Middletown transcript., 1875-02-06
Uarietifs.
Seaford has q dramatic association.

Seaford has q dramatic association.
/ A three-line advertisement, four hun
dred and Eve times repeated. recently
appeared in the London Times.
A woman with mania for breaking
costly plate glass windows is creating
panic among Buffalo storekeepers.
Up to latest advices there had been
2O,5 persons arrested in Paris for
participation in the instruction Of the
Commune.
I'll health has compelled Miss Beech
er to resign the position she has long
held as principal Of the Hartford Fe-
male Seminary. sss.t
A hundred years ago the united pop
ulation of Philadelphia, New York,
Albany, Newport and Savannah was
not more than 40, 900. aa
The fourth Duchess Of Oneids, COW,
for which $25. 600 we're paid last year.
died recently on the farm Of its owner,
near Paris, Ky MS e4s@ai4s
There were arraigned in New York
city during the past year for crime
"a. .S21 persons, or nearly one in twelve
Of the entire population.
The approaching marriage Of q
daughter Of Charles Dickens is an
nounced in the London papers. She is
a widow Of a brother Of Wilkie Collins.
Two burglars are waiting trial in
England. for breaking into a store and
stealing cash box, who are aged re-
spectively eleven and fourteen years.
According to recent statement there
are in this country I Catholic arehbish-
ops, So bishops. 4S73 priests and 6920
churches, chapels and stations.
It is announced that His Holiness,
the Pope. intends placing twelve statues
round the cupola Of St. Peters, in &C.
cordance with ths design Of Michael
Angelo. 81 ~
Tivsrton and Little Compton, Rhode
Island. shipped eleven thousand geese
and three thousand ducks to the New
York and Boston markets last year.
Columbus street cars now keep their
passengers warm by means Of tireless
stoves, which are heated BY condensed
steam introduced at each end Of the
route. s'
At Indianapolis recently, the family
Of dying man quarrelled 50 6ercely
about will he was about to sign, that
the police had to interfere to restore
order.
Dundee, Scotland. would appear to
be good field for total abstinence mis-
sionaries. During last year, in that
city, 502 women we're punished for
drunkenness, and SIG for crimes grow
ing out of drunkenness.
A Connecticut inventor has conceived
the idea Of applying runners to wheeled
carriages, to be made in such manner
that they can be strapped on each wheel
and convert wagon into sleigh at a
moments notice. sss
The Emperor Of Germany presented
Count Moltke and Prince Bismarck, as
Christmas gifts, miniature models. care
fully executed, of the Column Of Vic
tory at Berlin, eemmemorating the last
three victorious campaigns. 3 9tHaa
A curious case was recently before
one of the Paris courts, in which a
mother tried to set arids the viii Of her
deceased son, who had directed that lie
should be buried without religious GER
emonie. The court decided against
her. sda s z9
The 4th Of March, 1877, will come
on Sunday, and by statute the inaugu-
ration Of the President-elect does not
take place until next day. This fact
will give President Grant one more day
in Office than he was elected for.
At recent distribution Of prizes by
the School Board at Leeds, England,
one Of the female pupils gave .. praoti-
cal illustration of " Woman's Rights"
by carrying of all the prizes, distsnoing
in every branch her competitors of the
stsrner sex. aiasas & saissa
Nature printed apples have been sell
ing for large prices in New York. Be-
fore the apples are ripe. various names,
cut out Of paper. are pasted on them.
and BY the time they are ready for
pluckiug, the sun win have printed the
name in distinct letters. Rasas
At recent term Of the Circuit Court
in Bourbon county. KY, a man was
sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary for killing another man, while a
second prisoner, convicted Of stealing
twenty bushels of wheat, was sentenced
to three years and six months.
The Washington Chronicle relates
case Of Mrs. John French, Of Manas.
sas. who died of friaht recently frnm