Middletown transcript., 1869-09-18
MUTILAIE
1rEpIs OF NEWS.

in diplomatic circles, that all the available
vessels, officers and seamen of our navy
are now under orders to sail at moments
notice. The popular solution Of this strange
circumstance is that our government has
prepared itself for active demonstration re-
garding Cuban affairs, if the result of the
pending negotiations with Spain on that
subject should require it,"
The St. Louis papers say that on sober
second thought they had discovered chat
their advocacy of the plan of transferring
the Capital of the United States to that
city was injudicious, and they call for an
abandonment of the proposed convention in
that interest, and even hint that ''the peo-
pie of St. Louis are far from being unani-
nous in support of the project"
Two hundred thousand pounds of Colo
RADIO silver ore have been shipped to the
Kansas Pacific Rarilroad, by wagons, des-
tined for London, England. 1t is believ-
ed that when the road is completed to Dem
yer an immense amount of the rich ores Of
Colorado will find their way east for sMelt-
ing.
Twenty car loads of butter recently went
through Cheyenne for California, the con-
tract for which was made over the Allan
tic cable by a firm in Liverpool with a
firm in Chicago, at twenty-seven cents per
pound. The butter is consigned to En-
glish houses in Hong Kong, Pekin and
Canton.
1t is estimated at Pottsville that by the
first of December the supply of coal will
be fully six hundred thousand tons over
that of last year. This would seem to in.
dictate lower price for coal later in the.
season than at present.
The Humboldt Centennial was celcbra-.
ted in New York Tuesday with musical
and other festivities, and statute of Hum
bolt was unveiled in the Center Park. The,
Centennial was also observed in many 9th.
er cities, including Pittsburg, Richmond.
Chicago, Cincinnati, etc.
Fay and Loring, two of the Harvard
crew, arrived in New York Tuesday by
the City of Antwerp from Liverpool The,
rest of the Harvards have gone to Paris.
Jim Mace, the English pugilist, was pas
senger.
John r. Penrose, Philadelphia mer-
chant and President of the Point Breeze
Park Association, who had handsome
summer residence in Thornbury township,
Chester county, died suddenly last Satur-
day.
At Frankford, Philadelphia, on Tues
day, during quarrel about politics, James
Mclaughlin struk William Shuster in the
face with chair, causing injuries of which
he died in about an hour. Mclaughlin es-
capped.
A Boston paper says that drunkennee
is just as common in the streets of that ci-N
ty as ever, and intoxicating liquors flow as
freely as when there was no law to restrain
their sale.
Peter Coyle has sold the Brandywine
Springs property to two physicians from
Philadelphia, for So, 900. The purchas-
ers design fitting up large water cure
establishment.
The fire in the Avondale mine, it is be-
lieved, was the result of the carelessness
of miner who descended the shaft with a
bundle of hay, which became ignited from
the lamp in his hat.
The English Atlantic cable now sends
messages between New York and any mart
of the United Kingdom for 81 in gold for
the first ten words, aad rs cts, gold. for
each additional word
The London Times is of the opinion that
Cuba will ultimately be annexed to the
United States. On the other hand, Gene
raj Prim says he will hesitate at no sacri-
fice to crush the rebellion in that island. q
The anvil chorus is to be sung at the
Sydenham Crystal Palace by eight thou
sand voices, with accompaniment of an
wills, cannon and bells. The idea is sneer-
ed at by the London musical journals.
Charleston Courier of Friday says the
hotels are crowded, the jobbing houses are
thronged, and never before has the busi-
mess prospect of the city been more en-
couraging.
Mrs. Margaret Forney, mother of Mr..
John W. Forney, died on Tuesday, at her
home In Lancaster, Penn, at the advance
ed age of nearly seventy seven years.
Large parties of miners are leaving White
Pine and going to the Hassayampor dis
trlct, on the Pacific coast, where new and
very rich gold diggings are reported.
1t is announced that Napoleon is we'll,
and rumored, though not believed, that he
intends to abdicate in favor of his son,
who is only thirteen years of age.
Jenny Lind has become quite poor, her
husband having squandered her fortune.
She is to open school for opera singers
in Paris. sd
A meeting was held at Quebec on Sun
day afternoon, at which resolutions favor
ing annexation to the United States were
adopted.
A Boy, diving into the James river,
near Drury's Bluff, discovered the remains
OF sunken steamer, which prove to be the,
Confederate war vessel Raleigh.
A train was recently attacked by Indians
near Antelope Creek, in Arizona, and il
is reported that three of the whites and
twenty of the Indians were killed. '''
1t is reported in Boston that Mrs. Stowe
is SO overcome by the unexpected recep-
tion Of her article on Lord Byron that she