Middletown transcript., 1870-01-22
ITEMS OF NEWS.

hail storm passed over st. Louis on Sum /,
day evening last, doing considerable da+
mage to signs, awnings, chimneys, shut ,
ters. fences, stores, &c. At the Varieties
Theatre panic occurred, during which
several persons were severely pruised
while attempting to escape from the puii-
ding. At the Olympic Theatre, where
religious services were being held, several
women tainted and number OF persons
were bruised. The weather, which had
been very warm all day. turned cold after
the storm, and during the night the mer-
curry fell to as low a point as at any time
during the winter. A similar change IS
reported throughout the West. |
There we're terrific thunder storms on
the evening of the 10th in st. Louis, and
in Cincinnati on the 18th, and a terrible
tornado at an early hour on the morning
of the 18th ON the Louisville and Nash
Vile railroad, at Cave City Station, Ky,
by which seven or eight persons were in
stantly killed, and about eighteen persons
more or less injured. Quite number of
buildings were blown down.
Tow boys were playing in Dunnell ls
print-works at Pawtucket, Rhode Island,
on Saturday, when one having rope a.
round the neck of the other, threw it over
the shafting, saying: " Now | am going
to hang you," The rope caught on the
shafting, carried the boy up to the ceiling,
and injured him probably fatally. His
name is William Daniels, aged fourteen
years.
A bald-headed association has been
organized in New York, the qualification
for membership being an entire absence
of capillary adornment on the "top Of
the head" The next thing ought to be
an ty-headed association, the quail
fication being an entire absence of brains.
1t would be the largest association in
the United States.
Over three hundred of the Roman Fa-
Tiers are said to have refused to sign the
petition in favor of Papal infallibility, and
many others returned evasiyc answers.
1t is said that the opposers of the project
2; intend getting up counter petition, and
assert that they are sure of adhcreuts
y enough to defeat infallibllity.
The Peabody funeral fleet will be due
II at Portland on the 28.h instant. Admiral
Farragut will take charge of the naval
4 ceremonies attendant upon the discmbark k
alton of the remains. The U. S. Moni-
n tors Terror and Miantonomah sailed from
: Boston yesterday to meet the funeral fleet
s. The tax on dogs in Great Britain, it il
le reported, yields an annual revenue of 81 >,
is 1856, ,275. 1t has been suggested that
n tax of this character in the United State
r. would add to the income of the county
at and would diminish the number of usclcs
ut animals.
c. A suit for slander instituted by Mrs
Mary Ann Rivers against her father, Herr
q. Becker, of Livingston, n Y, whic
m has been on trial before Judge Hogeboon
nm in Hudson, was terminated on Friday mbr
s. ming, by the jury bringing in verdict {
rs S., 500 damages for the plaintiff.
r. At Montreal, Canada, on Friday, th
itv thermometer marked q degrees belp'
IS. zero at Quebec "A degrees below at y
,ix tawa 20 degrees below; at Kingston u
,as degrees below, and at st. John Z degree
ere below.
M Mississippi has ratified the fifteent
IA amendment, and Georgia, under the il
,v gic of bayonets, will no doubt do the salh'
ali Thus, we shall soon have the countr
mo Z" reconstructed though not Oh the fuul
sb- dation of the Constitution.
rr. At Bryant's station, Kentucky, {
rs Gregg, Il farmer, shot and killed negr
vel for an alleged assault on him. The neg
go was intoxicated at the time. Gregg III
of been arrested and held for trial.
liar 1t is stated from Washington that MAJ
nrv congressman favor an early adjournme
e Al, hnl; hat oil
ago OF the session. DeiieSihg that al heccssa
les legislation can be finished by the first
May.
In Wayne county, n Y, on Frida
os Walter Graham and Samuel Otto quar-,
';nn led while chopping in the woods, and t
;S former killed the latter with an d,
H. Graham was arrested.
.po ~ Reports from Glasgow Junction, Is,
'n0 say that the late tornado blew down eve
house between there and Cave city,
= ,A of miles distant and that twenty persc
.La were killed
.;ns 'n' Prince Bonaparte will be tried publ
'.IS, ~ in Paris before the high Court of just
'no ~ in the Hail of Justice at Versailles
> !, ." ~ shooting Victor Noir. No appeal is allc
nos ed from its decision.
sso. The Red River war continues.
l,;aL French have seized the safe of the II
m;l sons Bay Company at Fort Gary, and
dent ken quarter of million of pounds
, di- Soia ~ pay 'roop'. 1,u, -,
,taru capped last week. They burned hole
AM an, the ceiling, another through the roof,
t;on their blankets together and slipped to
ground.
The Suez Canal shortens the dista
Ince- from, tbe West tn tho East from En-,
days 70 India bv more than one-balf-f
dical obont ~ 600 miles tn about 7 600 =,
1o aad Henry Ward Beecher declines to req
,,nt;i "n the salary of $40, 900, which his con
from S"',on 80 zoo