The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-03-03
GENERAL NEWS.

been reduced from $40 to SO per head
There are nine American student
ut the Surgical College at Wurzburg
Germany.
The FTeeman's Journal calls Henry
Ward Beecher's church of Theology
BOufs.
The spring meeting yer the Mag
nolia Course, Mobile, commences
March %, and continues five days.
Boston has a milk inspector, and
his operations have materially improv.
ed the quality of the milk sold there.
Mr.. Burlingame's credentials to the
French court were five feet long and
covered all over with ive-clawed drag.
ons.
The Boston Post thinks it must be
unhealthy IN Maine, because q doctor
there drives a blooded horse with O
$1,000 set of harness.
A Mobile editor was arrested by a
negro policeman and fined $50. the
other day, for showing a country edi.
tor the prstical working of the fire.
alarm telegraph by giving a false alarm
of fire.
A SON of Rev. Mr.. Humphreys, o.
Bell Haven, Va, aged fifteen years,
killd q negro woman at the place last
week. The woman attacked him with
= an AK and he stabbed her in selfde-
Tense.
The wooden bridge over Kentucky
River at Frankfort having become
unsafe by the giving way of the central
pier, a ferry has been established be-
tween North and South Frankfort. A
free bridge is to be built.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals
has decided that money lost at faro
can be recovered at law by the loser
or his creditors, within six months af-
ter the money was lost, and after six
months by any N who may choze to
n for it.
Mr.. w. Richardson, of Prince Ed
ward County. Virginia, has stripped
$4,000 average plants or his last Years
tobacco crop, which weighed between
10000 and II 900 pounds. Some of
the leaves measured four feet in
length.
Three hundred and ninety-one
thousand nine hundred and eighty-one
gallons of whisky, made in the Sew
enth District of Kentucky, were plac-
ed in bond during the month of Jan
uary. The tax on this amounts to
$195,99 IS.
1t is reported that the cashier ofthe
Fourth National Bank of Philadelphia
is q defaulter in a sum said to exceed
100000, and that he has made his
escape. There was a slight run on
the bank on Saturday, but the doors
were not closed.
DR.. Thomas E. Wilson, late of the
wholesale drugstore of Wilson, Peter
& Co., and one of the oldest citizens
of Louisvill, committed suicide by,
shooting himself in the temple, in that
city, on Thursday. Temporary in
sanity was the cause: =
The iplanting interest is suffering
greatly in the neighborhood of Green
wood, Louisiana, owing to the pre-
n Of a party OF Texas desperadoes,
who, finding the adjoining counties
in Texas too hot to hold them on &C
count of the presence of the military,
anye taken refuge in that vicinity.
The English Church Missionary
Society has a mission in Nazareth,
which Is a very fourishing and pros
porous town, and quite a contrast to
the neighboring country. There is a
Protestant population of five hundred
in Nazareth and the vicinity, and a
fine church is to be soon built.
The Japaneses author, Kloyte Bak-
in, has at last completed his novel,
commenced thirty-eight years ago. 1t
comprises one hundred and six vol
umes. 1t is not likely that a transla-
ton will be made, although the origin
al is to illustrate all classes of Japan
csc society, and all phases of japanese
life.
The first iron for the Montgomery
and Selma Railroad has been received
at Montgomery, Alabama. When
the link between Montgomery and
Selma is completed, there will be a
continuous and nearly straight rail-
road line from Savannah to Vicks-
burg, and it will soon be extended to
Shreveport.
Further advices from Mexico r.pre-
sem a ~disgraceful state of affairs at
the capital. Lerdo de Lagada is re-
ported as being against the progress
of foreigners, especially Americans,
who are strongly of the opinion that
the Government is Imbecile, and Min
listers r eorruptly making money
and sending it to f0rein countries.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Mount Carmel and St. Louis Air
Line Railway Company al New AL
bany, on Friday, the name of the cor
poration was changed to the New AL
bany and St. Louis Railway Company.
The officers of the Board are: Presi-
dent, Augustus Bradley Vice-presi-
dent, E. Newland Secretary, George
Lyman.
A Young medical student in Gal
weston had the satisfaction of seeing
a particular friend dissected by a pro-
fessor before his class q few weeks ago.
The friend had travelled with him to
Galveston on business, but was taken
sick, without money, and died in hos
pftal. The student knew nothing of
his death until he saw his body in the
lecture hall.
A new Illuminating. marterial, re-
Gently patented in Germany, consists
of a mixture Of two parts of the poor