Middletown transcript., 1869-05-15
Items OF News.

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gress, providing for the payment of pen
sions to persons who have been disabled
in the military or naval service, as follows:
To persons rendered elpless, $25 a
month to persons disabled from the per-
formancc of manual labor, but not requir-
ing personal aid and attention, $40; and
all persons whose injuries amount physi-
cally or in effect to the loss of "a hand or
foot, S15.
Six steamers were burned to the waters
edge at Cincinnati, at two o'clock on We'd
nesday morning, and several hands and
number OF passengers are reported to have
periscd. The calamity was occasioned by
the upsetting of kerosene lamp. Four
teen kegs of powder exploded on one steam
er, scattering the flames. The loss on the
steamers and their cargoes is estimated at
5000, 900.
The burning of Pyle & Co.'s extensive
silk mill, at Patterson, Mt j. on Monday,
involved a loss of $300,000. No insur-
ance. Some twenty other buildings were
burned at the same time, entailing loss
of $500, 900. Eighty families were turn
ed into the streets, and $50 persons thrown
out Vi employment
Four sections of the Union Pacific rail-
road yet remain to be inspected by the
government commissioners and accepted
by the President. Three sections are
twenty miles each in length, and the last
section is twenty-siX miles. No orders
have been sent yet to commissioners to make
the inspection.
Prince Menschikoff the old Russian gen.
eral, admiral, diplomat and statesman, the
recognized leader for quarter of centu-
ry of the national or anti-reform party in
Russia, and the commander of the Russian
army during the Crimean war, died in St.
Petersburg on Monday, at the age of 80
years.
The Wilmington On. Co. Journal learns
that the farmers of Anson county, in that
State, have found it necessary to plow up
their wheat fields, one of the most disas-
trous hail storms ever experienced having
destroyed the wheat of that section on
Wednesday night last.
Two members of a church choir in AL
bany, having seeded therefrom. have been
gratifying their spite by singing in the
congregation out Of tune and at the top of
their voices. They have been arrested
and discharged, and still persist in singing
out of tune
Coils. Warren and Costello, the Fenians
so long imprisoned in British dungeons,
arrived at New York on Sunday, in the
steamer Nevada, from Queenstown. Their
arrival was unexpected, but in few days
they are to have a grand entertainment.
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railroad on Monday at II As, San Francis
co time. The stroke of the hammer at
Promontory Summit rung the San Fran
cisco City Hall bell and fired ffteen-inch
gun by telcgraphic attachment.
The first invoice of Japan teas by the
Pacific railroad was shipped on Monday
evening for st. Louis, thus inaugurating
the overland trade with China and Japan.
The shipment was made an hour or two
after the last spike was driven.
Five hundred and thirty persons recciv-
ed the rite of confirmation Sunday after
noon in St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church,
New York, at the hands of Archbishop
McCloskcy. The ceremony was witnessed
by an immense concourse.
Letters have been received at Washing
ton which state that the health of Mr.
George Peabody who is now in London,
is not good, and that he is anxious to re-
turn to his home in America, and end his
days here.
The Michigan City Qndiana) Enter
prise, of Friday, says that large quantities
of good Irish potatoes sold at twenty cents
per bushel in that place on Thursday, and
some sold as low as fourteen cents.
The advertised sale of the Mount Yer
non estate, the Washington Star says, does
not affect that portion of the property own
ed by the Ladies' Mount Vernon Associa-
ton.
During 1868 the Kentucky State troa-
sury disbursed the following sums: For
red foxes $S,085. so; for gray foxes $1O,-
400; for wolves $25; for wild cats 81 ,612.
Accounts from the central portion of
Iowa say that the amount of corn in the
hands Of the farmers is estimated by the
millions of bushels
Boutwell, has issued an order against
clerks in the Treasury Department cutting
their fngernails during office hours This
will bring them to the scratch.
South Carolina is soon to hold an agri-
cultural convention, at which an endeavor
will be made to form county societies to
import white labor.
Local annals, it is said, mention sixty
one earthquakes in Massachusetts during
the past 231 years. They haven't had
shaking enough yet.
Spring Grove NJ. +. Church, Wcomico
county, is announced for sale by the Shcr-
iff, at the suit of Benjamin p. Gravenor
against the Trustees.
A street passenger car was run into by
a locomotive, at Chicago, on Monday night,
and four or five persons were injured, it is
feared, fatally.
The Massachusetts, liquor dealers have
} organized Protective Uuion, and voted
800. 600 to defeat the efforts Of the pro-
hibitionists.
The expectation of dried peaches from
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