The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-06-30
GENERAL NEWS.

The prize fight, June 22nd, ON the
outskirts of Springfield, Mass, be-
tween King and st. Lawrence, was
, broken up by the police. Three hun.
dred spectators, cne-third woman, were
present.
English papers say two Frenchmen
are constructing a balloon to carry ten
passengers, 1000 pounds of ballast,
and provisions for a month, and will
attempt to make a voyage in it TO the
North Pole.
A night or two since q hack stand
ing in front of the private entrance of
the Burnet House, Cincinnati, the
driver being asleep on tho box, was
set on fire, and before the flames could
be extinguished the carriage was badly
scorched.
The Meadville Republican says that
a little boy, about two years old, son
of Peter Stoyer, in Crawford County,
Pa, a few days ago, in trying to climb
through q fence lost his foot hold, and
in falling his head locked between the
rails-and thus he hung until life was
extinct. His mouth was pressed down,
so that he could make no cries, nor
could lie breathe through his nostrils,
so that he was o suffocated.
The New York Times says CATER
Mr.. Raymond's death there was found
lying OH his desk an unfinished edi-
torial paragraph referring to Major
General Mcdowell, probably the last
| words that flowed from his pen. 1t
breaks off abruptly, leaving the SEN
tence incomplete, as if the writer had
been suddenly interrupted at his work
and called away-a sadly suggestive
incident"
Sir Charles Wentworth Dixie, III
thor, died in st. Petersburg, recently,
at the age of 50. He is best known
in this country as the "Greater Brit
tain" He was an active promoter of
that great exhibition at Hyde Park,
and received his baronetcy in recogni-
ton of his services in that undertake
ing. He was q member of the last
Parliament.
A workman named Watkins acci-
dentally stepped into a large vat of
boiling water at a distillery near Nash
vile a few days since, and was so bad
ly scalded that he died in Il short time
after being taken out. His remains
were sent to his relatives in Cincinnati.
A story of heartlessness hard to be-
lieve is told of a Lee, Mass, man.
His wife being mortally i'll, he sold all
her clothing, and one evening went
out to attend q show, leaving her in
the death pangs. On his return the
poor woman was dead, and his sole
expression was that she appeared
natural" .-,.- m fr' ft.
Workmen are engaged on the pave
ment fronting independence Hall, in
Philadelphia, preparing the founda-
ton for a monument to Washington,
which will be erected on the 9Th of
July. The base will be surmounted
by a handsome statute of Washington.
presented to the city by the children
attached to the public schools, who
alone contributed to the expense of.
the monument.
Mrs. Nichol, wife of DIR. w. L..
Nichol, and daughter of JohnJ. Fack-
len, of Huntsville, Alabama, shot her.
self accidentally on Wednesday mern-
ing, at Nashville, with her husbands
pistol, which she had taken from the
mantel-piece to put away. The ball
entered the lower part of her throat
in front, and passed out through the
spinal column behind. Her body was
instantly p~aralyzed. The wound is
regarded as mortal.
A letter has been received in Cleve-
land from Professor G.. d. Wilson,
geologist for the Kansas Pacific Rail-
road, stating he had discovered a bed
of coal on the Smoky Hill route 1900
miles in length and 100 miles in width,
with a depth of from ten to fifty feet.
The coal is said to be of superior quail
ity, and well adapted for locomotive
use. Its area embraces a field similar
in extent to the coal regions of Penn
sylyania, and It is particularly valua-
bic on account of the scarcity of wood.
A good story is tcld of one of Door
keeper Dents appointments in the
Post Office Department. A lady went
with her papers Endorsed by General
Dent. She was a widow /; she had lost
her father and her husband in the
war, not to speak of her several broth
ers who had shared the same horrible
fate. Very soon, however, somebody
turned up who acted very much as if
he were her husband. There was no
announcement of the widows second
marriage but she began going by the
name of the husband turned up again.
Presently he, too, got a place in one
of the departments, and is there yet.
The whole family has been provided
for, but whether the husband" was
backed by the same influence as the
widow is not known. 1t is said they
are all from Illinois.
The funniest thing in the shape of
a trail was that in the cases of Ne
smith VS.. Maley and Maley VS.. Ne
smith, in Cincinnati. Nesmith, the
Napoleon of the street railroads Of the