Middletown transcript., 1869-04-03
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cotton mills at Preston, England, and the |
number of persons out of work is 5000.
In some of the mills the strike is only par
tial, and number Of hands continue at
work. The masters have decided on not
accepting arbitration, and many Of them
are said to be of opinion that in the pres.
ent depressed state of the manufacture they
would best consult their own interests by
entirely closing their mills.
On Tuesday boat containing two SOL
diers from Fort Adams and boy named
Lynch was capsized in Newport harbor,
II. l. Miss Ida Lewis, daughter of the
night-keeper on the Lille Rocks, put out in
boat and rescued the two soldiers, but
the boy sunk just as she reached him.
Miss Lewis has before saved life under
similar circumstances. -...
Ex-Mayor James Harper, who was
thrown from his carriage in Fifth avenue,
New York, on Thursday evening, died on
Sunday. He was the senior member of
the great publishing firm of Harper Broth
ers, and was born in Newtown, Long Is
land, in 1895.
Miss Mary Grant of Richmond was
married in that city on Thursday, to Mr..
Ford, of Goochland co. Va. They were
the subjects of the article in the Southern
Opinion which resulted in the killing I'll.
r. Pollard, its editor.
Harrisburg will have the Democratic
State Convention of Pennsylvania this
year. and the 14th of July is the day fixed
for the assembling. The Republican State
Convention will meet in Philadelphia June
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The Mohawk river was fifteen feet above
low water mark on Wednesday. The en-
tire valley for a few miles above Schenec-
tady and the lower part of the city are
submerged. The water was receding.
The Greek Chambers have been dissol-
we'd. Elections will be held May 10th
and new Legislature will assemble June
5th The Turkish Ambassador has pre-
sented his credentials to the King.
The New Jersey Legislature has passed
bill laying tax of two per cent. on the
net incomes of bankers, brokers and all
corporations that do not now pay tax to
the State by contract.
Mayor A. Oakley Hall, of New York,
has issued circular warning the people
of the country that all tho gift enterprises
and dollar stores advertised in that city are
swindles.
Recent dispatches from our consul at
Toronto, Canada, to the State Department
report the emigration of large numbers of
persons to the western part of the Unit d
States.
A Northern gentleman who has lately
settled near Petersburg, Virginia, intends
to plant this year two hundred acres of
land in sorghum, and will manufacture su-
Fgar.
Cespedes, the Cuban insnrgent oomman-
der, has issued decree that all persons
hereafter taken prisoner except regular
Spanish soldiers are to be Immediately put
to death.
A New York paper says: Private des-
patches from Macon, Georgia, state that
the Hon. Alex. II. Stephens is dying.
He has been in very feeble health for
some weeks.
Brevet Brigadier General Eli S. Par
ker, late of General Grants staff, has ten
dered his resignation, it having for some
time been his intention to retire from the
military service.
One thousand dollars worth of books
have been stolen from the New York Mer-
camille Library within couple of months.
by a young German, who has been arres-
ted.
The ice in the Hudson at Albany broke
Tuesday, and the river rose rapidly, food
ing the docks. Freshets also occurred at
Hudson and other places along the river.
A matchmaker in Rochester, N. Y. has
just finished watch movement which will
run eight days without winding. 1t has
two main springs.
The so-called Peruvian monitors are said
to be really in the service of the Cuban in.
surgents, and to be now in the neighbor-
hood of Manzanillo.
They have in the White mountains, N.
Ii. a "Tuckerman's Ravine," where the
snow is 100 feet deep, and is expected to
last till August
The French custom-house returns show
that million francs worth of velocipedes
have been exported within the last twelve
months.
Ex-President johnson will have the
pleasure of reading an obituary notice of
himself, Of column in length, in the Chi
cago Tribune.
Blackstone, who murdered his wife and
two children in Philadelphia, on Tuesday,
and then committed suicide, is said to have
been insane.
Another serious break has occurred in
the Delaware and Hudson Canal. The
breach is 30 feet in depth and 200 in
width. .t.-
The freshet on the Hudson river, con-
tinues. The water is feet deep on the
piers at Albany. There has been no loss
of life. s.
The first infant born in the White Pine
mining region, Nevada. got several thous-
and dollars in silver bars as presents.
A New York paper says Tom Thumb
drinks. II he does, his wife has at least
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