Middletown transcript., 1870-07-02
ITEMS OF NEWS.

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weeks, and three severe accidents have
happened on it. First, one of the spans
gave way and tumbled carful of people
into the street below. Next, a brake
chain snapped and the car went. whirling
along at frightful rate, escaping destruc-
ton almost by a miracle Day before
yesterday wheel flew in pieces, the car
kceled over, and the passengers had to be
taken down by a sort of improvised fire
escape This will never do. The elevat-
ed road is clearly failure, after an i'm
mense expenditure in its construction,
The only hope for Gothamites who want
to travel quickly is in an underground
road, and there is now prospect that this
will soon be provided.
The New York papers say that Dana,
of the Sun, takes his arrest on a charge
of libel by the officers of the Anti-Gamb-
ling Society very coolly, denouncing them
more virulently than ever. The Cuban
sympathizers are fitting out another cxpc-
dition with war material. The reported
capture of the Upton second cargo is pro-
nounced a canard. The Tribune is at
loss to dedide which of the reports on the
alleged outrage in San Domingo to accept
on a point of veracity. Greeley also crit
icises Gen Sherman very sharply for
ousting negroes from the lands in Virginia
Peninsula on which they were originally
located.
The cable announces the death of that
distinguished British statesman, the Right
Hon. George Frederick William Villiers,
Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs in the present ministry.
The Earl was attacked with diarrhGa on
Friday and survived but two days. He
was 70 years old We learn also of the
death of Armand Barbes, the veteran
French revolutionist. He has been en-
gagged in conspiring against every govern
ment in France since he was student at
the Paris law school in 1880
The New York World says q small siz-
cd earthquake shook that city on Saturday
afternoon last. The event was not gcner-
ally known, but on the east side of the
city many people felt the shock and ran
into the street in alarm. The World ad-
viscs residents of four-story houses to have
an eye to their ceilings and their chande-
liers, and to mediate on the mutability of
human affairs.
The Governor of Massachusetts has
signed the bill amending the prohibitory
law and the supplementary act. 1t will
therefore be lawful to sell cider, ale, por-
ter, strong beer and lager beer. The bill
provides that cities and towns shall each
year vote whether the sale of strong drinks
shall be made within their respective nun,
icipalites.
Gotham literally rcekcd with bloody
horrors on Sunday, no less than fiftccr
violent deaths occurring. The most ex
traordinary among the number was th
fatal stabbing of a young Frenchmal
named Joyzcau, by a jealous husband
The murderer, Edmon Faure, had sus
: pectcd his wife of in6dclity.
, Great excitement prevails in Madrid il
! consequence of the discovery of u plot t
y blow up the powder magazine of the for
tress of Gibralter. Fcnianism is suppose
9 to be at the bottom of the conspiracy
The ringleaders have been arrested.
j. Andrew Stafford, mail agent betwec
t Baltimore and Philadelphia, arrested o
IF the 9th of June, for purloining lsttel
n from the mails, was arraigned before til
n U. S. District Court, Baltimore, confess
l. ed his guilt and was sentenced to three yeal
te Imprisonment.
4. lsabcla's abdicaton of the Spanis
= throne was signed in the presence of q
the members of the royal family at prescl
u, in Paris. In letter to the Pope the e:
i Queen notifies his Holiness of her abdic
in ton, and bcgs his blessing for the Prin
ii of Asturias and for Spain.
s. On Friday, oath ult two ships cleared
til Savannah Ga. for Liverpool, one wi
Is over one million pounds of cotton, valu
sh at about $274, 125, and the other wi
r. 500, 500 worth of cotton, timber, pal
ch leaves and white oak slaves.
Lr. Major Jerome Bonapartc, of the Fren
. army, son of the late Jerome Bonapart
he of Baltimore, has arrived in Baltimore
,r- assist in the settlement of his fathers
IN. tate.
ne The Baltimore American complains Il
RI Marshal Goldsborough has orerlooked t
st, negroes of Maryland, in making appoi
lev ments of census enumerators, and in t
ch selection of Jurors for the United Sta
Il District Court.
co. The examination at the West Po
~, Academy was concluded on Tuesd;
lu- Forty eight out of the ninety-six can
lis dates failed to pass and will be sent hol
rye The examination is said to have been
uo- most rigid ever held.
to Forty thousand people assembled on
f battlefield of Solferino on Friday, j,
will "a. to witness the ceremony of dedicat
the a monument to the memory of the soldi
t in who fell there.
Hon. Michael G. Kerr, was on Thu
ica- day renominated for Congress, from
the Second District of Indiana, on the
Sec ballot, by the Democratic Convention.
ond The Virginia House of Delegates J
of terday refused to strike out the section
urs- the School bill requiring seperate sch
bill for the two races, by vote of 80 to
,out The workingmen of Florida will no