Middletown transcript., 1869-06-26
Items OF News.

The City Councils of Washington have
passed an ordinance imposing fine upon
the proprietor of any place of amusement,
who will refuse admittance to the negro to
those parts of the house occupied by white
persons. Pews of churches will be the |
next to be forced open to the negro.
A surveying party, engaged on the
route of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, was
attacked by Indians Saturday morning,
but after a sharp fight, in which four In
dams we're killed and several wounded,
the assailants were drievn off. Two of the
surveying party were wounded.
The Baltimore Sun says:-We have,
through our exchanges, glowing accounts
of the prospects of the wheat, corn, hay
aud vegetable crops generally in Mary
land, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia
and the Southern States. Every indica-
tion at present promises an abundant yield.
Six prominent Cuban leaders, icluding
Ignatio Alfaro, General of the Northern
Division of the Cuban Provincial Army,
and Colonel w. o. G. Ryan, Chief of the
Recruiting Service, were arrested in New
York Monday and put in Ludlow street
Jail.
The schooner La Have, captured by a
Spanish war steamer, on the charge of
having cargo of arms and ammunition
for the Cuban insurgents, has been taken
to Kingston, Jamaica, and her case will
be laid before the English Court.
Governor Geary was renominated on
Wednesday by the Republicans of Penn
sylvania. 1t is thought that Mr.. Packer,
or Gen. Hancock, will be the Democratic
candidate. Judge Williams was nomina-
ted for the Supreme Court.
John III. Surratt has opened a pro-
duce and general commission house at No.
80, Light street wharf, Baltimore. Now
that he is engaged in trade, he will proba-
bly, find his profit in the notoriety acquired
during his late trial.
The Revolution in the Island of Crete,
from August, 1867, to March, 1869, a
perod of two years and seven months has,
it is reported, cost the Turkish Govern
ment $25, 900, 900 in money and 1000
soldiers.
Fifty St. Louis merchants have guaran-
teed the Exchange or Grain Association of
that city against loss in the experiment of
; bringing an ocean steamer from New York
and loading her with grain for that port
The Emigration to the United States
from the port of Liverpool continues to in
!, crease. During the week ending June
5th, ten steamers with 1900 emigrant pas
sengers on board sailed from the Mersey.
Miss Annie Surratt was married, Thurs
day, June 18th, at St. Patricks Church,
Washington city, to Mr.. VIM. p. Taney,
chemist employed in the Surgeon Gene
rails Office. The ceremony was private.
The returns of votes on the Lay Repre-
senta ton question in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, so far, aggregate 40 con-
gregations in favor of, and 112 against
such representation.
The NJ. E. Church South are making
:. arrangements for the erection of New
i church at Millington, which they expect
: to complete during the summer.
q Rev. E. r. Keyes, of the New York
Methodist Conference, lately renounced
Methodism and joined the Swedenborgians
!. General Grant has returned safely to
u Washington from his Northern tour. He
u did not run over a COW on his return.
: The ''Red Stockings" of Cincinnati,
Q vanquished the Philadelphia "Athletics, u
MoHuay, III game vi paSe pall--l to To-
General Prim has issued an order to the
!, Spanish army prohibiting the officers and
6 men from mixing in politics.
: The intelligence comes from Iowa thai
a Mrs. Bloomer has gone back on her princi
q pies by again donning petticoats
" Texas has planted hundreds of acres o
" the castor bean, and is preparing to physi'
e the whole nation
ef Sacramento papers give long accounts
:. of the funeral of John G. Heenan, tn,
+ "Benicia Boy"
m Governor Clafin, of Massachusetts,, ha
% signed the Prohibition Liquor law, to g
'g into effect July 1st.
, New wheat and -four from South Caro-
lima, has been in Baltimore market for tn
past week.
10 Yellow fever has broken out on the Uni
~ ted States steamer Saratoga of the Gul
i'll Squadron.
T. The present Chinese population of Sa
he Francisco is estimated at from ten to twelv
~ thousand
1ee A ship cleared at Savannah, Georgia
81 last week, with cargo of cotton, value
vt at $456, GAG.
D. Connecticut has ffty-fve savings bank,
y in which 149, ,919 depositors have $41
O. 803, 900.
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