Middletown transcript., 1877-03-31
GENERAL NEWS.


Navigation is now open between AL
bany and New York city.
News has been received at Chicago
of the death of the famous female lawyer
of that city, Miss Alta M. Hulett, at
San Diego, CAL, Monday.
An inceDdiary FIRE at Greenville, S.
G., on Sunday morning. destroyed
property to the value of $45, 200, on
which there was SIS, 900 insurance.
Alfred Pickard. a jealous French
man. living in New York. bound his
sleeping wife, Heloise. to chair and
rubbed vitriol on her left cheek which
ate the flesh to the bone and dis6gured
her for life
Thieves made a raid on the dry goods
store of Gage Bros. Madrid, N. Y,
Saturday night, blew open the safe, but
got only 800. The store was fred
and consumed. Loss $50, The
thieves escaped into Canada.
No definite trace has as yet been made
of A. Oakey Hall. the missing ex-mayor
Of New York The impression is gain
ing ground that be has gone to Europe.
The Boston Transcript of March II
shows Mr. Halls arrival in that city on
that day.
Charles Fl Evans, aged %, com
mission merchant doing business at No.
122, Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
committed suicide at the Markoe H ouse,
in that city, Tuesday morning 1t is
thought financial embarrassment led to
the act
An attack was made by highwaymen
on a stage in the Black Hills, Sunday
evening The driver was shot dead and
a passenger slightly wounded. The
horses ran away, taking the stage into
Deadwood, and the robbers got no
booty.
The Spring races of the Westminster,
Md, Trotting Association will take
place on the 29th, 3Oth and 91st Of
May. Premiums amounting to $4,000
are offered in various purses. A grand
Tournament will be held on the FIRST
day for a prize of 500 gold watch.
Joseph Stahl, a German, who had
been dismissed from service at brewery
near New York, went to sleep in the
brewery Friday night; bis clothing was
saturated with petroleum and set on
fire, and he died from his injuries
Saturday morning The case is a
mystery as yet.
Judge Read, of the Circuit Court for
Charleston, S c., rendered a decision
last week, declaring that Chamberlain
had no lawful authority as Governor,
and that Wade Hampton was duly and
legally elected aud qualified as Gov
ernor of South Carolina
Prof John S. Hart, LII D., died in
philadelphia on Monday He was a
graduate of Princeton College; was
afterwards principal of the high school
of Philadelphia and of the New Jersey
State Normal School He was the
author of several school books, which
we're used in many different institutions.
On Sunday night week about ten
acres of ground above the Diamond
Mine. at Wilkesbarre. caved in to a
depth of eight or ten inches, while wide
seams opened in many places. People
living in houses built upon the sinking
earth we're greatly frightened, but no
one was injured The damage cannot
be estimated at present.
In the contested election case Of Pa
checo, republican, and Wigginton,
democrat, candidates for Cogress in the
fourth California district, the Supreme
Court of that State on Tuesday over
ruled Wigginton's demurrer to Pache-
cos application for a writ mandate COM
manding the secretary of State to issue
certificates Of Pacheco.
Notwithstanding the notifications re-
Gently given, "the wild rush for Office"
at the Post-ofice and Interior Depart
ments continues unabated. and the time
of the Secretaries is largely consumed
in listening to the appeals of the ap-
plicants or their friends Most of the
applicants for places in the Post Office
are from the South.
In Indianapolis on Wednesday of last
week thief entered the Indiana Ma
tional Bank, placed box which be
carried on the floor, stood upon it. and
reaching over the counter railing,
snatohed up several packages of bills
and escaped with his plunder The
bank officers say they lose S25, 900,
and they offer $4,000 reward for the
arrest of the thief and recovery of the