Middletown transcript., 1877-08-11


per cent. water loan of the city Of Bal
e timore were opened Monday. The OF
le ferings amounted to four millions tw
It hundred thousand dollars, at from pa
If to 103, and all were taken. Severa
New York banking firms were anon
the largest bidders.
= A large mass meeting Of working
men was held in Baltimore, on Mon
: day night, to effect more thorough
I organization Of the working mems par
# ty. J. P. Mcdonnell, Of New York
editor Of the Labor Standard, was th
q principal speaker.
! The committee which is investiga
+ ting the corruptions in the recent gov
! ernment of South Carolina consists O
two State Senators, one a republican
and three democratic Representatives
1 The republican Senator is chairman 0.
+ the committee.
7 The Democrats carried Dallas coun,
> ty, Alabama, in Mondays election by
: three hundred majority. In the pres.
i idential election the county gave the
republicans more than four thousand
majority. The election was peaceable,
the quietest ever known there.
A terrific wind and rain storm passed
over Council Bluffs Monday. At the
deaf and dumb institution, three miles
southeast Of the town, where new
wing is in process Of completion, three
stories were leveled and portion Of
the material carried a distance of a
mile. Loss $4,000.
! A Florida correspondent of the New
York Sun states that Greene r.. Moore,
who was conspicuous in manipulating
the vote Of Archer precinct, Alachua
county, in that State, in behalf Of the
republican presidential electors in No
vember last, has just been convicted of
horse stealing.
The village of Eaton, Wisconsin, has
been totally destroyed by fire. About
twenty-five families lost all their pos
sessions. One family is said to have
persisted in the flames and four other
families are missing. The forest in the
vicinity is burning in every direction,
and much valuable timberis destroyed.
Representative Alex. H. Stephens
has written aletter in which, speaking
Of the Reputation of certain Georgia
State bonds, he says: "In my opinion
a refusal to pay them is nothing short
of public swindling, not less infamous
than the obtainment Of money by an
individual upon false pretences and
representations 2
In handbill posted in Cumberland,
Md, the Baltimore and Ohio and the |
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis
railways offer a reward Of $500 for the
capture Of Jack Hooper, of Martins
burg, prominent striker. The ma
ture of his offense is not stated, but the
penalty is said to be twenty years in
the penitentiary.
Mr.. William Blake, a gentleman of
sixty-one years, who has been occupy
ing the rather obscure position Of a
clerk at Kingston Springs, Tenn, for
the past two years, has just been mott
fed that he has fallen heir to S9, 800 in
England, provided he quits America
for Great Britain, which he says he
will do. He is first cousin to Sir Will
Liam Blake.
There seems to be no doubt that the
Blaine faction will make an effort to
have the Presidents Southern policy
denounced by the Maine republican
State Convention. A paper in Ban
gor, one of Blaine's organs, exhorts the
town caucuses to send ''uncompromis-
ing supporters Of the great principles
Of the republican party"
A delegation Of temperance men Of
the District of Columbia called on the
President, Tuesday, and protested
against the appointment Of d promi-
nept business man as q member of the
Police Board, on the ground that Che
is engaged ina business which embraces
the sale Of liquors" Ex-Gov. Walker,
of Virginia, also had an interview with
the President.
/
Gen, Hill, Of fGeorgia, has just buried
his war charger, and is preparing a
tombstone to place over the remains,
bearing the following inscription: ''Al- I
bert Sidney Johnston, noble, gallant,
faithful and true horse, after bearing
his rider and master, B. j. Hill, thro |
battles, receiving three
severe wounds, and surviving them j
through many years Of usefulness, died Z
July p, 1877, in the twenty-fourth {
year Of his age" i
Gov. Brockmeyer, of Missouri, when |
somebody said to him, "You can't ex- q
peet men to work for a dollar day." I
"Why not2 When / came q
10 this country boy Of Is, l worked t
IS boot-black in the streets of New t
York. Thirty years ago | worked in
oundry for So a week, andI saved my
money until / had enough to buy a =,
1iece Of land, and then / was indepen- !,
lent. I should have spent the balance v
# my life on this piece of land, but b
vas routed out Of 1t by the war" Y Y
Gen. Field, of Fredericksburg, Va, a
ecently returned home from Egypt, q q
Ehere he held high position in the 70
rmy of the Khedive. His withdraw A
from that army grew out Of the th
'urko- Russian complications, in which "a "a
Egypt, through her vassalage to the Il;
ultan, has been forced to take part. bl
he American officer could not con Cc
,ientiously take the field for the Cres- u u
ant against the Gross, and 50 resigned. ea
d fact, it is stated that about all the ac
officers in the KhediYe's " Y
Twice nave Deen gotteh flu oi III one all
ay or another. be-