Middletown transcript., 1868-07-25

lhree hundred and twenty yachts, ran
ging from ten to six hundred tons each
are advertised for sale in English journal
nearly all of them the property OF pri
yate gentlemen, and built for co6fadorat,
blockade running.
A man bathing in the Tallshatchie riv
er, Florida, few days since, struck
small box on the bottom. Being ished III
and opened it was found to contain 81 ,OOi
in gold and "a, 900 in Confederate scrip.
The funeral of an old woman who was
buried recently in jackson, Michigan, was
attended by two of her sons from the
House of Correction in Detroit, and a
third. from the State prison, all under
guard.
Mr.. Benjamin Warren, the oldest resi-
dent of Lorain county, Ohio. and rela.
tive of General Joseph Warren, who was
killed at Bunker Hill, died on the Sd in
slant, aged ninety-six.
The heat is SO intense in Illinois that all
sorts of work has been suspended. Far
mers are offering from five to seven dollars
for harvest hands, but can get none at any
price.
A cargo of corn, measuring fifty-three
thousand bushels, said to be the largest
ever shipped from that city, left Chicago
for Buffalo last week.
AT Gold Hill, Nevada, three weeks ago.
ice thicker than window glass froze in the
open air. This is doing very well for
summer, and is most refreshing article
here for this hot weather.
Two young ladies, Miss Mary Lawler
and Miss Annie Lavens, were drowned
while bathing in the surf at Atlantic Ci-
ty, New Jersey, on Thursday.
Birmingham, England, employs $50
men and 1900 women and girls in the
manufacture of steel pens. The weekly
product is SO, 900 gross.
At the annual sale of Kentucky horses
at Woodburn, ifty-four head of yearlings
brought $21 ,9l2, an average of more than
$405 EACH
F. NJ. Simons, of La Crosse, completed
his walk Of one thousand and one hundred
miles in twelve and a-half days at noon on
the 10th.
Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and
Dent left Leavenworth on Saturday morn
ing for Denver, via Kansas and Pacific
railroad
An English magazine estimates the Wall
street money business at between G15.-
100000 900 and $4,000, 600, 900 a
year.
Dispatches from different parts of Hi
uois, Iowa and Wisconsin represent the
crops to be in a very favorable condition.
Mrs. Major Gen Hooker died in Cinc;n-
natti last week. She was sister of the
Hon. W. s. Groesbecls.
Canadian laborers refuse to take their
wages in American silver unless at dis
count Of ten per cent.
California is gaining by immigration
from five hundred to six hundred persons
weekly.
There were 10 fatal cases of sun-stroke
at Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday and Satur-
day last
a popcorn manufacturer returns the
largest income in Fitchhurg, Mass.
Snow still shines on the SUBMITS Of the
Montana mountains.
Last year California produced 81 0OO.-
600 gallons of wine.
o. The sulphur mines of Italy produce &c.,
0OO tons per annum.
An American bowling alley is new
feature in a London club.
Nearly sixty persons died of sun-stroke
in st. Louis last week.
There are 341 manufacturers of artificial
teeth in Paris.
Brazil exported 2,459, 1853 bags of cof-
fee in 1867:
There is over six thousand acres of
grapes in Ohio.
-Four thousand women are under arms
in Paraguay.
There are II, 900 journeymcn printers
in Germany.
Jenny Lind is coming to this country in
Autumn.
Colorado shipped 5000, 900 in gold in
June.
There are forty wooden mills in Wiscon-
sin.