Middletown transcript., 1870-06-04
ITEMS OF NEWS.

over flats as well as through the channel
drying millions of bushels of bunkers be-
fore them, and filling the coves, creeks,
bitches and ponds in the meadows .eull.
They continued on their course down the
bay as far as Little Egg Harbor Inlet.
At that place they drove shad on shore so
that people gathered them up by wagon
loads. The blue fish were very large,
weighing seven pounds and over. Such
a sight has never been known by the oldest
inhabitant. They lie in creeks, ponds
&c. along the meadows, two feet deep.
An audacious robbery was committed
in broad daylight at the ST. Nicholas
Hotel on Wednesday. Two of the guests
of the house, supposed to be Italians or
Frenchmen, decoyed diamond broker,
Mr.. Joseph t. Isaacs, of East Thirteenth
street, into their room, and by threaten
ing his life induced him to submit to an
application of chloroform. While he was
in an unconscious state they robbed him
of his money and some jewelry and de-
camped. Mr.. Isaacs, on coming to his
senses, found himself bound and gagged,
and had great difficulty in procuring his
release. The ingenious brigands have
not been caught.
Jerome, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte,
died at Philadelphia, on Sunday. He
had been suffering for eight months from
cancer in the throat. He was the son of
Jerome Bonaparte and Miss Paterson, of
Baltimore, and was 63 years of age. His
mother, though 80 years old, is still liv-
ing and is in full possession of her mental
faculties, and very active, withal.
Mayor Ellison, and the rest of the Con-
servatve city ticket, in Richmond, Va.
received certificates of election on Tuesday
morning. They subsequently held
meeting, and agreed to decline their Off
ces, if legal investigation shall show
that their election depended on the throw
ing out of the vote of the precinct from
which the ballot box was stolen. The
Republicans will contest the election in
the courts.
Early Sunday morning Mrs. Pagan,
while searching for her husband in a beer
saloon in Oliver street, New York, was
grossly insulted by an unknown man.
One Thomas Crowley, who was present
and witnessed the assault, knocked the
man down, killing him instantly Crow
ley was arrested, but an examination dis
closed no marks of violence on the dead
man, and he was discharged.
While workmen were demolishing an
old frame building in Irvington street, N.
Y. on Tuesday, they discovered the skele-
ton of man boarded up in a niche be-
tween the weatherboards and chimney,
with the appearance of having been there
many years. A colored woman living in
the house the past twenty-five years is
ignorant of how the skeleton came there.
A despatch has been received by dis
tinguished diplomat at the capital. from
st. Petersburg, that the Emperor Alex
ander will shortly sign decree of abdi-
cation in favor of his eldest son, if there
is no improvement in his health, which his
physicians pronounce very much enfeebled.
Hon. W. B. Washburn has addressed
letter to the Republican voters of the
Ninth Maine Congressional District de-
clining to be candidate for the Forty
second Congress he has an eye on the
Senatorial chair to be vacated by his friend
Morrill, next March.
IA Soh0 maui iIOh tHe IlmDeT OF tne
Old Ironsides, and presented by Franklin
Pierce, years ago to Jefferson Davis, was
confscated when Mr.. Davis's plantation
was occupied by the Union troops, and
has just been restored.
The subject of who is to wear the Span
ish crown seems to be as far from a set
tlement os ever. Prim considers the re-
fusal of Espartero as defnitive, and that
the Regency should be consolidated.
The New York city elevated railway
was successfully tested on Monday night
throughout the entire length by car loaded
with weight of 10000 pounds. 1t will
be opened to the public this week.
Refusal to sell dark damsel soda wa
ter has brought disloyal druggist at New
Orleans before the Court. That's one of
the etfervested rights of the amendment.
The wheat crop of Georgia promises a
fine yield. South Carolina. Georgia,
Florida and Mississippi promise fine corn
and cotton crops.
The mails from Australia to England
are now carried by the Pacific Railroad
beating the quickest Suez canal time by
three days.
The break in the French cable has
been found to be off the southwest corner
Sable Island, about 295 miles east of the
Massachusetts shore.
Queen Victoria's birthday was celebra-
ted on Saturday throughout England and
the provinces. She was born in 1919,
and has completed her 51st year.
Troubles are reported in Liberia. The
Palmas people threaten secession because
they do not like postmaster appointed
by the President.
Bishop Simpson will leave America on
june 8, to preside over the Germany and
Switzerland Conference, which meets on
June 10Th.
A New Orleans darkey has been suing
confectioner for not entertaining him the
same as if he were white. The jury disa-
greed.
Unregenerate boys at New Orleans have