Middletown transcript., 1869-10-16
ITEMS OF NEWS.

CT, WIFI seventeen pcloonS l. uO ioeS III
the town of Eastport is stated at $780,
900, and the towns Of Lubec, Pembroke
and Perry have suffered heavily. A fresh
ct in Swift river, Oxford county, drove the
people for refuge to the hills, and devas-
tated all the farms along its borders.
The News From Spain by cable is not
suggestive of peaceful solution of that
country's internal difficulties. The long
threatened conflict between the Republicans
and the Monarchists becomes more immi-
nent, and the entire kingdom appears to
be politically in a volcanic condition.
Madrid though quiet, was in such peril
that the police had instructed the citizens
how to defend the capital in case of at.
| tack.
The Alexandria, Gazette, of Oct 9 says:
The rulnor mentioned in the Washing
of this morning that duel had been
fought in this vicinity by Col. Mosby and
Sheriff Boyd, of Fauquier county, and
both parties wounded, is incorrect, Col
Mosby has challenged Col Boyd, but no
meeting has yet taken place.
AT the Naragansett Park on Friday,
Lady Thorn won the trot for $1,000
against Palmer, Goldsmith Maid, Lucy
and American Girl. Her time was in
2:193, 2:1S4, and 2:21. American Girl
was distanced on the fourth heat. This is
said to be the fastest race, in the aggre-
gate of heats, ever trotted.
The Republican State Convention of
Mississippi have nominated James Lynch
a colored preacher, as their candidate for
Secretary of State.-Coats a. Co. the eel
ebrated English thread makers, are soon
to erect a mandatory at Providence that
will employ eight hundred operatives
A riot among the miners in the Depart
ment of Aveyron, France, occurred on
Thursday last After they had accom-
plished considerable damage, and caused
considerable alarm, troops arrived, charg-
ed the rioters, killed ten of them, and
then they dispersed.
The Denton Union says the four ne
groes we noticed in our last issue as being
arrested as suspicious characters in Queens
town and taken to Ccnterville Jail, have
been identified as the robbers of vessel
in Eastern Bay and murderers of two of
tho crew.
The public school children of Philadel-
phia had mammoth nutting party at
Farmount Park on Friday. 1t is estima-
ted that thirty thousand persons were pres
ent, Fifty men were employed by the
commissioners to club the trees
The Duchess County Mutual Insurance
Company's office, at Poughkeepsio, was
robbed on Saturday morning of Sl00, 600,
of which about $27 900 is in convertible
bonds. One of the supposed burglars has
been arrested in New York.
Sixteen fruit growers of Floyd county,
Indiana, have sold the present season a
bout 20, 600 bushels of peaches and 1000
bushels of pears. Floyd county is one a.
mong the best fruit-producing countries in
the West.
A colored man who had fcloniously as
suited a young lady school teacher, was
taken from the cOnstables and lynched by
"A party of masked men, in Prince Georges
countg, Md. on Monday last
The farm of Mr.. George W. Stoner, in
Eastern Kentucky, was sold on Friday last
for $129 60 per ACRE, the highest price
ever paid for land i'll that section. 1t COM
pliSSS r lures.
4 large meeting was held in Salt Luke
City on Thursday night to take action for
the admission of Utah into the Union.
The matter viii be pressed at the next
Congress.
VIM. Coleman, who recently robbed the
dwelling of Postmaster General Creswell,
III Cecil county, Md. was tried at Elkton
last week, convicted and sentenced to the
penitentary for ten years.
Fenianism continues lively in England
and Ireland. Meetings are numerous.
Six thousand persons attended the funeral
of Martin, the Fcnian, who died at Kings
College Hospital.
The New York Times rciterates its as
sertion that there are thirty gunboats build
ing in the port of that city for the Spanish
Government, to be used against the nsur-
gent Cnbans.
Municipal elections were held Monday
in Savannah and Mobile, and were carried
by the Democrats by large maiorities.
The negroes generally voted for the Dem
ocratic ticket.
During circus performance at Phila-
delphia Tuesday afternoon, Madame De
Berg, well knoWn squestrienne, was
thrown from her horse and had her arm
broken.
Fifteen men and twenty horses were
drowned Sunday, in St. Maurice river.
near Point Chateau, Canada, by the up-
setting of scow in which they were cross
ing.
Thomas FL. Field, retired New York
merchant, was killed last week in his grape
aroor at Rochelle, New York, by a spring
gun which he had set for thieves.
A Milwaukee despatch announces the cap
sizing of the Canadian vessel Kate Bailey.
In Lake Michigan, and the loss of her CAP
tain and first mate.
The Emperor of Austria, the Empress
of the French and the Sultan of Turkey
are all going to Suez together by way Of
Joppa and Jerusalem.