Middletown transcript., 1870-04-16
ITEMS or NEWS.

III trundie-bed near Its parents saw one
OF the murderers and gave the alarm
which awoke the mother, and she screamed
awakening her husband, who sprang up,
but both We're Immediately murdered and
the boy Knocked down and left for dead
The ruffians then left, after securing over
$1,000 in money and some notes.
The prize fight announced to come of
at Charles Island, Conn. was broken up
on Tuesday by the State militia. Kerri-
gan, one OF the principals, was arrested,
together with Maloy and Edge, who were
to fight in the same ring, and about ninety
roughs, who are now in the New Haven
Jail. The. crowd robbed people in the
streets ana sacked many houses. Five
military companies acted promptly, and
at one time serious SIGHT was imminent.
The Tunnel under the Thames, between
Tower Hill and Tooley street, London,
has just been completed and opened to the
public 1t cost only $50, 200, a striking
contrast to the sums expended by Brunei.
in building the tunnel under the Thames
between Rotherhithe and Wappipe and
which was twenty years in building The
" Thames Subway" as the more recent
tunnel is called, was constructed in about
year, and runs through very tenacious
clay.
AN insane woman in New Castle, Ind.
beng left alone with her babe, nine months
old, for a few moments, deliberately thrust
1t into the stove, shut the door, and then
went out and told her husband what she
had done. He instantly rushed in and
LOOK 1t out. Its face and arms and all the
front part of its body were burned to
crisp. Death came to the relief of the
little sufferer in a few hours.
The losses in the fighting near Barcelo-
ma, In Spain, were nineteen killed and
many wounded by the insurgents, and two
Killed and thirteen wounded by the troops
Fresh instructions are anticipated. as sew
eral Carllst chieftains have succeeded in
entering Spain.
There are great complaints in New
ork, of the extraordinary dallness of the
spring trade. Quite number of country
merchants have come in as usual, but
they show no disposition to buy any more
goods than are just sufficient to supply
their Immediate wants
The latest advices from Minister Sickles
predict stormy time in Spain. Prim
recently very bluntly told Sickles that the
subjugation of Cuba by Spain
was not considered probable, and that he
stood ready at any proper opportunity to
come TO an understanding with the United
States
The Irish peace bill is more likely to
produce discord than harmony. In all
parts OF the Island, the people are excited.
and outbreaks are feared of a formidable
character. An ounce of justice would be
worth ton of such force to tranquilize
Ireland.
The workmen engaged in the demoli-
ton of the old hotel on the corner Of Third
avenue and 130th street, New York fonnd
diamond pin in ratbole, and between
the castings an old wallet containing coin
and papers to the value of S75 900.
Twelve thousand dallars worth of dio-
monds were taken on Tuesday from a mas
senger named Williams, on board tho
Bremen steamship Maine, in New YorI,
Williams is represented as a professional
smuggler.
Professor Morse, the telegraphic inven-
tor, is now nearly eighty years old. and
1t is proposed to present him with ma
tional testimonial. The telegraphic oner-
ators are at the head of the scheme
The death of Hon Pierre Soule orator
statesman, diplomat twice exile, is uni.
versally mourned in New Orleans, where
he made his greatest legal and uoliticol
success. He was afflicted with mental ab-
erration for months before his death.
Twenty years ago a young man in West
hutland' VI. bought quarry in that
town. in which supply of stone had been
discovered adapted to the manufacture of
slate pencils. He paid $1OO for his pur-
chase at present the quarry is valued at
The alarming disease reported as "spot-
ted fever, recently raging at North Hay-
erhlll, N. Ii. is now reported by experi-
enced physicians as the unmistakable tri-
CHINA sptrdtis. Every symptom of tri-
china is shown by the cases investigated
The two Richmond Mayors have agreed
IN n, view of the delay before Chief Justice
Chase can hear their case, to submit it
with the consent of the Chief Justice. to
the Virginia Court Of Appeals which met
on Tuesday.
A great race is to take place in Nav,
between James Gordon Benefits Yacht
Dauntless, of New York, and the British
yacht Cambria, Capt Ashbury; to be
sailed in the British channel.
At Baltimore, Azriel Lewis, who killed
his little son while drunk, on the Sth of
March, was convicted on Monday of man.
slaughter, and sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment.
Gov. Alcorn, on Monday, sent mes
sage to the Mississippi Legislature, recon-
mending the establishment of separate
schools for white and colored, and nor
NAL school for colored teachers.
Bucks county is in want of farm hands
Farm laborers are scarce, and the prevail
ing rate of wages by the year is from
$500 to S240, with board furnished.
Lopez has been slain, his family captured