Middletown transcript., 1876-01-01
General News Summary.

and slaughtered them, beheading the
officers and sticking their heads on
poles as trophies. THE British have
captured Kentah in Malacca......Th
royal palace at Barcsloa, Spain, was
almost entirely destroyed BY fire last
Sunday morning. $3.50. Ex-President
Theirs will be a candidate for election
to the French Senate from Belfort......
The movement for a confederation Of
the Central American States is going
forward with prospect Of success.
The Pope of Rome has signi6ed bis in
tention to send "some dings" to the
Philadelphia Centennial. ...... Eighty
persons were killed by the giving way
Of a school l-house floor at a Christmas
festival in Switzerland. ..Napoleon's
statue has been replaced on Vendome
column in Paris......The Carlists con-
tinue the bombardment Of Hermann and
the situation tis becoming dangerous
to the inhabitants. .....Ex-Queen Isa-
bella is sick with the measles. IA
hurricane 10 the PHILIPPINE Islands a
few days ago, destroyed $500 dwellings,
and $50 lives...... Intervention in the
Spanish Cuban hostilities is still moot
ed 49,. The return of Ex-Q Queen Isabella
to Spain is now talked Of and trouble
is expected between Alphonso and his
cabinet if she does 60 back......A Lon
don dispatch says that Minister Schenck
has communicated with the British
government concerning Intervention in
Cuba. ......Spain is preparing an address
on the Cuban question to the European
cabinets.
DoMEsTIc.-Speaker Kerr and family
spent the holidays in Philadeluhia as
the guests Of COL Henry D. Walsh -.
DR.. Karl Ruhe, one Of the editors of
the Philadelphia German Democrat
died suddenly last Friday morning.
A successful shipment of fresh beef was
recently made from New York to Eng
land the beef arrived in good condi-
ton. .... Christmas day passed off in
Baltimore with an unusual amount of
hilarity." but with few accidents.
In New York, New Orleans, Louisville
and other cities, several fights and
murders occurred on Christmas day.
Mrs. Lille Patterson, of Baltimore,
attempted suicide on Sunday morning
by shooting herself with pistol. ......
The Hudson River Sugar refinery was
burned on Monday Loss $4,000
...... Philip Gallaher, of Westerley, R.
l., kicked at his wife, while drunk, on
Saturday night and struck and killed
bis child, one year old, which she had
in her arms. s......Hon. w. A. Richard
son, Of Illinois. died at Quincy, in
that State, on Monday. He was in
Congress ten years. ......By direction
of the Common Council all the bells OF
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, were to be rung
at 12 o'clock last night in honor of the
opening Of the centennial year. ......
Charles O'Conor continues to improve
in health........J. A. & G.. N. Smith,
woollen manufacturers Of Massachu-
setts, have suspended. Liabilities from
$500, 900 to $500. .OOO.. :. The Beecher
scandal is to be revived, Frank Moul-
ton, the "mutual friend" having sued
Beecher for $50, 900 damages for false
and malicious prosecution......T The Gen.
tennial year was to be ushered in, in
Philadelphia, last night by a grand
parade and illumination. ;. The Ala
bama legislature assembled on Tues
day....... Mrs. Rachel Gordon and her
three children, aged 8, 10 and IL years
were burned to death in their dwelling,
near Rising Sun, Ind, last Saturday.
......At Greece City, Pa, Mrs. David
Morrison and child we're burned to
death with their dwelling on Tuesday
night. ......Rev. Henry Boehm, the
oldest Methodist preacher in the United
States, died at Staten Island, on Tues
day.... He was over 100 years old. -.
Congress will reassemble next Wednes-
day..... Ralph Waldo Emerson has been
invited to deliver the society oration at
the next commencement Of the Univer-
sity Of Virginia.