Middletown transcript., 1869-07-03
Items OF News.

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rie have made a partial return to the Uni
ted States assessor, from which it appears
that Mr.. Guthrie died possessed of nearly
$500, 900 worth of personal property, be-
sides large amount of valuable real es-
tate, including three whole squares and
several lots in the city of Louisville, and
over $4,000 acres of land in Texas.
At Sing Sing prison, Wednesday morn
ing, seven convicts boarded sloop, and
driving the crew on shore, tried to escape
down the river. An alarm was given,
they were fired upon, and one of them was
mortally wounded. The rest becoming
panic-stricken, were unable to manage the
vessel, and all were recaptured
Three tons of solid silver in bricks,
weighing from 1900 to 1904 otinces each,
were recently shipped from Georgetown,
Colorado, to Chicago. These bricks were
packed in sealed leather sacks one, how
ever, was uncovered, and was stamped
as weighing 125 pounds ounces and was
worth S13O2.
The daily bill of fare of the elephant
Empress, in Central Park, N. Y. is twen-
ty-fve four-pound loaves, three hundred
pounds Of oats and bran mash mixed, and
one hundred and fifty pounds of hay.
This she washes down with forty pals of
water.
Mr.. Patrick Sarsfeld Gilmore, of Ath-
lone, is proposed by the Boston Traveller
as the recipient of 500, 900 from the lib
eral hands of Boston, and all for getting
up and getting off the jubilee.
The Ocean National Bank, in New York,
was robbed on Sunday night of about
$3.50, 900 in dcpositors' securities, and
$40, 900 of the banks money. The rob-
bers are unknown.
The shoemakers of Lynn, Mass. have
announced that after July l, they will
work but eight hours day-and that
they will strike, if necessary, to carry
their point.
At the Office of the Methodist, in New
York, returns of the Lay Representation
vote continue to be received. Up to Mon
day night the figures were 81, 16S yeas, to
12,175 nays.
The Collector at New Orleans has seized
large quantity of sugar, including the
entire stock of imported sugar in bond in
that city, owing to the discovery of extern
sive frauds.
The Boston papers complain that, not
withstanding the Prohibitcry law is sup
posed to be in force, there is no diminuton
in the number of drunken people arrested
in that city.
English servant girls have been brought
over in considerable numbers to Canada |
The need of house labor in this country,
could be supplied in like manner from the
same source.
A New York firm is making an organ
on an order from Japan. 1t goes to Yo-
kohama and will be the first instrument of |
the kind in the empire.
Fifty years ago there was not a silk
manufactury in the country Now there
are upwards of sixty large establishments
engaged in the business.
One firm in Norfolk, Va. has sold S5,-
600 worth of Strawberries this season, the
average price being 81 quart Early
shipments, of course.
A savage duel, with clubs, was fought
by two jealous negro women, in Hcnrico
county, Va on Sunday, resulting in the
death of one of them.
A number of fillibusters, including sew
eral Americans, captured on the Cuban
coast. have been executed by the Span
iards
1t was officially reported at Rio on the
Sth inst. that President Lopez had pro-
posed to leave Paraguay on certain condi-
tiOns.
During the recent tornado in Iowa. four
thousand feet of lumber was carried sevc-
raj miles through the air, the boards being
torn in pieces
In some parts of Minnesota thousands
of geese are raised simply for their feath-
ers and 1t is said to be very profitable
crop.
The Imperial Cinnamon have had
great battle with the Mohammedan rebels,
and slaughtered 90 600 of them.
Part of the snow sheds of the Central
Pacific Railroad, near Emigrant Gap, have
been destroyed by fire.
The French cable is in hitch, they've
cut and buoyed it in shoal water, and set
about finding the cause of the interruption.
Anna Smith, aged nineteen years, owns
and works farm of one hundred acres, in
Mills county, Iowa.
California pays premium of one dollar
to any one who plants shade-treo by
roadside.
Belle Boyd was married few days
since, in New Orleans, to a Mr. John S.
Hammond.
A colony of Poles propose to settle on a
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