The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-05-26
NBWS ITEMS

The spirit of the South-The cot
ton gin.
Velocipedes are to be used in bull
fights at Madrid.
Springfield, Ohio, is TO have a mu-
steal association.
Three murder cases are now pend.
ing in the Vigo County Indiana
Criminal Court.
Twelve acres of Regents Park,
London, are to be prepared and sci
apart as n battle-ground.
A movement is on foot to abolish
corporal punishment in the public
schools of New York. ms
There is a cotton plantation in Ia
hioi, containing $500 acres, and work.
ed by 1,500 laborers.
Strawberries in Augusta, Georgia,
are only five cents a quart. In Gin
c~innati, the other day, they were only
five cents apiece.
A new married man says his wife is
n perfect rose. The only drawback to
his happiness is, that she blows out
a "leetle" too often.
Mayor Cookery timates the pres
public debt e(Terre Haute, that
will have to b met by future taxation,
to be frow<e25,0 900 to $4,000.
% A Safe bounty is given in Califor-
mia Rr every mulbury tree planted
Pierre are now 20, 000, 900 in the
State. Very little silk, however, is
produced.
A one hundred thousand dollar dia-
mond has been found at the Cape of
Good Hope. The native who picked
it up sold it for 500 sheep 10 oxen
and a horse.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Milwaukee voted on Mon
day, by a majority of PIG in a vote of
about 900, to open the library rooms
on Sunday.
The vail is now takel in France on
trial, the experiment being terminable
at the end of each year. Three nuns
of Paris have just laid it aside for or
ange blossoms.
Paper thoroughly impregnated with
carboEc and has been made by an
italian chemist, and its preservative
power is so strong that meat wrapped
it is kept perfectly fresh without
salt or any curing process.
Marshal Mel has sent orders to the
Governor of Alberta to cause the
troops't to go through a series of new
maneuvers, suggested by the new
arms, in order that any of the regi-
ments might be able to act with the
army at home. -
The Clermont SIM publishes the
marriage notice of a couple aged re-
specti7ely 70 and 68 years (eousins},
and co~ngratulates them upon the man
ner in which they escaped the law on
the subject of intermarriage of cous-
ms, passed last week.
The Akron COhio) Times says "Mr
John Ewart, of Springfield, has a
steer three year old this month, which
on January % weighed 1000 pounds;
on April %, LIP pounds; making a
gain in ninety days of 222 pounds, or
about 81 pounds per day."
AT Springfield, Ohio, on Monday
evening, a colored male child, hidden
in a box, was found in the garden of
Mr. Dlehl. 1t appeared, on investi-
cation, to be born of one Fannie Eos
ter, a negress. She has been arrested
and held for trial for the crime of in
fanticide.
The new city of Duluth is situated
in Itasca County, Minnesota, at the
western extremity of Lake Superior,
and bids fair tc be a great port. 1t
has already a newspaper, and a line of
steamers. Seven hundred passengers
left Cleveland for Duluth, by the first
boat, this season
Gen. w. S. Harvey and his Secre-
tary, Col. j. C. O'Connor, left st.
Louis Thursday, for the Sioux reser-
walton on the upper Missouri, fourteen
miles from Fort Sully. The General
will have the care of $4,000 Indians,
composed of the Ogallales, Brutes,
Minegongous, Sansaes, Uncapopas,
Yanktonais, Two Kettles, Blackfeet
and Cutheads. These bands are To-
C ted between Forts Sully and Rice.
A quantity of agricultural implements
and wagons have been shipped for The
reservation, and the General is anx-
ious to get the Indians to work. He1
goes up with instructions direct from
the President.
Dwarf orange trees from China,
not over two feet high, have reached
Las Angeles, California, in good con-
dition. 1t is stated that an acre of
ground would contain over four thou
sand of such trees, and, although each
tree would produce not more than a
halfdozen oranges, yet the yield per
acre would largely overbalance that
of standard trees.
The Virginia City (Nevada) Enter
prise of the 9th says: "a drove OF
about forty Chinese laborers passed
through this city yesterday on their
way to those points on the Virginia
and Truckee Railroad where work is
now being done. The only baggage
they carried was IN extra hat EACH
the extralhat being a.huge umbrella
shaped concern, made of zane splits.
These are the hats they wear while at
work in the open air.
The New York Sun furnishes the
following information concerning the
spiritual provision made by one of the
hotels Of hat city for its guests '"The
bar-room of the Aston House has just
been newly painted and adorned in
the highest style Of art, and the par
lors and sleeping-rooms have been
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