Middletown transcript., 1868-08-22
items OF News.

that the insurgents are forcing the govern
ment of Juarez into straitened position.
The Governor of the State of Vera Cruz
had returned to the port of that name af-
ter having made an Intellectual attempt to
capture the insurgcnt chief Preto. The
Governors military and naval plans had |
all fallen through, although the French, |
Spanish, German and American residents
were extensively aiding him to raise men,
money and provisions. He had deemed it |
expodient to suspend the civil authorities
OF the city, and was expecting reinforce
ment of tive hundred cavalry under Colo
mel Jiminez.
A race has just taken place in the south
of France, in the neighborhood Of Toul-
ouse, between two young men, the one ri
ding horse and the other propelling
velocipede. The distance travcrsed. sew
cnty-two Kilometres (forty five miles, J was
accomplished by the animal in hours,
and by. the machine in & hours and %
minutes. The latter travelled under very
unfavorablc conditions, having to contend
against a strong head wind.
From Washington we have contradic-
ton OF the rumor concerning the France
and Prussian war cloud. No information
has been received by the representatives
of those Powers to warrent the conclusion
that their relations were to be disturbed
by war. The report that agents of the
French Government are buying horses and
forage in this country, for shipment to
France, is also contradictcd
Mrs. Senator Trumbnll died at Wash
ington, on Sunday, about eight o'clock, at
the Senator's residence, Capitol Hill She
had been suffering for two years past with
an abcess in the right side, and had sur
gical operation performed few weeks ago,
in the hope of removing it. The operation
failed to give relief, and she sunk under
her suflcrings.
The bugs arc said to have stripped whole
potato fields in Ohio, leaving nothing but
the naked stems-from these they assailod
cabbage leaves and other Vegetation
while the grasshoppers had levied on the
clover fields, cabbage, potatoes, oats and
timothy, laying low every stem, and lcav-
ing the fields us bare as a floor.
A letter from California mentions re-
markablo horseback race against time at
the Bay View Course, near San Fruncis-
90. The rider made three hundred mil
in fourteen hours and nine minutes, and
won his bet lie had thirty horses Gor re-
lays, and got through without killing any
OF them.
The cattle disease has found its way to
Massachusetts,, and is creating great ex-
? citement among the farmers and butchers.
Nine animals died at the Brighton market
Monday afternoon and five more died yes
terday morning on a farm in Norfolk cotn-
ty.
1t is currently reported in diplomatic
circles that the French Minister has re-
ceiyed intmations from home that war be-
tween France and Prussia is threatening.
Baron Gcrolt is also said to have expressed
serious apprchcnsious on the same subject.
Fifteen hundred miners Of the Mahoning
Valley, Ohio, who have been on a strike
for nearly four months, have agreed to re-
sumo work. The strike is failure with
them, they not receiving the additional 20
cents per ton demanded.
, The national expenses are increasing
every day to support millions of negroes in
idleness, that they may vote the Radical
, ticket The negroes are comfortably pro-
, vidod for, while the white man must work
and pay the taxes.
An exchange says that CDR. Manly, re-
, siding at Richfeld Springs, n. Y. is 107
years old, and has drank half pint of
whiskey per day for 50 years." Well if
he hadn't drank it he might have been
, twice as old, or thereabouts.
Brick Pomeroy has a statuette of Gene
. lie has placed this statuette in front of
his Office and written under it in large lei
: ters: "Ihicf, Robber, Woman Lnsulter :"
In recent thunder storm in England It
soldier was struck by lightning and made
blind and a woman who had been Stone
: blind for eight years was as suddenly res
I tored to sight.
Oscar Dalrynple, of Minnesota. who
last year cultivated 100 acres Of wheat,
- made $40, 600 cut of his speculation -
' There is roem in Minnesota for plenty more
=. such ventures.
J A late dispatch from Ottawa reports
:, vague rumors in circulation Of Fenans as
scmbling in large numbers near Ogdena-
burg. The military have been ordered to
be ON the alert.
The Toronto Globe processes to have
positive information Of extensive prepara-
tions for Fonian raid on the Province,
and Canada is indulging in ''big scare
: : in consequence.
I Eight thousand dollars in Government
! bonds were stolen from the house Of John
Miller, in Troy, New York, last week, du-
a ring the absence of the family in the coun-
try.
: The German North Pole exploring ex-
petition has been heard from in latitutle
: IA, steering due north, clear of icc
{, Ex-senator Creswell, of Md. is an
$ nounccd to make republican speeches in
$ Maine and then in Wisconsin.
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