Middletown transcript., 1868-02-01
Itsms OF News.


The Navy Department has just issued
the navy register for 1868, form which it
appears that tho nnnber of vessels sold
since the publication Of the register in 1867,
Is 30. One was wrecked, the Sacramento,
in the Bay of Bengal. Forty. nine iron
clads arelaidnp. There have been during
/ tbe past year 81 Registrations. Thirty
nine deaths. haveNoccurcd. There we're
I've deaths in the marine corps of officers,
and seventeen dismissals of officers of the
regular navy since January, 1867.
The Senate Judiciary -Committee has
asked to be discharged from the further
consideration of the petition from the
Grand Council Of the Union League Of
| Maryland, asking that the Reconstruction
laws be extended to that State.
A bill has been Introduced into the New
York Legislature, making it unlawful for
first cousins TO marry and subjecting par
ties who violate this law to q fine of al 600
or to imprisonment, or to both fine and
| imprisonment.
L. HI. Hannor, frcedmen's bureau agent
at Lake Providence, La. who absconded 9
few days ago with $4,000 belonging to
the freedmen and others, has been arrested
at Charleston, s. G. and nearly all the
money was recovered.
A skating tournament is to be held at
Allegheny City, Pa. this month. A hur-
die race and $1O, 900 in prizes are among
the features. What if the ice should fail,
A gentleman who has arrived in Nash
vile, Tenn. by railroad from New Orleans.
reports that sixty persons died in that city
from cholera last week, and that the disease
is on the increase.
The steamboat Emerald, with a cargo Of
sugar, from New Orleans for Cincinnati.
has been sunk in the Mississippi. Three
lives are reported lost. u,
Thirty-fye persons are reported to have
died in Chicago, Illinois, during l. st
week, without medical attendance. being
too poor to employ physicians. E
During the past year, the average prc-
miums paid for loans in the Mechanics
Building and Loan Association Of LAM
bertville, Pa. was S4T.70. ...'-' -
WmI Dnsmore, seventy.six years ofare-
ono day last week walked from Ellsworth.
Me. to Harrington, u distance of thirty
miles N
White Gunpowder is now manufactured
in France, which leaves no trace in the
gun. 1t is highly spoken of in French
military circles. to-. sJ,.g -"
Milwaukee, Wisconsin which had no cx-
lstence thirty years ago, now contains 81 =
OeO inhabitants. ~ ferueti o.I n
Jefferson. Davis has been nominated for
tho presidency of the Texas Pacific rail-
road, He. is now in Mississippi. ),
The past week has been a hard one in
mercantile circles in New York. Seven
failures are reperted.l .sg. tou aa,a,I
The oldest inhabitant of Detroit is a mr.
gro one hundred and fourteen years of age.
There were nearly six hundred buildings
erected in Providence. r.. i. last wear, at
cost Of about six millions of dollars. g.,
q Several South American, powers are said
to stand ready to purchase our iron-cla.ls
as soon as they are offered for sale. 81 ri,.
The Allentown (Pa. News saws that
oil the rolling mills iu that city are partly
idle. owing to strike among tile Pudlers.
The peach trees are, blOssoming and
the tomatoes ripehing in Florida - siai
The Mississippi riSertis to be briJged 1t
St.Aouis, in the shortest, time possible.a;