Middletown transcript., 1870-06-11
ITEMS OF NEWS.

On the summit of the Green Mountains
about seventeen miles east of Rutland,
Vermont, on Wednesday morning, the
sleeping train of the Rutland Railroad,
ran into a culvert and the passenger car
turned a somersault over the engine,
burying the inmates under the wreck. BY
this catastrophe three persons were killed,
thirteen badly scalded and four otherwise
injured. The sufferers were all Eastern
people, with the exception of Mr.. Dou-
glass Flint, of N. Y. who was among
the scalded. An accident to the Mon
treal Express train on the Harlem Exten-
sion Railroad, near Clarendon, N. Y.
Tuesday night, killed the fireman, smas-
ed the engineers leg, and injured the
baggage master. The engine and three
cars ran into the river.
One of the greatest and most destruc-
tive fires that ever occurred in any city
has just been subdued in Constantinople.
1t is reported that 7 200 houses were des-.
troyed, and that perhaps three hundred
people lost their lives. A rough estimate
of the total loss of property is twenty-five
millions of pounds sterling. The English
under writer's lose heavily.
The Oregon Radicals give up the State.
The whole Democratic ticket is elected,
including the Governor and Congressman,
and the Legislature will be Democratic on
joint ballot, thus shelving Mr.. Williams,
who is one of the men whom the Radi-
Gals can least spare in the Senate.
News from fort Garry contradcts the
Toronto telegram of Wednesday as to
Riel's -combativeness. Riel will raise
5000 men and fight the Canadian troops
now struggling through the wilderness
beyond Lake Superior, unless a full and
unqualified amenesty is proclaimed.
Twenty-seven prisoners, fourteen white
and thirteen colored, were released from
the Maryland Penitentiary on Monday
last, by Executive clemenoy. Pardon
was received for ono man who died just
as Governor Bowie's pardon reached him.
Fears are INDUCED by the Minnesota
delegation in Congress that the North
western frontier may be involved in the
expected war between Riel and the Cana
dian Government.
Cahoon, who has been figuring for
.some time in connection with the Mayor
atty of Richmond, Virginia, has, at last,
found his level. He has been indicted
for forgery, by which the State was de-
frauded out of seven thousand dollars.
The prospects for wheat in England are
said to be very good, and more than an
average yield is expected. Hay, oats,
barley and beans not promising. Of po-
tatoes about half crop is looked for.
In New York, on Tuesday, the corner
stone of the new Masonic Temple was laid
with imposing ceremonies. The process
sion on the occasion included 40, 900 Ma
sons, and is considered the finest Masonic
display ever witnessed in that city.
The English police think that they
have discovered manifestations of Fenian
plot in many places. Arms and muni-
tions have been seized, and arrests made.
The excitement is unabated, and the au-
thorities continue on the qui vire.
Moses Wingate died at Haverhill,
Mass. on Monday, in the 10th year of
his age. He served in the Massachusetts
Legislature, and was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention of 1920.
A severe and protracted drought is pre-
vailing in Maine, and the hot term con-
tinues unabated. This has very seriously
affected the lumber interest Logs are
mnch wanted, and holders ask their own
prices.
Hon. r. Joy Morris, minister resident
at gopstaptiaople, Turkey, is to be super
ceded by Hon. Wayne McVeigh, of West
Chester, Pa. He will soon return to
philadelphia, his former home.
Apprehensions about the Fenians are
not yet wholly allayed in England, and
the Pail Mall Gazette thinks that the lead
ers must do something to sustain their
sinking reputation.
Two more British war vessels, the
Royalist and Philomel, are now at Hall
fax, N. s. and have been ordered to the
fishing grounds.
Small. pox is prevailing in Paris, l95
danihn ooour.od fhnre Last uaak.