Middletown transcript., 1869-02-20
Items OF News.

volving property valued at 81 800, 900.
Carl Gottfrisd Uhlich died intestate some
time since, directing $50, 600 to be paid
to his eldest son, Henry, with whom he
had previously quarrelled, and monthly
allowance to his second son, who was of
weak intellect. The remainder he direc-
ted should be divided between his young
est son and man named Muhlke. Hem
ry sues to recover from Muhlke, alleging
thyt he exercised undue influence over the
deceased. The case attracts much atten-
tion in Chicago.
On Friday last man and his wife, who
live near st. Louis, went to the city on
business, leaving their little boy, eight
years of age, at home with the hired man.
On their return they found the house had
been robbed, and short search revealed
the dead body of the boy, covered up un-
der a pile of corn and couple of sacks of
wheat. He had been smothered to death.
His hands and feet had been tied, and the
wheat then thrown over him. The hired
man is missing, and is supposed to be the
thief and murderer.
The gas issuing from rock crevices on
the western line of Pennsylvania, along
the Ohio river, has been ignited by some
of the inhabitants, and travellers passing
at night see huge flames jetting out here
and there. The effect is said to be both
sublime and startling. The more super
stitious people of the surrounding country
think the flames the beginning Of the final
confagration.
On Saturday last the President nomina-
ted Lewis Dent, brother-in-law of Gene
raj Grant, to be Minister to Chill, vice Kill
patrick, to be removed. On Monday Mr..
Dent sent to MIR. Sumner, chairman of the
Committee of Foreign Affairs, a note stat
ing that he is not an applicant for the po-
sition to which he has been nominated,
and desires his name withdrawn. ...-
The persons in England who, during
1868, have abandoned the Established
Church for the Church of Rome, it is sta
ted by the English papers, amounted to
two thousand two hundred in number, III
clud!ng nineteen clergymen, seven or eight
university graduates, and two peers.
Pious, moral, progressive Massachusetts,
is hard upon the heels of Illinois in the
divorce race. Since October, Al divorces
have been granted in Suffolk County, the
causes being mainly adultery. Of the di-
vorced parties, IL of the offenders are al
lowed to marry again.
A New York special despatch to the
Boston Herald, says that the Rev. Mr..
Beecher has been ordered by his physi-
clan to refrain from labor for three weeks,
and also that his friends fear that he is
threatened with softening of the brain.
Sheriff Weaver, of Rome, New York,
who lately executed the murderer Cars
we'll, administering chloroform to him just
before going on the scafold, has been ar
rested on charges growing ourof the af.
fair.
A machine is in use at Melbourne foi
shearing sheep by steam. The machine
is used in the same fashion as the shears,
but cuts much quicker and far cleaner
without the least danger of injuring the
fleece or the sheep.
There have been seven cases and two
deaths from that terrible disease trichian.
osis, in New York city. 1t is dangerous
to eat pork or bacon, without it is frs
thoroughly cooked.
The steamer Ariel sails from New Yorl
next month for Copenhagen via Southamp
ton. She is the pioneer ship of an Amer.
ican Line between the United States anC
Denmark.
A proposition to amend the Constitution
of Kansas, by expunging the word white
from the description of citizens, was defeat
, ed in the Senate of that State, on the 17th
1t is reported that, without counting th
Rothchilds, there are in Paris bounds ON
hundred and fifty Israelites whose com
bined fortunes amount to about $500, 900,
900,
The remains of j. Wilkes Booth wer
reinterred in Baltimore Cemetery on Wed
nesday, near the grave of Junius Brutu.
Booth, the father of the deceased.
A despatch from Richmond announce
the death in that city on Wednesday of tn
t Rev. II. A. Wise, Jr. son of cx-Gover
, ner Wise, of Virginia.
: The grand jury in Richmond, on Tues
day, indicted James Grant for the murde
of H. Rives Pollard. The trial commen
ces Monday next.
a The Massachusetts railways killed Z
out of 100, 1877 1881 passengers they car
ried last year; in doing this, 155 employ
= ees were killed.
n Scientific men in France and German
: think the recent convulsions of the cart
indicate the ultimate formation of ne,
n continent.
The public debt statement for Februar
G 1st, shows total of So, ,665, ,379, ,7O7-a
increase of nearly $1O,0OO,O00 during th
! month.
= Whelan, the murderer of Darcy No
Gee, was hung on Thursday, at Ottawa
= Canada. There was no Fenian demonstra
If tions.
n A movement to give suffrage to youn
men between the age of 18 and 21 is m;
= king great progress in Massachusetts,.
) Regiments of regulars and many volur
Z, teers are offering themselves to the Spar
Is ish Government for service in Cuba.
Boston has milk inspector, and
x operations have materially improved IL