Middletown transcript., 1869-01-09
items OF News.

CCDutOT w uuC HAS EcCclfcu IHe T6COTuS
of the electoral votes of all the States which
voted for President at the November cleo
ton, except three, California, Oregon and
Nevada. The California messenger died
on the way, and the one from Oregon is
detained by SHOWS on the route
The three negroes who murdered the
captain and mate Of the schooner Brave,
and were to have been hanged on the 9Th
instant at Princess Anne, have been res
pited until the 9th of March, to await the
trial of Bailey, their companion, which
commences next week.
r. ffhe farm of Ex- Governor Wise, so long
held BY the Government, has been surrenr-
dered to him, by order or the United
States authorities. The government also
orders the payment of rent to the owner of
Libby prison for years use of it.
Severe snow storms are reported to have
taken place at Chicago, Illinois; Boston
and Springfield, Massachusetts; New York,
Buffalo and Albany, New York; on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday last, blockading
up roads, delaying trains, &c.
bought, for $500, the extensive water
pow'r in South Carolina, known as the
! Columbia canal, and it is believed he will
erect large manufactures on land border
ing on the canal. Nv
A bill has been reported in the United
States House of Representatives, appro-
priating twelve millions of dollars to build
canal around the Falls of Niagara, and
has been made the special order for the
10Th of January. t--.
Eight persons were killed and thirty
seriously injured at Rochester, on We'd
nesday evening, by the giving way of the
floor of St. Peter and Paul's Roman Cath
lie School House, in which festival was
being held .r4. .E
At Charlotte, North Carolina, dispute
arose on Friday last, in the mayors office,
between negro and James A. Gleason,
prominent merchant, when the negro drew
pistol and shot Mr. Gleason dead on the
spot. .t.ta,
A Savannah paper says that Alexander
H. Stephens has been offered $25, 900 for
his first volume of the War Among the
States, and that the second volume is rap
idly approaching completion.
The Baltimore Gazette is satisfied "that
the population of Baltimore is now over
$50, 900, and that at the next census it
will certainly be more than 400, 900, near
ly double what it was in 1860"
The English government is said to have
sent an agent to Bogota to watch Mr..
Gushing, and see that the United States
does not get too much advantage in the
Darien ship canal negotiations.
The conference on the Eastern question
will meet in Paris on the 9th of January.
Russia will demand strict non-intervention
on the part of European Powers in the
quarrel between Turkey and Greece.
A negro man named Joseph Thomas,
was killed with an axe near North East in
Cecil county, on the Goth ult A mulat-
to named Philip Nolan, is suspected, and
has been committed to Elkton Jail.
Two colored men, named Sandy Digges
and Lewis Taylor, in the employ of the
French Minister, N. Bcrthemy, were found
dead in their beds Tuesday morning, in
Washington City
The Directors of the Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore Railroad Com
pany have declared dividend of per
cent. clear of government tax" pay
able on and after the 7th of January.
The immigration returns of the past
year show falling off of thirty thousand
in the arrivals at the port of New York
alone, when compared with the preceding
year.
The new case against Surratt was dis
missed by the Grand Jury at Washington
on Thursday on the ground that he was
pardoned by the last amnesty Proclama-
ton.
Four men were blown to atoms by pre-
mature explosion at the wreck of the
steamer Scotland, off Sandy Hook, on
Sunday, and several others severely in
jured.
The Alabama claims, for which authcn-
ticated accounts are filed in the State De-
partment, amount in all to something over
eight millions of dollars.
An immense amount of lumber will be
cut in the Maine forests this winter-three
times as much on the Penobscot, it is es-
timated, as last year.
The trial of Mrs Twitchell is to COM
mence Monday week. She made formal
application to the court to have day fix
ed, and protests her innocence.
A Halifax, N. S. letter says: "Our
coal and gold fields are being rapidly de-
veloped, and will prove, we think, the
most productive on the continent"
The minister of the Netherlands, Mr..
Adian Mazel, was married on Thursday,
in New York, to Miss McRae, Baltimore
lady.
Several children were injured, one ia
tally, by the falling of the roof of skat-
ing rink, in Auburn, New York, Saturday
night.
New Years day was celebrated as the
sixth anniversary of the emancipation Of
slaves in several cities North and South.
The day will be regularly kept hereafter.
There were Sol deaths in San Francis
co during the month of December, of
which 148 were from smallpox.