The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-05-12
Clippings from Exchanges.

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fed the Fifteenth Amendment yes
terday by a vote of IL to 5.
Charles Revels, who was shot il
Lexington, XIV, one day last week
died on Tuesday morning.
In the Senate of Massachusetts,, OF
Friday, the Prohibitory Liquor Bill
was defeated by a vote of Is to 20
Hon. j. h. Gilbert, of Ware
Massachusetts,, one of the largest fan
mel manufacturers in the country, diec
on Friday.
General Grant has presented the
saddle he used throughout the war t.
Mr.. Washburne, father of E. B
Washburne.
A man named Jas. Stephenson was
garreted, on Thursday night, about
two miles from Springfield, Ohio, and
robbed of 81, 100.
At last Saturdays stock sales in
Hillsboro, Ohio, the price of horses
averaged S170. The next sale takes
place on the first Saturday in June.
The President has decided to ap-
point no more civilians to Indian
Will be filed by army officers.
A prize fight between two women
came off at HOboken on Thursday,
The Police interfered in the second
round, and compelled the mazons to
desist.
The parties concerned in he bond
robbery of Nelson and Foster, of Ex-
change Place, New York, last Februa-
~, have been arrested, and a portion
of the property recovered.
1t is positively stated by Spanish
agents in New York that the Junta
has chartered the Quaker City to car
~ three hundred and fifty volunteers
and arms to the insurgents.
4 terrible ARRAY occurred at Vim
cennes, Ind, on Friday between a
French dyer, named Arnoult, and 8
boy in his employ, Arnoult was
stabbed several times, and is supposed
to be fatally injured.
In Chicago, on Thursday evening,
u scafFold on the new Congregational
Church fell, precipitating three men
TO the ground, all of whom were badly
injured. One of them was so injured
internally that it Is thought he can not
survive
In Greensboro, KY. IN Sunday,
James Norris, negro, attempted to
outrage the person Of Annie Bosley, a
white girl of eight years, but was dis
covered and prevented by the timely
appearance of the child's father. The
beast was arrested and lodged in jail.
A London dispatch says that the
English papers consider the conduct
of the United States toward Spain ex-
actIy like that of England toward the
United States during the war, and say
that Spain should make the same de-
mands that we do in the Alabama
case,
The Louisville papers report that
as a raft was passing over the dam at
SpottsvilIe, in Green River, on the
9th ult., it was torn all to pieces,
and some six or seven men were
drowned. The names of the unfortun-
ate persons were not learned, nor any
particulars.
John Howard, Sheriff of Tuscara.
was County, Ohio, was thrown from
his buggy near Goshen Ford, last
Friday, and received injuries which
caused his death four days afterward.
His wife was with him at the time of
the accident but was only slightly in
jureo.
Aaron Gordon, living In New Phil
adelphia, Washington County, In
diana, is charged with barbarously
abusing his wife, threatening her life,
tearing her fech, &c. He has been
compelled by his indignant neighbors
to fee from the wrath which was COM
ing in the shape of one of Judge
Lynch's short cords.
A Collision occurred near Quincy,
Illinois, on Thursday last, between a
passenger train on the Chicago, Quin-
cy and Burlington Rroad, and an en-
CINE on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western Road, by which several pas
sencers we're seriously hurt, and the
engineer and fireman badly bruised,
Though not dangerously.
The death rate in New York is low
er than in any of the great cities of
Europe. 1t was equal to a yearly rate
of 3d. deaths in 1000 inhabitants in
New York, and to 22,63 in 1000 in
Brooklyn last week. In t g fourteen
chief cities in Great Britain, the week
ending April II, the death rate was
% per 1000. The rate in London
was only % per 1000 III Glasgow,
A per 1000. In Berlin the rate was
80 per 1000 and in Vienna SO per
1000. The per centage of deaths by
phthisis pllmonalis In the two last
mentioned cities-in which there is
also an excessive general death rate
is excessive, Berlin having as many
and Vienna twice Is many deaths by
this cause as New York, though the
population of Vienna is only 57s, 0OG,
and that of Berlin ZOE, 437.
An old lady named Cattell was run
over and killed, on Wednesday morn
ing, by a train on the Indianapolis,
Peru and Chicago Railway, near
Miami, a village ten or twelve miles
from Peru, Indiana. She was engag-
ed in walking by the roadside, and as
the train approached at full speed, a
COW ran across the track, and IN at
tempting to pursue she was struck by
the locomotive and instantly killed.
An.affray occurred neal CampbeIs
Vile XIV. q few DAYS ago, between