The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-07-07

trial and the twelve jurymen who &C
quilted him have all died unnatural
deaths, and now the murderer is in
prison, waiting for a verdict from the
hands of his country men.
The Allen county Democrat says
that On Saturday last Mr.. Alexander
Allison, an aged citizen, someS6 years
old fell dead from his chair at the
Western Exchange, in this city, sup
posed to be from a~poplexy. He had
Just returned from dinner, and taken
his seat in the bar-room, when he fell
from his chair dead. He has lived in
this community for the past 25 or 80
years, and was well known and re-
spected. Truly sin the midst of
life we are in DEATH"
An exchange says that Newton j.
Burnett, of Trumbull county has been
sentenced by Judge Sherman of U. S.
Court. to six months Imprisonment
in the Cuyahoga county jail, and to
pay a fine of $500 and the costs of
prosecution for personating a revenue
officer in Mahoning county. He was
in the habit, it appears, of compromis-
ing with persons whom he had induc-
ed to believe that they were violaters
of the law. Twenty-Five dollars or any
little sum about that size was always
acceptable to him.
In the Common Pleas Court, Judge
Green presiding, last week, the case of
H. T. Chitenden against VIM. Trevitt
& Co.-an action to recover damages
for an alleged libel printed in the
Crisis-was finally disposed of and dis
missed at the cost OF the plaintiff.
The case grew out of the CRISIS last
October. in which it was intimated
that a Omitted States Commissioner
was corruptly running a black-mail
mill on State street." to the detriment
and annoyance of citizens. Upon this
allegation suit was brought to recover
damages in the sum of twenty thou
sand dollars. The defendants filed an
answer, pleading justification, and as
sorting still more damaging charges,
and to support this answer summoned
large number of witnesses. After sew
eral postponements, the case came up
last week upon a motion of PLAINTIFF
dismiss the case at his, plaintiffs cost.
Thus another attempt to intimidate
the press by menace of damages has
ANONYMOUSLY fzzled out, as ninety
nine out of every hundred of such
cases do.-A.
The Akron Times says that On Sa-
turday last while Mr.. j. G. Chaplin,
in the employ of Rice & Trowbridge,
pillow manufacturers, was engaged in
polishing a part ofa pillow at an emery
wheel, a portion of the wheel gave
way and striking him upon the fore
head, knocked him senseless. He soon
recovered however. His head and
face are badly cut and his escape from
death is almost miraculous .-Mr. Rice,
who was standing near was struck by
a small piece of hot iron directly in
the eye. 1t is not known whether he
will lose its sight Dr. not.
The Hamilton True Telegraph says
that one legged candidate for "Man,
hood Suffrage miserable negro vii
lain, named Armstrong, made a viol-
ent attempt to perpetrate a nameless
outrage on Sophia Brooks, on Tues
day last, near Snyder's paper mill, in
the third ward. His arrest soon fol
the fact was established and the
Jail is his present dwelling place
Hang him.
On Sunday morning last, says the
Cincinnati ChannlerieaL-as-tlfe 3:4e
Marietta train was coming down On the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Rail
road, a four horse railroad omnibus,
sixteen persons in it, who were return
ing from apic-nic on the hill, approach
ed the crossing on the Harrison pike.
The horses and the high fence hid the
train and deadened the sound of the
whistle and bell. The Waterman
waved his lamp and shouted to the
driver, but the leaders of the team
caught sight of the steaming and roar
ing locomotive, and wheeled round
and dragged the vehicle upon the
track: The train plunged into its
rear, tossing it over, upside down, run
over the wheel horses, horribly mang-
ling them, and pursued the galloping
leaders, without overtaking them.
Strange to say, no one was killed.
One lady had an ugly cut in the fore
head ; the driver, II. Aloce, was pick
ed up from the wreck, very badly
bruised, but not seriously. All but
these extricated themselves, and came
off with slight bruises. Amid the
ruins the fiddler found, unbroken, his
violin, which had set the feet of the
party tripping gaily through the
night.
Steve B. Hayman, the express mes
senger, who, ON the 18th of May,
1868, at night, while in charge of the
safe on the Hamilton & Dayton road,
played possum and pretended that he
had been robbed of $4,000 of the
American Company's money, was &C.
quilted last week in Judge Cox's Com
mon Pleas Court, by a jury who were
unanimously in faUor Of his guilt. On
Saturday he was ~re-arrested, on an af:
fidavit charging him with the embezzle.
ment of a package of money contain.
ing Sc, 900, which was shipped by the
Richmond National Bank of Rich.
mond, Indiana, and was one of the
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