Middletown transcript., 1869-08-21
Items OF News.

| entlre community tuTneu Oub tO save JHe
FRESHMEN, women and children setting
to work with grating wax and bandages
to save as many of the trees as possible.
The wax supplied the place of the bark,
and the trees continued vigorous growth.
But the scoundrcl was not to be balked of
his revenge or malice. Soon afterward
the orchard was again entered, the trees
completely grdled, and there seems to be
no doubt that the work of destruction is
effectually done. The splendid orchard
is now but field of dead and decaying
treetrunks. The loss is at least $40, 900,
and the affair creates great excitement.
In the National Labor Congress Tues
day number of resolutions were presen-
ted and referred. They refer to the eight
hour system; advocate reduction of the
interest on the public debt, and, the issue
of greenbacks to pay the Five-twenties
oppose the National Bank system; favor
the alteration of the revenue laws, and
the taxation of United States bonds; op-
pose land monopolies and favor the distri-
button to settlers of the public lands; op-
pose coolie immigration and the use of con-
vict labor in penitentiaries, and declare in
favor of supporting candidates for office,
irrespectively of party, who endorse these
principles.
Recent advices from Cuba affirm that
the cause of the insurgents is in highly
encouraging condition. The operations Of
Generals Jordon and Quesada have been
cminently successful, giving them possess
sion OF large field of resources with seve-
raj points on the coast. Valmaseda's move
ments of late have, on the contrary, result
ted disastrously. The recognition of the
insurgents, as boligerents, it is claimed,
would result in greatly expediting the achic-
vement of Cuba's independence.
The Commissioners of the Worlds Fair
of 1851, held in London, have just issued
a prospectus, announcing that similar ex-
hibition will take place in 1871. As the
Crystal Palace has been removed to Syden-
ham, few miles from London, building is
already prepared, although additions may
be necessary in order to rival the display
OF the French Exposition of 1867.
Immense quantities Of California fruits
have arrived in Chicago. The pears are
said to be the finest ever brought to that
city, and the purple plums are without su-
periors. The opening shipments have re-
suited well, and the most experienced
fruitcrers are delighted with the perfec-
ton OF these summer products, brought
six days journey overland
A train on the Northern Central Rail |
road was thrown from the track, near Har
rlsburg, on Saturday morning, by some
rocks which had fallen from an oyerhang-
ing embankment. The locomotive, bag
gage and express cars were smashed. the |
engineer and fireman killed, and several
other railroad employees Injured.
The steamer Port-au-Prince reached |
New York Wednesday, with the schooner
Mary Jane, of Boston, in tow, from San
Domingo, which she fell in with at sea.
The entire crew of the schooner were found
helplessly down with yellow fever, the
captain and two other men dead, and their
bodies putrefying on deck.
Chang and Eng Bunker, the Siamese
Twins, returned from Europe in the City
OF Antwerp, which arrived on Sunday at
New York. They deny that they left
America for the purpose of being separa-
ted, and say that the runor to that effect
was merely sensation of Barnum's.
There is report from Richmond that
General Candy will in few days convene
the Legislature of Virginia, requiring the
members to take the test oath, and when n
member cannot take the oath, give his
seat to the candidate receiving the next
highest vote.
The st. Cloud (AIinn. journal records
as one of the freaks of the recent Grove
Lake tornado the picking up of a mare
standing in field, and carrying her thirty
yards, dropping her in marsh, breakinS
her neck and leg. Her colt, standing be-,
side her, was uninjurcd.
Orders have been given to the tellers in
the Treasury Department at Washington
to pay out no more ten-dolar grecnbacks.
The whole issue will be withdrawn and
destroyed, and no new greenbacks of the
denomination will be substituted.
Frederick Douglass, Jr., recently mar
ried daughter of Ii. Molyneux Hewlett,
of Harvard University. Molyneux is
mulatto. He was formerly prize-fighter
of considerable reputc in England, and is
now instructor in gymnastics at Harvard.
A temporary bridge, used in the repair
of the Falls of st. Anthony, Minnesota,
was swept away on Saturday morning,
Three men were on the bridge at the time,
and were carried over the falls and drown.
ed.
The cargo of African slaves recently
landed in the Cinco Villas District. Cuba
were captured and Immediately liberated
by the insurgents. Their condition was
represented as extremely wrctched,
Ihe steamer Cumberland exploded her
boilers near Shawneetown, Ind, on Sat-
tturday morning, and eighteen or twenty
lives are reported lost. The vessel is n
total loss.
A Madrid letter to the London Times
describes the condition of public affairs in
Spain as desperate. The treasury is emn-
ty, no taxes can be collected, and there Is
popular discomfort everywhere.