Middletown transcript., 1876-01-08
1arhitits.
A grand gsthering Of Engiish. .Ewiss
and German Protestants i proposed 70
be held at Geneva In the sprink.

De held at deneva IN the spring.
The Ohio Legislature, this winter
will contain forty-seven farmers. Whsl
more could the granger heart desire ?
Uncle Sans unimproied property
measures 1.154, 600, 900 acres. And
still our cities are crowded with trampe
and loafers.
The Alabama Claims Opmnissiop
have awarded only 81. .000. 900. to
claimants, and $4,000, 600 still remain
in the treasury. sss.s
Henry Wilson and Charles Erapsis
Adams entered the Massachusetts Leg
islature together ina1840 each Sor the
first time.
Marion. Singer. daughter Of the sew
ing machine inventor. has appeared
upen the stage 10 San Frsncisco ID
burlesque.
Charles H. Holmes. Of Tops6sId.
Massachusett. is six feet eight inches
high. and is much looked up to by bis
neighbors.
The ubiquity Of Mr.. Smith i strik-
ingly indicated by the fact that be
breaches to 100 Baptist congregations
in this country.
Senator Hannibal Hamlin, Of Maine,
has given $1,000. which rspressnts
SO. 900 newspaper stamp. to tie Heb
ron Academy.
New Richmond, West Virginia, Is
shipping walsat logs -dirsetly 70 Lon
don, where better prices are obtained
than in this country.
Four hundred out Of eve hundred
and Eve prisoners in the Js6srsonvills
(Ind. penitentiary arc hired on con-
tract for sum of $3.50 per day.
A Mobile dispatch says hat veil in
formed cotton men say that the present
cotton crop il il can be gathered, will
be the largest since the var.
Gov. Thayer, Of Wyoming. in his
annual message to the Legislature. OK
tolls the working Of women suffrage,
and recommends its continuance.
The Supreme Court Of Iowa has de-
cided that when . loser in game Of
billiards settles the scors. he = euilty
IF gambling. and liable to indictment.
George NJ. Dallas Geams, Andrew
Jackson Geams, and James K. Polk
Geams. triplets, born 1854. are living
near each other in Barton county, Qa.
Nine counties in California report an
aggregate Of 1878, 500 grape vines.
Los Angles leads the list with 4. $780,
100.
The study Of music is now obligat-
Try on all the boys ID the upper classes
1t Eaton. It has always been taught
q the public schools Of England.
Rachel Lane, the oldest iphabitant
# Fairfield county, Ohio, died recently
lnder the weight Of 10 plain children.
a grand ones, l40 great-grand ones.
md 5 great-great-grand ones.
The Richmond Wing regrets to see
t, but warns Southern Democrats that
he time has not yet come for the
'outh to have : man on the National
icket. -
Out of 400 religious publications 10
be United States. the Msthodists claim
Z, the Roman Catholics Al the Rap-
ists 35, the Presbytsrians 20, and the
ews 9. W
The Baptists Of Chicago have raised
40. 900 toward the sum Of $3.50. 900
hich they wish to give to the Baptist
theological Seminary Of that city as 4
entennial endowment fund.
Edgar Allen Poe was the grandson
Benedict Arnold. His mother, Who
as known before her marriage Is an
nglish actress. Elizabeth Arnold, was
natural daughter of the traitor.
Charles Sumner once gravely propos-
the abolition Of the Vice Presidency
an utterly useless Office, and that too
bile Wilson was the incumbent. which
as unkind on the part Of Sumner.
When Chinese bank fails, all the
6cers have their heads cut Of and flung
to q corner along with the assets; and
has been 900 years since there was aa
'nk failure in that country.
A woman was buried in Bath, N.
;, the other day. who weighed before
+ death $50 pounds. Her CONN was
feet long. three feet wide and two
d one.half feet deep.
John Surratt. who was tried for
implicitly in the assassination Of Abra-
% Lincoln. is school teacher in :
all village Of Maryland about twenty
les from Washington.
Since Father Kemp started out in
business Of giving old folks' con-
It's. twenty-three years ago, he has
1en over twelve thousand concerts in
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