Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Half the town of Mariana, Ark, was
burned on Sunday. Loss, $4,000.
A company Of sixty Communists,
armed with muskets and bayonets Of
the old pattern, are drilling in Chicago.
Thirteen buildings in st. Augustine,
Fla, including the University of Flor
ida, were destroyed by fire on Satur-
day.
The jury in the case of Emma Beth
el, at Camden, on Tuesday, returned a
verdict of not guilty, under instruc-
tions Of the Court.
The graves Of the Union and Con
federate soldiers at the National Gem
etery, near St. Louis, were decorated
on Sunday.
The stoppage of thirteen Of the mills
in Fall River, Mass, makes nearly
! 10000 out Of 10000 looms idle, and
throws 1000 operatives out Of employ
ment
The Galveston Ncos has dispatch
fro'l Fo:t Ora 'lam, Texas, stating that
Sam Bass, train robber, with five Of
his gang, is surrounded on Big Caddo
creek by a sheriff. posse.
George r. Waterman, ex-paymaster
ofthe Pacific Mills at Lawrence, Mass,
who stole 900 from the company,
was sen enced, Oh Wednesday, to y
years imprisonmentin thepenitentiary.
Further reports received in Madi-
son, Wisconsin, from the districts de-
vastated by the recent tornado in that
State show that in Dane county alone
thirty persons were killed and more
than fifty injured.
The mill operatives at Lawrence,
Mass, went to work on Monday, as
usual, under the new reduction Of their
wages, and all the mills are in opera
ton. The reduction is the second in
four years.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections, on Monday, heard ex-Gov-
ernor Chamberlain, Of South Carolina,
in advocacy Of the claim Of D. I. Cor
bin to the seat occupied by Senator
Butler, Of that State.
In the Senate of Rhode Island, on
Thursday, on motion of a Democratic
member, the resolution protesting
against all proceedings levelled against
the title Of President Hayes, was taken
up and passed unanimously.
"A resolution was introduced in the
Rhode Island Legislature, on Wednes
day, protesting against any attempt to
reopen questions affecting the title Of
President Hayes, such questions hav-
ing been already settled by Congress
itself.
Colonel NJ. V. Sheridan, Of General
Sheridan's staff, has arrived at Dead
wood, Dakota. He will select suitable
places for three encampments for the
soldiers now on their way to the Black
Hills. It is thought these encamp-
ments, in connection with the troops at
Fort Mckinney, will afford sufficient
protection to the Black Hills region
from Indians during the summer.
AtArIington, ILL.,, on Saturday even
ing, Samuel Carney. young man, who
had been refused permission to visit a
Miss Cullenbine, went to her room and
murdered fher by cutting her ttIfFfesat ttIIfFfeat
with a razor and then shooting her.
Going down stairs he met the father
and mother, and shot the father in the
hip and cut the mother with a butcher
knife. He then rushed into the yard
and committed suicide by cutting his
throat.
Governor Colquit closed his inspec-
ton Of the Kate Southern case, on
SastaS'lr SastS'lrdh day, by committing the death |
to i'm, risonment for ten years
in the penitentiary. He says that he
acted purely on the law and the evi-
dence, and left out of consideration the
fact that she was woman. His deci-
sion creates great rejoicing. No SINH
lar case ever created such excitement |
as this one. The many friends of Mrs.
Southern will insist on having a full
pardon, and will go before the Govern
or again or will try the Legislature.
On Wednesday night four masked
men boarded western bound train as
it left Percy Station, Utah, entered the
middle sleeping car and robbed the
and conductor. Some one
pulled the bell-cord, and the robbers,
becoming frightened, jumped off and
disappeared in the darkness. While in
the car they fired three pistol shots and
struck one Of the passengers in the
head with a pistol, cutting his scalp.
They were not more than three min
utes on the train. The Union Pacific
Railroad Company offer a reward of
81 900 for their arrest