Middletown transcript., 1868-06-20
items OF News.


cent engagement captured 800 prisoners
and 5000 horses from the Allies It is al
so reported that the Allied iron-clads were
sunk. Chill has sold, at heavy loss, the
iron-clads purchased from the United States
Government, having found them to be
worthless Yellow fever is abating in Peru.
About three thousand bricklayers met
in New York on Monday night to con-
slider the propriety of insisting upon eight
hours work day, instead Of ten, as at
present. After a lively discussion it was
resolved that on and after Monday next
the days work be reduced to eight hours.
the wages also be reduced from rs to
! 81 SO.
The amount of the defalcation on the
Hide and Leather National Bank, Boston.
is ascertained to be 1915 600. The bank
has surplus of $3.50, 900, and the di~
rectors think portion of the loss may be
made up from premium on Government
securities held by the bank, so that the
capital stock will not be greatly impaired.
1t is announced in the Easton Star that
Gov. Bowie has rendered the position of
Secretary of State to Richard G. Holly
day, Esq. of Talbot county, and that Mr..
Hollyday has accepted the appointment.
Mr., Hollyday was Secretary of State un-
der Governor p. Il. Thomas.
Another ocean yacht race is arranging
in New York between vessels of only two
and half tons. Andrew Armstrong, the
only survivor of the yacht John T. Ford
and +. e. Fitch, mate of the little Red,
White and Blue, are to command the con-
! testing vessels.
A steam boiler at the largo saw mill and
numbering establishment of II. j. & w. Ne,-
ly u Co. at Franklin, thirty-seven miles
from Portsmouth, Va. exploded on FRIDAY.
killing three men and wounding eight 9th
ers more or less seriously. .,.
The D'lsraeli English ministry propose
to ''appeal to the country" Parliament
will be dissolved in October, and writs will
then be issued for elections, which will
take place in November, and on December
9th the new Parliament will meet.
The Toronto Globe processes to have
positive and reliable information that tho
Fenian movement on Canada has already
| commenced, and calls on the Government
to order into the field at once the whole
volunteer and regular force.
The purchase of the Mississippi and Mis-
souri, Railroad by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company is announced. The road.
when completed, will furnish the Pennsyl-
vania Central immediate connection with,
the principal routes west from Philadel-
phia to the Pacific.
McEttrick has accomplished the feat of
walking one hundred miles in twenty-one
hours, six minutes and A seconds, for
ST, 600, and the championship of New
England. Scott, his competitor, gave out
on the ninety-eighth mile.
The treasurer of Clinton county. Ohio.
was knocked down and gagged in his Of
| fice on Wednesday, and the vault robbed
of 500, 900 by thieves, who succeeded in
efecting their escape.
Hon. VIM. Hancock died at his resi-
dence in Dudley, Mass on the I4th inst.
aged rs years. Col. Hancock was lin
cal descendant of John Hancock, of reyo-
lutionary memory.
Miles M. Bond was arrested some da1s
ago at Sonora, Kentucky, for the murder
of VIM. H. Randolph, Provost Marshal
of Blandinville, Illinois. The murder was
committed more than three years ago.
Canadian papers say that Uuited States
officers are on the frontier, with instruc-
tions from General Grant to ascertain the
truth Of the reports about Fenian arms be-
ing secreted.
South Carolina peach orchards are now
loaded with this delicious fruit. 1t is es.
timated that the export of peaches from
Charleston will not be less than so. 600
bushels this year. g. ''""
The trial of John H. Surratt. for oom.
plicity in the assassination of President
Lincoln, will come up again in the Crimi.
nal Court, Washington, on Monday next,
A project is being g seriously" consid-
cred by the Mayor of Charleston, South
Carolina, for uniting that city by direct
line of railroad with San Diego, California. :,
Nearly hundred acres Of willows are
cultivated in Wyoming county, N. Y.
When ready for market they bring from
$l7O to 5000 per acre.
Hiram Miller. has been convicted of
murder at Woodstock, vt. and sentenced
to be hung june Goth. He killed Mr.. and !
Mrs. Gowing nearly year ago.
Mr., Samuel Miller, the millionaire of
Lynchburg, Va. is about to found there a !
magnificent charity.for the benefit of desti- .
tute girls. :,
A steam fire engine exploded in New.
York on Thursday night while playing at
a fire, killing four persons and wounding
twenty others, in some instances fatally. J.
Eight tonsof arms taken from the Feliians
by the United States government passed,
through Burlington, Vt. yesterday, en-
route from St. ,Albans to. New York. :,
A girl in Chicago died, on Wednesday.
from swallowing the point of needle.
which broke off while she was picking her
teeth with it. 70 ~
Timothy Heenan, brother of John. G. :
Heenan, the prizeffghter, who was shot in .
Philadelphia on Thursday night, is dead, .
Four hundred and fifty mine divorces
were granted in Connecticut, the land .of
steady habits, last year.
The tax of one cent a box on matches
Noted to the Government; last .year. a ao.