The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-01-06
NEWS ITEMS.


Of active operation.
BUFFALO and Erie have been play
ing checkers by telegraph.
MINNESOTA has paid this year a
State bounty on LOO wolf scalps.
VIRGINIA has 1,494 miles of COM
pleted railroads, costing s49, 1865, 1874.
SEVENTEEN THOUSAND English wal
nut trees are hourishing in California.
THE other day Mr.. Thornton sent a
telegram to London, the cost Of which
was : 1000.
AMONG the attractions of a fair in
Portsmouth is q pumpkin nine feet in
circumference.
ACCORDING to French medical au-
thority electricity is an antidote for
opium poisoning,
AMIss SPEER, Of Massachusetts,,
has died in consequence of taking tar
liniment internally.
BRIGHAM YOUNG is issuing a paper
currency in Utah, which resembles
the National greenback.
THE next meeting of the Aontgom-
cry County Horticultural Society will
be on Wednesday next, January 6.
A COAL DEALER in Canton, Ohio,
agrees to give a ton of coal 4 week to
the poor of the place, he selecting the
needy persons
In Marion, Ohio, on Saturday. a
three year old boy, sol of Michael
Kyle, fell into a bucket OF hot water
and was scalded to death.
The Queen has sent the customary
95 to the wife of VIM. Lew, No. Z
German street, Montreal, who scme
time ago gave birth to triplets.
THE Dakota House of Representa-
.tives last week passed, by n large ma
jority, the bill comforting upon woman
the elective franchise and eligibility TO
Office.
THE Sullivan tIndiana) Democrat
says a little son of John Paxton, of
that town, had his finger nearly bit
of by his sister, from the result Of
which he died on TuesdaYlast.
DURING the past fortnight, 28S, 1S5
letters passed through the Post-ofice
in New York, to and from Europe.
Of this number, 149,325 were sent
away.
ADvIcEs from. Fort Wayne, In
diana, state that work will commence
Immediately on the southern end of
the grand Rapids and Indiana road,
and will be pushed forward as rapidly
possible.
A STRONG pressure is being brought
to bear upon the British Government
in favor of buying the Irish railways
upon terms submitted during the last
session of Parliament by a joint com
mittee. -
SAVANNAH dispatch says that two
more white men on the Ogeeche River
have been shot by negroes, who have
carried offtheir crops. The planters
declare that they must flee to the city,
if protected.
MISS EMILY FAITHFUL is one Of
the prominent women's rights speak
ers Of Great Britain. In her last adj
dress, in the Hanover Square Rooms,
she said that out of g., 100000 women
of England, 100000 were unmar-
.ried.
The ST. Louis (Missouri) Board
of Underwriters has appointed a COM
mfttee to report on the subject ofrais-
ing the standard of steamboats, on the
Missouri River as suggested by Gen
eral Donaldson, Chief Quartermaster
at that point.
Two young ladies, Emma and Ella
Harlan, of Madison, Iowa, have taken
up lands in Buena Vista County; I'M
der the homestead act, in their own
names, and in the spring will remove
thereon with their brothers, who have
land adjoining.
A noted Chinese bandit, captured
at Shanghae, is 10 be punished by be
ing put into a box of such shape that
he can neither lie down, sit, nor stand;
his head and hands will protrude, and
he will be left exposed to SUM-, wind
and rain, until he dies of exhaustion
or starvation.
Pressed hay, from the East Indies,
is now beginning to be imported into
England. Recently enc thousand
tons of this kind of horse fodder were
brought from Bombay to Liverpool.
The grass Is reported to be sweet ana
fragrant, but it feared that new kinds
, of insects. dangerous to vegetation,
may be introduced in the bales.
The London Lancet gives the fol
lowing as a certain cure for the tooth
ache: Add one drachm of col
hdion to two drachms of carbonlc
acid, and asgelatinous mass is precipi-
lated, asmall portion of which, inserted
in the cavity Of an aching tooth, will
give immediate relief.
The Mercantile Library Associa-
ton, of Boston, has invited General
Mcclellan to deliver an address be-
fore their Society on Washington's
birthday. If Stanton was in the War
Office, he would issue an order prohib-
iting such disloyalLy on the part of
the merchants of the Hub.
A scholar was turned ont of n OF
the district schools in Sutton, Massa-
chusetts, the other day because he was
forty-eight years old and had a family,
including two or three grown children
He said I'his boys and gals had more
learning than he had, and he wanted
to ketch up with 'em."
Our country is soon to be honored
by the presence of an aboriginal Haw-
allan gentleman, Nh. j. Moanauli,
which il, being interpreted, Blue
II . -,ob 1nfa1linanf cd.