Middletown transcript., 1868-04-25
Items OF News.

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mitted on Saturday, near Omega, Louisi-
ana. On that day the people of the neigh
borhood discovered the house of Mr.. Hen
ry Keenan, to be burning, and on repair
ing to the spot found that Mrs. Keenan, and
her two children had been murdered and
burned. On further search the body of
Mr.. Keenan, was found about two hun
dred yards from the house, covered with
leaves and bark from the trees with ten
bullet holes in his back. There was no
living person on the premises.
The bones of an enormous reptile of the
lizard family have been received from
Kansas by the Academy of Natural Scien-
ces of Philadelphia, to which they have
been presented by the discoverer, DR.. Tur-
ner. The geologists of the Academy are
busy chiselling out the remains from the
chrystalized gypsum in which they were
found imbedded. The backbone has been
cleared of its rocky case, and the vertebra
put together, extends in length about thir-
ty feet. With the head and tail it is be-
lieved to have been at least fifty feet in
length.
General Buchanan, commanding the
Fifth Military District, has appointed the
18th of June next as the day for the as
sembling of the Texas State Convention,
to frame constitution and civil govern
ment for the State. The official list of the
registered voters in that State, including
the revision, fixes the number at 108, 799.
At the election Sc, 1865 votes were polled
"A $50 for the convention, and IL ,440
against it. The convention is to assemble
in Austin.
The New York journal of Commerce
says: There was exhibited on the Produce
Exchange on Friday a number of stalks
of winter wheat, grown in Georgia, which
are already headed. Judging from these
specimens, portion of the crop will be
ready for harvesting in about two weeks.
Wheelan has been committed to trial at
the Assize Court, in Ottawa, Canada, for
the murder of Darcy McGee. He was
discovered Saturday in an attempt to es-
cape.
A new machine for navigating the air,
invented by Scotchman, will be brought
out under the auspices of the British Ae-
ronautic Society. 1t is a sort of bird,
with body fifteen feet in length, and
wings stretching out to the width of thir-
ty-fve feet. A tail reaches out behind to
give direction to the movement, while the
wings are tapped by an engine of forty
horse power. This, it is thought can be
made to proceed through the air at the rate
of forty miles an hour,
The State Department has despatched a
special messenger to the Russian Govern
ment to explain the exact condition of af-
fairs here relative to the appropriation for
the purchase of Alaska, and to request "a
further extention of time.
A New York paper says Money con-
tinues to work round to easier points. Cur
rency continues to come in freely from the
West, and the banks are comparatively free
lenders. Loans on call 6 7 per cent /;
prime paper, 8 per cent.
Meetings of Liberals are being held all
over England. The grievances ofthe Irish
people in general, and the disendowment of
all religious sects, are the objects of these
meetings.
The London Star announces the serious
illness of the Pope, and Victor Emmanuel.
His Holiness is suffering from an intestinal
complaint, and his Majesty from apopletic
fits.
There is large immigration this spring
from Eastern Massachusetts to Nebraska
Many fishermen from Cape Cod and Nam
tucket participate in this movement.
In N. York the Legislature has passed
a bill empowering railroad conductors
to make arrests, and giving them the au-
thority of special policemen, the better to
preserve order on their railway trains.
Hon. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, is
about to leave for Europe, to attend an
| important lawsuit in which he is interes-
| ted.
There has been forty-two snow storms
in Boston this winter. Last year it showed
as late as the Oath of April.
1t is proposed in the Canadian Parlia-
ament to impose a tonnage fee of 81 on
American vessels fishing in Canadian wa
ters.
Charleston, s. G. April 22.-The ma
jority for the new constitution, as far as
heard from, is $4,000.
Clement L. Valandigham has bought
into the Dayton Ledger, and will be edi-
tor-in-chicf
The steamer Arizona, from Aspinwall,
brought $948, 900 in treasure to New York
Thursday.
On the 1st of May over 500 families will
move from N. York to Jersey City, N. j.
The first shipment of green peas was
made from Charleston last Wednesday
They were sent to New York.
Yellow fever continues to spread at Cal
lao-the deaths averaging thirty daily.
Mrs, Stonewalp jackson has received
$15, 900 from the sale of the life of her
husband