Middletown transcript., 1869-04-10
Items OF Ne ws.

his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Mr.. Bring |
hurst, of most extraordinary nature. He
charges his wife with committing the muir
der, and confesses that he was accessory
of the fact. Strange as the statement is,
it is corroborated in some degree by the
conduct of Mrs. Twitchell, who has for
some time past ceased her visits to her hus-
band, and is said to have expressed great
anxiety that reporters should be excluded
| from the scene of his execution. 1t is said
that the accused murderess left Philadel-
phia at an early hour on Saturday morn
ing in anticipation of her husbands con-
| fession.
The government has received informa-
ton from New Orleans that an expedition
is about to sail for Cuba to join the insur.
rectionary army. The expedition is under
stood to have been organized by General
Steadman, who, it will be remembered,
visited Cuba about month since, and it
is supposed made all the necessary ar
rangements for the landing of American
recruits. The Navy Department has sent
special instructions to Admiral Hoff to in
tercept them.
A deck-hand, named Murty, of one of
the steamers about Pittsburg, has fallen
heir to half million dollars. His cousin,
named Sullivan, it seems, died in lone
ly room of large building in St. Louis
some two years ago. Murty was this mans
cousin and heir, and only some few days
ago have the executors been able to obtain
any clue to his whereabouts.
The thieves of Philadelphia and New
York did good business on Sunday last.
In the first named city, they s'cracked"
the institution at Twelfth and Chestnut
streets, and retired with near million,
while in New York they entered store
and made haul of over one hundred thou
sand dollars.
The pressure of the hungry brigade at
Washington have compelled the closing up
of the free-lunch departments at all the
restaurants. A fellow was caught at one
of the lunch tables last week with every
pocket about him stuffed with bread and
meat. He was an applicant for a foreign
consulship.
Two needles, swallowed fifteen years ago
by two ladies in Ironton, Ohio, have re-
Gently made their exit within few days
of each other, one coming out at the breast
and the other at the shoulder blade. Both
ladies have suffered from consumptive
symptoms during the fifteen years.
A negro named Cambridge Adams out
ragged the persons of three white ladies
named respectively Ida Reinhart, Leah
Lehman and Lydia Detwiler, in Franklin
county, Pa. on Thursday. 1t was with
some difficulty that he was saved from
lynch law.
Since the Indian difficulty the fur trade
of Sitka, Alaska, has been suspended.
The Indians are terror-stricken at the des-
truction of their lodges, and it is thought
they will surrender the murderers of the
white men to the military.
In Memphis Tuesday, A. j. Wall,
while in fit of insanity, killed his room
mate, Newbury Gibson, with a hatchet,
seriously wounded George Nelson, and
then jumped from third-story window,
killing himself instantly.
The St. Johns Safety Fund Building in
Philadelphia was entered on Sunday, the
safe broken open and from $500, 600 to
81 600, 900 stolen, of which over $780,
900 was in available funds, greenbacks,
etc.
There is no clue to the perpetrators Of
tie big bond and greenback robbery in
Philadelphia. A reward of $25, 900 is
offered for the capture of the burglars and
the recovery of the funds.
The New Jersey Legislature has ad-
journed. The bill submitting the suffrage
amendment to the people, which passed
the Senate, failed in the House, not hav-
| in folya a.: A..
Senior Lemus, the Envoy for the Cuban
Provisional Government, says that the rev.
olutionists have twenty-five thousand men
under arms, and would have many more if
able to provide arms for them
Ex-King Fernando, of Portugal, is now
spoken of as q candidate for the throne of
Spain. His claims will be supported by a
majority of the members of the Constitu-
tional Cortes.
1t is said that Fernando of Portugal
will positively decline the Crown of Spain.
: The average yield of wheat to the acre
in this country, including California, is
,, eleven and half bushels. In Great Bri-
tain it is twenty-eight bushels
Ex-Confederate Gen. Lonsgtreet's nom
.. ination as surveyor of the port of New Or
leans was confirmed by the Senate on Sat-
urday in executive session.
The contract for carrying the mails be-
tween Liverpool and New York has final
) ly been awarded to the Cunard line by the
Postofice Department
,, Conspiracies against the Government
, bave been discovered at Naples and An
coma, Italy. and many leaders have been
t arrested.
The Spanish Prime Minister of war has
!, asked the Cortes to grant contingent of
/, 80, 900 men for the army of 1869.
The Havana Diario says the insurrec-
ton has been suppressed in the Central
: Department of Cuba.
,, Work on the bridge over the East riv-
er, between New York and Brooklyn, will
soon be commenced.