Middletown transcript., 1870-10-29
ITEMS OF NEWS.

evening, as soon as lltnonuS had retlreC
for the night, and was enjoying his frs
snooze, his spouse, the rosy-fngered Au
rora, daughter of the morning, snatcheC
the saffron covered coverlet from his bed
and wrapping it about her, danced jis
in the northern sky"
The steamer Cambria, of the Anchor
Line, which left New York for Glasgow
about II days since, when within on,
hours run of port for which she was
making struck rock and became tota
wreck. Her passengers and crew mum.
bered two hundred, all of whom are sup.
posed to be lost except one man.
The. West Point court-martial met or
Friday Oct. 21st 1t tries all cadets who
are under charge of military offences, and
among others will have before it colored
cadet Smith, who appears to be regular
brute and discredit to his race.
The first colored jury was empannelled
in the criminal court, Judge A. L. Rob-
inson, at Evansville, Ind. last Friday.
Among the jury is one man who speaks
French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian,
and an Indian dialect. Two speak Ger
man and English. Three can read and
write; four can read. They sentenced a
colored man to six months in the county
Jail for larceny.
The Nashville (Tenn Banner keeps a
poet. Hear him talk about the people at
the state fair "It was beautiful specta-
Gle. The bright dresses of ladies and
children set off the sombre hucs of the
masculine portion of the crowd. 1t was
as if a rainbow had shivered into thous-
and fragments and fallen among the
throng.'
Perry Randolph, arrested in jackson
county, Mo. some months since, charged
with passing counterfeit money, has enter
ed suit against his lawyers for SIC, 900
damages, alleging that he paid them S7,-
6O0 to procure him bail, which they failed
to do, but kept his money.
The Hollywood Memorial Association
at Richmond, Va has adopted resolu-
tion recommending that Sunday, Nov. 27,
be set aside as a day of mourning through
out the South for Gen. Lee, and on that
day collections be taken up in all the
churches to constitute a Lee Monument
Fund
Two prisoners were taken from sheriff.
posse, near Orleans, Indiana. on Tuesday
night, by one hundred masked and armed
men, and hanged from bridge The vic
tins had robbed farmer several days
previously, and were ON their way to the
county Jail, at Paoli.
General Jubal EARLY invokes m Getting
OF all officers of the Confederate army Of
Northern Virginia now residing in tho
State to meet at Richmond, November I'd,
TO lnaugurate memorial association in
honor of the late Gen. r. Il. Lee.
A man in Buffalo pulled off his coat and
jumped in the canal to save woman from
drowning, when pick-pocket stole his
pocket-book from the coat, and the woman
abused him for pulling her hair in his ef-
forts to save her life.
New England was terribly shaken by
an earthquake, on Thursday, the 10Th inst.
on account of the sins of that section, no
doubt, but the shaking was not at all ad
equate to the turpitude of the people.
North Adams now manufactures a total
of LILO cases of shoes per month in six
factories OF these. Sampson, with his
Cinnamon, turns out four hundred, and
the striking Crispins cooperative company
one hundred
Honey is getting to be very important
item IN the marketable products of the
west. Jefferson, Wisconsin, in one day
last week, shipped 1O,320 pounds of this
luscious material.
The population of Lexington, Ky, is SO
averse to church-going that the clergy are
adopting open air preaching wherever they
can catch parishioners in the streets.
The census returns for Philadelphia,
just completed gives the whole population
at 657 179, In 1870, it was 565 ,529.
This is gain of 81, $50 in ten years.
A farmer in Stockbridge, Wisconsin. is
about to thresh his second crop of barley
this year. His frst crop yielded him
eighty bushels to the acre.
A New Orleans broker, awakening from
nap the other day, found that his tender
child had gone through him for $1,000
in notes and drafts to make kite a of.
Much sickness prevails on both shores of
the Mississippi. Half the inhabitants are
down with chills, and the other half seem
only to wait their turn.
Frederick Brickbusch, an alleged coun
terfeiter, has failed to appear for trial at
st. Louis and forfeited his bonds, amount
ing to $25, 600
The trial of Smith, the colored cadet at
West Point, has been concluded, and the
sentence will soon be made public at Wash
ington.
A New Jersey girl, to keep off mosqui-
toes, bathed her face with benzine. and
then went too near lighted lamp.
An exchange suggests that the defender
OF Metz be enrolled among the nobility as
the Duke of Bomb -Bazine.
The President, by proclamation, has
designated Thursday, November "a, as
day of national thanksgiving and prayer.
The court judges in Virginia have to
halloo to the darkey jurors to keep them
awake