Middletown transcript., 1868-05-30
Items Of NeYYa.

sued, in which Rook seized an axe and
dealt his adversary dozen blows, after
wards dragging his nearly lifeless body to
a fodder stack, where he was found with
scarcely strength enough to relate the cir
cumstances of the fight, expiring in an
hour or two after. The wife of Rock ran
out of the house in terror when the fight
commenced. Rook was arrested on Mon
day night, and on Tuesday morning hung
himself in Cambridge Jail.
When the Pacific railroad is finished, the
tour ofthe world can be made in two months
and a half. From New York to San Fran
cisco will take seven days; from San
Francisco to Hong Kong, by way of Yo-
kohama, twenty days; from Hong Kong
by steamer to Suez, thtirty-two days from
Suez to Paris, six days; from Paris to
New York, ten days in all seventy-five
days. This can only be done, however,
by continuous travelling and successful con-
nections everywhere.
Mr.. John Naglee, of Prince William
County, Va, has brought suit againt Sec
retary Stanton for trespass in taking poses
sion of his farm, destroying his crop, stock,
&c. in 1865, after hostilities had ceased,
laying the damages at $4,000. Mr.. N.
is brother of Gen. Ii. M. Naglee, and
was in the Union army during the war.
An extraordinary case (because Unusually
has been tried at Hubbardston, Michigan.
John Waffle has been convicted, under the
the statute, for profane swearing, and fined
five dollars and costs CSC. 20 more) This
he refused to pay, and was sent to jail, as he
considered the punishment unmerited,"
and refused to pay cash down for his pro-
family.
Mrs. Atwell, who is now, and has been,
for great number of years, a resident of
Mctcalfe County, Ky. aged eighty odd
years, has had her hair undergoing the
pleasant transformation from the snowiest
white to the richest black, and is now in
the possession of luxuriant growth of rich
black hair.
In Stamford, Connecticut, several Ro-
man Catholic priests have been holding
protracted temperance meetings, and as a
consequence, two hundred men and women
have signed the pledge, and five liquor
sellers have closed their shops.
The Buffalo gnats are killing the stock
througout the southwest country. The
stock along the river counties suffers most
The late spell of bad weather has increased
the gnats. Planters in some cases have
lost their entire stock.
Satrap Mead has agreed to pardon the
seven young men lately sent from Greer
county, Alabama, to Dry Tortugas, fol
committing an assault upon notoriou!
character named Iill
The regular May anniversary of thu
Brooklyn Sunday Schools was held in that
city on Tuesday. The parade was one o
the finest of the kind had for several year.
past. There were about 25, 900 children
representing 112 schools, in procession.
Rev. DIR George Junkin, one of the mos
eminent ministers of the Old School brancl
of the Presbyterian Church, died suddenly
at his residence at Philadelphia, on Wed
nesday afternoon, Goth inst. DIR. j. wa
father-in-law of Gen. Stonewall Jackson
A resident of Southampton County. Va
has contracted to deliver on the Seaboart
Railroad, running through his farm, tn
produce of ten acres in strawberries 70
$40, 900, the buyer to furnish the packing
boxes.
|, Chief Justice Chase having assented t
, June Sd as the day for commencing tn
trial of Mr.. Davis, if the impeachment tria
should be closed by that time, it is under
: stood that it will certainly take place then
Twenty-six thousand cases, containin
$3.50, 900 pair of shoes, were shipped fror
Lynn, Mass. during the month Of April
the largest months business ever don
J there Value S., ,000,0 900.
Louisiana will yield more sugar this yea
than last when the crop was only abo,
, 10000 hogsheads. More land has bee
: planted and the general prospect is ropol
q ted good.
4 The decree in the Judd divorce cas-
s at New Haven, Connecticut, dismisses Il
e petition of Mrs Judd, grants the cross p
d tition of Dr.Judd, and gives him the Gu
tody of their children.
The Provisional Government of Gre
). has decided to convoke regular Parli
Ia ment. The Cretans have been SUGGEST
5, in another engagement with the Turks.
l. Jonathan Green, the " reformed gal
is bler," has been arrested in Cincinnati OF
ID charge of defrauding wealthy lady, who
n agent he was, out of about $4,000
st The New Workers are about to establsl
r line of steamers between that port and Bl
s. men. The Smidt, the pioneer of the liz
ce arrived at that port the other day.
a, The cable to be laid from the southe
F. point of Florida to Cuba has been comp
vt, ted by the English manufacturer, and "
ee be laid this Summer.
Vs. The New York Anti-Gambling Soci,
lie reported forty-three clerks to their emplc
ad ers last month as addicted to fighting
de tiger.
or The prize fight between Joe Coburn a
cd Mike Nc Cool, was broken up at Gle
cr land, Ohio, on Wednesday, by the arr
,ss of the parties.
. George Huber, of Ubricksville, Oh
died few days ago from the bite of a La
black spider