Middletown transcript., 1869-07-24
Items OF News.

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An Iowa paper reports that as a man
and his wife were at work in field in that
state, their child, which was in a basket
near them, was heard to cry, and the hus-
band asked his wife to 60 and see what the
trouble was. She, intent upon her work
delayed few minutes, and then, to her
horror, found her child dead, with large
snake coiled around it The husband, in
the frenzy of bis anger and grief, struck
his wife with a hoe which IL held in his
hand, and killed her instantly.
Charles White, the lion tanner. travel
ling with Thayer's Menagerie, was actual
ly eaten up by the lions on Friday night,
in small town in Michigan. He is said
to have been struck on theshoulder by the
very same lion that came so near killing
him at Rochester, knocked ,inwn. and the
others at once sprang on him, and before
they could be beaten off, had torn him to
pieces and devoured the greater portion of
his body.
AT Red Creek. Wayne county, few
days ago, servant girl while gathering
tomatoes, received a puncture from one of
these horned worms, which created a sensa-
ton similar to that of bee sting. In a
short time the poison penetrated to every
part of her system, and she was'thrown
into spasms which ended in death.
The influx of Chinese laborers is q fixed
fact. They are bound to supplapt the ne
gro in the South, They are brought from
San Franciico to Memphis in lots of 100
to 800 at $50 each in currency, They
will do more work than the black man,
live on less and work for less, it is said.
A man named Thomas Burna, of Mid
dletown, Conn. in fit of maaia>a-potu,
recently leaped from the railroad bridge
which spans the Ohio river, at Steuben-
vile, distance of rs feet, into the river
below, He gained the shore and was ta-
ken charge of by the police, and felt much
better after his bath
There is Chinese murder trial in Ida
no Territory in which the oath is admin
istered to the Celestial witnesses by cut
ting off the head of a chicken, breaking
saucer and burning a piece of yellow pa
per. In long law suit the bill for fowls
is quite an item.
According to the official returns, the
vote for Walker in Virginia fen 26, 900
short of the white registration, and the
vote for Wells was IS, 900 short of the COL
ored registration. The Objectionable clau-
ses of the Constitution were defeated by
10000 majority.
1t is announced from Washington that
there will be no interference with the land
ing of the French telegraph cable. The
cable company have promised to conform
to whatever terms may be imposed by Con-
gress.
The Governor of Florida has issued a
proclamation, fixing the second day of
November next as the day on which a
popular vote shall be taken to determine
the proposed cession of West Florida to
Alabama.
Mr.. Seth Green is engaged in restocking
the Hudson with fish In the eighty box
es there are daily hatched from 1,00O,-
600 to 1000, ,000 fsh His present oper-
ations are carried on just below Castleton.
A farmer in Clinton county, Mo. few
days ago sold forty-nine head of cattle for
$3,98s They were purchased for the
New York market, and their average
weight was 1,348 pounds.
1t is understood that as soon as the
Gret Eastern returns to Europe she will
take fresh cable on board and start for In
dia to lay line between Bombay and
Suez.
Twelve hundred prisoners are confined
at Sing Sing, and they are become so tur-
bulent that there is danger of their break
ing out of prison. The keepers are re-
signing.
An expedition of over two hundred men,
with arms and ammunition, is reported to
have sailed from Long Island for Cuba
Tuesday.
Bowen, the Mayor of Washington, has
appointed negro named f. b. Vashen,
as trustee of white school in that city
The grading Of the Kent road is being
rushed ahead, and it will soon be ready
for rails as far down as Kennedyville.
Mr.. Peabody is at the White Sulphur
Springs, Virginia. where he has been re-
commended to 60 by his physicians.
Some of the coal companies in Luzerne
and Carbon counties propose employing
Cinnamon as miners.
Miss Rye hopes, she says, to place some
thousands of poor English girls in good
homes in America.
Eighty families in Austria are coming
to this country to settle near Richmond,
Va.
Ex-Secretary Seward sailed from San
francisco for Sitka on Tuesday.
General r. e. Lee is at the Rockbridge
Alum Springs, Virginia,