Middletown transcript., 1870-02-05

The New Workers. almost mobbed Prince
Arthur when he took stroll up Fifth
avenue, following him like wolves and so
fiercely that he had to run home. One
of the reporters talked with the cook of
the hotel to discover what he ate another
pushed himself into his room in the hotel,
and, opening the drawers or trunks, looked
mt the young mans jewels. Wherever the
Prince goes in New York, to drive to
church, or to theatre, the mob pursues
him, and taking advantage of his absence
the pennya-liners enter his bedroom and
take notes of his personal effects. In spite
of the annoyance, however, he retains his
good temper and aifabilty and seems to
be, altogether, " a sweet Prince"
The playful negroes of New Orleans oc-
cupy the whole breadth Of the sidewalk
when promenading The other evening
gentleman protested against being thrust
into the street, and Il facetious negro shot
him dead. Another jocular black shot at him
as he fell, but missed his aim and winged
nm aged negro across the street The po-
lice being thoroughly CONSTRUCTED. there
were no arrests.
escapdc of the Rev. Mr. Cooke to his first
cigar. If, it says, he had never smoked,
he would not have become smoker; had
he not been a smoker he would not have
taken to opium and had be not used
opium he would have stayed at home with
Mrs. Cooke and been Il respectable clergy
man.
A somnanbulst walked off an Erie cx-
press train while it was going at the rate
of forty miles an hour. The train backed
down to where his mangled corpse was
supposed to be lying, where he was found,
still asleep, and uninjured.
Among those who have secured cottages
at the Leland brothers big new hotel at
Saratoga, are reported Grant and family,
the Empress Eugene, William b. Astor,
A. T. Stewart, Erastus Corning, Daniel
Drew and William II. Seward
A railroad watchman in Ohio fell asleep
on the track the other night, With his Ian
tern in his hand. The lightning express
came along, tossed him upon the cowcatch-
Rand carried him to the next station,
with only broken leg.
The little boy, whose head was pound
ed against the steam pipes by a Chicago
schoolma'am, has died after lying for two
months in an unconscious state.
Prince Arthur attended Trinity Church,
New York, on Sunday last The sermon
was preached by Rev. DIR. Dix, the late
pastor, but no reference was made to the
Princes presence.
a public meeting was dissolved on
Monday night last, in Paris, by the au-
thorities because one of the speakers COM
pared Olivier. the French Premier, to
Judas Iscariot.
Two hundred Swedes are en- route to
plantations they have recently bought in
Mississippi,
Alpheus A. Townsend, formerly one of
its proprietors, has sued the Easton Jour-
nal for libel.
The Sioux and the Recs Indians in Da-
kota are preparing for mutual hostlities.
Three negroes to one white is the death
rate in Louisville. 1t looks black for the
negroes.
The Sunday pastimes in Jersey, opposite
New York, are rat-baiting, cock-f ghting,
ball l-playing quoting and pigeon shooting.
The negro clerk of the Alabama Senate
managed to get 500 errors in spelling into
one bill the other day.
The Pennsylvania Legislature goes into
the franking business on a small scale by
voting each member 800 worth of stamps.
A boy Who was, and whose name was,
Smart, escaped from Cincinnati House
OF Refuge pqiled up in shoe bog.