Middletown transcript., 1876-07-22
General News Summary.

4Dom Pero in his 101 days residence
in this country Travelled q 500 miles
by rail-
Bishop Cheney. of Chicago, has been
chosen presiding bishop of the Reformed
Episcopal Church
A Florida man raised 800 bushels of
cucumbers, and sending them to New
York early, made $4,000.
A. heavy food has occurred on the
Southern Mississippi. and the loss of
crops and stock has been immense.
Over thirty thousand persons are en-
gagged in the cultivation of rice in Lou
isiana, and the annual business amounts
to $1O,OO0.OO0.
The London Echo publishes the names
of large number of members of Par
lament who, after adjournment, pro-
pose visiting the Centennial Exposi-
ton.
A company has been organized in
St. Louis to build new hotel that will
cost $2, 900, 900, contain 1900 rooms.
and accommodate $500 guests.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad
Company has generously furnished its
four hundred employees with tickets
and free transportation to the Centen-
pial
Wheat throughout Michigan looks
universally we'll. and good judges esti-
mate an average Of 16 bushels to the
acre. The crop is fully ripe for the
harvest
The Cincinnati Enquirer accuses Re-
publican managers Of hiring men to
hoist Confederate banners in the South
with the names of Tilden and Hendricks
inscribed thereon.
A press dispatch from Philadelphia
says three bales of the finest cotton from
Maryland. Georgia and Texas have
been received and added to the collec-
ton at the Centennial Exhibition.
At Seaside Park, N. j., the new
Baptist resort, Rev. J. E. Welch. of
Mo-, was taken sick Tuesday while
bathing and died in half an hour after
wards. His body was taken to Bur-
lington, N. J
The number of visitors to the centen-
nial exhibition since the opening aggre-
gates 2.254, ,074 and the cash receipts
$743, ,576. So. The number Of "dead
head" or non-paying visitors is there
fore 1862
AT the Reformed Episcopal Council at
Ottawa, Canada, Saturday, DR.. Fal-
loves, of Chicago was elected mis-
sionary bishop. 1t was decided that
the next meeting of the council be held
at Philadelphia.
Edward S Stokes, who shot and
killed James Fisk. Jr. in 1873, has ar
rived at Auburn Prison, from Sing Sing.
His sentence was for four years, and
with the legal deductions for good be-
havior, be will be discharged in Octo-
ber next.
The committee in charge of subscrip-
tions for the old South Church, at Bos-
ton, having been refused an extension
of time for the purchase of the property,
have abandoned all hopes of saving the
building and the work of demolition
will be begun at once.
A dispatch from New Orleans states
that Arthur Morse, aged 27, son of the
late Prof S. F. B. Morse, was killed
on Monday near that city. He was
sitting on the rail of the platform of
car. from which he was thrown by the
sudden movement of the train, the
wheels Of the car passing over his neck,
almost severing his head from his body.
The floods in the Upper Red river
valley, La, have heavily. damaged the
crops and stock 1t is the impression
that no plantations below Shreveport
will be damaged. No through trains
have arrived at Shreveport since Friday,
and none are expected for day or two,
owing to the wash-outs.
The great stallion race, at Philadel-
phia, Saturday. between Judge Fuller
ton and Smuggler, is described as one
of the finest ever trotted in this country.
the fastest time on record being made.
The attendance was slim. The match
was for purse Of $4,000. There
were four heats. the second being
dead heat. The remaining three were
won by Smuggler with ease. First
heat, time 2 III second heat, 2 1S;
third heat, ali; fourth heat, 2.2O.