Middletown transcript., 1869-08-14
Items OF Ne ws.

The topic of the annexation of Nova
Scotia to the United States has lately been
discussed Interestingly in that province
The party favoring the idea is divided as
to the question of time, one holding that
immediate annexation is better; the other
approving an anterior movement for inde
pendence as certain to lead to the end de-
sired.
Early Wednesday morning, several rob-
bers entered the car of the American Mer-
chants Union Express, on the N. Y. Cen
tral Railroad, at Fonda, overpowering the
baggage master and express agent, and rob-
bed the express safe Of $140, 900 They
got off the train with their booty after rid
ing past Schenectady. The baggage mas
ter and agent were badly beaten.
DR.. Francis l.. Turner, of Newport, r.
L., died on Thursday from the effects of
poison. A year since package of arsenic
which he carried carelessly III his coat
pocket broke open and spilled the contents.
subsequently he thoughtlessly placed lun
cheon in the same pocket, and thus partook
of the poison, which resulted so fatally.
Thirty gunboats, the property of the Span
ish government, were seized Tuesday week
by the United States authorities. Fifteen
of these vessels were at Mystic, Conn,
and fifteen in New York. They were in
different stages of construction, but some
were nearly complete, and one was to have
sailed from New York last Thursday.
Great distress prevails among the poor
of Washington, and some are already per-
ishing from the want of the nccessaries of
life. Since April last $50 families per
month, averaging two persons to each fam
lily, have been relieved by the National
trcedmen's Relief Association.
1t is reported that IL plan is being con-
sidered by the Spanish Government, look
ing to the sale OF Cuba to the Cubans for a
price to be paid out Of the revenues of that
island !; and 1t is intimated that should this
proposition be rejected, our Government
will virtually recognize the independence
of Cuba
The management of the Albany and Sus-
quehanna Kallroad has been temporarily
surrendered to Governor Hoffman by the
opposing parties, and the road will be oper-
ated AS usual, while the contest for the
direction will be fought out in the Courts.
1t is reported In Madrid that twenty
thousand Spanish troops arc to be sent to
Cuba i'll September. The Cortcs will as
semble in October and proceed at once to
the election of King Several Carlist
agents have been arrested in that city.
Two boys who had run away from home,
went to sleep in an ash pit on the New
Jersey Central Railroad, near Elizabeth,
last Friday night. During the night, the
fires of locomotive were pushed into the
pit, burning them to death.
The English Atlantic cable will, after
the 10th instant, send messages between
New York and any part ofthe United King
dom for seven dollars in gold for the first
ten words, and seyenty-five cents, gold for
each additional word.
Philip Gilmartin killed his son Thomas,
in Cleveland, Ohio, carly yesterday morn
ing, Thomas was trying to enter the
house, and his father, mistaking him for a
burglar, shot him dead.
An OK train was attacked by Indians,
near Camp Cook. on the Plains, few
days since. One white man was killed and
one wounded, while two Indians were kill
ed and several wounded
Nineteen thousand one hundred and ff-
teen acres of land were sold at Kirkwood,
Georgia, ON Friday, at prices ranging from
thlrty-nine to seventy-nine dollars per
acre.
The suspension is announced of the dry
goods commission firm of Bowers, Beck
man y Co., of New York. Their liabili-
ties are estimated at So, ,000,0 900.
AT many of the watering place hotels
the walters are not paid any salary, the
fees they receive being considered sufficient
compensation for their services,
Two men were precipitated down shaft
into coal mine, in Leavenworth, five hun
dred and sixty-one feet, week ago, and
were instantly killed.
Two ladies were poisoned in Marion
county Iowa, on Tuesday, by dose of
, belladonna, given them by druggist,
and both died in few hours.
5 A published statement of the result of
the harvest from every township in Onta-
rio, Canada, shows that this years yield
r has never before been equaled.
Eighty-two oXteams are now employed
by the Hudson Bay Company to transport
as many tons of tea through Minnesota to
e the Red River Settlements e
Eminent engineers have pronounced the
Niagara Falls Suspension. Bridge unsafe.
Iimid travellers, in consequence, are avoid
A ing passing over it.
t Niagara is so poorly patronized the ho-
! tel keepers have been compelled 10 reduce
& their charges,
e Seven sisters work their fathers farm in
: Wright county, Minnesota They raised
/ and sold last year 1900 bushels of grain
: Six large ice houses, at Crystal Lake,
r near Chicago, with large quantity of ice,
: were destroyed by fire yesterday morning
! The weather is the coolest in Lewiston
= Maine, experienced at this season for many
, years, with slight frost on low lands.
+ There was slight fall of snow on Fri