Middletown transcript., 1870-04-23
ITEMS OF NEWS.

On Tuesday evening a farmer, living
near Clinton, Indiana, seeing two suspi-
cious looking men, called to them to stop.
Upon this they ran, and were pursued by
the farmer and party of railroad laborers.
They escaped by swimming across the
Wabash river, and in doing so one of them
threw away package, which was found
to contain SIG, 900 of the money recently
stolen from the Vermillion county treas
ury. Hundreds of persons are in pursuit
of the thieves.
The founder of Troy Female Seminary,
Mrs. Emma Willard, the mother of the
present system of female education in this
country. died at her residence, in Troy,
N. Y. on Friday last.
The United States Consul at Zanzibar
reports to the Department of State the
death, from Asiatc cholera, of four of the
seamen of the bark Sterling of Boston,
and that within six weeks there have been
10, 900 deaths ON the island.
General George b. Mcclellan, and a
number of leading iron manufacturers, ar
rived in Bedford, Pa on Tuesday last for
the purpose of examining recent discover
les of vast iron ore deposits in that vicinity.
An investigation into the affairs of John
Spear, ex-collector of internal revenue for
Kansas, is going on at Leavenworth.
The testimony thus far is said to show q
defalcation of 500, 900.
1t is reported in Paris that Great Brit
ain and Russia have agreed to propose a
general disarmament to the Prussian Gov
ernment. Duke de Pesbiguey will pro-
pose general European Congress at the
termination of the plebiscte.
Corn is selling in central Iowa at thirty
cents per bushel, delivered on the railroad
Wheat is very plenty, and is worth only
fifty cents. The general complaint there
is-too much produce and too little money.
A Connecticut baby leaped from his
nurses arms the other day, through Sec
ond story window. The nurse went down
to pick up the lifeless remains, when she
saw him hanging safely by his dress to the
blind fastening.
In consequence of the failure of the
treaty for the sale of Saint Thomas to the
United States, General r. Roasoeff, Min
lister of war, has rendered his resignation
A steam velocipede has been invented
by some hater of his race 1t will add
the horrors of occasional explosions to
those of aching backs, spraipcd ankles and
bruises.
The foundrymen and moulders of Paris
about 10, 800 strong, and also the tailors,
struck on Wednesday. The sugar refners
and hat makers have joined the strike.
| An attack was made on General Prm
and Rivero in the Spanish Cortcs on Wed
nesday by the Republican Deputies, ac.
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cent outbreak at Barcelona
The importation of grain from the Bal
tic Provinces of Russia has been so great
as to depress the breadstuffs market in
London and Liverpool
The General Assembly of Maryland at
its recent session, authorized the estab-
lishment of Bank in Salisbury, to be
called the Wicomic1 Exchange Bank.
There is living in the nei ghborhood of
Dumfries, Prince William county, Va,
the widow of revolutionary soldier-Mrs
Chloe Flatford, who has reached the un-
usual age of lis years.
a Dayton lady played game of poker
with her husband the other night, mistak-
ing his entrance for that of burglar
He is very badly bruised.
A duel in Indiana was averted by one
of the principals fainting when brought to
the scratch the other magnanimously re.
fusing to ''shoot sick man.
Six dusky patriots in Tennessee, the
other night, gave young white man 60(
lashes for hewitching them, yet the troops
are not called for
The mission of the agent of the Tenn.
essee farmers who was sent to China tt
rocure laborers was unsuccessful
The International meeting of the Soutl
American Republics, through their repre-
sentatives, will take place in May.
Frederick Douglass is to be candidate
for Congress in New York State.