Middletown transcript., 1870-04-02
ITEMS OF NEWS.

as, dlIer du llinesS vi turee udyS, ou Mou-
day night, at seven o'clock, from an attack
of apoplexy. He was fifty years os age,
and leaves widow, who was with him at
the time of his death General Thomas
was born in Virginia and educated at
West Point. General Sherman has Or
dered that his remains be brought to Troy,
N. Y. the family residence of the de-
ceased for intcrment, and it is expected |
they will reach there the latter part of the |
present week. ,t't
The equnoctial storm, of Sunday last,
was one of great violence. A family of
five persons were crushed by the walls of
new building in N. York, blown down
upon them, as they sat in an adjacent
house. Ayoung lady in Brooklyn, going
home from church. was blown against
stoop with such violence as to fracture her
head. In Baltimore, twenty houses were
blown down, and ten large trees were
blown up by the roots in Druid Hill Park.
A sloop sunk in the back basin, but no
one was hurt.
The President, by proclamation of May,
1865, offered 500, 900 reward for the
capture of JEFF, Davis, and Congress, by
act approved, July 27, 1868, appropriated
money to pay the reward. The third Aud
itor has completed settlement in favor of
two hundred and forty claimants under
this act, which has been confirmed by the
Second Comptroller, and in the course of
few days the claimants may expect to re-
ceive the money.
The Inman steamer City of Boston, now
so long missing had on board 55 cabin
passengers, 81 in the steerage, and "a Off
GERS and crew. If the City of Boston is
lost, 191 persons have persisted. The list
of passengers published included the names
of several officers of the Royal Artillery,
and of other British regiments who were
returning to England from Canada.
The Conservative members of the North
Carolina Legislature, in an address to the
people of the State, represent that Gov
ernor Holden's recommendation to Con-
gress for the suspension of the writ of
haJeas corpus throughout the State is un-
warrantable, and he is guilty of a willtul
libel upon a people whose rights he is
sworn TO protect.
Mr.. Thornton, the British minister, has
called upon Mr.. Revels, and the latter is the
recipient of numerous invitations to din
ners and private parties. He is invited to
dine with Mr.. and Mrs. Fish Report
says Mr.. Sumner has prevailed on Mr..
Revels to spend the summer in Boston.
Lady Franklin recently arrived at Rio
Janeiro, on the way to Vancouver's Is
land, where settler is said to have let
tar from Sir John, or relating to him,
which he will not deliver except to Lady
Franklin in person. She is nearly eighty
years of age
Twenty barrels of silver coin, for
change, arrived in New York from the
Philadelphia mint last Saturday. 1t is
being received there from Canada in large
quantities, and is used extensively as
2 change.
On Tuesday the law reducing the value
of American silver coin in Canada twenty
per cent. went into effect. The Bank
of Montreal will now probably pass its
three tons of American silver over the
border
A fire at St. Michael's, Talbot county
Md, on Monday night, destroyed the Com
, ct and Advertiser newspaper office, thre,
i stores and two dwellings The loss is MOI
b. heavy.
: Over two hundred houses and twenty
/ five thousand bales of cotton were destroy
:; ed by IA recent fire in the town of Camp
It tab, near Nagpou, in the Presidency o
! Bengal.
: By statement prepared at the Burea,
o of Statistics the aggregate amount of gol,
IS produced in the United States, from 1915
a to 1869, is shown to be $1,071 ,461 ,561
lie Over forty families have been massacret
and several hundred horses captured anC
=, !, many houses burnt in an extensive raid @
/ the Comanche Indians in Western Texas
i To repress the revolt in the Red Rive
ID country, the English Government is pre-
re pairing an expedition which will include
IN steel battery with 900 men.
G' Ex-Queen Isabella and her HUSBAND
have signed document consenting to
he separation, their affairs having been arran
n ged by compromise.
IT Buffers negro cadet has been rejecte
as being but sixteen years and seve
ed months old when the regulations requr
him to be seventeen.
The Tonawanda Indians have made
raid on Texan settlers Over forty fl
males have been massacred, and sewers
=. houses burned.
az, ad Miss Fanny Joy, a reigning belle
of Keokuk, has just married Mr.. Blain
ire The thing of beauty preferred not to r,
;, main Joy forever.
or or The new Postage Stamps will probab
lr- be ready for use in April. They are sa
cts to be much better than those now in us
Ia 1t cost $1,S45 to wash towels for Il
Treasury Department at Washington, la
for year, and there were 30, 900 towels washe
m The Dominicans have voted in propo
"y tion of thirty to one in favor of annexatic
M to the United States.
'ck Iowa has been compelled to discharge
we LADY" teacher in one of its public school
ar ar for drunkenness.
M,g. ~ Pope Plus TX. will be 80 years of "a,
nd on the 18th day of May of this year.