Middletown transcript., 1870-02-12
ITEMS OF NEWS.

to be introduced into Congress, creating
and extending territorial government over
the vast tract of country between Texas
and Kansas. The tract in question is
larger than the State of New York, con-
tains about 100, 900 inhabitants, and is
the only portion of our national domain,
except Alaska, that is not under State or
territorial government.
The principal business which will be
brought before the British Parliament
during the session which commenced Tues
day will include the Irish land question,
the colonial policy and the educational
system. The treatment of the first will
vitality affect the land tenure of the whole
kingdom, the second involves an import
ant influence upon the future current of
English history, and the last is question
whose Importance is obvious.
The final obsequies of George Peabody
took place at Peabody, Mass. on Tuesday,
Mr.. Winthrop delivered an eulogy Of de-
ceased. Among those present were
Prince Arthur, Admiral Farragut, Minis
ter Thornton, Governors Clafin and Cham
berlain, and Capt. Commerell, Of the
Monarch
General Negretc is agitating in Mexico
in favor of Santa Anna. The insurgents
lately defeated the government troops near
San Luis Potosi, and conspiracy in the
army has been discovered in the city of
Mexico, having for its object the overthrow
of Juarez, and the elevation of Santa Anna.
In the New Jersey House of Represen-
tatives on Tuesday, resolution was adop-
ted asking the New Jersey Senators and
Representatives in Congress to urge the
recognition of the belligerent rights of
Cuba, and demand the liberation of per-
sons confined in British prisons
A gas explosion caused by leak in
cellar occurred in Boston on Monday night.
The explosion shattered the building, and
the flames running along sewer, set fire
to another building one hundred yards
distant. The loss is about $4,000.
General Sigel has refused to accept the
appointment of United States Assessor,
because the Office is not in proportion to
the rank, which, in his own estimation,
he holds in the Radical party in the city
of New York.
1t was proposed in the Legislature of
Missouri on Monday, to divide that State,
the Missouri river to be the dividing line.
The proposition is based upon an alleged
unequal distribution of Offices.
The Leading Lawyers of New York
have recently taken preliminary steps for
the organization of an association the OBJ
ject of which is to purify the profession
and to elevate its standard Of morals.
An Indiana girl was recently aroused
from pleasant dreams to see fellow climb
ing up to her window on ladder. A.
bout the time he got to the top, she pushed
the ladder off, and they picked up burg
lar with a broken leg.
An Indiana schoolmistress attempted to
thrash youth of IA the other day, and
respect for her sex did not prevent him
from reversing the application of the rod.
She doesn't believe in corporal punish
ment any more.
A man in Leavenworth went out tc
f drown himself, but met another who called
him liar, That saved his life, for the
thrashing he got in attempting to correct
the false impression put all thoughts o.
; death out of his mind
: An aged German woman named Sagel
was found frozen to death, about half q
mile from Dover, N. H. Tuesday morn
, ing. 1t is thought that she had an attach
of fits, and being disabled perished in the
snow.
In Baltimore, on Tuesday, the flags
q were half-mastcd and bells tolled in respec
to the memory of George Peabody, who's,
intcrment was taking place in Massa
chuctts.
Half breeds, arriving at Fort Bentor
from Indiana camps on the Maras river
say the Indians there are dying of small
pox at the rate of % per day.
The Coal, Iron, and Petroleum produc
of Pennsylvania, in 1869, aggregated tbt
large sum of $l65 ,000, ,000-coal, ninety
, millions; iron, sixty-nine millions petro.
leum, forty millions.
q Mrs. Gen. Sherman, and Mrs. Admi.
raj Dahlgren-the Army and the Navy
have both arrayed themselves against fe
male suffrage. Sensible women.
Mrs. Amelia Hobbs has been elected
Justice of the Peace for Jersey Landin,
township, in Jersey county, Illinois, b,
v a majority of 26. She is the first womai
n elected to Office in Illinois.
e Dispatches report the snow storm o
i Tuesday, as very severe, causing detention
n of railroad trains. At Williamsport, Pa
!. the depth of snow is two feet five inches
i A case has just come to lightin Wester
= Massachusetts, where deputy sheriff tool
l. $110 and let the criminal off, paying tn
Z, complainant $25, pocketing the $85, an
= not bringing the matter before magi,
l. trate.
% The President on Monday, nominate
s. Joseph p Bradley, of New Jersey, an
lie William Strong of Pennsylvania, to |
|, Associate Justices ofthe Supreme Coul
re of the United States.
l. The Legislatures of Pennsylvania q
,p Wednesday last, voted to each memb,
90 one hundred dollars worth of posta,
le stamps in addition to their present salar
Maine offers timbered land to actin