangerously wounding him. Gro:
fut went home and got Il gun and shot
l!awty in the abdomen, killing him in
stantly.
a Girl of ten years vas mprdercd at
North Branch, New York, few days ago,
under circumstances of peculiar atrocity,
Her uncle Noah Bigclow, was arrested
on suspicion. 1t is alleged that after out
raging her person the fend brutally mur-
dcrcd her to conceal the crime.
1t is stated that line of propellers is
about to be established, to run between
Washington and the Schuylkill coal re-
@ions of Pennsylvania, carrying Cumber-
land coal from Washington, and returning
with that produced from the Schuylkill
mines
The latest fashionable diversion in Par
is is to spend an hour in the air in bal
loon, which is confined to the earth by
strong cable. Elegant ladies and gentle
men take their afternoon airing thus in
stead of on wheels.
Captain Robert Lincoln, eldest son of
the late President Lincoln, was mar
ried by Bishon Simpson. on Thursday,
to Miss Nellie Harlan only daughter If
Senator Harlan, at the residence of the
latter in Washington.
In Philadelphia on Sunday there was
great excitement at the Union American
Colorcd Church. The congregation Gus
ted the officiating minister and refused to
allow him to preach. The rioters were
arrested
There was violent snow storm in the
region of Mount Washington. New Hamp-
shire, on We lnesday, the 10th instant.
The snow fell rapidly, and was measured
in places to the depth of foot and "A half
Beverly Clark, charged with being en-
gagged with ten others in conspiracy to
defraud the government in the post-ofice
department, has been committed for trial
in the eastern district of Michigan
Lord Monck has been advised by cable
of the appointment of Sir John Young as
Governor General of Canada He will
arrive in November. Lord Monck will
leave about November
A man and woman have been arrcs-
ted in st. Louis. the former for possessing
It bushcl of bogus nickles and the latter
for having $1,000 of counterfeit So trea-
surv notes.
Thomas, the man who killed Kimberly
at the Cincinnati rolling mill, by thrust
ing red hot iron through his body, has
been acquitted on the ground of justifab,e
homicide
The Atlantic cable is earning at the rate
of 81 600, 900 per annum in gold, equal
to s. 1000, 600 in greenbacks, or at the
rate of about fifty per cent. per annum or
its cost.
Governor Smith and five Republican,
members of the Alabam Legislature are
en- youte for Washington with memorial
to the President asking for troops.
English papers state that Rev. Mr..
Spurgcon has engaged himself to make
lecturing tour through this country during
the present fall.
AT San Marino, in Dinwiddie county,
Virginia, negro named William Starke,
who can neither read nor write, has re:
ccived the appointment of postmaster.
Marsh hens are very abundant on the
New Jersey marshes along the shore, the
sportsmcn have excellent amusement 10
shooting them.
Several hundred head of stock cattle
were sold at shcrif's sale lately in Con
zales Co. Texas, at 81, currency. per