Middletown transcript., 1870-02-26
ITEMS OF NEWS.

The persons arrested during the recent
disturbance i'll Paris have had a prelmi-
nary examination. One hundred and
eight were unconditionally discharged,
one hundred and twenty-five held to APP
pear at Court, and one hundred and fifty
kept under arrest on the charge of couspir-
ing against the State and the life of the
Emperor.
The steamer Emma, No. 2, which left
Memphis on Friday evening, for Cincinnati,
struck a snag at Island 30, aud caught fire
from the upsctting of a stove. She was
totally destroyed, and twelve of her pas
sengers, six officers and all her crew per-
isbed. The survivors were taken to Cairo.
The salaries of the Chief-Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States and
of the associate justices are proposed to be
raised to $l2, 900 and $40, 900 per annum,
that of the circuit judg ges to 5000, and
of the district judges to 5000.
The Secretary of the Treasury in reply
to resolution Of the House, states that
the total disbursements in Alaska since its
acquisition by the United States, have
been $597 7S9, and the total revenue from
the Territory has amounted to S21,S
The Supreme Court of the United States
on Tuesday, decided that divorces obtained
in Indiana, if valid there, are valid
throughout the country; also, that Con-
gress has no constitutional power to es-
tablish police regulations within the
States.
A little three year old girl in New Or
leans recently astonished her mother, who
attempted to correct her, by motionng
her away with chubby little hand ana
scornfully saying, " Shoe, fly, don't bod
der me"
The Inman steamship City of Boston,
which sailed from New York 20 days ago,
has not been heard of since. She was
provisioned for so days, and the agents
in New York think she was forced to seek
harbor at the Azores.
DIR Mary Walkers lecture in New Or
leans, the Pic. says, was " delivered in a
bumble-bee sort Of fashion to an immense
array of empty chairs"
Janeiro adyices say that cable commnn-
lcation will soon be established between
the United States and Brazil. Persons
protesting to know the country assert that
A little girl aged nine years, daughter
of David Olmstead, Of New Canaan, was
recently killed by a dose of bedbug poison,
given her by her father by mistake for
worm medicine.
Lopez can battle his pursucrs for years.
A dead ragpicker in New York was
found lying on pile of rags in his shanty
the other day, with bank book showing
500 to his credit in his pocket,
hanging was played out rather too eiTec-
lively IN Baltimore the other day. A
little colored boy was hanged in play by
two comrades until he was dead.
An Iowa gentleman hunting money in
Chicago, says that farmers in that State
are compelled to borrow money at twenty
per cent to meet their obligations.
Over 81 l,0U0,00 worth of Japanese
golI and silver coin was brought by the
last steamer from Yokohama, which is to
be recoined at the mint in San Francisco,
Head Centre Stephens is in Paris, i'll
and in want. He sold his biography, two
years ago, to the New York Herald, for
nice little sum.
There is no death penalty in Michigan
and the penitcntiary now holds batch of
eighty murderers, thirty of whom are wo-
men.
Pierre Bonapartc is said to intend
visit to this country when he gets out of
the clutches of the High Court.
Dogs paid $4,000 tax in Kentucky last
year and killed $50, 600 worth of sheep
by the way of balancing the account
Two masked men robbed IA jcwelry store
in Greenfield, Mass of $4,000 worth of
watches on Thursday night
a Memphis negro is in Jail for being
member of the " ring "-wringing the
necks of hens.
McFarland's case for the shooting of
Richardson comes up for trial a week from
Monday.