Middletown transcript., 1875-05-22
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The Connecticut State Prison cleared
$2712 above its expenses last year.
The female citizens Of Richmond
have raised $4,000 for monument
to Gen. r. E. Lee.
An ordinance to prevent hucksters
from ringing door bells is before the
Baltimore Councils.
Jesse D. Bright, ex-United States
Senator, is reported hopelessly i'll at
his home in Baltimore
A pigeon race between Philadelphia
and Baltimore has been arranged to
take place on or about the 9th of June.
Theodore Tilton has been invited to
deliver the address at the Worthwhile,
VT, Fourth Of July celebration.
The Grown Princess oe Germany is
said to be devoted artist, spending
many hours of her leisure at the easel.
Washington is shortly to have . new
two cent morning paper, to be called
the Washington Tribune.
A woman was recently arrested for
selling some colored people in Boston 2
liquid warranted to make them white.
The baby carriage business is said to
be very brisk this spring in Boston,
which is regarded as an encouraging
sign.
The Cincinnati Gazette says three
ladies in that city, recently, spent two
hours in selecting one simple little
straw hat. ssS Eeb6..
The Grand master of Free Masonssin
Iowa has decided that dancing in the
Lodge room is inconsistent with the
good of the craft. al aaa
1t is estimated that there were in the
United States, last year, about 1924
breweries New York having 349, and
Pennsylvania $40.
The recent tornado in East Tennes-
see carried away the roof Of Senator
Andrew Johnson's residence, in Green
vile. -'s 4'as.4 ''+s.
Mrs Mary Sellers and Mrs. Barbara
Badd. Of Milton. Mass, are probably.
the oldest twins in New England.
being S5 years of age.
A Roman Catholic priest in Troy
makes frequent rounds of the saloons
in hit parish, to see if any Of the con-
are drunkards.
ORSITHo-LoGIc. If all birds that
sing are songsters, then all birds that
roost are roosters hence. all hens are
roosters.-Commercial Advertiser.
1t is said that Mr.. Darwin's theory
,f the origin of man Suddenly flashed
upon his mind one morning as he was
brushing his hair in front of looking
glass.
Allen Brown has walked 500 miles
u six days at Nashville, being, it is
the first pedestrian who has
accomplished the feet without charge
# trickery. @ W
The "society" editor Of the New
York Mail has arrived at the conclusion
hat in many families spanking is
hereditary. The blows received by
title boys are frequently handed down
o them by their fathers.
A man was lately arrested in Balti-
nore who, while in state Of drunken
ess, pulled his dead wife from the bed
n which she had been prepared for the
rave, and stripped the clothing from
er body, rudely vociferating, "She
ouldn't play no 'possum with him.
Great excitement was caused in a
ich family in New York by the unac-
ountable disappearance Of gold snuff
OK, richly set with brilliants, and
quail satisfaction when young gentle-
ian of six acknowledged that he had
tilized it as a coffin, and buried it
18th bis pet canary in the garden.
They had prompt case of justice in
,lbany the other day A man named
mith visited the penitentiary in the
orning to see friend T; in the even
g he stole 500; next day he was
led, convicted, and sentenced, and the
me night be slept with his friend in
lie institution as regular initiated
ember.
A San Francisco man has invented
hat is termed pneumatic thermome- .
r, intended to register, on the deck of
vessel carrying cargo liable to spon-
neous combustion, the amount of heat
hich that cargo generates, thus giving
nelly warning to the officers of the
preaching danger of coDfagration Of
e cargo. # ~
A New York poultry dealer. to test
e relative productiveness of ducks and
'ns, selected three of each, all hatched
February, and suitably fed. In the
flowing autumn the ducks laid 225
,gs. the hens none lii February the
ying season began, and up to August
o total numhnr of a10s laid hv tho 4ss